In yet another unjustified reboot, Oscar winner Adrien Brody has now signed on for Fox’s latest horrendous mistake – the forthcoming remake of Predator. The 36-year old New Yorker will now join Robert Rodriguez’ upcoming retread of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 jungle-based romp, which Rodriguez is now writing along with some friends. ‘That 70’s Show’s Topher Grace is also debating getting involved, and if the price gets worked out he’ll join Ali... Read Full Story

Although admired by millions as Harry Potter’s indulgent accomplice, Hermione Grainger, Emma Watson endured some truly infantile admiration at the hands of people who should have more sense. The NY Post reports that the 19-year old actress and Brown University freshman was harassed and insulted during a visit to Harvard on Tuesday to attend a football game. She was even protected by minders in case the Ivy League types had plans to get close. In a day-long display of maturity that could... Read Full Story

While tickets to the show are hotter than the banquet of neon which surrounds their own theater, it seems Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are still attracting the usual dim-bulbs. The BBC reports the two actors stopped a Broadway preview of the Keith Huff drama, ‘A Steady Rain’ in the midst of a scene because one audience member did not bother to silence their cellphone, and the ringing was audible right through the house. Secretly-filmed footage, seen here, shows Hugh telling the o... Read Full Story

Henry Gibson, whose diverse portrayals of the full spectrum of life from Nazis to poets delighted and endeared him to three generations, has died at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73. Born James Bateman, on September 21, 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvnia, Henry took his stage name from the Norwegian poet, Henrik Ibsen, because, as he once explained to a fan, “if you say his name with a Southern accent it sounds like Henry Gibson” Like most of those born ... Read Full Story

Good-night, God’s speed and thank you. More »Text © 2009, The Loquacious Limey All rights reserved.Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009 Read Full Story

Since scoring a hypnotic debut in ‘Inglorious Basterds,’ his first major movie to be filmed outside Europe, Christoph Waltz is being widely suggested as Oscar material, and according to DHD he has now proved he deserves such high regard by landing one of the most coveted roles in any current production; The villainous ‘Chudnofsky,’ in Michel Gondry’s ‘Green Hornet.’ Originally offered to Nicholas Cage, who declined it last week for reasons unknown, th... Read Full Story

With a sense of respect that’s as weak as his acting, Charlie Sheen has announced that the US Government itself was behind 9/11. The New York-born actor, who turned 44 on September 3rd, has just released a fictional transcript in which he ‘interviews’ President Obama and asks him to re-open the 9/11 case. “The official 9/11 story is a fraud,” says the ‘Two and a Half Men’ star, who earns $850,000 a week from that long-stale show. According to Mr. Shee... Read Full Story

We all know the scene – Some sad, B-list actor announces in a fit of egocentric frustration and unconvincing emotion that they’re ‘finished’ with acting. Fade out…Fade up – ‘Six Months Later:’ The same desperate has-been whose pubescent tantrum was the first earthly clue most Producers had seen that they were even alive signs up to make ten more movies – for five times the fee! Well, that’s not the case in this story…So far. Viggo Mortensen, the... Read Full Story

In a worrying sign of the direction reality TV may soon begin taking, MTV just announced they have given the go-ahead to yet another example of unwelcome influence-meets-unscripted cash-cow, the teen-pregnancy reality drama, ‘Teen Mom.’ This tasteless new travesty is proudly seen by the MTV suits as a spin-off from its reprehensible parent, ‘16 and Pregnant,’ and will follow four of the girls who first appeared on that show as they face the mountainous challenge of bec... Read Full Story

In a story even more risible than yesterday’s news of a failed pageant queen’s new fame-seeking lawsuit, US Magazine now reports that the indisputable king of the airheads has decided to update his name. In the future, please call him ‘King Spencer Pratt.’ And the 26-year old star of MTV’s high-saccharine soap, ‘The Hills’ appears perfectly serious in this witless new plan, “I’ve decided, since there is a Queen of England and a Prince Will... Read Full Story