Culture Buzz Former First Lady Betty Ford, wife of President Gerald Ford, has passed away at the age of 93. Ford was a courageous survivor of both alcohol addiction and breast cancer who went on to champion such issues as the Equal Rights Amendment. She famously founded The Betty Ford Center, a world-renowned treatment clinic for substance abuse. She had been ailing in recent years, but no official cause of death has been released.
We've seen the blurry screen grab from the teaser trailer, but Entertainment Weekly has the first bona fide look at Hugo Weaving as The Red Skull from “Captain America: The First Avenger.” Jesse James wishes he could look this good in Nazi leather.
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Robert Downey Jr. is rolling in salted nut money.
Sherlock Holmes: now with more slo-mo boxing! A lot of people seem concerned about the direction this movie is taking, with the boxing, and the goofiness. I'm still pretty sure I'm going to totally love it.
Which famous Hollywood actor needs a little boost on set? Here he is on the first day of shooting a new sequel.
First peek at RBD [Jr.] as Sherlock Holmes in the upcoming pic. Frankly, it looks …well, elementary.
This preview of upcoming 2009 movies ran during the closing credits of the Oscars last night. Sherlock Holmes! Public Enemies! Harry Potter! And also, Night at the Museum 2: 2 Fast 2 Museumy. I have been waiting for that one.
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Jeff Bridges' book about the making of Iron Man is fully online, with the actor's photographs and notes about the production. Two Jeff Bridges posts in one weekend? I'm beginning to get a sense that he's a very different guy than The Dude would have us believe.
With Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of Sherlock Holmes now shooting in London, it was only a matter of time for the first shots of Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes to hit the web. And he drinks Starbucks! Who knew the famous Victorian detective could so quickly adapt to the times?!
Tech Buzz When it comes to superheroes, Batman may have swept this summer’s box office, but earlier hit Iron Man has still produced this awesome toy that blasts up to 40 feet high. Hey, I loved The Dark Knight as much as the next guy, but to have my own li’ Robert Downey, Jr. — and he flies?! Awesome.
Movie Buzz See what Robert Downey, Jr.’s character in Tropic Thunder looked like before the blackface. On a par with the excellent Tugg Speedman faux site, the official web presence of Kirk Lazarus is a sweet exercise in pretentious idiocy.
Movie Buzz Ben Stiller’s new movie features Robert Downey Jr. as an actor who dyes his skin brown to play a black soldier in an epic Vietnam film. In Tropic Thunder (Stiller’s first directorial endeavor since 2001’s male modeling parody Zoolander), the filmmaker turns his satirical lens towards self-indulgent actors. Let the comparisons to Soul Man begin.