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Javier Bardem
1 Javier Bardem Plays Host For Julian Schnabel and His New Movie Miral
Mischa Barton
2 Former Super Models Abound at Le Scaphandre et le Papillon Premiere
Brad Pitt
3 Handsome SAG Men Played It Safe and Full of Smiles
Nicole Kidman
4 Pretty Ladies Like Natalie, Freida, and Nicole Take the Spotlight in Toronto
Javier Bardem had a night out in LA yesterday hosting a screening of the Weinstein Company's upcoming release Miral. The film's director, Julian Schnabel, who also lensed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, was there to smile and pose with his daughter Stella, along with Javier and the producers Jon Kilik and Yasmine Elmasri. It was a reunion for Javier and Julian, after they worked together on Read more
The Toronto Film Festival rolled on yesterday, with Freida Pinto turning out for the premiere of Miral with director Julian Schnabel. It was her second screening of the week following an event for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and once again she brought her boyfriend and Slumdog Millionaire costar, Dev Patel. Nicole Kidman, meanwhile, brought her own man, Keith Urban, along for the debut of Read more
After what feels like a full year without a peep out of Freida Pinto, the Slumdog Millionaire actress is back on the radar. First came the news of her joining Rise of the Apes, followed by an appearance in Woody Allen's trailer for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. But forget those secondary, girlfriend-type parts, because Pinto is about to take on something with more teeth — and it's a Read more
According to Real Estalker, Richard Gere has put his four-bedroom, four-bath property in the Palazzo Chupi building in New York's West Village on the market for nearly $18 million. You may remember the building, which was designed by Julian Schnabel of directorial fame, from my recent Coveted Crib. Schnabel is said to have "created the apartment to feel like Venice in Manhattan." The listing Read more
When artist Julian Schnabel unveiled the facade of his West Village building last Summer, New Yorkers howled in protest over the overtly hot-pink shade. Schnabel, most recently in the news for his directorial turn on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, has definitely translated his imaginative aesthetic into the world of architecture, and despite the eye-popping initial color of the building, Read more
Every year there is a foreign/arthouse film that has critics raving and award committees atwitter. You know you ought to see it, but you can’t quite find the right moment to check it out. Before you know it, one of the best movies of the year becomes destined for the film version of purgatory — your Waitflix Queue. I'm so glad I spared The Diving Bell and the Butterfly this fate. The movie Read more
Ryan Gosling was just about the only guy keeping it interesting with his fashion choice at last night's SAG Awards in LA. Along with his shimmery suit, plaid shirt and lack of tie, he wore a black ribbon on his lapel in honor of Heath Ledger. The rest of the men went pretty traditional, but at least all those handsome faces were there to keep us satisfied. Highlights (other than Gosling) included Read more
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a film adaptation of the French memoir Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, has been getting tons of buzz ever since it premiered at Cannes last year, and that buzz only increased with the two wins the Diving Bell garnered last night at the Golden Globes. Yet many people don't know a thing about it, so in honor of the movie's Best Foreign Language Film win and Julian Read more
Many of the fashion world's most beautiful came out to the premiere of Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) at Cannes. Mischa seems a little out of place but what do you expect when you're up against Claudia, Naomi and Elle? However, this look on Mischa is much better then her rock and roll inspired red carpet look. The movie is based on the book by former Elle Read more
Chanel hosted a dinner party that drew an eclectic crowd last night as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Chloe Sevigny, Rose Byrne, and Naomi Watts were among the big-screen stars who attended the event at the Odeon restaurant in NYC, while Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Zoe Kravitz, and Lauren Hutton were among the models. From the art world, both Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel were on hand. The Read more
