Movie Review: Up In the AirDirected by Jason ReitmanAt the AMC Newport on the Levee 20Pre-movie meal: pomegranate seeds and a half-shot of JTS BrownIs there any other movie star in America today who would give us an honest peek at his starting-to-get-wrinkly 48-year-old neck the way George Clooney does near the end of Up In the Air?
How come we’ve never heard of this guy before?After massive protests shook Iran this past summer, Iran singled out an obscure American political scientist in his 80s as a key figure behind the unrest.
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:799:]]Model Bar Refaeli spent part of December dressed as a hippie love child for a photo shoot for Fox Fashion. The setting: a nature preserve in Israel’s Hula Valley. The male model is Noam Tur.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:800:]]Don’t all hippies look like this?[[wysiwyg_imageupload:801:]]”Roswell” — nice touch.
Karl Rove is getting a divorce. Politico: Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, has been granted a divorce in Texas after 24 years of marriage, family spokeswoman …..
It won’t make anyone’s best-of-2009 list, but I got a snort out of this ad for Kayak.com — featuring Ryan Cutrona, the actor who played dotty Grandpa Gene in Mad Men.
The LA Times has the audio of the 911 call made by Brooke Mueller to Aspen police on Christmas Day. Mueller tells cops later that her husband, actor Charlie Sheen, has a knife and that she feared for her life. Later in the call Mueller tells the dispatcher that Sheen is “trying to sneak out the back,” but just then the cops arrive.
More details of the Charlie Sheen arrest on Christmas Day have come out. They aren’t pretty:The Aspen Police Department on Monday released the 911 tape in which Brooke Mueller told an emergency dispatcher that Sheen threatened her with a switch-blade knife and that she feared for her life.
Happy 50th birthday to comedian Paula Poundstone and actress Patricia Clarkson.Both were born on 29 December in 1959, about 500 miles apart: Poundstone in Huntsville, Alabama, and Clarkson in New Orleans.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:463:]]
Techcrunch just dug up Twitter’s list of 370 banned passwords — the ones so painfully obvious that every newbie uses them. Number 1 on the list is “111111,” for example, and #19 is “abc123.” It’s alphabetical, so the all-time classic — “password” — is at #241.
This week’s flap over the JFK naked-women-on-a-yacht photo — the one that turned out to be a big fake — came at an odd time for our family.