The Entertation Index: June 30
Barton, Mischa – London-born but California-raised O.C. star Mischa Barton told the UK’s Daily Mail that she was “embarrassed” to admit she tried to hide her British accent after moving to the states. The tell-all interview also revealed that Barton “hates it when people try to hang coats on me.”
Link: Barton: “I Tried to Lose My British Accent” (DigitalSpy)
Blur – England’s Glastonbury Festival played host to the first public concert reunion of UK superband Blur in over six years, with practically all media outlets hailing that the band absolutely brought the house down. No joke here; Blur’s just plain awesome.
Link: Blur Reunites Live at Glastonbury Festival (Spin)
Electric Daisy Carnival – North America’s largest dance music festival, the Electric Daisy Carnival, smashed attendance records in L.A. this past weekend with over 135,000 attendees for the massive rave. If you’re playing the “Eighties Movie Percentage Game,” that means that, statistically, 30,000 fathers who don’t understand why their sons or daughters “just need to dance” showed up to drag their kids home before learning a valuable lesson in accepting that their children are old enough to make their own decisions during various cathartic father/child moments throughout the two-day festival.
Link: Party Out of Bounds (Los Angeles Times)
Frey, James – A Million Little Pieces author James Frey is currently working with another writer and anonymously shopping around a young-adult novel called I Am Number Four. Frey will also, assumedly, be fairly disappointed to read the New York Times’ sentence “James Frey is currently working with another writer and anonyomously shopping around a young-adult novel called I Am Number Four.”
Link: James Frey a Writer on Young-Adult Novel “I Am Number Four” (NY Times)
Goldblum, Jeff – After a recent rumor that the actor fell from a cliff to his death on a New Zealand film shoot a few days ago, Jeff Goldblum’s publicist has confirmed that the actor is alive and well. “Rest assured,” said the rep, “that Jeff Goldblum is in excellent health and will continue to remain likeable yet slightly creepy for many, many years to come.”
Link: Jeff Goldblum Alive, Apparently (Kansas City Star)
Screen, Green - Prompting comparisons to the “you are there” successes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, a startup company called YooStar is prepared to launch a green screen system which allows fans become a part of their favorite movie scenes. Because you’ve always thought that Sunset Boulevard would have been better if it starred your dissheveled and sloshed friend who is drunk-dialing his ex-girlfriend as he slowly pees his pants at 3:45 in the morning.
Link: Film May Have Found its “Guitar Hero” (Variety)
Wigs, Animals in - Pure joy.
Link: 50 Animals in Convincing Wigs (Best Week Ever Blog)
