Saturday, June 4, 2011

Actress Ellen Barkin on career obstacles Every Time Blake Lively Denies a Naked Picture Two More Emerge [Gossip Roundup] Dating Levinson's Son Katie Holmes Drama Desk Darling Cannes 'Another Happy Day' For Phase 4 Gabriel Byrne Cries His Eyes Out Post ExWife's Broadway Debut GABRIEL BYRNE CRIED AFTER WATCHING ELLEN BARKIN'S BROADWAY DEBUT Makes Peace With ExHubby Ashton Surprises Demi Moore in Sundance Perelman settle dispute over movie company 2011 Tony Awards Nominations Announced 'Brooding I don't even know what that means' Magazine Preview Is No Uptown Girl Tattle Court tells he's up the wrong tree Theater Review | 'The Normal Heart' Raw Anguish of Plague Years Jim Parsons & Lee Pace Opening Night for Heart'!

Actress Ellen Barkin tells CNN's Piers Morgan about some of the obstacles she had to overcome in her career. Blake Lively faces the hydra monster of naked scandals. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready for divorce. Natalie Portman stands up Oprah. Ellen Barkin's live-in boyfriend is half her age. The only way to kill Thursday gossip is with fire. More » Veteran actress Ellen Barkin is dating the 26-year-old son of famed moviemaker Barry Levinson, the director who launched her film career. The 57 year old, who found fame in Levinson's 1980s film Diner, is romantically involved with the moviemaker's writer/... All prettied up for an important evening, Katie Holmes trekked from her New York City apartment to the Hammerstein Ballroom for the 56th annual Drama Desk Awards on Monday (May 23). The former "Dawson's Creek" star looked stunning in a shiny purple gown as she tended to the arrivals press area before heading inside to ready for the annual ceremony honoring the best in theatre to get underway. As for her appearance, Miss Holmes is among the celebrity presenters while joining fellow trophy passer-outers including Daniel Radcliffe, Ellen Barkin and David Hyde Pierce. Making for quite the hectic day, Katie flew into NYC earlier in the day via helicopter after having been visiting her husband Tom Cruise as he works in Miami, Florida. Phase 4 Films has acquired domestic rights to _Another Happy Day_, writer- director Sam Levinson's dark comedy about a dysfunctional family that won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film -- starring Ellen Barkin, Demi Moore, Kate Bosworth, Thomas Haden Church, Ezra Miller and Ellen Burstyn -- is set to go out in the fall, with the theatrical release spearheaded by industry veteran David Dinerstein. In the film, high- strung Lynn (Barkin) and her troubled grown children (Bosworth, Miller) journey deep into the heart of domestic darkness to attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son. "_Another Happy Day_ had Sundance audiences both laughing and crying in equal proportions," said Phase 4 president and CEO Berry Meyerowitz. "The film marks Sam Levinson's bold arrival as a filmmaker and Ellen Barkin delivers a remarkable performance. People will connect with this insightful look into the messy dynamics of the modern family." Barkin produced with Mandalay Vision's Celine Rattray, Todd Traina, Johnny Lin, Michael Nardelli, Salli Newman, and Pamela Fielder. The deal was negotiated by Larry Greenberg, SVP Acquisitions for Phase 4 Films, and Michelle Hastings at Mandalay with CAA on behalf of ... Ellen Barkin, who remains friend with Gabriel following their divorce in 1999, reveals the 'Stigmata' star was so overwhelmed with emotion when he joined her backstage on opening night. Irish actor Gabriel Byrne broke down in tears of pride when his ex-wife Ellen Barkin made her Broadway debut last month (Apr11), "crying his eyes out" in the star's dressing room on opening night.Barkin has remained close to the Stigmata star since... It wasn't The Big Easy but it was easy enough. Ellen Barkin has settled a three-year-old lawsuit brought by her ex-husband, billionaire financier Ron Perelman, who accused her of... • Demi Moore, celebrating her new movie Another Happy Day with a cast dinner at Silver Restaurant in Park City, Utah, while in town for the Sundance Film Festival. The actress was joined by costars Ellen Barkin and Kate Bosworth but got a surprise later in the evening by hubby Ashton Kutcher, who originally planned to meet her in town the next day. The two danced up a storm, while Moore sipped orange juice and club soda during their night out. NEW YORK (AP) -- Cosmetics magnate Ronald Perelman has ended his legal fight with ex-wife Ellen Barkin over a movie production company they started while married but squabbled over for years after divorcing, according to court records and Barkin's lawyers.... It's the biggest event for the theater industry each year, and today the nominations for the Tony Awards were announced. And leading the pack with a total of 14 nods is "The Book of Mormon," a fun- poking opus conceptualized by the "South Park" pair, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Meanwhile, "The Scottsboro Boys" musical scored twelve nominations despite having closed earlier this season. Stars like Al Pacino, Edie Falco, Frances McDormand, Mark Rylance, Ellen Barkin, and Vanessa Redgrave all received Best Acting nods in what will surely be a competitive year for the Tonys. The complete list of nominees is: **Best musical** The Book of Mormon Catch Me if You Can The Scottsboro Boys Sister Act **Best play** Good People (David Lindsay-Abaire) Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth) The Mother... With the Hat (Stephen Adly Guirgis) War Horse (Nick Stafford) **Best revival of a musical** Anything Goes How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying **Best revival of a play** Arcadia The Importance of Being Earnest The Merchant of Venice The Normal Heart **Best book of a musical** Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Alex Timbers) The Book of Mormon (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone) The Scottsboro Boys (David Thompson) Sister Act (Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner and Douglas Carter Beane) **Best original score (music and/or lyrics) ... Nominations for the 2011 Tony Awards have been announced! Topping the list with 14 nominations was The Book of Mormon, followed by The Scottsboro Boys with 12. Anything Goes and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying earned 8 and 7 nominations, respectively. The 2011 Tony Awards will take place at the Beacon Theatre in NYC [...] Actor Gabriel Byrne's subtle portrayal of a psychotherapist in TV series In Treatment has won him awards and made him a heartthrob again at 59 An interesting irony of Gabriel Byrne's career is that despite having acted for 30 years and been one half of a celebrity couple for a decade when he was married to actor Ellen Barkin, he has managed, to his relief, to maintain an impressive privacy – yet the parts he chooses are, despite himself, highly personal, and even self-revelatory. What public perception there is of him seems to extend little beyond "Irish", "handsome" and – to use his least favourite yet the most popular description of him – "brooding". ("I don't even know what that means!" he complains, with – unfortunately for him – an expression close to brooding.) Well, after meeting him, I can exclusively reveal that yes, he is Irish, and, yes, very handsome too, if, inevitably, a little more salted and grizzled than he was 20 years ago as the chilling but heartmeltingly beautiful Tom in Miller's Crossing. But while he is thoughtful, painstakingly at times, and frequently self- deprecating, he is far from "brooding". He turns what ... A NEW YORK appeals court says that Revlon cosmetics magnate and former Philadelphian Ronald Perelman owes more than $3 million to a movie-production company he started with ex-wife Ellen Barkin. _The Normal Heart_From left, Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey and Joe Mantello in a revival of Larry Kramer's play at the Golden Theater. Jim Parsons and Lee Pace suit up to celebrate a successful opening night of their new Broadway play, The Normal Heart, on Wednesday (April 27) in New York City. The 38-year-old actor and his 32-year-old co-star attended the after party at the Edison Ballroom after performing in their official opening. Also pictured inside are Lee and Jim's [...]
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