Kanye West debuted his monochromatic shoe designs for Louis Vuitton in Paris yesterday. LV designer Marc Jacobs was by his side and while Kanye was happy to mug for the cameras — still mullet-ed — his upset blog posts told another story. He promoted his kicks, of course, but also took time to disparage anyone who picked up a false quote from him. He was especially upset by anyone who posted a photo with his "fresh" inaugural ball suit with said quote. Kanye also issued a plea to give him a break and just let him "be great," but as long as his caps lock rants exist, it's hard to imagine anyone will leave him alone.
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Which Obama-supporting celebrity wasn't in Washington, DC this week to celebrate the inauguration?
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel headed down to Mexico this week for a little rest, relaxation and apparently barefoot golf. Not surprisingly, Justin hasn't had much to say about his movie The Love Guru cleaning up in the Razzie Nominations. One thing that is putting a smile on JT's face, other than his girlfriend, is Obama taking office as president. He filmed a segment for Oprah about how the USA has "swagger" again and reminding everyone that, "It's cool to be American once more." Coming from Justin, it sounds obnoxious, but perhaps his heart is in the right place and he's just proud of our country.
Jake Gyllenhaal has made more than a few appearances on our Manjoyment.com — which is all new, and totally delightful, go check it out — but these days he seems to be more of a settled down family man than a strapping young buck. Usually we see him being cute with Reese and her kids, which can be more awww-inducing than drool-inducing. That said, we never say no to a man in a plaid shirt. So tell us — is Jake still total manjoyment?
Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie looked very chummy on the set of Sherlock Holmes in Brooklyn yesterday. It was a big day for RDJ getting an Oscar nomination for Tropic Thunder about which he said, "It just shows you how far everyone in entertainment and politics has come." Robert also recently sat down with some fellow nominees for Newsweek's annual roundtable discussion. RDJ was his usual charming self:
On googling himself: Oh, I love all that s—-, personally. Sorry. I love just it. Because it's a hoot. Some people overstate their support, like they know you. Other people are busy doing something else and just want to go on this chat site and say some despicable character assassination, which I honestly think they kind of nailed it. I do have that shortcoming. It's really fun.
On his career recently: I grew up in a filmmaking family, and my dad was doing maverick underground independent stuff at the time of Cassavetes, so the Mike Leigh approach was nothing new to me. If your movie made money, you were eyed suspiciously by your peers. But then the counterpoint to that, it became so about the art, things got further and further out, there was no containment for it. That to me was the first death of independent moviemaking. I'll be on the sets, we're shooting "Iron Man" and we're in the desert, and I looked up and there's a sandstorm, and I just had the ah-ha moment. Gratitude would be the wrong word. But being able to do this is kind of inexplicable. It's the sense that I'm at my purpose. I'm not very popular about this, and the misses tells me to keep it on the QT, but lately for me, the biggest most commercial generic projects that I've done are the most creatively satisfying, and the ones that the audiences respond to. And I jump off and do an indie, and they can't hit their ass with both hands, it's 50 monkeys f---ing a football, and then you have to go and pump your kidneys dry in Sundance. What's next, f---king Shakespeare in the park for the pagans for three months?
Shia LaBeouf wasn't in the mood to have his photo taken yesterday morning, so he decided to wear a homemade mask for a walk around the neighborhood. By the afternoon he ditched the ugly paper bag to grab a cheeseburger with one of his buddies. Seems like Shia hasn't been in the best of spirits since his license was suspended, but we're happy to see that he's got plenty of pals to keep him company — and chauffeur him around town.
Singer and actress Selena Gomez posed for pictures at the 2009 American Music Awards with a pretty pink smile on her face. She took advantage of the occasion and went glam; wearing a Talbot Runhof sequin dress with black strappy heels.
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