Marilyn Monroe and Megan Fox

"In one photo, the young Monroe lies in bliss, reading on a park bench, which editors at Life.com believe was shot at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. In another, her face is serene as she is perched over a bridge barefoot. The shoot, which dates to 1950, was conducted by Life photographer Ed Clark.

It's a side of Monroe that the American public has rarely seen.

"She hasn't really exploded as a star, yet she was on the brink of something big," says Dawnie Walton, deputy editor at Life.com, a Web site harboring more than 7 million Life magazine photographs. The site was launched in March.
"I was amazed looking at her face. Although she looks very innocent, there is something very ... sexy."
Upon investigating the photos, Walton says, she found there were few notes left on the negatives. She says the photos were probably taken for a cover shoot that was never used. Monroe appeared on her first Life magazine cover in 1952.

"It just got lost and stowed away," Walton said. "It was just ... somewhere in a warehouse in New Jersey." Source: edition.cnn.com

"SCIENTISTS have identified the Marilyn Monroe hormone that is linked to an hour-glass body shape in women, and also an increased desire to trade-up to new men.Women who have high levels of oestradoil also show elevated confidence and a greater inclination to have sex outside of their current relationship, according to the US-based research.

The ovarian steroid hormone is also associated with having a symmetrical face, large breasts and a low waist-to-hip ratio.
"Marilyn Monroe is actually a really good example of a woman who was almost certainly high in oestradoil," Australian sexologist Dr Frances Quirk said in response to the research."She was a classic hour-glass figure and because of her relationship pattern - she was a serial monogamist.

"Her relationships last three or four years or slightly longer, and if you look at the men she had relationships with, they increased in status."
"High-oestradiol women were considered significantly more physically attractive by themselves and others," the study, published in the journal Biology Letters, concluded.Dr Quirk, Associate Professor at James Cook University, said because of these traits, high-oestradoil women "may also be the sort of women that other women don't like too much". Source: www.news.com.au

"Megan recently took some time out from her hectic schedule of swimming in flesh-toned nipple patches and toggling David Silver's balls to sit down with GQ magazine and give her take on her profession.“When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross."
Source: www.celebnewswire.com

"I`m a whore, all actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder". -William Holden

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us". -P.J. O`Rourke

Untitled Moon Project script

Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
Premise: A renegade group of former space employees travels the world, stealing space equipment in an attempt to go back to the moon.

About: A relatively unknown project that's being directed by Doug Liman which will star Jake Gyllenhaal. The script was originally penned by Liman with the help of 'Along Came Polly' director John Hamburg, but has been rewritten by 'Black Hawk Down' scribe Mark Bowden. It's unclear which draft this is but I'm fairly certain it's the Bowden draft. Dan Mazeau and Ken Nolan are also credited with working on the screenplay. Writer: Mark Bowden.

Doug Liman is one of the more underrated directors out there. No one gives him any credit for Swingers but the guy figured out a way to balance Vaughn and Favreau's love for improvisation with a production schedule that couldn't afford second takes. Katie Holmes in "Go" (1999).

He went on to do "Go", a cool kinetic flick that played with time and still managed to differentiate itself from all the Pulp Fiction clones going out at the time. Then he started a franchise in the Bourne movies that had no business being as big as they were - since Matt Damon's career was basically in the cellar when the first film premiered.

His only misstep was the Hayden Christensen starrer "Jumper", which felt like the projectionist had accidentally fallen on the fast-forward button for the entirety of the movie. So when I heard that Mr. Liman would be directing a big-budget semi-sci-fi flick about going to the moon, I wanted to check out the script.

"A mysterious group of misfits is stealing rockets and boosters and, yes, even lunar landers from all over the world - even going so far as to leave "I.O.U.'s" in their wake. They appear to be a rogue collection of former space pilots and engineers led by a hot Eastern European woman named Anya. She's one of those "save the earth" type women... but on like a case of red bull. FBI and NASA officials find out that the group is following an outdated thesis project from an ex-NASA employee which proposes how to get to the moon at 1/10 the cost of any known mission. The author of this project is an Observation Center employee named Cole - a man who has no idea that any of this is going on.

Well he's about to. Because Cole is the last item on the list. One second he's staring at the moon, the next he's thrown into the back of a van, drugged, and when he wakes up, he's on a mission to the moon. Yes, Cole is sitting in the cockpit of an old rusted Kazakhstan rocket three seconds before liftoff! Cole is equal parts surprised, terrified, and sincerely pissed off.

Apparently Anya's group has dual motives: to mine Helium-3, a high performance energy source which can only be found on the moon and (I'm not kidding about this) to leave a Monk on the moon to establish a Lunar Lighthouse. Apparently nobody told Anya that the purpose of a Lighthouse is to guide incoming ships to safety. Since the only thing that's going to be heading towards the moon in the next 20 years is a meteor or two and the occasional Chinese satellite, I'd say Marco the Monk is going to have a a lot of free time on his hands.

What I learned: One thing I will give Luna is that it's well-researched".
Source: scriptshadow.blogspot.com

Pattinson & Stewart dined together

"After the awards show, Rob and Kristen headed to Cecconi's for a bite to eat, and the duo left the trendy eatery around 11pm, and they were followed by a police escort to The Charlie Hotel in West Hollywood (Charlie Chaplin's old house). The lovebirds booked themselves a private chateau, and we didn't see them again until noon, when they emerged from their bungalow, looking like they'd both just rolled out of bed!

Our X17 photographer on the scene tells us exclusively:

"Rob was preoccupied with getting all of his stuff in the car and Kristen was hiding behind her sunglasses, looking a little tired, but waiting to say goodbye. Right before Rob got in the SUV, the couple stood together behind the car door and I'm pretty sure there was a brief kiss!" Source: x17online.com

"Away we go" by Sam Mendes

Maggie Gyllenhaal in a scene from Sam Mendes' "Away We Go" (2009). "His fifth film, “Away We Go,” continues the Brit stage director’s track record of tackling different eras in the American experience (earlier: the Thirties in “Road to Perdition,” the Fifties in the god-awful “Revolutionary Road,” and the two diametrically opposed halves of the Nineties in “Jarhead” and “American Beauty”), only to refract them back to us as collections of inanities. Kate Winslet’s halting student theater workshop delivery in “Revolutionary Road,” Annette Bening’s hysterical fits of self-flagellation in “American Beauty,” Jake Gyllenhaal trying out masculinity in “Jarhead”. I imagine actors love working with Mendes—it’s obvious he lets them do whatever they like. “Away We Go”‘s protagonists, Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph), are two disheveled postmillennial (in a stroke of foresight, seemingly post Dubya as well) Grups who just haven’t quite figured out this crazy thing called life. The horror show that follows takes Burt and Verona from Allison Janney’s crassly negligent vision of motherhood in Phoenix to Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton’s creepy Madison New Agers, to Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey’s stable (but with a tragic secret) brood of adoptees in Montreal. “Away We Go” was cowritten by husband-and-wife literary duo Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, and their preciousness intermarries all-too-well with Mendes’s cool perfectionism. Knock McSweeney’s all you like (there’s ample room), but Dave Eggers isn’t to be taken too lightly. He can turn a phrase, credibly inhabit a voice (see his Sudanese Lost Boy memoir “What Is the What”), and he even approaches real empathy when he’s not too busy burying it in layers of extraneous writing. There are good ideas in “Away We Go,” some sensitive stuff about parenthood and family that feel lived-in (and mesh well with Eggers’s biography as sketched out in “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”).
Source: www.indiewire.com

Robert Pattinson, the serial dater

Robert Pattinson - Who Is He Dating?

The list of candidates is impressive. Here are the most obvious.
1) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart - You know the story by now: Robert digs her but she's been dating Michael Angarano since she was 16. His friend says Robert is "just in awe of her. It's sad: He's the guy that everyone wants - everyone except Kristen. She sees him as a friend."2) Erika Dutra and Robert Pattinson - These two were seen together May 22 in Cannes. "They were with a group of people, and they were very flirty and affectionate," an eyewitness said.3) Nikki Reed and Robert Pattinson once hooked up - "They hooked up," a source said. "Everyone knows that Rob can be a player, and they don't want Nikki to be like all the others." According to one of her friends, "She's completely over him."4) Shannon Woodward - "She's dating his oldest friend and is like a sister," a source said about the 24 year old actress. Rob has often said he's "madly in love with her. But nobody takes it seriously."

Right now it's a short list of potential candidates for Robert Pattinson's love interest. If the past is any indication, Pattinson will most likely keep his dating moves very quiet.

Who do you think Robert Pattinson is dating?
Source: www.timesoftheinternet.com

I think Peaches would be a good match to Mr. Pattinson's goofyness:
Peaches Geldof launches the new Miss Ultimo lingerie range, on 27th May, 2009.

And I'm not the only one who digs this Peaches chick, Lainey from "Lainey Gossip" came to this same conclusion after an incendiary article published about Rob and one girl, Erika Dutra, who had told her flirting story with the "Twilight" heartthrob to "Life & Style" magazine, and according to Lainey, Emile Hirsch had been a co-participant by having introduced this blondie to Rob Pattinson in Cannes:

"Pattinson should date Peaches Geldof. Love her. Also, Peaches Geldof is Laura’s celebrity doppelganger. Aside from hair colour, the similarity is uncanny".

Lainey is a smart and resourceful blogger, but I think she extralimited with her furious attacks against Mr. Hirsch:

"A friend of Emile Hirsch sold out Robert Pattinson.

4. Emile Hirsch is a douche.
5. Emile Hirsch has douchey friends

Robert Pattinson fans vs Emile Hirsch fans… a new war has erupted! GO!" Source: www.laineygossip.com

I find some parts very mordant, and I don't think in any case fans should give this a worthy thought. Both Pattinson and Hirsch are two interesting young actors (Hirsch more talented, Pattinson smoother and Twilight phenomenon's prey) with their virtues and faults. I find it strange when there is such backlash against some guy because I don't consider anybody in this story as "sold out", only another girl obsessed with Rob who managed to spend one night with him and told one magazine she had just been sweetly talking to Rob. Selling out would be if she had fabricated a whole fling story. Also, we have to remember it was Emile Hirsch who recommended Kristen Stewart (with whom he had worked in "Into the wild") to director Catherine Hardwicke for the role of Bella. Was that a douchy or annoying move too?

Elisha Cuthbert - "Men's Health" outtakes

"Here are a couple of outtake photos from Elisha Cuthbert’s Men’s Health magazine photoshoot. Yeah, yeah, she’s not really topless, but she sure looks like she is, and my imagination is running on overdrive, and it’s been way too long since we’ve seen Cuthbert look this hot". Source: www.popoholic.com

"I don’t check. In fact, I don’t read any Internet stuff. It seems like a dark and evil place. I mean, I don’t need to know that Joe in his basement in Nebraska prefers Jessica Alba". Source: backsetcuddler.com

Memorable lines of "Brokeback Mountain"

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger at "Brokeback Mountain" Venice Film Festival Screening, on 2nd September, 2005 in Venice, Italy.
"Brokeback was an awesome movie. Here are some lines which we consider memorable:

Ennis Del Mar: You ever get the feelin'... I don't know, er... when you're in town and someone looks at you all suspicious, like he knows? And then you go out on the pavement and everyone looks like they know too?

Jack Twist: [Casually] Well... maybe you oughta get out of there, you know? Find yourself someplace different. Maybe Texas.
Ennis Del Mar: [Sarcastically] Texas? Sure, maybe you can convince Alma to let you and Lureen to adopt the girls. And we can just live together herding sheep. And it'll rain money from LD Newsome and whiskey'll flow in the streams - Jack, that's real smart.

Jack Twist: Go to hell, Ennis. If you wanna live your miserable fuckin' life, then go right ahead.

Ennis Del Mar: Fine.

Jack Twist: I was just thinkin' out loud.

Ennis Del Mar: Yep, you're a real thinker there. Goddamn. Jack fuckin' Twist; got it all figured out, ain't ya?

Jack Twist: My momma, she believes in the Pentecost.

Ennis Del Mar: What exactly is the Pentecost? I mean, my folks, they was Methodists.

Jack Twist: The Pentecost... I don't... I don't know what the pentacost is. I guess it means the world ends and guys like you and me march off to hell.

Ennis Del Mar: Speak for yourself. You may be a sinner, but I ain't yet had the opportunity.
Ennis Del Mar: I'm gonna tell you this one time, Jack fuckin' Twist, an' I ain't foolin'. What I don't know - all them things that I don't know - could get you killed if I come to know them. I ain't jokin'.

Jack Twist: Yeah well try this one, and I'll say it just once!

Ennis Del Mar: Go ahead!

Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.

Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don't you? Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you Jack, that I'm like this! I'm nothin'... I'm nowhere... Get the fuck off me! I can't stand being like this no more, Jack".
Source: thetvobserver.blogspot.com

Persian Prince and Pirates

Jake Gyllenhaal scan of "Empire" mag, 28th May 2009.Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003).
"Johnny Depp is like "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

The actor undergoes a complete personality transformation the moment he is on camera, says his 'Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl' co-star Zoe Saldana.She revealed: "He is the shyest person I ever met. The moment the camera is turned on, these characters that are within him come out and take control. Then when the director yells, 'Cut!' he goes back to being quiet. Very Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Source: www.monstersandcritics.com