Natalie Portman

Just because Natalie Portman is so smart, doesn't mean she's not an idiot.

Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta) is about to venture from acting to producing. And that's on top of her very, very full schedule. She will produce a film titled Booksmart, with this promising storyline:

Two overachieving high school seniors realize the only thing they haven't accomplished is having boyfriends, and each resolves to find one by prom.

Sounds like the girl version of Superbad. We like.

Rachel Zoe may be joining the ranks of jobless Americans pretty soon.

The Observer observes (tee hee) a recent trend in Hollywood of stars ditching those money-grubbing stylists and going directly to the designers instead.

Rumors have been flying over the past few months that actress Natalie Portman, 27, is currently seeing actor Sean Penn, 48, who recently split from his wife, Robin Wright Penn.

Portman has issued a statement, however, denying that the two are romantically linked.

We love us some JGL and have been following his website, Hitrecord.org, for some time now.

Yesterday he put up a personal message, almost a press release, about his new film, Hesher, which he’ll shoot before starring in the next film from Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight).

He writes:

They tried to make it work but Sean Penn, 48, has filed for legal separation from his wife of 13 years, Robin Wright Penn, 43.

The couple first split in December 2007 but were back together by April 2007 when they were spotted together at an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco. Sean was invited onstage to perform a song that he dedicated to Robin for her birthday, and the couple asked for divorce proceedings to be canceled soon after.

It was so sweet it made us want to punch a photographer in the face to celebrate.

But things eventually started to sour.

Natalie Portman has launched a website called MakingOf.com, an internet community designed to give fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how movies are made.

Portman, along with co-founder Christine Aylward, recruited directors like Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monsters Ball) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and actors like Jason Bateman and Olivia Thirlby to share their experiences and give movie enthusiasts a glimpse behind the scenes of how films are made.

The Oscars are all about looking fabulous for Hollywood’s biggest night.

So who deserves accolades and who should’ve stayed home and watched the show in their sweatpants?

The Best:

Last night, the red carpet belonged to Miley Cyrus. That’s right, we said it. Miley Cyrus is en fuego! We are obsessed with her Zuhair Murad dress! It had elements of Marion Cotillard’s fish scaley Gaultier dress from last year mixed with the fabulous petal ballgowns from the 1940s and 50s. Best dress of the night!

He may be a Broadway veteran, but John Patrick Shanley might want to brush up on his rules of Hollywood etiquette

At the junket of his new film Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, we asked writer-director Shanley how Adams had been cast when originally there was another actor offered the role of the emotionally conflicted nun.

"I'm trying to think of what the etiquette is on this," Shanley chuckled, blushing a bit.

"Hit us with it," we said.

Suffering under the delusion that a soundtrack is a movie, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist has been done many times before, only better. Back in the 90s, this was a film set in Seattle with lovelorn grunge rockers pouring out their emotions like French Roast to songs by Chris Cornell and Billy Corgan. In the 80s, it was every movie John Hughes made.