“It wasn’t until the 20th century that modern-type sunglasses came to be. In 1929, Sam Foster, founder of the Foster Grant company, sold the first pair of Foster Grant sunglasses on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ. By 1930, sunglasses were all the rage.” — from ideafinder.com‘s page on sunglasses. Robert Downey, Jr., as Sherlock … Read more
Forget about Russell Crowe playing Dr. Watson to Robert Downey, Jr.‘s Sherlock Holmes in the Warner Bros./Guy Ritchie flick being prepared. An agency guy just called me to report that Crowe has passed.
The Inconvenient Truth press conference in Cannes’ Grand Palais ended at 5:30 pm, or about an hour ago. The question-receivers, naturally, were Al Gore, director Davis Guggenheim, producer Laurie David, producer Lawrence Bender and two others whose names I can’t remember. Some highlights: (a) As things began moderator Henri Behar asked Gore how he should … Read more
I think it’s vaguely whorish that Ridley Scott wants to direct an “Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective” movie. Scott and Howard Deutsch, who owns the rights to the series of novels written by Donald J. Sobol (despite Sobol’s claim in Sharon Waxman’s N.Y. Times piece that the rights will eventually revert to him and anyone who … Read more
Carol star Cate Blanchett, Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar contender Phyllis Nagy during yesterday’s Carol brunch at West Hollywood’s London hotel. If you ask me Blanchett’s sunglasses (smokey gray with caramel frames) are award-worthy in and of themselves. Beasts of No Nation director-cinematographer Cary Fukunaga, creator of one of the most poetic and visually dazzling films … Read more
Holmes: No, no. I’m not criticizing. Obviously you work out. You look good, man. Really. Watson: Thank you. Holmes: How’s that chick I saw you with the other night? Watson: Which one? Holmes: Dark eyes. Italian-looking. Nice ass. Watson: Ramona. Holmes: Right, Ramona. You good with her? From a 5.6 USA Today spread; I couldn’t … Read more