For all The Counselor‘s flaws, at least Ridley Scott’s latest isn’t boring.
Brad Pitt (The Weinstein Company) “He’s gonna get in a whore fight at a hotel that don’t like whore fights.” I mulled over that line from Killing them Softly, written and directed by Andrew Dominick, for days before I fully appreciated it. The movie is based on George V. Higgin’s 1974 crime novel Cogan’s Trade, which runs a slim 200 pages. The source for that line runs for some one hundred words. Dominick whittled…
The Human Rights Campaign today announced a $100,000 contribution from the actor Brad Pitt to help fund the organization’s final six days of campaigning for ballot measures in four states that would legalize same-sex marriage.
A review of Terrence Malick’s career-summarizing, cosmos-questioning, often-impenetrable film, which looks at the enormity of the entire universe via the intimate snapshot of one 1950s Texas family led by Brad Pitt.
The pretty people are descending upon our city. A couple big movie shoots are in town, so if you’re into that sort of thing, now’s your chance for an Affleck or LaBeouf sighting. State of Play, an adaptation of a BBC miniseries starring Russell Crow and Ben Affleck, has been shooting for a couple of days around Capitol Hill. This movie made headlines in the fall when Brad Pitt dropped out due to an inability…
Straight women and gay men all across D.C. were presumably disappointed by the news that came out over the Thanksgiving holiday that Brad Pitt had dropped out of the production of State of Play, a big-budget political thriller set to begin filming here in Washington this winter. You may recall that Pitt had stopped by the Washington Post newsroom in September to do some research on the character he was slated to play in the…
Fishbowl D.C. scooped even the Washington Post’s own gossip columnists on word that Brad Pitt was reportedly visiting the paper’s newsroom this afternoon. Says a Postie: “since word got out, female producers from network news shops are clamoring to stop by and just pay a “visit” to the newsroom to see friends they’ve never visited before in the newsroom.”Patrick Gavin says Pitt was there consulting with Post editor R.B. Brenner in preparation for his upcoming…
Can’t anyone get D.C. right? Today the Post’s Reliable Source reports that Nicole Kidman’s newest thriller, The Invasion, makes a number of relatively amateur mistakes in trying to use the District as a backdrop, even though a good part of it was filmed here. Among those: – Kidman, who plays a D.C. psychiatrist, buys magazines at one of those big sidewalk newsstand kiosks — the ones all over New York but not on any corner…
Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can’t afford to go out there. And there’s no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist’s faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,…
Dear Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney: feel free to do embarrassing things in public today. D.C.’s celebrity (and we use that term loosely) photogs are probably following around real celebs — well, at least Angelina Jolie. Yesterday the Examiner gave us the heads-up on a litany of famous-outside-the-Beltway folks traipsing around town this week. So if you’re a little tired of running into Nicolas Cage filming National Treasure 2, keep your eyes peeled for these…
