Joan Rivers Wants Kim Kardashian’s Butt On The Walk Of Fame

Joan Rivers & Kim Kardashian

Joan Rivers is coming to Kim Kardashian’s defense, saying it’s not right for the Hollywood Walk of Fame to prohibit the handprints of reality stars from gracing its famous sidewalk.

“They should include Kim,” Rivers told me while she was placing her hands in cement outside Theatre 80 in New York City. “If they don’t want her hands, they should do her butt.”

Rivers’ famous hands will be joining the likes of Joan Crawford’s famous paw prints outside the theater and the big event was captured by the cameras of her We TV Show, “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?” which is filming its second season.

“I can’t commit a crime now,” Rivers laughed, telling me a woman’s hands always reveal her real age. “I’m the only person outside this theater in cement who is alive. Did my doctor call you before I arrived?”

Johnny Depp’s ‘The Thin Man’ Signs Writer David Koepp

Johnny Depp

Set to premiere his second Hunter S. Thompson book-to-film adaptation this fall, Johnny Depp is moving forward on bringing another famed author’s vision to the big screen.

According to Deadline, Depp’s Infinitum Nihil has hired David Koepp to pen the remake of “The Thin Man,” a film series based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel. A classic noir book about a man hired to track down the mystery behind an eccentric inventor’s disappearance — and his ex-wife’s possible connection — it was originally made into a hit six-film saga, with the first debuting in 1934. The films starred William Powell as Nick Charles, the role Depp would play, while Myrna Loy played his wife, Nora.

Depp has worked with Koepp before, as he directed him in “Secret Window.” He’s got a long line of blockbuster hits to his credit; he’s written, among others, “Jurassic Park,” “Carlito’s Way,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Spider-Man,” the most recent “Indiana Jones” film and the upcoming “Men In Black III.”

The development is good news for Depp, who is currently trying to revive his lavish “The Lone Ranger,” which Disney recently halted production on due to costs.

Lil Mama Brings Down the Doll House in ‘Scrawberry’ Video

Lil Mama is back with a new jam. Flavor? No, it’s not strawberry but ‘Scrawberry.’ The 21-year-old Brooklynite rapper and ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’ judge just dropped a playful new video — directed by Phil Lee — for the oddly titled track.

While Lil Mama channels great femcee MC Lyte, the entertainer and her crew act as dolls with attitude, dancing to a sample of Special ED’s ‘I Got It Made’ instrumental while inside a miniature doll house. All of this goes down as a little girl watches through a tiny window.

After overcoming challenges and dealing with her mother’s passing from breast cancer, the ‘Lip Gloss’ hit-maker returns anew, with attitude.

Though she’s making a rap comeback, we can’t tell if Lil Mama’s just having a little fun or if she’s consciously making a subtle visual dig at fellow female rapper Nicki Minaj. The ‘Voice of the Young People’ creator recently revealed that she doesn’t get inspiration for her life from paying attention to what she sees or hears. With her mention of the word “chain” and “doll” — Nicki Minaj sports a Barbie chain — it seems she has some beef with the Young Money MC.

“I don’t look at TV or listen to radio and say, ‘I’m gonna be a h– now,’ or ‘Oh, I’m gonna do this now,’ or ‘I’m gonna talk like this or ‘I’m gonna get a tattoo that says ‘I’m a doll,’ or ‘I’m gonna get a chain that says ‘I’m a doll.’ I’m Lil Mama til the day I die.”

George Clooney Pulls Out Of ‘The Man From UNCLE’: Exits Steven Soderbergh Film

George Clooney

George Clooney is human, after all.

The Oscar-winner was attached to star in friend Steven Soderbergh’s film adaptation of the 60s spy drama TV series, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” but has pulled out of the flick, Deadline reports. According to E! Online, the exit comes thanks to the stunt-intensive script that the actor feared would put too much strain on his body, which is still healing from injuries suffered during the filming of the Middle East-set thriller.

“He said he just can’t do the action and stunt scenes,” a source from the film told E!. “In fact, I think he’s planning on having another operation during the time he would have been filming.”

Clooney has a busy fall, as it is; he will premiere “The Ides of March,” the political thriller he wrote, directed and starred in (along with Ryan Gosling) at the Venice Film Festival, and will also take lead in Alexander Payne’s film, “The Descendants.”

Soderbergh, Clooney’s “Oceans 11” franchise director, is said to be continuing with the film; currently, he is working on stripper drama “Magic Mike.” He plans to make “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” one of his last three films before retiring.

Steven Soderbergh Retiring: Director Confirms Career Shift After Three Films

Steven Soderbergh

With the story line beginning to resemble his multi-strained masterpieces, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, in a roundabout, hedging way, confirmed a rampant rumor that he once denied.

Speaking with The New York Times about his upcoming film, the virus disaster story, “Contagion,” Soderbergh acknowledged that he was planning on retiring from Hollywood and focusing on a different art form.

“I’m interested in exploring another art form while I have the time and ability to do so,” he told the paper, speaking from his painting studio. “I’ll be the first person to say if I can’t be any good at it and run out of money I’ll be back making another ‘Ocean’s’ movie.”

Soderbergh directed the action-heist film, “Oceans 11,” and its two sequels. In fact, it was one of the stars of that trilogy — and the lead in “Contagion,” that first made mention of the director’s longterm plans.

“He wants to paint and he says he’s still young enough to have another career,” Matt Damon told the Los Angeles Times in January. “He’s kind of exhausted with everything that interested him in terms of form. He’s not interested in telling stories. Cinema interested him in terms of form and that’s it. He says, ‘If I see another over-the-shoulder shot, I’m going to blow my brains out.'”

Soderbergh hinted at retirement back in a 2009 interview with Esquire, saying, “I’m 45 now. When I turn 51, that’ll be 25 years. And that’s a lot of time to do one thing. And it’ll be, like, 30 movies. And that’s enough. I don’t want to have that falloff. I want to go out with ‘Abbey Road.'”

However, just last month at Comic-Con, the director laughed off what Damon had said.

“Matt Damon is apparently as discreet as a 14-year-old girl,” he said (via Movieline). “I had this drunk conversation with him while shooting ‘Contagion’ and four days later, I read about it in the paper. And he read it verbatim. […] Nobody in this economy wants to hear about someone quitting a good job. That kind of got blown out of proportion. And that’s Matt’s fault.”

Retiring or not, Soderbergh has a few films left to make. He is now in the process of making “Magic Mike,” the male stripper movie based on the experiences of a young, pre-fame Channing Tatum; a film adaptation of the 60s show “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” a project from which George Clooney just pulled out; and a biopic about Liberace that is due to star Michael Douglas and Damon.

Soderbergh won the Oscar for Best Director for “Traffic,” and earned a nod in the same category for the Julia Roberts-starring “Erin Brockovich.”

Sinead O’Connor Seeks Sex Over Internet; Singer Looks For Mate, Pro Anal Sex

Sinead O'Connor

In the first verse of the soulful song, “Nothing Compares To You,” a shorn Sinead O’Connor belts out, “It’s been seven hours and 15 days…”

And it turns out that the (rather transformed) Irish songstress is still counting–but this time she’s bemoaning her lack of bedfellows.

In a blog entry titled, “IS SINEAD ABOUT TO HUMP HER TRUCK?” O’connor worries that she’s “so desperate for sex” that she might do something drastic.

“My sh-uation sexually/affectionately speaking is so dire that inanimate objects are starting to look good as are inappropriate and/or unavailable men and/or inappropriate and/or unavailable fruits and vegetables. I tell you yams are looking like the winners,” she writes.

“Needless to say what I do for a living makes it hard for me to find men that only want me cuz they like my (legendary) arse. Yet I am in the peak of my sexual prime and way too lovely to be living like a nun. and it’s VERY depressing.”

So to avoid the temptation of vegetables or automobiles, O’Connor has taken to her blog and twitter to try to find a suitable mate.

This call to arms for a “sweet sex-starved man” does not come without its stipulations.

The singer has crafted a rather thorough list of musts (“Must be blind enough to think I’m gorgeous”) and must nots (“Must not be named Brian or Nigel”).

Oh, and just in case you were wondering, the good times don’t stop at the produce section.

“Let me now take time to make VERY clear that yes I ‘do anal’ and in fact I would be deeply unhappy if ‘doing anal’ wasn’t on the menu, amongst everything else$$ So if u don’t like ‘the difficult brown’.. Don’t apply…”

Also, women “will also be very much considered.”

Applications will be funneled through O’Connor’s assistant. (Really.)

Angelina Jolie: Vanity Fair October Cover, Talking ‘In The Land Of Blood And Honey’

Angelina Jolie

Already an Oscar-winner and one of the highest paid, most bankable actresses alive, Angelina Jolie is branching out into writing and directing. And she couldn’t be more scared.

Her screenwriting and behind-the-camera debut, the film is titled “In the Land of Blood and Honey” and, set against the Bosnian Civil War of the 1990s, has provided Jolie with a new level of professional and artistic risk taking.

“I’ve never felt more exposed. My whole career, I’ve hidden behind other people’s words,” Jolie tells Vanity Fair in their October cover story. “Now it’s me talking. You feel ridiculous when you get something wrong.”

Luckily, she has a rather accomplished Hollywood hand living with her that was able to give some advice — whether she found it valuable or not.

“He’d come in and say what he liked or what he didn’t understand,” she says of partner Brad Pitt — whom she says she has plans to marry at this time. “Like any woman, I would listen to most of it and fight a few things. He’s been so supportive. But it’s hard to separate the person that loves you from the critic, so I don’t think he’s a fair judge.”

At one point, the film had a harsher set of critics.

In Bosnia, The Association of Women Victims of War, the powerful advocacy lobby working on behalf of those that suffered unspeakable mistreatment in mass rape camps set up during the war, protested the film, leading to the revocation of Jolie’s permit to film within the country. Eventually, Jolie clarified her intent and viewpoint, and re-secure the permit, and shooting took place in Sarajevo; Hungary also served as one of the primary backdrops for production, especially while the permit was suspended.

The film, which was picked up for distribution by FilmDistrict, will hit theaters on December 23rd, right in the middle of prestige movie season and in time to qualify for Oscar consideration.

Elizabeth Banks Talks Sex, Comedy & Twitter

Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks is one of the most gorgeous and talented women in Hollywood, with the ability to pull off a wide range of genres. It is even more impressive, then, that it has been her participation in some of the raunchiest, funniest movies of the past decade that has made her a true star.

From her first sizable role in “Wet Hot American Summer” to her wacky nymph part in “40 Year Old Virgin” and then her leads in “Zack & Miri Make A Porno” and “Role Models,” she’s proven that she can have more than a few anatomically-inspired laughs. In a new interview with Esquire, she explains why the sophomoric is so often funny.

“Well, it’s a fairly ridiculous act,” she said, speaking about sex. “I mean, let’s be honest: It’s a very primal thing that you’re doing and it involves, you know — it’s what they call bumping uglies, which sort of puts it in the right place. It’s a horrifyingly embarrassing act. It’s the most vulnerable you can be as a person, I think.”

Sex may be embarrassing, but she’s certainly not embarrassed about the way she portrays it.

“Yeah, can’t wait for my kid to see it! Um, no,” she joked about her kinky bath scene in “The 40 Year Old Virgin.” “But I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh. I knew that girl. She’s a good-time girl who lives in the Valley — who works in the bookstore — and goes to community college on the side, and is really into funky stuff in the bedroom. Her entire outlook on life made perfect sense to me.”

Banks appears this weekend in “Our Idiot Brother,” her fifth film with Paul Rudd, and is currently filming ensemble comedy, “What To Expect When You’re Expecting.” It’s a different sort of sexual movie, but even then, she plays a character with skin on the brain, as the owner of a bookstore called “The Breast Choice.” And, she will of course star as Effie Trinket in “The Hunger Games,” due out in March.

Hollywood Walk Of Fame Bans Reality Stars

The Kardashians

Though the TV networks are getting rich off of its low budget and high revenue margins, the creatives in Tinseltown still, it seems, refuse to accept reality television as a true contributor to the long-lasting artistic and sociological legacy of entertainment and pop culture.

So, sorry Kim Kardashian: your wedding may be the stuff of celebrity royalty, but you still ain’t getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In a recent posting on the Walk of Fame’s Facebook page, Ana Martinez, Vice President for Media Relations and Producer for the Hollywood Walk of Fame wrote, “Someone asked if we give reality show characters stars? Hell to the No!”

Later, she told CNN that the Walk of Fame’s criteria included: “longevity in their field of entertainment, awards and other honors, and philanthropic work.”

This year, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez and Kate Winslet lead the list of new inductees.

Of course, they’re somewhat flexible about their admissions policy; Mickey Mouse, Kermit the Frog and Big Bird all have stars, which is appropriate given their impact, but a bit iffy given their fictional existence. There are also stars in place for Magic Johnson — for his movie theater chain, apparently (certainly not his late night talk show), though his prominence in LA as the Lakers’ longtime star probably didn’t hurt, either. Perhaps because they’ve flown amongst the stars (and their moon landing was an iconic part of TV history), the Apollo 11 astronauts have stars, too.

Snooki and co. can be comforted by some of the other celebs who don’t have stars; one can only imagine the commiseration that would go down between the little Guidette and Julia Roberts, who famously declined to have her name on the walk.

Meanwhile, honorees David Hasselhoff and Pat Sajak laugh at it all.

Jennifer Garner Pregnant: Third Child For Actress

Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner

LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s family is growing – representatives for the actors say the couple are expecting their third child.

A one-sentence statement released Monday says the actors are “thrilled” to have another baby on the way. The couple has two daughters, 5-year-old Violet and 2-year-old Seraphina Elizabeth Rose Affleck.

No other details were released.

Affleck and Garner, both 39, were married in 2005.

Garner, who rose to fame after starring in the television series “Alias,” appeared over the weekend at a Disney expo to promote her upcoming film, “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.”

Affleck won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay to “Good Will Hunting” and recently wrote, directed and starred in the thriller “The Town.”