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Critic Slams Winners On Stage At NY Film Critics’ Circle Awards

Armond White, Annette Bening & Michelle Williams

The New York Press‘ Armond White reaffirmed his rep as the world’s angriest film critic at last night’s NY Film Critics’ Circle Awards, throwing barbs at any movie that dared to win despite him hating it. Some on-stage highlights from the circle’s chair:

White suggested presenter Tony Kushner, awarding Best Picture to The Social Network, could “explain why it won.”—because Armond hated it.
White only discussed the 2004 film Land Of Plenty when introducing Blue Valentine‘s Michelle Williams. “I can’t imagine what you’ve said about me since then if you had to go back that far to say something nice,” she responded.
White muttered “at least Greenberg didn’t win anything,” having previously suggested in print that director Noah Baumbach‘s mother should have had a “retroactive abortion.”

Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky got off a good one back (“Keep it up, you give us a reason to never read the New York Press“), to which White responded, “he reads me, he knows the truth.” But Best Actress winner Annette Bening was not amused, reportedly crying a variation on “can’t we all get along?” during her acceptance speech.

See the shuddering stars who braved White’s barrage in the gallery below. This Friday’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards should be a breeze after this!

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FABLife’s DVD Pick Of The Week

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Leaves of Grass

Edward Norton is an actor with such a serious reputation that even watching a popcorn film like The Incredible Hulk is a recipe for a headache. So it’s a lot of fun to see the chin-stroking actor let go in this loopy pot comedy-drama. He plays both Bill Kincaid–a straight-edge philosophy professor hoping to put his Oklahoma “Little Dixie” past behind him–and his twin Brady, a man who might be called the Einstein of the hydroponics. Bill reluctantly returns to the old homestead after learning that his pot-dealing bro has been killed by a crossbow bolt. That’s just the beginning of a tricky and just a little goofy progression of double-crosses. The sibling rivalry/identical twin plot devices are even older than Cheech & Chong, but as well as Norton’s star turn, Grass offers incidental pleasures such as Keri Russell reciting Walt Whitman and Richard Dreyfuss wielding a menorah with intent to harm. An amiable crowd-pleaser.

Extras: A making of featurette and a commentary track, where Norton and director Tim Blake Nelson reveal that most of their stage weed was recycled from Pineapple Express.

- By C. Bottomley

The 20 Sexiest Celebrity Nerds

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When we see ridiculously attractive celebs driving their Ferraris to some hot Hollywood party with their glamourous spouse by their side, it hurts. To make ourselves feel better, we assume there must be a trade off for being so gorgeous and successful, and that these A-listers must be spectacularly stupid. Our wounded egos desperately try to console us by saying, “Yeah well, they may be better looking, more popular, and have more money than you, but….at least you probably did better on your SATs! And you got that junior year calculus grade up to a C+, so Matt Damon can suck it!”

But we’ve got some really bad news. Many stars not only have the beauty and the brawn, but million-dollar brains to match. Check out the gallery below to see which smart stars made our Hollywood Honor Roll! And be sure to see Waiting for Superman, the new documentary about the cracks in our education system and the super-smart kids trying to climb out of them.

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Courtney Love Says Daughter Beat Her

Courtney Love may be legally restricted from talking to daughter Frances Bean Cobain, but she can still talk about her. Love blamed the split—and the following restraining order—on an October fight, though she says Frances was the abusive one. “Frances came out of my room. She was hysterical,” Love told the New York Daily News. “First she was crying at my legs, saying, ‘Why was I born?’ Then she bites and scratches and pulls on my hair. She punched me…I grabbed her with both arms. That left a bruise and she took a picture of her bruise.” Wherever did Frances learn such deviousness?

Thankfully, Love says ex-boyfriend Edward Norton is serving as a mediator between the two, despite all those tweets where she accused the star of costing her six figures in shady money deals. “I feel very bad,” she confessed, now saying he actually tripled her money (math is hard, yo!). “I have the greatest respect for Edward. He could be the President of the United States. I could be his drug czar – ha, ha.” Ha. If this wasn’t enough drama for you, Love also says Frances’ lawyer may have been driven by Brit-daddy Jamie Spears to attack the Hole singer after she said one of Spears’ relatives claimed he sexually abused her (Love is pals with former Brit manager Sam Lufti, no stranger to restraining orders). If you’re a celebrity who hasn’t had a regrettable encounter with Courtney Love yet, you’re just not trying.

See photos of Love and her daughter in the gallery below.

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Courtney Love Fights With Lily Allen, Tweets Edward Norton Money Drama

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In a sad sequel to the Kurt Cobain-Axl Rose clash of ’92, Lily Allen has dropped the hammer on Courtney Love for instigating a public argument at the NME awards earlier this week. Love’s beef began when she couldn’t get her hands on a Chanel dress for last week’s BRIT Awards and assumed Allen, a spokesperson for the brand, put a “lock” on it. Meeting at the NME affair, the pair reportedly had to be pulled apart by entourages, with Allen screaming “why the f— did you say that to me?” before leaving. “She’s upset because she has got it into her head that i put a lock on some dresses for the Brit awards,” Allen tweeted earlier today. “She’s made no secret of this and, when I saw her at the NMEs she tried to talk to me and I told her to shut up stop spreading stupid rumours about me…and thats pretty much it. I would never fight with her , as a rule I don’t pick on crazy old ladies.” When fans questioned the idea of anyone putting a “lock” on dresses, Allen cracked “It’s the sort of thing a paranoid drug addled lunatic might come up with.”

While Love hasn’t yet responded to the “crazy old lady” cracks, she previously tweeted that having such a lock would be a “compliment” and blamed her PR for the mix-up. Love also went on to direct more than a dozen (unanswered) tweets yesterday to ex-boyfriend Edward Norton, regarding $300,000 he may have lost in shady finances, why she spoke to the NY Daily News for an impending article about it, how he’s a “terrifically bad sexist,” how she resents “how stoic men are,” and how he’s “one of her very best friends,” which is why she had to “talk finances on twotter” [sic]. “I just want to give my ex who I love as a friend very much a shot b4 the lawyers descend and scandal.” By discussing it on a public twitter? It’s the sort of thing a paranoid drug addled lunatic might come up with.

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Edward Norton To ‘Victimize’ Woody Harrelson In Cannes

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On May 17th, during the Cannes Film Festival, Edward Norton and Woody Harrelson are set to battle it out on the poker table, but it’s all in the name of charity. According to Ed, Woody is going down.

“He’s more of my victim,” Ed says. “I love to take as much money off of him as possible.”

The event, which will take place at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, will benefit the Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation and the Sunflower Children’s Foundation. Although Ed likes to victimize his pal while playing Texas Hold’em, there is one card shark who makes Ed a little nervous – Spiderman‘s Tobey Maguire.

“I hear Tobey is so good – almost pro-level – so that’s a little intimidating,” the Fight Club star says. [Source: NYDN; Photo: Getty Images]