One of Hollywood's most beautiful couples has called it quits.
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Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry welcomed their daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry in March 2008
Halle Berry and her model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, have pulled the plug on their five-year relationship, RadarOnline.com reports.
The couple, who are parents to 2-year-old daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry, have reportedly spent months working with a lawyer to iron out the details of a custody and division of property agreement. Berry is said to have employed the services of Judy Bogen, a family attorney from a top Beverly Hills law firm.
"Halle was terrified that Gabriel would go after her money," a source said. "But he's a decent and proud guy and that's just not his style."
Aubry was reportedly the one who ended the relationship, citing that the couple's age difference was a factor in the split. He is 34, while Berry is 43.
"Gabriel just felt it wasn't working anymore," a source said. "When they were first together, the nine-year age difference between them didn't phase him. But as time went on, he started feeling it more and more."
According to Radar, Aubry began to notice women other than Berry, who was voted Esquire's sexiest woman alive in 2008.
"Gabriel is a really nice, decent guy and he would never cheat on her" the insider said. "But I suspect that he had become attracted to someone and that he felt he needed to break it off with Halle before anything developed any further."
The source added, "As much as it can be, it's been an amicable split. They both traveled a lot for work anyway, so they were used to spending time apart for long periods, but I think Halle has taken it pretty badly, she truly loved Gabriel and thought she had found the one."
In the purported separation agreement, Aubry wanted joint physical custody of the couple's daughter, which Berry reportedly agreed to.
He also asked for ownership of the house they own in Canada, according to Radar. Berry reportedly put the full deposit down on the property, however Aubry has been making the payments ever since.
"Financially, Gabriel isn't in the league of Halle, but he still earns a decent amount from his modeling career, in the region of $700,000 per year, so he's comfortable and he didn't want a dime from Halle," the source said.
Berry hasn't been shy when it comes to her feelings about marrying again. The actress has publicly declared that she has no intention of ever walking down the aisle, no thanks to her two failed marriages.
In 1996, Berry ended her three-year marriage to former baseball player David Justice, a decision that left her so depressed she said she attempted suicide. Berry went on to wed R&B singer Eric Benet in 2001, only to split two years later when he confessed to having an affair.
At some point in the 1980s, probably around the time of the fourth or fifth Friday the 13th sequel, I realized that horror movies had, in effect, become comedies. It was all part of a ritual. You went out to the multiplex with your buddies, or maybe on a date, to see the latest by-the-numbers blood feast in which a sick young man in a goalie mask devised creative new ways to gouge and dismember a series of good- looking and eminently dispensable bad actors. In theory, everyone in the audience was there to be scared, to be shocked into fear by the awesome savagery on display. Yet these movies, in the space of about five years, had grown so formulaic, so predictable in their extremity and slaughter, that their very �terror� had turned fatally campy.
And so the audience cowered, and trembled a bit, and jumped out of their seats � and laughed. We laughed at the giddy fun of being scared, but also at the sheer dumb corny roteness of those hulking, heavy-breathing faux-brute killers. The predictability of it all was funny, and maybe borderline insulting, a kind of shared in-joke. On some level, it was all about the comic high of feeling superior � to the victims on screen, and to your own anxieties. Don�t go in the attic! Oh, look, he�s going in the attic! Watch that friggin� dumb-ass get what he deserves!�
But until A Nightmare on Elm Street, in 1984, we were all laughing at these movies, not with them. Freddy Krueger changed all that. Apart from the fact that he was a ghost who slaughtered you not in the basement or some godforsaken cabin but in your dreams, he certainly did have plenty in common with Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, the two superstars of slasherdom. (Leatherface, the godather of them all, was a far greater screen character, but at that point The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was still a cult film, under the radar for most of the mass audience. Why, it hadn�t even spawned a sequel!) Yet Jason and Michael, in their angry, wordless, bruised-adolescent way, were straight men, lugs with machetes. Freddy, with his leer and his cackle and his slightly goofy scarecrow look, was a showman, a snarky demon clown, a burlesque master of ceremonies. In his first big scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street, he holds his arms out wide, like a wall-shadow parody of a boogeyman, then mockingly slices off two of his own fingers. A new kind of killer has arrived. He�s not just here to scare you � he�s here to have a good time doing it. Let�s party!
I should point out that there are many, many precedents to Freddy Krueger�s antic high comedy of evil-as-fun. Back in 1964, Herschell Gordon Lewis, the trash visionary who invented the slasher film, made his masterpiece of drive-in gore, Two Thousand Maniacs, and if you�ve never had a chance to see it, by all means get hold of a copy (it�s out on DVD). Set in a Southern small town whose residents take revenge on a pack of Yankee visitors by slaughtering them in gruesomely kooky ways, it�s an all-out funny monster-redneck bash. Texas Chainsaw was definitely influenced by it, and so, perhaps, was Sam Raimi when he made the Evil Dead films. The granddaddy of the slasher genre � and the greatest horror film ever made � is Psycho, which Pauline Kael (even though she never much cared for it) aptly described as �a gothic horror comedy.� The comedy is there in the movie�s shower-curtain-pulled-out-from-under-you slyness � but also, quite directly, in the character of Mrs. Bates, with her mockingly exaggerated scolding whine of a voice. Speaking of homicidal harridans, you can trace Freddy Krueger�s sinister, grinning gamesmanship right back to Margaret Hamilton�s Wicked Witch of the West, when she lights Ray Bolger�s arm and cackles, �How about a little fire, Scarecrow?�
All of these films know, on some basic level, that horror is comedy (or can be). What set Freddy Krueger apart is that, as played by Robert Englund (with madcap inspiration), he was at once the movie�s monster and its vaudeville host, standing outside the action, saying, in essence, �Get a load of this! Get a load of me!� And that stylized circus-ringmaster quality only grew as the Nightmare on Elm Street series went on. By the time of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), the best movie in the series apart from the first one, Freddy popped up as a kind of giant slime-snake, looking like nothing so much as a float in the homecoming parade. He couldn�t smash a girl�s face into a television set without rasping �This is it, Jennifer! Your big break in TV! Welcome to prime time, bitch!� At that point, the audience was definitely having fun � and, in effect, rooting for the killer. Like Freddy, we, too, were standing outside the action, watching ourselves watch Freddy scare us, and laughing at the whole fun-house charade.
Of course, it�s not as if horror movies after Freddy just became comedies. By and large, they went back to being played straight. Yet what had begun in the days of those junky and interchangeable slasher flicks, and what Freddy more or less officially locked into place, was the garish, low-comedy, eye-rolling disposability of the horror genre. It wasn�t so much that horror films could now be funny. (Many of the best ones, from Psycho to Night of the Living Dead to Chainsaw to Carrie, had always been funny.) It was that horror films were now almost defiantly movies not to take seriously. Freddy ushered in an era where you almost had to laugh at them, or the joke was on you.
ACTING President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, yesterday, ordered the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu. We are waiting to see the who replaces him
Ready yourselves all of you twilight fans. C'mon, darken the room....Now go to your closet and get out that long dark cloak. ..(Okay, so maybe you should get the cloak first---how else would you ever find it stumbling around with no light?) Got it on? Good. Now light some pillar candles. (Yes pillar--you're not about to do a Calgon bead bath commercial). Safety is important, so make sure they're not being placed next to anything flammable. (Wouldn't want you coming after me with a legal suite). Now stare intently at your computer. Scroll downwards...and watch as it appears...Edward(Robert Pattinson)slips this onto Bella's(Kristen Stewart's) dainty finger in Eclipse. It's said to be Victorian in style in an oval diamond setting dahrlingss...Eat your heart out Morticia.Twilight SagaEclipse hits theaters on June 30, 2010.
Is your make-up artist washing her hands between services? I was listening to the radio this morning about a report on ecoli and what was one of the first things they mentioned? The make-up counter at your local department store. Bays like Clinique, Mac, Estee Lauder, and Chanel all feature help-yourself make-up areas, and artists who can give you this season's hottest look. But is the
She stripped for mankind two years ago in GQ and now she's taking it all off again, only this time it's for the women.
Jennifer Aniston unveiled the ad for her first fragrance, Lolavie, Friday in which she appears in little more than a skimpy towel.
Photographed on a beach in Cabo, the 41-year-old actress sits atop a rock, her hair windswept and her ankles quaintly crossed. The image perfectly reflects the "Bounty Hunter" star's fragrance.
�It�s a nonperfume perfume. Sexy and clean. Floral, but not too flowery," Aniston told Women's Wear Daily Friday. "I want people to go, �What is that? You smell great!� But most of all I wanted it to smell natural.�
Though the name of the perfume is phonetically similar to the French "l'eau la vie," which means "water life," the actress wouldn't reveal the exact meaning of the word.
�It�s a long story and honestly it�s too personal to tell but it has special significance,� she said.
Aniston is set to hit London this summer to personally launch the perfume at Harrods.
Congratulations to Sasha Baron Cohen, who is reportedly going to be a daddy again and just scored big for his next movie project. Armed with a comedy that features him in a dual role with a character who tends goats and a deposed foreign dictator who gets lost in the United States, Sacha has been making his way around Hollywood with �Seinfeld� writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel.
The foursome met with a total of six studio presidents over a period of two days, with Paramount eventually besting Sony in the fierce bidding war. Paramount president Brad Grey got so enthusiastic he sent a goat wearing a �Paramount T-shirt to William Morris Endeavor, which represents the creative comedian, reports Deadline Hollywood.
Baron Cohen was impressed by the gesture and probably more that Paramount will be paying him an astronomical $20 million up front and also giving him 20% of the first-dollar gross, which could mean upwards of $50-60 million, based on the grosses of his last few films.
Let�s see, her dad like many thinks she needs to return to rehab, she perhaps owes $600K in credit card expenses, the police think she may have stolen a Rolex watch among other legal issues that might put her in jail, and now Lindsay Lohan has just lost another potential movie part. But on the bright side, Lindsay is doing great if you believe her delusional mom Dina.
Anyway Lindsay was slated to star in �The Other Side,� along with Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews and Alanis Morissette.
The movie by writer/director David Michaels, is about a grad student working on a deserted island.
Michaels tells TMZ, �Our team simply chose to move on from Lindsay and we�ll soon be announcing a replacement.�
But sources connected with the film tell TMZ, the people financing the film were skittish about relying on Lindsay.
This is a common pattern for Lindsay over the last 2 years in mysteriously losing movie rolls at the last minute. There are constant rumors that other actors are unwilling to work with her, and that insurance companies are unwilling to back any projects she is associated with.
Meanwhile, after blowing off two depositions for her 2007 (alleged drug fueled) rampage in a hijacked SUV with three hostages, Lohan has one more opportunity to get her act together. Three men have sued Lohan, accusing her of kidnapping and endangering their lives. The trio claims Lohan jumped into a vehicle they were passengers in and took off on a wild ride along the Pacific Coast Highway. A judge has threatened to throw the book at Lindsay if she fails to attend the hearing, which is now scheduled for May 4th.
The new and final trailer for the next film in The Twilight Saga, Eclipse, premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday. While Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner continue the love triangle, their appears to be less moping about and more action this time, set up by the threat of an army of vampires. We finally get a glimpse of the much-anticipated battle scene between the Cullens, the Wolf Pack and Victoria�s army of newborn vampires. Twilight Eclipse is set to take a bite out of the box office on June 30. But you can catch Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Dakota Fanning on a special episode of Oprah on May 13.
Ha, Ginger-ly. Anyone catch The Simpsons� subtle chalkboard shout-out to South Park last night? �Simpsons did it!� So did Jon Stewart. Which show will come out in support of last week�s heavily censored South Park next? It�s gotta be House. A Danish wind turbine will huff and puff and blow the words right onto that white board in between �Lupus?� and a rough sketch of Cuddy�s ass.
Here�s yet another new Iron Man 2 promo shot of Scarlett Johansson as her Black Widow character from the latest edition of Famous magazine, and as you can see, she�s looking smashingly bootylicious in her skin-tight costume. Heck, if this shot is any indication, we�re going to be drooling over Scarlett�s shwingtastic curves during every Black Widow scene� but we already knew that the second she was cast in the flick, right? Enjoy!
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In what may be true regret, or perhaps just a ploy to extend her 15-minutes, the second woman who announced she was Jesse James� mistress has written a letter of apology to Sandra Bullock.
�I felt I needed to reach out to you and tell you how deeply sorry I am for everything you�ve been through,� Melissa Smith writes in the typed, one-page note, obtained by TMZ. �I know nothing I can say is going to make the pain of my actions go away, but I wanted to personally apologize to you,� she continues.
Smith claims to have had a two-year affair with Jesse, but despite the fact that her actions and those of others have wrecked Sandra�s life and torpedoed her marriage, Melissa was recently seen wearing a �Team Sandra� t-shirt.
And her letter proceeds:
�I am sorry for any hurt or pain that I caused you. My actions of engaging with a married man are unforgivable. I never meant you any harm. I compromised my beliefs, and as such will never forgive myself.�
And unlike Jesse�s other companions, Smith seems truly upset by the emotional fallout from what she and Jesse got up to;
�From the bottom of my heart I hope you accept my sincere apology. Please contact me if you wish to discuss on the phone or in person.�
Sandra, 45, has made no response, but the general view is that Melissa need not wait by the phone. Sandra and Jesse parted last month after the scale of his cheating became painfully clear. Jesse has since entered a rehab center in Arizona, but his chances of making it work with his wife now look slim.
Ryan Murphy, the creator of the Fox hit, is considering this idea after it came his way via Twitter, compliments of the �Baby One More Time� singer�s manager. The kids on the show would sing songs from her career throughout the episode, as long as they have a theatrical feel.
It is almost like American Idol where depending on the week, the contestants must pick a song by a certain artist or genre. After Madonna and the show both benefited greatly from her songs filling the show, the show may feature her more in the future.
�Madonna and her people are into it and want it to happen,� said Murphy.
And the Queen of Pop stated, After the success of the Madonna centered episode, the trend may continue with Britney Spears on Glee. Whether she will appear or not we do not know, but theme shows may feature songs by this pop star and maybe Courtney Love.
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�The entire cast was amazing� they�re all so talented. Ryan Murphy did a great job bringing all these elements together. [Daughter] Lola loved the show too. I wish I went to a high school like that� If only.�
So will they expand and will we see Britney Spears on Glee? No one know as of yet, but with the style of her songs and the show being about high school, I actually think it could be a good match. I am curious about how they would spin the life, career and music of this music artist.
With the TV sensation about an adolescent school chorus doing so well these days I think many celebrities will want to get in on the action as well. But as for Britney Spears on Glee, what do you think? Is this a good choice and what do you think the episode would be like? Let me know below, and check out more photos and a video of what could be one of the featured songs.
Every Wednesday, Industry Nite... A platform for Established & up and coming artists....takes place at Tribeca, Victoria Island, Lagos. INDUSTRY NITE: Started over a year ago - A networking forum with attendees from Record Label Executives, Artists, Promoters, to Publicists, Media Houses, Brand Managers and more (including the General Public). On April 28th, 2010, Industry Nite will pay tribute to Dagrin. DAGRIN a charismatic young star whose music impact in the African Hip Hop scene has been revolutionary. Dagrin performed twice at Industry nite: 5 weeks ago, and before then a year ago when he was relatively unknown. His passing at 23 has stunned the Entertainment Industry not least his family,friends and fans. 'The Industry unites for DAGRIN', will pay homage to DAGRIN'S legacy and contribution to the African Music Industry. Monetary donations will be collected at the entrance of the venue and ALL proceeds go to DAGRIN'S family. Performances from an All star line up of artists have donated their time to payhomage and respect to Dagrin: GT Guitarman,Omawumi, TosinMartins, Sasha, General Pype, YQ, Sound Sultan, Weird MC, Shank, Waje, Show Dem Camp, Banky W, Lami, Pin Code, Zara, Overdose, Aquadragon, Benny P, Badman Floss and more. There will also be speeches by major people in the industry to talk about DAGRIN and their relationship with him (business/personal). Host: Olisa Adibua Date;28th april,2010 Start time: 8pm Come with a candle!!! For more information on Industry Nite please email Matthew Ohio or Ngozi Omambala at industrynightnaija@gmail.com For Press and Publicity matters regarding industry night please email bobby@bobbytaylor.ca UNITE FOR DAGRIN.
A view of the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, California in this December 13, 2009 file photo. Hugh Hefner said the famous sign ''represented Hollywood dreams''
The sign was draped in a banner to raise awareness of the campaign
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner on Monday donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to save the famed vista of the Hollywood sign from being spoiled by development.
Hefner's key role in reaching the group's fund-raising goal was announced by Los Angeles city officials, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land at a news conference in the Hollywood Hills.
The land trust needed to collect a total of $12.5 million by this Friday under a deal with a group of Chicago investors who bought the 1,820-foot (555-meter) ridge, called Cahuenga Peak, from the estate of billionaire Howard Hughes in 2002.
The trust will now purchase the 138-acre (56-hectare) adjacent parcel and turn it over to the city to be incorporated into the surrounding Griffith Park, preventing any construction that would mar the postcard-perfect view of the Hollywood sign nearby.
"My childhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies, and the images created in Hollywood had a major influence on my life and Playboy," Hefner said in a statement. "As I've said before, the Hollywood sign is Hollywood's Eiffel Tower and I'm pleased to help preserve such an important cultural landmark."
Other private donors to the Hollywood sign preservation effort included actor Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg, the land trust said.
Donations came from all 50 US states, 10 countries and celebrities, including actor Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg.
In February, the sign was draped with a banner which read "Save the Peak", to raise awareness of the campaign.
The Hollywood sign itself, which is set high up in the hills, was initially created in 1923 as an advert for a real estate development called Hollywoodland.
Playboy photographer Steve Wayda says Kim Kardashian may have been easier to shoot than Ashley Dupre because of Kardashian's sex tape.
When it comes to getting girls to strip for his camera, photographer Steve Wayda says Kim Kardashian has the edge over Ashley Dupre. "Kim was much more relaxed right off the bat," says the master nude portraitist, who recently shot both ladies for Playboy. "Maybe that was because of her sex tape." Former gubernatorial service-woman Dupre, on the other hand, was "guarded. So she was a challenge initially. She said, 'I can't be shot from that angle - my legs will look too thick ...' She also wasn't too big on the dominatrix-in-the-dungeon idea at first. But I won her trust." Ashley was holding hands with new guy Casey Ashby at U.S. Weekly's Hot Hollywood Style party in L.A. on Thursday.
Jesus christ. Has this chick been doing roids? Last time She-Hulk went out, her arms were all sinewy and gnarled like she discovered Madonna�s secret to being gross. Today her arms look like Hulk Hogan�s. Veiny and muscley. I�m too scared to even make fun of her anymore. She might find me and punch through my chest to rip out my still beating heart and raise it above her head while a booming voice in the background yells, �FATALITY!�
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Cameron Douglas - son of Michael Douglas and grandson of Kirk Douglas - is going to prison for more than four years despite the pleas of his famous family.
Michael Douglas sat in the second row for the sentencing in Manhattan Federal Court.
A judge sentenced Cameron Douglas to five years in prison Tuesday - and gave his family a scolding.
As a stone-faced Michael Douglas looked on from the second row, Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman said the pleas for leniency he received made too many excuses for the drug-dealing junkie.
"Get beyond and get over that idea ... that Cameron Douglas is a victim," Berman said.
Relatives including his dad, Michael Douglas; his grandpa Kirk Douglas, and his stepmom, Catherine Zeta-Jones, had sent letters to Berman, pushing for rehab instead of jail for the 31-year-old.
Berman gave him 60 months in prison, with credit for the eight months he has served for a total of 52 months - less than half of what the top charge carries.
He told Cameron Douglas the prison stint is his "last chance to make it."
He noted that the time he has been in federal lockup is his longest period sober since he was 13, and suggested he would have relapsed if released on bail.
Although Cameron Douglas' boldfaced relatives said they were fully behind his effort to kick his heroin habit, Berman said he didn't see how anything would be different this time around.
In a brief statement, Cameron Douglas pledged to stay clean and "not be led astray by my warped thinking and false pretences due to my heroin addiction.
"I want to take the right path ... I feel like it's my duty," he said, adding that he hoped to become "an entertainer" when he's freed.
"I apologize to my family and my loved ones for putting them through this nightmare of my making," he added.
Cameron Douglas was arrested last summer for dealing crystal meth out of the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District - and busted again when his girlfriend tried to smuggle him drugs in an electric toothbrush.
He pleaded guilty, and court documents said he cooperated with the probe, which often helps reduce prison time.
Michael Douglas didn't say a word as he left court but was heard telling his son's lawyers, "It's fair."
His mother, Diandra Douglas, mouthed, "I love you" to her son in the courtroom.
Michael Douglas in 1969 (l.) and in 2010 (r.). The actor recently told Elle magazine that he was seduced by two of his mother's friends when he was 16/
He may not have starred in "The Graduate," but at 16 Michael Douglas met a real-life Mrs. Robinson -- two, in fact.
In an upcoming interview with Elle magazine, the star of "Fatal Attraction" says two of his mother's friends taught him everything he knows about sex.
The now 65-year-old actor says the women were both 30 at the time, but he would not reveal their names because his mother, Diana Dill, is still in the dark about the incident
"I wouldn�t want to get any of them in trouble," Douglas told the magazine. "Though they�re probably dead now."
The star of "Basic Instinct" is famous for his sexual exploits on and off screen. The actor recalled one night in university when he was in bed with one woman, and another popped out of his closet.
"Let�s just say that took care of the rest of the night," he told Elle.
Douglas settled down after meeting actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is 25 years his junior, in Deauville. The duo married in 2000 and has two children together.
Although Douglas says he was a "ridiculous gentleman" during their first year together, he does confirm his opening comment to Zeta-Jones was, "I want to father your children."
Though he seems to have found his true love, Douglas says that if he could have one more one night-stand he would choose Tina Turner.
We hear that Alicia Silverstone can�t wait to be pregnant! We have not heard a lot from this star as there have not been a lot of appearances by the �Clueless� actress. However, after participating in a play, it seems she is feeling maternal. Read more about her plans below, including more photos and a video.
She portrayed an expecting mother in the Broadway play �Time Stands Still,� and this has inspired her recent desire to become a mother. She and her hubby, singer Christopher Jarecki, have been married for almost 5 years. The 33-year-old actress says she is now ready to settle down and have kids, like she�s always wanted.
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This actress has actually been keeping pretty busy, even though we don�t hear about her much. Last year she debuted a vegan cookbook called �The Kind Diet.� She has also started filming two films �Butter� and �Vamps.� She describes herself as �slightly workaholic� and as she had the play going on as well, I might agree! But she must be doing something right as her role of Mandy Bloom, was praised by some saying it was an �enormously likable performance.� She originally played this part in LA.
�I love theater because you get to really act, and it�s very empowering. Being in �Time Stands Still� was good for me because I got to further discover a character I had first played in L.A., and working with Laura Linney every night was a fantastic learning experience� For a while in my career, I sort of forgot that I was an artist, but in the last three years, I�ve really found my independence and started to shift things.�
It seems though that even with all this Alicia Silverstone can�t wait to be pregnant more than anything else. At least that is what she told People recently.
�Wearing a pregnancy suit was so much fun. I loved the feeling of pretending to be pregnant and having little arms and legs and this big belly. I�ve been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old I�m destined to be a mother.�
The quote ends with the sentiment that Alicia Silverstone �can�t wait to be pregnant.� What does Jarecki think about this? Well, we don�t know, but I wouldn�t be shocked if we hear news of a new family soon!
Newcomer Aaron Johnson has a lot of reasons to smile. His superhero film Kick-Ass was the number one movie at the box office last weekend, and off screen he's engaged to be married to his seven-months-pregnant fianc�e, British artist Sam Taylor-Wood.
Life could not be any better � if only his relationship with his onetime director wasn't raising so many eyebrows.
At 43, Taylor-Wood is 24 years older than Johnson and already a mother of two from an 11-year marriage to art dealer Jay Jopling. Despite the age difference and existing family, Johnson is madly in love. "I've got a wonderful woman," says the 19-year-old. "She's lovely and she's a fantastic mother."
The two met in 2009 on the set of her directorial debut, Nowhere Boy. In it Johnson played a young John Lennon and the two immediately hit it off. Engaged months after meeting and already living together, Johnson brushes off critics about their whirlwind romance saying, "I'm an old soul and she's a young soul."
As the couple prepare for the arrival of their baby this summer, Johnson says he's "excited" and insists that he is undaunted by the challenges of fatherhood. "It's not scary," he says. "I'm already a stepdad to [Taylor-Wood's kids Angelica, 13, and Jessie, 3] anyway. So the nerves have sort of gone."
Everyone knows Lindsay Lohan is a complete screw-up and a little bit crazy on account of being a redhead and all. Naturally, if there aren�t reports of her hurling drinks at people or getting fired from films over the weekend you can pretty much assume she�s dead. So, whew, Lindsay is still alive.
On Friday night, Lohan physically attacked Samantha Ronson at Trousdale. According to Sam�s Twitter, �Just got a glass thrown at my head. �Hmm � wonder who did it?�
One clubber told the Daily News that Sam was at a table and Lindsay came up from behind like a sneaky panther and tossed a drink at her. Sam was angry but let it go.
Earlier that night, Lindsay was drowning her sorrows at the Chateau Marmont. News was spreading that she was dropped from her upcoming film The Other Side. Sources close to production said it was because Lindsay isn�t �bankable.� Which is totally not true. Who doesn�t want to see a redhead with a drinking problem slur 110 minutes of dialogue? That was a rhetorical question by the way.
Later that night, Lindsay tweeted, �Last night � never again � believe it or not she�s done with the club scene i�ve learned my lesson � sometime�s it just takes a glimpse of reality.� Lindsay done with the club scene? That sounds a little disingenuous. Like a moth to a flame, Lindsay can never be done with the club scene. That�d be like a fish living without water or Paris Hilton living with dignity.