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Johnny Depp Joins 'Pirates 4' Cast in Cannes

 

By Christine Fenno  Posted May 14th 2011 10:10AM

 

Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival in the South of France, Johnny Depp joined Penelope Cruz to talk up the premiere of his 3-D sequel 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,' the fourth in the smash hit Disney series.

Depp, 47, said his Captain Jack character is back by popular demand, and he's happy to oblige.

"If the people get tired of it or something, that's when it stops, I think," he told a press conference. "If people want it, I'm there."

Returning to the 'Pirates' family to play Captain Jack's father is Rolling Stones star Keith Richards.

Cruz, new to the franchise, was pregnant on set while playing Blackbeard's beguiling daughter Angelica, a foil to Captain Jack who nevertheless shares his desire to find the Fountain of Youth.

Meanwhile, according to Reuters, the 37-year-old actress told the Cannes crowd she's not fixated on youth: "I think birthdays are always something to celebrate," she said. "I'm looking forward to every step of the way. Maybe because I'm from Spain, that's looked at in a different way there than, for example, in a place like Los Angeles."

'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' opens in the U.S. on May 20. Check out Depp and Cruz (former fun-loving co-stars on the gritty 2001 drama 'Blow') in their latest swashbuckling trailer here:

Stars on the Beach

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Miley Cyrus and a couple of female friends are spotted leaving Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio after relaxing in the sunshine.

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Stars on the Beach

'Real Housewives of New York' star Kelly Bensimon enjoys a day on the beach sunning, laughing with friends and frolicking in the water in Miami.

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Celebrity Doppelgangers

Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel
Why We Confuse Them? This needs no explanation.

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Lady GaGa and Christina Aguilera
Why We Confuse Them? It's their entire look that makes us do a double take.

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Jordin Sparks and America Ferrera
Why We Confuse Them? Both the singer and the 'Ugly Betty' star have big, bright smiles, curly hair and similar cheekbones.

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Faith Hill and Connie Britton
Why We Confuse Them? Hill and Britton look so much a like, sometimes we see one, and are convinced it's the other.

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Zac Efron and Chace Crawford
Why We Confuse Them? With big eyebrows and large teen followings, we're not sure who is who between these two.

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Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts
Why We Confuse Them? The best friends both hail from Australia and made a name for themselves in the acting world. Plus, when they both affect an American accent, the results sound the same.

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Christopher Meloni and Elias Koteas
Why We Confuse Them? When Elias Koteas donned glasses in 'Benjamin Button,' we were believed it was Chris Meloni until the credits began to roll.

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Ed Westwick and Rob Pattinson
Why We Confuse Them? Both Westwick and Pattinson are British actors who's biggest roles are American teens.

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Isla Fisher and Amy Adams
Why We Confuse Them? Fisher and Adams are funny, red-headed and look like the same person.

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Josh Duhamel and Timothy Olyphant
Why We Confuse Them? It's easy to see the resemblance, right?

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Fast five

My review on fast five is this. It was the best f and f movie yet! All that you expect to see from furious and then some. Great action fast speed hot girls hard to go wrong with that combo.

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George Clooney Celebrates 50th Birthday

 

By Christine Fenno  Posted May 7th 2011 08:23AM

 

Happy Birthday, George Clooney! Celebrating his May 6 birthday, Clooney was spotted in Beverly Hills dining at Mr. Chow along with his Italian girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis. Joining the couple for the meal, according to the New York Post, were restaurateur Michael Chow and his wife, Eva.

Other famous guests were seen congratulating the Kentucky native on his milestone birthday. The luxe eatery was reportedly brimming with stars -- including Kirstie Alley, Kathy Griffin, Kelly Preston, Jackie Collins and Ray Romano -- last night.

Alley later tweeted: "I was at Mr. Chows...Best food forever in L.A...Happy birthday George Clooney...Great to see u...Better to hug u."

Canalis may have been by Clooney's side for birthday cake, but will she share a slice of wedding cake with him in the future? Not likely. The actor insisted earlier this year on CNN that he had no plans to marry again.

That didn't stop his peer and pal, Ellen DeGeneres, from teasing him on Twitter: "Happy 50th birthday to my friend George Clooney. I hope 50 brings you the same things it brought me; great looks, success, and a wedding."

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Jennifer Aniston visits Sephora to celebrate her new fragrance at the Sephora on Lexington Avenue in New York City.

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Kingston Rossdale Makes a Serious Fashion Statement

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By Maggie Coughlan  Posted Mar 28th 2011 10:03AM

 

When it comes making bold fashion statements, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree for Kingston Rossdale.

The 4-year-old son of singer-turned-L.A.M.B. designer Gwen Stefani and rocker Gavin Rossdale modeled quite the look during a visit to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

Clad in a sleeveless fur vest, combat boots and a 'Justice League' T-shirt, Kingston was happy to pose for photographers, treating every inch of concrete like a runway.

Paired with his beach blonde side swept 'do, it looks like Kingston takes fashion just as seriously as his mother does!

Stefani recently donated $1 million to help victims of the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Celebrity Children

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Gwen Stefani gives son Zuma a lift while visiting the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, on Saturday, March 26th.

 

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Celebrity Children

Isla Fisher, who is currently pregnant with her second child, takes her daughter Olive for a treat at Milk on Beverly Boulevard.

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Miley Cyrus' Stalker Arrested for Trespassing

By PopEater Staff  Posted Mar 25th 2011 05:00AM

Just when things were getting back to normal in Miley Cyrus' life, it seems trouble followed her all the way home.

X17Online.com reports that a man was arrested around 4AM yesterday for trespassing into the yard of Cyrus' neighbor after he got the houses getting mixed up.

The police are saying they received a call from someone claiming to have made a citizen's arrest. The arrested person was said to be a 26-year-old man named Musa Danasabe Ibrahim.

The Los Angeles Police Department was quoted saying, "Ibrahim was trying to make entry into Miley Cyrus' house, but he got the houses mixed up. When we arrived on scene, we found him in her neighbor's yard. He was arrested for trespassing."

An eyewitness had reported that Ibrahim claimed "he had a date with Miley."

Ibrahim remains in police custody, and his bail has been set for $5,000.

Just a few days ago, Miley's mom Leticia "Tish" Cyrus thanked her family, friends and fans for helping her through troubled times. This was after Miley's dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, called off his divorce proceedings to Tish last week.

Billy Ray talked about his decision to the ladies on 'The View.'

"I've dropped the divorce. I want to put my family back together ... Things are the best they've ever been."

Is elizabeth Taylor worth more dead than Alive?

Elizabeth Taylor was one of the last true greats, an icon in life and now in death. Unlike plenty of celebrities who advance in years and let their business fall to the wayside, Taylor maintained a lucrative package of licensing and endorsement deals, which for a lesser being, would have dried up a half-century ago.

Still, the value of the Liz Taylor image and name only stands to rise in the months and years following her passing.

After their death, certain departed stars (referred to as "Delebs" by executives within the dead celebrity industry) generate more income than they did while they were alive. The dead celebrity industry today is valued at more than $800 million a year and growing. They're the easiest clients to manage. Not only don't they meddle in their business affairs, but they won't get caught with their pants down, get busted for drunken driving or make a racist remark. For some expired celebrities, their postmortem value has nowhere to go but up.
Taylor was surrounded by a very stable group of representatives, who were fiercely loyal, throughout the course of her career.

"I would expect this same group, in consultation with the family, will look carefully at the various commercial exploitation options available to them," says David Reeder, vice president at GreenLight, a global media licensing, talent negotiation and rights representation consultancy that has a niche with Delebs (Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison are among their clients). "I highly doubt we will see sensationalism or drama, but instead, a more orderly and thoughtful approach to determining just what product and endorsement categories might be useful to extending and enhancing her formidable legacy."

There are some obvious categories where Taylor's estate could effectively license her postmortem brand -- beauty, fashion, luxury goods, just to name a few.

"Because she was herself a consumer of goods and services within these categories and undeniably elegant and beautiful, her future association with any number of companies in this area will appear genuine and very much on brand for parties," Reeder says, adding that what is underappreciated about Taylor from a commercial perspective is that she was also a mother.

"This is an underleveraged component to her personality that could lead to opportunities to extend the Taylor brand into large lifestyle-oriented retail deals -- something like Martha Stewart and K-Mart or the Kathy Ireland collection."

Her existing brands, her perfumes and cosmetics, will likely see an uptick in the ensuing months.

"Undoubtedly there will be renewed interest in her various fragrance brands due simply to the increased awareness of her through the press coverage of her passing," Reeder says. "What will be interesting is to see whether the fragrance line becomes the cornerstone of a much larger brand strategy or whether there is a re-imagining of these products going forward."

Celebrities not only become more valuable after they die, but we like them more, according to Steven Levitt of Marketing Evaluations, a firm that calculates the Q score, a quantitative measurement of a personality's overall likeability.

Celebs with perception problems in life, like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Michael Jackson, become more valuable to marketers in death.

Levitt created Dead Q in response to the licensing and rights revolution happening around dead celebrities in 1999 and has watched a trend toward positive feelings about dead celebrities.

"Once a celebrity passes away, the public is more apt to focus on their talents and the good in their life than the bad," Levitt explained. Presley's positive Q score was at 25 before he died and in a 2009 measure was 34. Johnny Cash's positive Q rose from a 19 to a 33 in the years following his death.

Taylor was lovable in life and will become more lovable in death, but her window of opportunity for cashing in won't be open forever.

"I've noticed that when someone dies suddenly, people who collect things -- whether it's autographs or memorabilia -- they all rush to get a piece of that celebrity," says Todd Mueller, a longtime celebrity autograph and memorabilia dealer. "The prices are highest up to two years after the celebrity has passed."  

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Get ready for sucker punch review a week from friday

I usually see movies every week on a wednesday. I look at the movies the way normal people do. I don't care about pixels and other technical crap. I look at story line and the fluidness of a movies. I'm also big on visual effects. The more special effects the happier I become. I'm no ebert and roper. I have a normal movie perspective and will tell it how I really feel.