<![CDATA[Gawker: Natalie Portman]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Natalie Portman]]> http://gawker.com/tag/natalie portman http://gawker.com/tag/natalie portman <![CDATA[ Skinny Madonna Denies Eating ]]> 83084809.jpg

  • Madonna and Alex Rodriguez had a big secret dinner at Dos Caminos Third Avenue in New York. They arrived half an hour apart, sat in the back at a quiet, "alcove-like" table and left by separate exits. Then they denied the Mexican food rendezvous to the press, since Rodriguez's soon-to-be-ex-wife has the crazy idea Madonna sneaks around with A-Rod . But Us Weekly and Page Six each has a source who saw the dinner, so it's basically confirmed.
  • The other big rumor about Madonna is that she isn't eating anything at all, ever, with anyone and that her skeleton is terrifying the innocent people of Gotham. [Sun]
  • It wouldn't have been a proper farewell to Steve Dunleavy if Geraldo hadn't spilled a martini on Cindy Adams' handbag at some point in the evening. [Post, bottom item]
  • Instead of taking meetings with book publishers he want to advance her $6 million, Tina Fey is personally calling celebrities to beg them to do 30 Rock cameos. Salma Hayek is the latest and she's signed on for two episodes. It's not clear if she forced Fey to do her Palin impression as part of the negotiations, but she totally should have. [P6]
  • Natalie Portman sold her $6.5 million West Village condo because she is "valuing her privacy more and more."
  • Jennifer Aniston complained to the press that the press falsely accused her of using her relationships to get more press. This got her more press, although not as much as a celebrity relationship would. Still: Excellent flackery. [Hollyscoop]
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:36:08 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5058612&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Jew Dork, I Love You ]]> [Actress Natalie Portman at the Rodarte show for Fashion Week today; image via Getty]

TedSez's new line beats the original, "Oh This Old Face?"

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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:14:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047456&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Actress Picks Tiny, Final Imperfection Off Face ]]> [Natalie Portman at the Venice International Film Festival in, um, Venice today; image via INF]

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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:10:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5044485&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Actress Suddenly Startled By Sound of Rope Snapping ]]> natalierope.jpg[Natalie Portman on the red carpet at Cannes yesterday; image via AP]

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Mon, 19 May 2008 13:00:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=391708&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Newest Disaster Also Not Miley Cyrus' Fault ]]> 81054860

  • An LA band called Lustra called out Miley Cyrus by name for a song that sounds way, way too much like one of their songs. But it turns out Cyrus doesn't write any of her own songs, so now the band kind of looks like a bunch of assholes. [P6]
  • Natalie Portman took a jet ride with movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh and then supposedly "looked smitten." But she's still in love with hippie folksinger Devendra Banhart. [P6]
  • Sarah Jessica Parker insisted she is not in a massive catfight with Sex And The City co-stars, particularly Kim Cattrall. Supposedly Cattrall refused to sit through the movie's premiere. Parker said, "I wouldn't have wanted to do it with anyone else," which doesn't really address the rumor. [Daily Star]
  • Pete Doherty keeps writing songs for Amy Winehouse, who keeps calling them "shit" and "rubbish." [Mirror]
  • You know how you can tell Britney Spears is, indeed, pregnant? Because she recently visited a doctor. [Showbiz Spy]
  • First Jack Black revealed Angelina Jolie is pregnant, now Dustin Hoffman has leaked the due date, August 19. More cameos! [Sun]
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Fri, 16 May 2008 06:10:05 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009308&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Hollywood's Favorite Anti-Poverty Crusade Actually Making People Poorer ]]> "Smart" celebrities who "care" about things love microcredit, the most buzzed-about poverty-ending economic fad since eating the poor. Mohammed Yunus, the guy who invented it, won a Nobel Peace Prize! And Harvard-educated Natalie Portman works tirelessly to promote the idea that small loans to impoverished people will lead to an entrepreneurial spirit that will lift everyone out of poverty. The only problem with "microcredit" is that it's actually loan-sharking, and it's destroying the lives of the people it's meant to help. France24 actually did some journalism and talked to recipients of the micro-loans instead of just taking the word of noble economists as gospel. Watch as collectors from Grameen Bank, the gigantic bank that largely runs the microcredit scheme, advise villagers to sell their children! Now, instead of just being broke, Bangladeshi villagers are deep in debt and killing themselves to escape their creditors. Finally, they are living the American Dream. So. Watch that clip here or just click through to see Natalie Portman babble at those ladies on The View about all the good work she's doing.

[France24]

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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:55:50 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383765&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Even Natalie Portman Gets Peed On Sometimes ]]> 79839379

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Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:26:21 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5006528&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natalie Portman Continues to Outsmart Hollywood ]]> other-boleyn-girl-0.jpgSo, Natalie Portman has signed on to play Cathy in a new Wuthering Heights film. Whether or not you think the casting really works (I'm not sure I do, but I hate that book so don't really care), you've got to credit Natalie and her agents for her consistently smart choices. She's bounced between prestige and popcorn, period and modern, crafting a resume with depth and diversity that should be (if it's not already) the envy of her peers. Her direct competition (and S&M friend) Scarlett Johansson is still a bit unproven in the whole "talent" department, so Natalie needn't worry there. And sure Reese Witherspoon (maybe in a slightly older age group) has that Oscar, but her glossy period effort Vanity Fair totally bombed. Gwyneth Paltrow (again, a bit older) went too period and too British (moving to London and whatnot) and is now stuck playing the girl secretary role in Ironman.

Keira Knightley, by sheer virtue of her Englishness, will be running around in a corset for many years to come, I suspect. Meanwhile Natalie gets to be short-form muse for Tom Twyker (in Paris, Je t'aime) and Wes Anderson (in the little Darjeeling Limited prequel Hotel Chevalier) and do indie art projects with the likes of Wong Kar Wai. It's a pretty ideal set up, and this Wuthering Heights role will further solidify her status as a literary starlet with a big, active brain (she went to Hahvahd, after all). Let's just be glad that she hasn't gone and starred in some big, dopey worst-prequels-ever space operas or anything.

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Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=378739&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Angry Rabbis Threaten Natalie Portman's Leading Man ]]> portmanrabbiscandal.jpgAbe Karpen is a Hasidic Jewish hunk who was supposed to star in New York I Love You with Natalie Portman. He had to drop out of the film after being threatened by members of his community. Due to his strict religious beliefs, Karpen refrained from holding Portman's hand during filming, but he still freaked out all of his Hasidic homies.

When photos emerged showing Karpen strolling across the Brooklyn Bridge with Portman, rabbis told him they would expel his daughters from the local Yeshiva. A friend, who spoke to the Daily News, said "the community wants to kill him." Karpen fled the city to escape the wrath of his angry Orthodox compadres. I'm not sure what the status of the movie shoot is, but they should call me if they need another Jew. I even have sort of a Jew beard and everything. Plus, I'm ready and willing to hold Natalie Portman's hand, or any of her other body parts. I would have no problem with that at all.

NYDN via HuffPo

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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:30:21 EDT hwalker http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368405&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Celebs the Only Ones Who Can Change the World ]]> hay.jpgThe visual shortcut for celebs-in-philanthropy is Natalie Portman looking fresh-faced in a t-shirt — at least in Sunday's NYT Magazine article, "The Celebrity Solution." As PR man Howard Bragman puts it, "You can't just get $20 million a picture, you've got to serve turkeys to the poor, too." Our favorite part is the faux-naivete Portman adopts when explaining that her celebrity facilitates getting pet cause a meeting on Capitol Hill:

In 2004, Natalie Portman, then a 22-year-old fresh from college, went to Capitol Hill to talk to Congress on behalf of the Foundation for International Community Assistance, or Finca, a microfinance organization for which she served as "ambassador." She found herself wondering what she was doing there, but her colleagues assured her: "We got the meetings because of you." For lawmakers, Natalie Portman was not simply a young woman — she was the beautiful Padmé from "Star Wars." "And I was like, 'That seems totally nuts to me,' " Portman told me recently. "It's the way it works, I guess. I'm not particularly proud that in our country I can get a meeting with a representative more easily than the head of a nonprofit can."
More disburbingly, however:
An entire industry has sprung up around the recruitment of celebrities to good works. Even an old-line philanthropy like the Red Cross employs a "director of celebrity outreach." Oxfam has a celebrity wrangler in Los Angeles, Lyndsay Cruz, on the lookout for stars who can raise the charity's profile with younger people... The more deeply committed figures, like Angelina Jolie, retain firms like the Global Philanthropy Group, which, according to a representative, offers "comprehensive philanthropic management."
The most amusing anecdote recounts George Clooney and his masculinity:
Clooney balked only at buttering up Laura Bush. I attended the meeting and heard him tell Jamie Drummond, the executive director of DATA: "I just don't feel it's right for me to meet the first lady. I've been very critical of her husband in public; I think there's something unmanly about meeting with his wife first."
Nothing like a little ego to bring this selfless cause-supporting back down to earth.

The Celebrity Solution [NYT]

[Photo: Alexei Hay for the NYT]

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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:30:45 EST Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=365512&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Britney Spears Actually Investing At Least $2,500 Per Week Wisely ]]>

  • Singer Britney Spears, said to be worth around $50 million, has become steadily more sane since her father was placed in control of her finances and other affairs several weeks ago. She parted ways with hanger-on ex-paparazzo Adnan Ghalib and earned the right to see her children more often. Apparently her father is compensated at $2,500 per week for his oversight, and the many tabloids that make money off Spears insanity are incredulous. So is comedian Rosie O'Donnell, who wrote in her Web Q&A forum that Spears' dad's high pay has become "the problem." Apparently these people have never priced rehab, or done some simple math on the scale of Spears' image problem.
  • Singer John Mayer wrote the sweetest song while at the airport. It starts, "Dear Ex Lover, Perhaps you didn't understand the last time I told you to stop contacting me, so I'll do my best to spell it out for you." It just gets even more tender from there, if you can imagine that. [Mayer blog via Perez]
  • Jerry Seinfeld's pitch for his new network show: "Just like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but with Jerry, instead of Larry [David]." Curb Your Enthusiasm, of course, was like a slightly more improvised version of Seinfeld, but with Larry David instead of Jerry Seinfeld. Just admit you want your old show back, Jerry. [P6]
  • American Idol Season One star Nikki McKibbin had a Feb. 21 breakdown in the wake of weak album sales, her mother's August death and abuse of migraine medicine. [Star]
  • Posh Spice at last gets her Vogue cover, but notice only after the Spice Girls finally promised to finally just stop existing.
  • Irish actor Colin Farrell told off by boyfriend of model Meghan Lowther at the Rose Bar in Gramercy Park Hotel. "You tried. Now get out of here." [P6]
  • Sad: Harvey Weinstein wants a meeting with novelist Linda Fairstein, so she makes swanky reservations at a Midtown restaurant and alets the maitre d' about exactly who is coming. Turns out, it is Harvey Weinstein all right — the "octogenarian tuxedo manufacturer" who just loves her books. [P6]
  • Another girl got between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of "the Hills." Shocker! [Us]
  • Kelly Rowan of "The O.C." is being kept hidden away by a reclusive Canadian billionaire, who doesn't like media attention. If you read between the lines in this item, it's like she's sending coded messages just begging some brave paparazzo to come rescue her. [P6]
  • Actor Will Smith is hosting world icon Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in London. [Sun]
  • Actor Patrick Swayze maybe not really going back to work, because he dropped out of a gay role in this one comedy flick. [OK!]
  • Actress Natalie Portman on Hillary Clinton: "A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it's so sexist... You ask people why they don't like her and it's because her husband cheated on her! That was obviously not her choice." [Us]
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Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:52:18 EST http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=365099&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Girls Can Be Hot, Smart And Hypocritical ]]> starwars.jpgEarlier today, I claimed that Natalie Portman, who both went to Harvard and is attractive, must be a cyborg because as a rule, women can be dumb and hot or smart and busted. But there is one exception: the hypocritical. By their very nature, hypocrites can embody any contradiction they want. They're that powerful. So even though the Natalie Portman of the present doesn't wear leather, the Natalie Portman of the past did. In Attack of The Clones she wore what she described as a "leather-and-lace outfit." So either her stance on animal cruelty has evolved over the past six years (a likely story!), or she's a liar. Either way, she can't be trusted and must be destroyed to protect the resistance. [via Deceiver]

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:37:24 EST rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=364806&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ More Than A Pretty Face ]]> It's tough out there in Hollywood for smart hot chicks. In fact, it's tough out there for smart hot chicks everywhere, because everyone assumes that they're dumb. Women can only be smart or hot, not both. But Natalie Portman went to Harvard and she's attractive, so the only possible conclusion we can draw is that she's a cyborg sent from the future to destroy us. In this month's Elle she talks about smart things, like why Hillary Clinton matters to women (because she's also a woman!) and why ambitious chicks get hated on. In the attached video, she explains that women can still look good, and not all crunchy and gross, in animal-friendly clothing. In like five years, she's totally going to adopt some Cambodian refugee babies, and then usher in the robot apocalypse.

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:46:44 EST rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=364629&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Damn Unpretty ]]> natalie_portmanugly.jpgHottie boombalottie Natalie Portman would maybe like to become a politician when she is "too ugly for Hollywood." Which she says will happen by the time she's 36. Good luck, regular women! [Showbiz Spy]

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Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:23:33 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=363744&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Actress Leads Roman Empire To Triumphant Return ]]> [Actress Natalie Portman at the London premiere party for her new film The Other Boleyn Girl; image via Bauer-Griffin]

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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:25:29 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=358884&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Promosexuality Mars Berlin Film Festival ]]> natposcarjokiss.jpg["The Other Boleyn Girl" actresses Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson on the red carpet this weekend. Image: WireImage via CityRag] Click thumb for larger, at CityRag.

Flashman's new line beats the original, A Teenage Boy's Head Explodes.

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Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:23:10 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=357689&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Scarlett Johansson Different From Natalie Portman In Two Big Ways ]]> Scarlett Johansson got everyone's attention posing with Natalie Portman on the cover of this month's W, where they both looked hot but also like replicants from the same assembly line. Now of course Johansson is wisely making news in the other direction, by busting out and showing off how very different she is from Portman. She's been helped along by the intrepid Brit tabloid the Sun, which just ran a story that starts with the title "Scarlett Shows Off Johanssons" and then just gets classier. It comes from a screening in Berlin the two actresses attended together. Here's how the Sun captioned the photos:

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Picture 3-3

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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:04:56 EST Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5003143&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! ]]> [Actresses Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman at the premiere of their new film "The Other Boleyn Girl" in Berlin yesterday; image via Splash]

Helman's new line beats the original, Conjoined Twins Awkwardly Enter Into Arranged Marriage.

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:35:16 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=357260&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ In Which Jane Fonda Used A Bad Word ]]> Feminist icon Jane Fonda used the word "cunt" on the Today Show, rather than Oprah-approved vajayjay, and the moral guardians shuddered, but with less conviction than they once summoned. Swearwords found safety in numbers: John Edwards thinks Barack Obama is a "pussy"; and the likely Republican nominee, who survived years in a prisoner-of-war camp, is a "sissy", according to Salon. In preparation for a limp-wristed political future, 24 dumped its torture-loving creator. Sissy: not something one could say about Hayden Christensen, star of Doug Liman's new science-fiction movie, Jumper: he manfully squired co-star Rachel Bilson round Manhattan to establish his heterosexual credentials, but not so conclusively that female or gay fans would think him unavailable. (Amazingly, Madonna's new movie got better reviews.) Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman took the opposite tack, playing to male sapphic fantasies on the cover of W to promote their new movie, The Other Boleyn Sister. (We thought Scarjo looked more like a Slovak model.) Talking of pseudo-siblings, Julia Allison's 17-year-old "adopted" little sister, with whom the Star magazine talking head enjoyed posing, hooked up with Men's Vogue cad, Hud Morgan. There's a diagram. Even more complicated: the relationship between fashion designer Marc Jacobs, his boyfriend, and the gay porn star they've adopted. The New York Times adapted to these shallow times by splashing a game show, Deal or No Deal, across the front of its Arts section. But this belated populist appeal wasn't enough to staunch the loss of readers, and advertising: the Gray Lady is joining the Los Angeles Times and most every other newspaper in the US in cutting newsroom jobs. For these stories, and more, here's one page with the week's top stories. (Or just click on any of the names listed, above.)

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:48:51 EST Nick Denton http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5003140&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natalie Portman vs. Paris Hilton ]]> flying-cat-fight.jpgWe've been covering Natalie Portman and Paris Hilton a good deal of late. Largely because they both have new shoe lines out, as well as new movies (The Hottie & The Nottie for Ms. Hilton, The Other Boleyn Girl for Ms. Portman). Because Natalie may have botched her big launch party last night, some folks are suggesting that Natalie could learn a little something from Paris about how to launch a shoe line. Respected Actress Natalie Portman learning something from Paris Hilton?? The two are apples and oranges! How can you compare them? Well, we decided we'd go ahead and do just that. So, after the jump find a handy little chart comparing and contrasting various facets of the stars' lives. And, because everything in life is a competition, we've declared winners.

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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:17:49 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356707&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natalie Portman More Popular Than Ever Among Cows ]]> natalieportman.jpegFinally, some shoes that Natalie Portman can eat. The actress (and ScarJo doppelganger) launched her own line of vegan shoes yesterday at a New York boutique, the natural environment of fervent vegans. These things would be made out of what, plastic? Yarn? It's hard to tell in this scientific era we live in. Take a guess for yourself— sample pictures of the shoes, which save animals $275 at a time, after the jump.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:24:24 EST Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356184&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters ]]> This month's W magazine features actresses Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman on the cover, looking eerily similar. The magazine declares that they're Hollywood's "New Hot Duo", which is convenient given that their new movie, The Other Boleyn Girl in which they play the Boleyn sisters, is coming to theaters this month. How did they achieve such similarity? Photoshop? Make-up? Plastic surgery? Whatever it is, they've both been buffed and polished toward the same ideal, so many times, that they basically look exactly the same. The S&M/circus theme, the little dog, and Scarlett's strange expression unsettle as well. [PageSix] Click for larger image.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:25:25 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=355446&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ We did not know Stanford had such a problem ... ]]> We did not know Stanford had such a problem with poverty but apparently Natalie Portman did. Threadbare Stanford sweatshirts, playing Ultimate Frisbee with a plastic plate, reading Edward Said by dwindling candlelight? The horror! [NY Post]

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Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:40:49 EDT Joshua Stein http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=308629&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Remainders: Will the Fake Slim Shady Please Sit Down ]]> eminem.jpg• Eminem in whiteface. Someone, somewhere, is rolling in some grave, or something. [DealBreaker]
TIME reporter claims magazine didn't touch Karr story. Claim eerily matches reality of Karr claim he touched JonBenet Ramsey. YEAH, WE'RE STILL DOING THIS. [Think Progress]
Wired reviews Pitchfork Media. Gives it a 7.030032. Basically good, but a little bit derivative of [obscure reference], like some kind of [overwrought metaphor that doesn't actually make sense when you think about it for even two seconds]. [Wired]
• A CNN reporter has a private conversation in the bathroom while wearing a hot mic during President Bush's memorial Hurricane Katrina address. Embarrassing? Yes. Was anyone watching President Bush's memorial Hurricane Katrina address? No. [Wonkette]
•: Important Update on Bravest Actress of All Time: Natalie Portman is definitely doing something courageous, coyly seductive, and thoroughly Jewish, we're just not sure where. [One Park Avenue Reality]
• Maybe forcing millions of drunk people to interact in the same small corner at the edge of the city wasn't such a good idea after all. [VV]
Union Square still has street cred. Where else can you enjoy Thai chili lime peanuts, free Ben & Jerry's milkshakes, and heroin? [ANIMAL]

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Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:00:27 EDT gdelahaye http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197357&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Queen Amidalah Wishes Israel, Lebanon, Dagobah System Could All Just Get Along ]]> natalieportman.jpgThe Post provides a startling reminder of the raw courage that is the American celebrity:

August 29, 2006 — THAT Natalie Portman is braver than most. She went to visit her family in Israel last week despite the war with Hezbollah and will return "shortly"...

Bravest Natalie Portman! Sweet child of war! We are sure that she traveled into only the most devastated regions, by the most insecure means, sleeping in shattered ruins and eating baked beans out of a can with a plastic spoon. And where's the fucking thank you note from Israel? Hey, Israel, eat shit! We send you Natalie Portman, a woman so brave she could single-handedly win the war and charm a man twice her age in every single movie she's ever been in, and you send us bupkis?!

The coy quotation marks around "shortly" are a little disconcerting. Bitch better have her legs when she get back or Hezbollah is going to have a lot of angry Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace fans to deal with.

Page Six [NYP]

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Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:50:00 EDT gdelahaye http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197284&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Gossip Roundup: Getting Head From Lindsay Isn't All Fun and Games ]]> llbj.jpg• Has anyone ever looked quite so miserable while receiving an on-camera blowjob from Lindsay Lohan? He must know of the bacteria that's to come. [Yeeeah]
• Speaking of Miss Lohan: her new beau, Harry Morton, woefully underperforms in his first paparazzi getaway. [TMZ]
• Socialite/designer Tory Burch is splitting from her husband. Tragic — this is really going to throw a wrench in the Hamptons party schedule. [Page Six]
• How does Lauren Weisberger come up with dialogue? By secretly writing down her friends' conversations during social outings and sending them to herself on her BlackBerry. We love the method: if she continues to do this, she'll soon have no friends left, and thus no material. And then maybe she'll go away. [Lowdown (3rd item)]
• The National Enquirer confirms that Star Jones did have gastric bypass surgery at Lenox Hill hospital, having her stomach stapled in two places. Obviously, hers wasn't a single-staple job. [Gatecrasher (4th item)]
• Alas, a retraction: Natalie Portman does not appear nude in Goya's Ghost; it's a body double. On the bright side, the footage is a nude torture scene, so you can still spank away. [Egotastic]
• CNBC anchor Joe Kernan loved Aquaman and can't wait to see Springtime for Hitler. [Page Six]

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Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:20:19 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=186799&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ V Is for Verbal Incontinence ]]> portclass.jpgHello! magazine reports that gangsta-rapping starlet Natalie Portman stopped by Columbia University on Monday to give an undergraduate lecture on counterterrorism. She went to Harvard, you know, which means she's in the position to educate the children of the lesser ivies on all matters of international import. Writes a student:

Ms. Portman's cameo in Professor Stuart Gottlieb's Terrorism and Counterterrorism class was part of a MTV-U promotion for her latest flick, V for Vendetta, in which her character mounts a revolutionary campaign against a totalitarian government and generally blows shit up.

A sampling of the truths Ms. Portman imparted in the 20-minute Q&A session following a somber Frontline documentary on Al Qaeda, Guantanamo and the CIA's counterterrorism tactics:

- "My immediate reaction is that torture is wrong."

- "I don't think it's right to take down the Twin Towers."

- "Censorship is bad."

That's what $30k-plus in tuition gets you: substitute teaching from junket-happy starlets.

Breaking News: Natalie Portman at Columbia [The Bwog via Egotastic]
Natalie Portman Shows Her Class in Academic Role [Hello!]

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Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:59:30 EST Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=159184&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Natalie Portman Will Kill Your Fucking Dog For Fun ]]>
From the guys behind Saturday Night Live's stoner anthem "Lazy Sunday" short comes another gem, this weekend's gangsta rap starring Natalie Portman. Here's a thought: Let's just do away with the "live" portion of Saturday Night Live and let the digital shorts run free — they're single-handedly saving the show's limping reputation.

Watch it now, before NBC takes it away. God forbid the the show garners any positive buzz.

Update: Yep, it's been removed from YouTube. Silly copyright infringement. If NBC would throw their millions around getting a version up on their website, maybe these things wouldn't happen.
Update #2: NBC has the video here.

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Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:52:14 EST Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=158548&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Friday Fluff: Natalie Portman's New 'Do ]]> nport.jpg
Having undergone the necessary preparations, Natalie Portman readies herself to be adopted by Angelina Jolie.

Natalie Portman Mohawk Pictures [Egotastic]

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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:05 EDT Jessica http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=122431&view=rss&microfeed=true