Annette Benning

A new book, The Cult of Celebrity, proves that everyone, even Hollywood’s biggest A-Lists stars, had to deal with rejection when they were starting out in the biz. 

Celebrity agent Robert Attermann admits that his Abrams Artists Agency passed on a number of actors who turned out to be major money makers. 

Including Julia Roberts.

Last night, Jodie Foster was among twelve stars introducing their classic or signature movies at the AFI Night at the Movies, presented by Target and benefiting the American Film Institute at the ArcLight Theater.

After years of largely abandoning the “Chick Flick,” this summer Hollywood took a page from the Spice Girls and tried to imbue their offerings with Girl Power. Their sad, misguided efforts produced some of the most cloying, least-realistic portrayals of women ever seen on screen.

Based on the 1933 Broadway smash and 1939 Hollywood classic starring Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell, The Women, with Eva Mendes in the Crawford Role, Meg Ryan replacing Shearer and Annette Benning taking over for Russell, was more than a challenging, pedigreed update, it was a labor of love that Diane English (Murphy Brown) has been gestating for over a decade. 

Like Freak Nasty said, “Don't even matter your age…I put my hand upon your hip, When I dip, you dip, we dip.”

Cloris Leachman, 82, arrives at the premiere of her new film The Women (she’s far and away the best part of the film, which is kind of like being the tallest person in Munchkinland) with her Dancing with the Stars partner Corky Ballas.

Annette Benning is already campaigning for her co-star. “She’s going to win! Winner! I predict right now,” Benning said.

Poor Tara Reid. She’s not even a hot mess; she’s just a messy, funky, puke-in-the-hair mess.

The former actress attended last night’s premiere of The Women in Los Angeles. Why? She’s not in it, we doubt she’s friends with Meg Ryan or Annette Benning and there’s really no place for her on the red carpet anymore. She hasn’t acted in years, she’s reportedly a raging alcoholic and she looks like a reheated poopburger.