Is Catherine Zeta-Jones Too Skinny? And Other Invasive Questions
Is this woman too thin, or are we too fat? Roman Polanski breaks his silence. Jenna and Tito are back together. Jay-Z and Beyonce probably aren't moving to rural Pennsylvania, but you never know. Just another Monday gossip roundup.
- The British press has been touting this "Catherine Zeta-Jones is scary-skinny" story for a while. CZJ was always The Curvaceous One Whose Bosom Heaves in Zorro Movies, so her slimming upsets some. As an aggregate, aren't all female celebrities her age 10 lbs. skinnier than they were in 1999? Aniston, Jolie, all the Desperate Housewives, SJP—they're all "toned," now. Is this because Hollywood, as a whole, is shrinking? Or is it just the older women, fighting age by vanquishing excess flesh less buoyant with age? Muscle tone: Botox of the body? [DailyMail]
- More details on Halle Berry's break-up with eye candy baby daddy Gabriel Aubry: "She kicked him out months ago because he wasn't able to pull his weight... They're very amicable in healthy ways because of their child." Disappointingly un-fiery. [People]
- Roman Polanski broke his silence, and said exactly what you'd expect, stuff about unfairness and the L.A. district attorney serving him up "on a platter to the media." [AP]
- One dropped domestic assault charge and one dropped drug accusation later, Jenna Jameson and ultimate fighting boyfriend Tito Ortiz have reconciled. Tito will move back into their home midweek. That this story is banal is precisely why it is so disturbing. [TMZ]
- Jay-Z and Beyonce are moving to rural Pennsylvania because "sources claim that a black limousine has been spotted in [Schuylkill] county," and apparently nobody in that county has ever seen a limo before, so they just sort of assumed it was Jay and B. [DigitalSpy]
- Angelina Jolie is so hot, she stood up the President of the United States of America. "Angelina is always invited by several media outlets to sit at their table [at the White House Correspondents Dinner, which Obama hosts] but she always refuses." Good. That event's tradition of having individual celebrities be the "date" of entire publications (People brought Justin Bieber to the party; Barack brought his wife, Michelle) has always creeped me out. [NBN]
- Here's a good sighting, emphasis mine: "Ivanka Trump crossing West 34th Street in a crowd—'she stood out like a sore thumb'—and walking into Daffy's." Heiress wanders into cut-rate Eurotrash clothier. This scandal could ruin her career. [P6]
- Helena Christensen posed for an ad for those Reebok shoes that are supposed to tone your butt, and she posed naked. Nobody is going to notice the shoes in this ad. [NSFW: DailyMail]
- Speaking of actresses who got skinnier with age: Kristin Davis talks about reaching a career high at 45, a blasphemously old age by Hollywood standards. She says she always thought if she didn't make it by 20, she'd never make it, but Sex and the City is magic. It's actually pretty sweet. [DailyMail]
- Transformers director Michael Bay unbuttoned his shirt super low, revealing a chest covered with curls golden as the luscious mane that floweth from his head. This man is way too easy to tease. [HuffPo]
- Mandy Moore is a bigger diva than Kellan Lutz, Jessica Szohr, James Brolin, and Jane Seymour, because they're all filming Love, Wedding, Marriage in New Orleans (based solely on the title and cast, I'm guessing Love, Actually: American Edition) and Mandy complained about the crap lodgings, so she got moved to the Ritz. Everyone else continues to toil in some crappier place. [P6]
- Seth Green married his model/actress girlfriend Clare Grant this weekend. 2000's quintessential teen hooligan is all grown up in 2010. [People]