The Saturday night parties are still reverberating. Jason Binn’s soiree for Los Angeles Confidential was a hit, with Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwinand a dozen different stars packing the VIP area at the Westwood W Hotel. …
ActorForest Whitaker is in the lead to win the best actor Oscar for his performance in 'The Last King of Scotland', predicts Jason Binn, publisher of the Los Angeles Confidential magazine.
Binn has got it right most times by putting eventual winners on the cover of his annual Academy Awards issue, reports pagesix.com.
Last year, it was Philip Seymour Hoffmann, who won for 'Capote'. The year before, it was Jamie Foxx on the cover, and he won for 'Ray'. Liv Tyler's 'Lord of the Rings' won best picture in 2004, and prior to that, Renee Zellweger's 'Chicago' won best picture award.
"The thing is, people do things and mess up," she says in the new issue of Los Angeles Confidential magazine, hitting stands next Friday. "No one's perfect. I'm human."
How true that is. About two weeks after the interview took place, the 20-year-old starlet checked herself into rehab after a nasty weekend featuring some very public displays of partying.
Lohan admitted that Hollywood isn't always so kind to her. "The real hard thing about L.A. is that it's all about one thing," she says. "Everyone always wants something. This industry is very lonely; I tend to get very lonely."
She may have used that sadness while shooting I Know Who Killed Me, her upcoming thriller in which she plays a stripper abducted by a serial killer. "I do a lot of crying in scenes," Lohan says. "At one point, [my character] takes a bunch of pills. I didn't know how to approach the challenge, so I just dove in."
And yes, she does do some stripping in the movie. "Leading up to it, I was a little shaky, but I had some friends on set and in the end I wasn't nervous," Lohan remembers. "Once I was in costume and really 'in it,' the scene went great. It doesn't come across as cheesy or gross, like, Oh, she just wanted to take her clothes off."
HUSH JOB:David Hasselhoff hosts Los Angeles Confidential magazine’s preview of Arden B.'s winter 2008 collection tomorrow at the CooperBuilding in downtown L.A.
RebeccaRomijnhad two things to celebrate at a luncheon Wednesday: her L.A. Confidential cover and her B-day, which was actually the day before. The kitchen gurus over at NineThirty restaurant at the W hotel in Westwood even whipped up a cake with Rebecca’s pic on it. Too sweet.
R.R. said she’d already started partying last weekend, when her hub-unit Jerry O'Connell threw a brunch for his babe with her friends and Ugly Betty castmates, natch. So, what’d Jerry give his gal? “Hebought me some beautiful jewelry, and then he also bought something so unromantic,” Rebecca dished. “An electric, wireless fence for one of my dogs that has a runaway problem. As a responsible dog owner, I’ve gotta keep that little guy in the yard!”
JUST DEUX IT: Brody Jenner will be hitting Les Deux tomorrow night for Hpnotiq's Halloween party, hosted by Audrina Patridge and cosponsored by Los Angeles Confidential magazine.
ANATOMY LESSON:EllenPompeo will be feted for her new Los Angeles Confidential magazine cover during a pre-Emmy party at One Sunset on Sept. 11 with guests including EricMabius, Mary J. Blige and MiloVentimiglia.
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POLITICAL PARTYING: Kerry Washington, Tim Daly, Wendie Malick and Oscar de la Hoya, hitting Los Angeles Confidential magazine’s soiree for the Creative Coalition at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s new Bar Nineteen12.
Spelling, mommy to Tori and Randy and widow of late television maestro Aaron, is now a magazine columnist.
I have the exclusive first look at Spelling’s debut column in the upcoming issue of Los Angeles Confidential, on stands Aug. 15. In the piece, titled “Flashbulb Forward,” the matriarch takes on the paparazzi. But if you're thinking it's an attack on overzealous shutterbugs, think again.
Instead, she offers the photogs advice on how to improve their reputation.
Her suggestions include using hybrid cars to chase down celebs, donating some of their profits to charity and even hiring a publicist. “It’s time for an image makeover and maybe a new job title, too,” Spelling writes.
Spelling also pens that she’s well suited to be talking to the paparazzi. “I hope you’ll take some advice from someone who’s famous because her husband was famous and now because she has famous children,” she writes. “I see you outside my house when I come and go, shooting (and judging) the groceries I buy, the movies I see, the clothes I wear and various other subjects I can’t imagine are of any interest to anyone outside my family.”
Wait a minute—Candy Spelling does her own grocery shopping?