A few weekends ago, Robert Pattinson was seen leaving a private party in LA with a posse of friends in tow. Shockingly, The Sparkles Crew seemed to include Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn. At the time, I wondered what in the hell was going on – it’s not like Sparkles has ever worked with those guys, and from what I’ve seen, this was the first time they ever partied together too. Well, The Enquirer has an interesting take on the situation. Apparently, Vince and Rob might work together or something. But in the meantime, Sparkles is using Vince for advice. Dude. Seriously? Vince Vaughn is your bro sensei?

Vince Vaughn has a bit of advice for his new pal Robert Pattinson: dump your cheating girlfriend! Vince and Rob struck up a friendship recently while discussing a new film project, and a source says Rob opened up to Vince about his troubled relationship with Kristen Stewart.

“When Rob described how he took Kristen back after she cheated, Vince said, ‘That’s a mistake – a big one,’” the source revealed. “He told Rob he knows how easy it is to fall into a routine, but when your girl cheats on you, you should take that as a sign that you should probably end things.”

“Eince said he and Jennifer [Aniston] had a great time together [with their on-set romance] but he can’t imagine settling down with someone at 26, like Rob is doing – especially someone who cheated on him… Vince told Rob he was 40 before he was done sowing his wild oats.”

Despite the blossoming friendship, another insider says Rob isn’t ready to follow Vince’s sage advice.

“Vince got him thinking, for sure… but there’s a level of comfort he has with Kristen that he’s scared of losing.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

First of all, if Vince Vaughn gives you a piece of life advice, you should do the opposite. Always and forever. Maybe if I’m feeling generous, I’ll admit that maybe Vince could conceivably give good career advice, although I present Exhibit A, Exhibit B and Exhibit C. Yes, Vince has a wife/girlfriend/baby-mama and he seems “settled” but the dude is 43 years old and he still looks, smells and parties like an overgrown Frat Boy. Not to be a Sparkles apologist, but Robert is simply too delicate and sweet to ever take advice from Brosef McChiliDog. So… yeah. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Rob just needs to figure this stuff out for himself. Even though he seems spineless for taking Kristen back, I do think there’s something admirable in that action. He’s daring to believe that she can change. He’s daring to forgive her. Or, hey, maybe he’s just lazy and complacent and he doesn’t want to look for another girlfriend. I would imagine an unappetizing night of birddogging with Vince and Joaquin would do that to most men.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Hollywood breeds some strange bedfellows, but generally the pattern is: people are friends with people they work with OR they’re friends with people they meet at clubs and parties OR they’re friends with fellow parents and they have some kind of connection through their kids or their kids’ school. I guess that’s not just Hollywood, but that happens in the real world too, although in the real world, a lot of people keep in touch with school/college friends, and you rarely hear about that in Hollywood. What am I getting at? I’m struggling to understand how Robert Pattinson ended up partying with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix. Because that happened Friday night in LA.

These pics are of Rob leaving a “private party” at The Larchmont. Vince and Joaquin were there, as were Florence Welch and assorted “Hollywood types” which you can see in these photos. According to Pacific Coast News, Sparkles and his friends (who seem like they might be rolling him, right?) “jumped into an old school Chevy Camaro that had a ‘No Smoking’ sign posted on the back seats where Rob sat.” And Joaquin was apparently in the front seat. How in the world did poor Sparkles end up partying with Joaquin and Vince?!?!

Three guys walk into a restaurant. That may sound like the beginning of a joke, but it’s actually the beginning of something else: Robert Pattinson’s boys’ night out with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix. On Friday, April 5, the unlikely trio were spotted hitting the town together in L.A.
Pattinson, 26, joined Vaughn, 43, and Phoenix, 38, at the Larchmont Restaurant in Larchmont Village, where they grabbed dinner with a few other friends. It’s unclear what else they did — or how they all know one another.

One thing they have in common? Reese Witherspoon. All three have appeared opposite the Oscar-winning star in various films over the last decade. Phoenix was Johnny Cash to her June Carter in 2005′s Walk the Line, for which she won the Academy Award; Vaughn played her leading man in the 2008 rom-com Four Christmases; and Pattinson rescued her from an abusive circus trainer in the 2011 movie adaptation of Water for Elephants.

Pattinson — whom his former costar has called a “very sensitive soul” — also famously hid out at the actress’ Ojai, Calif., ranch last July, after Kristen Stewart was caught cheating on him with her Snow White and the Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders. (A source told Us Weekly at the time that Witherspoon hoped the rustic retreat would have a “calming effect” on the Twilight actor as he dealt with his heartache.)

Since then, of course, Pattinson and Stewart have reconciled. Earlier this week, before the actor’s boys’ night out, the two were spotted holding hands and grabbing sushi together in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood. They looked “really happy and lovey-dovey,” an eyewitness told PopSugar. “Kristen grabbed his arm, and they were walking and joking.”

[From Us Weekly]

Hahaha, yeah I’m sure they all went out to a private party to talk about how they all know Reese. The Reese Connection is interesting, though, because they all have such different experiences with her. Apparently, Vince and Reese did NOT get along at all when they working together and they’ve both sworn to never do it again. As for Sparkles, I think Reese mothers him or acts like his big sister, and there is nothing romantic or sexual between them whatsoever. But Joaquin? I’ve always had a theory that Reese and Joaquin fooled around with each other while they were making Walk the Line. Reese’s marriage (to Ryan Phillippe) was falling apart and when Reese and Joaquin promoted the movie… well, they just seemed very “connected”.

Anyway, Vince and Joaquin can really party, so I’m sort of worried about these new, hardcore influences on poor little Sparkles. If this outing was Rob trying to prove that he can party with the big boys… well, why is that something you want to prove?

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

I keep forgetting that Vince Vaughn is a father now. I keep forgetting he’s in an established relationship too. Put it another way – I keep forgetting about Vince Vaughn. I saw these photos and I was like, “Oh, weird. He still exists.” He hasn’t really been working consistently or anything – he had Couples Retreat in 2009, then he took two years off (probably for his girlfriend, who was pregnant during that time period), then he came back with The Dilemma last year, which… did anyone see that? I didn’t. I just checked his IMDB, and he’s still working, but it definitely feels like he’s consciously taken a step back from his career.

Anyway, Vince and his family were photographed in LA last week and this week. These are some of the first photos I’ve ever seen of his daughter Locklyn Kyla Vaughn, who was born December 18, 2010. Which makes her one-and-a-half. Same as Flynn Kerr-Bloom! I should organize a playdate for these babies. Locklyn is a little cutie – I can see some of Vince in her, but it’s not like “OMG, that little girl looks exactly like Vince Vaughn.” Also: I think it’s nice that Vince is still with his baby-mama. He seems like… a handfull. You know? Like, he would be a lot to handle as a boyfriend. So props to Kyla Weber for sticking with it.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Vince Vaughn was on Ellen Friday to promote his upcoming “comedy,” The Dilemma. He spoke at length about his new wife, Kyla Weber, and their newborn daughter, Locklyn, who was born in late December. Vince called his wife “the best girl in the world” and explained that she came into his life at just the right time for him to settle down. It was quite sweet actually.

Vince: Let me tell you something. I met the best girl in the world. It gives you such a great purpose in your life. If I would’ve met her, I would’ve done it a long time ago so I’m very, very happy.
Ellen: I agree with you. You need to meet that one right person.
Vince: It’s being ready for that too. And sometimes, in our industry, well, I speak for myself, maybe that’s an excuse but you don’t mature always at the same time so if I was very fortunate that when I got ready and was open to that, then that person came into my life
Ellen: So maybe if you would’ve met her earlier, then it wouldn’t have worked out. So you met her at exactly the right time.
Vince: Exactly. You have to be ready to receive that. No question.
Ellen: So you have the little baby. Were you in the delivery room when she was born?
Vince: I was.
Ellen: What’s her name?
Vince: Her name is Locklynn.
Ellen: We should start calling her by her name and not “the baby.”
Vince: She’ll have to learn. If I just call her “Baby” then she’ll love the movie “Dirty Dancing” but she won’t know her proper name. No one puts her in a corner. Laughs

[From The Ellen Degeneres show]

It’s so nice when a celebrity reveals how special and meaningful their partner is to them, especially when it’s unexpected.

Showbiz Spy has more from Vince about the birth of his daughter, and he said that he was crying and was an “emotional wreck.” In in earlier interview, Vince enthused about the first time he went to a pediatrician appointment with his wife and their daughter, saying that they were “going to an appointment as a family. It’s just a great feeling.”

I never thought we’d hear such personal details from Vaughn, because he just doesn’t seem the type to share that sort of thing. It’s clear that marriage and fatherhood have changed him – for now at least. Is it super bitchy to say that it will get old soon enough?

Photo below from 6/13/10. Credit: Fame Pictures

Honestly, I had forgotten that Vince Vaughn and his wife Kyla Weber were expecting their first child, so imagine my surprise when I just read that Vince is now the proud father of a little girl. The name? Locklyn Kyla Vaughn. Um… Locklyn? She sounds like a security system. “Trust your family with Locklyn Vaughn Security!” As for giving the mother’s name as her daughter’s middle name… eh. I don’t hate it or love it. If it’s a family name that gets passed down through the generations, I could understand it. But I find it hard to believe that Kyla Weber’s grandmother was Ol’ Grammy Kyla Buttons.

Christmas came early for Vince Vaughn, with his wife Kyla Weber giving birth to a healthy baby girl on Saturday morning, Dec. 18, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

Locklyn Kyla Vaughn, who weighed 7 lbs. and measured 20 inches long, was born at a hospital in Chicago, Vaughn’s hometown. The actor’s rep confirms the good news.

“Both of them couldn’t be happier to welcome their sweet little girl into their family!” says a friend of the couple’s.

It’s a first child for both Vaughn, 40, and Weber, a Canadian real estate agent, who married in January 2010.

When Weber’s pregnancy was announced in July, a source close to the Couples Retreat star told PEOPLE that the pair were thrilled about the baby, saying, “They’re having so much fun together and they’re so excited to be first-time parents!”

Vaughn stars with Kevin James in the upcoming The Dilemma, to be released on Jan. 14, 2011.

[From People]

I realized I must have sounded like a total bitch just now when I was bitching about the name (seriously, LOCKLYN?), so let me say: congratulations! I’m very happy for Vince and for Kyla, and Kyla has my thoughts and prayers in this, and everything else. Let’s hope Vince’s over-bearing mother isn’t ruining this special time for the happy family.

The trailer for Vince Vaughn’s upcoming film The Dilemma initially featured a pretty lame scene at the beginning in which Vaughn’s character joked that electric cars are “gay.” The trailer came out right before the highly talked-about series of gay teen suicides, after which more press outlets covered the issue of bullying. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper spoke out against that trailer specifically, saying that “we’ve got to do something to make those words unacceptable cause those words are hurting kids.” As a result, Universal pulled that trailer and put out a new one along with a statement that they were sensitive to the issue. Gay advocacy group GLAAD said they’d contacted Universal immediately after the trailer came out but received no response. They’ve had a campaign for some time urging people to stop using gay as a put down. Now that the scene has been cut from the trailer (but is still playing in some theaters due to logistical issues) people are wondering whether if it will also be cut from the film, due out in January, 2011. The star of the movie wants it to air as-is, though. Vince Vaughn has issued a statement weighing in on the controversy.

Vince Vaughn doesn’t think The Dilemma has much of a problem.

Responding to the controversy over his character calling an electric car “gay,” a clip that originally made it into the comedy’s theatrical trailer, Vaughn has come down on the side of leaving the scene intact.

“Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be,” the sometimes-boorish, sometimes-cuddly actor said in a statement Thursday.

“Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing divided lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop.”

[From E! Online]

That was very well put. I still don’t agree with him, but I appreciate the way that he made his point despite his poor slippery slope argument. There’s also something to be said for the fact that he’s giving his opinion amid all this controversy. Personally, I cannot fault him for having a different opinion and I respect the way he phrased his statement.

However, I still maintain that associating the word “gay” with “lame” gives the impression that being gay is somehow inadequate. This can be particularly damaging to gay young people who are struggling with their identity. Kids are going to talk smack and bully each other, but adults and movie stars can set a much better example than that. If all they can come up with to introduce us to their movie is a bit in which they use “gay” as a putdown then that’s truly lame. That scene should be cut from the movie, just like it was cut from the trailer.

Here are some PSAs to try and stop the use of “that’s gay” as a putdown. Why don’t we start saying “that’s so Vince Vaughn”? You wouldn’t even have to explain it to anyone, you know?

A couple of weeks ago, Kaiser reported on the trailer for upcoming Ron Howard-directed comedy The Dilemma, starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin Jones and Winona Ryder. It looks really dumb but more than that it started with a dud of a joke in which Vaughn’s character called electric cars “gay”. It’s offensive and homophobic and although the trailer was put before the recent batch of gay youth suicides, everyone involved should have known better. “Gay” is not a put down.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper spoke to Ellen Degeneres via satellite on the issue of bullying, and he brought up the trailer as an example of how media is making it seem ok to mock people’s sexual orientations. He also made a lot of good points about how the Internet makes bullying both easier and more cruel to victims.

There’s a lot of intolerance in the world and that trickles down to school…

I do think there’s something happening in our culture of sort of a lack of empathy that’s grown…

We’re living online now and it’s very easy to be cruel to people online, we’ve seen a huge uptake of cyberbullying…

[Bullying] is much different than it used to be for us, who grew up in a pre-computer generation…

I was sitting in a movie theater over the weekend and there was a preview of a movie, and in it, the actor said, ‘that’s so gay,’ and I was shocked that not only that they put it in the movie, but that they put that in the preview, they thought that it was okay to put that in a preview for the movie to get people to go and see it.

I just find those words, those terms, we’ve got to do something to make those words unacceptable cause those words are hurting kids. Someone else I talked to recently said that the words people use and the things people say about other kids online, it enters into their internal dialogue. And when you’re a kid, it can change the way you see yourself and the way you think about yourself, and the worth that you give to yourself. I think we need to really focus on what language we’re using and how we’re treating these kids.

[Transcript via The Huffington Post and Just Jared]

Cooper said he wasn’t bullied at school because he went to a small school. He called himself a “bystander” and said he witnessed kids making fun of a classmate for stuttering. He didn’t say anything about it as a kid because he was afraid of being bullied too. Ellen said we need a class in school to teach kids about diversity. She also pointed out that bullying and the use of negative terms for gay people is not a gay/straight issue. They both said that it’s time that we make the “F” word and “that’s gay” unacceptable. Cooper reiterated that we “really need to focus on what language we’re using” and how that affects kids’ self esteem.

So are they going to clean up the trailer for this very terrible-looking movie? Are they going to remove this scene or change the language in light of the recent tragedies? I would hope that something is done about it soon, especially now that they’re being called out for it. I’m team Cooper. You can see the trailer here if you’re interested. Let’s not mess this post up with any photos of Vaughn, ok?

Granted, I haven’t been a Vince Vaughn fan in quite some time. Right around the time when he started gaining a lot of weight, losing his hair, and doing really stupid movies. But what the hell is Oscar-winning director Ron Howard thinking with this steaming pile of dung? Below is the trailer for the new “comedy” The Dilemma. These seems like a fake trailer that would be put in one of those spoof movies, like How To Lose The Break-Up Because He’s Just Not That Into You. The premise: does one dude tell his best bud that his wife is cheating on him. This could be a film about morality and ethics and it could have easily swung to drama. Instead, it looks like Ron Howard just took a really idiotic premise that wasn’t even enough for a 20 minute film, and filled it with poop jokes and gay jokes. WTF?

Why for the love of God would you start your trailer with one of the worst bits in the film (I’m assuming, but I guess the “Electric cars are gay” bit could be one of the highlights…)? And what the f-ck is Latifah doing in this junk? Over the weekend I just watched Latifah in a really underrated, sweet little rom-com called Just Wright. It was adorable! Latifah is so much better than playing second fiddle to Vince’s gut and whatever Kevin James is doing in this crapfest. But really, you could say that about all of the ladies – Jennifer Connelly? FOR REAL? And Winona Ryder?!? I mean, I kind of get the Winona thing, she’s at the point where she’s just taking what’s she’s being offered. But Connelly… did Ron Howard help her dispose of a hobo’s body or something?

And finally, a lament for Vince Vaughn. Who ever thought when they saw Swingers for the first time that Vince would end up a fat balding douche making an endless stream of mainstream comedies in which the real star is the endless supply of poop jokes? Vaughn was supposed to be the big breakout actor, remember? He was supposed to be, like, the next Tom Hanks or something. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by poop jokes, bloated, dumb.

My first thought when I saw that Vince Vaughn had gotten hitched to fiancée Kyla Weber was “finally!” Which is weird, because they only got engaged last February/March, so it’s not like the engagement was neverending. It just felt that way, because of all of the reports that Vince was looking for a way out, and that Vince’s overprotective mama didn’t approve, et cetera. At one point I even thought they called the whole thing off, but they didn’t. Anyway, Vince’s rep confirms that Vince and Kyla were married on January 2, in Chicago. No mention of what the bride and groom wore:

He’s a swinger no more.

Vince Vaughn married Kyla Weber in a small private ceremony before family and friends on Saturday outside of his hometown of Chicago, his rep confirms to PEOPLE.

Vaughn, 39, proposed to Weber, 31, a Canadian real estate agent, last Valentine’s Day. “They could not be happier,” a friend tells PEOPLE. The wedding took place at a historic mansion.

Vaughn told PEOPLE in September that after years as a bachelor he was ready for his life “to be about other people and other things” – even diaper duty. “It’s the first time that I really want to have kids,” he said.

The is the first marriage for Weber and the star of Swingers and Couples Retreat. Vaughn had previously dated Jennifer Aniston.

[From People]

Hm… do you think Kyla is knocked up? I doubt it, actually. They’ve been together for about two years, so I think if she was going to get pregnant to hurry things up, she would have done it earlier. Michael K at Dlisted is calling Kyla a golddigger, but I’m not so sure. Could it be that she just thought Vince was the best she could do? While I loved Vince in his early days, he looks like a man who smells and drinks too much these days. So, anyway, congratulations to the happy couple!

Vince Vaughn on the beach in Mexico on February 9, 2009. Credit: Fame.

When I first saw the pictures of Vince Vaughn out to dinner in Los Angeles over the weekend, below, I had to do a double-take. I truly thought it was John Goodman at first. Vince hasn’t looked hot in a long time, but his rapid physical decline is a little scary. He’s put on a lot of weight, and that hairline just keeps creeping back, faster than Prince William’s. Yikes.

Anyway, it looks like Vince has found a girl who will stick with him through thick and thicker. His fiancée Kyla Weber joined him at dinner at Madeo, even though he was dressed like a bad Sopranos extra. On Sunday, Kyla and Vince went to his hometown, Chicago, where they took in a Chicago Cubs game:

Vince Vaughn may be a guy’s guy, but he still knows how to treat the ladies. The actor cheered on his hometown team the Chicago Cubs as they beat the Los Angeles Dodgers yesterday and he brought along his fiance Kyla Weber for all of the fun. A onlooker gave RadarOnline.com the rundown of Vaughn’s chivalrous sports etiquette so pay attention boys!

“Vince brilliantly walked the line between devoted sports fan and doting partner with Kyla. When he wasn’t clapping and rooting for his beloved Cubs, he had his arm around her in a really easy way,” the onlooker said. “He was constantly looking over at Kyla with a smile on his face.”

“It was a beautiful Sunday in the park which they shared with each other and another couple.”

[From Radar]

I can’t even begin to describe how surprised I am. Back in May, there seemed to be a string of stories about Vince being a big ol’ mama’s boy who refused to stand up for Kyla. There were multiple stories about Vince ignoring Kyla so he could still hang out with his buddies and act like he was still the Big Man on Campus. It looks like Kyla stuck with him through a rough patch – and they might be closer than ever. But we still haven’t heard anything about a wedding date being set, have we? They got engaged in March - but still no sight of a wedding gown. Will they just end up one of those permanently engaged couples?

Vince and Kyla are shown at Dodger Stadium on 8/23/09. Credit: Jill Weisleder/LA Dodgers. They are also also shown outside Madeo in West LA on 8/22/09. Credit: Fame Pictures