I understand that people get crotchety when they get older. They complain about the kids driving up and down the street in their Hummer, blasting their offensive rap music while dancing on top of the car, and they never acted that way when they were that age. Okay that was all me. But I don’t feel I need to wait until I’m 90 to complain when I can do it with a lot more energy now. But I am a little nobody, and last time I checked no one has come to see any of my movies. So my ranting and raving generally goes unnoticed. When a fairly big movie star bitches and moans like a 90 year old, people are going to pay attention. And they are going to call him a cranky old lady.

Rupert Everett, the British actor who first came to prominence back in 1997 with “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is apparently having a REALLY bad day. He recently gave an interview with the UK Independent in which he went off an most of Hollywood’s big-name actors. We’re not sure what any of these people did to Rupert, but there’s flames coming out of his ears.

“[George] Clooney thinks that, provided he does films which are politically committed, he’s allowed to do Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13″, he says. “But the Ocean’s movies are a cancer to world culture. They’re destroying us.” And Clooney the man? “He’s not the brightest spark on the boulevard. He’ll be president one day. Mark my words, if he’s straight, he’ll be president.”

Of the other Hollywood legends at the end of his tongue lashing, Everett told interviewer Amol Rajan: “De Niro, Redford, Keaton, Allen, Pacino … They’re all just tragic parodies of themselves. Al Pacino looks like a mad old freak now. I say give it a rest, or go and do some serious stuff… The other day I saw a film called Because I Said So with Diane Keaton, and I thought, ‘here’s one of the women we loved most in 1970s cinema, debasing and humiliating herself in this load of trash’.

“Why? Because we’re sheep, we just follow the herd … It’s just part of the huge amount of product that’s put out now that’s really bad. And it’s our fault. We’re all responsible for how the culture is. You can’t draw a distinction between the celebrity nonsense on television and the film industry.”

[From the Huffington Post]

I really don’t like making “time of the month” jokes because they’re a) they’re offensive, and imply that a woman doesn’t have a right to her feelings, b) to say it about a man implies that by doing something irrational he is acting like a woman, thus implying women are irrational and c) the jokes are played out, lame, and not funny. With all that said… damn girl! He must be seriously PMSing. Talk about a crazy diatribe. From the context of the article, it’s hard to know what in the world got Rupert so riled up. But it sort of seems like he was just itching to go off, and maybe had a bit of this planned out. Either that or he’s really quick with the insults.

I don’t know a lot about Rupert’s body of work, but I know that in his upcoming moving, “St Trinian’s,” he plays a headmistress who looks exactly like Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. I swear to God you could bump into one and mistake him/her for the other. Beyond that I don’t know what the film is about… though it hardly seems like it’s bound to be an Oscar-netting drama. I’m not quite sure how everyone else is a “just tragic parody” while Rupert is wearing pantyhose but still filled with artistic integrity.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Rupert Everett is shown at the Stardust premiere in London on 10/3/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

Valentino celebrated his 45th anniversary as a top designer with a star-studded three day affair in Rome this weekend to the tune of over $10 million. Celebrities including Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hudson, Liz Hurley, Eva Mendes, Claudia Schiffer, Joan Collins, Rupert Everett, and Guan Yin attended a fashion show, exhibition, dinner, and gala ball in honor of the famed designer.

The bash kicked off on Friday with a gala dinner in the 2nd century Temple of Venus in the shadow of the Colosseum.

Valentino, 75, spent a reported £135,000 restoring the ancient monument built by the Emperor Hadrian and flew in royal florist Rob Van Helden from London to bedeck columns with garlands of flowers.

He also launched an exhibition of his creations in the city’s Ara Pacis museum with examples of his coveted designs showcased behind bulletproof glass.

Visitors were greeted by a giant red glass cube encasing one of his earlier dresses, then led along a walkway featuring 300 of his designs in red, black and white on mannequins.

The collection included sequined and ruffled gowns worn by the likes of Audrey Hepburn after Valentino opened his first boutique in Rome in the 1960s.

On Saturday a 1,000-strong audience watched him unveil his latest collection of 61 outfits in the medieval Santo Spirito in Sassia church near the Vatican.

The opulent bash continued with a lavish party in the grounds of historic Villa Borghese and the launch of his new perfume, Rock’n'Rose Couture.

[From The Daily Mail]

While the 74 year-old Valentino has not mentioned that he’s retiring, his fashion house was taken over by a private equity group in May, with the handover to be finished sometime this summer. His partner said that everything would continue as usual under the new owners, but the equity group that has acquired the firm is known for cost-cutting and are expected to reign in Valentino’s excessive spending. At least he’ll always have Rome.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.

Lucky Guy …and if it all happened ten years ago a very lucky guy. (Unless he’s one of those famous granny chasers you hear so much about these days - then I hope it all went down last week.)

Yes, Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett made out with the same guy, at least according to their onstage banter at the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award where Rupert was MC. Pop.nography reports:

“The other day I met a guy we both made out with,” said Sharon Stone to Rupert Everett. “I feel closer to you now than ever before. It’s no longer six degrees of separation.”

Is that last line a clue? Does that mean they both made out with Kevin Bacon? Has anyone told Kyra Sedgwick? And if you crossed Sharon Stone with Rupert Everett wouldn’t the love child come out somewhere in the Kyra Sedwick lookin’ neighbourhood? Or is that just six degrees of unlikely babies?

Sharon continued, very effectively, in her saucy minx mode - trying to bump up the bids for a Lamborghini being auctioned that evening for the Elton John AIDS Foundation:

Stone used a bit of unconventional prodding to get cash from the men in the audience. “I want to take it from your pocket so I can feel how big your penis is when I take it,” she cooed to the crowd. The car, she continued, is “the Viagra of the future.” Her saucy ways worked, and a guy named Vic coughed up $500,000 for the slick sports car.

Some Dudes just love getting Stoned. Even when working the dirty talk from behind a podium Sharon can raise a cool half million. A Stone cold half million.

The award itself was being presented to both Donatella and Gianni Versace. Guests at the swanky do included:

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony (whose security guard flipped out every time someone approached the pair with a camera), Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Penelope Cruz, Paris Hilton, Mischa Barton, Prince, Kelly Preston, Drew Barrymore, Quincy Jones, Courtney Love, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Randy Gerber, and Jennifer Hudson.

Both guest and presenters were all tasteful enough to avoid Night of the Living Dead jokes even though Gianni Versace has been designing for Jesus and the heavenly host this last decade — and Donatella looks like this.

Although allegedly from the back of the room these famous words were heard:

“That is one beat down looking bitch … Even I could not Beat that bitch any further down …”

pics via Eog and filmweb and rethinkpink