November 2008 Archives

During a press conference for his upcoming movie "Australia," star Hugh Jackman detailed how he won this year's Sexiest Man Alive designation from People magazine:
"We ran, I think, a very strong campaign. I'm not proud of it, I can admit it now, but we were the first to run a negative campaign. We spent years bringing Clooney, Pitt, Damon, McConaughey all down to size."
Addressing another subject, parenting, Jackman got a little more serious about the honor. Well, a little more honest, anyway.
"Children are just the most pure reflection of the truth at any given moment. For example - not that I'm trying to bring it up - but I was just labeled with something that, trust me, I never thought would happen. My son, Oscar, who is eight, he goes: 'You? You've gotta be kidding me!'
"I thought, there's the truth!"

Before Saturday night's butt-numbing, L.A. premiere od Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-plus hourlong biopic "Che," the director cracked that he had this in common with the Latin American revolutionary and t-shirt icon: "I really wish people would do the hell what I want them to."
Then he made a joke about his cinematic effort - in which Benicio Del Toro trudges around Cuba and Bolivia with a lot of equally hairy co-stars who rarely come into distinctive characterizations - maybe being a little bit masturbatory.
If his goal was to immerse us in the day-to-day details of life in scruffy rebel armies, Soderbergh hit the bullseye (except for the part about not really getting to know comrades you lived, worked and fought alongside for months and years in the jungle). But he made the onanism reference, not me.