Second-rate filmmakers are usually good at getting attention for their films without resorting to things like talented actors, good writing, or spectacular special effects. The best way to do this is with nudity, hopefully of the rampant and full-frontal variety. But when your flick stars famously prudish Jessica Alba, you have to look to other avenues. Such as coaching your actors to be total douchbags in public. It might have backfired for Cinderella Man, but it's sure to garner Awake a few viewers.
Awake is still in production and won't be released until sometime in 2006, but it's never too early to get people talking about your movie. At a recent celeb-studded party in New York, Jessica Alba was not living up to her Hollywood paycheck responsibilities. Page Six reports:
"When head promoter Gordon Nicol asked if she would pose for a photo, Alba turned him down flat. When Nicol pointed out that celebs like Madonna, Hilary Duff and Selma Blair had all posed, Alba supposedly snapped, 'I don't care!' and walked away. At that point, one of Alba's entourage told Nicol, 'She's a bitch ó sorry.'"
We here at CelebNewsWire wholly endorse an actress's right to refuse attention and carry on like Alexis Carrington Colby, but we usually prefer our bitchy leading ladies to also be our naked leading ladies. If you're going to keep your clothes on, your public appearances better be filled with sunshine and daisies and smiles.
But you might be asking yourself, "After nudity, isn't the best way to get people talking about a movie when the two leads have hot safari jungle sex, like Mr. and Mrs. Smith?" Well, yes, Sparky, you're right. But Jessica's Awake co-star happens to be Hayden Christensen, who may not be as enamored with Jessica's breasts as we are (allegedly, wink wink, nudge nudge). So he's acting like a jagbag too. During filming Hayden was approached outside his trailer by someone who yelled, "You ruined the Star Wars movies!" And apparently Hayden doesn't know an accurate criticism when it smacks him on the ass, so he "chased the guy down the street and scared him away." Maybe he mistook the guy for his ineffective acting coach.
And in other celebrity twatism, Annie Lennox only likes famous people. When approached for an autograph at a London screening of Annie Hall, Lennox said, "I just want a quiet night. Please leave me alone and get a life." A source told the Daily Star:
"It was like watching a car crash unfold. Nobody could understand why she was being so rude to Orlando of all people. It was difficult to believe she didn't know who he was. But it turns out she genuinely thought he was an unusually good-looking fan."
Apparently "unusually good-looking fan" is British for "hobbity eunuch" as the autograph seeker was Orlando Bloom. Once Annie was made aware of her mistake, she gave Orlando the 'graph and let him kiss her on the cheek while some very supportive trannies looked on and said, "you go man-girl and she-boy!"
Check out Alba's apples at MrSkin.com.
