Do you know how much I love Tim Gunn? A ridiculous amount. Tim is my ideal gay boyfriend. I want to go shopping with him, I want him to take him to The Olive Garden, I want him to talk me into getting dessert. I want to curl up on the couch with him and watch old movies starring Cary Grant. I want him to cut my hair. I want get drunk with him. I want to have a good cry on his shoulder while he puts his arms around me, telling me, “It will be okay.” Sigh…

So, Tim gave a wonderful interview to Wonderwall, and they asked him about two of the trashiest pop culture spectacles out there today, the Kardashians and the Jersey Shore people. And Tim didn’t hold anything back! And you know what else? My gay boyfriend actually used my favorite descriptor, the one that gets some hate around these parts – he uses “farty” in everyday conversation! AS DO I!!! Oh my God, it’s a signal that Tim wants to be my boyfriend.

Wonderwall: What do you think of Jersey Shore style?
Gunn: Ugh! Oh! Don’t even get me started. It is not a style to emulate. I know that the show is hugely popular. I will tell you it pains me when I hear 12-year-old girls say it’s their favorite show. You shouldn’t be watching it! And it’s so incendiary that New Jersey is no longer permitting it to be taped in New Jersey.

WW: That’s why they’re going to film in Miami.
TG: Yeah, so what does that say?

WW: Nothing good.
TG: It’s like throwing people to the lions in ancient Rome. I don’t get it.

WW: J-Woww is launching her own line.
TG: Preposterous! Preposterous! Sorry.

WW: Are you a supporter of the Kardashians’ line with Bebe?
TG: No! I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty snob but it bothers me.

WW: You sound like somebody who’s telling the truth.
TG: I will say in general with celebrity labels, with the understanding that they’re not actually designing them, but you hope in a way that they’re not overseeing them either. I’m all in favor of anything that employs young designers.

WW: How do you feel about Fashion Week moving to Lincoln Center?
TG: We have to look for a silver lining to this. And we’ve known for a number of seasons that we were battling with the Parks Commissioner. Why, I do not know because Bryant Park helped brand New York as the fashion capital of the world, but we’re taking the high road here. And for me, I love the fact that we can align fashion with the arts. It puts it into a cultural context … and I’m really quite thrilled by it all. The only little downside is it’s going to be a subway ride away from the Fashion District.

WW: We’ll make it work.
TG: We’ll make it work. Exactly.

[From Wonderwall]

Those are my two favorite sentences of the English language now: “I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty snob but it bothers me.” It bothers me too, Tim! And it should not be perpetuated! I mean, sure, I enjoy the Kardashians in the same way I enjoy Lindsay Lohan or Gwyneth Paltrow. As in, I don’t really care about them as people, but they’re fun to write about and talk about. But let’s not pretend their fashion sense is tasteful or interesting or even “good”.

Tim Gunn in New York on February 10, 2010. Credit: WENN.

I think people think Clint Eastwood is at death’s door or something, because everyone seems to be falling all over themselves to recognize him and his enormous talent. Which is right no – Clint is awesome, and he deserves every award you can throw at him. But I have a feeling people are just trying to get in there before he kicks the bucket. In my mind, though, Clint has still got a good decade or two. He’s 79 years old – and his mother is still around.

Anyway, Clint is GQ’s Man of the Year, and they have him on the cover (GQ honored other people too – here’s the list). I love Clint’s face. There is no bigger rebuke to the Botoxed, waxy, severe, gross, plastic faces of modern Hollywood than Clint’s grizzled visage. Sigh. I love him. In the cover interview, Clint even blasts “teenage twits” and says we’re “juvenile” as a nation. Clint is about to shank us.

Clint Eastwood is better known for his fists than his fashion sense, but that didn’t stop GQ magazine from naming him a man of the year.

Eastwood joins Barack Obama, Tom Brady, the three stars of “The Hangover” and “Star Trek” actor Chris Pine on five special covers for the December issue (www.gq.com), which hits newsstands Tuesday.

Eastwood talks politics, love, religion, diet and women in a wide-ranging interview with deputy editor Michael Hainey, who calls the 79-year-old the “patron saint of late bloomers.”

Eastwood gained fame for his acting in the spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, but won his first Oscar (for directing) for “Unforgiven” at age 62.

His new movie, “Invictus,” is the true story of Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) and the mostly white South African rugby team that helped usher the country out of apartheid.

“The world needs this kind of story nowadays,” Eastwood said. “It’s just…everybody’s so screwed up. It seems like our country’s in kind of a morbid mood, because of the recession or whatever.”

We’re “becoming more juvenile as a nation,” he said. “The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.”

Eastwood meditates twice a day, avoids saturated fats and does 30 minutes on the elliptical machine each morning.

He used to “find meaning” in chasing girls, but says he’s now happily monogamous.”I never thought I’d get there, but I did. It feels good.”

[From the NY Daily News]

In another piece of Clint news, last week he received the French Legion of Honor, presented to him by President Sarko himself. It’s basically France’s lifetime achievement award, and Clint received it for his body of work as an actor, director, composer and producer. Clint actually looked pleased and honored to receive the award – I figured he would scoff at something like that, but he looks genuinely happy. He told the press, “This is a wonderful honor. It is just a great pleasure for me. I really love France. I love movies, and I love the appreciation that the French people have for movies.” He also promised to learn French for the next time he came to France, which is cute. Fun fact: Clint is fluent in Italian, probably from all of the films he shot in Italy in the sixties. Good stuff. I wonder what honor is coming for Clint next? Perhaps a Nobel prize, or something. Does the Nobel committee give prizes for being awesome?

GQ Magazine cover courtesy of Who’s Dated Who. Additional photos of Clint and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, from Clint’s Insigna of Commandeur ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on November 14, 2009. Credit: Fame.

Here is the beautiful, talented, lovely, gracious, amazing and mind-blowing awesome Meryl Streep on the red carpet last night for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Meryl was wearing “her own” Prada dress, and she looks gorgeous, doesn’t she? I love that color on her. I love how Meryl has been showing off her cleavage a lot lately – it seems like every red carpet she’s been on lately, she’s been showing off her girls. If she was thirty years younger, it would be trashy. But for Meryl, it’s just awesome.

On the red carpet, Meryl didn’t talk to most of the assembled reporters, but she did stop to talk to one. The “reporter” was a 9-year-old girl from Scholastic, and Page Six details how great Meryl was to the girl:

Meryl Streep passed by most of the red carpet reporters at the premiere of the animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox” at Bergdorf Goodman, but stopped to talk to Grace McManus, 9, from Scholastic, who asked about the difference between voicing a character and playing a character. The Oscar winner said, “That’s the most sophisticated question that anyone in this entire press line has asked me. Really, really good.” Grace, who had school the next day, skipped the after-party.

[From Page Six]

At the film’s after-party, Meryl spoke to the NY Post’s Cindy Adams, who asked Meryl what possessed her to voice a cartoon fox (married to a George Clooney-voiced Mr. Fox). Meryl’s answer was typical, basically saying that she did the voice work because she’s awesome and they sent her to Paris. Meryl says: “Well, the chance to work with [director] Wes Anderson and the chance to fly to Paris, where I did my work, with some extra recording done in Connecticut. When I did my lines, Wes played the other character speaking back to me, which helps give a feel for the action. Very important because reactions and the way your body moves defines your voice. So when I was working, George was on some of the tracks and Wes on some.”

In one other piece of Meryl-related news, word around the Oscar race is that Meryl is actually going to participate in some sort of late campaign for her role as Julia Child in Julie & Julia. Allegedly, Meryl is going to do some big magazine interviews, and she’s asked to do some photo shoots with her Julie & Julia director Nora Ephron. Some sources claim that she actually wants to put her heart into it, and try to get that third Oscar (which would be her first in, like, 27 years).

Here’s the trailer for The Fantastic Mr. Fox:

Here’s Meryl at the New York premiere of The Fantastic Mr. Fox on November 11, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Don’t hate the player, y’all. In this situation, Kristen Stewart is the player, forever and always, while Robert Pattinson is the sweet, sensitive, horny, accented, brooding one-who-gets-played. This has always been the dynamic I’ve imagined for K-Stew and R-Pattz – that K-Stew is a girl who knows how to have a man eating out of her hand, and that she’s perfectly comfortable messing with Pattz’s head. Not that I imagine Pattz to be some kind of sparkly angel – I do think he’s a bit of a player too, and he had a very obvious and healthy interest in pretty girls. But with Kristen, Pattz always seems to grasping for something that’s not there. It’s all so Teen Beat, I love it!

Last weekend, Pattz and K-Stew attended Comic-Con. K-Stew was her normal snotty self – although, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that she’s 19 years old, intelligent, and she wants to be a “real” actress, not a tabloid target, so I think some of her snottiness with the press is just simple discomfort. K-Stew didn’t want to answer any questions about any alleged romance or “chemistry” between herself and Pattz. Some theorized that perhaps Pattz and K-Stew were hooking up the night before, and had even hooked up after the presser, in the three-hour limo drive back to L.A. By the way, how f-cking hot would that be if was true? Three hours in the back of a limo with Pattz? I’m drooling a little bit.

Now Star Magazine is claiming that there wasn’t much in the way of sparkly sexy time. They claim Pattz flew into California looking forward to spending a lovely weekend nailing his beloved K-Stew, but Kristen was all “Buzz off, Sparkles.” K-Stew seems to believe that Pattz has been nailing Emilie de Ravin this whole summer, and K-Stew didn’t waste any time reconnecting with her ex, Michael Angarano:

After a brief fling in NYC with his Remember Me costar Emilie de Ravin, Robert Pattinson returned to the West Coast to beg Kristen to take him back. But no go. She blew him off in favor of her ex, actor Michael Angarano, who was there for her while Rob was out playing the field.

“Rob is stunned,” an insider tells Star. “He thought he could come back to California and get Kristen to forgive him, but he was wrong. He can have any woman in the world in a heartbeat, but not Kristen. Rob fought to steal her away from Michael. And now he has to do it all over again!”

While Kristen transformed herself into Joan Jett for her film The Runaways in Los Angeles over the past couple of months, Rob was having a blast in New York, growing closer to gorgeous Emilie.

“Rob and Emilie had fun, but they were never serious,” the insider explains. “He had a lot of laughs with her, but his heart has always belonged to Kristen. Unfortunately, Kristen didn’t see it that way and didn’t appreciate seeing picture after picture of Rob getting close to Emilie when the cameras were off.”

When Rob and Kristen reunited on July 23 at Comic-Con… things just weren’t the same between them, sources report.

“Kristen has Rob’s heart on a string, and she keeps yanking it,” says the insider. “She gave him a glimmer of hope when she agreed to share a limo with him on the three-hour drive back to LA – but by the time they arrived, Rob was confused!”

“He tried explaining his relationship with Emilie, but Kristen didn’t want to hear it.” Rob was really upset when he flew to NYC on July 27. “He had such high hopes for their reunion, and things just didn’t work out like he’d hoped.”

“Kristen isn’t going to let Rob waltz right back into her life after spending all summer getting cozy with Emilie,” says a source. “Kristen wasn’t sitting around pining for Rob. She wasted no time reconnecting with Michael.”

But Rob won’t give up without a fight! [He’s] excited that next month they’ll be together every day in Vancouver working on the third Twilight film, Eclipse, says the source. “Trouble is, he’s going to have to get past Michael. Kristen and Michael have deep feelings for each other, and Rob knows it. He’s afraid that he may have lost the one person in this world who means the most to him.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 10 2009]

Oh, it’s all so angsty. I feel like I need to get my Doc Marten’s out of storage and don my old purple-black lipstick. I don’t really think Kristen is even that upset about this alleged hookup with Emilie de Ravin – I think K-Stew just likes to make Pattz beg for it. I really wish I was as cool as her when I was 19 years old. She seems kind of awesome. My guess is that two weeks into the shoot for Eclipse, K-Stew and Pattz will be back together. Or at least K-Stew will deign to let Pattz beg for it in the privacy of her hotel room.

Update by Celebitchy: Here’s a great video from Comic-Con in which both Pattinson and Stewart get flustered talking about their “characters’” relationship. Thanks to PopSugar for featuring this.

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner are shown at Comic-Con on 7/23/09. Credit: PRPhotos

This is exciting news for fans of the cult mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap:” the actors who immortalized the phrase “This one goes to eleven” will be reuniting for a new tour. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer, who starred in the Rob Reiner classic, are putting the fake band back together. And get this: the name of the tour is “Unwigged and Unplugged.” Does this mean we won’t be treated to one of Nigel’s infamous guitar solos?

A quarter-century after the film “This Is Spinal Tap” catapulted a certain hapless, fictional heavy-metal group into the annals of rock music history, its three founding members will embark on a six-week, 30-city North American tour minus costumes, wailing electric guitars and even their signature 18-inch Stonehenge set.

Pop satirists Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer will play “Unwigged & Unplugged,” as they’ve dubbed the tour that starts April 17 in Vancouver and includes an April 26 date at the Wiltern. Besides revamping the Spinal Tap material — the volume famously cranked to 11 on their custom amps — for an acoustic trio, they will play material from their more recent spoof about the folk music scene, “A Mighty Wind.”

“We’ve never gone out as ourselves,” Shearer said Monday from the House of Blues in West Hollywood, where he was accompanied by Guest and McKean at a news conference unveiling the tour. “So we’ve been holding lots of meetings trying to figure out who we are.”

The musicians opened with a medley and segued from such Spinal Tap material as “Hell Hole” and “Sex Farm” to “Celtic Blues,” one of the songs created by “A Mighty Wind’s” faux-folk group, the Folksmen.

The tour, McKean quipped, will involve “no smoke, and just one mirror backstage.” Asked whether the nation’s economic crisis precipitated the stripped-down outing, Shearer said, “No — but it sure helped.”

As part of activities marking the film’s 25th anniversary, Shearer said the group was working on studio versions of songs they wrote but never formally recorded for an album expected to be released in May.

Just how loud will they be able to crank the music on this tour without the Marshall stacks behind them?

“8½,” McKean said. “It worked for Fellini.”

[From LA Times]

First Cheech and Chong get back together, and now this. My childhood is all coming back! For those of you who aren’t in the know, “Spinal Tap” started the genre of mock documentaries. The fake chronicles of a washed-up heavy metal band trying to make a comeback set the stage for future Christopher Guest movies such as “Best in Show,” “Waiting for Guffman” and “A Mighty Wind.” Big Bottom by Spinal Tap!

Stills from “This is Spinal Tap” courtesy of AllMoviePhoto.com.

A few weeks ago, while in Las Vegas on a business trip, I got roped into seeing the stage musical “Mamma Mia,” featuring the music of 70′s pop band ABBA, by some Indian businessmen with whom I was traveling. I was not expecting much. However, I admit that by the end of the production, I discovered that I had enjoyed myself. A few weeks later I learned that “Mamma Mia” is being made into a movie musical, starring none other than Meryl Streep. I never even knew she could sing! Early reports confirm that Streep, who just turned 58, gives a powerhouse performance in the film- complete with singing, dancing, and even full splits.

Filmed last summer in Pinewood Studios and on location on the picturesque island of Skopelos in Greece, the movie version is a glorious and deeply silly confection.

Reports from early test screenings are universally positive – the audiences who have seen it at a secret showing in San Diego came out raving about the transfer of the musical to the big screen.

The surprise?

That Meryl Streep, at 58, is athletic, has a big voice – clear, true and strong – and delivers the goods on Abba’s classics without a trace of embarrassment. It is, obviously, her first musical, and the deep thinkers in Hollywood are amazed by the way she is apparently happy to demolish her reputation as a serious-minded Oscar-winning grande dame.

And yet Streep, who is known for her hard-to-live-with perfectionism and love of tricky bits of acting technique and odd accents, emerges from this film as a woman who is accomplished at physical comedy and actually funny when the occasion demands.

‘Meryl is very good – it’s a revelation,’ says one who has seen the film, in which she plays Donna, the mother of a bride-to-be who is confronted by three potential fathers on the eve of her nuptials.

It transpires that Streep saw the stage show in New York with her daughter as a birthday treat and wrote a fan letter to the producers afterwards.

[From The Huffington Post]

I don’t know if “surprise” is really the right word to describe her work in this movie. After all, Streep is one of the finest actors of her generation. I think she could pretty much do anything she sets her mind to on film. In “Angels in America,” the HBO miniseries, Streep played everything from Ethel Rosenberg to a Jewish rabbi. She’s also playing Julia Child in the upcoming biopic. Hopefully people will give “Mamma Mia” a fair shot, even if it stars women over 35 and doesn’t feature CGI monsters. Hey, if “Sex and the City” can bring in audiences, maybe Meryl can too.

In more Gary Busey Oscars awesomeness, a video clip has surfaced of the actor being interviewed on the red carpet by an 11-year-old girl from the celebrity web site Starzlife. The young reporter has to ask her question a few times because Gary can’t hear her. But his response to her question about young stars getting in trouble with the law is extra-awesome.

“Guess what? They’re not celebrities. They’re idiots; they’re losers. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan–they are all children of God, but they need to wake up and understand that they have a responsibility to the people who admire them and look at them to be better behaved, and have better….feelings about life and those charities that Paris talked about? She’s done nothing. She’s a liar. She’s a pathological liar, in terms of what the heck she said on Larry King, and what she doesn’t do after she says it. That’s a shameful thing to do, and it’ll bite her in the butt when it comes around.”

[Transcribed from Gary Busey interview]

Gary surprised Jennifer Garner, Ryan Seacrest and Laura Linney with an unexpected accosting of Jen Garner’s neck during the red carpet walk on Sunday night. He then called into Ryan’s radio show the next morning, calling Seacrest the “innocent champion of honesty.”

While Gary has never been in trouble with the law– at least, there is no mugshot or police report anywhere– the actor did sustain massive head trauma after a motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet. Since that near death experience, the eccentric actor has become a born-again Christian and briefly was the star of his own, bizarre reality show, “I’m With Busey.”

Jimmy Kimmel somehow managed to outdo the hilarious video created by his wife girlfriend, comedian Sarah Silverman, “I’m F’cking Matt Damon.”

In a star-studded video called “I’m F’ing Ben Affleck,” Affleck and Kimmel play gay lovers while a chorus of celebrities sings “Jimmy Kimmel is f’ing Ben Affleck” in “We are the world” style. There’s even a cameo from Bad Pitt as a delivery guy, although I was disappointed that there were no homosexual undertones to Pitts appearance. Harrison Ford blows a kiss and smiles at the camera suggestively, and Cameron Diaz makes the finger in the hole sign. The celebrities sing an uplifting chorus of Kimmel and Affleck’s newfound love as the two stars walk off into the sunset, Kimmel shirtless with moobs and Affleck in a shiny tight lamé top.

Thanks to Redlasso for sending this to us, and they also note the cameos by Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Don Cheadle, Pete Wentz, Perry Farrell, Macy Gray, The Madden Twins, Lance Bass, Huey Lewis, Josh Groban, Dominic Mognahan, McLovin from Superbad, Harrison Ford, and Cameron Diaz.

Here’s Silverman’s video “I’m f’ing Matt Damon” if you missed it

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Three-year-old Cruz Beckham, the youngest son of Victoria and David Beckham, rocked the house at NYC’s Madison Square Garden last night. The toddler joined his mother and older brothers on stage during a Spice Girls concert, and busted a few breakdancing moves for the delighted crowd. During a song paying tribute to mothers, all the Spice Girls brought out their children, and little Cruz was more than happy to upstage his famous mommy and her friends:

They cancelled their tour supposedly to spend more time with their children.

So it was more than a little ironic that The Spice Girls were upstaged by an amazing display of breakdancing moves from little Cruz Beckham.

The youngest Beckham boy, who will be three tomorrow, charmed the notoriously tough crowd at Madison Square Garden with an amazing display of breakdancing, revealing a hidden talent for the crowd pleasing moves.

Even Spice Girl Melanie Brown, mother of Angel Iris and Phoenix Chi, was amazed at his spontaneous performance and she had to stop singing as she laughs out loud in amazement and says “that’s brilliant” as proud mother Victoria looks on smiling.

A lucky concertgoer who saw the three-year-old in action told PerezHilton.com: “All the girls had to stop singing because they were laughing so hard…He did a little head stand, then even spun on his head a little.

“They couldn’t get him off the stage when the song was over. It was the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen!!”

[From The Daily Mail]

Maybe Cruz has a future in show business like his parents. It sure looks like he loves the spotlight. I also think it’s funny that he never seems intimidated by the paparazzi when he goes out with his parents. He does seem a lot more mature than the average two-year-old– I’ve seen him in pictures before when traveling with Mommy handling his own luggage! He seems like a fun kid. All the Spice Girls’ children are adorable. I can see why they would rather end the whole Spice Girls thing to spend time with them. In the photographs from that show, it’s notable that Cruz’s older brother, Brooklyn, who is now 9, looks bored out of his mind. Oh, well– not everyone is born to be onstage.

Note by Celebitchy: Here’s the video. Little Cruz is shown breakdancing about about three minutes in. Cruise is officially just two, but he turns three on his birthday tomorrow.

The header image is of Cruz out with Posh on 2/9/08, thanks to WENN. (We don’t have the rights to the breakdancing or concert pics, but they’re on The Daily Mail if you’d like to see them.)

Say what? Jane Fonda and new BFF/”Vagina Monologues” playwright Eve Ensler appeared this morning on “The Today Show” with Meredith Vieira to promote V-Day, a global awareness campaign that happens every Valentine’s Day. V-Day is a worldwide project that includes readings/performances of “The Vagina Monologues” to build awareness of violence against women. Jane was talking about how she was reluctant to perform the play at first because she hadn’t seen it. “I was asked to do a scene called ‘Cu*t,” she told a shocked Meredith Vieira. “I don’t do cu*t!”

I was watching the broadcast, and let me tell you, I nearly choked on my morning coffee! At first, I thought I’d misheard. But after seeing the video, I can confirm that Jane Fonda dropped the C word on national television. I guess she didn’t want to be outdone by another older actress, Diane Keaton, who let an F-bomb slip on Good Morning America a few weeks ago.

Maybe the TV sensors were asleep this morning? At any rate, I have to admit, it was pretty awesome.

Note by Celebitchy: Thanks to Redlasso for the video clip above. It seems like it’s the hot older chicks who are swearing on the talk shows lately. They must not give a shit.