Let's welcome back Movieline's Hollywood Kid Michael Musto, who appears to have found the audience for The A-Team and provides added info on the possible Oscar rematch shaping up between Hilary Swank and Annette Bening. Speaking of Oscars, sure it's only June, but a new batch of blind items raises the questions of which winning actress should not keep it in the family -- and which other actress is in trouble again, this time without even the aid of the bottle? Guess away!
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You know that feeling of mild embarrassment you sometimes get while watching the more outlandish moments of True Blood? Well, that's nothing compared to Snoop Dogg's new music video "Oh Sookie," a tribute to the show that is vaguely mortifying and yet totally watchable. Here are the 7 best lines (and there were a lot to choose from).
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The summer of Mad Men rolls on! In the latest video from Funny or Die, Alison Brie, her Mad Men co-star Rich Sommer and Mrs. Landingham from West Wing -- OK, fine, Kathryn Joosten -- help bring to life a world where the U.S. Patents Office copyrights 57 sex acts per year. Naturally Brie -- the self-described "Queen of Copulation" -- plays a young lady who has perfected a vast array of them with her husband while still finding time to come up with some of her own. Like "The Military-Style Execution" and "Bad Dog," two sex acts which are way more disgusting than you're even imagining right now. If you always wanted to hear Brie say "plastic penis," here's your chance. Barely NSFW video after the jump.
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"I'm the kind of songwriter who isn't good on spec," confesses John Hawkes. "Sometimes I can sit down and a song will kind of happen, but more likely, an idea will follow me around for months and shove me into a corner until there's no more choice and it just comes out." So how did the actor end up on the soundtrack to Winter's Bone, the just-released indie where Hawkes stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence?
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Someone must have introduced Tom Cruise to YouTube this year, because the dude is seriously going after this bite-sized video market. After watching Cruise harass himself and the stars of Twilight in short-form content and then endure an ass-whooping at the feet of Cameron Diaz, are you ready for the latest, World-Cup-friendly edition of his viral videos?
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Michael Musto isn't afraid to go there in this week's installment of The Hollywood Kid. What exactly is Tyler Perry up to on his secret island -- when he isn't distracted by Mariah Carey, of course -- and with who? Why is Megan Mullally enlisting Leslie Jordan for her Will & Grace stage spinoff, but not Sean Hayes? And what reality star is willing to be lowballed just for the chance to topline a cable show? Let Musto get to the bottom of all this for you; all you have to do is post your guesses in the comments.
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Gay kissing! It's only the latest, most popular trend ever! Just ask Sandra Bullock, who'll make out with anyone! Or Jason Bateman and Dustin Hoffman, who've become Hollywood's glam new power couple! Or Christian Newswire, a site that blames the implication of gay kissing for American Idol's most boring season! OK, I'm going to stop using exclamation points now!
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In her GOOP manifesto this week, actress/lifestyle icon/aspiring Food Network Star Gwyneth Paltrow includes a video in which she prepares a Mexican dinner, family style. I think we can all agree how it's remarkable that over the course of the six-and-a-half-minute clip, Gwyneth a) doesn't ostentatiously brag about her utter fluency in Spanish and b) actually speak in Spanish for at least half of the running time to demonstrate said fluency. Also remarkable: the amount of baby food and stomach crunches her punishing personal trainer Tracy Anderson will inflict on her for daring to eat an actual meal. Hope it was worth it, GP. Video after the jump:
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Your Hollywood Kid Michael Musto was even more Hollywood this week: he just got done with shooting a cameo in the Smurfs movie, alongside other real-life celebs like Tim Gunn and Joan Rivers. Speaking of Ms. Rivers, Musto has the inside scoop on why she hated her new documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, then came around after the good reviews started pouring in. All that and some tantalizing blind items, too? Musto, you spoil us.
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From American Idol duo Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini to any number of WWE stars, human product placement in movies isn't anything especially new. But there is a certain, synergistic milestone quality to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's casting in Transformers 3, a foregone conclusion that appears to have been officially confirmed with a new video released by Victoria's Secret.
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After pandering squarely to its Bieber-feverish demographic, MTV has decided to go another way with the second MTV Movie Awards promo. Watch as Tom Cruise reprises his Jewish producer drag from Tropic Thunder, then subverts the space-time continuum to direct himself in the iconic underwear scene from Risky Business. 14-year-olds are going to be really confused when this doesn't end with a title card advertising Guitar Hero.
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This week, our Hollywood Kid takes on The Karate Kid, as Michael Musto hears that Jaden Smith will be doing very selective press to promote his upcoming star vehicle. Is it an attempt curb his tween ego, or do parents Will and Jada have another motive? In other news, Gwyneth Paltrow turns down a musical, and a big-name director is flying cross-country with a gaggle of boys in his private jet. If you don't know the answer to that blind item, trust me: someone here will.
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Sadly, there are no Monkey Ghosts or catfish cunnilingus in the trailer for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the Thai mindf*ck that won director Apichatpong Weerasethakul the Palme d'Or at Cannes on Sunday. But there are plenty of the lush, laconic images international moviegoers have come to know and love (or at least appreciate) in good old "Joe" W.'s baffling metaphysical exercises like Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady and Syndromes and a Century.
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Weren't able to make it to the Cannes Film Festival this year to see, among other things, Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest depressing affair? Good news: Following in the footsteps of David Fincher, the famed director has used his considerable technical talents to create a new World Cup television spot for Nike. Titled "Write the Future," the three-minute ad feels like noting Iñárritu's ever done, and not just because it features cameos from Homer Simpson, Kobe Bryant and Gael Garcia Bernal. This thing is infectious, fun, incredibly watchable and manages to coherently say something about how one event can tie the entire world together. In other words, it basically accomplishes everything that Babel didn't. Check out the clip after the jump and prepare to order yourself a Ronaldo jersey.
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Are you ready for the Sex and the City 2 tidal wave that's about to hit? Michael Musto is, but as he tells us, Michael Douglas may not be. In this week's installment of The Hollywood Kid, Musto talks scheduling conflicts, the gaying-up of Sex and the City (is such a thing even possible?), blind items, and Life During Wartime's unlikely nude scene featuring Allison Janney. This is certainly her year for head-scratching career choices!
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