Something In Common Besides Sleeping With Brad Pitt

There must not be anymore tall people to measure or clothespins on tongues to count because the Guinness Book Of World Records has now determined that Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are the two most powerful actresses in Hollywood.

I'm guessing their criteria must have been actresses who generate a great deal of noise but are box office poison. The two actresses do seem to film all the time but unfortunately the films they appear in generally suck.

The researchers for the 2007 edition of the records compendium awarded the joint title after assessing the earnings and PR coverage of actresses across the globe in the last 12 months.

See, their criteria doesn't say anything about whether the films were good, or a box office success or anything that really relates to power.

DNfromMN Reviews Feast Of Love

Here's a decent movie getting a decent sized release, and the last time I saw a preview for it was over 6 months ago. This is a date movie.This is a chick movie, and an English major movie. You're tipped off in that it is adapted from a book. It comes across as an indie movie, and it plays like a book. It's like Short Cuts, lite. It's similar to The Safety of Objects or other literary adaptations. I did feel like I had seen this movie almost identically before, but when I checked the IMDb,the other movie had some different subplots, but the same type of cast.So, if you loved "Playing By Heart" with Jolie, Phillipe, Scully from the X-Files, Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands, you will LOVE "Feast of Love".

Quick summary: Morgan Freeman is an aging college professor who is a master of observation. He watches several couples fall in and out of love over the course of 18 months. Coffee shop owner Greg Kinnear's wife falls for another woman in front of his own eyes and he doesn't even notice. Alexa Davalos is the mysterious woman who falls in love at first sight with Kinnear's head barista. Radha Mitchell is the woman who doesn't believe in love.

The movie has some funny scenes, but in the end, I'm pretty sure it's meant to be a drama. Dramedy?

There are some tender moments and the characters you are supposed to love you do. The acting really is top notch, and everyone's beautiful. My favorite touching scenes are with Morgan Freeman and his wife played by Jane Alexander (who rivals Julie Christie in "Away from Her" for being a beautiful older woman).

There are also lots of graphic sex scenes. It's something that kinda threw the whole audience, it was like, "Wow, they're naked... AGAIN!...WHOA and THEY'RE naked now, too!" (don't worry, no naked old people).It's something that gives it some indie cred, but seems unnecessary(Mr Skin note: boobs of Davalos, Mitchell, Selma Blair, and her Penelope Cruz looking lesbian girlfriend; full frontal of Mitchell and maybe a little Davalos). Maybe that will be the motivation to get your boyfriends to see it with you.

Using my ratings from last time: $0.00 (watch bowling on TV before this one shows up) to $16 (tickets plus treats), I'd give this a good $8.00.Worth a see, maybe bring your girlfriends for a good cry and "awww, why doesn't my boyfriend do that?".

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which aging boy bander has proposed to his NYC waitress girlfriend several times already, and they've known each other 10 days? She keeps saying no.

Sex And The City Continues

Carrie hires an assistant (C.A.) who formerly worked at Kramerica Industries which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vandalay Worldwide. C.A. was hired because the five minutes a day that Carrie actually works was proving to be too much for her brain because of all the talking out loud to herself she does each day. Therefore, she hired an assistant whose sole qualification is that she is as bad, if not, a worse disaster fashion wise than Carrie so of course Carrie thinks C.A is fabulous.
Meanwhile, Carrie's normal twin sister Larry has come to town. Carrie's other sister Daryl couldn't make it. Larry has come to New York in order to try and prevent her sister from administering any more kisses of death. It seems that Carrie's sisters are unable to get any action because any guy that comes into contact with them fears the sisters are also soul suckers just like Carrie. Carrie and Larry have never got along because Larry doesn't bleach her blond every other week and because Larry buys her clothes at a mall.

Across town Samantha demonstrates to a group of marketing professionals what her reaction was the first time she had to swallow.
Now however, she loves it so much she has turned it into her very own special treat which she is trying to market to other nymphomaniacs to get them through the day, and gay hikers as a protein boost while in the wilderness.
As we see Charlotte today she's ecstatic that she managed to make it home last night in time to see Pepe being beaten and forced to polish each and every shoe before being allowed to go to bed. Right now Charlotte is on her way to ask C.A. to introduce her to Diddy because C.A. must know Diddy because all black people know each other.
Having finished her frozen treat, Samantha dons this outfit in order to fulfill her Great Pumpkin fantasy which involves Charlie and Linus staying up in the pumpkin patch with her all night while she screams "Good Grief" each time she has an orgasm.

I Love Pink's Publicist

I don't really care if Pink and her husband Carey Hart are getting a divorce. I think they are but that is kind of beside the point in this post.

What I love is that US Weekly asked Pink's rep for a comment on the report that Pink told all her friends at dinner a few weeks ago that,“We’re just not getting along anymore. We each need our space. We need our distance. It’s not like it was when we first started, and we are going to end it.”

Pink's rep called the story "complete bullshit."

Whether or not her rep was lying through their teeth you have to love the fact they just came out and gave a statement that is truly representative of what Pink would say if a reporter asked her. That's how it should be.

Can you imagine Pink ever saying, "Carey and I are committed to our relationship. Each marriage has its ups and downs but we remain the best of friends and have a marriage that is not unlike so many others in the industry where demands on our time do not let us spend as much time with each other as we would like."

Hell no. Pink would just say, "mind your own f**king business," and she has a rep that personifies her which is really refreshing.

Bring On Another 5 Month Trial

Five months of testimony and 12 days of deliberations convinced the Phil Spector jury of only one thing. They all like Chinese food. It seems that is about the only thing they had in common as a mistrial was declared today when Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ruled that the jury was not going to be able to reach a verdict.

The jury was deadlocked 10-2 which seems like an improvement from the 7-5 impasse they had last week. What is not known is which way the jury was leaning.

Spector was on trial for 2nd degree murder and so now the big question is will the District Attorney go for 2nd Degree murder again or will they try and convict Spector on lesser charges. There is the third possibility that they will just drop the entire case, but that seems a little far fetched due to the publicity surrounding the case.

The District Attorney wants a conviction and so in my opinion their best bet will be to try for the lesser charge of manslaughter. If they go for 2nd Degree murder again, and fail, it would be doubtful whether they could muster the time, money and effort at that point go for the manslaughter charge.

I'm also wondering how much money Phil Spector has and if he has enough to go through another five month trial. You may be asking yourself whether Spector might cop to some type of plea if the District Attorney goes for the manslaughter charge. This would save him the cost of trial, but he would just end up giving it to Lana Clarkson's relatives when they file a civil suit against him for wrongful death.

No matter what the District Attorney chooses to do, you can be rest assured that Phil Spector will be spending a great deal more time in court.

Today's Blind Items--And A Kindness

#1 This closeted looks like a boy but is really a man B list television and film star isn't hiding his sexuality because of his career, but because of the career of a studio executive who is our actor's mentor and lover and confidante. The executive is married, with children and his career would be in tatters if it was discovered he was having an affair with a man half his age. Therefore our actor says he's straight and the time he spends with the executive is just career counseling.

#2 When Halo3 was released the other night, this world famous athlete was waiting in line just like everyone else. At midnight he bought copies of the game for himself, for his kids and for the twenty other people who had been standing in line with him.

Random Photos Part One

You would think that if David Beckham can run like this when shopping that he could somehow run on the soccer field and start earning some of that bazillion dollars the Galaxy is paying him.
Christina Aguilera on her way to audition for pregnant Kabuki theatre.
Speaking of Kabuki theatre. This photo was taken at midnight. Guess where Britney Spears is headed. How did you know? Am I the only one who doesn't go tanning at midnight?
Kirsten Dunst is back in town and also back with Johnny Borrell. Guess he needed the money and was willing to close his eyes and hold his breath.

You would never know that moments before Jennie Garth and her husband actually kissed goodbye. Even the limo driver looks pissed.
Mischa Barton at National Contraceptive Day. This is too easy. I'm all for contraception, but unfortunately Mischa's parents must have not been big fans.

This is Mischa shortly before the Contraceptive Day festivities. What is the purpose of even wearing a shirt if you are not going to button it? I'm all for sexiness and cleavage, but when your buttons are undone to the point that they are below your bra, I think that is crossing what I like to refer to as the Michael Bolton line and that is just too far.
Speaking of going too far. How far is Disney going to take this "showmance" before they determine that Vanessa Hudgens has paid her penance and let Zac Efron find other friends to play with.

I dream of having enough money to have someone who walks next to me and their only job is to look pissed off. Uma Thurman has obviously reached that goal. I congratulate her, and on the Victoria Beckham tribute hat.
Tyra Banks had a wardrobe malfunction, but a staffer fixed it right up with some aluminum foil.
It doesn't even really look like Natalie Portman does it? I think she looks good but she has always been her own person and now it seems she is slowly turning into everyone else in LA.
I will say one thing for Leonardo DiCaprio. He gets out among the people and doesn't mind having a beer gut.