Sofia Vergara’s Post-Golden Globes Plans: An Eating Bonaza!

Sofia Vergara looked sexy and shapely in a red, strapless dress at Sunday’s Golden Globes, but starting Monday, she’s ready to let loose and chow down!

“I haven’t eaten in like two weeks. So, after today I’m going to go crazy,” the “Modern Family” beauty told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush on the Globes’ red carpet.

So what’s on the menu?

“Tomorrow [I’ll] make banana pancakes and then like pasta with truffles. I mean I’m going to do it all tomorrow,” she laughed.

Not a laughing matter though is Sofia’s potential new role – politician’s girlfriend.

Sofia’s boyfriend, Nick Loeb, is thinking about running for the U.S. Senate in Florida.

“It’s under consideration,” Nick told Billy as he joined Sofia for the red carpet interview on Sunday. “It’s all something new that came up and it’s just at the early stages.”

As for Sofia, she told Billy that she supports her man no matter what he decides.

“I leave that up to him, you know,” she said. “I will support him the same way he supports my career.”
For more info- http://www.accesshollywood.com/sofia-vergaras-post-golden-globes-plans-an-eating-bonaza_article_42348

Winfrey first guest on Piers Morgan's new show

Los Angeles, Jan 7 (IANS) American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, who recently launched her 'OWN' network, is the first guest on author, columnist and TV personality Piers Morgan's new show on CNN International.

Titled 'Piers Morgan Tonight', the show will premiere worldwide Jan 18.

'Piers Morgan Tonight' will see the host in a candid chat with his newsmaker guests, uncovering fascinating details and stories about them, said a press statement from the channel.

Morgan has earlier hosted British television interview programme 'Piers Morgan's Life Stories' and he was also a judge on 'America's Got Talent' apart from holding various editorial posts in the journalism field.
For more info- http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/111141/Winfrey-guest-Piers-Morgans-new.html

Black Swan's Night Chilled by Winter's Bone at Gotham Awards

Where will the final resting place be for Winter's Bone? The Academy Awards, perhaps.

The critically adored drama about a hardheaded teen searching for her missing father topped more buzzed-about fare like Natalie Portman's delusional-ballerina thriller Black Swan to be named Best Feature at the 20th Annual Gotham Awards, a celebration of independent film that unofficially heralds the beginning of Award Season.

Last year, in particular, the Gothams kicked things off with a bang, awarding The Hurt Locker, the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner, the night's top prize.

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But more often than not, and despite its estimable guest list, the Gothams' half a dozen or so trophies tend to go to the actors and directors who might spend most of the year otherwise overlooked.

Along with Black Swan, Winter's Bone also bested the blush-worthy Blue Valentine, The Kids Are All Right and the retooled-for-America vampire scarefest Let Me In.

The cast of Winter's Bone, headed up by Jennifer Lawrence as an impoverished teen in the Ozarks who sets off to find her meth-cooker dad after she learns he's put up the family's home as a bail bond, was also honored for Best Ensemble Performance.

Lawrence lost out for Breakthrough Actor (no mainstream actor/actress distinction at this serious-thespian ceremony), however, to Daddy Longlegs' Ronald Bronstein.

Meanwhile, Portman and her fellow lucky losers seemed to be having a great time regardless.

Paying tribute to Black Swan director, Darren Aronofsky (one of a whopping four tributes tonight), Portman hilariously called his breakthrough film Requiem for a Dream "a disturbing film about sleep disorders." (It's not.)

Attention was also paid to Hilary Swank, known for rising to the occasion when the character calls for it; Brokeback Mountain producer James Schamus, whom Anne Hathaway thanked for casting her in a non-princess role; and Robert Duvall.

"I know he's a big deal because he's Boo Radley," said Get Low costar Bill Murray, referring to Duvall's character in To Kill a Mockingbird. "I watched it the other night on TCM."

Leighton Meester, her bum fully covered this time, and Anthony Mackie presented the viewers' choice Festival Genius Award to probable Oscar nominee Davis Guggenheim for his alarm-sounding education documentary Waiting for Superman.

Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci, the revered-indie-star version of Hathaway and James Franco, hosted Monday's ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan.

Here's the complete list of winners from the 2010 Gotham Awards:

Best Feature: Winter's Bone
Ensemble Performance: Winter's Bone
Breakthrough Actor: Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs
Breatkthrough Director: Kevin Asch, Holy Rollers
Documentary: The Oath
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You: Littlerock
Festival Genius Award: Waiting for Superman

For more info-http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b213494_black_swans_night_chilled_by_winters.html

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1'

Perhaps Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows should have been a trilogy. Splitting the sprawling finale to author J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard saga into three parts — as opposed to its chosen two-part incarnation — might have come across as shameless profiteering (admittedly, a not-uncommon practice in this town), but it wouldn’t have been without merit. At 759 pages, Rowling’s source novel is said to be a rather dense work, plot-wise; surely it could have easily warranted another installment?

I only say this because Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, though certainly a decent film, clearly strains from the effort required to fit the book’s proceedings into a two-act structure. While Part 2, slated to open approximately six months from now, is alotted the story's meaty parts — namely, the spectacular Battle of Hogwarts and its emotional denouement — Part 1 must bear the burden of setting the stage for the grand confrontation between the forces of Light and Dark magic and framing the predicament of its three protagonists, teen wizards Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), in suitably dire terms. And it's quite a heavy burden indeed.

As the film opens, the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), having assumed control over Hogwarts since the events of the preceding film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has wasted no time in initiating his reign of terror. As far as historical evil-dictator analogues are concerned, Voldemort appears partial to the blueprint laid by Stalin as opposed to that of his genocidal pact-pal, Hitler. Enemies of the Dark Lord's regime are prosecuted in dramatic show trials, presided over by the Grand Inquisitor, Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), while muggles (non-magic folk) and half-bloods are denounced as "undesirables" and “mudbloods” in Soviet-style propaganda posters and forced to register with the authorities.

As the only viable threat to Voldemort’s dominion, Harry and his allies are hunted vigorously by Bellatrix LeStrange (Helena Bonham Carter), and her goon squad of Death Eaters. The Boy Who Lived, now fully grown and in more or less complete command of his powers, is still no match England's nasally scourge. Labeled "Undesirable No. 1" by the Gestapo-like Ministry of Magic, he's is forced to go on the lam, where he labors, along with Ron and Hermione, to solve the riddle of Voldemort’s immortality.

For those not well-versed in Rowling’s source material, the film’s opening act is a frustrating blur: After an all-too-brisk update on the bleak state of affairs in Hogwarts, we are hastily introduced (or re-introduced) to a dozen or so characters, the majority of whom are never seen again. A few even perish off-screen. Had we gotten a chance to get to know them, we might be able to mourn them as our heroes do; instead, we’re left racking our brains trying to recall who they were, and how they figured in the plot.

Rowling's flaws as a storyteller — the over-reliance on deus ex machina devices (in this case, we get both a doe ex machina and a Dobby ex machina), the ponderous downloads of information (not unlike those of that other uber-anticipated and somewhat overrated 2010 tentpole, Inception), the annoying ability of characters to simply teleport (or "disapparate") away from danger, etc. — are more evident in this film than in previous chapters. And rather than obscure these flaws, director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves, both franchise veterans, arguably amplify them.

What saves the film are Rowling's three greatest achievements: Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who, along with the actors who play them, have evolved beyond the material. The film's narrative gains its emotional footing during the heroic threesome's exile, ostensibly a series of camping trips — with tents and everything — during which they reflect on their journey together, the challenge that awaits them and the sacrifices it will require. Though they occasionally verge on tedious, these excursions into Gethsemane allow us precious quality time with these characters that we've grown to adore over the course of seven films, even if the plaintive air is spoiled a bit by some rather puzzling attempts at product placement. In their rush to flee the Dementors and Death Eaters, it seems that they at least took care to pack the latest in fall fashion:
For more info- http://www.hollywood.com/review/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_Part_1/7733147

Tony Parker Tries To Save Fave After Eva Longoria Blindsides Him

Tony Parker released a statement late Thursday claiming that he was not blindsided when Eva Longoria filed for divorce from his triflin’ ass. Whatever dude…she threw you under the basketball team bus.

“Eva and I have been discussing our situation privately,” he says in a statement issued by his rep. “I was aware that she would be filing for divorce in Los Angeles.”

But that’s not what Eva’s people say. Her story goes about the same..they were working it out privately but I guess  that whole ‘hell hath no fury’ thing kicked in because she decided to file the papers and leak the story about his text-cheating with a team mates wife.

It probably started out civil and polite and then the more she thought it about the more pissed and embarrassed she got..and well..then she decided to do what any wife that has been betrayed wants to do. She got revenge.

For more info- http://www.hollywoodbackwash.com/tony-parker-tries-to-save-fave-after-eva-longoria-blindsides-him/