Matt Damon was flanked by the two women in his life, his mother and his wife, at the premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum in Hollywood last night. It will be the third installment in the excellent Bourne series, and will be the last starring Damon. He has ruled out appearing in another sequel:

Amidst telling the press that he feels “a bit like a prostitute for putting out two number threes in one year” (to which George Clooney added, “That’s better than three number twos”), Damon said (regarding the Bourne franchise): “I’m definitely done with that. I think we’ve ridden that horse as far as we can. The character lives on in the books and if someone else wanted to play it, I guess they could.”

[Cinematical.com]

To me the Bourne series is so excellent that I don’t think it would hurt Damon’s career to continue playing the character. You can see why he’d want to move on, though.

Damon credits the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity, with saving his career. He says he was working in theater, hadn’t done a film in six months before it came out and that his last two movies had tanked. After the film came out to box office and critical acclaim he started getting offers again.

He also says it was harder to play action hero this time around. He said when the first movie came out he was 29, and that at 36 he “felt his age” when working on some of the fight scenes for Ultimatum.

He said: “There was a huge difference in the fighting stuff. The first movie, ‘The Bourne Identity’, came out when I was 29. For the third one I was 36 and I definitely felt my age.

“In one big fight scene in Tangiers, Joey Ansah, the guy I’m fighting, is only 23. He would have been in high school when the first film came out!”

[From Monsters and Critics]

The Bourne Ultimatum is out in theaters on August 3.

Here are pictures from the premiere including Julia Stiles, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. Thanks to Splash News and PRPhotos.

Natalie Portman has disappointed Star Wars fans and red-blooded males everywhere by saying that she did indeed use a body double for her role in Goya’s Ghosts.

Natalie said: “There’s a long shot of a nude woman, but it’s not me. You do see some parts of me unclothed, but if they end up on websites making it look like I’m nude, I’m going to be really, really angry.”

But she quickly redeems herself with this comment.

She said: “I’ve never a dated a woman or anything like it. But I think it’s much more about the person you fall in love with.

“Why would you close yourself off from 50 per cent of people?”

Stuff

Actually, the nude scenes aren’t sex scenes, but take place during the torture of Natalie’s character during the Spanish Inquisition. Not really masturbation fodder for Star Wars fans! Still, the whole thing has brought out the teenage boy in me.

I am so glad to have someone as beautiful as Natalie Portman coming out and saying they use a body double. Although, with digital retouching and make up and lighting, who needs a body double. We can all look that good.

There is nothing I can imagine more embarrassing than having to act in a difficult scene, naked, in front of a few dozen colleagues. I would have thought body doubles would be standard practice.

Images are from Goya’s Ghost thanks to All Movie Photo.

Katherine Heigl is set to marry her fiance, singer Josh Kelly, in a romantic intimate wedding in Utah on December 23rd. She owns land in Utah and plans to have the celebration in a big tent on her property. Her co-stars from Grey’s Anatomy will attend the two-day party, and guests will stay at a resort nearby:

Katie owns a remote piece of property in rural Utah, and she thinks it’s an ideal spot for her to walk down the aisle,” a close source told The Enquirer.

“She doesn’t want a typical Hollywood wedding in a posh hotel. She wants it to be intimate, personal and most of all, romantic. The plans are to erect a tend on the grounds of her property, fill it with flowers and candles, and be surrounded by the people who mean the most to her.”

The wedding will be a two day celebration that will include skiing as well as a ceremony and reception. Guests will stay at a nearby resort and will be shuttled back and forth to their secluded Utah compound. Kate Walsh, T.R. Knight, Ellen Pompeo and Ellen’s fiance Christopher Ivery will be in the wedding party.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, July 30, 2007]

That sounds lovely and much more practical than Eva Longoria’s ridiculous wedding. Hopefully she’ll have a better solution for heating the tent than those big space heaters they use outdoors. I’m sure they can have it outfitted with a heating system and electricity so it’s not that much different than an indoor party.

Heigl met her future husband in 2005 when she was appearing in his video for “Only You.”

The article goes on to say that Isaiah Washington, long on Heigl’s shit list, will predictably not be invited.

Claire Danes looks like she knows exactly what she’s doing while bending over in this loose blouse without a bra during an appearance on Canadian MTV to promote her movie Stardust. I hadn’t heard of the movie before, but I guess I have now. Boobs have always been an effective marketing tool.

Danes is in two movies opening this summer, Evening and Stardust. In Evening she plays a young Vanessa Redgrave. Redgrave’s character is dying and reminisces about her youth. It also stars Meryl Streep and Toni Collette. Stardust is a fantasy based on an illustrated novel by Neil Gaiman. Danes plays a star who becomes human in a mythical kingdom. [Details from The Detroit Free Press]

Danes will make her Broadway debut this fall in “Pygmalion” at New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company. She will play Eliza Doolittle, who wouldn’t have let a little boob slip faze her before she was brainwashed into being a lady.

First image from INFDaily. Last two images from WENN.

The Hoff has opened up about the drunken burger-eating video seen ’round the world. The video showed the Hoff shoveling food into his mouth while lying down, and was leaked by one of his daughters in an effort to help him get sober. At first it was thought that it would hurt his chances of receiving custody of his two daughters in his divorce battle with his estranged wife, but The Hoff handled everything well and eventually won full custody.

Now he’s talking about the infamous video and thinks that everything happens for a reason:

Despite the furore over the video, Hasselhoff decided to take time out of work to devote himself to his two daughters Taylor Ann and Hayley Amber, and was thrilled when a judge awarded him full legal custody of the girls during his court battle with ex-wife Pamela Bach.

He says: “I guess that is a good word for it (the response to the video) – nonsense.

“It was really nonsensical and none of that needed to happen. But in the end, you know, I tried to find a reason for it all and I found that reason. And that reason was that everything had to come to some sort of closure to move on. That has helped.

“It hasn’t been easy for me or my children, or my ex, but it was life is about.” [sic]

[From Ireland Online via Socialite's Life]

What a great philosophy The Hoff has. You have to admire the guy for conquering his well-publicized demons. Plus it’s not like he was committing a crime. It must be painful for his family to see him go through that and I’m not dismissing alcoholism, but he wasn’t drinking and driving or beating the crap out of anyone.

Crazy Days and Nights has a great pictorial of the evolution of David Hasselhoff. They say he “is having a rebirth by playing the stereotype he had become” and that “He’s this generation’s William Shatner.” He doesn’t have any acting gigs coming up according to IMDB, but maybe that will change soon. He’s still an attractive guy, I mean you can tell he had work done but it’s not that obvious, and he’s fit. There’s got to be a ongoing TV role out there for him.

- Hilary Duff is dating a professional hockey player [Socialite's Life]
- Tyra Banks has a new boyfriend [Bossip]
- Sharon Stone is dating Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson [Gabsmash]
- Jennifer Lopez’s bad fashion I’m Not Obsessed]
- Citizen Kane is overrated [Pajiba]
- Paris Hilton is finally doing charity [Bastardly]
- Mary Louise Parker’s Nude Weeds Ad [Egotastic]
- Kate Hudson directs a movie [PopSugar]
- Angelina Jolie gained some weight finally [ICYDK]
- Angelina Jolie is bummed out that A Mighty Heart didn’t do well at the box office [CelebWarship]
- Larry Birkhead is selling more pictures of Dannielynn. [Evil Beet]
- Prince von Anhalt, the wildcard baby daddy in the Anna Nicole saga, was left naked and handcuffed to his sterring wheel [DListed]
- Lucy Pinder in a Bikini [Drunken Stepfather]
- New Johnny Depp marriage rumors. I think his girlfriend is really hot. I seriously do. [Celebslam]
- Matt Damon in new environmental protection ad [Just Jared]
- Ali Lohan says her dad is lying [The Blemish]
- Lindsay caught on tape in Hoff burger-eating mode [Agent Bedhead]
- How did Scarlet Johansson buy a house in LA for under a million? [Hollywood Rag]
- Blind item: former 80s television star is a drug addict with a broken-down home [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Shirtless David Beckham on the cover of an Argentinian magazine [popbytes]
- Eva Longoria Does BeBe Sport [The Grumpiest]
- Snoop roasts Flavor Flav [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Hayden Panettiere says she’s normal and all [Glitterati]
- Keely Hazell at the Simpsons Movie premiere [Derek Hail]
- Ryan Phillippe and his kids [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Keira Knightley and lots of other big stars will be at the Toronto Film Festival this year [Lifeline Live]

Naomi Watts had a baby boy Wednesday at 3:59 p.m. in Los Angeles. Alexander Pete Schreiber weighed in at 8lb, 4oz, and 22 1/2 inches long. He is the first child for Watts, 38, and her boyfriend Liev Schreiber, 39.

While most everyone assumed she was past her due date, Life & Style quotes an insider who says that the baby was actually early:

“Naomi was planning on giving birth next week– her due date was early August — but since she insisted on delivering naturally, she knew there was a chance she would have the baby before the due date. That’s what wound up happening.”

[Life & Style]

Naomi’s rep say they’re “doing great” and that the new parents are “ecstatic.” Congratulations to Naomi and Liev, that’s great news and we can’t wait to see their new arrival!

“What, so early?” you ask. (At least that’s what to sprung to mind when I read the headline.)

It turns out Nicole is going to cop a plea in her DUI case from December when she was found driving the wrong way on the freeway. She has an earlier DUI conviction from 2002, and under California law she faces a mandatory 5 days in jail. On Friday she will appear in court, and the judge will sentence her on the spot.

On June 20, Nicole was ordered to stand trial for her DUI on July 11, or within 10 days of that date. Friday will be past the ten day deadline, and I wonder how she worked that out.

I bet Nicole wants to avoid a media circus trial and is scared she’ll be made an example of given the recent high-profile arrest of Lindsay following Paris’ stint in prison. She’s undoubtedly pregnant at this point, and has been lying low amid rumors that she’s having trouble with her probable baby-daddy, Joel Madden. She has been touring with him, and has popped up in the upstate NY city of Rochester and in other out of the way locations while he makes promotional appearances for his band, Good Charlotte. The two were seen fighting in public recently, but it may have just been a minor incident over what size bra Nicole wears. (Follow the link, I’m not making this up.)

Nicole will break her silence with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an interview to air next week. It will be shown on Good Morning America on August 2 and 3, and on 20/20 on August 3. I wonder if she’ll already be in jail at that point.

How crazy is it that Nicole, Paris and/or Lindsay might end up doing jail time this year? Add Britney Spears to the mix and I’ll be in gossip heaven.

The images here are older ones. The header is from late May and the one below is from mid June. Also, I have not gloated for this yet, but I believe we were the first to call Richie pregnant.

TMZ is at the forefront of investigative journalism yet again and is featuring interviews with the three guys who were unwilling passengers in the car with Lohan the night she was arrested for DUI. The three witnesses detail the night in question, and it’s apparent that not only did Lohan drive drunk in a car that wasn’t hers, she put countless people’s lives at risk and ignored repeated pleas to get her to slow down, let out the passengers, and/or listen to reason. Several times she repeated the claim that she was a celebrity and above the law. She ran stop signs and stop lights, did circles around the car she was chasing on the Pacific Coast Highway, and could have killed herself, any or all of the passengers in her car as well as multiple other drivers and/or pedestrians. Given the way she was driving recklessly and how wasted she was it’s a wonder that the worst injury was a hurt foot. This woman needs to go to jail for at least a month for this stunt, the second time she was busted for DUI in less than three months.

Here is the whole sordid tale, as told by the three passengers in the car in the interview videos available on TMZ.

Lohan lures her prey
On the night in question Dante Nigro, a friend of the boyfriend of Linday’s assistant, was texted by the assistant that Lindsay wanted to invite him to a party in Malibu. (It does not seem as if the party was at Lindsay’s house, as was previously reported, and sounds like it was somewhere else from the statements given.) Dante’s friends Jakon Sutter and Robbie Blake came with him to the party, but were not allowed in so they waited outside in Dante’s car.

Dante said Lohan was drinking at the party and that he did a shot with her. He said “every time I saw her she had a drink in her hand.”

Lohan’s assistant fights with her boyfriend then quits her job when Lohan yells at her
He said there was “a confrontation outside between [Lindsay's] assistant and [the assistant's] boyfriend… They get into some sort of, like a verbal argument, I don’t know, basically he’s our friend and he wants to leave, and so there’s this whole big mess and Lindsay comes out of the house and she starts yelling at her assistant saying ‘You know, you need to be quiet, blah blah blah’ and that’s when her assistant is like ‘You what know, I quit, I’m done, I don’t even care, I’m over working for you’… everyone heard her.”

Dante and his friend Ronnie Blake answered the interviewer’s question about how drunk Lohan was and said she looked really inebriated. Ronnie says “I don’t know what kind of drugs she was on, but she was raging and seemed real crazy like she lost her mind.”

All three guys agree that she was acting wild and aggressive. Then Dante explains how they ended up passengers in Lohan’s crazy mobile. He says that the three of him were in his car, and that he was riding shotgun and their friend, the boyfriend of Lohan’s assistant, was about to drive. The assistant Tarin pulled him out though and ran to her car to drive away.

Lohan grabs the keys to the guy’s car and drives away with three people in it. One guy escapes and Lohan runs over his foot
Lindsay then reached over Dante in the passenger seat and pulled the key out of his ignition. She jumped into the drivers seat and started to chase after Tarin’s car. Ronnie was in the back and he jumped out of the moving car. Lindsay ran over his foot with the car, and didn’t even stop! He shows a bandaged foot and says he doesn’t know if Lindsay knew she ran over him, although he was screaming at the car. He then got help from the assistant’s boyfriend, who was there with him at the side of the road.

Lohan chases her assistant recklessly, resists repeated attempts to get her to stop or slow down, keeps insisting she’s a celebrity and can do whatever she wants
Dante grabbed the wheel and put his hand on the parking brake to try and get Lindsay to stop driving and she said “if you touch me, I’ll sue you!” The other guy left in the car, Jakon, says they were pleading with her to pull over and that she was going 100 MPH on the Pacific Coast Highway. He said Lindsay was doing circles around the assistant’s car on the PCH! They said Lohan did three circles around the assistant’s car and was running red lights.

Dante said he told her “you’re going to kill us,” and she said “I can’t get in trouble, I’m a celebrity, I can do whatever the f&*# I want.”

Assistant loses Lohan, so she goes to the assistant’s mother’s house and chases the mother’s car
The assistant eventually lost them in Santa Monica. Lindsay decided the assistant was going to her mother’s house, and she started running stop signs in an attempt to get there as quick as possible and almost got in a head-on collision. Right when they pulled up to the assistant’s mother’s house, another car, a black Escalade, was pulling into the driveway. It was the assistant’s mother’s car. Dante ran out of the car and said he wanted to tell Tarin to get out of her car and not drive anymore.

Dante ran back to the car, with the intent of throwing it into park to protect his friend in the back. At that point the Escalade driven by the assistant’s mother was driving backwards down the street to escape Lindsay, and Dante was back in the car.

The Escalade got away and Lohan sped down the street going 80 chasing after it in a residential zone. She ran every red light possible, crossing four way intersections. The two guys kept pleading with her and she said “I can do whatever I want, you want to see?”

Assistant’s mother leads Lindsay’s car to the police station
Then Dante realized that the assistant’s mother’s car was leading them to the police station in Santa Monica, and he told her about it. She said “I don’t care I’m a celebrity, I can get away with whatever, I’m not going to get in trouble.” Dante swears she said this when the interviewer questioned him about it.

And Dante says she threatened them earlier, saying if they came forward with any of this information something would happen to them, like she would sue them.

Lohan says “I wasn’t driving, the black guy was driving,” but was found out and taken in after failing the field sobriety test
They ended up at the parking lot at the police station, and Lindsay got out of the car, ignored the cops that were there specifically to apprehend her, acted like nothing was wrong and went up to the Escalade. The cops arrested her, and she said “I wasn’t driving, the black guy was driving.” They say she was yelling at them saying “Tell them I wasn’t driving. Tell them I didn’t do anything.”

The cops then question Jakon and he maintained that he wasn’t driving. They gave Lohan the field sobriety test and she failed. The two guys that could have easily been killed on that long and scary car chase were only allowed to leave after the Escalade got a police escort out, as the assistant’s mother was scared that she will still be chased despite the fact that Lindsay had been apprehended.

They then went back to pick up their friend Ronnie, who was still nursing his hurt foot at the side of the road on the Pacific Coast Highway. The assistant’s boyfriend was also still with him.

Conclusion: Lock her up
The guys said they feared for their life, that this was the craziest ride they’ve ever been on, and that Lohan was unrepentant and acted as if she didn’t do anything wrong. They said “definitely if that was us, we would be in jail right now, we definitely wouldn’t get bail.”

As I mentioned in the introduction, this is outrageous and Lohan needs to go away for quite a while. Two stints in rehab didn’t help this self-centered and careless woman, and I don’t know if jail will either, but at least she’ll pay for her actions.

Hollyscoop has an exclusive that Lindsay is broke, having wasted all her money on drugs. Well now she’ll have some huge lawyer bills and hopefully she won’t be employed for a very long time. While her career prospects seemed better to me before hearing this story, now I hope she’s burned all of her chances at any kind of music or movie career. Sound harsh? So is killing people. Everyone knows you’re not supposed to get behind the wheel when you’ve been drinking, and no matter how much your judgment is impaired there’s no excuse. She took these guys hostage and told them to suck it when they told her she could end up killing them. She needs to go to jail.

Lopez and her husband of an unexpectedly long three years, Marc Anthony, were at the premiere of their new film El Cantante at Times Square AMC Theater in New York last night. The film stars Lopez and Anthony as Puerto Rican salsa signer Hector Lavoe and his wife. Lavoe helped shape the future of Latin music in the 60s and 70s, and eventually succumbed to Aids brought on by drug addiction.

This movie is getting mixed reviews, and the prospects don’t look good at the box office. The music is said to be excellent and Lopez and Anthony have good on-screen chemistry, but it’s but not good enough to save the film, which some say has a thin plot and not enough character development. Variety cans the film, and says the visuals are average and seem more suited to television than the big screen.

Here is Variety’s summary:

For “El Cantante,” someone left the salsa out on the counter too long. A virtual template of every imaginable cliche of the musical biopic, pic suffers from a lack of narrative and character focus, partly stemming from the need for producer-star Jennifer Lopez (whose shingle Nuyorican Prods. has nurtured the project) to have a co-leading part with substantial playing time alongside Marc Anthony, who portrays famed, drug-addled salsa star Hector Lavoe. While pic’s assured a few good weeks based on J-Lo’s fan base, this gig is headed South in short order.

I’ve also heard that it’s being called Gigli 2, and Cinemablend says “if someone manages to make a worse film this year that’ll be quite an accomplishment,” but it’s doubtful that it’s really that bad. Everyone has been guessing that even if it does have some redeeming qualities it will tank at the box office, and there’s speculation that J.Lo’s career is in trouble. Her last film which she produced and starred in, Bordertown, was said to give a B movie treatment to the important story of the real-life unsolved murders of hundreds of young women in Mexican border towns. It was met with harsh reviews at the Berlin film festival this year and has not yet been released in theaters after problems securing a distributor.

While Anthony and Lopez look happy in the pictures taken before the premiere, shown below, they look decidedly dejected after the film was shown, as seen in the header image above. All the other pictures I’ve seen of Anthony and Lopez leaving the premiere have them in the same foul mood. It looks as if it didn’t go well as all the pictures from the departure show them looking disappointed and/or upset.

There La Lopez goes again with the bad makeup. Her fashion isn’t terrible, but that bleeding peach lipstick that’s perfectly matched to the color of her Grecian-style dress needs to go. She also went overboard on the spray tan, but at least it’s brown and not orange. Still, she was looking rather pretty until the smile was wiped off her face completely, perhaps by the audience’s reaction to the film.

Maybe she’ll be in a better mood once she goes back to what she does best, music. She’ll be touring with her husband starting in the fall.

El Cantante is out in theaters on August 1 3.

Update: We may have been incorrect in assuming that the premiere did not go well, as a commentor claims to have been in the audience and says:

I was at the premier on Thurs and the audience reaction was incredible. Standing O’s all around. And rightfully so. I’m not saying J Lo is the best actress out there but with El Cantante she has something to really be proud of.