On my first day of shooting I ended up breaking a stunt guy’s nose on the second take. A word of caution to any young actor out there: Do NOT hurt stuntmen because they will pay you back in kind. The next take after that, this big stunt guy kicked me in the stomach. He said it wasn’t on purpose, but I don’t know.Chris Pine learns the Hollywood way while filming Star Trek.
Speaking of Van Gogh’s ear… the Ohio woman who got an entirely new face last year has revealed herself. (Photos not for the squeamish.)She also revealed the terrible story behind her disfigurement: Her own husband shot her in the face with a shotgun.What a story. Modern medicine!
Did Vincent Van Gogh really cut off his own ear? That’s what we’ve always been told.But this news story says two researchers have a different theory: Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by fellow artist Paul Gauguin.
Weird: MSNBC has a “pre-pan” of Chris Pine as Captain Kirk… by someone who admittedly hasn’t seen the movie yet.Only William Shatner can fill Kirk’s boots, that’s the message. We all love Shatner, but… wha–?
A dirt-bike accident did the trick.Bale can proudly join Daryl Hannah, and Rahm Emanuel in our loop on Celebs Missing Fingers, which is possibly why he staged the accident in the first place.
A slideshow. The Walt Disney and the Bill Gates original Albuquerque card (shown) are the liveliest.
Duffy remembers an idyllic period when she was a teenager working as a Saturday girl, sweeping up in a hairdressing salon, at the same time as Penguin was publishing a series of books by modern poets at half a crown a time. “I’d be in my leather mini-skirt and boots up to here.
British light welterweight Ricky Hatton was KO’d in the second round by Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao last night in Las Vegas.
Here’s a new trailer for the next big movie based on the J.K. Rowling series of Harry Potter novels.
Justice David Souter will retire from the Supreme Court when its current session ends in July.After his two decades on the Court, the news seems to be all about how much Souter hates Washington, D.C.
Well, it’s a weird one: The late Bea Arthur and actor Rock Hudson sing a Dixieland duet about drugs on an unidentified 1970s television show. Enjoy!
Nifty logo tribute from Google to Morse Code inventor Samuel Morse on his 218th birthday.
Dead at 86. Everyone knows her big credits, but I didn’t know she was the original matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway. And — Fosse connection alert — her first husband produced All That Jazz.
A wonderfully cleaned-up version of Samuel L. Jackson’s famous line from the movie Snakes on a Plane:
Rapper Snoop Dogg poses with his new wax replicant at Madame Tussaud’s in Las Vegas. (That’s the real item on the left.)More photos here.(Photo credit: Judy Eddy / WENN.com)
British writer J.G. Ballard has died at the age of 78.He wrote Empire of the Sun and Crash, both of which were made into movies. The Crash based on his book is the 1996 cars-n-sex one that starred Holly Hunter and James Spader, not the 2004 L.A. race relations one with Sandra Bullock and Don Cheadle.
Archaeologists in may have found the Egyptian tomb of Cleopatra — buried, perhaps, next to her lover Marc Antony.
Here’s an old film of Paul Newman, warning of the dangers of drugs. Specifically, pills — you know, bennies and goofballs and so on.Courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
Actor Paul Newman has been inducted into the Connecticut Hall of Fame.Other inductees include Jackie Robinson, Mark Twain and Katharine Hepburn.
Major league players — every one of them — wear #42 in honor of Jackie Robinson’s first major league game.