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...tabloids, blogs and social networks have been all a-Twitter with speculation about Brittany Murphy, the 32-year-old actress who died Sunday morning in her West Hollywood home. Were prescription drugs the culprit or hard drugs? (No illegal medication was found in her home, but, police said, large amounts of prescription drugs were in her body.) Bulimia? Depression? Is this a Heath Ledger death or a John Belushi? Long before an official report could be issued, Perez Hilton decried what he assumed to be her reckless lifestyle. Other columnists blamed the vulturous showbiz media for not heeding her pleas...
Interviewing Grant on Wednesday's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart mistakenly called the film What Happened to the Morgans? Stewart might have asked what happened to romantic comedy, once the crown jewel of Hollywood genres. At best, nothing new; at worst, it died of exhaustion. The Morgans' writer-director, Marc Lawrence, has no special gift for character nuance or witty dialogue. To him, rom-com is simply the recycling of a tired fugitive-couple premise from other bad movies (My Blue Heaven, Witless Protection) and the application of the genre's most formulaic shtick-in-trade: forcing an uncomfortable intimacy...
...real breeding ground for UFO believers seems to be Tinseltown. Forget about the films: just check out the laundry list of celebrities who practice Scientology, or talk to Dan Aykroyd, who signed on as the "Hollywood consultant" for the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest and largest organizations of UFO investigations in the U.S. Aykroyd maintains that alien visitors are "coming and going like taxis." Not all are convinced - Demi Moore, a native of Roswell, says she never heard about the famous "landing" as a child. But considering how little has so far been made public - most...
...Spatisserie's retro-Hollywood décor makes the experience all the more fabulous. It's appointed in ivory, lilac and coral hues, with leather chaise longues, wing chairs upholstered in silks and mohair, silvered mirrors, Art Deco chrome-and-perspex furnishings, and extraordinary flower displays. You don't need to be a client of the spa to use the Spatisserie, but you will be given seating preference if you are, so get a treatment - but nothing too vigorous, of course. We recommend the superlative Vaishaly facial ($155). The Dorchester is the only place that offers it outside of Vaishaly...
...would have ever thought Eliot House Dining Hall would be the stage of a dramatic Hollywood-style shootout? Well, last night Eliot Assassins wrapped up in a fashion that would've made Jason Bourne proud...