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  • Sandra Bullock Stunning at “Our Brand is Crisis” Hollywood Premiere, Bryan Randall by Her Side

    Sandra Bullock was stunning as usual on Monday at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, at the Our Brand is Crisis premiere. Arriving hand-in-hand with beau Bryan Randall, Sandra Bullock looked happy, too.

    Wearing a black and white, silk chiffon J. Mendel dress, Sandra Bullock accessorized her look with strappy Stuart Weitzman sandals and a box clutch.

    Bryan Randall was dashing in his black suit and black patent leather shoes, paired with a skinny tie.

    Sandra Bullock walked the red carpet at the premiere solo, however, pairing up with Our Brand is Crisis co-star Billy Bob Thornton for photos. Also on hand was Our Brand is Crisis producer George Clooney, and his beautiful wife Amal Clooney.

    This is said to be the first official work event Sandra Bullock has brought Bryan Randall to. The pair have been spotted out on dates–getting together with Jennifer Aniston and her husband Justin Theroux on a number of occasions.

    Do you suppose this indicates a new development in Sandra Bullock’s relationship with Randall?

    Since her divorce from Jesse James, Sandra Bullock has dedicated her life to her adopted son, Louis. It was at Louis’ fifth birthday party that Sandra Bullock met Bryan Randall. He was hired to photograph the birthday fun.

    Those who have followed Sandra Bullock throughout the past few years are no doubt thrilled to see her happy and in love once again. She got burned by her ex-husband, so it likely took a lot on her behalf to allow a new man into her–and Louis’s–life.

  • Sandra Bullock Stuns at Toronto International Film Festival

    Sandra Bullock was positively stunning as she walked the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday. Her upcoming film, Our Brand is Crisis, premiered at the festival.

    Wearing a sexy black dress with mesh cutouts, Sandra Bullock perfected her pout with dark red lipstick. She paired her dress with nude high heels.

    “My life has been wonderful,” she said at a press conference on Saturday. “It’s a great day today, hopefully it’s a great day tomorrow. I’m very lucky to be here, very blessed. What I want for the future [is] more of the same but if it doesn’t happen there will be a good reason for it.”

    Sandra Bullock’s life has recently taken a turn for the even-more-wonderful. She is now dating a very handsome photographer named Bryan Randall. The two attended Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s wedding, and the four were recently spotted out on a double date.

    In Our Brand is Crisis, Sandra Bullock plays a political spin doctor. The film is produced by Bullock’s dear friend and Gravity costar George Clooney. Billy Bob Thornton costars.

    “She’s struggling with mental illness, she’s struggling with addiction, she’s trying to take herself off the carousel once and she gets pulled back in because of an addictive need to win,” Bullock said of her character, “Calamity” Jane Bodine.

    “That’s in all of us and those of us who don’t have it have been through enough journeys in life and enough hardships to come out on the other end and realize that’s not what life is about,” she added. “I look at things and think, ‘What am I going to leave behind for my son [Louis]? What things do I want to say that I want to parlay to him in what I feel about the world, and how I want the world to be?’”

    Sandra Bullock is one talented, sexy lady–and now she has a new man, too. Life is indeed wonderful for her.

    Will you be checking out Sandra Bullock in Our Brand is Crisis when it hits theaters in October?

  • Jennifer Aniston and Her Ex-Husband’s Wife’s Ex-Husband

    Jennifer Aniston turned heads, grabbed asses, pissed off Cumberbitches, and dropped the F-bomb during and after the Golden Globes. What she didn’t do was win an award herself. But Aniston may have walked away with a greater claim to fame for the evening.

    After Billie Bob Thornton won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, he was interviewed by Billy Bush and Kit Hoover. While accepting his award, Thornton had mused about how easy it is to get into trouble by saying almost anything at awards shows. So he simply said, “Thank You” and walked off stage,

    But he opened up a bit more in the interview afterward.

    Bush and Hoover engaged Thornton in a game of ‘Who Would You Rather.’ Hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey had jokingly done so together on stage earlier that evening. The interviewers asked:

    “Who would you rather: Jennifer Aniston or Reese Witherspoon?”

    “Jennifer Aniston. Lifelong goal, that’s all I’m saying,” Thornton responded quickly. Maybe too quickly.

    He was then asked another:

    Jennifer Aniston or Keira Knightley?

    “Jennifer Aniston. How many times does it take to get this through your head?”

    It did not take people long to point out that Jennifer Aniston’s ex is Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt is now married to Angelina Jolie. Angelina Jolie is Billie Bob’s ex.

    You can just chew on that for a bit. Because if this were to ever actually come to pass, tabloid ink might run short for the first time in history.

    Was Billie Bob saying that he thought Brad Pitt traded down? Was he making a little good-natured dig at ex Angelina with that “lifelong goal” remark?

    Or did he even think about it at all?

    Thornton was quick to interject that he was joking. Maybe that little voice that managed to make him shut up on stage before he went full Gervais popped back in the room and took over.

  • Jennifer Aniston: Billy Bob Thornton’s Ex-Wife-Swap Ambition

    Jennifer Aniston used to be married to Brad Pitt. Remember that? Now Brad Pitt is married to Angelina Jolie. Angelina Jolie used to be married to Billy Bob Thornton. I know you remember that. That was weird. But it happened.

    But what if Billy Bob Thornton ended up with Jennifer Aniston? Supermarket checkout lines around the country might catch fire with all the tabloid smoke.

    This very notion was floated in a post-Golden Globes interview with Billy Bob Thornton. After Thornton won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, he came off to be interviewed by Billy Bush and Kit Hoover. While Thornton had famously said little while accepting his award, he opened up a bit in the interview. Which is where things did a brief fly-by on the weird.

    Prodding Thornton to play a game of Who Would You Rather, after Amy Poehler and Tina Fey had jokingly done so on stage, the pair asked:

    Who would you rather: Jennifer Aniston or Reese Witherspoon?

    “Jennifer Aniston. Lifelong goal, that’s all I’m saying,” Thornton responded quickly. Whether he had thought the wife-swap ramifications through or not went unsaid.

    He was then asked another:

    Jennifer Aniston or Keira Knightley?

    “Jennifer Aniston. How many times does it take to get this through your head?”

    Of course, Aniston is quite tight with her beau Justin Theroux. She did do a bit of butt-grabbing at the Golden Globes, verbally sparred a bit with Benedict Cumberbatch, and dropped the f-bomb whilst hailing a cab after the ceremony.

    Aniston did not win a Golden Globe for her role in Cake. The award instead went to Julianne Moore for Still Alice.

  • Sandra Bullock Comes to the Rescue of Fellow Actress on Set of Her New Film

    Sandra Bullock is seriously the coolest. Not only is she an amazing, Oscar-winning actress, the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, and to die for at the age of 50, she can now add life-saver to her credentials.

    The Gravity actress “took charge” Sunday when a fellow actress collapsed from apparent heat stroke on the New Orleans set of her current movie, Our Brand Is Crisis, according to TMZ .

    Bullock reportedly helped cool the victim off by fanning her in a shady area and providing water until an ambulance arrived and transported the woman to the hospital.

    Bullock’s co-star Billy Bob Thornton was there, too, but was “mostly watching,” according to the website.

    It was a warm, 82-degree day in New Orleans when the incident occurred on Sunday. Not an incredibly hot day, but the warm clothes the actors were required to wear as costumes for the movie may have been a factor in the actress’ heat stroke.

    Filming was shut down on Monday but was back up and running by Tuesday.

    Good job, Sandra. You’re the bomb!

  • David Duchovny & Téa Leoni Divorce; Did Cheating Destroy Their Marriage?

    Actor-director David Duchovny and actress Téa Leoni officially ended their 17 years of marriage in divorce. Recent reports confirm that the couple had been separated for a few months before they brought their divorce papers to court in June. Duchovny filed the papers which cite “an irretrievable breakdown” as the reason for the split.

    The celebrity couple has been going through rocky times for a long while, and has been officially separated twice. Their first separation in 2008 was attributed to Duchovny’s highly publicized sex addiction for which he received therapy. They got back together after a couple of months but separated again in 2011. Other reports claimed that they both have been party to cheating and dishonesty. Californication star Duchovny has been linked with X-Files costar Gillian Anderson and Deep Impact lead actress Leoni reportedly left her kids to follow Billy Bob Thornton and his band on tour some time ago.

    Duchovny, 54 and Leoni, 48, first met through a pre-interview dinner organized by The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. They got married in May 1997 after an eight week courtship. They have two children, a daughter, Madelaine West, 15, and a son, Kyd Miller , who is now 12.

    The couple has apparently settled on the terms of the divorce themselves. According to reports, they share joint legal custody of their children, although Leoni will have primary physical custody. The ex-couple and their children currently live in Manhattan.

    Duchovny is expected to give $8,333 a month in child support, as well as pay for other expenses like camp and private school fees and college tuition. Leoni, who returns to CBS’ Madame Secretary this fall, will also receive $40,000 monthly in spousal support.

    The LA Times tried to contact both the actor and the actress’s representatives for comments. Their request for a direct comment, however, was not granted.

  • Halle Berry: Billy Bob Thornton Dishes About ‘Monster’s Ball’ Sex Scene

    Halle Berry is gorgeous! That’s one thing all of her fans can probably agree on!

    Now, one of her former co-stars is sharing what he truly thinks of the stunning beauty! Billy Bob Thornton has nothing but great things to say about the 48-year-old actress.

    During a recent interview with the Huffington Post, he even shared a few details about their iconic sex scene in the 2001 Academy Award-winning film Monster’s Ball. He revealed the steamy sex scene “felt so real.”

    “It felt so real when we were doing it that [we felt] the heaviness surrounding the circumstances in the story,” Thornton recalled. “I think maybe that’s why it comes across so well on screen, because it was two desperate human beings in this moment alone, and we kind of were alone.”

    Thornton obviously isn’t the only one who felt the intensity of their stellar performance. Over the years, the infamous scene has become a fan favorite and has been shared on several media sites by users all around the world, reports the Times of India.

    The 59-year-old actor also admitted that even though he felt “pretty exposed” while filming the scene, there was some level of excitement about working with one of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood.

    For those who haven’t seen the romantic-drama film, the story centers around a poor Southern woman (Berry) who loses her son and her former lover. She ultimately falls in love with a Louisiana State Penitentiary prison guard portrayed by Thornton. Their onscreen chemistry was quite fascinating. Thornton also praised Berry for her role in the film.

    “When I was growing up, I obviously didn’t know who Halle Berry was, but if I had known I would have made sure it happened. I would have written ‘Monster’s Ball’ myself immediately,” he said.

    Image via Halle Berry, Wikimedia Commons

  • Billy Bob Thornton Reveals The Show He’d Love To Do

    Billy Bob Thornton has made quite an impression on Fargo fans this season, but as much fun as he had playing the villain, he says he won’t be coming back for the next incarnation of the show.

    “It was such a thrill to do the show. I have nothing to complain about. Hopefully, another one that good will come along,” he said.

    The show, which is based on Joel and Ethan Coen’s now-classic film of the same name, has garnered 18 Emmy nominations and won over fans of the original movie, something that wasn’t a given when writers and producers began the journey.

    “We knew if we were ever going to make this, it had to hold its own against the movie. It took a lot of courage to do it,” said Eric Schrier of FX.

    As for Billy Bob, the show might go on without him, but it’s doubtful he’ll have to try too hard to land another television role if he wants one. In fact, he says maybe he can pick up a part on one of the most popular shows running right now.

    “There’s so much good stuff on TV. Maybe I can play what’s his name? Hodor on Games of Thrones, the guy who only says, ‘Hodor.’ Maybe I could be his cousin or something, his long lost cousin.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Billy Bob Thornton on Why TV is Better Than Films

    Billy Bob Thornton, 58, has been in the movie business for many years as an actor and director, but the Fargo actor says TV is the place to be these days.

    “Television has taken that slot that the movies aren’t doing any more,” said Thornton in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “They’re not doing the mid-range budget studio movies, the $25-30 million adult drama, or even adult comedy, really. And the independent films, they want to give you $3 or $4 million, they want you to put 10 movie stars in it so they can sell off all the foreign territories. And there’s not as much freedom in movies sometimes: you can do movies about heroin smugglers, but you can’t smoke in a movie.

    “Plus, TV now has this cache. Everybody’s dying to get on TV. I was influenced by Southern novelists, and there’s no place for that in a movie theater any more. So if I’m going to do anything [like that] in the future, maybe I can do that on TV. Maybe they’ll start doing more three-part things like [Kevin] Costner did with Hatfields and McCoys. Maybe I could do something like that. So I wasn’t looking to get on a TV series that lasts six or seven years, but they said, ‘Coen brothers, Fargo.’ I read the script, it was amazing, and then they said, ‘After 10 episodes, you’re done.’ I said, ‘Yeah, count me in.’ That was essentially it.”

    Thornton says he loves playing Fargo character Lorne Malvo.

    “I love the fact that he has no conscience at all, and yet he’s got this bizarre sense of humor where he likes to mess with people — when he doesn’t even have to. Because he could just leave [town]. But he doesn’t. Like, if he goes in to rob the clothing store, instead of just taking the money, he says, “You work in a clothing store and you’re wearing that shirt? Why?” For him, that’s his own social life, just messing with his victims.”

    Thornton said he gave little thought to taking on the TV version of the seven-time Academy Award-winning film, including Best Picture.

    “[The script] was so good. The Coen brothers gave it their blessing, and I figured, Why not? It’s like making a 10-hour independent film. And by nature, I think most people, when they love a movie, they wish it could keep going,” said Thornton. “And here you get to. And the other thing — as I get older, one of the things I’ve learned is it doesn’t matter what you do now, you’re going to get sh– for it anyway. So if you do something that just gets [just] some sh–, that’s successful.”

    Image via YouTube

  • Billy Bob Thornton Didn’t Think He Was Good Enough for Angelina Jolie

    Billy Bob Thornton, acclaimed actor and award-winning director, recently opened up during an interview with Juju Chang on ABC’s “Nightline”. During the piece, Thornton admitted that it was his own inherent insecurities that ultimately resulted in the destruction of his marriage to actress Angelina Jolie. During their relationship, the duo was deeply dedicated to one another, going as far as to wear vials of each other’s blood around their respective necks.

    “I blew it because I didn’t think I was good enough for her. She has one way she wanted to live her life and I had another way to live mine and I was just too insecure,” Thornton explained.

    The actor, who originally began his career as a country singer, touched on a number of different subjects, many of which are covered in Thornton’s book “The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts”. He also addressed the way he gains and loses weight for roles, often to the extreme. In one instance, Thornton lived off of a can of tuna and Twizzlers in order to appear “gaunt”. The same method was used by Christian Bale for “The Machinist”, thought the Caped Crusader substituted an apple in place of the twisty red candy.

    “If you want to [lose weight] quickly, you just pick something and because I happen to know if you eat a can of tuna and a pack of Twizzlers, you will lose weight, I promise you,” Thornton said.

    Thornton speaks frankly about his marriage to Jolie in the tome, addressing numerous rumors that plagued the couple for years. For instance, did the pair really live in a dungeon during their brief union. The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding no. However, there appears to be very little bad blood between the two; Jolie penned the forward for the book, in which she fondly reminisces about the time they spent together.

    “The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts” arrives in bookstores today (May 15th). You can catch the full interview with Thornton tonight at 11:30 on ABC.