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May 18th, 2007
As PerezHilton.com was the first to exclusively report…
John Mayer and Jessica Simpson very recently broke up and our sources confirm exclusively to PerezHilton.com that is was John who dumped Jess.
Sad. Tragic, actually. Yet kinda funny too.
Poor Jess!
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May 18th, 2007
”Kelly is not a puppet; she does not like to be told what to do. She could have gone the easy route, which is, you go with [‘Since U Been Gone’ producer] Max Martin — it’s a guaranteed success. She made it absolutely clear that she wanted to steer the musical direction on this record. You just gotta say, ‘You know what? This girl has given us millions and millions of sales.’ You’ve got to give her that opportunity. If it works out, fantastic. If she then decides she wants to do a pop album, every good writer and producer wants to work with her. Because Kelly will be here for 30 years. She has one of the best pop voices in the world right now. What she sold in the U.K., Europe, Asia had nothing to do with American Idol. It had everything to do with the fact that she made a great record and she’s got an incredible voice. She’s not a girl who got lucky in a talent competition; we got lucky to find her.”
– Simon Cowell tells the new issue of Entertainment Weekly about Kelly Clarkson‘s recent struggles with her record label
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May 18th, 2007
Fugs ‘n’ Jugs are over!
Multiple sources confirm exclusively to PerezHilton.com that John Mayer and Jessica Simpson have ended their relationship.
And John’s fans are probably rejoicing!
The split happened very recently. “They officially called it quits this past weekend,” a well placed source tells us. “They’d been having problems for a while now and just decided it’d be better to end things.”
This news will come as a surprise to many, especially Jessica’s dad – who just a few days ago was publicly praising Mayer in the press.
While Jessica is currently in Cannes – seemingly having a great time – John is wasting no time enjoying the single life either.
Mayer and his entourage hit up New York City club Stereo on Thursday night, and the rocker was having a really good time.
“He was way tipsy and was spending a lot of time with an ugly brunette that was not Jessica Simpson,” a spywitness tells us.
Enjoy it, John!
Fugs ‘n’ Jugs = R.I.P.
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May 18th, 2007
Hallelujah!
Britney seems to have jumped the hump.
Thankfully the silly hats are gone and her wardrobe is inching slowly towards better. Plus, she seems to be exuding some genuine happiness from her face.
The former pop star is heading on the road this weekend, performing two shows in Florida.
Meanwhile, her recent romance, musician Howie Day, is heading back to rehab!
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May 18th, 2007
Hello friends up North!
Tune in to MuchOnDemand this afternoon, Friday!
Perezzzz is gonna be coming at ya to dish the dirt live via satellite from New York City at approximately 5:30 PM Eastern.
Hope you can catch it!
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May 18th, 2007
Here's what you should do this weekend: Go to the Coolidge and see "Day Night Day Night" without reading a single review. Don't even go to the Coolidge's website; they give the game away, too. All you need to know is that the movie's about a young woman (the remarkable Luisa Williams, above) at the end of her emotional rope and what she does about it.
It's also about New York City and about being in the midst of it while feeling completely apart. As a portrait of emotional extremity and the search for grace, it consciously aspires to Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" -- an absurdly ambitious target that director Julia Loktev comes close to realizing. (There's also a lot of Bresson whingwhanging around inside this movie.) Some feel "Day Night Day Night" is irresponsible in regards to certain real-world issues, but I beg to differ: Loktev and Williams use the real world merely as a backdrop to an elemental spiritual struggle.
Why am I being so coy? Because "DNDN" works best when you go in knowing nothing and let its initially enigmatic opening scenes crystallize into something very, very dark before the movie even thinks to seek the light. If you've read Wesley's review -- no, I'm not going to link to it -- you already know what I'm talking about, because he blows the mystery, as any reviewer has to. I would have had to, if I hadn't been tapped to cover other movies this week. But because I'm blogging, I'm telling you: Read the reviews after you've come back from the theater.
Elsewhere: An essential round-up of films by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan at the Harvard Film Archive (it's easy, there are only four), including last year's Cannes hit "Climates." Lemony Snicket's at the Brattle tonight, followed by an academic deconstruction of movies like "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" at tomorrow night's "Grindhouse panel." The Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival continues at the MFA.
Or you could just take the kids to "Shrek the 3rd" like the rest of the country will be doing.
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May 18th, 2007
Brad Pitt has just made a new addition to his tattoo collection.
Last year, the actor got some ink on his lower back, a Sanskrit Buddhist blessing meant to protect his little Maddox. It’s similar to a tattoo that Angelina has on her back.
Now, Papa Pitt is sporting his latest tat – a drawing of the Iceman Otzi.
Also knows a Frozen Fritz and Similaun Man, Otzi is a a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier in the Alps.
The man’s body had tattoos in several spots, as shown in the graphic below.
Brad’s homage to the Iceman must have some special meaning for him.
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May 18th, 2007
This trailer for the short film, Missing Pages, by Jerome Olivier, is an example of beautiful horror. Each shot looks to be a gorgeous study of composition, lighting and color, heightened further with elements of slight animation, that leave the viewer a bit uneasy. Mix that with the great build up to violent cuts that Olivier choose for this, and you got one creepy trailer.
Another point that is very impressive when looking at the quality of this trailer is that it is essentially a one man show. Olivier is the man behind the curtain on this one, having written, directed, edited and animated it. It is a great example of how much further this medium can stretch to than just some pretty graphics. I only hope that the film itself is as good as this trailer.
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May 18th, 2007
 By Tom Fitzpatrick
Films that make you think while trying to keep track of dialogue at the same time can be one of two things: frustrating or fulfilling. I loved the premise of Stranger than Fiction. I loved the idea of a character in a film realising he is a character in a novel and that his life is being both narrated and created by the same god, an author who believes in fate and yet controls the destiny of the character she has created.
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May 18th, 2007
 By Tom Fitzpatrick
Transamerica was released in 2005 to general critical acclaim. Felicity Huffman is outstanding as Bree, a transgender woman who discovers she has a son from a one night stand nearly twenty years earlier, implied as her only real sexual experience as a male youth. Bree bails her son out of jail and finds an insecure youth, desperate to be re-united with his father and whose mother commited suicide years earlier. Toby has been abused by his stepfather, earned money through prostitution, has a drug problem and is wary of anyone who seeks to help him, as Bree does by coming to his rescue in New York.
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