Seal is still still wearing his wedding ring, and what's more, he's still discussing his split from his wife of nearly seven years, Heidi Klum.
Most recently, he talked about the breakup with Piers Morgan (who I, personally, would not trust with so much as an Easy-Bake Oven).
USA Today has the story:
"It doesn't really make sense," Seal said in an appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. "The truth of the matter is all I can tell you most sincerely is that it wasn't any one particular thing."
Uuuuug...
On Thursday, Ryan Gosling attended the Hua Hin International Film Festival in Bangkok as its guest of honor. There, the Hollywood Reporter had the audacity to ask Gosling whether he felt snubbed by the Academy. But Gosling, who has repeatedly proven himself as a class act, was unbudgingly gracious.
Gosling was also quick to squash the notion he had been "passed-over" twice recently. First, after not being voted the Sexiest Man Alive, which his loyal fans protested outside the People Magazine offices in New York earlier this year. But the actor told THR: "I vo...
I know, I know. I keep talking about Tilda. "We need to talk about Tilda." (I think I cover Tilda with the frequency and fervor I ordinarily reserve for Neil Patrick Harris.)
But Tilda gives a good interview---although, to be sure, sometimes her quotes can come off as icy or brittle. But in taped interviews, her sense of humor---about filmmaking and parenthood both---really shines. She is eccentric but not spastic, and she is very, very gracious.
"I try and steer clear of anyone who has an opinion, really," Swinton tells Jon Stewart in a recent episode of The Daily Show. She says this very wryly, and she is laughing, but she isn't really kidding.
She cops to exerting a certain amount of creative control on all the film projects she funds. But wouldn't she like to direct? "No. No, no, no. No. No, no, no. No." (I didn't count how many times she said "No" in a row, actually, but there were several of them.)
"So that's a 'maybe,'" Stewart replies.
"I'm too lazy, by far," she tells him. The audience laughs. "No, really," she says.
"So you produce [We Need to Talk About Kevin], you act in the movie, but directing, that is where you draw the line," Stewart says.
"Absolutely impossible," she concedes seriously. Oh, lord. We live in a word where Madonna wants to direct every movie, while Tilda Swinton wants to direct nothing.
Stewart and Swinton turn the conversation to parenthood, and it's really charming. (Swinton has two 14-year olds, you guys. Two!)
"They're great!" she says, really earnest.
Anyway, again, sorry about all the Tilda. I am trying to cut back on the number of Daily Show clips I post, too. I can't help it, people! I really love how easygoing celebrities become when Stewart interviews them. And don't get me started on the time Cameron Diaz removed Jon Stewart's stitches on television. It was as disgusting as it was amazing. />
I know, I know. I keep talking about Tilda. "We need to talk about Tilda." (I think I cover Tilda with the frequency and fervor I ordinarily reserve for Neil Patrick Harris.)
But Tilda gives a good interview---although, to be sure, sometimes her quotes can come off as icy or brittle. But in taped interviews, her sense of humor---about filmmaking and parenthood both---really shines. She is eccentric but not spastic, and she is very, very gracious.
"I try and steer clear of anyone who has an opinion, really," Swinton tel...
If you're anything like I am, you are becoming more obsessed with Madonna by the day. I don't know---it's like I forgot to be obsessed with Madonna from 1984 to 2008, and then some wire was tripped.
Of course you'll want to read all the best snippets from this L.A. Times interview with Madonna, director of the award-winning-but-only-for-the-music film W.E.
Here is a thing Madonna said in the interview: "I don't like to repeat myself." (Which is weird to me, because Madonna sure talks ab...
File it under "You Didn't Hear It From Us": numerous reports this week claimed that Oprah had been crowned godmother of Beyonce and Jay-Z's infant daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.
I am pleased to announce that you never read any such thing here at Evil Beet Gossip. But boy, if we had reported it, we'd be eating crow right about now.
Oprah's bestie Gayle King sets the record straight (via Pop2it):
"It's absolutely not true that she's the godmother," King said. "She's friends with them, of course, and likes them both v...
Here is something I did not know: Demi Moore was originally slated to play Gloria Steinem in the bio-pic Lovelace.
This shocked me because---I'm sorry if this is rude, but---wasn't Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle the last thing anyone saw Demi in? And even that was stunt casting. Does Demi really even act anymore?
And it's all so sad because, like, Demi Moore really was the most talented person to come out of St. Elmo's Fire, you guys. But the one-two punch of Striptease and G.I. Jane ...
Jim Henson died in 1990, yet his work continues to live and breathe.
But before he was known as the creator of the Muppets, Henson did a lot of odd jobs, including some commercial work.
AT&T---which, of course, began as the Southwestern Bell Corporation---recently rediscovered this 1963 movie by Henson. So they dusted it off and slapped it up on YouTube!
The Huffington Post:
The film, made for the company then known as The Bell System, was shown at a seminar for leaders of the then-nascent data-communications field. AT&T, which rustled up the video from Henson's archive and put it on its YouTube page, writes that the film was inspired by an executive named Ted Mills and his memo to Henson, which described the relationship between man and machine this way: "He [the robot] is sure that All Men Basically Want to Play Golf, and not run businesses---if he can do it better."
"Robot" features a cold, unfeeling machine consuming "oceans of information" as it derides the laziness and emotional vulnerability of man. It's a fun, dark little piece with a kicker that will leave you smiling.
It isn't much of a "kicker" exactly, but the point is, machines will never replace people because all machines eventually break. And as corporations get more and more faceless---more "robotic," really---I can't help but wish we had another Jim Henson.
I am really in love with this type of puppeteering, you guys. The machine is supposed to be this cruel, cold thing, but he's actually really cute! He has googly eyes! He burps! It is even cute when he murders a little bird. Jim Henson was a genius!
Last year, Jim Henson would have celebrated his 75th birthday. />
Jim Henson died in 1990, yet his work continues to live and breathe.
But before he was known as the creator of the Muppets, Henson did a lot of odd jobs, including some commercial work.
AT&T---which, of course, began as the Southwestern Bell Corporation---recently rediscovered this 1963 movie by Henson. So they dusted it off and slapped it up on YouTube!
The Huffington Post:
The film, made for the company then known as The Bell System, was shown at a seminar for leaders of the then-n...
So late last night I suddenly realized, gosh, I've hardly read about Sundance this year. Like, OK, it isn't Cannes (shrug), but I am pretty sure we all used to take Sundance a little more seriously. Maybe I just feel that way because I really like the Sundance catalogue, with all its loom-woven Navajo shawls and hammered jewelry. Who knows.
Uh, anyway, guess what. There is a documentary about Chris Crocker. And guess what else. It premiered at Sundance. It's a nominee for the Grand Jury Priz...
Uh, here is something I did not know: in the early 1980s, Pat Sajak was not always sober when he hosted Wheel of Fortune.
Turns out that, in the olden days, taping paused for very long dinner breaks. Sajak and Vanna White would leave the studio, head to a nearby Mexican restaurant, and order margaritas:
Vanna and I would go across [the street] and have two or three or six and then come and do the last shows and have trouble recognizing the alphabet. They're really good tapes to get hold of.
Man, I bet they are. I bet they're great tapes to get ahold of---right up there with that one video of Drunk Alex Trebek (NSFW!).
The full interview is very, very funny, by the way. I did know---because I have watched Pat Sajak's old weatherman videos---that Sajak is naturally hilarious and really animated, so I wasn't as surprised by this as I might've been.
As Sajak points out, Wheel was a really different show in the early 1980s, insofar as there were a lot of prizes onstage. Before Merv Griffin handpicked Sajak to host, Wheel of Fortune actually starred Chuck Woolery.
Sajak goes on to add that, at his advanced age (he's already 65! Crazy), just sniffing a wine cork might cause him to "keel over. …Although I am hammered at this very moment." Ha, ha! He might be kidding, but I doubt he is. Sajak is giving an interview drunk! Perfect. />
Uh, here is something I did not know: in the early 1980s, Pat Sajak was not always sober when he hosted Wheel of Fortune.
Turns out that, in the olden days, taping paused for very long dinner breaks. Sajak and Vanna White would leave the studio, head to a nearby Mexican restaurant, and order margaritas:
Vanna and I would go across [the street] and have two or three or six and then come and do the last shows and have trouble recognizing the alphabet. They're really good tapes to get hold of.
...
"But Newt Gingrich is an idiot. …There is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him that it's hard to take him seriously. So let's not take him seriously."
---Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are, responds to Stephen Colbert's assertion that "children don't have a work ethic."
I love Maurice Sendak. As you'll recall, he "can't stand" Gwyneth Paltrow, called Salman Rushdie a "flaccid f---khead," and is glad Roald Dahl is dead. But Sendak is so nice! So it's all very funny! He is basically the best ever.
Lately he doesn't like Newt Gingrich either. Honestly, if Gingrich is just an "idiot," he is getting off pretty light.
Sendak also dislikes "adults," which pretty well wraps up most of the rest of humankind. Sendak doesn't know who Vin Diesel is, but if he had an inkling, Sendak might dislike Vin Diesel, too. I mean, it's a pretty good bet.
This whole Colbert interview is great. Sendak thinks a Where The Wild Things Are book and movie sequel would be, not only boring, but "the most boring idea imaginable!"
Sendak does call Colbert a "man of little imagination," but I shared Sendak's astonishment when Colbert went on to hold up a literal bag of dicks. Watch the interview. It's amazing. />The Colbert Report
"But Newt Gingrich is an idiot. …There is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him that it's hard to take him seriously. So let's not take him seriously."
---Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are, responds to Stephen Colbert's assertion that "children don't have a work ethic."
I love Maurice Sendak. As you'll recall, he "can't stand" Gwyneth Paltrow, called Salman Rushdie a "flaccid f---khead," and is glad Roald Dahl is dead. But Sendak is so nice! So it's all very funny! He is basically the best ever.
Lately he doesn't like Newt Ging...
This is so great.
Yesterday, Patton Oswalt sent Albert Brooks---who really ought to have been nominated for his sinister turn in Drive---a hail of tweets about a hypothetical party that was going down without him. Things like "Dude, GET DOWN HERE. Gosling is doing keg stands" and "Fassbender just showed up in a pirate hat," which uh, honestly, I can somehow picture this being a Fassbender thing.
Anyway, the very idea of an raucous Oscar-outcasts party is just beyond delightful. So Benn...
Seal is still still wearing his wedding ring, and what's more, he's still discussing his split from his wife of nearly seven years, Heidi Klum.
Most recently, he talked about the breakup with Piers Morgan (who I, personally, would not trust with so much as an Easy-Bake Oven).
USA Today has the story:
"It doesn't really make sense," Seal said in an appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. "The truth of the matter is all I can tell you most sincerely is that it wasn't any one particular thing."
Uuuuug...
On Thursday, Ryan Gosling attended the Hua Hin International Film Festival in Bangkok as its guest of honor. There, the Hollywood Reporter had the audacity to ask Gosling whether he felt snubbed by the Academy. But Gosling, who has repeatedly proven himself as a class act, was unbudgingly gracious.
Gosling was also quick to squash the notion he had been "passed-over" twice recently. First, after not being voted the Sexiest Man Alive, which his loyal fans protested outside the People Magazine offices in New York earlier this year. But the actor told THR: "I vo...
If you're anything like I am, you are becoming more obsessed with Madonna by the day. I don't know---it's like I forgot to be obsessed with Madonna from 1984 to 2008, and then some wire was tripped.
Of course you'll want to read all the best snippets from this L.A. Times interview with Madonna, director of the award-winning-but-only-for-the-music film W.E.
Here is a thing Madonna said in the interview: "I don't like to repeat myself." (Which is weird to me, because Madonna sure talks ab...
File it under "You Didn't Hear It From Us": numerous reports this week claimed that Oprah had been crowned godmother of Beyonce and Jay-Z's infant daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.
I am pleased to announce that you never read any such thing here at Evil Beet Gossip. But boy, if we had reported it, we'd be eating crow right about now.
Oprah's bestie Gayle King sets the record straight (via Pop2it):
"It's absolutely not true that she's the godmother," King said. "She's friends with them, of course, and likes them both v...
Here is something I did not know: Demi Moore was originally slated to play Gloria Steinem in the bio-pic Lovelace.
This shocked me because---I'm sorry if this is rude, but---wasn't Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle the last thing anyone saw Demi in? And even that was stunt casting. Does Demi really even act anymore?
And it's all so sad because, like, Demi Moore really was the most talented person to come out of St. Elmo's Fire, you guys. But the one-two punch of Striptease and G.I. Jane ...
So late last night I suddenly realized, gosh, I've hardly read about Sundance this year. Like, OK, it isn't Cannes (shrug), but I am pretty sure we all used to take Sundance a little more seriously. Maybe I just feel that way because I really like the Sundance catalogue, with all its loom-woven Navajo shawls and hammered jewelry. Who knows.
Uh, anyway, guess what. There is a documentary about Chris Crocker. And guess what else. It premiered at Sundance. It's a nominee for the Grand Jury Priz...
This is so great.
Yesterday, Patton Oswalt sent Albert Brooks---who really ought to have been nominated for his sinister turn in Drive---a hail of tweets about a hypothetical party that was going down without him. Things like "Dude, GET DOWN HERE. Gosling is doing keg stands" and "Fassbender just showed up in a pirate hat," which uh, honestly, I can somehow picture this being a Fassbender thing.
Anyway, the very idea of an raucous Oscar-outcasts party is just beyond delightful. So Benn...