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Rob, Diane, and More Make For amfAR Highlights at Cannes

PopSugar — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:18:38 -0700

Another Cannes red carpet lit up today, but this time it was about charity instead of movies as the stars came out for Sharon Stone's annual amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2009 benefit. After a long night of partying with Brad and Angelina, Joshua Jackson accompanied Diane Kruger to the event, while Paris and Doug represented a different kind of couple. Robert Pattinson didn't need a leading lady on his arm to stand out in another dapper suit and Josh Hartnett also provided some eye candy for the ladies. The festival is starting to wind down, but the celebs still seem to be bringing out their best to the hectic schedule of events.

Lots more photos including Elizabeth Hurley, Zoe Saldana, Kerry Washington, and more, so read more.

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Images include: Joshua Jackson, Diane Kruger, Robert Pattinson, Paris Hilton, Doug Reinhardt, Verne Troyer, Donatella Versace, Ivana Trump, Mike Myers, Josh Hartnett, Robin Wright Penn, 50 Cent, Annie Lennox, Claudia Schiffer, Elizabeth Hurley, Eva Green, Kenneth Cole, Peaches Geldof, Roberta Armani, Zoe Saldana, Zhang Ziyi, Sharon Stone, Kerry Washington, Michelle Yeoh, Dita Von Teese

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Brad, Diane and Quentin Bring Inglourious Basterds to Cannes

PopSugarUK — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:56:09 -0700

After dining with Angelina last night, Brad Pitt got down to business at the Cannes Film Festival this morning. He slipped into a pale suit, scarf and sunnies to join Diane Kruger and Quentin Tarantino for the Inglourious Basterds photocall at the Palais Des Festivals: check out new clips from the film after the jump. The trio were joined by fellow cast and crew members Mike Myers, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Lawrence Bender, Eli Roth and Michael Fassbender. I'm looking forward to seeing them at the red carpet premiere tonight, are you?

To see loads more pictures of Brad, Diane, Quentin and the gang, plus three new clips from the movie itself, just read more.

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Images include: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Quentin Tarantino, Melanie Laurent, Mike Myers, Christoph Waltz, Lawrence Bender, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender

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Sugar Bits - The Love Guru and Paris Win At The Razzies

PopSugarUK — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:17:34 -0800

The Love Guru has won three awards at the Razzies - the antithesis to the Oscars. The prizes included Worst Actor for Mike Myers and Worst Picture. Meanwhile Paris Hilton won both Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress. - BBC
Kings of Leon's Only By The Night has returned to number on in the album charts, while Lily Allen's "The Fear" remains at number one in the singles charts. - PA
Slumdog Millionaire won eight awards at the 2009 Oscars in LA last night. ICYMI here's the full list of winners!
Melinda Messenger was voted off Dancing On Ice last night, after landing in the bottom two with Jessica Taylor. - The Sun
The Screen Actors Guild has rejected the "last, best and final offer" from Hollywood's biggest studios for a new contract. This could lead to a strike among actors in the US. - BBC

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Announcing the, Um, "Winners": The 2009 Razzies

BuzzSugar — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:50:38 -0800

On the day when we celebrate Hollywood's finest, let's also take a moment to celebrate its worst. The 2009 Razzies were presented on Saturday, dinging The Love Guru with the title of Worst Picture and putting three separate awards in Paris Hilton's hands.

Hilton was named both Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress, plus she nabbed a share of Worst Screen Couple for The Hottie and the Nottie. Meanwhile, The Love Guru ended up with three total awards as well, adding Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay to its haul. Amazingly, The Happening emerged unscathed, despite its four nominations.

To check out a full list of (dubious) honorees, just read more.

WORST PICTURE
The Love Guru

WORST ACTOR
Mike Myers, The Love Guru

WORST ACTRESS
Paris Hilton, The Hottie and the Nottie

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Paris Hilton, Repo: The Genetic Opera

WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, The Hottie and the Nottie

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIPOFF, OR SEQUEL
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

WORST DIRECTOR
Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King, and Postal

WORST SCREENPLAY
The Love Guru, written by Mike Myers & Graham Gordy

WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Uwe Boll

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Buzz News Roundup, 8/15

BuzzSugar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:30:38 -0700

Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black are filming a pilot for Comedy Central. - Zap2it
Mike Myers is joining the peculiar cast (Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg, Eli Roth, B.J. Novak) for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. - ComingSoon
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame annex will open in downtown Manhattan. - Billboard
Sigourney Weaver will play a therapist on Eli Stone, while Audrina Patridge will guest-star on Do Not Disturb. - TV Guide
Liam Neeson and possibly Javier Bardem will join Orlando Bloom in the untitled dramatic film about Sarajevo. - Variety
David Duchovny and Tea Leoni will star together in the comedy Born to Rock. - Hollywood Reporter
Director Matthew Vaughn will direct an adaptation of the comic book Kick-Ass, with Christopher Mintz-Plasse in negotiations to star. - ComingSoon
Singer/songwriter Jackson Browne is suing John McCain and the Republican party for using his song "Running on Empty" in a TV commercial. - Billboard
Claire Danes will play Temple Grandin in an HBO biopic. - Hollywood Reporter

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Buzz News Roundup, 8/1

BuzzSugar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:29:57 -0700

Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.

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Pop Poll: Austin Powers 4 – Yay? Or Shhhhh!?

PopSugarUK — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0700

Today rumours reached my ears that Mike Myers is writing Austin Powers 4, a movie that would focus on the relationship between Dr Evil and his son Scott. Now, these two have always been a high point of the original trilogy for me, partly because of a little crush I had on Seth Green, and partly because their relationship is one of the most endearing parts of the whole Austin Powers franchise. With The Love Guru frankly getting bad buzz, do you think a fourth Austin Powers movie could bring Mike Myers back to the forefront of comedy? Or do you think it's an idea best left in the 90s?

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BuzzSugar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:30:51 -0700

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Has Mike Myers Lost His Touch?

PopSugar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0700

Mike Myers's The Love Guru hits theaters today, and so far the reviews have been flat-out awful. Check out what Buzz has to say here. It's his first non-animated movie in years, but his last film, The Cat and the Hat, wasn't received that well either. So tell us - do you think Mike has lost his touch?

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The Love Guru: Oh, Hell No

BuzzSugar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:19 -0700

I'm having a hard time with the old axiom "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all" while figuring out how to share my thoughts on the new Mike Myers comedy (and by the way, that categorization is a stretch) The Love Guru. I have to be honest, I've been sitting on this for a few days now, and I'm hard-pressed to find a single decent thing to say about it. There is juvenile, there is crude, there is downright not funny. . . and then there is this movie.

In addition to the general unfunniness, watching The Love Guru is practically unbearable due to the desperation that permeates the entire film. It's hard to tell if Myers realized most of the shticks were lame, or if he felt that because he's Mike Meyers people will laugh, so he has carte blanche to go as low as he's ever felt like going. The camera is so close to his face for so much of the film, we see every bit of manic energy going into each line, and he uses this intense stare to practically will (or beg?) us to find it all hilarious. It's sad. And uncomfortable. Not even Justin Timberlake in speedos with a funny Canadian accent can salvage this attempt at humor.

If you're curious about what I found specifically mind boggling about this movie, read more.

Here's what's baffling to me: it's not like the world of self-actualization and New Age philosophies (not to mention the rabid celebrity followings these things can sometimes attract) aren't easy targets for comedians. I'm curious why Myers didn't create a ridiculous hybrid of these "gurus" as a way of perhaps poking fun at the self-help industry. Instead he goes way over the top into Indian culture and Hinduism, and if I wasn't reeling from the idiocy of the jokes I probably would have noticed that I was also offended. We're talking about Indians fighting each other with urine and eating "weird" foods that look like a man's scrotum, not to mention lame attempts at Bollywood-style musical numbers.

In the end, the worst crime committed by Myers is a strange, self-obsessed unwillingness to edit himself at all. In fact, he laughs at his own jokes three out of four times throughout the movie. And in an eerie twist, it's as if he knows we're not laughing because he drills many of the gags into the ground, I guess using some nutty rationale that the 90th time's the charm. For example, his greeting to all his subjects is the name of Law & Order actress, Mariska Hargitay. Everyone says "Mariska Hargitay" each time they greet each other and it's not funny. And then to prove to us that it is funny - Hello! Don't you get it? It's not a real greeting, it's the actress! Mariska Hargitay! - Mariska Hargitay herself shows up to greet Myer's character with a "Mariska Hargitay" and. . . nope, still not funny. Just annoying, now.

Whatever fine line Myers has walked in the past between base humor and staying true to the memorable (if absurd) character he's playing, he took a flying leap over it with this film and it's heartbreaking to see.

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