He is still here. According to Vulture, director Clint Eastwood is looking to cast Joaquin Phoenix opposite the rumored Leonardo DiCaprio in Hoover. Phoenix would star as Clyde Tolson, the "reputed paramour and protégé" of Hoover (DiCaprio), in the Dustin Lance Black-scripted biopic. Hopefully this role doesn't require any onscreen vomiting. [Vulture]
Last week, Conan O'Brien took questions from Facebook users in an effort to further publicize his new, eponymous late night yuk-fest, Conan. Because, yeah, what channel is this show on again? (Let's hope that Conan and team are putting as much effort into the content of his show as he is promotion.)
It's been too long since we went for a stroll in Movieline's deep, stardust-covered archives. So! Down we go to the Vault, where a whole batch of classic issues have yielded gems like Alicia Silverstone at her Clueless peak, Julianne Moore in praise of Sylvester Stallone, Paul Verhoeven's draw to Showgirls (hint: "mostly tits"), Claire Danes's low ebb of glamour, and billion-dollar man Steve Guttenberg keeping it real with his critics. Read on, and luxuriate in the history.
"I think I was the first person that Marty [Scorsese] met, but it took maybe a year," Ray Liotta recalls in an exhaustive new oral history of Goodfellas. "It was a very, very long process, not knowing anything and really wanting to do this. I was new. I'd only done three movies at the time. All I heard was that the studio wanted somebody else--'What about this?' 'What about Eddie Murphy?'" We will spare you an IM debate on the merits of this casting choice. [GQ]
· Hey guys (and the lesbian Zosia Mamet plays on Mad Men, I guess), good news: Elisabeth Moss is soon to be back on the market after divorcing Fred Armisen! The bad news: She's apparently a Scientologist. Dealbreaker?
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It's lunchtime on the East Coast, and I don't know about you, but I'm starving. Want half of my auteur sandwich -- stacked high, sloppy and tall with lady meat Courtney Love? It's delicious! Click through and dig into Love's touchy-feely exploits from last night's Wall Street 2 premiere and last week's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger debut in NYC.
I ran out of gas right around here: "Gisele Bundechen [sic], the Brazilian civil rights hero, I mean supermodel, recently pronounced 'I think there should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.' And what happens if we don't Gisele? Do we get thrown in a Nipple Nazi lactation prison?" Your mileage may vary. [Big Hollywood]
Also in today's edition of the Broadsheet: Rachel Weisz joins the 360 promiscuity roundelay... Nobody cares about I'm Still Here... Don't hold your breath for Kick-Ass 2... and more...
First we get an unnecessary Indiana Jones sequel, then we hear rumors of a potential Ghostbusters 3, and now Keanu Reeves says he's up for another sequel to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Yes, Hollywood has the perfect antidote for these dark times: a slew of late sequels to films from those brighter days of wealth, peace and ignorance of global warming. In light of this trend, I offer you five successful movies of yesteryear that are overdue for a sequel. Read the list, watch the Reeves interview and chime in with your own thoughts after the jump!
Oscilloscope has posted a new user-generated game connected to Friday's release of Howl that tells you just how obscene you are. The experimental biopic stars James Franco as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, whose famous poem of the same name provoked an obscenity trial in 1957. But that was then. Check out what people find obscene in the new millennium after the jump.
National Geographic has stepped into the Toronto movie-buying whirlwind, acquiring theatrical distribution rights to The First Grader, directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl). The film, which won runner-up for the audience award, tells the true story of an 84-year old former Mau Mau rebel in Kenya who fights to get the education he could never afford. The reaction to this one has been very positive. Word is that it's even more sensitive and moving than Billy Madison.
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· Just when you thought Michael Vartan was a hunky action star with a full-size physique, he drops this bombshell on us: He suffers from Tim Conway Syndrome, AKA Dorfism. Oh, cruel world. Now his golf skills seem so silly. Why, lord, why? [Funny or Die]
Perhaps it's just the bitter end of a long, crushing day, or possibly the unshakable gloom of my post-Blankenship hangover, but Katy Perry on Sesame Street is just about the last thing my brain is prepared to reckon with this evening. But there it is -- rather, there she is, all cleavage and cloy, bubble-gum grill, stalking around in pursuit of Elmo. There's something curiously bothersome about this, and not necessarily that Perry went tweeting F-bombs just days ago when her fiancé punched out photographers. It's probably best spoken in screencaps:
This just in: Our fearless leader, Jay Penske (CEO and Founder of MMC, which is Movieline's parent company), has announced another massive deal today, one that means MMC is selling mail.com to Europe's largest Internet company, Germany's United Internet Group. No, this doesn't mean that if you have a mail.com email account you're going to need to start figuring out how to spell 'send' auf Deutsch. The mail.com accounts will just migrate over to United Internet's souped up GMX system, and you'll still have access to all the excellent MMC content you've become accustomed to reading every day. Sure, there will be some necessary rebranding of MMC in the coming weeks, but other than that, little will change for you, our dear Movieline readers. Except maybe Movieline.de to bookmark in the near future.
First Javier Bardem agreed to "rock the house" on Glee and now his Oscar-winning peer Gwyneth Paltrow is rumored to be circling the Fox hit. The custom designed role -- Paltrow and creator Ryan Murphy are buds and he wrote it with her in mind -- extends over two episodes in November and would find Paltrow as a singing and dancing substitute teacher for Will Schuester. Naturally, both he and New Directions grow to love to her, much to the consternation of Emma Pillsbury. Stay Country Strong, Gwen! [E!]
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