Lost in Translation

While many stars would never shill for ice cream, cars, coffee or liquor in America, plenty of them do it overseas, a la Bill Murray in Lost in Translation.

Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keanu Reeves, Ben Stiller and George Clooney have all done Japanese ads but never American ones.

Yesterday director Spike Jonze, Lost in Translation director Sophia Coppola’s ex-husband, was shooting a commercial for Japanese cell phone company Softbank with Brad Pitt in Midtown Manhattan.

How else can Brad afford six babies?

What does Good Dick mean to you? That was the question writer-director-star Marianna Palka asked herself when she sat down to write the script of Good Dick co-starring her boyfriend of nine years and producing partner Jason Ritter. While the title might imply a low-brow, American Pie-esque sex romp, the film is actually a delicate, intimate portrait of two incredibly broken people who may just be the other’s salvation. Ritter explains it’s about love, not lust.

Seven months after the shocking accidental death of her ex-boyfriend and the father of her daughter Matilda, Michelle Williams may have found a new love: director Spike Jonze, ex-husband of Lost In Translation director Sofia Coppola.