Hollywood Archive

London, Oct 27 – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie slept with her mother’s boyfriend when she was 16 years old, claims a biography of her.

According to the book being written by Andrew Morton, the star had intimate relations with her mother Marcheline’s live-in lover.

‘Marcheline had a live-in boyfriend whom she was very much in love with, but Angelina slept with him when she was 16 and barely out of school,’ thesun.co.uk quoted a source as saying.

Jolie, 34, has claimed that she had a close relationship with her mother, who died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 56.

But the two women struggled to rebuild their relationship after Jolie confessed to her mother about the incident.

London, Oct 26 – Pop star Katy Perry, who is dating British comic actor Russell Brand, had a 25th birthday party which left her guests covered in paint.

Dailymail.co.uk reports that guests splashed paint on each other, but Brand did not seem to enjoy it too much. Perry had asked her guests to dress in white and the birthday theme was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. But she had not told them that they would be playing with paint.

Perry was dressed in a low-cut, tight sequined white dress and had her nails painted with the faces of Oompa Loompas. The party was held at The Beach on Sunset in West Hollywood.

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was also present and said: ‘There was so many sweets downstairs for dessert that we’re surprised we didn’t go into a food coma.’

Country singer Taylor Swift and rapper P. Diddy were also there.

London, Oct 25 – Hollywood star Brad Pitt met with a minor motorbike accident in Los Angeles.

TMZ.com reports that Pitt tried to manoeuvre his bike between a parked car and a car stopped at a red light, and his handlebars clipped the parked car. He lost control and fell over.

He got up and moved the motorcycle to the side of the road then ran into an apartment building.

London, Oct 24 – Hollywood actress Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut in ‘After Miss Julie’ has been hit by a string of bad reviews with critics mauling her performance.

The actress stars in Patrick Marber’s adaptation of the August Strindberg classic ‘Miss Julie’. On the opening night Thursday Miller’s performance came under the spotlight, with critics labelling her ‘second rate’, reports contactmusic.com.

‘Ms. Miller registers as a healthy, sane young woman with good diction, good posture and great legs. Commendable as these attributes are, they are of limited use in portraying a tautly wound, death-courting neurotic who is eaten alive by her own demons,’ wrote Ben Brantley, of the New York Times.

‘If Julie is written as clashing chords of conflicted impulses, Ms. Miller plays them like a novice at a piano, plunking down each note loudly and individually,’ he added

Added Wall Street Journal theatre critic Terry Teachout: ‘A model turned second-tier movie star, all she does is stalk around the stage striking vampy poses… she has no more business playing a classic stage role than I have posing for the cover of Vogue.’

‘After Miss Julie’ runs until Dec 6.

London, Oct 24 – Hollywood movie bosses have scrapped plans for a $300-million extension at the studio where the James Bond films are shot after they were denied permission to build on protected rural land.

Executives at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire, Britain applied to authorities to create a new 100-acre set on an unurbanised area, known as a greenbelt, close to its current location, reports gossip.ie.

The extension would have created a huge new film set location, including streetscapes of Venice, New York, Paris and even a Roman amphitheatre.

The proposal also included plans to build 1,500 houses to be used as filming locations in a project which would have created 630 new jobs.

But the authorities have rejected the application, insisting the scheme would have caused ‘significant degradation’ to the local environment and put wildlife at risk.

However, bosses at the studio where ‘The Dark Knight’ was also filmed have refused to give up and are currently drawing up new plans for a ‘greener’ design.

‘This project is of national significance and of great benefit not only to our community and region but also to the UK and its creative industries… We remain committed to the vision of this project and to developing and sustaining UK creative industries at Pinewood for the future,’ said Pinewood’s group director of corporate affairs, Andrew Smith.

London, Oct 24 – Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise was the inspiration for Christian Bale’s frightening portrayal of a bloodthirsty maniac in ‘American Psycho’, according to the movie’s director Mary Harron.

‘The Dark Knight’ actor took on the role of Patrick Bateman in the 2000 thriller, playing a wealthy young investment banker who apparently leads a double life as a vicious multiple murderer, reports hollywood.com.

Director Harron has revealed Bale based the character’s smarmy persona on Cruise after seeing the Hollywood superstar give an interview on a US TV channel.

‘We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave,’ she said.

‘And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy,’ she added.

London, Oct 23 – Actress Nicole Kidman has hit out at Hollywood filmmakers for contributing to domestic violence by portraying women as weak sex objects in the movies.

Kidman was testifying before a US congressional committee considering legislation to deal with violence against women overseas, through humanitarian relief efforts and grants to local organisations, reports dailyrecord.co.uk.

When asked by Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher whether the movie industry had ‘played a bad role’, Kidman said: ‘Probably’.

She added: ‘I can’t be responsible for all of Hollywood but I can certainly be responsible for my own career.’

Kidman is one of the highest-paid stars and has carved a career playing strong female characters. In ‘Dead Calm’, she played a young wife who fights back against a psychotic killer holding her captive on a boat.

Her other strong roles include troubled mother Grace in ghost story ‘The Others’ and Satine in the musical extravaganza ‘Moulin Rouge’.

London, Oct 23 – Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie are in talks to play the king and queen of the Gucci fashion dynasty in director Ridley Scott’s new movie.

Jolie is slated to play Patrizia Reggiano, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, who was sentenced to 29 years in prison for plotting to murder the fashion guru, reported imdb.com.