Update: Madonna's rep, Liz Rosenberg, confirms that
Madonna and Guy Ritchie will divorce after seven and a half years of marriage. The couple requests that the public respect their privacy. They have not agreed on a settlement.
It’s hard to care too much about someone as obnoxious as Sidney Young, the main character of
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, played by Simon Pegg. Having a main character as unlikable as Sidney is one of the key things that doesn't work in it. There are some things that do work — a few funny bits, some great comedic performances — but they don't quite make up for the experience of watching the movie as a whole, which ends up being just kinda "meh."
London's Leicester Square played host to the premiere of Simon Pegg's new movie
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People last night. Kirsten Dunst and Megan Fox were unable to attend, but glowing Gillian Anderson and stylish Margo Stilley were there to represent the rest of the cast. Simon's best mate Nick Frost also showed up, along with lovely Martin Freeman, Gok Wan, Kirstie Allsopp and Guillemots.
"Based on the true story of a real idiot."
The
teaser for
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People was kinda "meh" and the
international trailer was downright odd. Now we have the "official" trailer for us Americans who are curious about this movie starring Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges, and Kirsten Dunst, and I have to say it is definitely an improvement.
Day two of the
Cannes Film Festival was just as entertaining
as the first, again thanks to Jack Black who was joined by a comedic partner in Dustin Hoffman – who decided to play paparazzi for a minute – and Angelina Jolie playing it straight. Brad Pitt supported his baby-mama at the gala premiere of
Kung Fu Panda and walked the red carpet alongside gorgeous ladies Lucy Liu, Rachel Leigh Cook, Eva Longoria and Natalie Imbruglia.
After a quick change, Natalie also showed up to the party for Simon Pegg's new movie
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People where she partied with Simon, his co-star Gillian Anderson and guests including
a tanned Lily Allen, Mischa Barton and Jenni Falconer.
Just as author Toby Young has finished giving us his "man's take" on the
Sex and the City movie — a
bitter little piece in which Young calls the SATC New York a "pre-feminist society" where "[w]omen are second-class citizens who are expected to use their youth and beauty as commodities in order to secure their economic wellbeing" by marrying rich men — the international trailer has hit the Web for the film version of Young's memoir
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
Clearly, Young loves to do just that — provoke and provoke until, yes, he alienates people. It's not so much that I disagree wholeheartedly with his assessment of the SATC world, but I do take issue with his claim that "the notion that girls like Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda will always be there for each other, no matter what the cost — is a sentimental myth."
While I love pretty much anything Simon Pegg does or says, and I seriously cannot wait for the Spring US release of
Run, Fat Boy, Run, the teaser trailer for his next comedy
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People leaves much to be desired. Based on
Toby Young's 2003 memoir, the movie's
plot description is this:
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame, and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media-obsessed stars and bucks trends, so when Young is offered a job at the conservative, New York-based Sharps magazine, it's something of a shock!
Now that the promotion machine that was Spider-Man 3 is over Kirsten can turn her focus to those smaller budget projects that she loves to do. At the moment she's busy shooting How to Lose Friends and Alienate People in London. It's based on Toby Young's memoir that chronicles his failed effort to make it at Vanity Fair.
