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'The Informers' Loses Its Fangs, But Will It Lose Its Fans Too?
When it comes to intertwining underage sex, loveable drug addicts and coldblooded serial killers, nobody does it better than Bret Easton Ellis. So when we heard a while back that The Informers would finally follow in the footsteps of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction and make its way to the big screen, we couldn't have been more giddy. But now, IGN is reporting that Brandon Routh's turn as Jaime, the vampire-like leading man with a penchant for sucking blood, will be left on the cutting room floor; as anyone who has read the book will attest, his character was both a central figure in and a critical element of the depraved stories Ellis included in this book. The question is this: with no blood, gore, zombie fangs or Superman, will The Informers even be The Informers at all? Or will it just be Less Than Zero: The Sequel, minus the sight of a drugged up and passed out Robert Downey Jr. sprawled on the beaches of Malibu?
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Kate Bosworth: 'No Sober Sex Scenes For Me, Thankyouverymuch'
This may shock many of you, but we've been hearing rumors for years that giving girls a few drinks can make them feel more romantically adventurous. And, according to People, this very rumor was put into action when 21 star Kate Bosworth shot her love scenes with co-star Jim Sturgess. As she recently admitted at a New York screening, "We were both so drunk...Jim and I became such good friends, we decided to have a couple of drinks, loosen up and go for it." Which got us thinking: seeing as how Kate's been required to do the whole sex scene thing with quite a few actors over they years, what other combination of sedatives, drugs and drinks must she have had to pop and sip in order to get down and dirty with the likes of James Van Der Beek and (gulp) Kevin Spacey? More »
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Details Of Brandon Routh's Ultra-Secret Superwedding Revealed!
It's been a long while since the name Brandon Routh—the dashing young man plucked from obscurity to fill Superman's tights in the all-Kryptonian hero's long-awaited and quickly forgotten return to the big screen—has come up. So it was with a measure of genuine delight that we received an e-mail blast entitled, "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT IS EXCLUSIVELY INSIDE THE SECRET WEDDING OF 'SUPERMAN' BRANDON ROUTH," a subject line that effectively teased the many details of the one-movie-long resuméd actor's mystery-enshrouded nuptials therein:
The Man of Steel is officially off the market! 'Superman Returns' star BRANDON ROUTH married longtime girlfriend, actress COURTNEY FORD, on Saturday at JON and MINDY PETERS' 3000-acre El Capitan Ranch, just outside of Santa Barbara, CA.More »
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SuperBulge Returns
Think back, to long before Superman returned to our planet to thrill audiences with his heroic feats of lovelorn supermoping, to when the world's attentions were focused primarily on Kal-El's codpiece, aka the Bulge of Steel™—a protuberance of such reportedly goodly sized dimensions, a team of CGI artists were rumored to have been brought in to digitally diminish the young, unknown star Brandon Routh's groin into something less gasp-worthy. The Oh La La blog (somewhat NSFW if you don't want to be caught perusing a site featuring lots of muscley, shirtless dudes) has taken screencaps of a DVD bonus feature in which the newcomer is wearing a skin-tight, leave-no-nut-to-the-imagination leotard, even going so far as to magnify the critical area for your bulge-scrutinizing convenience. And while Mr. Routh has nothing to be ashamed of, it's certainly nothing close to the elephantine sex-organ-goiter the press had initially made it out to be. Perhaps it's a SuperGrower. More »
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Some Guy Who Played Superman Engaged To Girl You've Never Heard Of
For every breaking People story reporting the sad news of the best boy who got away comes a joyous new celebrity wedding exclusive to take its place. We'll leave it to you, however, to decide how revved up you should get about the recently unknown star of a disappointing summer blockbuster asking his mostly anonymous girlfriend to marry him:More »
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When Others Dreamed Of Girls, Brandon Routh Only Dreamed Of Blue Tights
Audiences of Superman Returns marveled at its unknown star, Brandon Routh, and the ease and confidence with which he delivered a substandard Christopher Reeve impression in his first big screen foray. A memory shared by his mother reveals how the actor's early, girl-shunning discipline and good-times abstention helped guide him to greatness: More »
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Superman: The Infomercial
We'd never begrudge our newest, highest-profile cinematic superhero any endorsement opportunities that might arise from his gig as the Man of Steel, but there's something unintentionally hilarious about Brandon Routh's infomercial for Rope Yoga. We trust Routh's claims that this form of exercise was invaluable to his preparation for the physical rigors he would face on the Superman Returns set, but each time we see him demonstrating the machines upon which he trained for his strenuous flying harness work, it's hard not to imagine that archnemesis Lex Luthor has entangled him in Kryptonite ropes, bonds from which he's struggling to break free before Lois Lane takes her final step towards oblivion on a nearby booby-trapped StairMaster. More »
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Superman's Hair: A Retrospective
On the eve of Superman Returns' premiere, the LAT takes a moment to revisit the icon's various hairstyles over the years. Why, we're not exactly sure, though a comparative timeline highlighting changes in the size and style of the Package of Steel™ would have been inappropriate for a family paper. The piece even goes so far as to consult a "Hollywood stylist" on tips for achieving the looks at home. (Though it egregiously omits perhaps the greatest single coiffured Superman of all time, Indian Superman.) More »
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Short Ends: Even Superman Has A Past
· We're not exactly sure why we find an old modeling photo of the new Superman reading a back issue of Vanity Fair so funny, but the humor value of Brandon Routh calling upon God to smite those who would shitcan him from a soap opera is self-evident.· Not surprisingly, not all children immediately take to Christopher Walken.
· The real Homeland Security department features fewer Kiefer Sutherlands and terrorist beheadings than what you see on 24.
· The existence of the Adventures of Keira Knightley's Jaw blog is our latest reminder that genius and totally unhinged insanity are sides of the same crazy/beautiful coin.
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Last night's MTV Movie Awards, which were shot Saturday on the Sony lot, were a series of hits (the streamlined set and projections, Jessica Alba as host) and misses (Andy Samberg's painfully unfunny Ron Google opening sketch, anything involving AFI), though not even Jim Carrey surrounded by 1000 angels in sunglasses could have outshone Christian Bale's acceptance speech for Best Hero. As the cast of Superman Returns stood behind him (video above), the swaggering, macho Bale proudly returned some bat-balls to his superhero's legacy. He failed, however, to resist the impulse to deliver yet another blow to Superman's ever faltering potency problem (it's around the 3:30 mark): More »
Batman Vs. Superman Catfight Narrowly Avoided At MTV Movie Awards
Last night's MTV Movie Awards, which were shot Saturday on the Sony lot, were a series of hits (the streamlined set and projections, Jessica Alba as host) and misses (Andy Samberg's painfully unfunny Ron Google opening sketch, anything involving AFI), though not even Jim Carrey surrounded by 1000 angels in sunglasses could have outshone Christian Bale's acceptance speech for Best Hero. As the cast of Superman Returns stood behind him (video above), the swaggering, macho Bale proudly returned some bat-balls to his superhero's legacy. He failed, however, to resist the impulse to deliver yet another blow to Superman's ever faltering potency problem (it's around the 3:30 mark): More »
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Hollywood PrivacyWatch Special Edition: Routh's Super PDA
While Warner Bros. does its best to throw into turmoil the sexuality of his big-screen alter ego through its various promotional materials, one of our operatives noticed that new Superman Brandon Routh is ensuring that his mild-mannered, off-duty identity stays very publicly hetero: More »
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Superman Saving Uncomfortable Conversation With Ghost Of Marlon Brando For Sequel
Joel Schumacher and George Clooney might have made great strides by reimagining Batman as a rubber-nippled, impressively cod-pieced bondage queen, but we don't think the tag-team of Bryan Singer and the previously obscure Brandon Routh are quite up to the task of delivering Gay Superman until at least the second installment of the revived franchise. Still, it was quite generous of The Advocate to preemptively include the new, still-unproven Man of Steel in its Summer Gay Superhero Issue; placing his image above the names of established bigscreen homosexual presences like Ian McKellan and Kevin Spacey ensures that he won't be forgotten while he decides on the right time to come out of the phonebooth. More »
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Superman Saving Uncomfortable Conversation With Ghost Of Marlon Brando For Sequel
Joel Schumacher and George Clooney might have made great strides by reimagining Batman as a rubber-nippled, impressively cod-pieced bondage queen, but we don't think the tag-team of Bryan Singer and the previously obscure Brandon Routh are quite up to the task of delivering Gay Superman until at least the second installment of the revived franchise. Still, it was quite generous of The Advocate to preemptively include the new, still-unproven Man of Steel in its Summer Gay Superhero Issue; placing his image above the names of established bigscreen homosexual presences like Ian McKellan and Kevin Spacey ensures that he won't be forgotten while he decides on the right time to come out of the phonebooth.
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Team 'Superman' Shills For Kitson
Two species from seemingly opposite ends of the universe—comic book geeks and Robertson Blvd.-wandering trend whores—merged last night as Kitson launched their new line of Superman-themed, heroically overpriced crap. And on hand to help push the $900 Swarovski crystal-encrusted S-shield
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Summer Movie Gay Dilemma: 'Superman' Or 'Prada?'
Good Morning America film critic Joel "I loved it!" Siegel rounds up the coming summer blockbusters on ABCNews.com, noting that the average budget comes in at around $160 million, or $80 million per Sonny Crockett beer boob. He also makes the following observation about a creative bit of studio counterprogramming: More »
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Superman Goes Forward With Superwidow's Blessing
As Superman Returns' release date of June 30 quickly approaches, look for media coverage to increase from a meager trickle of mostly gossipy items on the subject of Brandon Routh's goodies to a full-on torrent of Warner Bros.-sanctioned, P.R.-friendly coverage. USA Today took its flying leap into Supermania today with a "first look" gallery of the bulge in action, accompanied by a story which ledes with the passing of the (giant, flaming) torch: More »
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Brandon Routh's Girlfriend, Miss Iceland Not Part Of Second Grader's Make-A-Wish Deal
The world's next Superman, Brandon Routh, paid a recent visit to a young leukemia victim at a Des Moines children's hospital, according to the Des Moines Register. Refreshingly, no mention of the actor's ample package is referenced in the report, though they do note that he brought his girlfriend along, throwing some Kryptonite on the gay super-rumors that have plagued the unknown actor since he landed the role: More »
