Zac Efron Stuck Without Vanessa Hudgens: Buxom Mom Fills In
Zac Efron is stuck in a hotel in England without his lovely girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens. According to INF Daily the hunky heartthrob is currently on the Isle of Man filming the movie “Me and Orson Wells”. But just because his sweetie Vanessa wasn’t there doesn’t mean Zac was exactly lonely. When your star is as bight as Zac’s is right now it is hard to go anywhere without being noticed.
A Socialite’s Life notes that when Zac decided to get a bite to eat at the “Copperfields” restaurant he was spotted by a bunch of girls just outside the restaurant, whose teen heartthrob radar had just gone off. Eventually, the crowd of people grew so large that the police had to escort Zac out.
However, before he had to head out, Zac managed to pose with the owners of the restaurant (pictured here at A Socialite’s Life). The baby and the father look mildly confused about the situation but the buxom mom looks quite happy.
Lisa Timmons adds, “And I’m guessing that it does rain in England as much everyone says because everyone in the picture appears to have wet hair.” It’s quite the photo and certainly Zac was very cool to pose with the family.
Natalie Portman on Britney, good deeds and Scarlett Johansson’s breasts
It’s so dull when the first line states that the star arrives wearing “not a scrap of make-up”. I could pretend that Natalie Portman had false eyelashes that fell into her tea and hot-pink lipstick smeared across her cheek as gawpers in this Santa Fe cafe turned to stare. And the great thing is, she’d probably play along.
I first interviewed Portman, in her home town of Long Island, when she was 16. Now, 10 years on, she is as sweet – and clear-faced – as I remember her. Back then, after the interview, we almost collapsed in K-Mart when we found promotional toothbrushes bearing her Star Wars image. Today, in Santa Fe, where she is shooting Jim Sheridan’s Brothers, we shop at Wholefoods for ingredients to make vegan cupcakes with the actors who play her and Tobey Maguire’s children. Yes, the girl who became a star in Leon, aged 12, is playing a mum. “I knew how to act like an adult from a really young age. I could turn it on and off. They’d say, ‘She doesn’t seem like a kid, she seems like an adult.’ Now, it kicks me in the butt, and people think, ‘She doesn’t seem like an adult, she seems like a kid.’ ”
Portman has close friends who are having kids now, such as the flame-haired actress Bryce Dallas Howard, who, when they were teens at summer camp, played Helena to her Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Portman feels a while from motherhood herself, though she is in a serious relationship with Nathan Bogle, the British model and a founder of the Rag & Bone label, whom she politely refuses to talk about. She has consistently declined to talk about any beau, but does say that, as an only child, “I always want to be with someone who has siblings. I will never date another only child”. She pauses. “But I think I have dated exclusively first children.” Harvard, which she famously dropped out of Hollywood to attend, is “70% only and first children”, she says, “which makes sense. My career would not have happened if I had brothers or sisters. There’s no way my parents would have allowed one kid to be a star”.
Although quite a few films are now made in this artsy New Mexico town, Portman is the biggest thing to happen to Santa Fe in some time. To begin with, there’s that face – nose, eyebrows, cheekbones and chin of glass – paired with round, soulful eyes and the softest mouth. Because of that face, because of the slender lines of her body, she has the reputation for being the most elegant of young actresses, and, yes, she has a jade cashmere sweater, skinny blue jeans, a check coat that ties smartly at her tiny waist. But she’s also wearing big, green, deeply inelegant wellies, because she has found the cheaper a shoe is, the more likely it is to be vegan. Hence her launch of a shoe line for Te Casan, with all profits going to the Nature Conservancy.
“Basically, I did it out of a lack of choice. Stella McCartney does great shoes, but they’re expensive and very fashiony. I wanted a mary-jane shoe without leather. I’ve been getting stuff from Target, which is de facto vegan because it’s so cheap. But I did need some shoes that weren’t made of canvas or plastic.”
With values instilled by her American artist mother and Israeli doctor father, good deeds are par for the Portman course. Producing the first-ever iTunes charity album, she raised an enormous amount of money for the Foundation for International Community Assistance (Finca), which provides micro-financing for the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs.
Last year, Portman went to Rwanda to make a documentary about endangered gorillas for the Discovery Channel. This year, she begins a deal with Participant Productions, the makers of Syriana, which has an ethical mandate to make films that promote social change. Her first movie as director will be an adaptation of A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz’s history of his family and Israel. The scope is vast, and Portman, who was born in Jerusalem, is glad she did six months of college there, if only because it brought back her Hebrew.
It’s hard to imagine that in 2002, she co-hosted a new-year party with Britney Spears. What on earth did the two have in common? “We both had the same first job. We both understudied for an off-Broadway musical called Ruthless. I never met her, but I took over from her when she left to join the Mickey Mouse Club. So we connected over that. She invited me to a few things and my guy friends at college said, ‘We have to go.’ I’m sad to see how everyone’s treating her now.”
Now that Britney’s star has fallen and she is mocked as coming from poor white trash, does Portman think there are also stabilising advantages in belonging to an ethnic minority?
“Absolutely. I identify very strongly as Jewish, but I could be Indian, Puerto Rican . . . Anything that gives you a cultural identity makes you know who you are and grounds you, even as a young girl trying on identities.” She sighs. “Any time I see something about Britney, I close it. I can’t look at it. I’m usually interested in gossip, but this makes my stomach hurt.”
She feels extremely lucky to have missed the worst of the paparazzi madness, with the videographers and bloggers. “I was allowed to establish myself when it wasn’t this crazy. I was going to high school and college and there were no paparazzi after me. But that was only five years ago. It wouldn’t happen now.”
One such piece of tabloid bait is Scarlett Johansson, with whom Portman shares the screen in The Other Boleyn Girl. They play sisters in a love triangle with Henry VIII. “It’s a catfight movie.” Highbrow catfighting? “Not really highbrow,” she laughs. “Have you read the book?”
She catches herself, then does her best to think her way into promoting a movie that is getting mixed reviews. “These two sisters love each other so much, and are made out to be rivals by the values of society that uses women as pawns.”
She doesn’t want us to think the film fosters rivalry between women. “I hate that – it drives me crazy. The truth is, it’s hard to find a really great girl, but when you find one, it’s the best. The vast majority of my friends are guys, but the ones I talk to about everything are my girls.”
Back when Portman was 14, she was the face of Isaac Mizrahi, who would go on to cause a minor scandal at the Golden Globes two years ago, when he grabbed Johansson’s breasts. “Seriously, I would want to grab them. She’s got beautiful ones, but, Isaac, that was not so appropriate.”
And, of course, while Portman is famously Jewish, Johansson is a lesser-known Jew (because of her Scandinavian father, she’s called “the kosher Danish”). When Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek made a movie together, all the headlines blared “the Hot Tamales”. What should the media label a film starring two Jewish girls? Portman doesn’t miss a beat.
“The Hot Knishes,” she says, referring to the Jewish delicacy. She says how good Johansson is, adding that in her own forthcoming film, My Blueberry Nights, Rachel Weisz “will knock your socks off”. But her favourite co-star of all time?
“Stephen Fry, when we made V for Vendetta. I wanted to spend all my time with him. He is awesome.” She thinks they gelled because they have anachronistic personalities. “I would much rather read a book or write a letter than watch television or send an e-mail. And I value good spelling. Spelling errors are a total pet peeve, which is embarrassing.”
Not that she is the paragon of refinement that her face would lead you to believe. “My Hallowe’en costume the last year of high school was a hooker,” she admits. An elegant, gamine hooker? “No,” she laughs, tea dripping onto her cashmere. “Just a hooker, with lots of bad make-up.”
Bid to get Scarlett’s Mary film shot in Lothian
TOP Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson could be heading to West Lothian to film her latest movie.
Last year, it emerged the actress had been signed up to play Mary, Queen of Scots, the tragic monarch who was born at Linlithgow Palace. The movie’s production team are currently touring the UK looking for locations and West Lothian Council plans to get in touch to put their case.
Provost Tom Kerr said: “This will be a major international production which could rival the success of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.
“We plan to make the production company aware of the importance of Linlithgow’s connection with Mary, Queen of Scots and to consider filming in our historic town.”
In 2004, scores of fans descended on the tiny West Lothian village of Dechmont when George Clooney was in the area as producer of the film The Jacket.
Martyn Day, the council’s development and transport leader, said a new film about Mary Stuart would give a massive boost to the region.
He said: “We would certainly offer help with the filming of this important new movie and we will be contacting the production company to invite them to visit Linlithgow.”
David praises Scarlett’s ‘mystical’ singing
Washington (ANI): Rocker David Bowie has showered actress Scarlett Johansson with praise prior to the release of her debut album, insisting that her performance is “mystical.” The rock legend added backing vocals to two tracks on Anywhere I Lay My Head Falling Down and Fannin Street.
Writing on his official website, Bowie has dismissed media criticism of the Lost in Translation starlet’s attempts to re-record songs by an artist as respected as Waits.
“The songs are great, really good Tom Waits stuff, and Scarlett’s performances are mystical and twice cool,” Contactmusic quoted Bowie, as saying. “She creates a mood that could have been summoned by someone like Margery Latimer or Jeanette Winterson,” he added.
Bowie, who sings on Falling Down and Fannin’ Street, played down his contributions to the album, saying that his involvement was fairly minimal. “I’ve seen the press on this and I suppose the record company wanted to spin my involvement a little more than it actually warrants. All I contribute are these oo’s and ah’s on a couple of tracks,” he said.
Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman Admit To Booty-Dancing In Costume On ‘Other Boleyn Girl’ Set
The Other Boleyn Girl” features many delights for an audience member. It’s a juicy period tale inspired by true events and adapted from a best-selling novel of the same name. It features fabulous costumes; provocative plot twists (adultery, betrayal of every stripe and, yes, even incest); and a moody turn by Eric Bana as King Henry VIII himself.
But forget all that: This one stars Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. Maybe it’s not on the level of De Niro and Pacino teaming up for “Heat,” but to see two big female talents side by side (and as sisters, no less) in a film like this is quite a rarity today.
MTV News chatted with the two stars about their divergent characters (here’s a switch: Natalie’s the bad girl), Scarlett’s upcoming album covering Tom Waits tunes, and why all these two really want to do is dance.
Man in Michigan Goes to Bed Early Dreams of Paris Hilton
A Michigan man, known only as myhat2u, with a penchant for turd stories and bearing an uncanny resemblance to Yoda, went to bed last night very early.
“I was just so darn tired” said myhat2u “I needed to sleep after spending the day researching turd stories and wracking my brain thinking of Paris Hilton double entendres, I posted my ideas on a discussion board thus making it now IMPOSSIBLE for a fellow writer to use those point grabbing headlines in his own work.”
A good move indeed by myhat2u, however the writer in question, a close colleague of myhat2u, who has collaborated on many intertwined stories, is a charlatan who has no pride nor standards and no doubt this ‘hack’ will incorporate the headlines at a later date. Probably when he is desperate for attention.
On waking this morning and reading this story, myhat2u overcome with laughter, defecated in his bed, thus enabling me to use the turd picture to accompany this story
Paris Hilton Footwear Collection
Despite her busy social life Paris Hilton still finds time to focus on fashion. You will remember that she has her own fragrance already, so this time she ventures on a new footwear collection! Yes, the collection launched February 8 at Macy’s South Coast. This bit of news was posted on Paris’ own MySpace post. The name of her collection is somewhat straightforward “The Paris Hilton Footwear Collection.”
According to Paris she is personally involved in the designing and sales of her collection. As per statement with Fox News, “This week I am at my booth all day working, meeting all the buyers, showing them all my favorite styles and taking orders.” Despite her negative publicity, maybe Paris really has good business acumen.
Her new collection is available in an assortment of styles that will appeal to women of all ages. Boots, wedges, sexy stilettos and platforms as well as comfortable flats are what comprise The Paris Hilton Footwear Collection. Paris ensures that they are made from durable yet comfortable materials. If you intend to get one be sure to check the soles. Paris said she designed them to be pink so that they’ll be cute no matter at what angle you look at it.
MTV looking for house for Hilton
MTV is looking for a house for socialite heiress Paris Hilton’s show where girls will compete to be her best friend.
Reports say that Hilton “will most likely move in with the gaggle of girls”.
The show has been getting a lot of attention and one executive said, ” The Hills is getting tired and old, and it has just gotten too predictable. With Paris, we expect spontaneity and for the show to become an overnight smash.”
Thousands of girls have signed on for the show and plans are afoot for it to be aired in the summer.
Paris Hilton Looks For “New Best Friend” on Reality Show
According to reports, Paris Hilton is set to star in a new reality show about her searching for a new best friend. A source says Hilton agreed to do the show as she is “tired of the haters.”
“The show is going to be about her searching for a new best friend. Paris is tired of the haters and she’s looking for someone new,” says an insider.
Meanwhile, Hilton is done searching for a new man. The socialite is dating ‘Good Charlotte’ singer Benji Madden. Sources say the pair has been dating nearly two weeks and Madden is ready to propose. The couple were introduced by Hilton’s pal Nicole Richie, who is engaged to Benji’s brother Joel Madden.
Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Harry Potter used as bait for spreading trojan
PandaLabs has detected the mass-mailing of messages with sensational subject fields to spread the Downloader.SQV trojan. Subjects used include two supposed earthquakes in the USA, the third divorce of Pamela Anderson or the release of the film “Jumper”.
The email format is the same in all cases, only the subject field varies. Yet it always involves some kind of sensational title, such as:
Pamela Anderson divorces in third times!!!
Michael Jakson glued up a person a plaster
CIA tortures prisoners!!!
Harry Potter was purchased by pentkhaus!!!
Two powerful earthquakes happened in the USA!!!
Princess Diana ´Could be have been killed by MI6´ - conclusions of experts!!!
The variable subject of the email also appears in the text body, along with the text: “New Video!” and a link with the words “Download Now”. Any user clicking the link will be redirected to a web page that will infect their computer with Downloader.SQV. This trojan then downloads two other trojans: Spammer.AGF and KillFiles.BU. The first is designed to resend the emails, using the infected computer as a server, while the second prevents certain system functions from operating correctly.
“Malware creators frequently use sensational headlines or celebrities as lures to distribute malware. This is known as social engineering, and it is generally an effective technique”, explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs.
To avoid falling victim to these malicious codes, PandaLabs advises users not to click links in emails from unknown sources. It is also advisable to have a good security solution installed and up-to-date to protect against both known and unknown threats.