Stockholm-based artist George Chamoun is on to it: Marilyn Monroe? Scarlett Johansson? Same old heavily-bossomed bubbly blonde. James Dean? Robert Pattinson? Same old brooding boy sold as a catalyst for tween puberty. There’s no morphing of any sort in this series. Just faces o’ Hollywood, giving you the same old looks with the same old peepers, furrowing the same old brows in the same old mock contemplation. Somewhere there’s a petri dish with more Marilyn clones.
Stockholm-based artist George Chamoun is on to it: Marilyn Monroe? Scarlett Johansson? Same old heavily-bossomed bubbly blonde. James Dean? Robert Pattinson? Same old brooding boy sold as a catalyst for tween puberty. There’s no morphing of any sort in this series. Just faces o’ Hollywood, giving you the same old looks with the same old peepers, furrowing the same old brows in the same old mock contemplation. Somewhere there’s a petri dish with more Marilyn clones.
Here’s a video of young optimists skateboarding mid massive earthquake damage in New Zealand – over ripples and rips in concrete, ruins-buried cars and gorges. “Christchurch for life. Nothing can stop us.” Read more »
So, the shut down of the last kodachrome processing machine will be turned into a motion picture from DreamWorks. The plot: a fictional father and son roadtrip to Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas to develop some Kodachrome rolls of precious memories, blah blah sentimental snooze-fest. What about the real guy who spent $16K to develop 1,580 rolls into 50,000 slides… OF TRAINS? Played by Crispin Glover? Directed by Werner Herzog? Let’s do this, Hollywood.
A wanted person of interest in the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen committed suicide. He might have been a paid hit man. Still think the Quaids’ “star whackers” story is wacky?
For his latest intervention, street artist and world traveler, Above, hit Hollywood and gave Los Angeles what it cherishes most: celebrities. He strung up 100 “Movie Star Arrow Mobiles” featuring the faces of famous people, both dead and alive.
It’s confirmed: Legendary Pictures is bringing back Godzilla. Because “possibly 3D old shit rehash” is one of today’s only successful film genres, the ape-whale reptilic mutant that has long been officially retired but its Toho Co. creators in Japan, will be dragged back to the US. Again. Read more »
Hunter S. Thompson to Hollywood Executive: ‘Okay You Lazy Bitch’
One of my favorite websites these days is “Letters of Note,” a collection of correspondence written by various famous people, and this angry 2001 missive fired off by Hunter S. Thompson to a Hollywood executive handling the adaptation of one of his books is among the best of their collection. Read more »
Recently news organizations and professional sports leagues have been cracking down on their employee’s use of Twitter. Now Hollywood is following suit, writing new contracts for actors, writers and directors with language forbidding them from tweeting about anything pertaining to their work. If this all makes Ashton Kutcher go the hell away forever, we’re all for it. |Hollywood Reporter|
Who is the Biggest A-Hole in Hollywood?
The website Hollywood Temp Diaries compiled its first annual list of the best and worst people in show business to work for based on feedback culled from their vast array of anonymous Hollywood underlings. This list was released last night. Let’s take a look at this year’s “winners,” shall we? Read more »
Well let’s see here…yesterday we chewed on Whoopi Goldberg’s assertion that a 43 year-old drugging a 13 year-old girl so he could penetrate her vagina and ass with his artistic genius pee-pee against her will didn’t constitute “rape-rape,” whatever the fuck that means, and now today we have one of the captains of the Hollywood blowhard all-star team, Harvey Weinstein, supplying perhaps the most revolting quote of all the revolting quotes to arise from this whole mess. Are you ready for this? Read more »
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