I know that's an extremely sacrilegious thought and a part of me morally objects to it, but how awesome would a remake of Rosemary's Baby starring Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes be? Obviously, it'd be played for laughs, but it'd one of those movies that Hollywood couples make to explain their love affair. Like Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn in Overboard.
If we could swap ex-boyfriend lists with any celebrity, it would have to be newly-engaged (!) Winona Ryder. Johnny Depp, Rob Lowe, Daniel Day Lewis, Christian Slater, David Duchovny ... swoon. But we digress. The Getty Images blog is reporting that the top-heavy worldwide-forgiven shoplifter is with fiance. And while the lucky guy in question isn't the prettiest boy she's ever gotten under the covers with, he's got rocker cred. Cali native Blake Sennett, guitarist for indie band Rilo Kiley, has apparently been working with Winona on a film called Water Pill, though we can't find any mention of the mystery flick on IMDB or elsewhere (perhaps it's an indie sex tape? One can only hope.) More details on when and where they made their announcement, including what newly appointed cultural observer Courtney Love had to say about it, after the jump.
Getty Images, the photo library, is being taken off the market by a private equity firm. Boring, except not. Getty, which distributes photographs by professional photographers, sold itself to bottom-feeding investors because its share price had fallen by three-quarters from the peak. And one of the reasons for that: as internet sites grow at the expense of print magazines, Getty's media clients, and their readers, are less fussy about lavishly produced imagery. Notes the New York Times: "Some of the company's Internet-based rivals use images as low in quality as those taken by cellphone cameras." And since we're itemizing things killed by the internet, best add the Oscars to the list.
There's little weirder than the psycho-adverto-mysticism of Getty Images' "MAP Reports" (or "[what] Makes A Picture Reports"). Pitched mostly to commercial photo buyers, these reports combine a shamanistic entrail-reading of search trends of the Getty image archive with conceptual forecasting that borders on the nonsensical. Consider this passage from the latest MAP, entitled "One Life" (excerpt here):
As first reported on Friday afternoon, Getty Images sent an email out to celebrity weekly editors hawking photos of Anna Nicole Smith, her newborn daughter, and her son, Daniel. The pictures were taken in the Bahamian hospital where, the next day, Daniel was found mysteriously dead. For an initial asking price of $200K, Getty would provide a handful of the tender! heartbreaking! tragic! images, the only caveat being that the buyer had to refrain from running the photos with any sort of negative press — which may be easier said than done if and when toxicology reports are released.
Before all the inevitably ugly details surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel — who was found dead in Anna Nicole's hospital room on Sunday morning, just three days after she gave birth to her new daughter — emerge with the autopsy and toxicology reports, why not cash in? Getty Images has sent an email to celebrity weekly editors saying they have 17 pictures of Anna Nicole, Daniel and the new baby, taken in the hospital the day before Daniel died. Preview images show Anna Nicole and Daniel in the hospital bed, with Daniel smiling and holding the baby; Daniel standing up, cradling the baby; and Anna Nicole holding the baby while her lawyer and BFF, Howard K. Stern, leans in with them.
