New York Daily News:
Ellen Barkin and Ron Perelman have kissed and made up.
The Republican conventioneers could be in for a bizarre welcome when they get here in August.
Veteran protester Aron Kaye has used cream pies to express his low opinion of ex-CIA chief William Colby, Ed Koch, G. Gordon Liddy and William F. Buckley, among others.
"There should be a plague of pies upon the Republican Convention," he tells Webster Hall curator Baird Jones. "[President] Bush should get an apple pie in his face, because he has been stuffing his kooky brand of patriotism down our throats. [Mayor] Bloomberg needs a cheese pie because he thinks he is such a big cheese. And John Ashcroft needs a juicy fruit pie because he is so anti-gay."
Meanwhile, New York magazine reports that Parsons MFA student Joshua Kinberg is launching a "Boobs Against Bush" Web site, which will collect photos of women with messages like "More cleavage, less tax cuts" on their breasts. [Huh?]
We can also look forward to the Missile D-- Chicks, "who wear leotards and tin-foil phalluses and sing songs like 'Shop! In the name of war!'"
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Wolfowitz might want to consider a restraining order and a box of tissues:
Al Franken went off on Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at a fund-raiser that investment banker Steven Rattner and wife Maureen White threw for Michael Tomasky's American Prospect magazine the other night. Guests were surprised to see wiseguy Franken tear up as he recalled that Wolfowitz didn't know how many soldiers had died in Iraq when he recently testified at a Congressional hearing...
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PageSix:
SCARLETT Johansson has come clean about her dirty encounter with hunky Benicio Del Toro. The 19-year-old Hollywood cutie admits that, as rumored, she and Del Toro - who at 37 is old enough to be her dad - did get hot and heavy in the elevator of the Chateau Marmont hotel after the Oscars ceremony. "We were making out or having sex or something, which I think is very unsanitary," she tells Elle magazine. [Scarlett no doubt will be one of algore's viewers]
Movie review:
Want to know if a movie is a bomb before you plunk down your 10 bucks? Watch for it on Oprah. If Oprah promotes it, it's a stinker. The latest stinker is Troy.
There is a funny side, the director thinks it parallels war in Iraq.
The invasion of Iraq occurred just as shooting for the film got underway in Malta.
"I couldn't believe it," 60-year-old Petersen told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "I thought, it's as if nothing has changed in 3,000 years. People are still using deceit to engage in wars of vengeance."
While stressing that he "did not make this film with the intention of making an anti-American statement", Petersen said the parallels between the Trojan war and the Iraq war became more apparent daily during the filming.
"Just as King Agamemnon waged what was essentially a war of conquest on the ruse of trying to rescue the beautiful Helen from the hands of the Trojans, President George W. Bush concealed his true motives for the invasion of Iraq."
Now for some words of wisdom from that brainiac Brad:
Pitt, 40, who plays Achilles in the epic, said he could identify with the mythical character's passions, both in love and on the battlefield.
"He was a passionate guy," Pitt told a Berlin news conference. "I partly identified with him. I mean, I'd go into battle to defend my principles." Fer sure dude!
Review time!
Though "inspired" by "The Iliad" by Homer, the film makes no mention of Greek gods, distorting the entire Greek myth, the paper said.
While giving kudos to actor Peter O'Toole as ageing King Priam, the newspaper scathingly says the dialogue is "corny" and, "The battles tend to look like those body pileups in rugby matches, and the drama remains stubbornly unfocused and remote."
The legendary war circa 1200 B.C. ignites when Paris (played by Orlando Bloom) prince of Troy steals away Helen (Diane Kruger), the much younger wife of Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson) from the brutish king of Sparta. Pitt plays Achilles, receiving an arrow to his heel at the climax of the movie.
"The film's more intimate scenes between generals in conflict or families in peril bog down with strained, even corny dialogue and static action," The Hollywood Reporter said. source
Liz Smith gushes over Troy.
Hopefully that will keep you entertained as you sip some wine. See you soon!
She doesn't know which? What ARE they teaching them in schools these days?
Oh, come on!! Did she ever see Russell Crowe in Gladiator?