Author: The Dishmaster

In a recent interview, Oliver Stone complained about the “Jewish domination of the media,” and said that “Israel has fucked up United States foreign policy for years.” First, I’d like to ask everyone in America to not give a shit about Oliver Stone — oh right — they already don’t. He hasn’t been artistically or socially relevant for years, and if I repeated all the stories I’ve heard about him, it would further confirm what a giant bag of douche he is. I won’t do it though, because I don’t want to waste my energy on Oliver Stone.  This post was already too much.

If you are one of my regular readers, you might have noticed that I’m a bit of a she-hater.  I often pick on actresses for posing naked on magazine covers, and then subsequently complaining about how Hollywood over-values looks and weight.  As part of my tirade, I have pointed out that men don’t do the same, which is why men are not held to the same standards.  Well, it’s time to eat a slice of humble pie.  While reading about Lance Armstrong’s second retirement, I came across a vintage photo of him for Vanity Fair where — you guessed it — he’s naked.  The photo was taken by the great Annie Leibovitz, who notoriously took a picture of Miley Cyrus in nothing but a sheet.  Apparently, Leibovitz likes to see men naked too.  Though I will continue to pick on actresses for their gratuitous nudity, it doesn’t hurt too much to admit when I’m wrong.  Don’t get too used to it though.  Too see the picture of Armstrong naked, click here.

Marvel’s Kevin Feige was asked about his below-the-belt Ed Norton statement, and he insists that there is no “bad blood.” When asked if he would be quite so honest about Norton if he had it to do over, he said that he “didn’t think [he] was being all that candid.” Wow. What exactly did Norton do to Kevin Feige? When an actor’s negotiation falls through, you don’t usually see the head of a movie studio bad mouth them in the press. So either Ed Norton killed Kevin Feige’s dog, or Kevin Feige is pretty damn unprofessional. And it certainly didn’t help to squash the controversy, when he said he “wasn’t being candid.”  What’s more candid than basically calling an actor an asshole?   Just how much hidden dirt does he have on Norton?

Nicole Kidman interviewed Marion Cotillard for Interview Magazine, and not surprisingly, Cotillard took her clothes off. While the pictures are beautiful, I am certainly at a loss as to why it was necessary for her to get naked. Isn’t she a serious actress? After all, she won an Oscar. So is there some role I don’t know about, which involves nudity and a come-fuck-me face? Did the photographer just run out of ideas? If I was friends with Ms. Cotillard, I might try and end the mystery of why every actress ends up naked in interviews. Is it the woman’s idea, or is there a skeevy male photographer that suggests how “artistic” it is. Anyways, though I like Interview Magazine, the Kidman/Cotillard interview is less of a question and answer session, and more of Kidman telling Cotallard how “otherworldly” and “hypnotic” she is. Is this an interview, or a celebrity ass-kissing session? Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.  To see the pictures in question, click here.

I’ve chosen this week’s underrated actor of the week based solely on looks.  Why?  Because I’m generally superficial, and I figured that it’s boring to base my choice on acting alone.  I discovered Valletta and his very nifty hat while scrolling through fashion pictures.  After looking him up, I saw that his work mainly involves soaps.  He briefly appeared on Days Of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless.  I know nothing about his personal life, because he doesn’t have a profile on wikipedia or a biography on imdb.  If I were managing him, I’d probably tell him to get on that, because not everyone is as superficial as The Dishmaster, and others might require more than just a pretty face.

Romantic Comedies are often considered a ridiculous genre.  When a “character” actor plays a leading romantic man, such as Mark Ruffalo in Just Like Heaven, some say it’s “selling out.”  To get an Oscar, you likely have to have a role that involves yelling, crying, or cancer.  But it wasn’t always this way.  Our most respected actors in history starred in some all-time classics, some of which earned Oscars.  Some of those roles include: Carey Grant in Charade; Jack Lemmon in The Apartment; and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night (which won 5 Oscars).  Today, If an actor’s break-out role is a romantic comedy, they often use it as a launching pad for dramatic roles.  Remember George Clooney in One Fine Day?  That was his first and last romantic comedy.  So when did this transition occur?  My guess is that things started changing when studios stopped owning actors.  In the early days of film-making, the studio put the actor in whatever film was being released at the time.  That led to more diversity of roles.  Today, the actor gets to pick, and since romantic comedies are less respected, “character” actors avoid them.  But there is still an unanswered plaguing question.  Actors likely avoid these roles because they get less respect.  But when did they start to get less respect?  Something happened to the Oscar voters between It Happened One Night and Sweet Home Alabama, and I’d like to know what it is.

Taylor Momsen said in a recent interview that she fired her stylist so that she could feel free to dress herself. Her inspiration? — Her barbie dolls. I’m not sure who bought Taylor Momsen’s barbie dolls growing up, but my barbies wore clothes. Sure I undressed them out of curiosity, but I always put their close back on. Oops — did I just reveal that? Anyways, the news that Momsen canned her stylist sheds some light on her clothing transition. She went from a cute teenager, to a Fredericks model.  Oh to be a teenager again.