Steve Martin actually did a good job when he hosted the Oscars in 2001 and 2003, and although Alec Baldwin is a dirty god damn hippie, he’s a tremendous actor and entertaining guy. So together they should be fine when they co-host the Academy Awards on March 7th. But the new producers of this years show told NPR this morning that their first choice for a host was Sacha Baron Cohen.
But it was not to be. When they told the Academy, they “swatted it down,” Shankman said. “They thought it was too big of a wild card. They thought it was just too unpredictable.”
Yeah god forbid the Academy Awards be unpredictable. In other words entertaining. What did they really think he was gonna do, bring a pony on stage and slaughter it? Then chew on it’s bones and swim in it’s blood? And even if he did, the kids watching need to grow up someday. Oh stop crying. This is real life.
Isla Fisher, the fiancée of Sasha Baron Cohen, is almost definitely pregnant, according to three million different news sources and most people with eyes.
The Wedding Crashers actress reportedly announced the couple's happy news in Los Angeles' the Cat and Fiddle pub.
A source is quoted by the Daily Star as saying: "Isla called everyone to a toast and gushed, 'We have got good news. I am pregnant.' "
Fisher's PR flack denied the report, saying "If or when Isla becomes pregnant, she and her fiancé will decide if an announcement is necessary." I'm guessing her rep had her eyes gouged out with a hot poker, or she lost her vision in an IED blast while serving in Iraq, because the photos from the New York premiere of The Lookout (in which she plays a stripper — hooray strippers!) where she's wearing a high-waisted (hides the stomach) black (slimming) dress with an overcoat (used for hiding body shape or shotguns) couldn't be more obvious. The pictures of her in the black-and-white print dress, also with an empire waist (hmmm), are from the LA premiere, which happened sometime earlier. And the pictures of her in the pink dress are from the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and aren't exactly relevant, but whatever. What am I on trial. You can't judge me.
In related news, impregnating redheads is awesome and a hell of a lot of fun. -MU
