Poppedy Popped Culture

When Oprah Winfrey called Jennifer Hudson to congratulate her on her performance in the upcoming movie “Dreamgirls,” Hudson at first refused to take the call. “I was resting my voice, and I thought it was my manager playing around!” she tells Senior Writer Sean Smith in Newsweek’s December 11 issue (on newsstands Monday, December 4). […]

Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind “M-A-S-H,” “Nashville” and “The Player” who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81. source
Probably my favorite film that he directed was “The Player.” That was so good […]

Lindsay Lohan says she hates her reputation as a party girl.
“I’m 20 years old. Is it a crime to go … dancing with your friends?” the actress said Tuesday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Lohan said she was “lucky and blessed” to be able to act.
“I’ve been acting my whole life and this is what I […]

Nicole Kidman married country music star Keith Urban at an Australian clifftop chapel Sunday in an intimate ceremony attended by close family and a smattering of A-list stars.
The beaming Oscar-winning actress arrived at the Roman Catholic church in flowing white Balenciaga gown and veil, clutching a bouquet of white roses. Church bells pealed 90 minutes […]

Keanu Reeves says he’s lonely and wants to get married and have children, in an upcoming issue of Parade magazine. source
Ahhh.
Call me.

Boy, oh boy, the thing actresses do for their art:
Level-headed young NATALIE PORTMAN is anticipating a range of responses to her spare new hairdo. “Some people will think I’m a neo-Nazi,” the Garden State star suspects, “or that I have cancer or I’m a lesbian.” … Portman, the exotically coiffed Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: […]

Boy, I am counting the days until the release of the Sith:
The last installment in George Lucas’ space opera about the Skywalker family, “Revenge of the Sith” completes the story explaining how a brash young Jedi knight was seduced by an evil mentor and became the venomous Vader.
After landing the role of Anakin Skywalker as […]

From the start, Goldie Hawn knew what kind of book she DIDN’T want to write. No salacious details, no tell-all, behind-the-scenes gossipfest about everyone she’s met in the entertainment industry over the last 30 years or so. (darn :wink:)
It took a while to pin it down, but she figured out the book she […]

Teresa Wright has passed away. She was the star of one of my favorite movies, “Shadow of a Doubt.”
Teresa Wright, the willowy actress who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando (news) and won a supporting Academy Award in 1942 for “Mrs. Miniver,” has died. She was 86.
Wright died Sunday of a heart attack […]