These are some new “candid” photos of Kate Bosworth and Michael Polish, her boyfriend of some-odd five months or so. The Bos and Polish were photographed together just DAYS after Kate and Alex Skarsgaard announced their split this past July. After all of the bitching and moaning about The Bos and Alex and how she was clinging to him and he was too good for her, it really does seem like Kate played Skarsgard. It seems like she was screwing around on Alex with Michael Polish, who directed her in Big Sur earlier this year. And for what it’s worth, I think Kate seems much, much happier with Michael Polish too. She’s got a boyfriend who holds her hand on the red carpet and agrees to these kinds of staged “candid” photo-ops every month or so.

A few months ago, Kate was even describing Michael as her “life partner” too. You know what? I think this one might actually stick. I could see Kate marrying him, for real. And it wouldn’t even be the worst move. She would be the wife of a critically acclaimed director. She would get to sell her wedding photos, maybe. She could set herself up like Nicole Richie, doing clothing and jewelry lines without the blatant try-hard hustle. Oh, and Michael has a daughter from a previous relationship too, so Kate would get to be a step-mother too. I can totally see this happening, and I find myself respecting Kate’s trajectory over the past year. She went from “much-hated girlfriend of a hot, breakthrough actor” to “low-key girlfriend of a respected director.” Good gig. Also, I think she might have gained 2 or 3 pounds, and it looks good on her.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

These are photos from yesterday’s Hollywood Reporter “Women In Hollywood” luncheon. Even though some A-list talent made it, I’m still suspicious of any event that attracts the likes of Kris Jenner, Kate Bosworth and Jennifer Love Hewitt. If I was Viola Davis, I would be pissed at having to attend an event like this. Which isn’t to say that I don’t want to talk about fashion and all of the superficial stuff that comes with a “Women In Hollywood” event. Let’s start with Kate Bosworth, in this neutral Mulberry dress. HATE IT. But I almost always dislike blondes in beigey-nude shades. And while The Bos doesn’t look any more or less emaciated (she‘s always had those toothpick legs), there is something weird going on with her face:

Viola Davis in BCBG Max Azria. Very cute! Her hair is looking better too.

Here’s Melissa McCarthy in an outfit I’m not crazy about. Her hair looks great, though. And she’s having a great year too – she’ll probably end up with a Golden Globe nomination, well deserved.

Chelsea Handler – I guess she had a right to be there, more so than many of the ladies. She’s a total Monet, though. The closer you get to her face, the more messed up it looks. She has improved quite a bit, though. She using some better stylists.

Kiki Dunst in Burberry – love the dress, hate the styling. Kiki should have done something – anything – with her hair. And Kiki’s face says “I can’t believe I’m at the same event as Jennifer Love Hewitt.”

Speaking of… Jennifer Love Hewitt. And her crazy hosiery choice. WTF?!?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last night, there was a big gala honoring Clint Eastwood at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – it was called the LACMA Art + Film Gala, and Gucci was the sponsor. Most of the girls in attendance wore Gucci, but not Reese Witherspoon, one of the biggest “names” in attendance. Reese wore this figure-hugging Cushnie et Ochs dress, which I do like. It’s a very pretty LBD, and it looks great on Reese’s body. I don’t know, though – it’s a little va-va-voom for Reese, though. I like that as she’s gotten older, her red carpet fashion seems to have simplified a great deal, and she definitely favors cleaner lines and more modern silhouettes, but it feels like she’s trying and failing to be seen as sexier too, right? She’s not Reese, The Girl Next Door anymore. Now she’s trying to be Reese, the Bombshell With Sex Appeal. Also, I don’t care for the gigantic hair bun.

Also at the event: Kate Bosworth, with her “life partner”-slash-boyfriend of a few months, Michael Polish. The Bos wore this pale yellow Erdem that… looks really good on her. The Bos really is a Fashion Girl, you know. She knows a lot about fashion, and she knows how to get dressed for a red carpet. Most of the time. Honestly, looking through the photos from the event, I thought The Bos was one of the best-dressed ladies there. This Erdem softens her, and I swear she’s put on a pound or two.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m too tired and sick to come up with a clever “explanation” for why all of the super-skinny girls were at the Burberry event last night in LA. It was the launch of Burberry’s body fragrance, and the evening was hosted by Burberry’s current face, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. But Rosie wasn’t even the skinniest girl there – Kate Bosworth and Rachel Zoe also showed up. Let’s talk about Rosie first – I like her dress, but every photo I see of her, I realize more and more that she’s just about styling. On her own, she’s a moderately pretty, although rather strange-looking girl. The styling makes all of the difference.

Next up: Rachel Zoe. I unabashedly LOVE this Burberry coat. I lurve it. It’s gorgeous. I could never pull it off, though. You have to be skinny and have little to no bust to really make this kind of slim-cut, double-breasted jacket/coat work. Also: Rachel’s FACE. Why isn’t she a Halloween costume?

And finally, Kate Bosworth. Now… I was going back and forth about The Bos. On one side, her arms look slightly fleshy, like she’s actually eaten a solid recently. On the other side, her legs are still “pin thin”. Actually, even pins are like, “Damn, that’s thin.” However, I think The Bos looks pretty good for her. She looks so much better with loose hair, and the Burberry dress is flattering and pretty on her. It’s nice to see her in a bold print with bold colors, too. Usually she sticks to neutrals.

By the way, in a recent interview, The Bos referred to her relatively new boyfriend Michael Polish as her “life partner”. They’ve been dating for what? Like, four months? She told The Sunday Times Style Magazine, “He’s a special one. There’s nobody in the world I admire or respect more. When I look at him, it’s not a crazy infatuation, it’s more like we are each other’s life partners.” Yikes.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Kate and Orlando in July, 2006

Whenever I get vertigo it means I need to eat something, but I have blood sugar issues. I have to make sure to eat before I work out and bring snacks with me to the gym. That couldn’t be Kate Bosworth’s problem because she’s talking about the actual heartbreak she felt when Orlando Bloom broke up with her. She’s not getting confused about the fact that she forgot to eat for a few months, is she? Kate has a new interview with the London Times’ Sunday Style section in which she opens up about her split with Orly back in 2006. I guess she’s promoting Straw Dogs, which is out in the UK on November 4th. You can’t get online access to the Times Sunday Style unless you pay for a subscription, so I can’t read the full article because I’m cheap that way. It’s unclear to me why Bos brought up her five year old breakup and why she went on about it, unless she just wanted us to talk about her. Mission accomplished.

Breaking up with Orlando Bloom was really, really hard to do for Kate Bosworth.

After about four on-and-off years together, the Straw Dogs actress, 28, and the Hobbit star, 34, called it quits in 2006.

Bosworth (who broke up with Alexander Skarsgard earlier this year) is now dating director Michael Polish, and Bloom is happily married to model Miranda Kerr, with whom he has one son, Flynn, 10 months.

But Bosworth suffered mightily — even physically — in the aftermath of that 2006 breakup. “Oh, I definitely know the feeling of pain, that’s for sure,” she told England’s Sunday Times Style of the split.

“You know when you put all your chips into something, then it disappears?” she said of her relationship with the hunky Australian star. “[The break-up] sent me into such pain, I think I had actual vertigo. I was like, ‘Is this my new reality? Will anything be normal again?’”

“Then one day,” the Superman Returns beauty mused, “You wake up and you think, OK, I’ll never be the same, but I’ll survive and I’ll grow from it.”

Indeed, all seemed well between the exes during an unexpected reunion in L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood in early July of this year. With Bloom astride his Ducati motorcycle, the former loves even shared a hug. “They looked cordial,” an observer told Us Weekly. “They were genuinely smiling to one another like friends, but didn’t linger very long.”

[From US Weekly]

That “unexpected reunion” between Kate and Orly just happened to be captured by the paparazzi, so I would venture that it was staged by Kate like so many of her other outings. So after she “dumped” Alex Skarsgard (her side of the story, and I doubt it’s true, he’s just too classy to put his version out) she promptly got another boyfriend and made sure that there were photos taken of the two of them out together. Look Alex and Orly, I’m fine!

Other outlets have more details of Kate’s interview. She denies that she diets and just calls herself “naturally slim.”

“Oh, I swear it’s stress. I wish I could stop it, it’s like a vibration you live in with your mind constantly, constantly going. [Being thin] is nothing to do with not eating. I’m like a whippet, I promise you,” she insisted in an in interview with the Sunday Times Style magazine.

Kate insists her diet is healthy. The blonde beauty’s petite figure is all natural, which she knows might annoy some women.

“Ask any of my boyfriends about my diet and they would tell you,” she added. “But I hate this, I can’t win in this situation, can I? I mean, when people hear that, they just want to go ‘Shut the f**k up,’ right?”

[From London Times]

Well at least she knows what people say about her. I get the “naturally slim” arguments, I have friends like that. When they’re stressed they don’t eat and overall they always eat smaller portions than I do. It doesn’t seem deliberate the way they do it, (like it is when I diet) but it’s the result of their habits and it’s not all due to genetics. I get that some people have higher metabolisms, but if you eat a lot of junk you’ll gain weight. It’s not just “natural” to be really thin, in my opinion, it’s a result of your habits.

Getting back to Kate’s breakup with Orlando Bloom, again why the hell is she still talking about it? Was she trying to say that she could relate to pain because she remembered how awful it was when they broke up? The dude is also famous, he has a famous wife and they have an adorable baby now. Kate should have come up with some other personal story to relate or just given a vague response to that question. It just seems in bad taste to bring up Orly now. I picture him rolling his eyes at this story and then giving his hot wife a wink.

Orly and Kate photos credit: Pacific Coast News. Photos of Kate alone are outside a nail salon on 9/27/11. Credit: Fame

I know I’m a little late in getting to this, but I’ve just watched one of the most bizarre commercials I’ve ever seen in my life. Kate Bosworth is the newest face of Vanessa Bruno’s clothing line – The Bos replaces Lou Doillon, who is, let’s face it, infinitely cooler and chicer than The Bos could ever hope to be. Anyway, the commercials – the 30-second one came out a month ago, but a “full-length” commercial (at 2 minutes) just came out in Europe, and dear God…they are rough. They’re like an acid trip of strangeness with only The Bos’s skull-like face cavities to ground you in reality. Her eyes are crazy. Her lips are crazy. The expressions she makes are crazy. The part where she’s raising her arms at the heavens while propped up in a tree – that’s my favorite. My least favorite is all of the weirdness with the horses and all of the backwards running stuff. Was I supposed to be looking at the clothing?

LØV from Vanessa Bruno on Vimeo.

Its ridiculous, right? Are you still going to tell me that Kate Bosworth isn’t getting lip injections? SHE IS.

The designer, Vanessa Bruno, told the press that The Bos was a natural fit for this Nordic-themed line, saying: “She has the style of a Parisienne without being from Paris. She’s a true free spirit, does her own thing, makes her own decisions – exactly the aesthetic of the label. When we first met, we clicked so much, it was as though we already knew each other.” The Bos has the style of a Parisienne? If I was a Parisienne, I think I would be very insulted.

Ads courtesy of Vanessa Bruno.

These are new photos of Kate Bosworth and her boyfriend of some-odd two months, Michael Polish, walking around Beverly Hills yesterday. The Bos played a little game with the paparazzi that she presumably called – she played “coy” and tried to “shield” her face from the lens, because she’s so famous and she didn’t want to make it so obvious that she called the photographers herself, I guess. I might buy the coy thing if only The Bos hadn’t made sure to “debut” Michael Polish as her jumpoff two seconds after she and Alexander Skarsgard were done. Oh, and she and Polish have already walked the red carpet with each other too! So what’s the point? Dunno.

I also love the strange was she and Michael Polish are contorting themselves as they walk down the street. Who holds hands like that? She’s clinging to him, walking behind him, practically on top of him and for what? All so she can fake-hide her face? WTF? The Bos is so bizarre.

About that sweater: I’m pretty sure I had that sweater when I was 13. It’s a very “Juniors Department at Sears” sweater. And this trend of baggy rolled jeans is very early 1990s too.

Massive side note: I know I’m late to the party on this one, but have you seen Kate’s Cotton commercial? It came out months ago, but it’s started airing all of the time on USA (where I watch NCIS marathons), so I’ve only really noticed it in the past few weeks. It’s AWFUL. And that is actually Kate singing. That’s her voice! What possessed her to “sing”? This makes me long for those annoying Zooey Deschanel Cotton ads – at least Zooey had a somewhat pleasant voice.

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN.

Kate Bosworth is totally over Alexander Skarsgard. That’s what she wants us to believe. As soon as everyone learned that Alex had dumped her, The Bos started showing up everywhere with a new boyfriend – director Michael Polish. They even walked the red carpet together in Deauville, and she brought him to a Coldplay concert. Kate is SO OVER Alex that she – I mean, “a source” – told the Enquirer that she cheated on Alex with Michael Polish and that Alex was devastated and he will never be able to move on with his life. So… what are the odds that The Bos is still hung up on Alex? Star Magazine claims that Kate is pulling the old drunk-dialing, “I MISS YOU” phone calls late at night:

Breaking up is always tough to do, but Kate Bosworth has been taking her early summer split from her beau of two years, Alexander Skarsgard, particularly hard.

“She feels she messed up with the man she was meant to marry,” says a source. While Kate, 28, has made sure to be seen with her new escort, director Michael Polish, “After a few drinks, she’ll text and call Alex like crazy.”

The source adds, “It just pushes him further away.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

I’ll believe it. It conforms to my idea of Kate – not that I think she gets drunk and loses control of her emotions. She doesn’t ever lose control, I don’t think. I think this is a ploy to make sure that she’s still in Alex’s life, and if he ever wants to get back together, that would be fine with her. Poor Michael Polish! Poor Hobbit-dude, being used like that by some bony, manipulative chick.

Oh, and this is really boring but I thought I’d mention it – The Bos recently discussed her decision to half-dye her hair blue. The Bos says she and her stylist Cher Coulter were working on an editorial shoot and “The blue hair came about because we both really loved the pink hair from Givenchy’s [Fall 2010 ad campaign]. We were both attracted to that kind of faded color look, but because pink had already been done we thought to do a faded blue and make it a little different — kind of pay homage to that slight grunge-y look.” If you’d like to hear more of The Bos talking like she’s the most important style icon of the decade, go here. She’s so full of herself.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but Kate Bosworth looks really good here. These are photos of Kate at the opening ceremony for the Deauville Film Festival. She’s in Valentino and… it suits her? On another girl, I would think this dress would be super-boring. But the clean style and the simply bow belt, it flatters Kate’s too-thin figure. It adds a few inches to her skinny body. Kate brought her lover, Michael Polish, as her date. He walked the red carpet with her… which means that The Bos doesn’t really hate doing the red carpet thing with her lovers, which means that it was Alexander Skarsgard who didn’t want to be photographed with her.

Kate is at the Deauville Film Festival to promote her film Another Happy Day, which finds her at the centerpiece of an ensemble family drama. Something about a wedding at the family estate, basically rich, neurotic white people with problems, I think. Demi Moore is in it, as is Ellen Barkin. Sounds like a must-miss film!

The Bos also has Straw Dogs coming out soon, which should be an interesting promotional tour now that she and Skarsgard are over. Do you think they’ll pose together on the red carpet? Do you think The Bos will bring her new lover to the premiere in an attempt to make Alex jealous? Hahahaha. If you remember, Kate’s version of how that all went down was that she cheated on Alex with Polish, and then SHE dumped Alex. Rii-ight. Anyway, Kate talks about Straw Dogs in her Blackbook Mag interview, which you can read here.

UPDATE: I’ve added some photos of The Bos in white Chanel at the Deauville premiere. I don’t like this one.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

True Blood hottie Alex Skargard is one of the cover models for this month’s BlackBook Magazine, along with his ex girlfriend, Kate Bosworth, who is on a separate cover for the same month. They’re both promoting Straw Dogs, a remake of 1971 Dustin Hoffman film about a woman who returns to her country roots and is confronted by the angry ex boyfriend she left behind. BlackBook has put Alex’s interview online, and he comes across as just as thoughtful and well spoken as he always does. He really seems like a decent well-rounded guy and he’s even very gracious and sadly a little reserved when he’s talking about Bosworth. He doesn’t get into their now-over relationship at all, and just praises her as an actress and says he doesn’t want to reveal too much of his personal life. It sounds like they didn’t get together as a couple until after filming wrapped.

There’s plenty more in the article (along with some mild spoilers for upcoming True Blood episodes, so beware) and here are the highlights:

On the rape scene in Straw Dogs (spoilers)
The rape scene, which caused a stentorian uproar when the original Straw Dogs first screened four decades ago, is no less difficult to watch in the remake. After violating Amy, whose mix of pleasure and pain while being assaulted lends the scene a layer of uncomfortable ambiguity, Charlie sits back and watches as one his hulking cronies follows suit. “It f’ing breaks his heart, watching her get raped by someone else,” says Skarsgård, the gaze of his piercing greenish-blue eyes difficult to match in this moment. “It’s not like he ever says, ‘Yeah, f&#k her!’ In a way, he feels like she’s his territory. He thinks, ‘You’re my woman. I offered to protect you for the rest of my life, but you didn’t want that, did you? If you don’t feel this passion, this real thing we share, then fine, you’re on your own.’ It’s definitely more complicated than him f’ing her because he can’t have her.”

On Kate Bosworth
The set of Straw Dogs, the production of which Skarsgård admits was “exhausting on an emotional level,” seems an unlikely place for romance to blossom—nonetheless, it’s where he met Bosworth, whom he dated for two years until they broke up in July. “Kate is such a great actress, and she’s so much more than a good-looking Hollywood starlet. We were just really good friends at the time,” says Skarsgård, who lives on his own in a rented house in the Hollywood Hills. “But we shared a really special experience on that film.” (Although I didn’t know it at the time, Skarsgård was safeguarding a secret—the dissolution of his relationship with Bosworth had yet to become public fodder—which partly explains why our easy banter atrophied into guarded responses so quickly when the subject was broached. It didn’t last long. A downright neighborly guy, he generously explained, “I make it a rule not to talk about myself and Kate. I so desperately try to keep my private life out of the tabloids because becoming a celebrity rather than an actor can really get in the way of a good performance.”)

On his Melancholia director, Lars Von Trier, getting banned from Cannes
Unfortunately, Von Trier’s knack for eliciting career-topping performances from his actors was overshadowed when he uttered three little words during a press conference at Cannes: “I understand Hitler.” Shaking his head at the foolishness of it all, Skarsgård says, “Lars isn’t a racist, but he likes to provoke people. It’s almost like he has Tourette’s. If he’d been drunk and yelled it at someone—if it had felt genuine—that would be one thing, but it’s just bullshit he says because he’s trying to be funny. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and it definitely didn’t this time.”

Stephen Moyer acts like he’s giving Skars a beej
Before the cameras begin rolling, Skarsgård walks up to his mark in the center of the room, Moyer kneels in front of him—his character is picking something up off the ground when the shot begins—and the director watches them from his chair in front of a camera monitor. While waiting in their places, Skarsgård looks down at his costar and says dryly, “It looks like he’s sucking me off,” to which Moyer responds by bobbing his head vigorously. Skarsgård closes his eyes and starts moaning with the intensity of a slash-fiction hero, after which Moyer stands up and wipes imaginary fluids from his mouth with the back of his hand. He scans the crowd and after taking a slight bow says, “And the Emmy goes to… ” A crew member whispers to no one in particular, “Now that’s what I call ‘Action.’”

He’s nice to fans, but won’t bite them
Later that night, the fourth season of True Blood officially wrapped, Skarsgård returns home to shower before meeting me at the Hollywood Roosevelt for a burger and a few ice-cold bottles of IPA. Over two hours, he draws more than a few glances from a group of Australian tourists and even from social gadfly Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. “It’s you, Eric, isn’t it?” says one particularly guileless man, as if testing the waters before introducing Skarsgård to his wife. “Would you please take a picture with her?” He graciously obliges, wrapping his arm around the woman’s waist and smiling for the camera. “Would you… bite her?” This he does not oblige. When the couple retreats back to a far corner of the restaurant, Skarsgård says, “That’s one thing I’ll never really understand. But the main reason I don’t ever do it is because if I do it just once, every single person will be like, ‘Bite me! Bite me! Bite me!’”

[From Blackbook via ONTD]

Whenever I read or see an interview with this guy my crush is renewed. He’s not just playing some Hollywood game, he really does seem like he’s striving for normalcy and like he’s genuinely nice. The article has a little more on his thoughs on L.A. and the paparazzi. He says that “LA is such a one-trick pony—80% of the people here talk exclusively about managers and agents,” and that being photographed when he’s out seems “strange, and I want it to be strange—I don’t ever want to feel like that’s normal.” At least he’s willing to pose for photos like these, where we get to see him wear the hell out of suit and stare into our souls with those piercing blue eyes. They could have mixed up the poses for him a little more, though. These look too homogeneous in that he’s making the same intense face in every shot.

Straw Dogs is out in the US on September 16th. I’m still waiting to see how Alex and Kate handle the red carpet together, but you know he’ll be game for posing with her. He’s just that kind of guy.

Photos via Blackbook. Note that their site does not appear properly on Google Chrome.