Kate Beckinsale was on The Late Show last night in a tight sequin one-shoulder Donna Karan gown. She paired it with Louboutin slingbacks and big diamond Neil Lane hoop earrings. She was promoting the fourth Underworld movie, Underworld: Awakening. As Lainey mentions, it looks like she was dressing for an awards ceremony, not for Letterman. She’s so pretty but she constantly overdresses and overstyles herself. Her hair extensions were also ridiculously long as usual. For some reason her hair bugs me like that as it often looks very fake.
On Letterman (video above) Kate told some funny stories involving her 13 year-old daughter. She said that her daughter, Lily, thinks of her mom as embarrassing now. She also shared a photo and a story about parasailing with Lily on vacation in the Bahamas. It was basically terrifying for both of them. I’ve seen other interviews with Kate and she’s always funny, prepared with good stories and completely “on” without seeming to try too hard. (Apart from her fashion.) She never shares anything particularly revealing and she’s clearly got the game down.
In terms of how I feel about her, I’m basically neutral. She seems to get papped a disproportionate amount to her level of fame, and I’m sure she sets up candids. She’s not offensive in any way, but I do find her a bit phony. She’s overrated, I guess that sums it up for me.
Here are some recent photos of her. She looks like Posh, right? So perfectly put together. Somewhat put out to be photographed in transit, but not really.
Tom Cruise isn’t quite finished pimping out his family for the sake of promoting Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, which I guess is sort of understandable since he doesn’t mave much else to talk about other than his insane stunt work in the movie. I mean, he’s finally figured out that no one wants to hear him talk about Scientology and the evils of psychiatry, so that’s something positive. Still, Tom’s been around the globe a few times in the past few weeks, and then he returned to New York City to get papped with the family all weekend while carting poor Suri around without a coat. By the time he and Katie actually walked the red carpet, they both looked exhausted as hell.
As a general rule, I can’t even imagine how exhausting it must be for Katie to deal with Tom on a consistent basis and even experience his suffocating “lovebombing” when he’s away for work too. Make no mistake that Tom is still thrilled to have Katie as his wife (whatever that actually means to them as a couple), and he’s still giving interviews to discuss her “amazing” qualities. He really needs to learn some new adjectives, right?
The parties just don’t stop for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes this holiday season. The couple celebrated their five-year anniversary last month and her 33rd birthday on Dec. 18.
“Every day I fall more in love with her,” Cruise, 49, told PEOPLE at the New York premiere of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on Monday at the Ziegfeld Theatre. “It’s been quite an amazing five years because of her. She’s an incredible woman. She’s everything to me.”
To mark her birthday, the couple enjoyed a Big Apple tradition at the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring The Rockettes with daughter Suri, 5, and her grandparents, Kathleen and Martin Holmes.
The family then dined at Buddakan for a birthday meal on Sunday.
“We had a lot of fun. It was a great day,” Cruise says of the party, which included some romantic treats for his wife. “We had flowers and cake. All that stuff.”
Yeah, Katie’s birthday must have been quite the event, what with the Sciento-clown in attendance. Shudder. Meanwhile, Tom hasn’t forgotten about his other girl either, for he’s also paying lipservice to Suri as well:
Suri Cruise isn’t a sartorial copycat.
The fashionable 5-year-old — who’s been known to rock faux fur jackets and kitten heels over the years — has an innate sense of style, according to her dad Tom Cruise.
“She was just born that way. I don’t know what to say,” a proud Cruise, 49, told Us Weekly at the Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol premiere in NYC Monday. “She really creates her own outfits.”
Adding that Suri “dresses herself,” Cruise said his wife Katie Holmes, 33, has helped curate their daughter’s love of clothes.
“Katie has her create things and sew and stuff like that. It’s kind of amazing,” Cruise said. “It’s beautiful. It’s really beautiful.”
Holmes — who recently admitted to coordinating outfits with her celeb BFF Victoria Beckham — also helps her action star hubby get dressed for red carpet events.
“Whatever my wife wants me to wear, I wear,” Cruise laughed. “It’s simple. She has amazing taste.”
Okay, that last part must have been a lie because, seriously, are we supposed to believe that Tom only wears lifts because “amazing” Katie dictates that he must do so? I think she sort of enjoys towering over him sometimes. Rather, it’s Tom who can’t handle the truth.
In addition to Tom’s vomit-inducing words about his lovely and incredible wife, the Cruise also stopped by “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Monday evening to promote MI4, and he barely gets a word in about his wife and daughter because Dave (mercifully) keeps quizzing him about the movie stunts. However, Tom does make quick mention of Katie staying home from the international MI4 tour because the schedule was jam-packed, not because she was lounging somewhere on a recharging dock as I previously guessed. My bad.
On a slightly amusing note, the Daily Mail has some photos of a very heavily made-up Tom outside the Ed Sullivan show after chatting with Letterman. While I’m aware that guests on the show wear make-up for the cameras, the amount of blusher and lipstick on Tom is ridiculous, and someone should’ve made him wash that stuff off before heading onto the street. Fortunately, you can’t really see it while he’s chatting to Dave onscreen though. Here’s a clip of the show, which is largely uneventful because Tom’s apparently taken a few PR lessons on how to hide the crazy. He does slip once though when Letterman says the word “ass” — Tom begins laughing hysterically and then repeats the word. What a freak.
Now as a special bonus, here’s ore of Tom’s freaky plastic-surgery face from the MI4 NYC premiere. You know you love it.
During this round of endless Breaking Dawn promotion, Robert Pattinson stopped by the “Late Show with David Letterman.” Beforehand, he posed outside the Ed Sullivan theater with some fans and signed autographs too. As always, Robert is much better in motion, and photographs rarely do him justice. It certainly doesn’t help matters that he tends to do this when the flashbulbs go off:
During the interview itself, Robert was his usual self-effacing and adorable self and made a reference to My Little Pony while discussing his sparkling vampire character, Edward Cullen:
On New Yorkers: “People in New York are a little more vocal than other places. It’s funny. They’ve got some dirty mouths, which is kind of great because it makes it exciting after you’ve done it a few times. You want anything, you want people to attack you.”
On Dealing With The Frenzy: “People screaming at me and stuff? I mean … It feels like job security in a funny sort of way.”
On Disguising Himself: “I attempt to — it doesn’t particularly work ever. I started off just trying to make strange expressions, but that’s not a particularly good tactic. You try and get little tics and things. You try and draw attention to the wrong part of your body, but that doesn’t realy work at all. The best disguise is repellant.”
On Edward Cullen’s Missing Sparkles: “There’s a big sequence of the movie in Brazil where for whatever reason, because Brazil is obviously very sunny, I could not possibly explain to you why I’m not sparkling. It’s sort of a glaring continuity error.”
See, here’s the difference between the Sparkler and Kristen Stewart. Whereas the latter compares the trappings of fame to being raped, the former sees the hassles merely as a sign of job security. This is why we can’t help but love the guy.
As for Breaking Dawn itself, I begrudgingly admit that I’ll end up watching this crap in the theater and more than tolerating the experience. However, I can at least (in public) blame it on my daughter, who will be receiving IMAX tickets for a birthday present. Shhhh — don’t tell her about it just yet. I’m trying to avoid the joyous screaming as long as humanly possible.
Remember when Kim Kardashian had her ass x-rayed as “proof” that she didn’t have implants? As many of you pointed out, there’s a procedure called a “Brazilian butt lift” whereby fat is injected into the ass to make it larger, rounder and perkier. In that case, the cheeks are really filled with fat and nothing would show up on an x-ray. There’s some minor evidence that Kim has had this surgical intervention, (see the older photos on this story) but since she did it before she made the scene it’s not as glaring as the differences in her face. Anyway the Kardashian girls were on Letterman last night, and Kim dragged out that old x-ray to have something to talk about. That x-ray news came out in late June, over two months ago, but somehow it’s still relevant and is the best these twits can do to promote their products:
Is that painful to have your butt x-rayed
No, you just kind of lay there?
Like my honeymoon. A couple of years ago we caught an intern on the copier. Is it like that?
Kim: Just like that.
[Shows X-Ray]
Khloe: That’s just fat. [Kim gives her the side eye] That’s where all of her fat goes, just to her ass, that’s it. It doesn’t go anywhere else, it just sits and goes right there.
[To Kim] Is she right about that?
Kim: No.
Khloe: It’s so frustrating. All she does is eat junk food and all it does is go to her booty. Nowhere else.
Kim: No, I have to work out. Like NY kills me. I’m here for a couple of weeks and it just kills me. Those nuts on the street corner. [I] put on an extra ten pounds like every time.
I guess there are plenty of people in the world, those that pay attention to more important news, that haven’t yet seen the glory that is Kim Kardashian’s ass in see-through. For those of us that pay attention to the gossip, though, it’s just another reminder of how tired and repetitive they’ve gotten. That’s ripe that Kim is blaming homeless people for her weight gain.
On another note, their outfits, all from their new collection for Sears, were ridiculously ugly. Kourtney had on sparkly sequin high waisted pants from their new Sears collection and her outfit was the best of all three. (Which truly isn’t saying much.)
I watched the rest of the interview to make sure I wasn’t missing anything even remotely interesting or quotable, and I wasn’t. Khloe was funny at certain moments, though. (It starts at 20 minutes in on this video.) My favorite line was from Dave before they came on. He said “I have no idea what they do on that show. [The Kardashians] To make it worse I’ve appeared on that show.” You know, I’ve never seen a full episode either. I’ve just seen clips and part of one of those Take NY shows. It seems to be on E! constantly, though. They need to find better filler.
Dave also said he thought he knew all the Kardashians, but then they got a “new one” for Dancing With The Stars. “Where the hell did that Kardashian come from, for God’s sake? We only have three with us, but I bet there’s plenty more back at the hotel.” When Dave said goodbye to them, he called Kourtney “Khloe” by mistake.
Colin Farrell was a guest on Letterman Friday night. I’ve been dying to report on these sexy photos of him outside the studio with his shirt half open. He looked delectable as usual, and was promoting the Fright Night remake he stars in, which is out in the US next Friday, August 19. On the show, Farrell mentioned his two boys, Henry, nearly 2, and James, 7. (Both are from previous relationships with different women, but it’s not like Farrell talked about that at all.) James has a rare genetic condition called Angelman syndrome, which is characterized by motor, intellectual and speech delays and a positive affect. Farrell has discussed his son’s condition in the past, and said that he is blessed to have him in his life. In 2007, he said “I have never thought of my son as being someone with a disability. It goes back to special needs and what is a disability and what isn’t.” On Letterman, he addressed the need for more funding to research the condition and said that a doctor has cured the condition in mice. Here’s more:
Colin Farrell appeared on Late Show With David Letterman last night to promote his upcoming movie, Fright Night, but also took a little time to give a shout out to CureAngelman.org and revealed that one of his sons has been diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome.
Colin has two sons James, 7, and Henry, almost 2, and briefly discussed his family with David Letterman.
“James, just a quick shout out if I can, James has a condition called Angelman Syndrome and it only affects one in 30,000 children, they say,” Colin said on Late Show. “So there’s not that much funding because it doesn’t benefit pharmaceutical companies, of course.”
The actor asked for anyone to help by visiting CureAngelman.org to help donate and then discussed a bit more about his son and how he was diagnosed.
“It was actually when a doctor saw how happy he was,” Colin explained. “He was like, ‘Does he always smile this much?’”
James started walking just short of his 4th birthday and doesn’t have any verbal speech, but Colin made sure to say that his boy is a “a really happy boy.”
For as much as Colin flits around to different women, he sure seems like a caring and devoted father. He’s also giving some invaluable attention to this cause.
Look at how shy Colin looks outside the studio with his hands crammed in his pockets. He’s doesn’t look too comfortable with the crowd. He also seemed a little nervous on the show.
Glee’s Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray) was on The Late Show last night. I have to say I found her more confident than I expected. I’ve never seen her interviewed before and prior to this my impression was that she’s a little geeky and different. Her red carpet fashion is usuallyconservative and not that fashionable. Plus she penned a long impressive blog entry defending that racy GQ photoshoot with her Glee costars by explaining that she was a “sheltered child” and that “if you asked me for my dream photo shoot, I’d be in a treehouse, in a wild costume, war-paint and I’d be playing with my pet dragon.” So I thought she would be a little shy, since she seems to be a thoughtful person and not your typical starlet, but she wasn’t. She was completely at ease talking to Dave. (You can watch part of the video here if you’re in the US.)
On the Late Show, Agron told a story about how her nose was broken twice. It was implied that she was explaining her nose job since she said she had a deviated septum fixed and that a doctor told her she was a mouth breather. The words “nose job” or “rhinoplasty” were not uttered though:
My Freshman year of high school… I convinced my mom to let me go to my first party. I was able to be there for an hour… instead of the girl punching the guy she wound up to the side and punched me. So that was broken nose number one…
I didn’t go to a doctor because I didn’t want to tell my mom what happened…
Apparently I found out about a year ago, because my nose was getting worse… I went to the doctor and he said “When did you break your nose? You have a horrible deviated septum. You’re a mouth breather, aren’t you?” I said “Yes I am…”
[I couldn't get it fixed at the time] because we were filming.
We were in the middle of doing this concert tour… [in NY]. We had a day off the next day so I met some of my friends out and we were dancing. And again, there was a collision of sorts. I must be turning too quickly, people don’t see me or something like that. But it’s fixed now. I’m no longer a mouth breather.
I usually hate doing these nose job and plastic surgery stories, because I’ll spend ages finding photos with the same aspect ratio to show the difference in someone’s face. Then I’ll line them up and size them the same. A change in nose shape that looks very obvious to me across multiple photos always has commenters who say there’s no difference or that it’s due to makeup or lighting. In this case the person admitted to it, though, and she had a very good explanation that seemed plausible. Plus if you look at her old nose it’s clearly broken-looking and smooshed to the side. She looks better now and her nose is shaved well. It’s not too small for her face like Jessica Biel’s new nose.
Here are photos of Dianna outside the Late Show yesterday. That dress looked better when she was sitting down. At least she wasn’t hanging out of it at the top or bottom.
Jennifer Garner was on the Late Show Tuesday night promoting Arthur, which comes out in the US today. It looks like a pale imitation of the original despite the involvement of Dame Helen. (I hope she at least says “May I wash your dick for you?” They need to work that line in there.) The movie is getting trashed on Rotten Tomatoes with a 24% rating, but critic opinions don’t seem to matter when it comes to box office so it could do well. I certainly see enough commercials for it on television.
Garner told a story on Letterman about how she made hair tie scrunchies in college and sold them door to door in the dorms. She said she was so successful and made so many of them that she still runs into people who say “I have your scrunchie.”
Jennifer Garner may be a successful actress, but back in college, she had other ways to pad her wallet. On the Late Show with David Letterman Tuesday, the actress revealed that her college ‘job’ was actually making scrunchies — those infamous ’80s-style hair ties covered in fabric. “My college roommate and I … we were theater geeks and we had a key to the theater department,” she admitted during an appearance to promote her new film, Arthur. “We would go in late at night and we would use their sewing machines and their elastic and we would make scrunchies. We would make boxes full of scrunchies in sorority colors or [ones that were] just cute.” And surprisingly, the gig actually paid the bills. “We went door to door in the dorms and said ‘One for $3, two for $5,’ and we raked it in! We made so much money!” But as it turns out, unfortunately, Garner wasn’t exactly an expert accessory maker. “We spent so much time on them, [but] we were so bad at them. I was constantly sewing the scrunchie to my clothes — I was a bad scrunchie maker. I’m sure half of them fell apart.”
Garner is a year older than I am, I’ll be honest. I graduated high school and started college in 1991. At that point, I wouldn’t have been caught dead with a scrunchie in my hair. My crowd was listening to Nine Inch Nails, Peter Murphy and the Psychedelic Furs. (Some of us got turned on to then-new Nirvana at the time too.) We were wearing combat boots, long shaggy hair and thrift store clothes. Looking back at myself in college, I know I was a stereotype, but that’s what we did back then, we got involved with a group and we identified with them and we dressed like them. The sorority girls were trying to rock the scrunchies, so I guess we can assume Garner was a sorority girl. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it definitely fits with her personality.
Here’s Garner outside the Late Show. Credit: WENN.com
So Eva Longoria has a new cookbook out called “Eva’s Kitchen” and because she’s on television and is semi-famous she’s being given a platform to promote it. Eva was on Letterman last night. We already saw the ridiculous short-shorts she was wearing, and it turns out that she had on a low cut tuxedo jacket with no shirt under it as well. When she sat down you could almost see her ass cheek from the side and Dave could barely concentrate he was trying so hard to get a glimpse of her B cups. At least she hasn’t gotten a boob job yet. I would have been embarrassed for her if she had any shame. Eva completed her third grade tap dance recital outfit with a really long fake looking Tony Pony.
It was hard to take Eva seriously at all when she talked about how to make guacamole. It’s like she wanted to serve it to us just wearing an apron and high heels. What the hell is Eva promoting exactly?
Eva Longoria decided formal attire would be best for her interview with David Letterman on Wednesday night. But the star must have been so eager to appear on “The Late Show” that she forgot to finish getting dressed in wardrobe.
The “Desperate Housewives” star appeared with Letterman on Wednesday to promote her new cookbook, “Eva’s Kitchen,” but all eyes — especially the host’s — were on what she wore on set.
“I wore a tuxedo for you,” she told Letterman, to which he replied, “That’s only part of a tuxedo.”
The outfit drew even more attention when her jacket — which covered up her shirtless chest — began to pop open. It was all Letterman could do to keep his focus on her cookbook and the guacamole recipe that she was presenting. Turns out that she likes cilantro, but he has a genetic predisposition to find it soapy tasting.
Later in the interview, Longoria confirmed that the cast of “Desperate Housewives” were in negotiations to return for an eighth and ninth season.
I have to cosign Eva loving cilantro. I put it on top of cream cheese on an english muffin in the morning. My husband isn’t a fan of it though so I have to use it sparingly when I cook for him.
So Eva likes to cook and she’s a TV star, so that makes her qualified to put out a cookbook and promote it on The Late Show. She’s such a great cook and her recipes are so tasty that they stand on their own merits and she doesn’t need to try any famewhore moves to get publicity.
Eva also said that Desperate Housewives will be back for an eighth season next year, and maybe a ninth as it remains the most popular scripted show on ABC. She’s not going away anytime soon.
That’s it, my crush on James Franco is official over. Franco will be on Letterman tonight. A preview (above) has him talking about his about his disastrous gig as Oscar host and refusing to take any responsibility for failing so miserably. He says he wasn’t stoned, that he just looked mellow compared to Anne Hathaway’s bubbly personality, and that “I actually played those lines as well as well as I could.” ORLY? Then he goes on to bitch about how everyone paid attention to him in the first place. We’ve heard the same sh*t from so many douchesbefore. I’m surprised he doesn’t say “there’s a war on/there are natural disasters/the government budget crisis affects us all.”
For the first time since hosting the Oscars, James Franco is addressing rumors that he was stoned during the gig. In an interview on ‘The Late Show With Dave Letterman,’ airing Thursday evening, [sic: it airs tonight, Friday] the actor reveals why he appeared so low energy.
“People said I was under the influence,” Franco said during his ‘Late Show’ interview, which airs tonight.
“Now why would they say that?” asked Letterman with a laugh.
The ’127 Hours’ actor replied, “I’ve thought about it. I think I know why, because–I love her–but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway.”
“Truthfully,” Franco added, “and I haven’t watched it back, maybe I had low energy. I actually played those lines as well as well as I could.”
Franco concluded talking about the awards show by pointing out how wishy-washy Hollywood is: “But here’s the hypocritical thing: Leading up the Oscars, I couldn’t hear enough about how, ‘Oh, people don’t care about the Oscars anymore; it’s dead, it’s boring, it’s at the end of a long awards season, who cares about it?’ Well, as soon as you don’t host the way they want you to, they suddenly care and won’t shut up about it!”
So it’s Anne Hathaway’s fault that Franco was a zombie, and it’s the writers fault that they wrote such bad lines, and it’s everyone else’s fault for paying attention. Read my past coverageof this guy (not Kaiser’s, she’s been right about him from the beginning) and see how I’ve defended him. Yes the lines he was given totally sucked, and even the most energetic host couldn’t have saved that bloated self-congratulatory mess of a show that was in no way entertaining, I still stand by that. But Franco is really showing his true colors here. His first excuse is that he sucked because Hathaway tried too hard (he didn’t say that exactly, but that’s what I got out of it) and his next excuse is an implied one that the lines sucked. Then finally he blames people for caring about it. Not once did he say any variation of “I feel bad, I’m sorry, I was tired, I wish I would have brought it, I misjudged what needed to be done” or “I didn’t prepare enough.” He could have made some little tiny concession that he didn’t do the best job he could or was somehow responsible but there’s none of that from Franco. Again, my crush is officially over and he is that “I went to film school” douche that Kaiser and Lainey have been telling me about. My apologies for ever giving him the benefit of the doubt or finding him charming.
Franco outside the Late Show on 3/28 wearing sunglasses at night. Credit: WENN.com.
Emma Watson was a guest on the Late Show last night. She was cute and charming as usual, and you could tell that she was a little nervous but she powered through it and did a great job. It wasn’t her first stint on Letterman and she did as nice a job in her last appearance as well. Emma told some cute stories about her experiences as a coed in America, where she’s had some problems being understood by her classmates. She was wearing a form fitting black and red sequin dress that was just the right length. Someone commented that this is the dress she should have worn to the premiere, and I agree, it was much better than her satin sheath.
On her pixie cut
Most women get their hair cut when they’re going through a breakup, and I was going through the Harry Potter breakup and it was time for a new look.
On if she made a lot of money
Nothing really worth mentioning, no big deal… they totally ripped me off.
On her issues communicating at college
I didn’t realize just how big the culture gap is… Day to day there are things I am unable to communicate. I really needed what I would call a ‘plaster’… I was bleeding quite heavily. I was running around saying ‘I need a plaster…’ It took five or six minutes to work out that what I needed was a band aid.
Dave – That says something about American kids, they know you’re bleeding and they can’t put two and two together.
Emma – The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea, and please excuse me, that you guys call [lower voice] a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is like an eraser, so I’ve done that, I’ve very loudly asked for a rubber… that was embarrassing.
On if the kids bug her at school because she’s famous
They’re all too cool for that.
When I was in college I dated a British guy and once went back with him to England for a couple a weeks. I was just getting the hang of the local vernacular when I tried to use it out by telling some of his friends that we had to leave a club because I was having a “snog.” I meant to say that I was having a “strop,” which means you’re grumpy, but got it confused with a similar word I’d just learned ,”snog,” which is slang for a kiss. So they all thought for a moment that I was making out with someone else at the bar and got busted by my boyfriend. Now I’m married to someone that speaks an entirely different language and am often making (what I consider minor) pronunciation errors that can make average words sound very dirty. That snog/strop thing can’t compare to me trying to say “follow” (folgen) and ending up saying “f*cking” (vögeln) instead. So I pretty much try not to use the German word for follow – or for humid, but that’s another story. Damn umlauts.
You can watch Emma’s entire Letterman appearance on YouTube (it won’t embed here.) She tells the rubber story at 4:50 and does an American accent at 6:40. A clip from Deathly Hallows is at 8:30. It looks better than earlier clips I’ve seen. I lost my passion for HP after the Half Blood Prince, but I’ll probably see this one.
Emma Watson is shown yesterday outside the Late Show and outside her hotel. I love her black jacket, but that studded jacket is too much. Credit: Fame Pictures
