These are photos from the London premiere (at the London Film Festival) of Conviction, that Hilary Swank film that is getting so much attention because of Gloria Allred and Hilary’s sketchy styling (seriously, I can’t believe I’m doing so many Hilary fashion posts). As for Hilary’s Donna Karan dress… well. I really, really liked it when I saw the thumbnail of it. That happens to me all the time – sometimes a dress looks really cute in the thumbnails, and then you see it blown up and look at the detailing and how it’s fitting on her body, and all of a sudden, the eye is no longer fooled. This is one of those times. It could have been a show-stopper dresser… but it’s just not… on Hilary. The fabric isn’t sitting right on her waist and hips, and the neck is much too high. I will give her points on hair and makeup though – this is the best she’s looked from the neck up in weeks.

Minnie Driver (who is in the film too) had the exact opposite effect. When I looked at the thumbnails, I thought this Marchesa dress was horrible. The necklace is not a necklace – it’s built into the dress. And the color could come across as just a shade too garish. And yet… it really works on her. The effect is really pretty. Okay, it’s a little pageanty. But pretty.

And of course, my lover Sam Rockwell was there. It’s like he knew what I wanted and he decided to give me a little present. His hair…okay, his hair is still questionable, but the scruffy little beard is giving me a fever, and he’s making some really sexy/hot/funny faces at the camera. So it’s a win for me. Okay, I hate the tie. It would look better on my wrists, ya know?

‘Conviction’ premiere in London, 10/15/2010. Credit: WENN.

Sometimes a television show comes along that despite ultimately superior acting and writing, just doesn’t find an audience big enough to keep it on the air. The Riches, on FX, was one of those shows. The Riches starred Eddie Izzard and recent new mother Minnie Driver as the parents of a family of grifters who con themselves into the life of a wealthy family in Louisiana. Although it was loved by the people who watched, there weren’t quite enough of those people to keep the show on TV and it was unceremoniously cancelled in September after two seasons.

Now Izzard, who co-wrote the pilot of the show, wants to put The Riches in movie theatres. Eddie says that he has approached the powers that be at the network to ask if he can write a screenplay based on the unclosed ending of the show.

“I was an elevator in London at an awards ceremony and Samuel L. Jackson looks at me and says, ‘So, what’s happening to your kid,’” said Eddie, referring to his on-screen son Cael, who was last seen getting duped by another group of Travellers.

“I told Samuel, ‘We don’t know at the moment.’ but I’ve posed to the heads of FX and TBS that we want to make a film. And they said, “Right, we’ll support you.”

[From OK! TV Fanatic]

While the network heads may have said they’d support him, they evidently didn’t mean financially. Eddie is turning to the Internet to raise funds for the movie. I want this movie to happen, but I can’t get my hopes up too high on a movie that is counting on Internet fundraising to come up with that kind of money. Barack Obama did it, though, so maybe, “Yes, Eddie Can!”

I couldn’t help but think, when Samuel L. Jackson asked Izzard what was up with his son, he may not have actually been talking about his character’s son. There’s a widespread belief, or hope may be more likely, that Minnie Driver’s new baby, Henry Story, is Eddie Izzard’s child. Judging by Izzards comments, though, he doesn’t care quite enough about the kid to be his father.

“I haven’t met the baby, but I called her up and she said, ‘He’s looking at the phone.’ The baby was looking at her and smiling like he knew something. He must have known I was going to call her up and say, ‘We’re going to do a movie of The Riches.’”

[From Ok! TV Fanatic]

Maybe Henry knows where Izzard can come up with the money to finance the movie, too. Minnie could have sold first baby pictures to chip in, but she decided to release a photo on her myspace instead.

According to the NY Post, the mystery father of Minnie Driver’s baby is “a TV writer” who broke up with her when he found out she was pregnant.

Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver are shown promoting The Riches on 4/28/08. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

Minnie Driver and her adorable newborn baby, Henry Story Driver, were photographed out in LA on Saturday. Little Henry is just six and a half weeks old. There is not as much of a demand for baby photos now and magazines are less willing to shell out seven figures for rights to the first pictures of celebrity infants. Driver could have easily made some money with a glossy spread for Henry, though. Instead she chose to premiere the baby on her Myspace. She posted a simple photo three weeks ago of her cradling a sleeping Henry as she looked down smiling at him. It looked very sweet and loving, and Driver was not wearing makeup and didn’t even have her hair done for the photo. She looks kind of annoyed to be photographed out with the baby here, but at least this is an exclusive from the photo agency and she wasn’t mobbed by photographers. Just one snapper caught her out that day, and it didn’t even seem to wake up the baby. They’re billing these as the exclusive first photos of Henry, but they’re not since he made his debut on MySpace earlier this month.

Minnie is a first time mom at 38 and has refused to publicly name her baby’s father. She’s only said that he’s English, is very busy, and is sort-of in the same business. She next appears in Motherhood with Uma Thurman, and she is visibly pregnant with Henry in the film. It’s due for release in 2009.

Minnie looks great so soon after her son’s birth and she seems like a devoted and loving mom. It must suck to have your picture taken when you don’t expect it, though. It doesn’t look like she’s out on Robertson Boulevard or anything.

Photo credit: Fame Picture

Actress Minnie Driver, 38, gave birth to her first child on Friday, a boy named Henry Story Driver. Little Henry was large for a newborn, and weighed in at 9 pounds and 12 ounces! Driver has refused to name the father of her baby, and told Jay Leno in an appearance on the Tonight Show in March that she would prefer to keep him out of the spotlight. The only hint she has provided is that he’s English, “sort of in the same business,” and that “he’s really busy, like me.”

People Magazine reminds us that Driver said the father would be involved in their baby’s life, though:

Minnie Driver became a first-time mom to son Henry Story Driver, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

The baby was born Friday in Los Angeles and weighed 9 lbs., 12 oz., rep Jessica Kolstad says.

Driver, 38, who has not revealed the identity of the father, told PEOPLE in June that the dad will be involved in the baby’s life.

“He’s going to be a dad so yeah he’s going to be there for the kid,” she said. “I’m not getting married to this person and I don’t know what’s going to happen but everyone is cool about the situation.”

As the new mom takes on her most important role yet, Driver says she is looking forward to simply observing and spending time with her child. “Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I’m obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. I’m looking forward to seeing life through the eyes of my own kid.”

[From People.com]

In March, Driver’s costar on The Riches, Eddie Izzard, said she’ll make a great mom and that, “She’ll be a good parent because you need love, and as long as you have one parent giving love then the kid’s going to do great.” Izzard is a British comic and actor and could technically fit all the criteria Driver mentioned for the father, but so could countless other men.

Congratulations to Driver and the unknown father of her new baby.

Emma Forrest, far right, is shown with Rose McGowan and Minnie Driver, both contributors to her book Damage Control. Forrest has been named as Farrell’s girlfriend

Yesterday we caused a big controversy with an article that pointed out that Colin Farrel was on the beach with seven month’s pregnant Minnie Driver over the weekend and could possibly be the father of her unborn baby. Driver gave three hints in an interview earlier in the year as to the identity of the father, but has otherwise left him unnamed, saying she wants to keep him out of the spotlight. The three hints included the fact that he was busy, was “sort of in the same business,” and was English. The English part was not directly quoted and seemed like it was an interpretation by the journalist. Colin is a Dubliner and in my infinite stupidity, I initially thought there must be some way that being from Ireland could be construed as “English.” I asked if there was anything she could have said that would have been vague enough to indicate “English” to the journalist, but to have included Ireland, and the best answer was “across the pond.”

As I mentioned in the comments, no offense was meant to anyone with my stupid question, and the main issue was that I was desperately hoping that hot Colin, 32, was the secret father of 38 year-old Minnie Driver’s soon-to-be-born first baby. That would make for great gossip as well as a super attractive child.

Driver is good friends with Colin’s girlfriend, an English novelist
Alas, my willful misinterpretation of geography and a beach outing probably doesn’t equate to Colin’s powerful seed making a new life with Minnie. They were on the beach that day with someone else who I initially didn’t notice – a dark-haired woman who was sitting on the towel near where Minnie was standing. It was possibly an English writer named Emma Forrest, who has been named as Colin’s girlfriend of several months. Forrest and Driver are friends and Driver has even contributed to one of her novels.

But in the past six months the Irish hellraiser has found his soulmate — pretty English novelist EMMA FORREST.

The couple have been as thick as thieves since being introduced earlier this year by top film director MARTIN McDONAGH.

A source said: “Colin is a changed man. He has knocked the boozing on the head and is enjoying life in a completely different way. Emma has been a steadying influence and they have hit it off big time.

“They have spent months trying to keep the relationship under wraps because they are falling madly in love…

“They are planning to move in together in LA soon, on his next break from filming…”

Emma has had several novels published and earned quite a few quid. So any suspicions of her being after Colin for just fame and fortune are well wide of the mark.

Like Colin, she has had tough times in the past and has penned some seriously dark blogs on the internet about contemplating suicide.

[From The Sun via commenter lalie]

If you watch the video of Colin and Minnie on the beach taken by paparazzi agency X17, you can see Colin hand his son to a woman on the towel at about :40 seconds in. I completely missed this part when I saw it the first few times because I was so focused on Colin and Minnie and my delusions of their coupling.

One commenter who went by “Jane” on our last post says “It’s def. not Farrell. I know for a fact. The father is a noncelebrity writer and they broke up months ago.” Her IP address was from Los Angeles at a major movie studio, so it could be true.

Sorry for running with this story so blindly that I forgot basic geography and didn’t notice an entire person. We published photos of pigs yesterday though, and I was desperate for any kind of scandal.

Update: This story is based on my overactive imagination and stupidity and is probably not true. Minnie is close friends with Colin’s girlfriend, who was most likely with them at the beach that day.

Here’s a link to the video of Farrell and Driver on the beach. In the video, Farrell gets upset when he notices the paparazzi filming him with his four year-old son in the water. He takes his son back to a towel where Driver is standing, and then runs up to the camera, saying “Are you f’ing taking a picture of me and my boy? Turn that off.” The photographers stop videotaping at that point.

In a March appearance on The Tonight Show confirming her pregnancy, Driver declined to name the father of her baby, saying she preferred to keep him out of the spotlight.

It’s possible Driver broke up with the father of the baby, that she’s with Farrell and he’s not the father or that she’s just friends with Farrell. You can understand him getting upset about his son being filmed, but it seems like he might also be trying to keep his relationship with Driver secret.

Commenter lalie also notes that British-born Driver, 38, has been wearing a ring with a green stone on her left ring finger. Farrell, 32, is from Ireland, and has also been seen with a suspicious ring on his wedding finger. He was last known to have been dating a Irish student, but commenters say that they’ve been broken up for nearly a year.

In an interview with the newspaper The Independent in May, Driver gave three clues about the identity of the father of her baby, all of which apply to Farrell. She denied it was musician Craig Zolezzi, with whom she’s been photographed. She said they’re just good friends.

The only clues Driver will offer about the identity of her “baby daddy” are that he is English, and “sort of in the same business”, and that they have evaded detection because “he’s really busy, like me”.

[From Independent.co.uk]

People from Ireland can also be considered “English,” can’t they?

Update: There is no direct quote from Driver in that article about the nationality of her baby’s father, just the journalist’s interpretation that he’s “English.” It’s possible she said something like “He’s from the UK” and it was written as “English.”

Update: This story is based on my overactive imagination and stupidity and is probably not true. Minnie is close friends with Colin’s girlfriend, who was most likely with them at the beach that day.

Minnie Driver, who is reportedly almost five month’s pregnant, has refused to comment on the father of her baby, simply saying that she wanted to keep him out of the media glare. In an interview with Girl Magazine before she confirmed her pregnancy, she said she had a boyfriend at the time that was “not famous and is an Australian.”

Driver’s costar on FX series “The Riches,” Eddie Izzard, made a comment that suggests that the father of Minnie’s baby is already out of the picture. At least that’s what I read into it:

Minnie is keeping mum on the father of her baby, but her The Riches co-star Eddie Izzard says she’s ready: “She’ll be a good parent because you need love, and as long as you have one parent giving love then the kid’s going to do great,” Eddie tells In Touch.

[From In Touch, print edition, April 7, 2008]

Maybe they asked him “How do you think Minnie will cope with being a single parent?” but it sure sounds like he’s saying she’s single now. That could be why she declined to name the father.

Driver, 38, recently said that she’s doing well with her pregnancy and that she feels “really good, happy and healthy.” She said it was “great just to be able to eat” and that the only thing she craves is olives.

Minnie Drive is shown on 3/20/08 at a screen of “Trembled Blossoms,” thanks to Splash News.

Minnie Driver was on Leno last night, and she sang a song from her last album, “Seastories.” When she came off to talk to Jay afterwards he joked about her weight and she confirmed that she was pregnant.

Driver’s CD came out in July of last year so I assumed that the real reason she was on Leno was to confirm her pregnancy, but she also is promoting “The Riches,” her show on FX. The second season will only have seven episodes due to the writer’s strike, and it starts airing on March 18.

“Are you pregnant?” Leno asked, after joking about her weight.

“Yes, I am,” she replied. “I don’t know why they call it morning sickness… I am sick morning, noon and night, but it’s a fair trade-off.”

Driver said she likes being pregnant “more than anything else.”

[From US Weekly]

According to Splash News’ description with the picture above, Driver “told Leno that she wanted to keep the father private and away from the media glare.” I’m kind of hoping there’s some sort of scandal to go along with this one, like the guy is some famous married actor, but it’s probably just that Minnie doesn’t want a big deal made out of her pregnancy. She’s been followed by the paps more after the rumor came out that she was pregnant, and she often looked annoyed in those pictures. Maybe she just doesn’t want to become a target of photographers or the gossip press, and figures the best way to do that is not to say much.

Driver is 38 and this is her first child. Congratulations to her and the unnamed dad.

Here’s Driver singing “Mockingbird” last night. I am looking but haven’t been able to find the clip of her coming on to talk to Jay.

TV, film and recording star Minnie Driver was recently spotted exiting a clinic in Los Angeles, looking at sonogram images and acting very excited. This got the rumor mill buzzing: is she pregnant? Minnie, who is currently on hiatus from the excellent FX show “The Riches,” keeps a very low profile and has not confirmed or denied the pregnancy rumor. But if it’s true, who’s the daddy?

Actress Minnie Driver is reportedly pregnant with her first child.

The 38-year-old was spotted outside a Los Angeles baby clinic looking at sonogram images with a friend last week.

A source said: “She is absolutely thrilled. She has always wanted to be a mother, she’ll be fantastic. Her family are so pleased.”

The British star also called her boyfriend, known only as Matthew, outside the surgery and talked about “getting blood work done”.

She then added to her pal: “Matthew tells me I should be quiet so no-one hears me.”

[From Stuff.co.nz]

Since being very publicly dumped by “Good Will Hunting” co-star Matt Damon over ten years ago, Minnie has kept her private life under wraps. She was engaged to “No Country For Old Men” star Josh Brolin for a while, but they broke up amid rumors that Brolin’s stepmom, Barbra Streisand, didn’t approve of Minnie. Since then, she’s been linked to Criss Angel (ew!) and “Gross Pointe Blank” co-star John Cusack. All she’s revealed about her current boyfriend is that he is “not famous and he’s Australian,” according to an interview in Girl magazine.

TMZ currently has a video posted of Minnie walking in Los Angeles wearing a loose fitting poncho, but there aren’t many other recent photos of her, so it’s impossible for me to tell if she’s pregnant. If she is, congratulations to her and her mystery man.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Minnie is shown out in NY on 2/19/08, thanks to Splash News. Props to A Socialite’s Life for reporting on this rumor a couple of weeks ago with an exclusive from insiders.

Last night’s Emmy awards were full of lovely gowns, with some notable hits and misses. We’ll have a “Worst Dressed” post coming up soon, and it was considerably easier to find ugly dresses at the event than it was to find ones that were spot on. The most beautiful gowns were just slightly risky with a touch of old Hollywood glamour. Simple shapes and bright colors were featured.

Thanks to JustJared for help with some of the dress designers. Yahoo! also has their top ten best and worst dressed last night, but I only agree with some of their choices.

Best Dressed: Heidi Klum in Dior by John Galliano, Portia DiRossi in Azzaro, Carrie Ann Inaba, a judge on Dancing with the Stars, in a lovely white satin and chiffon dress, and Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars in a beautiful blue strapless gown.

Beautiful runners up: Ali Larter of Heroes in red strapless Reem Acra, Kate Walsh of Grey’s in red satin, Teri Hatcher in Badgley Mischka, Minnie Driver in a canary v-neck dress with criss-cross front, Jennifer Love Hewitt in a strapless black dress with a gauzy skirt and subtle beading on the bodice.