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loathsome new things

New York, I Actually Hate You

Oh yay, the trailer for New York, I Love You, the new movie about "Love in New York" (hah hah, actual monster sightings are more likely).* New York, I Love You features not only an ensemble cast — Ethan Hawke, Blake Lively, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Olivia Thirlby of Juno/The Wackness fame, Christina Ricci and so many more indie movie people you felt manipulated into having liked in their first one or two movies before you realized they were narcissistic assholes (duh) and dumb (duh) — but also an ensemble bunch of directors, among them Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman! Here is the movie's most profound thought thus far leaked: More »

12:00 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Moe
10,043 views, 196 comments

Latest by marymaryquitecontrary: @Spirit Fingers: Awesome. Didn't realize it had been used there. more »

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"Would You Look at That Body Language? Legs Crossed Towards Each Other. That Is an Unequivocal Sex Invite."

[Hayden Christensen (who some of us hope to be gay) with costar Rachel Bilson on the West Village set of "New York, I Love You" yesterday; image via Splash. (Oh, and yes I know that her leg is technically crossed away from him. Whatever.)]

10:06 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Richard
3,882 views, 32 comments

Latest by Rosewater: Vader contemplates the O.C. side. more »

publicity stunts

Is Rachel Bilson Feeling Guilty About This Monkey?

Former O.C. and current Jumper actress Rachel Bilson is complaining in Nylon about the chimp dressed as a Santa for website College Humor's last Christmas party: "Maybe I overreacted because I was too tired, but it made me so mad! All these people were drunk and taking pictures, and it was horrible!" It was a pretty white-trashy stunt, but it's hard to come up with new ways to throw money around sometimes. A December Page Six item says that Bilson actually "jumped the half-hour line" to get her picture taken with the chimp, but College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen says, "She didn't cut the line. She and her friend were leaving the party, so i brought them to the front of the line for a quick look. She was really nice to everybody." The chimp, who goes by the name of Louie, was unavailable for comment. Update! Louie's latest career move &mdash starring in a Human Giant comedy video &mdash after the jump! He is hilar. More »

10:44 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Sheila
2,153 views, 14 comments

Latest by Noelle Hancock: Quick look, my ass. She TOTALLY cut the line and took a picture with that chimp. I was there and I saw her [pause for dramatic effect], I saw her with my own eyes. more »

movie marketing

Hayden Christensen's Deliberate Ambiguity

What is Hayden Christensen, an actor who's had to bat away rumors about his sexuality, doing on a magazine quite as gay as Details? Last week, the Jumper star wandered the streets of Manhattan with his co-star, Rachel Bilson, providing heterosexual photo opportunities. All that hard paparazzi-enticing work, thrown away for one lousy magazine cover. Unless this is all part of his handlers' plan: encourage speculation in the celebrity weeklies of a relationship between the prettyboy actor and his female co-star; but leave enough coded language and imagery for the gays to believe there's still hope. In the business of celebrity image-making, this is the equivalent of the evangelical dog-whistle, or Mike Huckabee's floating cross commercial, an appeal designed only to be picked up by the target demographic. If so, it's working: despite awful reviews, Jumper was the weekend's highest grossing new release. (After the jump, the reason why the Jumper star keeps the audience guessing: his fans, who have filled Youtube with dreamy tribute videos, can't handle the truth.) More »

3:22 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Nick Denton
7,270 views, 21 comments

Latest by Nick Denton: Adam Sternbergh, the Details profiler, visited Christensen at his farm outside Toronto: "A few minutes later we head out, with acres of virgin snow in front of us and just one problem: I've broken Hayden Christensen's snowmobile. I don't know what happened. It was running fine but then stalled. He more »

movie marketing

Hayden Christensen's Funny Valentine's Day

The gays can be particularly tedious when they question the sexuality of every boyish actor. Which is why one has some sympathy for Hayden Christensen, who's been fending off rumors of a relationship with Trevor Blumas, a fellow Canadian actor, for years. (Here was one effort: "To me, masculinity is the ability to flirt with the effeminate.") Whatever. But the fevered yearning of gay Hayden fans is sweet and innocent beside the promotion by the marketers of Jumper of an official rumor: that the delicate boy-actor is again, just in time for the movie's release, heterosexually dating Rachel Bilson. His cute co-star wears a bracelet engraved with an H; coyly avoids confirmation or denial of a relationship; and the two of them wandered romantically around Downtown Manhattan locations, like paparazzi bait, for Valentine's Day. “To all the ladies who I’m sure would like to know,” Rachel told one of the morning shows. “He was a good kisser!” Blech! Anyway, aside from such cynical efforts to draw female fans, and what critics say is a thin plot, Doug Liman's camerawork looks typically stylish, and Christensen's ability to teleport is a special power every teenager has yearned for. Jumper opens today. The trailer, after the jump. More »

11:30 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Nick Denton
9,216 views, 40 comments

Latest by Rebellitor: There is, however, this whole sequence in the trailer of cutting between Hayden running with the other guy who can jump and Hayden getting it on with Rachel. more »