Results tagged “cinderellaman”

As Jon Stewart takes to the stage this Sunday at 8 pm to host the 78th Annual Academy Awards, the movie-lovin' Gothamist will be watching with eager anticipation from our couch. The spectacle, the glamour, the bad musical numbers and cheesy memorial montages -- we love it all. In fact, Gothamist (ie. Jen Chung and movie correspondent Karen Wilson) will be live blogging the ceremony but in the meantime, here's a few predictions for the winners:

. Lately, seems as if every studio or theatre is looking for a quick fix, as “anyone whose name was a derivation of Herbert” received, as the Wall Street Journal notes, sneak-peak preview tickets to Lindsay Lohan’s disaster, whereas Fox offers a “buy-three-get-one-free deal” to boost Star Wars, Episode III.

It was too quiet on the Russell Crowe front, and perhaps after seeing the spades of publicity given to his Cinderella Man co-star get and another wannabe tough guy actor for maybe groping a lady's butt, Crowe decided to break into the tabloids. He was arrested at the Mercer Hotel after allegedly throwing a phone at a hotel employee. Reports say the actor was frustrated after not being able to phone home (Australia?), and the airborne phone hit an employee in the face at around 4:20AM this morning. Clearly, the Mercer Hotel didn't give the "When Russell Crowe Stays Here" pitcher's masks as part of their uniform. This isn't Crowe's first brush with terrorizing a SoHo hotel: In 2002, his assistant apparently freaked out at 60 Thompson when there was no more chicken paillard (gasp!) - not to mention that a fruit basket wasn't up to his standards. However, Crowe is very fond of downtown hotels... Gothamist remembers hearing a rumor that he was interested in buying a suite at 60 Thompson or the SoHo Grand. Anyway, Gothamist recommends that Crowe get a better cellphone plan that can work in the U.S. and Australia - then he can just throw the cellphone on the ground in frustration.

Boxing themed movies seem to come around every so often, even though none have done that well since Rocky. There was The Boxer, Ali, oft-delayed Against the Ropes, and Ron Howard is aiming to shoot The Cinderella Man, with Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger. The only one that has done well is Girlfight, and that's an indie.