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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Michelle Williams’ reps at ID public relations successfully pulled off a campaign to stop Entertainment Tonight from airing a video that showed Heath Ledger at a hotel party in 2006 where he talked about doing drugs. ET had paid $200,000 for the video, but ultimately opted not to air it after Michelle’s reps e-mailed several celebs. Page Six reports:
Paramount, the studio behind "ET," was soon flooded with calls. Scarlett Johansson text-messaged: "As if Heath's poor family doesn't have enough to suffer through." A rep for Johansson confirmed she "was involved." "ET" producers also got a call from Natalie Portman and e-mails from Josh Brolin and Sarah Jessica Parker, said a source.
Sarah Jessica Parker? Yikes! You better do what she says or else she’ll show up at your office in a maelstrom of horseface and high heels. Nobody wants that. Not even Matthew Broderick.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
 The psychiatrist who hospitalized Britney Spears is a highly respected therapist known for her compassion, a former colleague says.
“She’s an excellent clinician and an excellent psychiatrist,” says Harold Young, the clinical director at the Maple Counseling Center in Beverly Hills, where Spears’s psychiatrist Dr. Deborah Nadel worked for about five years.
Board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Nadel graduated from University of California Medical School in San Francisco 18 years ago, and she did her residency at UCLA, records show.
Nadel, who has recently started treating the troubled pop star, had instigated Spears’s second hospitalization in January, this time at UCLA Medical Center’s psychiatric ward, for a 72-hour evaluation, sources says.
Spears chose Nadel from a list of doctors recommended by her lawyers, a source says.
Young, who worked with Nadel about 12 years ago at the center – a non-profit agency that provides low-cost counseling to people in need – said Nadel is now on the staff at UCLA and is “well thought of in the therapeutic community.”
“I think [Britney] is in somebody’s hands who will be caring, concerned, compassionate and respectful,” says Young.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Britney Spears has apparently been labeled “gravely disabled” by UCLA doctors which means she’s a candidate for involuntary commitment. Apparently she’s unable to take care of basic needs such as food and shelter. Really? Because she’s constantly out to eat or checking into hotels. I’m no psychiatrist but I’m pretty sure that’s food and shelter. Anyway, Britney is considered to be in a “manic state” and was hurling accusations at her mom which TMZ elaborated on:
We first reported that Britney accused her mother of sleeping with her boyfriend. Now we have more. We're told Britney screamed, "The only reason she's admitting me is because she wants to be alone with her boyfriend! She wants to sleep with my boyfriend!!" Britney never said exactly who she was talking about.
When Brit calmed down, she talked about her kids, how much she misses them and how it's unfair that she doesn't have them.
But fear not fellow Britney lovers! Britney is seeing the best of psychiatrists, according to People:
"She's an excellent clinician and an excellent psychiatrist," says Harold Young, the clinical director at the Maple Counseling Center in Beverly Hills, where Spears's psychiatrist Dr. Deborah Nadel worked for about five years.
In the meantime, Sam Lufti has been making In-N-Out Burger runs for Britney. Can’t acquire food, huh? Those better be therapeutic cheeseburgers otherwise I’ll cry “shenanigans!” Then it’ll only be a matter of time until CNN follows my lead. Little known fact: Wolf Blitzer’s my bitch. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to send my little Wolfman on a coffee run. I like it fresh from Colombia.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
If you missed Joss Whedon’s space cowboy series the first time around, now’s your chance to catch up.
Several years ago a science fiction series aired on television featuring the adventures of a spaceship captain and his crew. Although the series received critical acclaim and had a devoted following, low ratings led to its swift cancellation. No, I’m not talking about the original Star Trek — I’m talking about Firefly. Created and…
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
This has got to be one of the perfect frat house party DVDs, a combination horror/comedy.
Let me say this for the record and be up front about it: there are no – as in none – redeeming qualities about Bikini Bloodbath. Anyone looking for anything philosophically deeper than a tanline or a plot of any degree is going to be sorely disappointed. The movie is exactly as the title portrays it to be, a bloody romp with girls in…
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
A deceptively stupid movie and so-so Blu-ray experience.
With a wide ranging cast of recognizable faces, loads of action, tons of chases, and a twisting plot, what could possibly go wrong with Chain Reaction? Everything. This is a movie trying to be way more intelligent than it actually is.In this 1996 outing from director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), Keanu Reeves stars as a machinist working on a way to…
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Re Mark Feeney's blog entry on Arthur Penn: What he said. But also allow me to urge you, if you're anywhere in the vicinity of the Harvard Film Archive tomorrow (Saturday) at 3 p.m., to go see "Little Big Man," Penn's epic anti-Western and one of the great forgotten films of its era. When it came out in 1970, star Dustin Hoffman (above, being laved by Faye Dunaway) was between "Midnight Cowboy" and "Straw Dogs" (okay, also between "John and Mary" and "Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"), and he plugs right into Penn's arch wavelength as Jack Crabbe, the 121-year-old survivor of Custer's Last Stand who narrates his life in flashback. In some ways the film has dated, and in some ways it has come through the other side and become un-dated: the Washita River massacre scene that Penn visually ties to the Vietnam War and My Lai may have felt a New Hollywood stretch ten years ago but it stings today.
It's a curious work, pirouetting between picaresque and tragedy, parody and polemic. It goofs on Native Americans even as it reveres them as the authentic flower children. (Chief Dan George's wonderful, Oscar-nominated performance encapsulates both extremes.) In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," John Ford famously pondered the difference between the legend and the facts in the Old West. "Little Big Man" just howls with laughter and rage at any attempt to distinguish between the two. Overall, it's a damn sight more complex and troubling -- more entertaining, too -- than "Dances with Wolves." Worth seeing, and worth seeing on a big screen. (Thomas Berger's original novel is well worth reading as well.)
The quietly blistering Romanian drama "4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days" finally opens in the Boston area, at the Kendall to be precise. See why a lot of critics put it on their Best-of-2007 lists or see it for Anamaria Marinca's performance as the kind of friend we all want but rarely deserve.
The African Film Festival kicks off at the MFA today. I was at Sundance and couldn't pre-screen the offerings, but Wesley did and has this to say. That Cameroonian sci-fi sex mystery sounds kind of amazing.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 1, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings (Nasdaq:SSTR), announced the PC-DVD ROM version of the best selling arcade racer "FlatOut Ultimate Carnage" is being prepared for a June 2008 worldwide release.
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