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Where Valentino is, there’s always a great show of fashion. A host of stars flew to Venice yesterday for last night’s premier of ‘Valentino. The Last Emperor’ at the Venice film festival. Friends and fans of Valentino Garavani including Natalia Vodianova, Diane Kruger, Charlize Theron, Claire Danes, Elizabeth Hurley, and Eva Herzigova appeared on the red carpet. Elizabeth Hurley

LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. In a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the actor said he did so voluntarily, adding: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family." The actor's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the rehab report, which first appeared on People.com. -snip-

American Carolling by: Emily Miller, August 28, 2008 In Hollywood, where sex, drugs, and Democrats are as bountiful and commonplace as eco-chic Nalgene water bottles and True Religion blue jeans, can any movie be produced capable of sending shrill shockwaves deep into the core of Los Angeles’ conscience? It seems such a feat is indeed possible. Movie directors David Zucker and Myrna Sokoloff discovered they struck a raw nerve with the L.A. crowd by making a film with a (gasp!) conservative political message. Their film, An American Carol, is a comedy that Sokoloff says goes “straight at the left” by...

On first blush, NBC's Beijing Olympics promotion for its other TV shows has come in underwhelming. "Deal or No Deal"--back from a two-week layoff due to the Olympic coverage--lost 18% of its prime-time ratings to a Nielsen preliminary 2.8 number among 18-49 viewers. Last year's season average was a 3.4 rating. Also underwhelming for most of the networks on Monday night were their respective ratings concerning coverage of the Democratic National Convention. NBC was tops among the big three networks for their 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. coverage, with a 1.5 rating. CBS earned a 0.9 number, and ABC took...

Article published Saturday, August 23, 2008 A HOLLYWOOD PLOT TWIST 'Basic Instinct' author writes book about faith Joe Eszterhas' latest book is a shocker, but not the kind that made him rich and famous. The upcoming release from the man who penned dark thrillers such as Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge tells the story of his spiritual conversion and his newfound devotion to God and family.

Michael Moore's lucrative career in anti-Americanism may have run out of gas, but he's still very much the center of the universe, from his own point of view. Here he is warning Obama not to throw him under the bus along with Reverend Wrong, Trinity United, Tony Rezko, the New Black Panthers, Detroit area Muslims, BHO's white granny, Mike Klonsky, Jim Johnson, et al.: I remember poor John Kerry not even being able to admit, when asked by Larry King, if he had seen Fahrenheit 9/11. "No," he said, "I haven't. … I don't plan to, right now." But he...

An American Carol (2008)

The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green By David Knight With the threat of global warming looming, it's more important than ever that all of us appear to care about the environment. Maybe no one works harder on this than celebrities, who make it a point to show up in the papers every now and then with their latest eco-friendly gesture. We would applaud them for this, if it wasn't for the fact that the gestures are often mind-blowingly retarded.

DHP Review: Blocking ‘The Path To 9/11′ Posted by Dirty Harry on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Because we conservatives aren’t like liberals and find conspiracy theories and merely the suggestion of victimization anathema to our way of thinking, it can be difficult to convince even the most sympathetic among us of just how hostile liberal Hollywood is towards us. Well, we’re not victims and there is no conspiracy, but something is terribly wrong out here, and when explained in an articulate and intelligent way, fair-minded individuals, even on the left, should be outraged. Blocking ‘The Path To 9/11′ may tell...

Celebs did some serious political partying last night at the Black & White Gala for Barack Obama. Although the presidential nominee wasn't in attendance, plenty of stars were there to show their support, like Lucy Liu and Nia Long. VIP tickets to the fancy fete were $2,300 a person, which included munchies like crudités, olives and eggplant and musical stylings from a seven-person gospel choir. So who else hit the bash for Barack, held at a private estate in Bel-Air? Find out in our Party Pics: Hollywood gallery!

Friday, August 22, 2008 Hollywood conservatives to rally for McCain Stephen Dinan and Ralph Z. Hallow As Democrats celebrate in Denver next week, Republican presumptive presidential nominee Sen. John McCain will be trying to fire up some star power of his own by collecting checks and support from conservatives in Hollywood. Mr. McCain will attend a fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, the day the Democrats' convention opens,bringing together top leaders from the Los Angeles business and entertainment communities, according to an invitation for the event obtained by The Washington Times. Show business publication Variety reported that Angie Harmon,...

WHO NEEDS bread and circuses when you've got networking and rock 'n' roll? For every Democratic delegate who is bound for the convention in Denver, desperate to influence the platform committee, there are plenty more looking for the best entertainment acts and the hottest parties -- and they'll have plenty of choices. As the politics have drained from our national conventions, high-level socializing, entertainment (with a purpose) and a chance to brush elbows with celebrities have become the real action at the quadrennial get-togethers. From studio heads to character actors, Hollywood's most devoted politicos have revised their vacation plans to...

Comic goes on another tear, vows to vote Cynthia McKinney for president. Roseanne Barr has followed up her Brangelina tirade with a verbal assault on Barack and Michelle Obama, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, and Democrats overall. The liberal comedian's latest blog rant also blames Oprah Winfrey's support of Obama for taking away primary votes that would've gone to Sen. Hillary Clinton. Below is Barr's posting in its entirety: democrats want to lose and therefore did not fully vet the candidate they shoved down everyone's throat. I am the first blogger to blog about...

McCain's campaign was in the ballpark associating BO with Paris and Britney but missing the strike zone.

Aging comediennes are starting to get annoying. One time star Roseanne Barr has a blog and earlier this week took to the keyboard and punched out lots of insults for Jon Voight, his daughter Angelina Jolie her boyfriend Brad Pitt and lots of other people including all Republicans in general. It was the usual nonsense but as she tossed in Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's names in the mix and insulted them it has spread and is now one of the big stories of the week. As usual Brad and Angelina seem to want to ignore the scandal but Jon...

Oddly, this comes after Obama himself praised President Bush for the billions he's sent to fighting AIDS in Africa during the Saddleback forum on Saturday. Wrapping up her segment on Jolie, Roseanne capped it by typing "Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps....it might be good for your asian and african children's self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)"

Gwyneth Paltrow has angered PETA, by wearing fur in a new advertising campaign for luxury Italian fashion label Tod’s. The campaign, which was shot in Capri by Mario Testino, features the 35-year-old actress in fox fur and wearing fur-lined boots.

Opening Oct. 3. From what I've seen and heard, this is a must see movie. Chris Farley's brother plays Michael Moore. A conservative movie from Hollywood, it's unique.

http://www.tvland.com/causechange/?cid=YSSP Did you ever want to get involved with a local charity? How about mentoring a child? Maybe you always wanted to volunteer at the senior center down the street? Well now's the time and TV Land is reaching out and encouraging its viewers to give back to society. With the Cause Change initiative you will see regular people just like you who are learning that giving a little can make a big difference. Click on the links below to learn more about different organizations that may need your help.

The 36-year-old actress was born in Hollywood, California. Robert Applegate, her father, was a record producer and record company producer executive, and Nancy Lee Priddy, her mother, was a singer. She also had to fight both breast and cervical cancer. Christina Applegate will always remain in the audience’s memory as Kelly Bundy in the sitcom “Married with Children.” The actress made a great film and television career until her 36 years. Christina Applegate had major roles in several pictures, as “Farce of the Penguins,” “Anchorman,” “The sweetest thing” and is the lead character in the ABC sitcom “Samantha Who?,”...

DANNY Glover's movie project with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez never got off the ground - and it's because of Hollywood's racism, Glover whines. Marxist Chavez was smart enough to offer just half the financing for the film, $18 million. Glover was supposed to get the other $18 million from a distributor, but no one in Hollywood was interested in a preachy film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint L'Ouverture. Glover told a Paris film seminar: "Producers said, It's a nice project, a great project . . . where are the white heroes?'

Again and again we see Mr. Ledger's Joker pulling off the most fantastically conceived acts of evil which, in real life, would require a virtual army of assistants, many of whom would have to be almost as clever as he is. Yet the movie shows us not even one. We do see the Joker lording it over some fellow criminals on a couple of occasions -- not the best way to gain their cooperation, one might have thought. And, in the bank robbery with which the film opens, he casually murders all his assistants, which is even less likely to...

“Hobbit” Director: America Kills Children And Rapes Continents Posted by Dirty Harry on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Rhetorical: Why do ungrateful, hypocritical multi-millionaires like Guillermo del Toro stay in a country they find so repugnant: “American theatres in the South rejected the first movie, refused to play it, because the word ‘hell’ was in the title,” he says. “Other theatres in the South changed the title on the marquee from Hellboy to Hello Boy, and Heck Boy.” He thought when he was pitching Hellboy II: The Golden Army that people would be less sensitive, but not so. “We actually went...

Roseanne said, "do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican party's worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan?"

LOS ANGELES - Roseanne Barr is using her personal Web site to slam Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jolie's father, Jon Voight. Calling Jolie Voight’s “evil spawn” and Pitt “vacuous,” Roseanne’s attack seems to be directed at the actress and her family members over their opinions regarding presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama. Roseanne’s post starts out as a rant against an opinion piece Voight wrote against Obama for the Washington Times in July.“God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened...

I’m not much inclined to get down in the muck and mire of that vale of vapid vacuity called Hollywood but when one Hollywood-type disparages another Hollywoodian as vacuous it merits a mention, especially when that disparagement edges into political commentary: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2008/08/roseanne-barr-still-alive-slamming-brangelina/. Roseanne Barr can only by the most charitable stretch be deemed a Hollywood type but I’ll extend that courtesy for the purpose of argument. Seems the formerly rotund one scribbled in her blog, “Your evil spawn Angelina Jolie and her vacuous hubby Brad Pitt make about $40 million a year in violent, psychopathic movies and give away three...

General Motors Corp., pushing to speed up cost cuts after a $15.5 billion second-quarter loss, said it will halt its sponsorship of the movie industry's Academy Awards and television's Emmy Awards after at least a decade. "With the current business challenges and the tightening of budgets, we decided to focus our promotional dollars on activities that reach the most customers and get us the most return on investment," Kelly Cusinato, a spokeswoman for the Detroit-based automaker, said Monday in an interview.

6/4/08 - George Lucas has created legendary film heroes like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones, but the US director says that in real life, his hero is Barack Obama. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/clone_wars/

Roseanne has slammed Angelina Jolie, her partner Brad Pitt, and her father, Jon Voight in a new post on her personal web site. Calling Jolie, Voight’s “evil spawn,” and Pitt, “vacuous,” Roseanne’s attack seems to be directed at the actress and her family members over their opinions regarding presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama. Roseanne’s post seems to start out as a response to an OP-ED piece Voight wrote for the Washington Times in July, against Obama. “God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our...

Stars Get Ready for Democratic Convention Monday , August 18, 2008 By Roger Friedman Stars Get Ready for Denver How many stars are going to Denver next week for the Democratic Convention? Let's put it this way: they're going to have major gridlock in the Mile High City thanks to limos everywhere. The pollution level should go way up from A-listers in their individual gas-guzzling block-long vehicles! The music celebs alone should be tantalizing. James Taylor and Tony Bennett are performing for Nancy Pelosi at a benefit, and Kanye West is doing the same for the Recording Industry of America....

Doug and Annie Brown became a hot topic of conversation in June when his book came out, called “Just Do It." The married couple from Denver made a decision to do something dramatic to their marriage and have sex for 101 days in a row. They called it a “sexpedition." They expressed surprise at how much closer they became, relishing conversations, holding hands and strengthening their marital bond. They felt like courting each other the way they did when they first met in their twenties. On the jokey surface of our popular culture, we consistently encounter the idea that marriage...

Has Ellen DeGeneres won the culture war? It’s somewhat surprising that DeGeneres’ daytime television show has become Republican central over the past several months, with high-profile appearances by Laura Bush, Jenna Bush and John McCain. Even more surprising: the fact that DeGeneres treated both Bushes and McCain with the utmost respect, although McCain and DeGeneres had a civil disagreement over same-sex marriage. One cannot imagine, say, Rosie O’Donnell showing any respect for McCain and the Bush ladies. DeGeneres is far more tolerant—but mere tolerance isn’t the only reason DeGeneres avoids the usual Hollywood anti-Republican shtick. DeGeneres realizes that her show...

Have you ever watched a highly rated film, as reviewed by the New York Times or some other pompous metro-sexual publication, only to find the movie an incredible piece of crap? I know I have. Why the disconnect? First of all, how many real men do you know who are hired as film reviewers by TV, magazines, or newspapers? The answer is probably… none. There aren’t any. At least not any I’ve ever seen or read. (My apologies to any real men out there who do review movies. You probably reside in ‘fly-over country’ and don’t get published to the...

Stephen Baldwin being interviewed by Laura Ingram.Link

The movie - provisionally titled Inglorious Bastards and starring Brad Pitt - is said to be blood-curdling even by Tarantino's standards and includes one scene where a Nazi has his head bashed in with a baseball bat. Pitt's character Lieutenant Aldo Raine leads a group of American-Jewish soldiers who are dropped into Nazi-occupied Europe to wreak revenge on the Germans and destroy their morale. According to a leaked version of the script, the officer tells his men that they "owe" him one hundred Nazi scalps each which they should bring to him or die trying. Other scenes are said to...

Mr. Hamdan, We're Ready For Your Closeup Aug. 17, 2008(CBS) Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and CBSNews.com.Of course George Clooney’s production company has just purchased the rights to a book written about Salim Hamdan, the most famous mechanic and driver in the history of the world. The sensitive star knows a good story when he sees one, and Hamdan’s story (the final chapters of which have yet to be written) over the past six years surely ranks as one of the best of the decade. Hamdan drove Osama bin Laden for a while (imaging having that...

Here's something you don't see every day: a film spoofing revered Hollywood liberals such as schlockumentarian Michael Moore. Yet, that's exactly what David Zucker, the film director that has brought America such comedy classics as "Kentucky Fried Movie," "Airplane," and "The Naked Gun," will be offering viewers soon with a movie entitled "An American Carol" (trailer embedded right).

South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the latest names to pay their respect to late singer Isaac Hayes, after he sadly passed away earlier on in the week from a stroke. Hayes voiced the character of Chef in the popular cartoon for eight years (between 1998-2006), but quit the series when South Park mocked Scientology in an episode. Stone and Parker have put their differences aside and have now posted a picture of Chef on their official site, which reads "In Memoriam Isaac Hayes - 1942-2008."

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Donald Trump will soon be Ed McMahon's landlord. Trump announced Thursday he would save the television personality's Beverly Hills mansion from foreclosure by buying it for an undisclosed amount and leasing it to McMahon. The developer told the Los Angeles Times he doesn't know McMahon personally, but acted out of compassion because helping out "would be an honor." McMahon, 85, who was Johnny Carson's sidekick on the "Tonight" show for three decades, has not worked for about 18 months because of a neck injury. He defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with Countrywide Financial Corp.

2 1/2 stars Stars: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman Rated: PG-13 for language and sexuality How long: 1:46 Where: Sundance "Based on a true story." It's always good to see those words at the start of movie. For better or worse, it seems to be embedded in human nature to find true stories more enticing. That's certainly the case with "Bottle Shock." Its major flaw is that it pads a perfectly exciting true story with a bunch of hokey, unnecessary plotlines. Blame it on the tipsy over-exuberance of the filmmakers. But for anyone who enjoys wine even casually, it's still a...

This was put on Youtube from this evening’s O’Reilly Factor. Excellent trailer. Enjoy.

Giant shape-shifting robots invaded the Antelope Valley this week as a production crew for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" shot scenes for the action sequel at a Palmdale quarry. The crew arrived Monday and was slated to stay through today, filming at Service Rock Quarry, at Palmdale Boulevard and 75th Street East, and at Antelope Valley Aggregate on Avenue T in Littlerock. The quarry is doubling as an excavation site in an action sequence featuring a helicopter, pyrotechnic explosions, wind machines, debris and gunfire. "Transformers" crew members are occupying a large base camp with rows of trailers, trucks and cars,...

It's "The Donald" to the rescue. Mega-developer and TV personality Donald Trump has agreed to buy Ed McMahon's Beverly Hills house for an undisclosed amount and allow McMahon to continue living in it. Details of the deal are still being ironed out.

The sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, originally scheduled for a November 21 release, has now been moved to July 17, 2009 in the US and major international markets, according to MarketWatch.com. WB has confirmed the move to TLC. The press release says the reason for the move was two-fold: First, the studio says summer releases are better for "family tentpole" events, and second, they are still feeling the aftereffects of the writers' strike and need the time to make sure the film reaches the widest audience possible. The new date, said Jeff Robinov, president of...

British prosecutors said there is insufficient evidence to build a "realistic prospect of conviction" following the incident at Park Lane's Dorchester Hotel on July 21. It had been reported that the Dark Knight star's mother Jenny, 61, and sister Sharon, 40, told police he had assaulted them at the hotel a day before the European premiere of the international smash hit. The Crown Prosecution Service has ordered the police not to take any further action in the matter. A CPS spokesman said: We can today confirm that we have advised the Metropolitan Police Service that the actor Christian Bale should...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Whether you want to see the multi-million dollar home of a Hollywood celebrity or the scene of an infamous crime, Los Angeles has a guided tour to suit almost every taste. But away from the well-worn tourist routes of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, Robert Cabrales is preparing to take a bus-load of sightseers on a journey that he says aims to expose the city's "dirty little secrets". Organized by the advocacy group Communities for a Better Environment (CBECAL), the "Toxic Tour" takes eco-tourists through the sights and smells of some of Los Angeles' most notorious environmental...

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Factor Follow-up" segment tonight: Last week, actor Jon Voight wrote an op-ed in The Washington Times saying that he did not trust Barack Obama on terrorism issues, among other things. In response, Hollywood blogger Jeffrey Wells wrote, "If I were a producer and had to make a casting decision, I might very well say to myself, 'Voight? Let him eat cake.'" Now we talked to Mr. Wells a few days ago, and he denied that was a threat, but it sure sounded like one. Joining us now from Los Angeles is Jon Voight. You know,...

In a high-profile shake-up at the recently revived United Artists movie label, Paula Wagner -- the longtime business partner of Tom Cruise -- is in talks with UA parent MGM to leave her post as UA's chief executive, according to a person familiar with the matter. Ms. Wagner, a former talent agent, and Mr. Cruise arrived at UA in 2006 with great fanfare and plans for resurrecting the historic film company. Ms. Wagner and Mr. Cruise received a minority stake in UA estimated at the time to be around 30%. Under Ms. Wagner the label secured a $500 million film...

My friend, Isaac Hayes, died on Sunday, and his passing leaves many unanswered questions. Isaac was found dead by his treadmill, but conveniently missing from the wire stories was a significant fact: in January 2006, Isaac had a significant stroke. At the time, the word went out only that he had been hospitalized for exhaustion. But the truth was, Isaac, whom I’d seen just a couple of months earlier when he headlined the Blues Ball in Memphis, was in trouble. Having lost the rights to his songs two decades earlier, he was finally making some money voicing the character of...

The Dennis Miller interview By JEFFREY RESSNER | 8/10/08 12:29 PM EST How would you describe your political beliefs: Republican? Independent? Libertarian? Well, I’d say it’s eclectic pragmatism at some point. I’m a moderate in some degree because I have wildly swinging opinions but through some sort of ideological feng shui they end up in the middle. Some swing far to the left, others to the far right. I’m for the war, but I’m also for gay marriage. I don’t care if two folks with the same genitalia want to get hitched, I just don’t want some a—hole from another...