Kaiser already covered Freida Pinto at the Los Angeles premiere of The Immortals, and here’s some delicious Henry Cavill for good measure. Admittedly, his hair is a bit too longish here, but it’s a hell of a lot better than it looked for his recent Men’s Health interview, during which he informed us all that those Superman abs are all natural and not some fake CGI business.

Here are some highlights from Cavill’s appearance on Leno last night, where the saucy Brit speaks of a childhood encounter with Russell Crowe, who of course plays Superman’s father in the upcoming movie. At one point, Cavill admits that he was edged out of the James Bond role by Daniel Craig and acknowledges that Stephenie Meyer “apparently was very keen on me playing Edward” in Twilight but that, ultimately, he was too old for the role Can you imagine the Cavill Sparkler? Also, check out Ellen Barkin during this interview — she totally wanted to forget her current 26-year-old hot piece and ride that:

On Bullying At Boarding School: “I was a chubby kid in school. ‘Fat Cavill’ was the nickname.”

On Superman’s New Outfit: “Why wear underpants when you can be far more revealing?”

Incidentally, here’s a very blurry shot of the Superman crotch of which we are speaking. Indeed, the filmmakers have scrapped the red underwear. Thank goodness!

Since we’re already on the subject, Cavill also recently talked with Collider; and although I’m skipping the portions about The Immortals (because seriously, who cares?), Cavill dishes about his experiences on Man of Steel:

As A Child, He Dressed Up As Superman “I think all of my brothers did at some stage. I’ve even got photos of my little nephews in Superman outfits. Apparently, they went to school when I first heard the news. One of them was wearing a little Superman outfit and the teacher sort of told them off and then spoke to my sister-in-law after, saying, ‘I don’t know what’s going on with the boys. I don’t know what you’ve been telling them. They’ve been lying to me, because they’re telling me that their uncle is Superman and frankly it’s ridiculous.’ Which brought my sister-in-law out there and she said, ‘Actually, it’s not ridiculous; he is [Superman]. So you’ve got to let them wear their little outfits. Thank you very much.’ [laughs]”

On His Response To Landing The Superman Role: “My smile was absolutely enormous. I was trying very, very hard to play it cool on the phone with Zack Snyder when he called me. I thought, ‘Okay, play it cool. Not too cool, obviously. But, play it cool.’ As soon as I hung up, I was leaping up and down and running up and down the stairs and roaring and shouting, and then trying to call everyone. No one picked up their phones believe it or not! Apart from my assistant. I eventually got through. I was trying to tell the news to everyone and no one was answering their phones!”

On How He Mentally Prepared As Superman: “I avoided watching anything which was someone else’s interpretation of the source material. I didn’t go back to the movies and watch them. I didn’t go back to the TV series and watch them. I didn’t want to take that and have that influence my interpretation and my performance of the character. Where the character truly belongs and where the character truly comes from is not from the movies or the TV shows; it’s from the comic books. So I went straight to the comic books and had stacks of them and just read and read and read and read and read. I enjoyed so much learning about the character in such a dense manner. The comic books were my source of material’ the TV shows and movies were someone else’s interpretation and so I left that to them.”

[From Collider]

C’mon, what little boy hasn’t dressed up as Superman? And yet Cavill’s parents can actually see their boy grow up to play the role. He seems really humble too — at least, so far. Hopefully, his ego won’t outpace his soon-to-be exponential career growth.

Here’s more of Henry with Luke Evans at the Immortals 3D premiere. Ugh, it’s showing in 3D? Between that and the Kellan Lutzy Poseidon, that pretty much says it all about this movie:

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame, and AllMoviePhoto

We’ve heard that famous divorcee and actress Ellen Barkin was dating a much, much younger guy, but I assumed it was just a fling. Re-reading an article on this that Bedhead covered in June, I realized that Ellen has lived with her young lover for two years and that they’ve been together for four years! Things seem really serious between the two no matter the age difference.There’s a new tabloid report that Ellen popped the question during a romantic beach stroll. If the roles were reversed and Ellen was a rich old 57 year old dude with a fiance 31 years his junior would we think twice about it? Probably not.

Ellen Barkin, 57, is so smitted with her 26-year-old director beau Sam Levinson that she popped the question – and the two are planning an early 2012 wedding, sources say.

“Ellen is madly in love with Sam and wants to spend the rest of her life with him,” a close pal told The Enquirer.

“She proposed marriage while they were walking on the beach on late afternoon in August. Sam didn’t skip a beat before accepting. ”

Even better, the groom-to-be has the blessing of his father – Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson – who guided Ellen in her breakout role in the 1982 classic “Diner…”

[Ellen] has previously been married to billionaire businessman Ron Perelman and Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, father of her 21-year-old son Jack and daughter Romy, 18.

She’s dated Sam for four years…

“It will be an intimate ceremony in Manhattan,” said the pal about the upcoming wedding. “They’re both so happy that Ellen says she and Sam are even considering adopting a baby!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 3, 2011]

The Enquirer usually gets it right when they cover the not-so-popular celebrities, so I would bet this one is accurate. It skeeves me out in the their age difference is exactly the same as my son and me, but at least Ellen’s son is a whole five years younger than her boyfriend and isn’t around the same age. (That’s sarcasm-lite. Like I meant to be sarcastic there but realize that I did have a minor point to make that isn’t convincing at all.)

This reminds me of Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson, who have a 23 year-old age difference, but they got together when he was just 18. At least Ellen’s boyfriend was all of 22 when he hooked up with her. (Again, I’m kind of torn on whether I’m being sarcastic. They’ve been together long enough for this relationship to be legit at least.) I have a live and let live attitude usually but this does seem strange to me. My kid is little now but I totally think I would throw a fit if he reached 20-something and wanted to marry a woman my age. Anyway… go Ellen?

They’re posing here with Kate Bosworth because she stars along with Ellen in Sam’s directorial debut, Another Happy Day, which was shown at the Deauville film festival. (These photos are from 9/4/11. Credit: WENN)

As a woman, I find myself incredibly sensitive to the effects of the aging process, which isn’t helped by the general public’s acceptance of the word “cougar” as a metaphor to describe women who go after younger men. Of course, I am actually married to a younger man; that is, if a difference of two years even matters at all in the grand scheme of things, which it really doesn’t at all. This is in sharp contrast to Ellen Barkin, whom Page Six describes as a “supercougar” (ugh) since she’s apparently shacking up in a long-term relationship with 26-year-old Sam Levinson. Sure, Barkin’s got the body of a 30-year-old, but all the busted-up plastic surgery in the world can’t disguise the fact that she’s actually 57-years old. Exactly what these two have in common beyond the obvious — sex — is beyond my comprehension, but admittedly I cannot see past the fact that Barkin has a 21-year-old son. This is pretty gross, right?

When Tony front-runner Ellen Barkin opened her home for a magazine profile in April, one detail the reporter managed to miss was the 20-something boyfriend residing in Barkin’s bedroom.

The 57-year-old supercougar has been living with Barry Levinson’s son, 26-year-old writer-director Sam Levinson, in what sources tell Page Six is “the worst-kept secret in New York.”

“I’ll show you more than the living room . . . the ‘public’ room of my West Village townhouse,” Barkin told the New York Times Magazine. Upstairs in Barkin’s boudoir the writer found “hundreds of DVDs,” as well as “scented candles near her bed” — but apparently no sign of Levinson.

But Barkin and Levinson, who’s only five years older than her son, Jack, have previously been “linked” in reports. The couple has actually cohabitated for two years, and been an item for longer — despite the 31-year age gap, multiple sources said.

“They go out, they’re photographed together, they don’t keep it secret,” said a person familiar with the May-December duo. “It works, but it’s weird,” added another.

A rep for Barkin said the star does not comment on her personal life.

Barkin launched her career in Barry Levinson’s 1982 film Diner. Sam was born three years later. But Barkin’s relationship with her young hunk is no fling: She’s been overheard saying she’ll part ways with him when “they roll me out in a wheelchair.”

Barkin is in a wheelchair nightly as a polio-stricken doctor fighting the AIDS epidemic in Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” which is a favorite to win the Tony as best play revival June 12.

Barkin met Sam Levinson when he was writing the film Operation: Endgame more than three years ago. It was released last year. She then produced and starred in his feature directing debut, Another Happy Day.

[From Page Six]

What I find amusing is that Page Six talks as if the NYT Magazine reporter was supposed to have entered Barkin’s bedroom to find her young lover sprawled out on the bed wearing nothing but a loincloth and holding a rose between his teeth. While it’s true that these two have been photographed together on at least one occasion (we don’t have access to that particular picture, but PopEater does), it’s not as if they walk the red carpet together or even get papped on the streets of New York City. Mostly, the paps get pictures of Barkin walking her dog, so maybe Levinson is the puppy she keeps at home? I think I just grossed myself out.

Interestingly enough, Barkin was recently snapped on the red carpet while holding hands with 32-year-old Lee Pace and his porn ‘stache at the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards.

Photos courtesy of WENN

There’s a new TV documentary out about Oceans creator Jerry Weintraub called His Way. It premieres on HBO April 4, and if it includes candid footage with celebrities I’m there! Some of the stars of the popular disjointed buddy crime caper series came out for the premiere last night, and there were plenty of other celebrities there to show support. Matt Damon was looking grumpy hot and flying solo and there were so many other big names there it’s hard to do justice to them all. As Kaiser pointed out to me, George Clooney and Brad Pitt were noticeably absent. We still have plenty of other people to talk about though.

James and Scott Caan, intergenerational hotness.

Don Cheadle – ditch the bowling shoes and vary your wardrobe a little!

Ellen Barkin looks like ET

Mariel Hemingway looks like Ellen Barkin’s too tight sister. It’s a shame.

Kelly Lynch. Holy Botox! She’s 52 though, can you believe it?

Cindy Crawford. This is what good work (+ good genes) look like.

Anne Heche. Crazy bitch. I can’t believe she’s still with this guy she cheated with.

Sharon Stone. Ditto on the crazy bitch part.

Joan Collins. Fabulous coat.

Elliot Gould. He just makes me smile. I love that he’s listening to his iPod on the red carpet.

Bruce Willis and his young bride Emma Hemming. I can’t believe she’s not knocked up yet. Bruce Willis for HGF!

Emile Hirsh – HGF candidate? He’s cute!

Damon again before he roughly pushes me up against the wall, letting me mess up his hair for hours before we finally leave the house to get something to eat and go to the damn barber already. (While I spend the day at the spa.) I can’t believe it’s only Wednesday.*sigh*

And here’s Jerry Weintraub with Ellen Barkin.

photo credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

Ellen Barkin is trying to correct the record about her divorce to billionaire Ron Perelman. The high-profile New York couple broke up in 2006 – allegedly, Barkin came home one day from shopping and found all of her clothes packed up in boxes and sitting outside the apartment with changed locks. But that was just the rumor at the time.

The other rumors were that Barkin either got something in the neighborhood of a $60 million divorce settlement, or that she got next to nothing because of a pre-nup. The only thing that’s certain is that Barkin very publicly put all of her jewelry up for auction at Christie’s. Most of the pieces were given to her by Perelman, and auction ended up as one of the most successful private collections ever offered. Barkin ended up pocketing in the neighborhood of $20 million dollars.

Barkin gave an interview to the New York Daily News about her divorce, and her new pilot for HBO – it’s a show about “a sassy blond divorcing a powerful husband”. But the “sassy blond” doesn’t get even – the husband in the show dies in the pilot:

…Ellen Barkin is pressing ahead with her HBO pilot about a sassy blond divorcing a powerful husband. But Barkin and her co-producers have decided to kill off her TV husband in the first episode.

“The bastard dies before she can divorce him,” says writer-producer Shauna Cross.

You can bet Perelman, or his lawyers, will still tune in to see if there are any scenes reminiscent of his nasty 2006 split with Barkin. But Barkin swears she’s not a person driven by revenge. Many applauded her when she auctioned off all the jewelry Perelman had given her (for $20.3 million).

“Everyone thought it was a big bleep-you [to Ron],” she tells us. “That’s bull—. It was a purely practical decision. I sold them so I — and my children and my mother — would be taken care of. I sold the jewelry because I’d been out of the movie business for seven years. I was 52. There was a good chance I would never get my spot back again.”

What about the $60 million she’s said to have scored in their divorce settlment?

“It’s a myth,” she says.

So does Perelman understand the auction wasn’t a dis?

“I have no idea. I have no communication with that human being at all. Outside of through our lawyers.”

During her marriage to Perelman, she says, “I wasn’t free to work.” And yet six weeks after she won her freedom, she found herself crying one day.

“[Producer] Jerry Weintraub called. He said, ‘How are you feeling?’ I said, ‘Not very good.’ He said, ‘You’re going to feel a whole lot better in 60 seconds.’ He told me about ‘Ocean’s 13.’ I couldn’t have asked for a better way to say I’m back in the game.”

To her astonishment, the small caper part led to dozens of other offers. “People seemed to say, ‘Wow, we haven’t seen her in a while,’” says Barkin, who’s also developing films with her brother, George.

And is there any guy in her life now? Turning on her shapely calf, she shot us one of her signature winks.

“Sorry, I’m not talking.”

From The New York Daily News

I tend to believe that Barkin walked away from the marriage with very little money – probably only a small cash settlement and her jewels, which is why she sold everything she had. The HBO show sounds interesting, but a lot will depend on the writing. It sounds a little bit like a more graphic version of “The Starter Wife”, and that show was horrible, and just got cancelled. I’m glad she’s getting work, but she was just horrible in Ocean’s Thirteen. She’s better when she plays badass rather than demure or ditzy.

Ellen Barkin is shown on 4/27/08. Credit: WENN

George Clooney broke his poor neighbor Teri Hatcher’s fragile heart, and now he’s proven yet again that he takes whatever’s closest at hand by shacking up with Ellen Barkin, who earned a pity role in “Oceans 13″ as Matt Damon’s love interest after getting dumped by her billionaire husband. Yes, that’s right, Clooney’s screwing Ellen Barkin.

That last line about Brad Pitt introducing Barkin to Jolie is pretty much bullshit, you can count on it. The Mirror makes shit up a lot and I would be surprised if that’s true. I buy this Clooney and Ellen Barkin story wholesale, though, because it sounds just like him.

This is not going to last more than a month, ladies, so manage to get yourself within easy ongoing access of Clooney for a while and you too can have a whirlwind affair with the liberal Oscar winner. Just be prepared to get your ass dumped without an explanation after 4-6 weeks. It doesn’t matter how coy you play it, or really how cute or young you are, since Clooney doesn’t seem to give a shit. Just make sure you’re around, and can fit into his schedule for a little while. He’ll go back home to his pot bellied pig afterwards.