Christ, I should be working at the Enquirer with these headlines. Anyway, we all remember when Katherine Heigl whined because Knocked Up was sexist, right? Good. Well Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow recently went on Howard Stern, who naturally asked them about her. They responded by saying the obvious things, but it was still cool because Katherine Heigl is a bitch.
Rogen says he doesn’t see how Heigl’s new comedy, The Ugly Truth, makes women look even better. “That [movie] looks like it really puts women on a pedestal in a beautiful way,” he quipped.
Added Apatow, “I hear there’s a scene where she’s wearing … Underwear …with a vibrator in it, so I’d have to see if that was uplifting for women.”
Even more baffling, said Apatow, “We never had a ‘fight’” with Heigl while filming. “Seth always says, it doesn’t make any sense - she improvised half her s***,” Apatow said. [USWeekly]
And then Rogen was all, “Yeah dude, it’s like she doesn’t even have a BRAIN!” and I looked over and he was totally holding his nuts so it looked like a brain. So hilarious, bro, you should’ve been there.
According to a recent Pew poll, a larger percentage of Mormons see Hollywood as “a threat to their values” than any other religion. Hollywood placed third on the list of threats to Mormon values, just below caffeine and Mexicans, and just ahead of spooning. (Maybe).
The survey showed more than two-thirds of Mormons (68%) rebuffed the entertainment industry, followed by 54% of Jehovah’s Witnesses and 53% of evangelicals. Less than half (42%) of the general population said Hollywood threatens their values.
Incidentally, California is not just home to Tinseltown; it also boasts America’s second-largest Mormon population (13%), second only to Utah (35%). Mormons account for 1.7% of American adults, comparable to the nation’s Jewish population. [USA Today]
Oh sure, but God forbid you rebuff it hard enough to save us from Katherine Heigl and Stephenie Meyer. It’s going to be all your fault when the dumpsters at prom are all overflowing with “abstinence babies.” What, too far? On a lighter note, 96% of Mormons polled were quick to add that Ryan Gosling “seems like a nice boy.”
(One way or another, the Sheik would have what she was having)
An international press junket for Katherine Heigl’s The Ugly Truth at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills had to be moved after a bomb threat emptied the building.
So what did Sony execs do? Shepherd all the junketeers including the movie stars and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association from the green median on Burton Way across the street to the nearby restaurant Il Cielo — and set up the junket there until the hotel gave the all-clear signal. As my source emailed, “Publicists never give up.” [DHD]
Meanwhile, terrorists are lazy, apparently. The people who made The Ugly Truth and a room full of publicists? Talk about a missed recruiting opportunity. Deliver that bomb via a white guy with dreadlocks listening to techno in his car and trust me, the whole world would ululate as one.
You know that scene in When Harry Met Sally where Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in a restaurant? Of course you do, it’s the most famous romantic comedy scene of all time. Well Katherine Heigl and the makers of The Ugly Truth do too, which is why they made this… uh, homage? Which manages to take all the sexiness and surprise out of the original and turn it into lame, plodding gag about vibrating underwear (”I’ll have what she’s having” is now “What’s in ceviche?”). I’m not sure if they meant to rip off When Harry Met Sally or the under-the-table-jerk-off scene in Wedding Crashers, but in either case, Heigl’s fake orgasm is one of the least sexy, least convincing ever, and I’d like to think I know a little something about fake orgasms. And she was raised a Mormon, so you’d think she’d know a little something about magic underwear.
[via Comingsoon]
It seems the way to write a Hollywood rom-com these days is to collect your most insanely obvious and intuitive relationship observations and fashion a crude narrative out of them. Like, “If you meet a guy and he seems uninterested at first but then says, ‘call me in six beers,’ and later you have sex with him but he never calls and then when you confront him about it he says he was weirded out by your oversized labia …he’s just not that into you.” Such brilliant insight into the human condition abounds in this red-band clip from The Ugly Truth.
And all the while, Katherine Heigl has to pretend like this is all coming from a mutant with superhuman powers of perception who has shapeshifted into the form of her father in order to make her feel more comfortable. I can’t wait until the next scene, when Gerard Butler and his mangled accent explain the trouble with dingleberries.
