A Response to Pop Culture: 08/01/07

Vanity Fair's "Rising" Stars (the ones that matter anyway)

1.) Shia LaBeouf. Okay, yeah, rising star for sure.

2.) Michael Pitt. WHAT. NIGGA'S BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE. And finally people are going to recognize him? I don't like categorizing him under "rising stars" as if he was never a star. Pfft. Assholes.

3.)Ben Foster. Hahaha, yeah, right. Like anyone really KNOWS what he's been in. And I doubt they're gonna start. I know he captured my heart when the Disney channel played episodes of that Canadian tv show Flash Forward. I used to always see him on Sunset/Vine BY HIMSELF. Like, going to the movies BY HIMSELF. And eating at Baja Fresh (he looked really awful) BY HIMSELF. And well, I understand peeing by himself.

Oh, and that kid from Little Miss Sunshine is considered one of Vanity Fair's rising stars. Yeah, I can see it.

And here's another picture of Shia for good measure:

ROCK ON KEVIN SMITH

Ooh, baby. So at the Comic Con, some turd tried to call out Kevin Smith, but Mr. Silent Bob totally whooped his ass. Right on.

Johnny Depp returns to Hunter S. Thompson!

Johnny Depp will produce and star in Warner Independent’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s autobiographical 1959 book The Rum Diaries. Depp will play Paul Kemp, a freelance newspaper journalist in 1950s Puerto Rico who is surrounded by a group of self-destructive lost souls.

Thompson wrote the novel when he was 22, before he developed his trademark ”gonzo” style of writing. Though written in 1959, Rum Diaries was not published until 1998.

Yay!!!

Haaaha

Is that REALLY supposed to be Topher Grace? Like, REALLY? C'mon now, Flaunt. (It kind of looks like Charlie Sheen.)

Now that Topher Grace and Jennifer Goodwin are no longer together, Topher is nothing. All the best goes out to you, Eric Forman.

Sienna Miller has her own cover for this month's Flaunt too, but I'm not going to post that.

Holy tits, Lil' Kim

Lol, that shirt. Of course you would, Mz. Jones.

This is good.

Alan Cumming(!) and Zooey Deschanel (haha) are starring in a Sci-Fi original tv show called "Tin Man." Apparently, it's supposed to be like the Wizard of Oz, but in space. Okay. Zooey, dear, I guess that whole music thing with Jason Schwartzman isn't working out too well? And as for Alan Cumming, he can do no wrong.

No matter what.

Hilary performing in Winnipeg

I really like her outfit (and her dancer's), but what's with the belt? Seriously.

Shia's a pussy?

The actor - who is currently filming the new Indiana Jones movie with Harrison Ford - refused to do some of his stunts after he was burned during one action sequence.

"I do 95 per cent of stunts myself. The other five really was too much. If you can feel your skin bubble because of the heat, you have to draw the line... I saw my skin pulsate - like there were little worms beneath it."

The young star admits he has been put to shame by 65-year-old Harrison, who still does all his own stunts.

Shia revealed: "He's in incredibly good shape. He's tried on the original costume and it fits like a glove. And he's doing all his own stunts.

"The first time I met Harrison he lets you know exactly where he stands in this whole thing, just with a handshake - he's a guy's guy and has got a strong handshake. And when I saw him walk out of his trailer with the fedora on - Oh my god! It was overwhelming."

Oh dear god, Pete.

Pete's been a really bad boy lately. (Well, I guess, when isn't he?) After saying all those bad things about Kate Moss as his strange attempt to win her back, he bleached his hollow little head. At least Kate isn't the one who's making crack pipes, Pete.

(Yeah, I still love you. Sort of.)

Cindy Crawford's still got it!

Yep, she sure does.

Gwen and Kingston at the Sydney Zoo!

Adorable! (Watermarks suck.)

Covers

The first one is Gemma (duh) on the cover of i-D! The last two are of Sasha Pivovarova (love!) on the cover of Vogue Nippon and the highly anticipated Vogue UK. The Vogue Nippon cover is gorgeous.

M.I.A. is so cute!

Here's a video of her and Diplo making "Paper Planes." Aw.

"Lindsay is a real Mean Girl"

So supposedly she said:

Scarlett Johansson is “ugly, fat, and has no talent.” Jessica Simpson “can’t sing and is as dumb as (bleep).” Sienna Miller is a “no talent crackhead.” Keira Knightly is a “flat, shallow, cardboard cutout of an actress.” Jessica Biel is a “phony, scheming joke of an actress.”

Well, if she did, good for her. Because she's pretty much on target with all of them except for ScarJo. Yeah, she's thick, but she's way better of an actress than you, LiLo.