Angelina Jolie had an acting coach while shooting Clint Eastwood's "The Changeling" - her late mom, Marcheline Bertrand. The Oscar winner revealed to us at the New York Film Festival premiere that she often thought about Bertrand while playing a mother desperately seeking her kidnapped son.
"My mother would fight that hard for her children," said Jolie, who attended with Brad Pitt. The role "[made me] confront my worst fear. It made me feel closer to my kids and grateful every night just to know where they are and that they're healthy. Making the phone call [in the film], saying that my kid was kidnapped, was difficult. I don't even like saying it right now."
Jolie, who showed off her tattoo with the latitude and longitude of each of her six children's birthplaces, said their brood produces "the greatest chaos. [They're] constantly loud, constantly messy."
So naturally they're working on another one, says the actress, "one way or another."
Misty's out of "Dancing With the Stars. " And the minute she appeared on stage last night, 20 million viewers instantly knew as much.
Misty May-Treanor, Olympic Gold medalist in beach volleyball, and a pretty good hoofer too, confirmed last night that she had ruptured her Achilles tendon during a Friday rehearsal for the Lindy Hop. Hobbling on stage with aid of crutches and her left lower leg in a cast, she confirmed what appeared to be a foregone conclusion as early as Saturday, when news reports claimed she had hurt herself, perhaps even breaking an ankle. She told viewers last night that she heard a "pop" and at first assumed she could continue dancing because "I thought, 'I'm an athlete. '" But, she added, it felt "like nothing was there ... I knew something bad had happened. "
"I never thought in a million years, especially in ballroom [dancing], that I'd hurt myself. " She said she would undergo surgery today, and that the recuperation would not likely affect her volleyball career because "I was planning on taking time off anyway. " She had previously injured her knee, she said.
May-Treanor becomes the first to leave the hit show while in progress due to an injury. Country singer-songwriter Sara Evans left the show a couple of seasons ago, citing personal reasons. "DWTS" will announce tonight how it'll compensate for May-Treanor's early exit.
After teasing us all night about whether Misty May-Treanor and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy would be dancing or not, the Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist came on stage at the end of Monday night's "Dancing With the Stars" on crutches with her left leg in a cast.
No more dancing for Misty. Hard to believe, but 82-year-old Cloris Leachman lasted longer than the 31-year-old athlete. So maybe dancing isn't a sport?
May-Treanor said she was planning on taking time off from volleyball next year, so she said the injury was "perfect timing" and that, after surgery, she eventually does plan to come back to her sport. No, not dancing.
There was more teasing too, such as will May-Treanor's injury withdrawal mean someone else (such as last-eliminated Kim Kardashian) get a second chance? We won't find out until Tuesday night's results show.
Misty May-Treanor confirmed she is withdrawing from "Dancing With the Stars" at the conclusion of Monday night's competition round of the popular ABC show.
"I am out," Misty, who hit the stage in crutches and with her lower left leg in a cast, told "Dancing" host Tom Bergeron. "I'm not out of cheering on the competitors and keeping in touch with everybody, but I am now gonna be on the sidelines."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Misty's "Dancing" career was put in jeopardy after suffering an injury during rehearsals last Friday. And on Monday night's show, Misty revealed that her torn Achilles tendon requires surgery, which she will undergo on Tuesday.
"I'm going into surgery tomorrow," Misty said. "I came back from another serious injury [and] I know with this one I'm gonna come back even stronger."
Misty, an Olympic volleyball gold medalist, previously injured her knee. Despite the latest physical trouble, Misty said it will not impact her plans as a professional athlete too much.
"You know what? I was planning on taking time off next year anyway," she said. "I get to spend time with my husband now, but also... it really didn't throw a wrench into any of the plans that we had."
Misty offered additional details about exactly how she injured herself while practicing the jive with Maksim last Friday.
"I was doing the lindy hop, finishing up, heard a pop over here... It felt like I got hit in the back with a baseball bat," she explained. "Then I just couldn't put weight on it."
The volleyball star said she was sad that her departure ends Maks' season as well.
"First off, I think all the women are going to be upset with me because he was only on the show for this amount of time," Misty said. "I couldn't have picked a better partner to be with. He's taught me so much... He's such an awesome dancer and I learned the best moves from him... He's a very sensitive, caring guy and I feel like the world needs more Maksims."
And Maks said he too was disappointed to see Misty go.
"Somebody described her as 'angelic,' and I think it's a perfect description," he said. "She's a perfect person and there's not a bad bone in her body. I'm really sad, but I hope that we'll stay friends." Source: http://omg.yahoo.com/
At the New York Film Festival screening of her new film," Changeling," Saturday night, Angelina Jolie talked about being sleep deprived.
"We are a little bit [sleep deprived]," the actress told People. "We have some help a couple of nights a week, so on those nights we catch up on our sleep."
But she hasn't been too busy to sit still for a little tattooing. Angelina found the time to have the international map coordinates (longitude/latitude) of Nice, France, where her twins, Knox and Vivienne, were born in July, tattooed on her left upper arm, noticeable due to her strapless black Atelier Versace gown.
Right underneath Maddox's, Sahara's, Shiloh's and Pax's commemorative tattoos.
There's still room on her arm for more ink, although she told People that they were going to "wait a while" before adopting any more babies.
Seriously. Give the babies and the ink a rest.
Six kids ranging in age from 3 months to 8 years old. Could you manage that brood plus a hunky husband, (oh, OK, life partner) full-time acting career, oscar buzz for "Changeling," international promotional appearances and moving around among homes in Hollywood, France, Germany and New York? And yet, she looks amazing. And she's breast-feeding, people!
How does she do it? Oh yeah, sure, they have help, probably a nanny, a cook, a gardener, a maid or three, a driver and a slew of bodyguards. Plus a personal stylist, makeup and hair people.
Out to prove that there's no major drama brewing backstage, Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson, return tonight for yet another season of The Girls Next Door. Tonight's season 5 opener sheds light on none other than the Playboy mogul's 82nd birthday.
Read on for a preview of tonight's Girls Next Door episode.
Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson head out to Las Vegas for the very special celebration of Hefner's 82nd birthday at the Playboy Club in the Palms Casino Hotel. Among fans and guests present at the bash was former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, who surprised Hefner with a cake that features his three girlfriends and a lap dance, which she performed in nothing but a pair of high heels.
Of course, the stars of The Girls Next Door also have something up their sleeves. In fact, their birthday gift comes in the form of chocolate-dipped body parts, which they designed themselves.
"We gave him chocolate body parts," Kendra said at the time. "We molded our body parts and gave it to him, and he ate them all."
"I molded my ass, so I could call it 'chocolate starfish.' It was white chocolate, and I put a dark chocolate little thing in the middle. You'll see it on the show coming up," she added.
In addition to Hefner's birthday, the new season will reportedly feature trips to New York, Mardi Gras at New Orleans and snowboarding with Barbi Benton in Aspen, the search for the 55th anniversary Playmate, and Bridget Marquardt's adventures in making a horror movie. On top of that, fans can expect Hugh Hefner's girlfriends to engage in some under the water activities.
Don't forget to catch the fifth season premiere of The Girls Next Door tonight at 10pm on E!
“Tick-tock, tick-tock,” sang Madonna’s backup singers as video screens and subwoofers blasted to life at the Izod Center. Time obsesses Madonna on her Sticky and Sweet Tour, which made its first American stop here on Saturday night.
Time means beat and rhythm, and it means the pop history encapsulated in the hits she has been making since 1982. It also means the aging that Madonna defies with workouts, image makeovers and what looks like plastic surgery. A 50-year-old working mother, Madonna can no longer be seen as a clubland ingenue, a Hollywood glamour queen, an iconoclast rejecting a Catholic upbringing or a kinky provocateuse, and she won’t be any kind of dowager yet. Time has brought out her core: careerist ambition and a combative tenacity.
Has there ever been a colder pop sex symbol? For all the invitations in her lyrics, Madonna has always projected more calculation and industriousness than affection. She works; her audience looks and pays, becoming another conquest.
“I can keep on going through the night,” she insisted in “Heartbeat” from her latest album, “Hard Candy” (Warner Brothers), which provided nearly half of the concert’s songs. That was the point: There she was, 50 be damned, spreading her legs, strutting, pushing her dancers around, even doing double-dutch jump rope steps without a tangle.
Madonna built her career on her assets — her ear for hooks and beats, her looks, a predictive fashion sense and an instinct for pushing cultural hot buttons — and the Sticky and Sweet show insists, even demands, that they still have their effect.
She pumps up the volume, piles on the beat and mixes the unstoppable and the baffling, the thrilling and the ridiculous. The set had four thematic sections: the present-day dance floor, the old school, the big wide world, and political and spiritual aspirations (via the dance floor). For thumping electro songs from “Hard Candy,” she had the album’s hip-hop guests — Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Timbaland — performing on towering video screens, sharing the proudly mercantile sentiments of songs like “Candy Shop.”
The old-school section, with a backdrop of animated characters invented by the artist Keith Haring, riffled through original elements of hip-hop culture — break dancing, disc-jockey scratching, double-dutch and graffiti — along with (inexplicably) some pole dancing. Since punk and hip-hop were contemporaries, Madonna also picked up an electric guitar for a enthusiastic punk-pop version of “Borderline.” Her moves were aerobic, not erotic; in one song, other dancers spotted her as if they were personal trainers.
Then came a high-fashion, geographically scrambled international romp, as dancers did flamenco, tango, Indian and Middle Eastern moves. The Spanish-language “La Isla Bonita” moved to Eastern Europe as Madonna brought out a gypsy-style band, with fiddle and accordion. It accompanied her in the one song that exposed her voice: the ballad “You Must Love Me,” with woeful sustained notes.
Madonna turned to messages: a save-the-world video that torpedoed its good intentions with overkill, juxtaposing John McCain with Hitler and Barack Obama with Gandhi. Although her outfit and a mop-with-bangs wig made her look like a bad 1970s comic-book character, Madonna was close to inspirational in an electrocharged version of “Like a Prayer,” with golden-rule religious teachings projected overhead. She followed it awkwardly, with guitar-slinging rock versions of “Ray of Light” and, returning to earthly things, “Hung Up,” with a feedback finish. She wants punk’s old rebel credibility.
“No one is ever going to stop me,” Madonna proclaimed in her finale, “Give It 2 Me.” But as the show ended, the last glimpse of Madonna was a video close-up of her sweaty, unsmiling, exhausted face. She had worked hard, and showed it.
Madonna performs on Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
Angelina Jolie had an acting coach while shooting Clint Eastwood's "The Changeling" - her late mom, Marcheline Bertrand. The Oscar winner revealed to us at the New York Film Festival premiere that she often thought about Bertrand while playing a mother desperately seeking her kidnapped son. 
