We had a preview of Chris Pine’s Details pictorial on Sunday, and now Details has released the complete interview and photo shoot. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t really care for Pine. He strikes me as a cocky douche. While reading this, I learned something that I think I had forgotten in a haze of gossip – Pine is taking over the Jack Ryan role in the next film – that’s a role done by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck – does Pine have the chops? Eh. The full Details piece is kind of interesting. Pine works very hard at sounding intellectual, and he speaks with a kind of self-help-speak vibe that Jennifer Aniston would respond to. He also claims he wants to be the next George Clooney, and he admits that he’s always asking his managers to fix him up with “starlets.” Here are the highlights:

Pine on doing a six-week run of Martin McDonagh’s Tony-nominated pitch-black comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore in LA: “My body’s all sorts of f-cked-up,” Pine tells me backstage after the show. “I tore my groin,” he adds. “I pulled my neck and my glute, tweaked my rhomboid, sprained my f-cking sacrum.”

Pine’s family is in showbiz: Pine’s father has a list of credits so extensive that it’s a drinking game waiting to happen. (Quick: Name the only actor to show up on both ALF and Six Feet Under.) Since the 1960s, Robert Pine has appeared on Bonanza, The Bob Newhart Show, Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Family Ties, Dallas, Baywatch, The West Wing, and The Office. For the most part, those were one- or two-episode gigs, the Hollywood equivalent of day-laboring. “My father,” says Pine, “calls acting a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.” Many, many short spurts in Robert’s case, with one exception: 139 episodes of CHiPs, a show Chris himself appeared on—in utero. “My grandmother was an actress too,” Pine says between bites of spinach salad. “In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal. Crazy, right?”

His mom and sister are therapists: “I don’t think there’s anything better than talk therapy,” Pine says. “And the combination of acting and therapy makes a whole lot of sense.”

On aging: “I feel prematurely old,” he says. “I’m actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I’m turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I’ve been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I’m going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I’m going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.”

On vacations and not getting the part in Entourage: The last time Pine ventured into the realm of spontaneity he ended up vacationing in postwar Bosnia. “You could feel the residual tension,” he says, “the vestiges of what had happened. The energy. The bones of the country.” Pine concluded that trip in Poland, watching the sun set at the Birkenau concentration camp. Vinnie Chase he is not—though he did audition unsuccessfully for the role. In a couple of days, Pine tells me, he’s giving the whole come-what-may vacation thing another try. “I really don’t know where the hell I’m going,” he says. “I think it’s going to be a solo drive somewhere. I want to do some self-assessment and decompressing. I’m serious about working on that.”

What he really needs are some hookers: He has a tendency to intellectualize everything. “My therapist was very wise to that way of hiding,” he says, “and asked me to cut it out.” But the very behaviors that thwart breakthroughs on the couch—deflecting questions with questions, obsessively seeking definitions and etymologies for every clinical term—have a way of impressing on the set. Pine is even starting to question his own analytical nature. Questioning his own questionings. What’s it all worth? “I’m more cerebral than I want to be,” he says. “Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas. Do some drugs. Get some hookers. Gamble it all away. And it never happens. I usually just end up at home on my couch—reading. It’s all just cognitive behavioral therapy for me. How do you change how you think to make your life work. I’m single and very happy about it. It’s a good time to be single. I have a lot of friends getting married right now, having babies. But I think I’ll be more like… the George Clooney.”

On dating: It’s been over a year since he’s been photographed with Audrina Patridge, late of The Hills, and though he says he frequently asks his publicist and manager to introduce him to starlets, he does suggest that their unified response—”We’re not a dating service”—is, in fact, modifying his behavior.

[From Details]

While I like Pine a little bit more after reading this, I have new qualms about him. Wanting to be like Clooney… in his personal life? Joking about picking up some hookers? Asking his managers to set him up with “starlets” like Audrina Patridge? Uh… sounds like he’s a pretty typical douche (about women and relationships) who is steadily realizing that he needs to keep his kinks on the downlow if he wants to be a major star.

Here are some additional photos of The Intellectual with glasses, and some more Details photos:

Details photos courtesy of Details’ slideshow. Additional pics courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

These are some photos from Chris Pine’s November pictorial for Details Magazine. CoverAwards already pointed out that Chris is styled a lot like Zac Efron was for his Details cover shoot. Very similar sort of rip-the-sleeves out, I wish I was James Dean blah blah blah stuff. You know what Jon Hamm did for his Details cover shoot? He got wet. He was in a pool fully clothed. Because Jon Hamm is too good for this cheesy James Dean styling. And since this is all we have – because Details released the photos a full week before they released any excerpts from the interview, we can only judge Chris on these photos.

Anyway, I don’t really care for Chris Pine, so maybe that has something to do with how cheesy I find these photos. I prefer Chris Evans – Pine’s contemporary, who just seems to be a nicer guy and a more considerate person. If Lainey at LaineyGossip is to be believed (which I think she is), Pine has been a bit of a diva on the set of This Means War, with Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon. You never hear stories about Evans being a diva. Because he’s probably not. Also: Pine dated Audrina Patridge. Ugh.

But, anyway… I know some enjoy him. So here you go.

I think he’s probably promoting his new film Unstoppable with Denzel Washington… the one in which they both look really surly and over it.

Photos courtesy of Details. Cover courtesy of TenGossip.

Chris Pine may not be the brightest bulb. About three weeks ago, the rumor going around was that Star Trek hottie Chris was enjoying some “under the radar” hook-ups with The Hills star Audrina Patridge. I suspected at the time that the hook-ups were on the lowdown because, really, who wants to admit they hooked up with Audrina? However, it seemed those hook-ups were turning into something more significant, because a few weeks later, a report came out that Chris Pine’s friends were all pissed off because fame had gotten to his head, and he had ditched all of his old buddies to hang out with a new, cooler Hollywood crowd that included Audrina. Now it seems Chris realizes the error of his ways, and he’s ditched Audrina to keep it real. Either that, or someone told him that Audrina’s not really a “get” for an up-and-coming movie star:

Chris Pine has reportedly dumped The Hills star Audrina Patridge because he couldn’t handle a public romance.

The Star Trek actor is said to have started dating the reality star last month after meeting at the ShoWest event in Las Vegas earlier in the year. People close to the couple confirmed that they were dating after they were spotted having dinner together in Los Angeles, and the pair sat next to each other at the MTV Movie Awards at the weekend.

But a source has now revealed that the focus on the couple at Sunday’s ceremony was too much for Chris: “Chris got freaked out by all the attention and pulled away.”

“He’s a shy guy and doesn’t want to be in the spotlight.”

Another source told Hollyscoop that the move was also political: “Chris Pine was forced to dump Audrina because his camp wants him to take the right strategic steps to become a big movie star.”

“Dating a reality show star would tarnish his image.”

[From Fametastic]

Yeah, I think Chris probably dumped Audrina for the sake of his career, not because he’s “shy”. I don’t buy the “shy” argument at all. I used to really like Chris, he seemed like a nice, funny guy. He might have done some damage to his career and image with this Audrina stuff, though. At the very least, his female fan base now thinks he has horrible taste in women. Too sad.

All the audience sees is the end product, but at any awards shows there is a lot of preparation that goes on behind the curtains. Other than the obvious sets, music, movie clips, and scheduling, producers of the show also have to deal with seating charts for all the stars in the audience. Unfortunately for them, Hollywood has the emotional stability of a high school clique, and figuring out where celebrities are going to watch the awards can be difficult. According to the NY Times, the original seating chart for last night’s MTV Movie Awards was not going to work and they had to sit down and redo the entire thing.

Paris Hilton couldn’t be put anywhere near The Hills cast due to her recent comments; Audrina was also banned from the The Hills seating area because no one on the show likes her, and instead sat with Chris Pine; Whitney Port had to be moved away from Kristen Stewart after insulting her role in Twilight; and Nickelodeon stars Miranda Cosgrove and Keke Palmer had to be kept away from Disney stars like Miley Cyrus because Nickelodeon reps said the Disney stars were too “tainted.”

[A] source who overheard conversations among the event’s producers says MTV had a wild time trying to seat its celebrity guests in the audience.

“A producer looked at the original seating chart and realized the whole thing had to be reworked because so many people in the house hated one another,” laughs our spy. Among the conflicts:

Whitney Port had to be moved away from “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart after producers realized Port once called the movie “really bad” and found Stewart’s role “one-dimensional.”

Port and fellow stars of “The Hills” and “The City” — Lauren Conrad, Stephanie Pratt, Heidi Montag and Brody Jenner — also had to be kept away from Audrina Patridge because, our source claims, a producer was overheard saying that “everyone on the show hated her.” (Patridge will instead sit near “Star Trek” star Chris Pine.) Similarly, Paris Hilton had to be moved away from “The Hills” cast after recently calling the show “so lame and fake” and “cheesy.”

Producers also had to scramble to keep Disney’s talents — namely Miley Cyrus and couple Zac Ephron and Vanessa Hudgens — away from Nickelodeon stars Miranda Cosgrove (“iCarly”) and Keke Palmer (“True, Jackson”) because Nickelodeon’s reps felt that “all the Disney kids are tainted.” (Semi-nude photos of Cyrus appeared in Vanity Fair, while Hudgens came under fire after fully nude photos of her circulated online in 2007.)

“Basically,” laughs our spy, “it sounded like all hell had broken loose trying to fit all these people into one room.” An MTV spokeswoman declined to comment.

[from NY Times]

This is almost as bad as seating for a wedding. Who gets to sit next to crazy Aunt Agnes? And where does Uncle Charlie’s latest fling of the week sit? They probably had to do changes up to the last minute, just before the red carpet opened. But a lot of the complaints seemed minor to me. So Whitney called Kristen Stewart’s acting “one-dimensional.” This is news to no one. Considering that Twilight was the big winner of the night, it also seems no one cares.

If it were up to me, I would purposefully put the feuding stars near each other. We might get some entertaining stories out of it: “Kristen Stewart and Whitney Port have a smackdown”; “Paris and Heidi get into catfight, Spencer screams like a little girl”; “Miley and Vanessa Hudgens teach iCarly star how to use photo feature on her iPhone.”

Photos of feuding stars and starlets VMAs thanks to WENN.com .

Back in the day (like, a month ago), I really liked Chris Pine. He was giving interviews about how he was well-hung, and he was generally charming, funny and handsome. Then something terrible happened. Chris Pine started hooking up with Audrina Patridge. Suddenly all of that charm went away, and all I could see was one of those douchey semi-famous guys who tend to date those girls who are famous for no reason, those interchangeable reality “stars”. Then Chris Pine’s hotness disappeared. Now, when I look at him, all I see is smarmy grossness. According to the National Enquirer, his friends are pretty pissed with all of Pine’s recent changes too. They want him to drop the diva ’tude, fast:

‘Star Trek’ hunk Chris Pine’s newfound fame has traveled at warp speed – straight to his head!

Since becoming an overnight sensation as the new James T. Kirk, he’s dumped his longtime girlfriend, model Beau Garrett, and ditched some of his closest pals, say sources.

Beau if heartbroken, and his friends and fuming, said a pal. “His diva attitude is costing him the people who love him most.”

Chris, 28, is now rumored to be seeing “The Hills” hottie Audrina Patridge.

The two hit it off at the ShoWest Awards in early April in Las Vegas, and on May 2, Audrina was spotted leaving Chris’ LA apartment in the same clothes she had been wearing the night before. They were also spotted together at the Red Lion Tavern in LA the weekend of May 15.

“I don’t think Chris is really serious about Audrina right now – he just like the attention he is receiving for being with her,” said the pal. “He doesn’t realize that kicking Beau and his friends to the curb will hurt him in the long run.”

Chris and 26-year-old Beau have been dating on and off for a while, but had been exclusive for the past year, adds the pal.

“It’s sad because they were so close and talked about a future together.”

“I just hope Chris loses his diva attitude soon, or when his 15 minutes of fame are over, he’ll be friendless.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 9 2009]

Yeah, those quotes from unnamed “pals” seem like they’ve come from Beau, Chris Pine’s alleged girlfriend. It’s weird that they’re still calling Beau his girlfriend, and saying they’re “exclusive” when he’s banging Audrina. Not that Audrina minds, I bet. Of course, I doubt Audrina has any thoughts beyond “my fake boobs are perky, yes?”

Even though I think Chris is acting like a douchebag, his friends are too. Instead of being happy for Chris’s success, they seem to be begrudging Chris even this little sliver of fame. Beau probably thought she could ride Chris’s coattails for some more work, a couple of red carpet appearances with the new hot Hollywood guy for her portfolio. No one looks good in this situation.

Here’s Chris Pine out and about in Hollywood yesterday. He’s really got the cool guy look down pat. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Chris Pine has just been downgraded from one of my favorite young actors to one of those guys who has really bad taste in women. Chris, whose celebrity is on the rise, is allegedly hooking up with Audrina Patridge. Yes, that girl from The Hills. The one with the fake boobs who isn’t Heidi Montag. According to Star Magazine, Chris and Audrina have been hooking up on the downlow since April. Star claims Chris is keeping Audrina “under the radar” because he’s still technically with girlfriend Beau Garrett. I suspect Chris is keeping Audrina on the downlow because he doesn’t want to be seen with a girl who is dumb as a box of hair:

Chris Pine is beaming from ear to ear these days. The Star Trek hottie has been hooking up under the radar with Audrina Patridge. The couple was spotted drinking together at the Red Lion Tavern in L.A. the weekend of May 16, but Star can reveal that they’ve been sharing secret dates since April!

The honey from The Hills first met Chris in Vegas while both attended the ShoWest Awards in early April. “Audrina had been looking for a boyfriend for a while,” a source tells Star. “She thought Chris was so charming. Not to mention really hot!”

Back in L.A., they continued their fling with secret hookups at Chris’ pad. On May 2, Audrina made an early-morning exit from the building — wearing the heels and tank top she’d donned the night before!

“It’s no surprise that Chris is taking her back to his place,”” an insider tells Star. He and girlfriend Beau Garrett have been on the rocks for a while. And Beau, 26, lost a boyfriend to The Hills’ vixens before! “She used to date Lauren Conrad’s boyfriend, Kyle Howard,” a source adds. “She must really hate that show!”

It remains to be seen if it’s the real thing for Audrina and Chris. He’s set to embark on the press tour for Star Trek, and she’s caught up in the MTV on-screen drama. “I hope Chris makes time for special dates with Audrina,” the insider adds. “They’re a really cool couple.”

[From Star Magazine]

Audrina was wearing heels and a tank top to her hookup with Chris? That’s the exact outfit Chris claimed he loved on women when Cosmopolitan interviewed him. Now, if Audrina only talks up his penis size, Chris will probably stick with her.

I had such high hopes for Chris too. He was never going to be the next Gerard Butler (who could be, really?) but Chris could have been the next Matt Damon, perchance. He had that wholesome, funny, average-guy thing going for him, but that will be destroyed if this report is for real. It’s funny how learning that a guy has awful taste in women just destroys the fantasy for me.

Chris Pine is turning into one of my favorite new actors. He’s not really new, but with the massive success of Star Trek, he’ll soon be one the biggest rising stars of Hollywood. My affection for him is twofold – he’s really, really hot and his interviews are pretty funny. To promote Star Trek, he did an interview with Cosmopolitan where he basically told women that the way to his heart is through complimenting his wang. Chris’s latest interview isn’t so charming, but I think he may have his reasons. Chris is GQ’s cover boy, and in the interview (quotes via Popeater) Chris badmouths fame, the Internet, and how Star Trek is very “kitsch”:

Chris Pine’s star is on the rise. He plays the young Captain James T. Kirk in the already-a-blockbuster revival of Star Trek. But the actor was worried before the movie became a hit, and he talks about his dislike of the message boards and blogs, what it’s like to fill the shoes of William Shatner and more in the June issue of GQ which hits newsstands May 26.

‘Star Trek’ versus ‘Star Wars:‘ “I was a ‘Star Wars’ kid. The kitsch factor in the original ‘Star Trek’ series is high, but the show manages to take on these huge questions about race, sex, and war. I have a great appreciation for what Mr. Shatner did with the part. There’s a gravity to it, but he’s having fun.”

The Trekkies: “The amount of dissection of the minutiae of this movie…I was blown away by the protectiveness. I’m definitely guilty of looking at the blogs, and I’m not a fan of the anonymity [of the Internet], how it allows people to just spew poisonous vitriol like vomit.”

Making ‘Just My Luck’ with Lindsay Lohan at the height of her fame: “She was making a lot of money and attracting a lot of attention from the paparazzi. It put in stark relief that I don’t want that kind of life.”

[From Popeater]

I totally see the “poisonous vitriol” but to be fair, I think Chris is just speaking in general terms. Because he hasn’t been in the public eye long enough to have made a big (negative) impact on blogs. But then again, I don’t troll the Star Trek sites. I thought the Trekkies were pretty happy with Chris as Shatner’s replacement? Maybe not.

I found the Lindsay Lohan comment interesting. It seems like he’s not trying to bad mouth her, he’s just saying she’s a product of this bad media environment. I would love to know if they hooked up – I doubt they did, but when they made Just My Luck, Lohan still had her life relatively together. A hookup wouldn’t be totally ridiculous. Chris probably has too much sense, though.

CB sent me this interesting piece from June’s Cosmopolitan magazine. For those of us who haven’t read Cosmo in a about a million years, they’re still doing that feature with men, asking them for “Ten Things Guys Wish You Knew”. For this issue, they asked Chris Pine, the 28-year-old hottie who stars as Captain Kirk in the rebooted J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek.

Chris is pretty funny, and some of his words of wisdom are definitely on target. The funniest advice he offers the ladies is to always talk up penis size. Chris suggests such comments as: “Damn, that’s huge”, “My God”, “I don’t know if I can hold that thing” and “Baby, I don’t have three hands.” That last one was my favorite. Not to be too graphic, but in my experience, the phrase “I don’t know if that will fit” works pretty well too.

1. “Approaching girls in bars terrifies us. It sort of feels like a no-win situation. Like, we know we’re already paddling upstream because she assumes, “Oh, he thinks I’m cute. I win’ And where does that leave us?”

2. “’Wow, you look so skinny!’ is not a compliment. Having a good body means actually having something there.”

3. “No matter how big we are – and yes, I’m referencing to that area – it’s best to assume we have a Napoleon complex. We’d love it if you threw in a ‘Damn, that’s huge!’ every now and then.”

4. “’My God!’ ‘I don’t know if I can hold that thing!’ and ‘Baby, I don’t have three hands’ all work pretty well too.”

5. “A man becomes a mama’s boy any time he’s sick. And any time he’s really hungry.”

6. “Dirty texts are amazing,”

7. “We’re absolutely scared sh*tless of your wrath.”

8. “We hate it when you say ‘I don’t know. What do you want to do?’ Guys have to do most of the heavy-lifting in terms of inviting and picking the perfect place to go to dinner. Give us a break once in a while and decide what to do on a date. We’re still going to end up driving.”

9. “A white wife-beater tank top, tight jeans and a pair of heels drive us nuts. A black bra and you’re asking for trouble.”

10. “When we’re having a guy’s night out, we’re really not doing much of anything at all. We basically just put each other down, then laugh at each other, then put each other down…”

[From Cosmopolitan, print edition, June, 2009]

I don’t care for his fashion advice. Tight jeans, high heels and a wife-beater? Who are we, Tanya Harding? I also don’t like this whole idea of a guy being scared to approach a girl at a bar. What’s the big deal? If you’re too scared to hit on a girl in public, we’re probably not going to date you anyway. Other than that, I totally agree with the whole thing about a sick guy turning into a mama’s boy. That happens. And it’s scary.

Here’s Chris Pine at the Los Angeles Premiere of “Star Trek” on April 30th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Chris Pine is really cute. You’ll have to excuse me, because I just noticed that. I’ve seen pictures of him before, but all of a sudden he looks manly and fine. His star is on the rise, too. In May, he’s stepping into William Shatner’s shoes as Captain Kirk in the new, rebooted, J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek. Hello, nerd eye candy! Pine is also starring, later this year, in James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar, with Michelle Rodriguez. Vanity Fair always takes notice of the up-and-coming talents, and they have a little mini-interview with Pine in the May issue:

It’s been a while since Hollywood had a bona fide homegrown movie star: they tend to come from places like Missouri or Kentucky, not Studio City. But here’s Chris Pine, 28 years old, native to “the Valley” and soon to be seen on-screen as the new Captain Kirk in director J.J. Abrams’s young-guns reboot of the original Star Trek.

Pine didn’t slip effortlessly into William Shatner’s double-knits. “There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a Saturday Night Live skit. One was for Avatar” – James Cameron’s upcoming science-fiction epic – “which was probably the worst audition I ever gave. Another was for 10,000 B.C., where I was just, like, on my haunches pretending to be in a loincloth in Burbank.” Pine laughs. “Then the other one was Star Trek. It was all of this jargon talk of torpedoes and photons,” which needless to say, didn’t quite trip off the tong. Fortunately, he got a second chance seven months later and nailed it.

Pine, who graduated from U.C. Berkeley, comes from two generations of actors: his father, Robert Pine, has 200-odd television shows to his credit; his grandmother is B-movie actress Annie Gwynne, who was often seen in horror films. Chris Pine isn’t jaded, but neither is he naive. “I know where I come from and what I want and why I got into [show business]. I know the reality of it. I just hope that I have longevity in my career.”

[From Vanity Fair, May print edition, Spotlight on Chris Pine, “To Boldly Star”]

Star Trek just had its premiere in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday. Chris Pine and the other cast members talked to a lot of journalists, and the obvious questions came up. Stuff like, “Can you do an impression of Shatner?” To which I wish one person would have replied, “Yes, of course I can do Shatner. All you have to do is talk like you’re in the middle of forgetting your lines.” But here’s one thing I didn’t know about Star Trek - Eric Bana (swoon) is the villain! He’s a Romulan named Nero. Epic!

The 11th Star Trek movie in 30 years had its world premiere on Tuesday, its markedly younger cast boldly going along the red carpet to a makeshift cinema in the Sydney Opera House.

Chris Pine, 28, who plays a cadet-aged James T. Kirk, admitted he’d never met William Shatner, who starred as the original Captain Kirk in the television series dating back to 1966 as well as the first Star Trek movies.

But he said he watched the TV show “quite a bit.”

“All it was doing was making me think about what the best way I could do a William Shatner impersonation,” Pine said. “It wasn’t helping bringing this story to life.”

[Eric] Bana plays Nero, the film’s heavily-tattooed Romulan villain bent on avenging the destruction of his planet. He said all the film’s cast “did everything they could” to come up with something fresh this time around.

The plot follows the young lives of the original cast from Gene Roddenberry’s TV show as they find their places on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise as junior officers. It was directed by J.J. Abrams, director of “Mission Impossible III” and “Lost.”

“Star Trek” opens in Australian cinemas on May 7, one day before opening in the United States.

From Reuters

I’m thinking Star Trek might be cool for two reasons: the nerd eye candy (Pine and Bana) and J.J. Abrams. Abrams is so cool, he even made Xenu-plagued Tom Cruise seem cool in MI:3. Abrams is so cool, he blows my mind on a weekly basis with Lost. Even if Star Trek ends up crashing and burning at the box office (doubtful), it’s nice that Hollywood has a new Bright Young Thing in Chris Pine. He doesn’t strike me as just another tween-courting pretty boy, thank God.

Chris Pine is shown at Wondercon on 2/28/09, at the Hollywood Awards Gala on 10/27/08, credit: Fame Pictures, and at the Sydney premiere of Star Trek on 4/7/09, credit: WENN.com