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Marion Cotillard’s Baby Is Tres Adorable

You guys, with all the focus on the Zumas, Kingstons, Suris and Havens of celebrity town, we realize we’ve missed out on sharing the incredible cuteness of some other kiddies. Our bad. One of them is Marion Cotillard’s son, Marcel. We just saw this photograph of him and promptly fell in love. Little Marcel was visiting his maman on the Brooklyn set of her new untitled James Grey period film with Joaquin Phoenix — we can already smell the awards. And as gorgeous as Marion is (without makeup, too), her bébé totally steals the show. Those cheeks!

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River Phoenix Was Our Robert Pattinson: Discuss

Perhaps some of you are too young to remember the beauty and heartbreaking talent of River Phoenix. Back in the day, he was like Robert Pattinson x10,000 to some of us. And when I heard that he died of drug-induced heart failure in 1993 — it was on Channel One News in homeroom — I broke down and cried like I never have for a celebrity. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the director of Dark Blood, the movie he was making when he died, has for some reason decided to finish the movie, 18 years later. Director George Sluizer said he’s going to hire River’s younger brother Joaquin Phoenix to do voice over to complete some scenes. River stars as a man who lives by himself on a nuclear testing site, waiting for the end of the world, when a “Hollywood jet-set couple” intrude on his solitude.

I’m not sure if I need my memory of River messed with, though. Depends on how well it’s done. And here is where I could run a poll asking for your favorite River Phoenix movie. Instead, I’m just going to say this: No argument, it’s Running on Empty. He plays a piano prodigy who’s grown up in a family that’s been on the lam since his hippie parents bombed a napalm lab. But when he falls in love with Martha Plimpton, he starts to think about a different kind of life for himself. Netflix it now. Or argue with me in the comments. /nostalgia off.

[Photos: WENN]

Akira Searches For A-List Leads, Changes Pretty Much Everything About Akira

Ah Hollywood: you give with one hand, take with the other. Reportedly Warner Bros is looking at Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield or James McAvoy for Akira‘s male lead Tetsuo. For the futuristic sci-fi film’s co-star Kaneda, scripts have been sent to Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix. The film is due out in 2013, and will be reportedly split into two parts. Given the amount of sweet biker gang moves and writhing protoplasm in the 1988 animated version of Akira, you’d think this movie would be primed for a mega-success. But since this is Hollywood, you know can’t do something great without messing it up in some profound way.

The most conspicuous theme in the announced casting choices (besides beautiful dudes with a layer of stuble) is the apparent lack of Asian or Asian-American actors in the Akira remake so far, a choice which seems pretty odd considering how extremely Japanese the original story is. The movie is based off a Japanese manga first published in 1982, and takes place in a futuristic Neo-Tokyo in 2019. However, it looks like the new version is set in New Manhattan and, despite keeping the Japanese names, doesn’t seem too concerned with actually having Japanese characters. If you recall, similar issues came up around the casting of white actors in The Last Airbender and Prince Of Persia last year. Call us crazy, but we’re pretty sure there are plenty of super hot Asian-Americans actors who are dying for roles like these. No offense, Pattinson; you know we love you in our way.

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Attack Of Terrible Facial Hair: The 10 Worst Celebrity Beards

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Something scary has been popping up all over Hollywood (no, it’s not Lindsay Lohan): famous dudes with freakish facial hair. You may recall the growth that metastasized on Spencer Pratt‘s face recently, or perhaps you’ve noticed Conan O’Brien‘s post-Tonight Show debacle hair-bellion that has yet to subside. Earlier this year Brad Pitt got in on the act and uglified his glorious mug. But still we persevered, surviving on the smooth skinned hunks still left in LaLa Land. But when Robert Pattinson, the ultimate GWPAVTILFPPP (guy who plays a vampire that I’d like to f*ck pretty pretty please), started roaming North America with a serious “I’m trying to hide from everyone” beard, our heart officially broke in two and then grew a goatee.

Men, enough. You cannot continue uglifying yourself in this way. We ladies slave away stripping the hair off of every feasible body part we can find – the least you could do is splurge on some shaving cream and spend five minutes scrapping that roadkill of your chin. Until you do we’ll be hold up in this fortress we’ve put together made solely of razor blades. Take a hint!

10. Zac Efron
9. Robert Pattinson
8. David Beckham
7. Ryan Gosling
6. Conan O’Brien
5. John Travolta
4. Brad Pitt
3. Mel Gibson
2. Spencer Pratt
1. Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix Movie’s All A Hoax

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Well, this is meta. The Joaquin Phoenix “documentary” I’m Still Here which chronicled the eccentric beardo’s transition from acting to hip-hop was all fake. Which means that everything in the past two years – the creepy David Letterman appearance, the retirement announcement, the gnarly facial hair – it was all for the movie. So basically we were all duped into thinking he was kinda nutso, but really, he’s not nutso he just wanted us to think he was, which is nutso in itself. We are exhausted.

Director Casey Affleck told the New York Times yesterday that the movie, which has been labeled a documentary and shows the cameras following Phoenix for the better part of two years is simply “a terrific performance, it’s the performance of his career.” Affleck said “I never intended to trick anybody. The idea of a quote, hoax, unquote, never entered my mind.” The confirmation that the film was phony makes us marvel at the commitment and secrecy involved, but just like The Blair Witch Project, it’s kind of like, once you find out it’s not real, it’s just not as interesting. Besides, if we’re going to watch a movie directed by an Affleck this fall, you know it’s going to be The Town.

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Hey, Remember When Joaquin Phoenix Was Hot?

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Alternate title for this post: Zach Galifianakis Makes A Movie About A Sad, Humorless Famous Person. Because that’s what the trailer for Casey Affleck‘s documentary I’m Still Here, about bro-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, looks like. It’s as if he called up big brother Ben and asked, “How do I ruin my career?”

To which Ben sagely replied, “Make a movie about that homeless man I saw bathing in your jacuzzi at your 4th of July party last summer. Speaking of, can you send me that potato salad recipe? I asked you for it months ago.”

That’s the only explanation for this mess.

[via MTVNews]

Joaquin Phoenix Returning To Acting, May Play Edgar Allen Poe

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Joaquin Phoenix, rapping beardo no more. A year after his announced retirement, bizarre hip-hop performances and incoherent Letterman interview, the Walk The Line Oscar nominee is quietly returning to the world of acting. Reintroducing his clean-shaven face in a January charity video with Miley Cyrus, Phoenix showed up at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar party Sunday, having told The Hollywood Reporter he was considering new roles. Now Slumdog Millionaire‘s sound designer Resul Pookutty has let slip that Phoenix might be playing Edgar Allen Poe in an adaptation of The Beautiful Cigar Girl.

So what happened to the Captain Crazypants of March 2009? Many have suspected that Phoenix’s public meltdown was a hoax all along, which would help explain why brother-in-law Casey Affleck was filming the spectacle (after the death of River Phoenix you’d think the family wouldn’t be cavalier about these things). If the public cynicism scuttled their plans to the punk the world, Joaquin may have just been hiding out until we’d forgotten all about his kooky antics. But with the actor’s actor joining Miley’s entourage, we wouldn’t be surprised if he still has a games to play.

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Billy Bob’s Bizarre Radio Interview

Billy Bob Thornton is giving Joaquin Phoenix some stiff competition for most bizarre celebrity interview.

Billy Bob showed up to do an interview with CBC host Jian Ghomeshi on his show “Q” and had nothing but bizarre, unrelated, hostile answers to Jian’s questions.

Things started off on the wrong foot when Jian introduced Billy Bob as an “Oscar-winning screenwriter, actor and director,” at which Billy Bob rolled his eyes.

Then Billy Bob proceeded to answer most of the questions about his own band, the Boxmasters, with “I don’t know” or “I don’t know, maybe.”

He then answered a question about his musical influences by describing a model building contest he participated in as a child.

Now he just needs a beard and ambitions to turn into a rap star.

The 50 Fugliest Celebrity Hairstyles Ever

Celebrities aren’t immune to major fashion faux pas. In fact, they seem addicted to committing them. Sometimes stars don’t know the right outfits for their bodies or think that cutting up their faces will somehow do the trick. Similarly, they don’t always make the best decisions when it comes to their hair. Check out 50 of the most jacked-up celebrity hairstyles that we could find. While all 50 could have easily belonged to Amy Winehouse, we dug around and also included 49 other culprits — from Britney Spears (no, not the bald look) to Lady Gaga.

Celebs Go Head To Head For March Madness

Scandalist is competing in Fafarazzi‘s Celebrity March Mayhem — an NCAA-like tournament pitting the 64 most-gossiped about celebs against one another. There are four categories (one for each NCAA region), including Movies, Music, TV and Socialites & Weirdos. (Guess which category Joaquin Phoenix is in!)

The tourney starts this Thursday and runs through April 2. The more press mentions a celeb gets, the better the chances they’ll advance to the next round until only one proud celeb is left standing. Our prediction: Chris Brown + felony charges + heavily-covered trial will edge out Lindsay Lohan + arrest warrant + lesbian spats.

We’re inviting you to join our pool. If you think you know more about the stars than The Celebrity Experts at Scandalist (download our bracket here), then take us on by creating a bracket of your own on Fafarazzi. You can follow live scores throughout the tournament and talk smack in our “Pool Wall.” The winner will get major money bragging rights!