A new series of portraits by conceptual photographer Sam Taylor-Wood features some of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men – Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Daniel Craig, etc – in tears. According to Taylor-Wood, the idea’s pretty simple: “It’s about the idea of taking these big, masculine men and showing a different side.” Yay, straightforward, unpretentious art.
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esplanade \ESS-pluh-nahd\ noun
: a level open stretch of paved or grassy ground; especially : one designed for walking or driving along a shore
Because he’s famous and rich, Jude Law chills on the esplanade by the water.
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• Us Weekly recounts Heidi and Spencer’s cheesiest moments. When even Us Weekly isn’t buying your bullshit, you know you’re in trouble.
• Rorschach test: Which part of this recent picture of Jude Law is least attractive: The tattoo, the hairline or the armpit hair?
• The private letters of Punch and Pinch Sulzbergers won’t be available until 2035 and 2057. Better change your weekend plans.
• Bush administration lied 935 times about Iraq before the invasion. Way to stay under 1K, guys.
• Lil Wayne brings the party: The rapper’s tour bus contained 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine and an unspecified amount of the drug ecstasy. He’s already crying over it.
• Starbucks is experimenting with reasonable prices for coffee.
• Second-rate Posh Spice impersonator is quickly chastised for “not being frigid enough.”
• Amy Winehouse cancels the remainder of her tour because, as she puts it, “I can’t give it my all onstage without my Blake.” Either that or someone (i.e. her lawyer) finally warned her about the potential dangers of snorting nose-candy on stage and having the video end up on YouTube.
• Geez, how many random dudes does Sienna Miller have to sleep with before she stops being known as Jude Law’s ex?
• Jude Law and Lindsay Lohan went to a new LES bar called “The Box” together. And then they totally did it!
• Have J.Lo and hubby Marc “Skeletor” Anthony jumped on the Times‘ *new* separate bedrooms trend?
• Kirsten Dunst is taking college level art classes despite only reading at a 9th grade level.
• Robbie Williams drinks 36 espressos every day?? That guy must spend more on coffee every week than we make in a year!
• Gay adulterer Jim McGreevey inexplicably asks for sole custody and spousal support two years after resigning in disgrace as New Jersey’s governor.
• Anna Wintour and Dominick Dunne are creepy new besties! We hear they bonded over a mutual hatred of that untalented Indian guy on American Idol!
• Heather Mills McCartney may or may not have once been available for four-figures a night.
• Though it’s yet to be seen if Michael Jackson will actually make it to the World Music Awards, sister Janet is nearly certain a no show. Something about the $400,000 it would cost to invite her.
• Gayle King claims she left her husband because he cheated on her. Not because of her “special relationship” with Oprah.
• Roger Friedman continues his TomKat wedding scoopaganza with news that Penelope Cruz, among others in Tom Cruise’s past, will not be welcome at the nuptials.
• It isn’t Jude’s turn to cry this time around. He’s the one who dumped Sienna Miller, for partying too hard while he tries so hard to, ahem, be a doting dad.
• Tom Ford wanted to spread his man crotch scent beyond the cover of VF.
• Borat had it coming.
• Jude Law and Sienna Miller end things, once again. An insider says the last straw was a debate over Pittsburgh.
• Tobey Maguire is a new dad, and Us claims the exclusive. People and Star weigh in with “confirmations.”
• Page Six spots Beyonce and Jay-Z in South Africa. Rush & Molloy finds them in Atlantic City.
• TomKat hits Conde Nast’s Black Ball, mingles with Tom Freston, skims 10 percent off donations for Scientology.
• Meanwhile, Brooke Shields is said to have been invited to the couple’s Nov. 18 nuptials.
• Alan Iverson: Good lay.
• Not much faith in Michael Jackson actually making it to the World Music Awards. Though some 200 tickets he’d set aside have been stolen by hackers.
• Scarlett Johansson is almost as happy with her body as Woody Allen is. [People]
• No more hot female employees for Jude Law. He now spends his nights forcing his hot male assistant to distract him from checking out any tail while they bar hop. [Lowdown]
• Why is it that people in the Hampton’s are so stuffy? God forbid a nice Italian family run a sucessful family business. [Page Six]
• Fabulous news, people. Lindsay Lohan may finally start crowding up the hospitals in London instead of here. [Scoop]
• Crazy Joe Simpson can no longer rely on the careers of his daughters to keep him afloat. So he’s taking up one of the industries oldest trades: paparazzo.
• Patrick Swayze blasted The Passion of Christ and Jodie Foster is an atheist. Just goes to show you don’t have to agree with everything Mel Gibson does to support a Jew hater. [AP]
• How could anyone not believe Jude Law is Jude Law. Does anyone else on the planet actually have a head that big? [R&M]
• Baseball players cheating on their wives? We’ve never heard such a ridiculous idea. [NYP]
• Who doesn’t love an e-mail from Lindsay Lohan? Especially one that reads “these g-d damn people.” [Perez Hilton]
• Though, these Monday morning goodie shots of Paris Hilton come in at a close second. [Socialite’s Life]
• Denise Richards takes a break from reporting Charlie Sheen to the police to make out with Richie Sambora. [People]
• A wobbly (drunk?) Lara Flynn Boyle makes her girlfriends cry. Only in LA, kids. [Page Six]
• Remember the NYU pot princess? Looks like she has other talents besides weighing out eight balls. [NYP]
• Tom Cruise thinks that the tabloid press is unhappy. Doesn’t he know how much it sucks to follow him around all day? [Fox]
• Sienna Miller and Jude Law are on again. We just hope they don’t have kids and get a nanny — things could start to get really bad. [Page Six]
We used to admire Jude Law for cheating on Sienna Miller with nanny Daisy Wright, then somehow convincing Ms. Miller to take him back for another round of Hollywood hooking up. Today? Well today we admire Jude Law for assaulting the paparazzi for filming his children (the children, of course, that Wright used to look after), then threatening them with charges of pedophilia.
You gotta love TMZ.com for giving otherwise throwaway paparazzi footage a welcome home.
• Britney Spears hopes to blame high chair makers for her baby’s fall. She was also overheard screaming at the customer helpline, accusing the manufacturers of causing her weight problem and lack of intelligence. [National Ledger]
• Broadway star Julia Roberts speaks to husband Danny Moder through secret Playbill code. [Page Six]
• Is it really that hard to understand a divorce when it already happened once before? With the same guy? [Gatecrasher]
• Jude Law protects his children from the paparazzi … but not from a hail storm of f bombs. [TMZ]
• We’re sort of confused as to why Charlie Sheen would need a sugar momma. Did Denise Richards come from money or something? Because, uh, we don’t think she actually made that much of it. [Scoop]
• Maybe those noises coming from Jude Law and Jessica Simpson’s room weren’t the result of “hot and heavy†lovin’. It was probably just a hard core game of charades. [The Sun]
• Only in the world of Britney Spears would her constipated baby translate into
her being preg-o. [The Scoop]
• After channeling his dog’s secret thoughts, Jay McCarroll slams Heidi Klum. It is somewhat fitting to call the woman who birthed your career a twat, isn’t it? [Page Six]
• Jennifer Aniston was a bitch in the 80’s? (No way — she’s such a darling now.) But, her personal bikini waxer probably loves her anyway. That girl is totally cashing in on Jen’s decision to stop doing upside-down at-home brazilians. [Lowdown]
• Well, Drew Lachey managed to do something his brother could never pull off — attaching “winner†to the Lachey family name. [People]
• What super-duper, Clay Aiken level of gayness do you have to be on to watch Liza on Bravo during the Superbowl? [NBC]
• Of course Sienna Miller was using Jude Law to help her career. The naked photos, are out there people. [Page Six]
• Us Weekly asks readers: where did Jessica Simpson sleep last night? Extra’s answer: with Jude Law, Josh Lucas, everyone, basically. However, our gut instincts tell us she’s banging Adam Levine. [Us Weekly, Extra]
• Angelina Jolie says good-bye to her single life, which means selling her mansion in Buckinghamshire and moving to California. [The Mirror]
• Colin Farrell’s back on the radar, and this time he’s searching for an intelligent male assistant. For $750 a week, you can clean up his used condoms, go on 15 cigarette/booze runs a day, and sweetly sing “Colin Farrell is My Bitch” into his ear while he’s doing sit-ups. [Defamer]
• The Jennifer Lopez baby rumors are back again — and more boring than ever. [The Scoop]
• Kate Beckinsale ran into Britney Spears and Janet Jackson in L.A. and now wants all celebrities to wear Burkahs. [Page Six]
• Diane Keaton contemplates the benefits of benefits of being over 50,such asnot having to worry about sleeping with gross old dudes. We wonder how exactly Lloyd Grove discovered this. [Lowdown]
• Seriously, we don’t understand why Miss New Jersey never ever wins. [People]
• As if cheating on her with the nanny weren’t enough, now Jude Law is leaving Sienna Miller for Sadie Frost. Then, in six months, they’ll trade back again. [Mirror]
It’s time to scratch those “running into Sienna Miller in a back alley” fantasies. Oh, we know you’ve had them. Anyways, unless you love yourself some S & M, you best be stearin’ clear of Sienna, the bad-ass bitch.
We were wondering why Jude Law’s nanny diaries did not cause more of a full-out cat fight between Sienna and Daisy Wright. Wonder no more:
“I’m quite looking forward to the day when our paths will cross, which I know they will,” says Miller, 24, of Wright in February’s Interview magazine. “She better live in fear.”
Though the fact that Sienna said “I’m quite looking forward,” takes away from her street cred just a bit, she totally wins points for knowing that when you really want to kick someone’s ass, you can find them in the dark alleys they normally hang out in.
Sienna to Nanny: Beware [People]
• Kate Moss’s mom approves of her daughter’s new dude. It probably helps that he’s totally hot, and not a cokehead. [The Sun]
• Sienna Miller claims she’s “tamed” Jude Law. We’ll just to to wait and see if she can housebreak him. [Liz Simth]
• In Paris Hilton’s latest cell phone escapade, she makes Eva Longoria style hate calls. [Rush & Molloy]
• Eminem’s paying to keep his mom alive — you know he wouldn’t want to lose the inspiration for his music. [Lowdown]
• Ocean’s Thirteen will star George Clooney opposite a huge bag of cash. [Defamer]
• Who’s richer Nicky Hilton or Paris Hilton? Obviously, the only way to find out is to have a war of the New Year’s Eve parties. [TMZ]
• Due to the distractions the Playboy Mansion would surely pose, Donald Trump decides not to run for governor of California. [People]
• MSNBC pisses off Don Imus by assuming hurricane coverage is more important than his show. [Page Six]
• David Lee Roth follows in Howard Stern’s footsteps, right down to the bourbon in his coffee. [NYDN]
• To the deep disappointment of P.A.s and interns everywhere, Jude Law gets banned from the set of Sienna Miller’s new movie Factory Girl. [3 am Girls]
• Mayor Bloomberg loves it when hot girls get married at City Hall. [Page Six]
• While Joe Simpson forms plans for the A List, Sienna Miller’s pop creates his black list. First to die - Jude Law. [The Sun]
• We know supermodels don’t spend any part of the holiday season eating, but Kate Moss has special plans this year. She’ll be hiding out in the US - after all, getting busted for blowing coke kind of ruins the Christmas spirit. [Page Six]
• A new job opens up at The Daily Show. [Reuters]
• Even celebrities get cranky when they’re up all night with a new baby. But, it’s more likely that Heath Ledger just really doesn’t like his wife. [The Scoop]
• American Media’s Star and Celebrity Living are on David Pecker’s shit list after completely missing Nick Lachey and Jessica’s Simpson’s split scoop, which went to Us Weekly. While Star’s “Jessica finally pregnant!” and Celebrity Living’s “New house and a baby!” issues hit newsstands, father Joe was issuing the separation announcement. [Page Six]
• Desperate Housewives dismissal Page Kennedy claims he wasn’t ousted from the ABC set for exposing himself, but Usher’s rep Tamar Juda might beg to differ. [R&M]
• Spotting Jayson Blair outside the New York Times building is right up there with spotting Lauren Weisberger outside 4 Times Square. [R&M]
• We’ve devoted so much ink to the breakup of Kathy Griffin and Matt Moline that we can barely muster tears of joy upon hearing the D-list duo are still a pair. Even though they’ve filed for the divorce, the red carpet critic and her “soul mate” are still sleeping and mugging for the camera together. [PerezHilton]
• If Pete Doherty can’t have Kate Moss, at the very least he can have her rehab clinic. [Page Six]
• Sienna Miller has finally figured out how to keep an eye on beau Jude Law: have him do a cameo in her new movie Factory Girl. [Page Six]
• Paris Hilton might still be ignoring Nicole Richie, but that’s not keeping her, Stavros Niarchos, Nicky Hilton and Kevin Connelly from hitting up Stereo, where Richie’s fiance DJ AM was spinning. [PerezHilton]
• Lindsay Lohan’s latest? Johnny Knoxville. [Lowdown]
• Looks like The Firm chief Jeff Kwatinetz blew his chance at getting a J. Lo fragrance basket for Christmas. The uber agent stood up the diva at scheduled meetings not once, but twice. [Page Six]
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