Julie and Julia is director Nora Ephron’s (Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Bewitched *shudder*) simultaneous adaptation of two books, Julia Child’s autobiography, My Life in France, and a memoir by Julie Powell called Julie and Julia, adapted from her blog about cooking each one of Julia Child’s 524 recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It will tell Powell’s (played by Amy Adams) story in parallel to Child’s, and it’s sure to be a crowd pleaser, what with Meryl Streep doing that annoying gd voice the entire movie.  Oh hey would you look at that, I’m spotting.

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Today we’ve got yet another behind-the-scenes video from the set of The Expendables, Sly Stallone’s muscular-old-men-grunting movie with Schwarzenegger, Lundgren, Rourke, Li, Trejo, Statham, and Couture.  We get to see Sly doing some directing, and by directing I mean making gun sounds with his mouth, all while wearing that same v-neck/tight jeans combo he’s had on in every publicity photo so far.  He also has bulging neck veins and talks in a super growly voice, which I’m sure has nothing to do with taking massive amounts of steroids and HGH.  It’s perfectly normal for a 62-year-old man.  Why, just the other day my dad tore a phonebook in half and picked up my mom by her throat when she spilled his ensure shake.
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How the hell did this slip under the radar?  It’s called Tiptoes, and it’s a real, non-spoof movie (albeit direct-to-DVD) from 2003.  Kate Beckinsale falls in love with Matthew McConaughey, and then he drops the bomb: he’s from a family of dwarves. She’s pregnant with his child, which because of his genes is probably going to be a dwarf child, and she’s worried it’s going to hack its way out of her uterus with a flute and mini pickaxe, because that’s what dwarves do. But more importantly, Gary Oldman plays McConnaughey’s dwarf brother.

“He was on his knees,” Beckinsale explained. “He was basically on his knees with a prosthetic part of his head and face and a hump and different kinds of harnesses to strap his arms back to make them short, and special clothes. They had various different effects, like if he was sitting in a chair, his legs would actually be inside the chair and he’d have these little fake legs sticking out on top. It was amazing what they did with him.” [videogum]

Sweet Jesus, man, everyone knows you never go full midget.  Meanwhile, the trailer calls it “Gary Oldman, in the role of a lifetime,” and includes lines like, “When the going gets rough, it’s only the size of your heart that counts.”  Yeah? Tell that to my ex-girlfriend.  Boy, did she like it rough.

[KUDOS TO VIDEOGUM FOR FINDING THIS]

^{James Cameron gives a ruling to the judges while Bay blatantly tries to influence their decision}

Even though all his movies have sucked giant ox nuts so far, I have to admit that based on the press he’s done, I’m kinda starting to like McG.

McG loosens up [hehe -Ed.] on the subject of one of his detractors: Michael Bay, whose Transformers 2 will be taking on Terminator Salvation at the box office this summer. Bay and McG have been engaged in a “Whose robots are bigger, mine or yours?” contest for months. After McG shows me much of his near-finished film, he’s feeling pretty good and decides to take the feud to another level. “Michael Bay has a big c*ck,” he says. “But I’d like to believe mine is bigger.” McG smiles. “If he’s up for it, we can both reveal ourselves on the Spartacus steps at Universal and put the question to rest.” [From this month's feature in Details]

He should film it, and call it You Got Served 2: Step Up 2 My Crotch.  In related news, every time he unzips his fly, Michael Bay says “boom.”  Every time.

The Daily Mail reports that Catherine Zeta-Jones is “desperate” to play singing cat-lady Susan Boyle in a movie about her life.  And you know it’s a serious story because they’ve made a Catherine Zeta-Boyle picture in photoshop.

Miss Zeta-Jones, 39, has apparently asked about the film rights to the singer’s life story and sensational appearance on Britain’s Got Talent.  It is believed that Oscar-winning film director James Cameron, who was behind Titanic, has expressed an interest in a similar project.

Oh, British press, you always have to take it a step too far, don’t you?  I could’ve believed Catherine Zeta-Jones.  It would’ve been like an Us Magazine, stars-are-just-like-us story.  Catherine Zeta-Jones emailed the Susan Boyle clip to everyone she knows!  She’s just like your mom! But then you had to go randomly pick names out of the hat, and you got… the guy from Terminator 2? It’s bad enough they lie, they’re not even good liars.  If a Susan Boyle movie goes anywhere, it will be the Lifetime network.  I’ve never seen a phenomenon go from excitement to just-stop-already faster than this one.  It’s a lot like my lovemaking.  Call me, cat ladies.