Celebrity Muse

Director Peter Hedges explains how he and his marketing team arrived at his new movie’s polarizing, flapjack-based poster, which strikes us as being a suitably quirky compromise between a bland “bunch of faces” offering and something that slightly overdoes the visuals in depicting a protagonist just trying to make sense of this crazy thing we […]

Portfolio’s Hollywood Deal blog writes touchingly of the once-strained relationship between Imagine Entertainment superproducer Brian Grazer and black sheep sibling Gavin, whose reciprocal appearances at each other’s recent New York movie premieres (Brian’s the troubled $100 million blockbuster he brought to the screen by sheer force of will; Gavin’s, a somewhat less expensive , surrealistic […]

We’ll have to wait until Wednesday to find out what The View has in store for us this Halloween: We’re pretty sure it won’t be nearly as scary as last year, which featured Rosie O’Donnell in full Queen Victoria drag, or the one before that, in which Barbara Walters horrified a nation by refusing to […]

Quick-triggered DreamWorks mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg was reportedly involved in a simple misunderstanding during a recent visit to New York that resulted in a brief dust-up at the Four Seasons; apparently, a bar manager took a cellphone-toting Katzenberg’s friendly greeting of,”Who the [bleep] are you? Do you know who I am?” the wrong way, mistaking the […]

Apparently, we weren’t the only ones shocked and saddened to learn that William Shatner’s erratic speech patterns and considerable Klingon wrestling experience would not be put to use in the next Star Trek movie. (Some turk named Chris Pine would be playing young Kirk in JJ Abrams’ Muppet Babies-esque take on the series.) In Hollywood, […]