Archive of the June 2011

• June 7, 2011

  Horror movie 'Human Centipede 2' is banned in the UK

  FOX 411 | Editor

  

  The sequel to 2009’s grotesque German horror fest, “The Human Centipede” is so loathsome and foul that the British equivalent to the MPAA has refused to rate it, calling it “sexually violent and potentially obscene.”

  The original film’s plot revolved around a mad scientist who sewed three kidnap victims together, mouth to anus, to form a sort of “Human Centipede.”

  The sequel, directed by Tom Six, involves a man who becomes “sexually obsessed” after repeated viewings of the original film on DVD, and sets out to recreate the “Human Centipede” to satisfy his own perverted needs.

  The director promised that the sequel would make original look like “My Little Pony.”

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• June 7, 2011

  Tom Selleck 'haunted' by missed chance to play Indiana Jones

  Meaghan Murphy | 

  

  (YouTube)

  Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones?

  It almost happened.

  The handsome mustachioed star was offered the iconic role back in 1981, but was forced to turn it down due to a recently signed contract with Universal Studios.

  “We ended up doing a screen test with Tom Selleck and Sean Young and it was really, really good,” George Lucas said in an interview. “They’re both terrific actors and it turned out really well.”

  Instead, the 6’3” actor went on to play detective Thomas Magnum on the ‘80s hit, “Magnum P.I.”

  Ironically, Selleck would have had time plenty of time to film “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” due to a six-month writer’s strike.

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• June 6, 2011

  'Real Housewife' Kelly Bensimon defends Playboy spread, effect on daughters

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  “Real Housewives of New York” star Kelly Bensimon may often question her fellow cast members’ sexual mores, but she had no problem baring all for Playboy.

  “I showed like 80 percent. A little boobie, a little butt, ankles,” Bensimon told Popeater.com. “The pictures actually make me look thinner than I was at the time. I really ate a lot. I wanted to be my normal body shape. I wanted to look like myself. Everyone else was on a diet and I was like, ‘No! I want to be myself’ … Before that I was in a horse show, I was riding and running a lot. And being on ‘Housewives’ was really stressful for me and I just wanted to show that healthy is hot.”

  FOX411: Ramona Singer Blasts Bensimon’s Playboy Pics.

  Posing for Playboy: stress reliever! Who knew? But what about Bensimon’s two young daughters?

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• June 6, 2011

  F-bombs, sexual innuendo dominate MTV Movie Awards

  FOX 411 | Editor

  

  Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis (AP)

  With “Harry Potter,” “The Twilight Saga” and tween stars like Justin Bieber dominating the MTV Movie Awards, the audience for Sunday night’s show was decidedly young. But the jokes, monologues and celebrity skits, dominated by raunchy moments, skewed much, much older.

  The live telecast began with a skit and monologue from this year’s host, “Saturday Night Live” star Jason Sudeikis. Sudeikis spent most of his opening monologue cracking jokes about the revelations that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a housekeeper.

  He also poked fun at singer-actress Selena Gomez, who embarrassingly hid her face from the cameras as he scolded her for making out with fellow teen sensation Bieber and swallowing “three of his baby teeth.”

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• June 6, 2011

  Hailee Steinfeld's next movie calls for nudity and sex scene from her character

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  Haile Steinfeld at the MTV Movie Awards June 5, 2011. (Reuters)

  That didn’t take long.

  After her Oscar-nominated performance in last year’s “True Grit,” Hailee Steinfeld could be getting naked in her next role.

  And she’s only 14.

  Steinfeld has committed on to play Juliet in the latest film version of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

  England’s Sunday Times published an excerpt from the script, according to the Daily Mail.

  “They (Romeo and Juliet) start undressing each other – slowly, gently and carefully until they are naked,” the script reads. “They are eternal figures in a Raphael painting. Romeo then carries her to bed, kissing her again and again as they explore uncharted territory. Then they make love, transported into each other’s soul.”

  SLIDESHOW: Stars’ First Nude Scenes.

  Director Julian Fellowes said he needs an age-appropriate actress for the role, because that’s how Shakespeare did it.

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• June 6, 2011

  Shia LaBouf breaks silence on Megan Fox's exit from 'Transformers 3'

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  Since Megan Fox and director Michael Bay acrimoniously parted ways after wrapping 2009’s “Transformers 2,” there has been a lot of “he said, she said” speculation about what actually caused the riff.

  After keeping mum on bad blood between the starlet and director, Fox’s costar and “Transformers” love interest Shia LaBouf explains why she may have been replaced.

  HOT SHOTS: Megan Fox.

  “Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment (stuff) that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael, who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women,” LaBeouf explained to the Los Angeles Times. “Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think (Fox) never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it. When Mike would ask her to do specific things, there was no time for fluffy talk. We’re on the run. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There’s no time for (LaBeouf assumes a gentle voice) ‘I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.’” Keep Reading…

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• June 4, 2011

  Britney Spears selling Malibu home for whopping $15M

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  For Britney Spears, 2007 was not a good year. Recently divorced from Kevin Federline, or “K-Fed,” Spears was attempting a come-back tour in the midst of a child custody battle, stints in and out of rehab and some heavy media attention after a self-inflicted buzz cut.

  It was also in 2007 that Spears was trying to sell a her home — an enormous piece of Malibu real estate that she and Federline purchased for nearly $7 million after marrying in 2004. Shortly after the couple separated in 2006, Spears put the house on the market in January 2007 for $13,500,000.

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• June 4, 2011

  Facing Felony Charges, actress Estella Warren selling home for $1.5M

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  Actress and former model Estella Warren found herself in the media spotlight recently, but for two very different reasons.

  First, she listed her home on the Beverly Hills real estate market for $1,495,000.

  Then she got arrested for a DUI after crashing into three parked cars, not to mention evading arrest on May 23. Reportedly, “The Planet of the Apes” actress attempted to escape from the police station when she was being booked. She now faces a few felony charges and will be in court June 14.

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• June 3, 2011

  Is Papa Smurf really a small, blue, racist, sexist Nazi?

  Meaghan Murphy | 

  

  Sacre bleu!

  The Smurfs may not be as innocent as they look.

  The tribe of little blue creatures who live peacefully among the mushrooms are “steeped in Stalinism and Nazism,” according to a French sociologist.

  “Collective work always focuses on self-sufficiency for food and energy,” Antoine Buéno states in “Le Petit Livre Bleu” (The Little Blue Book). “The Smurfs do not have private property; their leader is Papa Smurf who shows very authoritarian and paternalistic characteristics.”

  Buéno also makes the connection that the little blue men’s biggest enemy, the magician Gargamel, seems to have a Jewish background—citing similarities to the anti-Semitic images of the World War II era.

  The French writer also claims that the Smurfs do not just resemble Nazis, but sexist Nazis to boot! Smurfette—traditionally the only woman living in the Smurf’s village—allegedly meets the Aryan ideal of beauty with her blonde hair and refined features.

  Buéno also accuses the hapless Smurfs of racism.

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• June 3, 2011

  'Survivor' Ashley Underwood says starvation diet took her down to 108 pounds

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  Photo Credit: Tessa Johnson

  Fans of the CBS reality hit “Survivor” know that after living on a diet foraged from the wilds of some remote tropical locale, the women come back from their ordeal ripped and lean—really, REALLY lean.

  “I lost the most out of any of the girls—20 lbs. in 38 days,” Ashley Underwood, the third runner-up on “Survivor: Redemption Island,” tells FOX411.com exclusively. “I weighed something crazy like 108 lbs. when I got back. I’m 5’8”, so can you imagine? I didn’t leave the house for a month because I couldn’t come to terms with how I looked!”

  FOX411: Celebrities’ Bikini Baby Bumps.

  Underwood, who is a fitness expert and former professional basketball player, had a hard time getting back to her ideal weight of 125 lbs.

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