By Jason Apuzzo. • More celebrities are starting to weigh-in on the BP oil spill. Consensus is: Kevin Costner coming out on top right now over James Cameron in the race to be the MOST HELPFUL CELEBRITY IN THE GULF. Costner apparently spent $20 million of his own money to invent a technology to separate oil from water. [I have that problem all the time whenever I’m eating a salad.] On a related note, I’ve just started work on special glasses that can separate Alec Baldwin’s image from my Turner Classic Movies cable signal.
• Rumors flying (see here and here) about Angelina Jolie being approached to play Cleopatra, in a forthcoming adaptation of Stacy Schiff’s book, Cleopatra: A Life. Word to the wise, Jolie-Cleopatra rumors have actually been around so long I covered them on the old version of Libertas. So we’ll see. One thing’s for sure: Jolie’s juggled enough men that playing Cleopatra shouldn’t be much trouble.
• Green Lantern 2 is apparently already a ‘go,’ even before the first film is out. In other superhero news, Flash also looks like it’s going forward, and now there’s word coming about a Fantastic Four ‘reboot‘. A ‘reboot’? Coming so soon off the last Fantastic Four film, what they really need is a ‘mind-wipe.’
• John McCain tweeted Jersey Shore‘s Snooki the other day, assuring her that in a McCain Administration she wouldn’t be taxed for her tanning sessions. As I write that last sentence, it occurs to me that our civilization must be reaching a terminal stage.
• Sony will soon be releasing a huge range of 3D products for the home theater market. I wasn’t aware that I was going to need a special 3D Blu-ray player, to go along with the new 3D flat screen. This is getting expensive, guys. I’m starting to re-think my Blu-ray pre-order of Piranha.
• AND IN TODAY’S MOST IMPORTANT NEWS … Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has shown up on the Transformers 3 set to start filming. See photos of that here.
In more Transformers news, Michael Bay confirms that Transformers 3 will, indeed, be shot in 3-D … but he’s apparently having some difficulty getting city officials in Washington, D.C. to let him blow half the city up. It’s OK to blow up the budget in D.C., just not the city parks.
And that’s what’s happening today in the wonderful world of Hollywood …
Posted on June 10, 2010 at 8:16pm.
“I’ve just started work on special glasses that can separate Alec Baldwin’s image from my Turner Classic Movies cable signal.”
Ha ha! That is so true. Please – we need those glasses fast! I used to love watching the Essentials on Turner, but now with Baldwin, I never want to watch. Bring back Carrie Fisher please!
Kevin Costner has $20 million to spend on technology to “separate oil from water”? Huh? I thought his movies hadn’t been doing so well lately. Now he’s a scientist?
Angelina Jolie is completely unsuitable to play Cleopatra. She has a harsh, humorless quality that is better suited to action movies. To play Cleopatra an actress must have not only beauty, but a certain wit, a certain intelligence, a certain soulfulness, so that we may believe that the most powerful men in the world would fall at her feet. Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert, and Theda Bara could play such a role, but not the Hollywood actresses of today.
“Green Lantern 2”? “Fantastic 4” reboot? Why?
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has shown up on the Transformers 3 set to start filming.
Remember when the hottest babe in the movies was Elizabeth Taylor? No “super model” she.