HBO celebrity and man tramp Adrian Grenier has been seen in recent months running around Hollywood armed with a SLR camera and a smirk. Nobody knew exactly what he was doing — okay, they totally did — but posing as a paparazzo and traveling among the stalkerazzi was all part of something tangible: Paparazzi, the Entourage star's documentary about the industry, which is shopping for a distributor. It comes complete with commentary from Martin Landau, Noam Chomsky, and Whoopi Goldberg about what it's like to be famous in an era of non-stop privacy invasions. Funny, because real paparazzi do not photograph any of those celebrities. But Grenier does turn to MySpace CEO accessory Paris Hilton for expertise in crotch flashing. His film centers around a 14-year-old photographer who snapped his picture. Touching. But that wasn't our favorite Grenier paparazzi moment. This is: CONTINUED »
One week of watching the new Discovery Channel spin-off network Planet Green was all television critic Troy Patterson could take before, as he tells it, he "want[ed] to go out and kill a dolphin."
Why such a harsh reaction to a network supposedly dedicated to saving the planet? Because the network's shows have turned our concern for the environment into "an upper-middle-class privilege and a status marker." Case and point: That they've enlisted HBO star Adrian Grenier to explain how doing good things for our planet fits right in with his asshole Entourage lifestyle. CONTINUED »
Adrian Grenier isn't the only one taking on the stalkarzzi by playing one himself. Now the anything-but-elusive John Mayer is joining in.
Here he isd last night outside Hollywood's STK TURNING THE CAMERAS ON THE PAPS! Ooooh! Try selling those photos to In Touch.
After the jump, watch video of Grenier playing pap. CONTINUED »
• NBC announces plans to bring back campy pro-steroids infomercial, American Gladiators. "Yes!" cheers "Viper," before remembering that he's 45 and hasn't had any testicles since 1994.
• "Lindsay Lohan hasn't looked this good in years," observes OK! editrix Sarah Ivens, who diplomatically neglects to point out that Lohan's only made it to ripe old age of 21.
• And, the winner of the 2007 Air Guitar Championships at Irving Plaza is…some guy with weird chest hair who lives in his mother's basement. [Ed: Again??]
• Adrian Grenier is on a one-man mission to catch chlamydia.
Hollywood playboy/international superstar Vincent Chase finds out he has a raging case of genital herpes…on the next episode of Entourage.
Did you hear? Matthew McConaughey was just named as People magazine's bachelor of the year—presumably because he's ambiguously gay chronically single, and has a well-documented habit of running shirtless on the beach.
And while we have no problem with paparazzi capturing every blissful moment of McConaughey's early-morning calisthenics (his six-pack abs more than make up for that "dirty, hippy hair") we can't say we feel the same way about a few of this year's other runner-ups.
• Pam Anderson is a first class flier. If by "first class" you mean Stripperella.
• Finally, an explanation for why Val Kilmer gives everyone the heebie-jeebies.
• Mischa Barton leaves little to the imagination; proves she truly was too classy for the likes of The O.C.
• We want the number of Britney Spears' fake hairstylist. And no, it's not because we want to schedule an appointment.
• Adam Sandler, in Big Daddy the sequel. Thankfully, in this version the kid is toilet-trained.
• Perez is claiming John Mayer and Jessica Simpson have called their inexplicable relationship quits.
• Britney's rehab status is officially confirmed by the hardest working manager in Tinseltown.
• Meanwhile, with Britney jumping in and out of rehab, shaving her head and whatnot, K-Fed was forced to cancel his trip to Vegas and take care of the children.
• Sly Stallone is getting juiced, possibly preparing for Rocky X.
• Adrian Grenier is much better at being the Entourage hottie than he is at playing ukulele-inspired rock music.
• Oh no! A giant Hotel Gansevoort billboard is threatening to overtake the glorious Meatpacking landscape wasteland.
• After 18 mostly funny years, The Simpsons movie is finally (almost) here!
You gotta admire Kirsten Dunst. Because in a town as fake as Hollywood, only this girl's got the guts to greet her fellow girls with air-kisses…and then actively pursue their ex-boyfriends.
According to various sources, Dunst has been spotted all over town on dates with Fabrizio Moretti, (Drew's longtime boyfriend), Adam Brody (Rachel Bilson's recent ex), and Adrian Grenier, who has no ex per se, due to his clever policy of only banging everybody once.
As Us reports:
The Spider-Man star has gone on a dating spree this month. Her latest conquest: Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti (who just split from Drew Barrymore).
On January 6, she was spotted with The O.C.'s Adam Brody, 27 (who split with longtime love and co-star Rachel Bilson last year) at L.A.-area club Hyde.
And a source tells Us that Entourage star Adrian Grenier, 30, and Dunst, 24, hooked up on January 20.
A Dunst pal says the star is still reeling from her 2004 breakup with Jarhead actor Jake Gyllenhaal, 26. “Kirsten has been lonely,” says the source.
And while we certainly object to that whole double standard of labeling sexually active guys as studs and their female counterparts as slutty, we're not exactly buying the "source's" shtick about Dunst still being devastated by her three-year old breakup with Jake Gyllenhaal.
If Dunst wants to date eligible bachelor in California, then by all means, she should go right ahead. We just hope she's ready for the slew of bad press, angry ex-girlfriends and negative spin that inevitably goes with territory.
Besides, if Kirsten "Maneater" Dunst is pining over Jakey now, one can only wonder how she felt back when all those rumors were circulating that he was cozying up to somebody new….
• The New York Times' Kurt Eichenwald needed therapy as a result of talking to children who had been molested. Yeah. That's tough. Almost as tough, as, you know, being victimized by a pedophile. [OTM]
• Hotel Chatter solves the case of the dirty brown shirt man blowing lines at the Soho Grand. Oh, Adrian Grenier. If only we had shown up in time to save you. [Hotel Chatter]
• We can't wait for Sean Preston's first sentence, "Mommy, I can see your thong." [Mollygood]
• Gawker shocks us by returning to the media beat. [Gawker]
• Cosmo Girl! is much more hip than regular TV. They are launching Internet TV. Like, fabulous! [WWD]
Ever wonder what it's like to chill with celebs at a house party? Well, we're sure Entourage has given some great inside into how Hollywood parties go down, but when Brooklyn kids hang in LA, they keep it real, yo. (You think any of Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams' friends actually come out to Cobble Hill?)
From the sometimes socialite/restaurant/celeb insider Abbe Diaz, an account of Bijoux Phillips' birthday party at Heath's LA house (we guess?), via her anonymous friend who almost tripped over the new daddy.
heath ledger … was sitting on the floor smoking pot out of an apple. i also wonder why he would smoke out of an apple, but it's guaranteed to be true. i know [withheld] pretty well, he's definitely not a liar or story maker-upper.
james van der beek - talked about how he and a friend wanted to make a film, a modernized version of gredhel? is that right? from beowulf, another thing i know nothing about
seth myers - they talked for a while, [withheld] drew the [withheld] and other comics and seth myers went to comicon last year, and [withheld] is signing there next weekend.
oh the lead guy from entourage
oh yeah the other queer from brokeback.
So, basically, hanging out with Heath and Michelle, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Adrian Grenier is not the sloppy orgy fest we picturedin our minds. It's just a bunch of stoners who are to lazy to roll joints talking about movies. Moral of the story? Save yourself the trip to Cobble Hill and just hang out with some NYU film kids.
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• Stuyvesant High School gets a special treat: the funniest man on late night giving them very little hope for the future. [FBNY]
• Redbull is coming to Soho. Silicon Alley bloggers rejoice. [NYO]
• The New York Post spruces up it's coverage of death with fun, rhyming headlines. Oh, and the UES builiding bomber guy is dead. [NYP]
• Travel + Leisure strikes a huge blow against Andre Balazs. Apparently cities where there is space for hotels is where all the good ones actually are. [T+L]
• Adrian Grenier was in Williamsburg back when people admitted to living there. [You Tube]
While gossiping at the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, Adrien Grenier bragged to Rush & Molloy that he knows how to cook a mean grilled cheese. Yeah, yeah, we don't care either. The part of the story that snagged us was when the thralls of Conde Naster ladies were throwing themselves at the star after the show. (Seriously, can somebody tell them this was a movie?)
"I made eight of them in a row during retakes," he told us, as one cheeky Condé Nast beauty after another presented herself to the "Entourage" star as he lingered in the lobby, unguarded and uncelebritylike, long after the premiere's end.
Since there's no way in hell all the Condes were invited to this premiere, we will assume these are the Vogue and Vanity Fair and Glamour girls they're speaking of. And we had no idea those girls were actually allowed to be around people while they talked about food.
Side Dish [Rush & Molloy, Daily News]
We are getting a little nervous. Mostly because (you all know) we love Entourage. It is not just some ploy to give the show lots of press so that maybe we can meet Adrian Grenier and make-out with him. We swear! But, as a rule, every time a show, movie, blog, anything gets crazy over promoted, well, it usually means bad news is close behind.
Uh, hello, didn't Vince Chase himself teach us that with his reservations about Aquaman? Well, we don't have time for a full-out Entourage analysis (there are nerdier websites for that shit) we would like to use this platform to express our concern for the complete ho-out of our show.
First, there was this weird "be Ari Gold's assistant" posting. And we're sure none of you could dream of anything better than being Jeremy Piven's bitch, we just really don't get the point of the fake application. (Yes, we filled it out … nothing happened.) But, HBO didn't stop there. Oh, no. Now, they want their viewers to join gyms and work out while they watch the show.
As part of its plan to promote the third season of Entourage and the DVD release of season 2 … New York Sports Clubs will air season 2 of Entourage over the health club's private TV network.
During the week leading up to the premiere, 97 New York Sports Clubs put “Watch while you work out†cardio cards on the top of all the equipment, letting its 300,000 members know they can access season 2 on a special channel on the TV screens affixed to treadmills, bikes and other exercise machines. In addition, about one third of the TV screens suspended around the facilities also play the season 2 loop of episodes.
Again, we don't understand. Season two was great and all, but all the cardio in the world won't make up for missing Gary Buse and his crazy ass monologue.
HBO, Zoom to Run Entourage in Health Clubs [Katy Bachman, Mediaweek]
Admittedly, Jossip has jumped on the Entourage bandwagon. We love the show — mostly because it reminds us how much better we are for living in New York instead of LA. And because Adrian Grenier is slowly but surely replacing Jake Gyllenhaal as our go-to hot guy.
In fact, we like the show so much, all the over the top gimmicky advertising hasn't been enough to turn us off. Well, until we read in Ad Age today that Entourage is pairing with MySpace to create a promotional competition.
Working with MySpace.com, HBO is looking for young adults to form their own online circle of friends as part of a "My Entourage" competition, which will reward the group of friends with the biggest entourage and most compelling profile page with a whole host of goodies.
Unless the reward is a guest spot on the show and a date with Vince, we think we'll pass on this one. Plus, we have a feeling the reward will actually be a year's subscription to Nylon and a space on Lindsay Lohan's Top 8. Which doesn't stop us from barely being able to wait for the winner to be announced so we can call him Drama and do everything in our power to have him banned from the Playboy mansion.
HBO Creates MySpace 'Entourage' [Claire Atkinson, Ad Age]
So, maybe you haven't heard, but Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are making a movie together. The film, Babel, was just shown in Cannes, but here at Jossip, we didn't really know much about its plotline. Until today, that is, when we read that it was "powerful" and politically influenced, blah, blah, blah.
Brad and Cate's characters travel through Morocco in the film, which is directed by 21 Grams director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and face all types of people on different paths. Then, our ears perked up just at bit at this little plot point.
Pitt and Blanchett portray a couple on holiday in Morocco when tragedy strikes, and their story is linked to that of two shepherd boys living in a remote village.
Whoa .. whaaa? Two shepherd boys in a remote village? That's hot.
Well, we already had our cowboy fantasies come true. Now all we need is for these shepherd boys to be played by Adrian Grenier and Andy Samberg and we would never ask for anything else ever again.
Oh, the life of a Sundancer. We are so wiped out from all this Utah hoopla, and we weren't even there. But now that the best week ever is over, we thought a little re-cap of the west coast gossip would keep the east up to speed. (God forbid those Pacificans know something we don't!)
We know ther's three more days of this stuff, but everyone's already got their stupid Kooba bags and aviator sunglasses, they're peacin' like Lohan. If anything crazy happens, we'll let you know — but, until then, we're running the credits:
• He wasn't in any films (at least not that we know of yet) but Adrian Grenier sure did celebrate. [NYP]
• Maybe all these high-profile A-List celebs are taking away from the "indy" feel at Sundance. Uh, ya think? [Salon]
• Undercover blog, Defamer, leaves their post as los gossips de la Sundance. We're not sure why, but we heard something about Jennifer Aniston pelting everyone with cigarettes. [Defamer]
• Did you notice how New York doesn't smell quite so syrupy when all the saturation leaves Manhattan? [Gawker]
• He can try to deny it, but you know Tom Cruise made the aliens erase Katie Holmes' sex scene. [Page Six]
• But really, who needs a Katie Holmes sex video anyways? A hot tub, some Doritos. Wait, where's Adrian? [Cityrag]
• And of course, free stuff for rich people always makes so much sense to us here at Jossip.
See, that's why we love the TriBeCa Film Festival. No awards, no big shots. Just Robert DeNiro, $10 pack of Camel Lights, and a spot in the Manhattan where the tourists can't find you.
Sundance Film Festival [Sundance]
• Oprah brought David Letterman more than three times his regular audience — and bragging rights aimed at Jay Leno. [AP]
• In Touch is giving out $1 million to one lucky reader. The two dozen other readers, unfortunately, will get nothing. [WWD]
• Irv and Chris Gotti's jurors paid attention: If the cash don't fit, you must acquit. The record label execs were acquitted of money laundering charges, whereupon two of the jurors immediately became their newest groupies. [NYT]
• Britney Spears is rumored to be meeting with divorce lawyers to end her short-lived romance with Kevin Federline. Jossip is rumored to be dancing a jig. [News of the World]
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' reps aren't saying one way or the other whether the Neiman Marcus wedding registry is actually theirs, probably because they'd have to own up to those cheap face cloths. [The Scoop]
• At least Lizzie Grubman can be applauded for teaching her Power Girls how to generate press. Party shadow and Jossip friendly Rachel Krupa did just that with Entourage's Adrian Grenier, and thankfully Turtle wasn't in the vicinity to pick up the leftovers. [Page Six]
• Fabian Basabe isn't just a lousy closet gay, he's a lousy driver. [Page Six]
• Marilyn Manson is it in for the long haul with Dita Von Teese, tying the knot over the weekend in Ireland. And no, they did not drink and each other's blood. [People]
• The NBA aren't the only ones who don't want to see anymore of Dennis Rodman: The folks at Crobar don't either. [Page Six]
• The real reason Kate Moss left Pete Doherty: he can't buy her diamonds and his dick is too small. [The Scoop]
Women's Wear Daily's Sara James took quite a bit of time compiling the saga of B-list stars flipping themselves into A-list invaders, thanks to willing gossip columnists and overworked publicists. It's a tale of synergistic celebrity, and she's using Entourage's Adrian Grenier as a case study.
He's not just popping up in Page Six, which practically invents B-listers, but in Rush & Molloy and even the New York Times' Boldface Names.
Left out of the discussion, of course, was Jossip. We've name dropped Adrian exactly four times, which means we've beat Rush & Molloy, Army Archerd, Cindy Adams, Liz Smith, The Transom and Intelligencer — combined. Please let us wallow in our accomplishment for a few fleeting seconds.
