Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 12:15pm PDT By
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Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin were photographed filming Gangster Squad in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre last night in Hollywood, and the actors looked quite dapper in their period costumes.
The film is about LAPD's battle "to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s," according to IMDb, and it also stars Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte and Giovanni Ribisi. Can't wait for this one to hit the big screen next October!
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 11:45am PDT By
X17 Staff
Following her child-welfare hearing earlier this week, Mindy McCready is sitting down with ABC's 20/20 to talk about the accusations that she kidnapped her five-year-old son Zander.
During the interview, the country star currently pregnant with twins, said the following:
“I ... will not ever think that me taking my own child, that I carried for nine months, that I gave birth to in the hospital by myself would ever be breaking the law. What I did was to protect my child, and there’s not a person in the world that’s going to tell me that that is wrong.”
McCready had taken Zander from her mother's Florida home last week (Gayle McCready is Zander's legal guardian), and several days later authorities found the troubled country singer and her son hiding in a closet in Arkansas.
The singer also revealed the moment the U.S. marshals arrived to take her son, Zander. She adds:
“He was screaming: ‘Please don’t touch me, please don’t touch me, please don’t touch my mommy. Please, leave me alone, I want to be with my mommy."
McCready lost custody of Zander in 2007. He is now in foster care.
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 11:15am PDT By
X17 Staff
Alexei Hay/Marie Claire
Angelina Jolie graces the cover of the January 2012 issue of Marie Claire, and the 36-year-old actress gets up close and personal in this stunning black and white photo spread. Jolie talks about her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, and she also chats with the mag about her family and the possibility of having more kids.
On whether she and Brad Pitt are looking to add to their family, Jolie says, "Nothing planned at the moment, but we just don't know. I could end up pregnant."
So how are her youngest children, twins Knox and Vivienne doing? "Knox is very much a dude. Very physical, tough. He loves dinosaurs and swords," Jolie says. "[Vivienne] is so elegant and delicate. Vivi will pick flowers from the garden and put them in her hair. She likes to get her nails done and collects stuffed animals. It's very funny for me to have to buy all things pink and watch princess movies!"
Jolie reveals that writing In the Land of Blood and Honey "began as a private exercise, an excuse to get out some of my frustrations [with] the international community and justice issues," adding that "some of the very darkest sections of the film were conceived in Shiloh's art class; I was in the back waiting for the kids to finish." Interesting!
On working with her film's actresses, Jolie says, "It was nice for me to play with other girls; I don't really have girlfriends in movies, if you've noticed... Well, I have a few girlfriends, I just... I stay at home a lot. I'm just not very social. I don't do a lot with them, and I'm very homebound."
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 10:45am PDT By
X17 Staff
Twitter
Demi Lovato is showing off her new "Faith" tattoo via her Twitter account along with the following phrase, "Sometimes you just gotta have a little bit of...."
Early this year, the Disney starlet went to rehab to battle depression and an eating disorder.
The 19-year-old singer's powerful ballad "Skyscraper" brought Demi back into the spotlight. The song is the first single off her third album, Unbroken.
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 10:15am PDT By
X17 Staff
Chord Overstreet and Emma Roberts got coffee in Beverly Hills yesterday, and the lovebirds looked quite cozy when we snapped their picture. Glad to see these two aren't shy about hiding their romance!
In other news, Emma is featured in a new Funny or Die parody with Joe Manganiello called “The Girl With The Tramp Stamp Tattoo" -- check it out below!
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 9:50am PDT By
X17 Staff
Elle
Katherine Heigl is getting glam for the upcoming issue of Elle and opening up about what people think of her in Hollywood. The 33-year-old actress tells the mag:
"I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be. And I had 'em for a second thinking maybe I was. And then I opened my mouth, and it was very clear I wasn't."
The mother of daughter Naleigh, who recently told Ellen DeGeneres that she and hubby Josh Kelley would like three or four kids, discusses being a people pleaser. She adds:
"I think it's a female thing. I'm just that a**hole who really wants everyone to like me, and it's a ridiculous goal and it's an impossible goal."
Katherine is starring in the upcoming ensemble flick New Year's Eve, and she even gets to kiss Jon Bon Jovi!
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 9:15am PDT By
X17 Staff
Angelina Jolie has received criticism over the years for her thin frame, and now it's being reported that the Oscar winner is intentionally starving herself. But why?
A source tells Us Magazine that Jolie, who travels the globe as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, "puts herself on fasts to make statements for the children she visits." Jolie has been with the UN for over ten years now, and she's made dozens of trips to countries in Africa and the Middle East. The source continues, "She says, 'If they can't eat, I can't eat.' [Jolie] does different cleanses from around the world. It's very dramatic, but that's how she gets."
So how does partner Brad Pitt feel about her drastic dieting? "He's worried about her and has made her see a zillion doctors, but they keep telling her she's fine," the source says.
Posted on Thu Dec 8th, 2011 8:30am PDT By
X17 Staff
Tom Cruise's 16-year-old son Connor Cruise has the need for speed ... just like his famous dad!
Connor is the adopted son of the Top Gun actor and ex-wife Nicole Kidman. The budding DJ, and pilot, hopped in his propeller plane to take a flight over the Cruise family home in Malibu.
Most teenagers would think flying their own plane at the young age of sixteen is a mission impossible, but not for Tom's boy Connor.