I can’t help it, I have a thing for Matthew McConaughey and his T-Rex arms and body odor masked by heavy cologne. That’s probably why his Brazilian baby-mama bugs me, I’m gel-ous, but I have to admit they look like two peas in a pod here. Look at how they’re slouched over, heavy-lidded, looking at the press line like they’d rather be anywhere else. Then when Matt straightens up and looks a little defiant, she does too – they’re sympatico.

This really endears them to me, that and Matt’s new thin 70s porn mustache. That scraggly thing over his lip is not hot, so it kind of releases all my pent up feelings of competition with a woman who is younger and hotter than I am. It’s ok, she’s in tune with Matt and his facial hair. They’re raising two adorable kids together and they probably spend their time exercising outdoors, getting stoned and looking through fabric swatches for various projects in their mansion. Their job consists of looking good and showing up to stuff, and they find it mildly annoying despite how well they fit the bill.

Matt and Camila were at the LA film festival last night at the premiere of Bernie, a Linklater film starring McConaughey, Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. Jack and Shirley were both there, and so was True Blood‘s Carrie Preston (she’s not in it as far as I can find, I just love her), and also John Lithgow (he’s also not listed as in it, but he might be). The movie is about a mortician who kills a local widow and tries to make it seem like she’s alive. I sounds like Weekend at Bernies, but it’s probably much more interesting considering that it’s written and directed by Linklater. Is this the first project he’s done with McConaughey since Dazed and Confused… no there was 1998′s Newton Boys, which I haven’t seen yet.

So did he grow that mustache for a role? I hope so, but I guess in the scheme of things it doesn’t matter. He’s also wearing those light brown boots, so that’s really a double whammy.

I love this picture.

Photo credit: WENN.com and Fame

It was a weekend of sequels (which is quite indicative of what is to come during this summer’s movie season record number of franchise follow-ups) at the box office. This holiday weekend’s two new wide releases opened on Thursday instead of the usual Friday. In the end, The Hangover Part II landed an estimated $118.1 million for the four-day holiday weekend (not counting Memorial Day), which is significantly higher than the $80.5 million predicted by Box Office Mojo’s derby game, which also predicted a second-place opening for the Bradley Cooper movie. In the end, Kung Fu Panda 2 summarily landed in second place with a $53.8 million four-day weekend cumulative take.

Naturally, these two sequels shall be compared to their respective predecessors. Kung Fu Panda opened in June 2008 to the tune of $60 million (with cumulative $215,434,591 domestic and $632 worldwide grosses) whereas The Hangover opened in June 2009 with an opening weekend of $45 million. However, positive word of mouth boosted Hangover’s subsequent weekends to a fairly unprecedented hold that led to $277,322,503 domestic and $467,483,912 worldwide totals. So anticipation for this sequel was much higher than for the opening weekend of the first movie, and Memorial Day weekend did nothing but extend the party for The Hangover 2. Meanwhile, releasing on this particular holiday weekend probably caused Kung Fu Panda 2 to not live up to previous expectations because the vast majority of schools are still in session (unlike the home-schooled Jolie-Pitt clan), so a Thursday release didn’t mean much in terms of kiddle-related ticket sales.

Also, Angelina Jolie as The Tigress mattered very little, since one can barely recognize her voice at all. She might very well be gorgeous and a talented actress, but Jolie’s voice isn’t very distinctive at all.

However, The Hangover Part II has not only won the weekend but also landed the weekend record as far as comedies go, which is sort of amazing considering that even the trailer revealed the film to be just like The Hangover itself. Indeed, the negative critical reception — 35% approval for the sequel vs. 79% for the first movie — reflects the near-universal consensus that the second film is a virtual carbon copy of the first one. Here’s a particularly apt take from Dustin Rowles at Pajiba:

Movies can reshape our imagination, bring us to tears, render us lovesick, break our psyches, shock and horrify us, or draw out an emotional catharsis. The great power of film is its ability to inspire, to elicit laughter, to provoke thought, or to enable us to appreciate what we have or what’s been lost. The great power of The Hangover II, on the other hand, is its immense ability to make us feel as though we’ve been robbed, ripped off, stolen from, sold a bill of goods, knocked out, anally violated and left for dead. It’s not even that The Hangover II is a bad film; it’s that it’s a film we’ve already f&#*ing seen. Maybe you remember it. It was called The Hangover.

Sequels suggest continuations of stories; The Hangover II is not a sequel. It’s a remake set in a different g**d*mn city. It’s the same band singing the same song. All they did was add someone to play the wood block and tickle Brad Cooper’s balls. The lyrics are slightly different, but no one even had the goddamn decency to change the chorus. It’s not a new movie; they just repackaged the old one. It’s like paying to replace your laptop with the exact same one, only the screensaver is an Asian tranny instead of a stripper Mom. It’s like The Next Karade Kid starring Ralph Machio in the Hilary Swank role. You know what that’s called? The Karate Kid.

What I don’t get it, where is the outrage? People paid $13 to see something they’d already seen. Why weren’t there reports from midnight screenings of audience members ripping out their seats, beating up old women, looting Rite Aids, and throwing batteries at movie theater managers? Have we grown so complacent that we will now idly accept a re-gifted movie? We’re just going to shrug? That’s what we’re doing now? “Hey, why are you getting so worked up? Whaddya expect? It’s Hollywood.” You know what: Go f&@k yourself. Just because you’re a f&@king [redacted] doesn’t give that doucher Todd Phillips the right to treat us all like one.

If you’ve seen the first movie, then you know what’s going to happen in the second film. The chief “difference” here is that it’s Stu (Ed Helms) who is getting married, and the wedding takes place in Thailand instead of Vegas. And you know what they say about Bangkok? “What Happens in Bangkok, shut the f&@k up, douche.”

[From Pajiba]

So far, it’s only the critics who are complaining about the carbon-copy factor, so perhaps The Hangover fans just really wanted to rewatch the original? This would account for the lack of outrage coming from social media sites like Twitter. My suspicion is that The Hangover movies are such a departure from real life that they merely function as a stress-relieving two hours of comedy, and perhaps people don’t care if they’ve heard all the jokes already. Then again, we’ll really have to wait and see what happens with The Hangover 2 next weekend; if the drop off is steep, we’ll know that (for the sequel, at least) word of mouth is negative rather than positive.

Meanwhile, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides landed in third place with $39.3 million for a two week domestic total of $152.9 million and $624 million globally, thanks to the worldwide appeal of one Johnny Depp. Bridesmaids $16.4 million for a three-week total of $85.0 million and Thor $9.4 millionfor a four-week total of $159.7 million.

Movie stills courtesy of AllMoviePhoto

I published this Angelina Jolie story later in the day yesterday, because I knew I was going to be consumed by NEW JOLIE PHOTOS today. The photo call for Kung Fu Panda 2 has already gone down, and I think Jolie and Brad Pitt are due at the big evening premiere tonight…? Maybe. I’m seeing that the Tree of Life premiere isn’t happening until Monday, and I thought that was happening tonight. Ten bucks says that whenever Jolie appears on an evening red carpet, she’ll be wearing either A) A glittery sack or B) black. No, I shouldn’t be so harsh. For Cannes, Angelina sometimes tries something new. Fingers crossed that Angelina wears something awesome.

As for La Jolie at the KFP 2 photo call – she looked nice. Her skin looked great (her skin has been looking amazing for months now). Her hair was okay (not great but not bad). And she wore a glorious beige sack and cinched it with a belt. PRAISE IT. Here are some quotes from Angelina at the KFP press conference:

On violence in KFP2 and showing her kids violent films: “You have to know your children. There are children that have a better understanding and are ready earlier than others. But for a film like this, I don’t see this as a film that’s too violent. I think this is actually quite the opposite because the strength, even in the final battle, the inner peace and sending back that negative energy is what wins. My boys are in martial arts classes. Boys are boys and they have a certain kind of energy, naturally. It’s been wonderful to get them focused on martial arts to teach them about the discipline and the respect and the control of their own bodies. I think to ignore that that’s a part of humanity, especially little boys, is wrong. So it’s to help guide them — what’s a positive thing, what’s a good guy, To try not to [use violence] certainly, but if you have to, to defend yourself.”

On bringing the kids to Cannes: “Yes, we’re all in France. Our whole family is in France and we’re very happy. They’re running around the hotel right now, playing games and making a giant mess, I’m sure. They’re having a great time. They love it here. Cannes can be overwhelming and it can be that you meet a lot of friendly faces and have a good laugh and you also get a chance to see some great films. It’s very nice.”

On picking KFP2 to appeal more to her kids: “We’re all big kids at heart…but in many ways I did it for them and I was excited for them to see it. The trick of a sequel is you have to make it better than the first one, which is hard to do especially when the first one is so successful, and I think we pulled it off.”

On finding inner peace: “Especially for people that have children. You wake up and if they’re healthy, you know that that’s the most important thing, so you have first of all that peace. They also come with a lot of chaos, but we’re all searching for it. It’s part of the human journey. We all have moments of inner peace and we lose it and we look for it again. But really it’s in knowing the people you love are safe and healthy. That’s the best.”

On her real life alter ego to all her tough characters: “Certainly my alter ego is who I am 100%, which is a mommy who is changing diapers and coloring all night long. I’m sure I’m very very soft. I’ve always been drawn to strong characters and I admire strong women, emotionally and physically, just people I feel are fighting for something. . .have a sense of justice and injustice. I’ve been very lucky that I came to my career at a time that women are being allowed these roles and have such great opportunities for these types of characters.”

[From Pop Sugar]

Sounds good. I’m sure some people will react poorly to her comments about exposing her kids to violence, but I think she sounds like a mom who has actually thought about all of those issues long and hard, and come up with the solutions that work for her. Plus, I think the Jolie-Pitt kids are exposed to real-life scenarios where they see the real effects of violent societies – she and Brad let the kids meet wounded veterans, refugees, etc.

Back to the photo call – Jack Black was predictably hyperactive, and he and Angelina are totally cute together. Dustin Hoffman was there too! My favorite photos are the ones of Angelina making a face as she embraces the panda.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Angelina has just confirmed something that we knew last month, when rabid Brangeloonies did some kind of computer forensics analysis. Angelina showed up in Libya last month with a mysterious seventh line on her left upper arm, where she has the latitude-longitude coordinates of all of the birthplaces of her children. Brangeloonies quickly researched and analyzed, and they figured out that the new lat-long line was in Oklahoma. An adopted baby perhaps? Nope. The new line represents Brad Pitt’s birthplace.

Angelina Jolie has Brad Pitt permanently on her arm. Jolie’s latest tattoo sparked adoption speculation last month, when she revealed a new set of map coordinates on her arm, just underneath tattoos of coordinates of the birthplaces of her six children. But as PEOPLE.com suspected, the tattoo was in honor of Pitt, not a new child.

“Well if they know that it’s latitude and longitude they would have figured out quickly that it was Brad’s birthplace.” Jolie told Extra on Wednesday. “It’s Shawnee, Oklahoma.”

Jolie – at the Cannes Film Festival promoting her new film Kung Fu Panda 2 – also says there’s no possibility of adopting at this time. However, her movie does deal with the subject of adoption and she was happy to watch it with her kids and talk about it.

“We talk very openly in our house, so ‘orphanage, birth parents,’ are happy words in our house, and it’s not a thing,” Jolie says. “It seemed very normal and they loved it.”

[From People]

I do think it’s mostly sweet, but there’s a little part of me that thinks it’s odd to include Brad in the same grouping as her kids. Does she mother Brad too? Probably when she’s spanking him, I guess.

Jolie’s got a bunch of interviews out right now – she also tells Extra that there was “no possibility” of adopting again right now. Here’s a clip from that interview – I like when Angelina throws a “Bitch, please” look at Jack when he calls her a “regular tigress”.

Angelina also sat down with Entertainment Tonight, and she talked more about the issue of adoption in KFP 2: “My kids love the first one so it was easy to say yes and try it another time… The kids love kung fu. Two of my children are from Asia so they’re very proud of the film in general. But my girls also really like having a tough girl. It’s not about being a tough girl, Tigress just happens to be quite a strong woman so they like her dolls and they like her…it just makes me that much more confident and [makes me] want to do it.” She also says she wants her kids to be writers rather than follow her steps into Hollywood: “I think I’m trying to encourage some writers if that makes any sense. Adventurers and writers is what I’m going for…but I’ll probably end up with six actors.” Here’s the video:

Photos courtesy of UNHCR, and Mario Testino’s archives.

Angelina Jolie is due in Cannes tomorrow! Yay! She and Brad both have projects to promote at the film festival, and hopefully we’ll have some new photos of her tomorrow (fingers crossed). Brad is promoting Tree of Life, which will be getting a big rollout at the festival, and Angelina is promoting Kung Fu Panda 2. Angelina and Jack Black were memorably at Cannes in 2008 promoting the first KFP – that was when Jack “outed” Angelina’s pregnancy with twins. Anyway, as I’m reading more interviews from Jack and Angelina, it strikes me that they seem really sweet together. Who would have thought it? Jack and Angie, two crazy kids, making it work (friend-wise). Here’s a new cute story about Jack and Angie:

Jack Black told the world that Angelina Jolie was pregnant with twins three years ago, when their animated comedy “Kung Fu Panda” played at the Cannes Film Festival then. And what does Jolie do? She sends a lovely present to Black’s own pregnant wife, Tanya Haden.

Black and Jolie, who are returning to Cannes this year for interviews and photos to promote “Kung Fu Panda 2,” recalled her nice gesture during a recent interview in Los Angeles.

“You were preggers, and I spilled the beans,” Black reminisced alongside Jolie about how he let slip during a 2008 Cannes interview that she was carrying twins. “And my wife, Tanya, was like, `That is the most amazing maternity dress I’ve ever seen.’ You had this gorgeous gown, and she was less preggers, but she had one on the way as well. And you’re like, `Oh, thanks.’ And then, what do we get in the mail like the next week? That gown,” Black said to Jolie. “You sent it over. It was one of the sweetest gifts of all time.”

Wednesday and Thursday’s Cannes visit is the third trip to the festival that Jolie and Black have made together. Their first was in 2004, when they and voice star Will Smith rode a giant inflatable shark in the Mediterranean to promote their animated adventure “Shark Tale.”

Before that, Black and Jolie had only met in passing, but “that float on the shark was the beginning of a blossoming friendship,” Jolie said. “That was our bonding moment.”

[From HuffPo]

This story will probably be the jumping off point for several tabloid stories about Angelina screaming at Brad, then hopping on her motorcycle to Jack’s house, where she and Jack make sweet, dirty love on a pile of whips. Why haven’t the tabloids ever connected Jack and Angelina? Those stories would be so much fun!

I think this is the maternity dress Jack is talking about. It is really pretty! One of the prettiest dresses she’s ever worn.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News & WENN.

USA Today has a great interview with Angelina Jolie and Jack Black, who are promoting their work in Kung Fu Panda 2. Since I don’t have kids, I can’t speak with any real knowledge about how much or how little kids liked the first Kung Fu Panda movie, but I’ve seen parts of it on television, and it looked pretty cute. Jack Black’s voice work is stellar, and it’s hilarious to me that Dustin Hoffman was playing “The Master” or whatever. Anyway, Angelina and Jack have an easy chemistry together, and it’s a great read. You can read the whole thing here, at USA Today, and here are some highlights:

Jolie talks about her kids coming to the recording studio when she did her voice work: “They know when Mommy’s funny and when Mommy’s not funny… They’ll sit in a room and say, ‘That’s just not funny’… [it kept me] competitive, even if they think Jack Black is always cooler than Mom.”

Jack Black’s kids don’t know he’s Po the Panda: “The kids just think Kung Fu Panda is an actual bear… But we act out our own scenes, go on our own adventures. The story gets a little disjointed; we usually forget our mission by the time we get in the living room. But we don’t care. I’m learning my kids are funnier than I am.”

Jolie hates her voice: “You know, when you hear your own voice, you can find it quite boring and uninteresting… Suddenly, you get very shy that your voice is not enough, because I’m not musical and I don’t know my voice.”

Jolie on meeting Black 7 years ago for Shark Tale: “I was crazy about him… I had seen him in everything he’d done, but what I really knew him for was music. I don’t have musical talent, so I always thought it was really cool that he could be an actor to a lot of us but equally a rock star.”

Black on meeting Jolie: “When I first met Angie, I was clearly taken aback by her beauty. She has a powerful presence.”

Jolie on showing the kids an early print of KFP 2, which deals with adoption and Po finding his birth father: “I wondered how they’d respond to the themes of the film… [Brad and I were] sensitive to see if there was going to be a big discussion that night about adoption and orphanages.” There wasn’t. “But that’s because we talk about those issues at my house all the time, very openly. We’ve had those discussions so often, they’re such happy, wonderful discussions.”

[From USA Today]

Angelina also tells USA Today that Empress Zahara “loves tigers” so Z is the one most into Jolie’s voice work as Tigress. I think the other kids like Po more – obviously, because Po is much cooler and funnier. There’s also a lot of stuff about how the first KFP was a HUGE international hit, and how they’re trying to do something different with the story this time. I’m sure it will work out – these animated films usually do, especially when there’s a built-in audience of kids who watch the first DVD obsessively.

Photos from the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, courtesy of WENN.

This is a very amusing story in this week’s National Enquirer, who try to make a mini scandal out of what should be just a laughable anecdote. Supposedly Angelina Jolie is addicted to the number one game on iTunes like so many of us, Angry Birds. She’s been playing it nonstop during breaks on the set of Kung Fu Panda 2, and the crew is scared to play her because she’ll make them play until she beats them. She also is said to get so into the game that she’ll “scream and yell and make screechy bird sounds.” I hope she taunts her opponents with those smug “heh heh heh” grunts that the pigs make when you miss them. Those are my favorite even though you’re trying to blast those suckers.

Angelina Jolie is so obsessed with the video game “Angry Birds” that the cast and crew of “Kung Fu Panda 2″ were terrified she’d peck them to death!

The 35 year-old star played the addictive game nonstop during breaks from doing voice work on the animated film, sources say, and her competitive drive wreaked havoc on the set.

“Angelina’s completely consumed with ‘Angry Birds.’ If she had even 10 minutes of downtime, she’d challenge anyone to a quick game,” a set insider told The Enquirer.

“She’d get so into it that she’d scream and yell and make screechy bird sounds. The crew was scared to beat her because if they did, she’d demand a rematch.”

The “Angry Birds” vidieo game, in which players use a slingshot to launch birds at evil pigs – has taken Hollywood by storm…

On Angelina’s movie set, actor Jack Black… was the only person willing to challenge [her], said the source.

“The last thing anyone wanted to do was tick off the biggest movie star in the world, but Jack just ate up all the tension,” said the source. “He’d beat Angelina three out of four times and then razz everyone else because they wouldn’t play with her.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, April 4, 2011]

The people at the Enquirer need to actually play Angry Birds before they write pieces like this. There’s nothing shameful about wanting to smash those pigs. It’s a great game and I know plenty of other people that love to play like we do at my house. My kid even convinced me to buy him a plush toy of that puffy red bird, and it’s his favorite stuffed animal. It’s a great game and I bet Angie’s kids get into it too, with Maddox the reigning champion. You know that Maddox mops the floor with everyone else.

On another note – they’re still working on Kung Fu Panda 2? I thought that was coming out this summer. (Moms pay attention to these things.) I just checked and it has a release date of May 26 this year. No wonder they don’t want Angelina to get distracted during work time. They need to finish that movie already.

Oh in case you’re not familiar with Angry Birds – here’s a link to a video showing the game.

Photo of Angelina from 12/16/10. Photos of Angelina with Jack Black from Kung Fu Panda premiere at Cannes on 5/15/09.

For fans of Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List, this news is nothing new. Kathy talked about her brief, torrid affair with comedian-actor Jack Black a couple of times, and she was always surprisingly nice about it. Apparently, they got together back in the day, before either of them had any kind of fame. It wasn’t a permanent love match, and they both moved on to other relationships. Now Kathy is dredging up the past with her new book, Official Book Club Selection. Kathy includes her take on the Jack Black relationship, and Page Six has an early excerpt:

NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS in Kathy Griffin’s new tome “Official Book Club Selection,” out today from Ballantine Books, including her short-lived relationship with fellow comedian Jack Black.

She admits he wasn’t the greatest catch . . . to say the least. “One time, I spent the night at Jack’s place. I got up the next morning to take a shower so I could leave,” she writes.

“When I got out, I couldn’t find anything to dry myself with. ‘Jack, where are the towels?’ I yelled out. He said, “Um, I just have one that I use for a bathmat and a towel. So it’s the one on the floor.”

[From Page Six]

Totally gross. That reminds me of some of the hookups I had in college. But as a full-fledged adult? Not so much. I’d be willing to bet Jack Black is still like that – but whatever, he’s hilarious, and so people forgive him such grossness and eccentricity. Kathy also reveals that she had an affectionate nickname for Jack: “Pig Pen”.

Kathy also sat down with the Chicago Sun-Times to do some serious dishing on pop culture and current crop of celebrities. I’ll just do a greatest hits:

On Kate Gosselin: “I think what happened is that she fell asleep and one of those kids got the scissors, probably Aaden.”

On Octomom Nadya Suleman: “She needs better press. If I were her I’d start banging Tom Sizemore fast. Or maybe Macaulay Culkin. Or Rod Blagojevich!”

On the pope: “He looks like he has a hot [butt].”

On Steve Martin: “Steve Martin was such a douche bag it was like he was a caricature of a douche bag.”

On Britney Spears: “She’s as dumb as a stick.”

On her now-deceased brother, Kenny, who was (in the Sun-Time‘s words) “a wife abuser, a drug addict and, in Griffin’s estimation, a pedophile.” Kathy cut off communication with Kenny years before he died: “I thought long and hard about [including that chapter] and there was no way I could have written the book without writing about him… My relationship with him was so much a part of who I am today. It’s no coincidence that I do what I do and became kind of a whistleblower — hopefully in a humorous way. In many ways it’s a typical comedian story: You tell jokes to survive and get people laughing. It’s therapeutic.”

[From the Chicago Sun-Times]

Kathy had already talked about her brother on her show, in the episode where she went to a women’s prison. It was already a very affecting episode, but Kathy opened up about Kenny’s incarceration and how it ripped apart her family. Kathy spoke about how she couldn’t handle his addiction or his criminal behavior, and how she didn’t understand how her parents could be so forgiving. Sad stuff… sorry to bring everybody down after the funny Jack Black story, but I found it interesting.

Kathy Griffin is shown performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood, FL on 8/12/09. Jack Black is shown on 6/15/09. Credit: WENN.com

This weekend I rented Tropic Thunder, and I am now completely in love with both Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black. I loved them so much I even listened to the actors’ commentary which, FYI, is just as funny as the movie.

So it’s good news for all of us who enjoy anything and everything involving Jack Black. According to “sources,” Black will be guest-starring on the post-Super Bowl episode of “The Office”.

The Office’s post-Super Bowl episode just scored the equivalent of a touchdown with a two-point conversion: Jack Black has signed on to guest star in the hour-long episode, sources confirm to me exclusively.
The hitcom’s producers are keeping the specifics of Black’s stint under lock and key, so the only detail I’ve been able to uncover is that the funny man won’t be playing himself.

As previously reported by TV Week, the Feb. 1 episode, which will air immediately following NBC’s Super Bowl telecast, will revolve around the staff of Dunder Mifflin roasting Michael (Steve Carell).

[From EW's Ausiello Files via IYDK]

People talk smack about how “The Office” isn’t any good now that Jim and Pam are together, but I enjoy the show more now than in it’s first two seasons. The writers are really fleshing out more of the characters and giving everybody more to do. Chances are good that Black will be funny as hell in this brilliant stunt-casting.

Jack Black is shown at the Kennedy Center honors brunch on 12/7/08 with Dave Grohl. Credit: WENN

Oscar winning actor Tim Robbins, 49, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. On hand to help him accept the honor were his partner of 20 years, Susan Sarandon, 62, and his two children with Sarandon, Jack Henry, 19, and Miles Guthrie, 16. Sarandon’s lovely daughter Eva Amurri, 23, from her relationship with director Franco Amurri, was also at the ceremony. Robbin’s friend, actor Jack Black, 39, was also there to help him accept the honor. Robbins is 6′ 5″ tall while Black is a little short of 5′ 10″ tall. Black joked that he literally looked up to Robbins from a young age.

Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“I used to take the bus from here to Burbank to go to work,” he recalled. “When the bus was late, I would walk up and down and throw my cigarettes down. Now I have the honor of having this done to my star.”

Guests at the ceremony included Robbins’ longtime partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as relatively diminutive actor Jack Black, who said he has known the tall, lanky Robbins for 25 years.

“I literally looked up to him,” Black joked. “I actually became his stalker because I wanted to be part of his world.”

Robbins was nominated for a best-director Oscar in 1996 for “Dead Man Walking,” a movie he co-wrote about the death penalty. Sarandon’s role in it won the Oscar for best actress.

“I am so pleased to be a part of his life, and I want to present Tim’s best production — our three kids,” Sarandon said.

Born in West Covina, Calif., and raised in New York City, Robbins came from a family of entertainers. His father, Gil Robbins, played with the folk group The Highwaymen in the 1960s.

[From AP via Google.com]

A longtime baseball and hockey fan, Robbins is often spotted playing hockey in NY city with his two teenage sons. Congratulations to Robbins and we look forward to many more years of seeing his talent on the big screen.

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