A fairly-certain-sounding Nikki Finke is reporting exclusively [now confirmed by Variety] that Universal has acquired the rights to a biopic about Frank Sinatra, as well as permission from the Sinatra family, with Martin Scorsese attached to direct.
“This has been a passion project for [producer] Peter Guber for a long time, and first he got together with the Sinatra Estate and then with Scorsese who’s also a huge Sinatra fan,” an insider tells me. Tina [Frank's youngest daughter] herself has told journalists in the past that she would “trust Scorsese implicitly” to “present the truth” about her father because he’s also an Italian-American.
And the best part about it is that it probably torpedoes any shot Brett Ratner had at making the Rat Pack movie he had planned with Chris Tucker (seriously though, that was on the table at one point). Wow, a movie about Sinatra from the guy who did Goodfellas? Can you imagine? I think I just wopgasmed. Can’t stop… gesturing at crotch…
For the second day in a row, Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) has disrupted a fashion show in Milan while filming the Bruno movie, which I guaran-f-cking-tee you will not be titled “Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt” like they keep saying.
Despite the increased security after he evaded guards and burst backstage to changing rooms he again managed to get in.
Wearing fake passes, Cohen and his film crew managed to get past security to the backstage area of Italian label Iceberg’s show.
Cohen is in Milan working on a new film called Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male.
The footage showed an actor dressed in head-to-toe velcro and wearing a blonde wig running about, screaming and hurling himself at the clothes racks.
Iceberg’s flustered stylist, Paolo Gerani, managed to stop the man and have the crew removed.
[Said a police spokesperson] ‘He did not have any id documents on him so someone was sent to his hotel when he got here to fetch his passport.
‘He was actually very funny and the first thing he said was ‘Can I make a phone call’ like they do on TV.’
Cohen was released without charge and was last night still thought to be in Milan. [Daily Mail]
Note to self: don’t get arrested in Italy. “Aw, how cute, he thinks he gets to make a phone call. Someone stomp on his neck again, it makes the funniest sound.”
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Delicious reader Maria found these pictures of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro on the set of Righteous Kill. Their leather jackets, greasy hair, and facial expressions that say "I’m about to complain about something," would suggest that they’re playing characters of Italian descent. Though curiously, neither seems to be grabbing his crotch.
These pictures came from seanhenri.com. Sean is 23, lives in Connecticut, has a twin brother named Justin and a gay dog named Mickey. He hates getting stung by bees, and he blogs "for world peace, to save the environment, to prevent our young children from playing hoop and stick, and to share my love of meats."
UPDATE: Pics removed at the request of the photographer. Oh well, he’ll always have the meats.
Normally when I hear news like "Carla Gugino has been cast in Righteous Kill" I think to myself "Who cares?" But then sometimes I follow that up with, "Hey, I wonder if she's gotten naked in anything?" Luckily for you, the answer is yes.
Most of the pics are NWS, if your boss is a cockblocking pussy.
UPDATE: Holy crap, I didn't realize that this is the chick from Son in Law. Pauly Shore: comedic genius.
UNSEXY UPDATE: I had to remove some of my naked pictures, but if you want to see them, I find that a Google Image Search for "Carla Gugino Sin City" with safesearch turned off works pretty well.
