Britney Spears hit Robinson Boulevard yesterday to shop and let the hoard of paparazzi know how well she’s doing. She was with her assistant and bodyguard and looked refreshed after her Mexican vacation. Her hair keeps looking better and she’s cleaned up well. Britney hit one of Christina Aguilera’s favorite restaurants, Little Door, later that night.

The Daily Mail is reporting that director Quentin Tarantino wants Britney to play a “killer lesbian stripper” in a remake of the 1965 camp classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. Britney loves playing stripper, and she’s shown that she’s willing to play a lesbian so it’s a natural choice:

The singer was apparently chosen by the Pulp Fiction director to play dancer Varla in a remake of the 1965 cult film Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

The movie sees three thrill-seeking strippers encountering a young couple in the desert.

Spears’ character murders the boyfriend with her bare hands before taking the girlfriend hostage. The troubled singer will also have sex scenes with another girl before the drama ends in a blood-bath.

Tarantino is in discussions with other Hollywood stars to take the roles of the remaining two strippers.

A source said: “Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant. She’s delighted. She thinks it could turn her career around.

“It is perfect Tarantino material. He wanted to get Britney first. She’s playing the most important character.”

[From The Daily Mail]

Britney can sort-of act. She didn’t do a terrible job on How I Met Your Mother or Will & Grace, and this isn’t the worst idea in the world. My first instinct would be to say this is a fake story, but since it’s Quentin Tarantino we’re talking about it does have a ring of truth to it. It’s a gamble to put Britney in a movie, though. Singers may have a lot of fans and get coverage in the tabloids but that doesn’t always translate well to the big screen. Just ask Mariah Carey - or Britney circa 2002.

Update: Britney’s rep denied this report, saying “she’s concentrating on recording her next album.”

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Sometimes, you have a perception of people that you’ve never met, that you just can’t shake. I’ve seen Quentin Tarantino interviewed. He seems normal enough, but I still kind of imagine him as a – balding - kid sitting in an attic plotting ways to kill people. Which I guess he kind of is, except in my mind he’s really killing them, not just faking for film.

So for the stewards on a recent flight from the Phillipines to LAX who were faced with his air rage, I hope they didn’t recognise him in the same way I do.

“Tiffany (Limos, actress) was pushing Quentin in a wheelchair,” the flier told us. “Apparently, Tarantino injured his back to the point where he couldn’t walk . . . Quentin made one of the stewardesses cry because he didn’t want to sit in his first-class seat. He wanted to sit on the floor or in one of the flight attendant’s seats.” A Philippine politician who happened to be on board had to come from his seat in business class to break up the fight. Meanwhile, cranky Tarantino “was telling Tiffany Limos how much he loved her . . . He called her ‘the wife’ on the flight.” Reps for Tarantino and Limos didn’t return calls.

New York Post

Was actress Tiffany employed just to push the director in the wheelchair, or was she travelling with him for a reason?

Tarantino and “the wife” were returning from the Cinemanila film festival, where he was honoured, I can only assume for his ‘contribution to directing’. On the way to picking up his Lifetime Achievement Award, he was stuck in a traffic jam in his limousine, so he decided to catch a rickshaw to the venue. This isn’t how he injured his back, no word on how that happened. Maybe he fell down the attic steps while pursuing a particularly grisly plot idea. Or maybe he did it while feeding the cat.