“An Emmy?!? How gauche.” – Goop

Justin Timberlake and Gwyneth Paltrow are the same, you know. Both are incredibly dated, both think they are God’s gift to Hollywood, both are snotty mean girls, both “dabble” in music, and both still use “NOT” as a legit joke. As in, “Gwyneth and JT are cool. NOT.” And now they have one more thing in common – they both won Emmys! Believe it or not, I think JT was probably deserving of his Emmy – he got the Outstanding Guest Star in a Musical/Comedy for his Saturday Night Live appearance. JT has won two Emmys before – one in the same Outstanding Guest category in 2009, and one in 2007 for the music for “D-ck in a Box”. Meanwhile, Dame Goop won her Outstanding Guest Star Emmy for her horrible, uncool, pitchy, uncomfortable, singing and booty-shaking performance on Glee. Jesus, Emmy voters. Don’t encourage her.

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards — you know, that other Emmy ceremony — handed out dozens of awards Saturday night in Los Angeles before the upcoming primetime ceremony, airing live on Fox Sept. 18.

The night’s biggest recipients were Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Emmy for her guest starring role on Glee, as well as Justin Timberlake, who took a statue for his most recent hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. Deadliest Catch was the most sentimental winner: The reality show (which submitted Capt. Phil Harris’ final episode) won an award for outstanding non-competition reality show. It also won the gold in categories like best cinematography and picture editing.

Survivor‘s Jeff Probst took home another statue for best reality show host. The night’s other notable recipients included Loretta Devine (outstanding guest star, Grey’s Anatomy), Paul McCrane (oustanding guest star, Harry’s Law) American Masters (outstanding nonfiction series) and Futurama (outstanding animated program). And hey, The Walking Dead earned some gold for its great work with prosthetics.

Overall, HBO won the most awards with 15, followed by PBS (10) and Fox (9). Among shows, Boardwalk Empire took the most, followed by Deadliest Catch (4) and Gettysburg (4). The awards will air on Reelz Channel Saturday, Sept. 17.

[From Entertainment Weekly]

So I guess Kathy Griffin didn’t win? Guess not. But I do love Kathy’s yearly tales from the Schmemmys. I saw some photos from the Creative Arts Emmys too – Kathy was there. Neither Gwyneth nor Justin made it. That’s how much they give a crap. NOT. Gwyneth was probably in London still, doing fashion events and work for Coach, while Justin… um… I saw photos of him at the US Open. Guess he just didn’t feel like coming to pick up his award. You know both JT and Gwyneth will probably be at the big Emmy ceremony this weekend, though.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ve lost track of the many times that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have broken up and gotten back together. It’s clear that they have a pattern: They step away, see other people until it goes bad, (usually Justin is the one seeing other people, but Jessica is usually linked to a few guys too), and then reconcile. A lot of couples do that, and I’ve seen this same pattern play out with non-famous people. There are married guys who try to pull similar bullsh*t on their wives too, because they’re the type of guys who need constant attention and want a devoted wife at home and some stupid piece on the side who will tell them how great they are. When both people are single, though, it’s like the guy wants the freedom to date, and can’t give up the security blanket of having a girlfriend. The woman (usually) thinks he’ll eventually come around and commit because they’re so clearly meant for each other, but it just doesn’t happen. At least they’re not married yet.

Anyway, here’s Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, take 20-something.

Talk about a happy rendezvous! Life & Style can exclusively reveal that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were side-by-side the entire weekend in Toronto, where the two shared multiple cups of coffee, dinners and brunches together! “Justin and Jessica came into Ella’s Uncle coffee shop not once but three times this weekend: Saturday evening, Sunday morning and just this morning,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. “They seemed so comfortable, happy and at ease every time.”

“They literally couldn’t stop staring and smiling at each other,” the eyewitness explains, adding that the pair were as cute as ever: “Justin seemed completely smitten with Jessica, and she had this permanent smile on her face, and they joked around with each other. Jessica even recommended Justin get her favorite, the Americano, but Justin opted for the Ella, a double cappuccino with maple syrup.”

They certainly needed the extra caffeine: On Sunday the pair enjoyed a bike ride together on Queen St. West. That same day, they stopped for a cozy brunch at Swan Restaurant.

“Yes, they came into Swan together and sat in the back,” a second eyewitness tells Life & Style. “Justin had scrambled eggs and Jessica had an omelet. Jessica must have suggested it because Justin’s not here very often, but she comes in a lot.” And the always-funny Justin kept Jessica fully entertained. “They were laughing and having such a good time,” the second eyewitness adds. “They enjoyed their food, but they seemed to enjoy each other much more!”

Justin, who is due back in New York City, recently revealed that he’s definitely not over Jessica: “She is the single most significant person in my life,” Justin said.

[From Life & Style]

I would think that some restaurant was going for free publicity with this story, but L&S got detailed menu information from both a restaurant and a coffee shop, so it reads more like a publicist’s piece. Kind of like the rumors in July that they were “quietly” back together, then the rumors that Justin was “quietly” cheating on Jessica. It won’t be long before we hear the same story again, rinse and repeat. Will Jessica ever put her foot down and refuse to take him back? She hasn’t done it in the several years they’ve been together.

These photos are from 2009 and 2010. I have that same shopping bag! Credit: WENN.com

It has been mentioned (by Kaiser, actually) that Justin Timberlake generally acts like a douche these days, which certainly won’t help the fact that filmgoers already don’t make much of an effort to watch his films. Also not very impressive is the extremely uncomfortable, leg-rubbing way in which JT begrudgingly accepted his Marine Corp date. Now JT is taking his douchy ways to the streets of NYC, where In Touch reveals that he refused to sign autographs on the red carpet of the Friends With Benefits premiere. The next evening, JT reportedly acted like a total prick to the staff at an NYC restaurant and club:

Justin Timberlake has been a star since the tender age of 12 — and obviously, he has forgotten that he was once a mere mortal, too. During a recent night out at The Boom Boom Room, “He was really in a terrible mood,” one very unimpressed eyewitness at the hot NYC club on July 19 tells In Touch. “He was awful to the staff, making unreasonable demands and acting like a total prince.”

You’d think Justin would have been on his best behavior — after all, he was feting the premiere of his new film, Friends With Benefits, alongside his mom, Lynn Harless, and his co-stars Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, and Jenna Elfman. However, the singer was in a rotten mood.

“He ordered a glass of champagne but complained that it was flat and demanded another one,” another witness shares with In Touch. Then, after rejecting the second glass as “also flat,” he insisted the waitress open a new bottle. However, still not content with the third glass, the surly singer told his friends he would drink it anyway, because he was “sick of dealing with her” — referring to his hapless hostess. Understandably, everyone was relieved when the 30-year-old finally left — but not before both witnesses overheard Justin warning his driver that if he wasn’t parked right outside the front door, he would “lose his s***!”

Leaving us to wonder, what’s gotten Justin so sour? Maybe his William Rast underpants were too tight!

[From In Touch, print edition, August 15, 2011]

What a diva. I hope that poor waitress wasn’t a JT fan; if so, she’s certainly not a fan now. However, I wonder whether his refusal to sign autographs is something that rubbed off on him after his years of dating with Cameron Diaz, who earned herself a reputation of not only refusing to sign for her public but also going on to tell people how dumb autographs are. So far, Cameron has gotten away with this sort of behavior, but JT’s luck probably won’t last that long because — let’s face it — he just doesn’t have legs that are anywhere near as pretty as Cameron’s stems.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Yesterday, we viewed Mila Kunis’s look for the Moscow premiere of Friends With Benefits. It was Elie Saab, and it was really, really bad. For some reason, our photo agency just released these photos from the earlier Moscow photo call. So, these are two days old, but I still wanted to talk about them. It’s good to see that Mila didn’t wander around Moscow looking like a busted figure skater the whole time! She actually chose a cute little Louis Vuitton Resort 2012 collection dress for the photo call, and it looks WAY better than the premiere look. I’m even getting shoe-lust with the blue shoes – those are great.

Yesterday, I talked about how I worried that Mila was being somehow tainted by Justin Timberlake’s well-documented douche. I still stand by it, but at least now I know that Mila doesn’t always look like hell standing next to Justin – he just rubs off on her sometimes. By the way, did you see the trailer for Justin’s new movie? It’s called In Time (eh) and it looks… er…mmm. It has a surprisingly good cast once you get past the two leads (Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried). Matt Bomer looks lovely and delicious, and it’s nice to see Vincent Kartheiser (from Mad Men) in a movie. Oh, and Alex Pettyfer is in it! I would wager money that Alex and Justin hated each other.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos of Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis promoting their film Friends With Benefits in Moscow yesterday (…or today?). As Bedhead talked about on Monday, FWB didn’t really take the domestic box office by storm (opening weekend: $18 million-ish), so JT and Mila trotted out for some international hustling. The problem might be that neither one of them are huge draws for filmgoers, in America or abroad. The film actually got decent reviews, so it might just be that people are sick of the concept, which had already been done with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. Plus, people really think JT is a douche these days – read Lainey’s hilarious screed against Justin “NOT” Timberlake here.

Anyway, what’s kind of surprised me is how douchey I’m find Mila Kunis these days too. I think it’s douche-by-association from Justin, but whatever it is, Mila seems to be faltering. Her style is going to hell, her makeup is rough and she just looks tired and “over it.” For the Moscow premiere, Mila wore this Elie Saab gown that looks like a Marchesa knock-off. So cheesy and ice-skater-ish. Maybe it’s the jet lag. But I really think it’s just JT’s smarmy douche infecting her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Order up some more therapy sessions for leading man Chris Evans, for his ultimate nightmare has come true; that is, Captain America: The First Avenger has scored an estimated $65.8 million opening weekend and is, therefore, well is on the way to becoming a raging success. So unless the international box office falls through (and it may very well do so; for, as a precautionary measure, Paramount has preemptively retitled the pic as The First Avenger in overseas markets) it looks like there will be probably be a sequel on the way in addition to The Avengers, which is currently filming. Naturally, Chris Evans has not yet accepted the truth of the matter, for he has told Us Weekly that he doesn’t feel like a sex symbol at all because of two reasons: (1) He’s “drowning” in “raging insecurity”; and (2) In his view, fellow Avengers Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. are far sexier with the latter in particular being “so experienced.” In related news, Jude Law called, and he’s not at all happy that anyone is macking upon his homoerotic Sherlock Holmes chemistry with RDJ.

Also not helping matters in any department are those waxed-up nipples, which (oddly enough) stand a good chance of besting Thor‘s mighty abdominal muscles:

Paramount’s figure would better this summer’s original superhero Thor‘s $65.7M. But I believe we’ll have to wait until Monday’s actuals to decide who is the biggest superhero of the summer since Sunday’s number is just an estimate right now. As a Paramount exec replied to my questioning his number, “Harry Potter fell 16$ last Sunday. We are estimating down 17$. Whether it ends up $65.8M or a little less, it crushed Green Lantern and X-Men: First Class” — both of which were this summer’s superhero movies but made and distributed by different studios (Warner Bros and Fox respectively). Saturday’s take for Captain America of $21.9M was -10% from Friday’s $25.7M North American grosses from 3,715 theaters including around 2,500 showing the movie in 3D. Friday’s take includes $4M midnights from 2,000 locations, better than Thor and Green Lantern as well as prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. The movie earned an ‘A-’ CinemaScore. (Thor earned a B+). Exit polls showed 43% of the audience was under age 25 vs 57% over age 25 while 64% were male vs 36% female. (Thor was 62% male & 28% under 25.)

From the start, the studio gave a cool retro feel to this World War II actioner about Steve Rogers who transforms from a proverbial 90lb weakling into 6-pack-abs Evans who’s not only easy on the eyes but can act like more than just a pumped-up uber-soldier. “Captain America is the ultimate underdog story,” one of the execs involved told me about positioning. “A physically weak man, who has infinite courage and drive, is transformed into the world’s first avenger.” And there are Nazis to vanquish as well. Cooler still.

Websites that do geek (I don’t) claim Captain America is the more mainstream superhero to make a big screen debut this summer, compared with Thor and Green Lantern. But that duo had far less competition when they opened, and certainly nothing like the Harry Potter finale in theaters. Intro-ing any new superhero is a bitch, but Marvel bitchslaps the competition again and again by doing it deftly. As far back as last October, Captain America was revealed on the cover of EW last year. Chris Evans presented with Thor‘s Chris Hemsworth at last January’s Golden Globes. The Superbowl spot was Twitter’s most talked about movie ad from the game. There was the usual heavy rotation of TV ads for the network season finales and sports playoffs and music shows. To make inroads with flyover country, the campaign made a big deal of the CMA Music Festival which features 750K attendees; 30 country radio stations sponsored fly-ins to celebrate Captain America Night on June 10th. Also to that end, the campaign did military outreach: the film was screened first on 30 U.S. military bases. I always thought that Captain America would attract a lot of patriotic fever because of its “Heroes are made in America” tagline.

[From Deadline]

Meanwhile, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 fell to second place with $48.1 million but still boasts an incredibly impressive $274.2 million domestic total after two weekends, plus it broke all those records last weekend in addition to leaving an incredible literary and cinematic legacy in its wake. I predict that no other future franchise will enjoy such an enduring record of success.

Further down the line, the latest R-rated romcom, Friends with Benefits, earned a lukewarm $18.5 million, meaning that it’s not exactly a disappointment in Hollywood terms and may just earn Mila Kunis some other leading lady roles that are long overdue. Still, I do believe that the picture would have earned at least an extra million if Mila Kunis had not used a butt double. All I’m really saying is that, sure, I’d totally have paid to see Mila’s actual, authentic butt. As far as Justin Timberlake’s butt is concerned, uh, no thanks.

Coming in at fourth and fifth place, respectively speaking, were Transformers: Dark of the Moon with $12 million and Horrible Bosses with $11.7 million. The latter has also accrued an inexplicable $82.4 million domestically. In other words, there will be many more Jennifer Aniston movies. Don’t kill the messenger.

Movie stills courtesy of AllMoviePhoto

A few weeks ago, Justin Timberlake flew to Toronto to spend some time with his ex-girlfriend, Jessica Biel. Glowing reports followed about how Timberlake has come running back to his true love and how this time, they’re back together for good. Jessica put in a good effort at trying to look like she was a easy-breezy single lady on the prowl for hot men, and she stalked the crap out of Gerard Butler until her finally gave her a ride (take that anyway you want). I think Biel, who is currently working on the Total Recall remake, had high hopes to pull the same stunt with notorious womanizer Colin Farrell, her costar. My guess is that Colin wasn’t interested, but that may be wishful thinking on my part.

So, Biel’s ploys worked, Justin came back, and now what? Now it’s the same old problems staring her in the face. “Same old problems” = whores. No, just kidding. Justin seems to only like to fool around with girls when he can sneak around on an official girlfriend, I guess.

Jilted. Hurt. Lonely. After Justin Timberlake dumped her, Jessica Biel struggled desperately to move on. The actress – who sources say was devastated when Justin coldly called off their four-year relationship in March – even stepped out with hunk Gerard Butler. But after Justin flew to Toronto to visit Jessica, 29, on the set of Total Recall, all her brave attempts to let go were off.

“Now she’s hoping he’ll come back to her permanently,” a friend of the actress tells In Touch.

Justin may be acting like he’s ready to rekindle their relationship, but naïve Jessica would be crushed to learn that Justin has also been romancing Olivia Wilde on the sly.

“Justin and Olivia have been getting closer over the last three months,” says a source of the singer, who denied dating the stunning starlet after they were spotted together in the spring. Now, according to a friend of the singer’s, Justin is torn.

“he just can’t seem to resist Olivia, but he never stopped loving Jessica.”

Although Jessica needs to know that that’s not real love at all.

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

At this point, Olivia Wilde has passed “boy crazy” and now just seems like she will date anyone who will raise her profile. In the past three months, she’s been photographed or rumored with Justin, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal and… there are more dudes in there, I’ve just forgotten. I think she’s trying to play it like vintage ScarJo, but ScarJo never got the rep as a “Beard For Hire” like Olivia seems to be getting. So… is there really something between Justin and this latest Olivia? Maybe, who knows, who cares. Olivia Munn was the one who really wanted to be his girlfriend. Plus, I tend to think that Justin would drop everyone, including Biel, to get with Mila Kunis. That was his plan all along, to make Mila his girlfriend. She’s still not going for it, it seems.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are photos of the two leads from last night’s NYC premiere of Friends With Benefits. Mila Kunis wore this sleek red Lanvin number that I’m kind of meh on. Yes, she looks great in red, and yes, the dress fits like a glove and it flatters everything it should flatter. Sometimes everything can be working technically and it can still be underwhelming. I think my problem might be that it’s too “standard issue starlet”. Emmanuelle Chriqui wore a little red dress too – which tells you all you need to know about “little red dresses.”

Justin looked nice, I have to say, and he and Mila looked handsy and friendly on the red carpet. I’m actually starting to wonder if JT hasn’t gotten his dirty mitts on Mila. It’s been established that Mila was making him beg for it, but… I kind of think she may have given in. I hope he doesn’t start treating her like crap, like he did with Jessica Biel.

Speaking of Biel, one of the writers of Friends With Benefits dished on how Biel was originally up for Mila’s part. Oh… NO.

Writers of Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis’ new movie, “Friends With Benefits,” last night revealed that his ex, Jessica Biel, once tested for the role. David Newman told us at last night’s Cinema Society screening, “She was actually a huge fan of the project and screen-tested for it years ago.”

Asked why Jessica, who split with Justin in March, didn’t get it, Newman said, “We’re not the director,” adding, “She’s great and adorable — smoking hot.” But he said, “Mila was fated for the role.”

On rumors of an on-set hookup between Justin and Mila, co-writer Keith Merryman said, “They have such amazing chemistry, everyone is questioning what is going on. Is it art? Is it life?”

[From Page Six]

Well… yet more evidence of why it sucks to be Jessica Biel. She got Butler’d and then she went back to Timberlake and now it looks like he’s either hooking up with Mila or he’s just ignoring Biel because he and Mila need to sell their “chemistry” to sell the movie. Poor Biel.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Mila Kunis is officially going to the Marine Corps Ball! After initially accepting, and then reportedly trying to hedge her way out of going, Mila Kunis has set the record straight about her acceptance of Marine Sgt. Scott Moore’s invitation to be his date for the November Marine Corps Ball in North Carolina.

Mila Kunis is a woman of her word. The actress shot down rumors on Thursday that she had backed out of attending the Marine Corps Ball with Sgt. Scott Moore in Greenville, N.C., on Nov. 18.

“Never did I say that I was not going,” Kunis told reporters at a Friends with Benefits media event. She went on to say the rumor was made up and “people believed it, unfortunately.”

Kunis accepted the invitation on Tuesday after Moore posted a YouTube video asking the actress to be his date as the result of a bet with a fellow Marine.

“I accepted an invitation and I’m staying true to my word,” she said. “I got permission to be released from work for the day, so I’m flying in and flying out.”

[From People]

Good for her. And before another argument starts about whether she SHOULD have accepted an invitation in general from a Marine that she doesn’t know, let me just say this: for a movie star, the choice to go on this date is an absolute no-brainer. She gets great press, she gets to look sweet and wholesome and military-family-friendly, and she gets to spend the evening surrounded by heroic servicemen and servicewomen. There are very few starlets who wouldn’t give their eyeteeth for this bonanza of free, positive publicity. Why would she say “no”? Because it might be uncomfortable? Because no woman should be “forced” to go on a date with anyone? No one’s forcing her to do anything. She’s not Charlene Wittstock and these aren’t the Middle Ages. If she didn’t want to go, she doesn’t have to.

Do you want uncomfortable? Listen to Justin Timberlake accept his invitation from a female Marine… I want to punch him in the face about 10 seconds in.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Elle Magazine decided to do what Marie Claire has been doing for most of the year – putting costar pairs on their cover. This time it’s Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, stars of the soon-to-be-released film Friends With Benefits. You can see the photoshoot and assorted interview excerpts here, at Elle. I like the photos, even if I think JT looks kind of like a goober. Mila rarely takes a bad photo, and together they’re trying to sell some sex appeal and stuff. I’m not sure it works – it kind of feels like they’re two friends just play-acting the romance stuff. Maybe that’s because I figure JT wanted Mila desperately and she denied him, so JT crawled back to Jessica Biel. Here are some highlights from the interview:

ELLE: “Friends with benefits”: a good idea or a bad idea?
JT: [Smiles] It is such a good idea—until it’s a bad idea.
MK: I concur. Ultimately, it ends when someone wants to go and get serious with somebody. More times than not, a person catches feelings and somebody gets hurt.

ELLE: I think any time someone is rubbing up against your nether regions, you’re going to develop an emotional attachment.
MK: Yeah, when a female orgasms, a hormone gets released. I’ve never met a girl who can have sex without an ounce of feeling.
JT: Aha! Is that just a woman convincing herself so she feels like it’s okay to have sex with someone?
MK: Fifty-fifty.
JT: So it’s the same thing as with guys! Women are just lying to themselves.

ELLE: Playing friends with benefits, what was your costar most self-conscious about while shooting the nude scenes?
MK: [To Justin] You’ve got a fine ass. I was self-conscious about a lot of things. Show me one girl who isn’t.
JT: I’ll be honest and say, like, I’m still trying to get into the editing room and cut down on my ass time. I’m like, “Oh my God, my mom’s gonna see that!”

ELLE: As in the film, have either of your parents ever walked in on you while you were in flagrante delicto?
JT: I was caught one time. My mom wasn’t cool about it. I was too young to be in bed with a girl, so she was upset.
MK: I don’t think my parents think I’ve ever had sex.

ELLE: Let’s talk about how amazing your costar Woody Harrelson is playing a gay magazine photo editor.
JT: He gets the most gut-busting laughs. Everybody wants to know: “Did you smoke pot with Woody?” We did! Will [Gluck] and I put that basketball scene in the movie just because we both love White Men Can’t Jump.

ELLE: Earth to Justin… Perfect first date?
JT: Something more simple than extravagant. Scrabble.
MK: Monopoly.
JT: Scrabble’s a good date. If she can’t spell, I don’t want to hangout with her. So that’s a good test.
MK: I can’t spell at all. [To Justin] Now we’ll never be friends.

ELLE: Mila, who is your older-man crush?
MK: George Clooney and Johnny Depp.

ELLE: Now that you’re both single, do you find it hard to date? Must be tough being in the public eye.
MK: I haven’t dated ever.
JT: I’m not equipped to answer that right now.

[From Elle Magazine‘s press release]

I wonder who JT was having sex with when his mom walked in? Britney? I hope it wasn’t Cameron Diaz. Ugh. And Mila’s older-dude crushes are Clooney and Depp? Oh, God. The Depp crush doesn’t bother me, but please don’t let Clooney hear that an young, attractive brunette with a cute figure has a crush on him. Clooney will be on that like white on rice.

Photos courtesy of Elle’s slideshow.