Welcome to East Village Afternoon... enjoy your pop.
Showing posts with label magazines - vanity fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazines - vanity fair. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Broads We Love

Over at VanityFair.com, they've published several photos from the time that Elizabeth Taylor and her friend and hairdresser, Maury Hopson, went to a fat farm in the 1970's.

At the time, Taylor was married to Sen. John Warner, living in Virginia, and doing nothing but eating fried chicken, gravy and getting fat. On a whim, Hopson took Taylor to a fat farm in Florida, which they dubbed "Butterfield Ate". Go to www.VanityFair.com to see the rest of the photos, they're hilarious.

Monday, April 18, 2011

What You Didn't Hear

Here are some photos from this year's Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Vanity Fair won't tell you what the people in these photos were really saying, but we will.

Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Scooter Braun


Scooter: So, Selena and Justin, are you guys enjoying the Oscar Party?
Selena: Oscars? This is a party for the Oscars? We just came out to celebrate
Justin's first pubic hair.

Charlize Theron


Charlize (to herself): Hmm, let's see, gin and tonic, check, two rum and cokes, check, martini, check, whiskey sour, check, and now I've got another gin and tonic. Thass what I'm talking about. Hey, bartender! Take off your shirt, show me your tits! Woo hoo!!!

Tom Ford


Tom: Don't hate me because I'm handsome, because I'm a famous clothing designer, and not because I'm now a successful filmmaker. Hate me because I'm an arrogant douchebag.

50 Cent


50 Cent: Hey guys, yeah, man, thanks for that, I appreciate it, I...
Charlize Theron (from across the room): Hey, Fitty! Take off your shirt, show
me your bullet holes. Woo hoo!!!

Paul Rudd, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Judd Apatow


Photographer: Okay, gentlemen, line up for a "legends" photo!
Mick: Sure thing.
Steve: Let's see, Jagger's a legend of music, I'm a legend of comedy... (to Judd): wait a minute, who are you?
Judd: I make really stupid, overly-hyped comedies about emotionally stunted,
infantilistic child-men who act as if they're 12 years old which are very, very
popular with grown men who are emotionally stunted, infantistic child-men.
Paul: And I star in them!

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anderson Cooper


Jake: Hey, Cooper, did you hear? Charlize Theron's passed out, faced down in the koi pond. Do you want to call in the CNN cameras and do one of those live, emergency crisis intervention stories you do so well?
Anderson: I don't think so. A drunk movie star's not quite an earthquake hitting Haiti, is it? Besides, my tight black t-shirt's at the cleaners.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Hollywood Beefcake



Actor Rob Lowe is gracing the cover of the May issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, and while we've never been huge Rob Lowe fans, we can't help but think the guy doesn't look bad for 47.





But if we're going to feature good looking Hollywood actors, why not sample this 1962 publicity photo of a very young Robert Redford? Talk about your classic California blonde good looks, wow.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Crimes Against Nature


In the current issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, (March 2011-The Hollywood Issue), there is a list of the Top 40 Hollywood earners for 2010. The list is limited to actors, directors and producers and the total monies earned include only money paid for film work, excluding t.v., commercial or personal appearance work. It's reassuring to see that some on the list make good money for possessing genuine talent, but others on the list simply make us want to vomit, and it's time we called them out.
.
At #26 on the list is Owen Wilson, who made an estimated $19.5 million in 2010. He made $8 million for "Hall Pass", $8 million for the upcoming "The Big Year", $2.5 million for "Cars 2" and $1 million dollars for older film revenue. So a moderately interesting actor who makes one crappy movie after another made $19.5 million last year. Really? Now does that make you feel like losing your lunch, or what? But since we can't stop Wilson from acting, and we can't stop others from attending his movies, we'll have to pull out the bigger guns. We're calling in the Movie Police to make Owen pay for his crimes against entertainment nature.
.
(owen wilson is upstaged by a dog in "marley and me"... even the dog is cursing his agent for putting him in this piece of crap)
.
If we reviewed Wilson's entire career and forced him to serve time for every awful piece of work he's made, he'd currently be serving a life sentence in Hollywood Jail with no possibility of parole. So we'll go easy on him and only review the past two years of his resume. In 2008, Wilson made "Marley and Me" in which Wilson and Jennifer Aniston were less interesting to watch than a dog. For that piece of dreck, Wilson was probably paid around $8 million; although he really only deserved about $10,000, at best, which means he'll have to pay back to the American moviegoers $7.990 million. Later, in 2010 came "Marmaduke" in which Hollywood producers, again, said they'd rather watch a dog than Owen Wilson. For that piece of crap, Wilson probably made $2 million, but he'll have to forfeit all but $2,000 of it, plus he'll have to don an orange jumpsuit and pick up trash along the Hollywood Freeway everyday for two weeks.
.
(reese witherspoon and owen wilson in "how do you know?"... witherspoon is thinking, "i won an oscar, and i'm in this?")
.
Then came the truly horrific "How Do You Know", which cost $120 million to make, and only made $30 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest Hollywood flops in 2010. For this offensive stink bomb, Wilson must forfeit his entire salary, plus he must pay $2 to every moviegoer who had the misfortune to see it, which means that he owes about 3 million people a total of $6 million. But that's not enough punishment for "How Do You Know". After Wilson pays back the money, then he has to be tied to a stop sign on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, where a gang of lesbian motorcycle riders, the infamous "Dykes on Bikes", will ride by and gang-slap him. And for the remainder of the day, Wilson must remain tied up and apologize to every pedestrian who passes his way.
.
(robert deniro to owen wilson during the making of "little fockers"... deniro: "start doing something interesting, you son-of-a-bitch, or i swear to god, i'll shove my foot so far up your ...")
.
Wilson's final effort in 2010 was the stomach-sickening "Little Fockers". Since Wilson wasn't alone in that dreadful effort, we'll let him keep a salary of $10,000, (probably not deserved, but even bad movie actors have to buy groceries). But for that effort, Wilson must attend an "entertainment management class" in which he's taught, from scratch, how to select better scripts, and where he's forced to remember that he once, long ago, wanted to do only good work, and that he wouldn't "sell-out" just for an easy paycheck. At the end of each class, he must visit famous has-been actors who haven't worked in many years and watch them eat cat food, all to remind him what will soon happen to him if he continues to squander his opportunities in Hollywood.
.
So when Owen Wilson's real "deserved" earnings are totaled for 2010, instead of making $19.5 million, it looks to us as if Owen Wilson really should have made about $30,000 and some change, about what the average school teacher makes. Only the school teacher can go home at the end of the day knowing that he has actually contributed something good to society. So far, Owen, you've avoided having to serve actual time in Hollywood Jail, but we're warning you, continue on this horrific career path, and we will be forced to lock you away in a deep, dark cell somewhere so scary that not even Jody Foster will want to visit you.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

So We're Guessing Mickey and Goofy Won't Be Getting Together Anytime Soon?

In the new edition of Vanity Fair Magazine, rock legend Patti Smith interviews actor Johnny Depp, and the conversation got very interesting when Depp described Disney's initial reaction to his portrayal of his "Pirates of the Caribbean" character, Jack Sparrow. Following is an excerpt from the VF.com piece.
.
“They couldn’t stand him. They just couldn’t stand him,” Depp says of Disney’s reaction to his controversial interpretation of Sparrow. “I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie.’ Depp reveals to Smith, however, that he remained unfazed by the studio’s hysteria.
“Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What’s wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?… And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite… ‘But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?’ Which really made her nervous.”
.
Wow. And you wonder why we rarely ever see anything really edgy or interesting coming out of mainstream Hollywood?

LinkWithin