Will ‘Twilight’ Make Studio Turnaround Fashionable at Last? [Trade Secrets] [ November 21st, 2008 ] Posted in » Celebrities

Paramount production president Brad Weston has had a squirmy few days since Patrick Goldstein outed him as the man who put Twilight in turnaround at the studio, deflecting blame where he can while watching the movie blossom into a potential billion-dollar franchise for Summit Entertainment. But listen closely through the catcalls and snickers around town, and you’ll hear a voice imploring calm, even understanding: Turnaround is a good thing!

Or so argues an anonymous filmmaker who today sent word to Hollywood Elsewhere praising the timeless tradition of unloading book and script options, lest they moulder in middle management’s closets instead of rocketing past a green light on another lot:

“When Goldstein ran that story, it increased the level of paranoia in the studios and now people aren’t as likely to put projects into turnaround, which is what saves or releases some projects and results in their being made into films at other studios [...] Let’s say I have a property that’s owned by a studio and it’s not working out. In this situation a studio exec saying to me ‘Fine, I’ll put it into turnaround and let you have it, take it across the street to Warner Bros. and God speed’ is usually an act of benevolence. It saves a project from death.

“Now with this Weston thing, a lot more studio execs and [sic] going to say ‘Sure, I let you take it elsewhere and then two years from now I’ll read about how I’m the asshole who let a big hit go to some other studio? Fuck it, I’m going to hang onto it. I’d rather have the project die here than have it go elsewhere than have an article turn up down the road that’ll make me look stupid.’”

All right, all right, Weston, we get it — you did the right thing. Turnaround for all! You first, Poltergeist.


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A-Rod And His Wife Reunite, Madonna Rolls Eyes

MLB scandal captain Alex Rodriguez was reunited with his wife Cynthia in Toronto yesterday. Cynthia filed for divorce from A-Rod last week due to salacious rumors that he’s been putting his bat into Madonna’s glove. Oh the humanity! The daughter’s probably like “Dad, you’re the worst. Hands that have touched Madge’s well-traveled pussy will never hug me again.”

The worst part of this is all the effort we have to spend on coming up with baseball analogies to describe A-Rod and Madonna bangin’.

Cynthia and older daughter Natasha visited A-Rod in Canada, because he was playing a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

“Alex and Cynthia are going through really difficult times,” A-Rod’s attorney says. “All of their decisions are going to be based upon what’s in the best interest of their daughters.”

A-Rod has reportedly been making late night visits to Madge’s NYC apartment despite the fact that both are married. For now.

“They’re going to have a relationship for the rest of their lives,” says a source about A-Rod’s family. Fine. Cynthia’s pretty jacked, maxed out dumbass’ credit cards in retaliation and once wore a t-shirt that said “f*ck you” to a Yanks game. She could be the trashy type to take a swing at Madge. Stay tuned. That would be hot.

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July 14th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A-Rod: ‘Madonna is my f—ing soulmate’

It doesn’t seem like enough of A-Rod’s friends can come out of the woodwork and profess how deeply he loved Madonna. One buddy recalls having dinner with the New York Yankee who kept texting someone and laughing like a schoolboy, according to Us Weekly:

“He told me it was Madonna,” A-Rod’s friend says. “I was shocked.”
The highest-paid player in baseball then “proceeded to say he was in love with her,” the pal tells Us. “I thought he was kidding, but he wasn’t.”
By February, the 32-year-old slugger had upped the ante. “He said, ‘She’s my f–king soulmate, dude,’” the friend tells Us.

I’m just waiting for a batboy to show up in the tabloids confessing “I was there. I handed him his cock! He tipped his hat to me and pointed to the outfield just like Babe Ruth before he hit a home run. Except what happened next was way dustier, and I’m pretty sure I saw a Sphinx.”

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July 13th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A-Rod’s stripper mistress comes forward - to support Cynthia (Ha ha!)

One of A-Rod’s stripper mistresses, Candace Houlihan of Boston (above), has come forward with her story about sleeping with the Yankee and supports Cynthia Rodriguez’s decision to kick him to the curb. The Boston Herald reports:

On A-Rod’s divorce:
“A leopard doesn’t change his spots. Good for her, I think she’s doing the smart thing. And she’ll probably get tons of cash.” She says A-Rod was a player when she met him four years ago at Fenway Park.

On hooking up with A-Rod:
Candice said she told Rodriguez she’d be at Saint after the game and sure enough, he showed up at the Back Bay club - wedding ring and all!
“It was killing me and I felt bad afterwards,” she said. “I’m not a bad person. I know how it feels to be cheated on, it sucks. But a couple of drinks later, I didn’t notice all that much, to tell you the truth.”

On the day after:
Houlihan said she and her girlfriends Googled A-Rod the next day and she was shocked to find out that his wife was pregnant with their first child.
“We were all freaking out,” she said.

There’s nothing like the bond of sisterhood between jilted ex-wife and the stripper that banged your husband. They really should make a Hallmark movie about these two and give it a dramatic title. Something that catches your eye, yet plays to housewives and the Bible. I’m thinking: “Bitches with Pythons: A Journey of Chick Stuff and Let’s Assume Cooking.”

July 13th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Alex Rodriguez: Madonna’s Soulmate?

Despite the fact that the whole Alex Rodriguez/Madonna fiasco has just recently blown up, it seems that A-Rod has been smitten with the Material Girl for quite some time.

According to a friend, Alex was exchanging text messages with Madge during dinner in Miami, Florida six months ago and acting as giddy as a teenager.

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July 10th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Alex Rodriguez’s wife has filed for a divorce because of Madonna

Madonna seems to be the reason why Cynthia Rodriguez, the wife of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, has filed for a divorce in a Miami … Alex Rodriguez’s wife has filed for a divorce because of Madonna

July 8th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Lawyer: A-Rod and Madonna Had ‘An Affair of the Heart’

Cynthia Rodriguez’s divorce attorney says the pair’s relationship “was the last straw” Lawyer: A-Rod and Madonna Had ‘An Affair of the Heart’

July 8th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Lawyer: A-Rod and Madonna Had ‘An Affair of the Heart’

Cynthia Rodriguez’s divorce attorney says the pair’s relationship “was the last straw”,Lawyer: A-Rod and Madonna Had ‘An Affair of the Heart’,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/people/headlines/~3/329063296/0,,20210715,00.html

July 8th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

One of These Things Is A Lot Like the Other One

Filed under: TMZ.com: One of these bottle blondes was snapped cavorting with A-Rod late-night. The other is Madonna.Neither looks like Cynthia Rodriguez. We’re just sayin’ …… Read more

,One of These Things Is A Lot Like the Other One,http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/07/a-rod-doesnt-just-choke-in-october/

July 8th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A-Rod’s wife files for divorce, blames Madonna

Cynthia Rodriquez, wife of New York Yankee Alex “A-Rod” Rodriquez, has already decided that separation is for pussies and is filing for divorce. She also wants alimony and primary custody of the children which should be fun considering she signed a pre-nup. Whoops. Her attorney Maurice Kutner broke the news to the Miami Herald:

”She feels that she has exhausted every opportunity to salvage the marriage, and that Alex has emotionally abandoned her and the children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him,” Kutner said Sunday.

Cynthia blames Madonna for this whole debacle and believes the pop singer is using her crazy kaballah magic to bend A-Rod to her will, according to NY Daily News:

“I believe he was having an affair with Madonna,” she told a friend, who spoke anonymously for fear of angering A-Rod. “She said she found a letter where Alex told Madonna: ‘You are my true soulmate.’”
“I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him,” Cynthia Rodriguez told the friend. “I don’t recognize the man he’s become. He was a sweet, beautiful, loving husband and father. Today he’s very cold and calculating.”

“Sweet, beautiful, loving husband?” Last I checked, A-Rod was banging strippers before the Madonna shenanigans. I guess he must’ve been really romantic about it: “Honey, Cynthia, listen; I just want you to know you’re my one and only. Which is why I’ve gotta go out this afternoon and put my penis in a stripper. I know it’s Christmas day and all, but I promise to be home in time for supper. Now get that beautiful butt of yours on the couch and don’t have sex with Lenny Kravitz while I’m gone. Ahh, I’m kidding! But not really and I have a gun. Smooches!”

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July 8th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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