Julie Andrews graced the Elle magazine Women In Hollywood tribute, humbling several actresses in attendance.
Katie Holmes (pictured) was one of them. Holmes coyly told television reporters: “She is amazing. We have Mary Poppins and Sound Of Music playing a lot in our house right now.”
Renee Zellweger said wryly: “I just don’t want to fall or say dumb things, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed.”
Andrews said she worked with “giants” over more than five decades in Hollywood. They included Rodgers and Hammerstein and Alfred Hitchcock and “delicious leading men” such as Paul Newman and Omar Sharif.
Andrews also acknowledged her fellow honourees, Julianne Moore, Emily Blunt, Robin Wright Penn and casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Andrews also spoke of working with her husband, director Blake Edwards. During the filming of a love scene, he once told her: “That was just fine, darling, but I know you can do it better.”
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Taylor Lautner has said the difference between his character Jacob in Twilight and in the sequel New Moon is “astounding”.
Taylor, 17, plays the role of werewolf Jacob Black in the hit movie franchise and he admitted his character not only went through physical changes in the second movie but his attitude changed as well.
He said: “When I was filming Twilight, I knew that Jacob’s character changed a lot so if I wanted to continue portraying him correctly, I had a lot of work ahead.
“So I started hitting the gym. I got a personal trainer. I started eating a lot of food and cut the sugars. It was a lot of work, but it was definitely worth it.
“The cool thing is that it’s not just physical. You can read it all over him, just in his entire attitude. The difference between the kid that did Twilight and this guy now is pretty astounding.”
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Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford said his good looks are the result of him being “blessed with good genes”.
Crawford, 24, plays the role of Nate in the popular US show and he has a huge female fan base around the world.
Asked if he has to work hard to look good, he told British OK! magazine: “I’m blessed. I have a beautiful mother and beautiful father, so I guess you could say I’m blessed with good genes.
“It’s important to have a certain look in the industry but I honestly tend to wake up and comb my hair with my hands. I think I have three pairs of the same jeans, so when I find something I like I tend to stick with it.”
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Teen hunk and Twilight star, Taylor Lautner, has revealed that he would love to follow in the footsteps of Matt Damon and work on action-packed movies like The Bourne Identity.
The young actor, 17, said that he looks to older heart-throbs when it comes to developing his career.
He said: “Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon…I love the Bourne series and I wouldn’t mind doing something like that.”
The actor, who plays Jacob Black in the popular film series, is fully aware of a group of ardent female fans known as Team Jacob.
But Lautner humbly says their obsession is less to do with him and is more about his character.
“I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob,” he says. “I’m just lucky to be the one who got the chance.”
However, despite loving his work as an actor, the teen star revealed that sport is still one of his first loves.
“Football, baseball, martial arts, basketball, soccer…
“As I got older, I started to narrow them down,” he said.
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Graphic nude scenes were part of getting into character for the role of Jason Stackhouse in True Blood, says Australian actor Ryan Kwanten.
“I feel like it’s something Jason my character would actually do,” he said. “I never feel like I’m putting myself out on a wire because the writing is always so good as well. And most of the time the actresses are more nervous than me anyway.”
Kwanten added: “I usually just try and cater the body to the role. Obviously Jason is someone who looks after himself. He’s very vain. He’s aware of his looks, so it’s important that I stay on top of it. But I also just enjoy fitness in general.”
Kwanten says many people in the US are surprised to learn he is Australian. “It’s a nice compliment to get even American people or people in the South coming up and saying where in the South am I from, and then when I actually talk they think I’m putting this accent on.” He attributes his success to being able to handle the setbacks. “Obviously you’ve got to have the talent but what I think is so important in this town as well is to have resilience and tenacity. You’ve got to be able to deal with rejection, more so than any other job. Even in a good year you’re still getting rejected more than 90 per cent of the time.”
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Natalie Portman has revealed a few of her favourite things to fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal for Interview Magazine.
“I don’t think you can really improve upon Carvel ice-cream cake,” she said. Gyllenhaal pointed out he goes for Baskin-Robbins because he heard the Obamas shared their first kiss over the ice-cream.
But the actress’s music tastes are quite removed from the lolly shop. “I’ve mostly been listening to dirty rap lately. That’s sort of my scene, Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.”
Portman, 28, broke out some X-rated lyrics to prove her point.
She also said if she could not act she would an ideal bike messenger, since “I can make chit-chat, but not much else. I’d basically have trouble with any job that doesn’t require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.”
Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is to star alongside Ben Affleck in new thriller The Town.
Blake, 22, has signed up for the Warner Bros. flick and Chris Cooper is also said to be in talks to join the film, which will be produced by Graham King and Basil Iwanyk.
Affleck has already signed up for the film along with Rebecca Hall and Jeremy Renner in the movie that has been adapted from the Chuck Hogen novel Prince of Thieves.
It follows the story of a bank manager, played by Hall, the career criminal who stole more than just her heart, played by Affleck and an FBI agent, played by Hamm who tries to bust the criminal and his gang, which Renner is a part of.
GI Joe star Channing Tatum’s wife Jenna Dewan has revealed that she thinks her husband would have been perfect to play the role of Riley in Eclipse.
Dewan, 28, said she believes Tatum, 29, would have been ideal for the role of Riley in the third instalment of the Twilight saga, Eclipse.
The part of Riley eventually went to Xavier Samuel in the flick, but Dewan believes director David Slade should have picked Tatum.
She said: “I totally tried to get him to do it. I was like: ‘Baby, do Twilight!’ Oh, my god. I’m a huge Twilight fan. I’ve read all the books. So I was like: ‘You should do it, you should do it, you should do it!’”
The Public Enemies actor met Dewan on the set of the 2006 dance movie Step Up and began dating soon after. They married last month in Malibu, California.
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A bizarre array of items belonging to Hollywood star Dom Deluise is up for sale.
Everything from a rocking horse to a large metal deer sculpture, antique telephones to wood spinning wheels are available for fans to buy.
There is also an array of antiques including butter churners, decorative harnesses, old trunks, an antique settee and several Western-themed metal and bronze sculpture reproductions.
The heavyweight star also collected an assortment of framed and unframed movie posters and a couple of guitars and mandolins that are also part of the sale.
The items are being held as part of an estate sale in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles.
The sale comes just three months after the funnyman actor, who starred alongside Burt Reynolds in the Cannonball movies, passed away in May at the age of 75.
Barbara and Tom Dawson, garage and estate sale specialists, are handling the sale.
Tom said: “The response we’ve had to this sale is amazing.
“We have had a huge number of enquiries from people about this sale, from a lot of fans.
“It’s amazing how many fans Dom had. Some of the pieces are very unique and would be great for fans to have.”
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That ’70s Show actress Mila Kunis says she gets into so many accidents that her black-and-blue body is “always bruised up”.
The 26-year-old actress said: “I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I’ve had concussion, a fractured rib… I walk into walls. I’m always bruised up.”
In fact, the Ukraine-born actress happily showed off her latest scar that stretches across her throat. She got it while “being stupid” on a jet ski in Hawaii, she says.
Kunis moved from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles with her family when she was seven.
She learned English while watching The Price is Right.
But although one of her first jobs was playing the younger version of supermodel Gia Carangi, in the TV movie starring Angelina Jolie, she says her parents never let her get too big-headed.
“I had a normal upbringing and went to public school,” says Kunis, who admits that co-star Ashton Kutcher helped her with her science homework when they were on That ’70s Show.
“If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone.
“Then, the car thing came around. Oh, my God. You would have thought I was asking for a private jet! I kicked and screamed and I got my stupid car.”
Transformers star Shia LaBeouf and Arrested Development’s Michael Cera have emerged as the front-runners to play Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a new movie about the social network, according to reports.
The film is being written by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and is based on Ben Mezrich’s book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius And Betrayal.
In the book, due out next Tuesday, Mezrich tells how Zuckerberg came up with the idea for Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, with the help of his friend, Eduardo Saverin.
Zuckerberg then allegedly sold out his partner and was hit with a series of lawsuits from the very same friends, who had helped him make the website a global phenomenon.
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Gossip Girl star Blake Lively has admitted she would like Brad Pitt to play her on-screen dad in the show.
Blake, 21, plays the role of Serena van der Woodsen in the hit US TV series.
In the final episode of season two of the show, Serena was seen heading to Fiji to find her father and it is claimed he will be making an appearance in the third series of the teen show.
Asked who she would like to play her dad, Blake said: “Brad Pitt. Or maybe [he should be cast] as my new boyfriend.”
Actor Connor Paolo, who plays Serena’s brother Eric, added: “We’ve been asking since day one who daddy dearest is, so it’ll be good to find out. I’d say Christopher Walken could make a great dad. I think he’d be a great papa van der Woodsen. I think [his and Lily's] dynamic would be awesome. I’ll push that one. Or maybe Jack Nicholson.”
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A star-struck young fan got to meet Shia LaBeouf on live television.
The actor star appeared on America’s The Today Show to discuss his latest flick, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Before the segment, a young woman called Samantha, who was waiting outside the New York show with her pals, asked if she could get to meet the screen hunk.
And her dream came true when she was invited on set to meet the 23-year-old star.
He said: “I like Samantha a lot. She seems like a real special person. I would love to meet her.”
She then brought Shia a cup of coffee, after his interview with host Meredith Vieira came to an end.
Her voice cracking, Samantha, 20, said in front of an audience of millions: “Oh my God, this is amazing. I can’t believe this, I’m in shock.”
After he praised her outfit, she said she had bought it especially for the occasion, and she said: “I’ve been planning this all week.”
She added: “I don’t know what to ask.
“What kind of girl are you interested in, like, honestly?”
He replied: “All kinds, I don’t have a specific [type].”
Giggling, she asked: “Do you have a girlfriend?”
He said: “I don’t, no. What are you doing the rest of the day? My day is boring.”
She said: “I want to spend it with you. I’m with my four friends.”
He laughed: “Four friends?!”
She then asked him to say ‘hi’ to her pals by reading their names out on air.
Shia then joked to presenter Meredith Vieira: “Thanks for this love connection.”
Twilight star Peter Facinelli has bet pal Rob DeFranco he will give him his Twilight director’s chair if he doesn’t get 500,000 Twitter followers by a certain date.
Peter, 35, who plays Dr Carlisle Cullen in the hit vampire film series, has promised pal DeFranco the chair with his name on if he loses the bet.
He said: “Rob was at my house and wanted the backing of my Twilight chair. He loves to bet, so he bet me for it.”
If Facinelli gets the half-a-million followers then DeFranco has to dance down Hollywood Boulevard in a bikini signing Beyonce’s track Single Ladies while holding a sign saying “Twitter Me”.
He added: “When the recount comes in and all the hanging chads are counted I am positive that I will declare victory and Rob will be dancing in a bikini, damn it.”
Facinelli also provided an incentive to Twitter followers and promised he will give the chair backing to one of his followers.
Footloose star Kevin Bacon has passed on some valuable advice to Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford: “Wear really tight jeans.”
Crawford is stepping into Bacon’s dance shoes for the remake of the hit movie, after High School Musical star Zac Efron dropped out.
And acting legend Bacon happily shared his secrets for the remake to be a huge success – wear the tightest trousers possible.
According to Kyra Sedgwick, Bacon’s actress wife, the actor gave Crawford the heads up on the role of Ren which he originally played.
She said: “Kevin said: ‘Good luck,’ and gave him a couple of thoughts but I can’t remember what they were.
“Something about wearing really tight jeans and Herbert Ross saying to him, when he was doing the final dance scene: ”These aren’t tight enough!’
“So he kind of warned Chace about it: ‘You’re gonna have to wear really tight jeans. Just so ya know’. ”
Sedgwick said she and Bacon recently met the Gossip Girl star at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and that their daughter is a big fan of Crawford’s.
She added: “”We were like: ‘If he’s good enough for her, he’s good enough for us’.”
Robert Pattinson’s cheek was going at a hefty sum, with two bidders finally parting with $20,000 for a chance to brush the cheek of the Hollywood vampire at last night’s AmFAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit in Cannes.
Sharon Stone looked chic in a black one-shoulder gown and filigree choker.
“We have 33 million people who have AIDS,’’ she said. “It’s the number one killer
of African-American women in the United States between 19 and 25 years of age.
“I don’t think people realise that AIDS killed two million people in 2007. Those are astonishing figures. I think people really don’t stop and recognise the severity of what’s happened.”
Scottish songstress Annie Lennox was invited to perform. “I would describe half of my activities as HIV activism,” said Lennox, appearing in a blue china doll gown with red ribbon. “High profile events regarding HIV are very important.”
Other celebs in attendance were Robyn Wright Penn, Dita Von Teese, Paris Hilton, Hayden Panettiere, Donatella Versace, Claudia Schiffer, 50 Cent and Josh Hartnett.
Gossip Girl hunk Chace Crawford will star in the remake of 80s cult movie Footloose after Zach Efron dropped out.
Movie bosses have confirmed Crawford has landed the lead role of Ren McCormack, made famous by Kevin Bacon in the 1984 original.
A Paramount Pictures spokesman told Us magazine: “Chace Crawford will play the lead role of Ren McCormack in the film Footloose.
Crawford had been in contract negotiations but was struggling to make filming work around his Gossip Girl schedule.
High School Musical heart-throb Efron was set for the part but pulled out after deciding against doing another musical film so early in his career.
He said: “I want to grow a bit with the types of movies I want to make.
“It was more along the lines that I was looking for a new challenge, and this was another musical.”
Footloose is set to begin shooting in March next year, with Heroes babe Hayden Panettiere among the stars who have recently auditioned for the movie.
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Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick has revealed his co-star Leighton Meester does a “funny” impression of Keira Knightley.
Westwick, 21, is originally from the UK and stars as Chuck Bass in the US sitcom. He admitted the US stars on the show often try to do a British accent.
He told British newspaper Metro: “It has been tried a few times but they mainly aren’t very good. Although Leighton [Meester] is fond of doing her Keira Knightley, and she’s funny with it. The rest of them are pretty over the top, like most Americans are when they try to do an accent.”
Westwick admitted his British accent often confuses American people and was once even mistaken as Australian.
He said: “I’ve been fortunate enough to get to travel around a little bit and out in the sticks they find it a little more difficult to understand me. I’ve also been mistaken for an Aussie once or twice, which is quite strange.”
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Transformers star Shia LaBeouf says the hand he injured in a car accident is ‘permenantly f****d’.
The 22-year-old star injured his left hand when he flipped his Ford pick-up truck in late night crash in Hollywood last July.
The star says the injury caused permanent damage and that his hand will never be the same again.
LaBeouf told Playboy: “I’ll never be back to 100 per cent or have full recovery. I can’t [pull up] my zipper or button my shirt without extreme pain.”
LaBeouf was never charged with drunk driving over the incident, but had his licence suspended for refusing tests directly following the accident.
The actor has admitted he should not have been behind the wheel.
“I had a whiskey and three beers,” he said.
“The fact that I ever got into the car was a mistake.”
LaBeouf says he is now trying to steer clear of alcohol.
“I’m in AA now. I’ve had drinks, but it has been a levelling-out process. Am I an alcoholic? I may not be.
“I know that in the situation I’m in, with temptations what they are, I have no room for alcohol in my life.”
Despite his troubles the Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull star says Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has stuck by him.
“Steven Spielberg remains faithful and very much a friend.”
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Jenny Garth and husband Peter Facinelli of Twilight visited Disneyland ala Cinderella and the Prince. The couple was with their children but Jennifer Garth came with a bandaged right foot which was a result of an earlier home injury. Instead of staying home and be lonely Jenny Garth gamely visited the Park with her family and even made it the center of fun for the group.
Peter Facinelli, who plays the head of the vampire family in Twilight, played another role in Disneyland and this time he was Cinderella’s prince. Peter Facinelli was photographed holding up the glass-slipper to Jenny Garth’s bandaged foot with the Park as a background. Jenny Garth’s bandaged foot will not however affect her work since there is no shooting schedule for “90210″.