High School Musical Los Angeles Times Sucker Punch Vanessa Hudgens

April 11th, 2011

Vanessa Hudgens is doing her best to leave behind some of her more infamous publicity.

During a conversation with the Los Angeles Times, the “High School Musical” star reflects on her various racy photo scandals, the most recent of which led to FBI involvement.

In each case, private (and occasionally graphic) pictures of Hudgens were leaked online.

“It’s just silly because I’m a very present person, and that’s the thing that has been so in the past,” says the actress. “The fact that somebody keeps bringing up the past is just selfish.”

Ashton Kutcher Justin Bieber Los Angeles Times Punk'D What Would Kenny Do?

March 31st, 2011

What do Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher have in common, aside from their mutual love of pranks?

A new movie, perhaps!

The Los Angeles Times reports that Bieber is in talks to star in a new comedy with Kutcher. Would you like to see this happen?

A Few Good Men El Presidente Jack Nicholson Jessica Simpson Los Angeles Times Perez Hilton Tom Cruise

October 7th, 2010

Perez Hilton and a number of other outlets rushed to post a rumor (originating on a Los Angeles Times blog) that claimed that Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson are primed to reunite for a movie called ‘El Presidente.’

The film supposedly involves Cruise as a Secret Service agent assigned to protect an ex-president played by Nicholson.

Cruise and Nicholson, of course, shared some famously tense courtroom moments in 1992′s military drama ‘A Few Good Men.’

Date Night Julie & Julia Los Angeles Times Meryl Streep Meryl Streep Tina Fey movie Mommy & Me Mommy and Me Stanley Tucci The Devil Wears Prada Tina Fey Tina Fey Meryl Streep movie

July 16th, 2010

The Los Angeles Times reports that Meryl Streep and Tina Fey could co-star in a movie called “Mommy & Me,” to be directed by Streep pal Stanley Tucci.

It should be noted that the project does not yet have a script or writers. But the Times says the leading ladies and Tucci have been shopped — as a package — to a number of interested studios.

guy de maupassant Los Angeles Times Nicole Kidman Perez Hilton perez hilton wrong Robert Pattinson screen Daily ScreenDaily.com

November 4th, 2009

ScreenDaily.com reports, “In an intriguing star pairing, Twilight sensation Robert Pattinson is teaming with Nicole Kidman to star in Bel Ami, the film of Guy De Maupassant’s erotically charged story of ambition, power and seduction.” Are they really pairing up?

Harvey Los Angeles Times NY Daily News Perez Hilton Robert Downey Jr. Steven Spielberg

October 1st, 2009

There’s been a bad habit recently of reporting Hollywood casting possibilities as though they’re done deals. Today a number of outlets announced that Robert Downey, Jr. had landed the lead in Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1950 Jimmy Stewart classic “Harvey.”

Anna Nicole Smith Howard K. Stern Los Angeles Times overdose trial Playboy sex and drugs

September 22nd, 2009

Just five days after Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel died from an accidental drug death, one of her doctors prescribed, what the pharmacist termed, “pharmaceutical suicide.”

So what exactly did Smith’s doctor try to get her? 300 tablets of methadone, two different kinds of sedatives, an anti-inflammatory drug, a muscle relaxer, and four bottles of a painkiller that’s known as “heroin hospital.”

The pharmacist, who refused to fill the prescriptions, thought, “They are going to kill her with this.” But that’s not all.

Fandango Kristen Stewart Los Angeles Times MovieTickets New Moon Robert Pattinson Taylor Lautner Twilight

September 20th, 2009

“New Moon” hits movie theaters in exactly two months from today. According to the Los Angeles Times,” the “Twilight” sequel, starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, “is selling out screenings earlier than any other movie to date.” That is some record. What are you waiting for?