His competition premieres fizzled a bit, but perhaps Harvey Weinstein controlled the message where it counts: "As I surveyed the room, I found that Gossip Girl’s Kelly Rutherford also held the rather odd opinion that Weinstein was secretly the gala’s best masseuse. 'I mean, there are guys that are really cute but you don’t know if they’d be good givers. And a massage, you have to be giving,' she told me. 'I bet Harvey would give a great massage. I think he’s so sexy and smart and he’s very giving. Plus, whatever he does, you know he’s going to do it well.'" [Vulture]
No one wants their funeral celebrated on an inconsequential Tuesday afternoon, but Taylor Momsen's acting career will have to settle for an overheated, late-summer burial. The Gossip Girl alumna claims she's done acting and wants to focus solely on her music career. To be fair, Pretty Reckless is kind of a cool band. But to be fairer to the Movieline populace, this means we have to mourn her body of work. Join us as we recount a bunch of movies you probably didn't even know Ms. Momsen was in.
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After auditioning "five or six times" for the role of Steve Rogers, a/k/a Captain America, 27 year-old Sebastian Stan didn't get the gig. But he did get a call to discuss a different iconic character in the WWII-set Marvel comics blockbuster: James "Bucky" Barnes, Cap's best friend, sidekick, and, in Joe Johnston's big screen adaptation (in theaters Friday), a soldier who could potentially undergo big changes in future Captain America sequels.
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