Celebrity Double-Take: Leslie Bibb vs. Maggie Grace
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Buena Vista, Action, Adaptation, Independent, Celebrity Gossip,
For today’s installment, we have Iron Man actress Leslie Bibb on the left and Lost cutie Maggie Grace.
I mean, am I the only one who watched Wristcutters: A Love Story and mistook Leslie Bibb for her long lost sister, Maggie Grace?
(Make sure to check out more of our Celebrity Double-Takes here, here and here.)
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Winona Ryder Comes Clean
Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Controversy, Upcoming Releases,
In late 2001, Ms. Ryder was caught walking out of a Saks Fifth Avenue with around $5,000 worth of merchandise. Now, nearly six years later, she is speaking out for the first time about her notorious shopping spree.
The actress claims to have been under the influence of a prescribed pain medication during the ordeal — Oxycodone, specifically — and was having a hard time making sound decisions:
Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor…was giving me a lot of stuff, and I was taking it at first just to get through the pain. And there was this weird point when you don’t know if you are in pain but you’re taking it. It isn’t a reckless [state], like you’re out of your head. It’s just confusion.
Then, Ryder just shut down and never released a statement, merely pleading not guilty
in court and letting it ride out:
The attention was what was embarrassing. It was the December after Sept. 11…So much attention was being paid to me, when we had just been attacked, and there was all this really important news going on.
And although the actress admitted to wrongdoing, she claimed not to feel any tremendous sense of guilt.
However, Ryder says that had someone been hurt, the ordeal would have played out much differently.
So what is she up to now? Well, after a career lain practically dormant for years, Ryder is about to return to the business in full force with at least three films coming this year alone.
One can’t help but applaud Ryder for finally spilling her guts — she was obviously ashamed and, being in public eye, didn’t know how to articulate her regret. I also question whether the public would have been ready to look past the shoplifting at any point before now. However, I find it interesting that this catharsis coincides with her return to Hollywood, rather than a genuine desire to unload her burden.
Whatever the case, Winona is back. We’ll see her first in the upcoming ensemble comedy The Ten.
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Lohan Arrested for DUI
Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Controversy, Rumors,
Oh, Lindsay. I could set my watch by your absurdity.
After she joined AA last December and entered a rehab clinic a month later, it seems Lindsay Lohan has fallen off the wagon. That is, of course, assuming she ever really got on in the first place. Apparently, the starlet lost control of her Mercedes convertible early Saturday morning, ran into a curb and some shrubbery, and was taken by acquaintances to the hospital for some minor injuries. When the Beverly Hills Police Department tracked her down, they took her into custody under suspicion of DUI. As if that isn’t bad enough, the officers also found a substance inside the car believed to be cocaine. This information coincides with the recent release of a blurry cellphone video featuring an alleged Lohan and friends “riding the white tiger” in a bathroom stall. I guess she should get used to confined quarters – she’ll likely be joining Paris soon in a jail cell.
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Peter Boyle Dies at 71
Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Celeb News, Obituaries,
The actor possibly best known for his role as the grotesque, but comical creation in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein died Tuesday after a long struggle with multiple myloma and heart disease. Boyle, who more recently played Frank Barone on the long-running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, had a notable career in both film and television, for which he received much praise and an Emmy in 1996. No stranger to health problems – he suffered a stroke in 1990 and a heart attack in 1999 – Boyle always bounced back and returned to work, playing his range of grumpy, charming, and comical men.
We’ll sure miss Boyle here at FilmCrunch. He was always a familiar, friendly face to see on screen and indicated a performance worth watching. We’ll always remember his amusingly realistic portrayal of the angry and confused, yet sensitive monster in Young Frankenstein, helping make it one of the greatest comedies of all time.
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Lohan Joins Alcoholics Anonymous
Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Controversy, Rumors,
Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday) has begun attending A.A. meetings, according to her publicist. The twenty-year-old actress has been portrayed in recent years as a wreck, partying irresponsibly and brazenly feuding with other celebrity divas like Hillary Duff and Paris Hilton. Her controversy recently culminated with an allegedly inebriated, Blackberry-mashed email to family members of the late director Robert Altman, with whom she recently worked on A Prairie Home Companion. The email expressed her condolences amid many misspellings and grammatical errors, now thoroughly ridiculed by the press.
Publicist Leslie Sloan said Friday that Lohan made the decision on her own to attend A.A., but doesn’t want people to think “she’ll stop drinking tomorrow.” Sloan went on to say, “I want everyone to leave her the hell alone. I’m so bored of this with her. No matter what she does, it’s never good enough for everybody.”
At FilmCrunch, we completely disagree – Lohan receives exactly as much criticism as she deserves, including that which surrounds her films and performances. She may have had good intentions when writing Altman’s family, but a letter like that should be carefully considered – spelling and grammar thoroughly checked – before it’s sent, especially when living under constant public scrutiny. The reason she’s “never good enough” is that her life revolves solely around heavy drinking, all-night partying, shopping, and film performances that are consistently unchallenging and trite; this is not a life worthy of much respect. However, Lohan is now attempting some self-improvement, that which could help to amend her damaged public image. Will recent roles in A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby steer Lohan into more reputable cinema? Could A.A. be the first step in her rebirth as an actor, role model, and overall contributor to society? Maybe, but we’re pretty confident that she’ll fall back off the wagon, and when she does, the paparazzi will be there snapping pictures of her drunken, spoiled, panty-less crotch.
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