Man hates banks
Guillermo del Toro has had it with the beautiful people of Hollywood. It’s monsters - or bank robbers - he wants to see.
The Mexican director, whose latest movie, “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army,” opens next month, says monsters have an inherent beauty that not enough people appreciate.
“We live in a world that’s constantly trying to tell you what … products to use to diminish your ugliness, or smelliness or the unpleasantness,” he says. “Let us be whatever we are, let us be free in our ugliness, fattiness, stretch markings, whatever … we are. Monsters can be that; monsters can represent something else.”
Mr. del Toro says his grungy ideal extends to himself. Dressed in a black suit with a polo shirt hanging out, he says he’s so uncool that he dresses poorly and drives a 2000 Chrysler. “If I wouldn’t have been a director, I would’ve been a bank robber. I hate banks,” he says. “Give me ’Ocean’s Eleven’ or any movie where banks are robbed, and I’m happy.”
Put out the trash
Sophia Loren is imploring people to clear the garbage off the streets of her beloved Naples. “I beg you, with my hands clasped in prayer, to multiply efforts to remedy to this tragedy,” the 73-year-old star was quoted as saying by the Italian daily La Repubblica on Friday.
Miss Loren says from Switzerland that seeing footage of the streets of Naples and the surrounding Campania region littered by piles of trash moves her to tears. “I look at this tragedy with deep anguish in my heart,” the paper quoted Miss Loren as saying.
“Cooperate! Make an effort! This is our problem,” Miss Loren told the people of Naples.
Another Lohan?
Michael Lohan, father of actress Lindsay, says he’s looking into a woman’s claim that she had a daughter by him.
Mr. Lohan said he once had a relationship with a woman named Kristy, whose last name he did not provide, and that he hadn’t seen her in 12 years. He said the two were seeing each other while he was separated from Dina Lohan and the woman was going through a divorce, AP reports.
Studdard weds
Former “American Idol” Ruben Studdard has married Surata Zuri McCants at a church in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala. There was no singing during the 30-minute ceremony — just an exchange of vows, prayers and music provided by a string ensemble. A reporter from the Birmingham News attended the ceremony.
The groom wore a black tuxedo with white bow tie for Saturday’s ceremony. The bride wore a white-and-ivory wedding gown. They will live in Alabama.
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