Salma Hayek To Announce Oscar Nominations
The headline says it all, really: Salma Hayek and those two mysterious bald friends* who accompany her everywhere have agreed to announce the Oscar nominations next Tuesday. There is no truth in the rumour that Big Brother’s Jade Goody will be flown over specially to go ‘what? Wassat? I can’t unnerstan’ her! She’s Mexican, innit!’
We tried making a clever gag about her merging the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, but we started drooling instead and lost our train of thought. Oh by the way, Sid Ganis, President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, will co-host the nominations, which take place at 5am LA time, which is 1pm normal time.
Pixar Hits The Wall(•E)
Although Cars didn’t really rev our engines as much as we’d hoped, we’re always happy when a new Pixar flick ambles onto the horizon, all shiny and bright-eyed and dazzlingly inventive. So imagine our joy today when the first picture from the next but one Pixar (Brad Bird’s Ratatouille comes first) was revealed to the world by no less a source than Disney’s Robert A. Iger (nope, we haven’t heard of him either) in a letter to Disney’s shareholder. That’s pretty cool – all Empire ever gets in letters are demands for money and severed toes.
Anyway, the picture is of the movie’s title star, Wall•E, and you can see what a lovable, cute li’l robot he is by going here. We have no idea what the movie’s about, though, but hey! It’s Pixar! Let’s celebrate!
Favs Says Iron Man Is Good To Go
With yesterday’s news that Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to play Pepper Potts in the forthcoming Iron Man, we all assumed that the Marvel comics adaptation was moving ahead at a rate of knots – and, according to a new entry by the movie’s director, Jon Favreau, on MySpace, it is! Huzzah! “We begin filming in eight weeks,” says Favs. “Stan Winston is working on the suit. Sets are being built. Fergus and Ostby (Children of Men) are working on the script. Matty Libatique is shooting it. Everything is really coming together.” OK, so it’s not the most mind-blowing info ever, but what do you want? Actual news in a news round-up? Fools! FOOOOOLS!
About F**king Time!
Lindsay Lohan has checked into rehab. On the advice of our lawyers, we’re not saying anything else, but we are nodding sagely, with a sad and knowing look in our eyes. Oh, and Li-Lo did speak about the decision in a statement released through her publicist. It’s the usual guff, but we find it’s much more fun if you read it out loud and interject the odd ‘hic!’ and farting noise. "I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personal health,” said the statement. “I appreciate your well wishes and ask that you please respect my privacy at this time."