Hollywood Headlines: This week in celebrity news
Beyonce proved to a fan that he wasn’t ready for her jelly when the zealous male Copenhagen concert-goer reached out and slapped the pop diva on her fanny while she was performing. Mrs. Jay-Z was in the middle of singing “Irreplaceable” when the bum-slapping occurred, and she threatened to throw the fan out.
“I will have you escorted out right now, all right?” she scolded the guy, as seen and heard in footage on YouTube. Then she sashayed away and continued singing. (Charles Sykes / Invision / Associated Press)
Beyonce gets slapped on the bum, Henry Cavill talks “Man of Steel,” Adam Levine says he “hates” this country, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj exit “Idol” and more...
The hometown favorite won big time at the Festival de Cannes on Sunday night as France’s “Blue Is the Warmest Color” walked off with the Palme d’Or.
In a highly unusual step, jury president Steven Spielberg announced that the prize was given not only to director Abdellatif Kechiche, as is traditional, but to co-stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux as well. Both actresses were in tears by the time they reached the stage.
The sexually explicit story of a young woman discovering desire and herself, “Blue” was the great favorite of French critics but divided English speakers, who called it everything from voyeuristic to the gold standard for lesbian romances to a three-hour Sundance movie in French.
(Guillaume Horcajuelo / EPA)
Congrats all around!
“Breaking Bad” star Aaron Paul, left, tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Lauren Parsekian, right, in Malibu over Memorial Day weekend. And “The Vampire Diaries” actress Candice Accola announced her engagement to the Fray guitarist Joe King on Instagram. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
In case you took a “Forget-Me-Now” over the weekend and are just waking up, the much-hyped fourth season of “Arrested Development” rolled out early Sunday morning on Netflix. By that afternoon, the first bleary-eyed reviews started appearing.
While the reactions to the new batch of 15 episodes run the gamut from raves to jeers, one consistent criticism seems to be emerging: At anywhere from 28 to 37 minutes in length, the new episodes were simply too long.
Perhaps there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
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Courteney Cox and David Arquette finalized their divorce this week, ending their marriage Wednesday when a L.A. County Superior Court judge entered a final judgment for the divorce. The ruling concluded their 12-year marriage just shy of what would have been their 14-year wedding anniversary. Arquette, who had been separated from his wife since 2010, filed for divorce the same day as Cox in June 2012.
Similarly, “The Big Bang Theory’s” Mayim Bialik officially ended her marriage to Michael Stone, by finalizing her divorce too. Bialik originally filed for divorce from her husband of nine years last November. The pair agreed to split their real estate evenly, with Bialik keeping their 1,400-square-foot, one-bedroom home in Studio City and Stone getting their 1,300-square-foot, three-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
“Behind the Candelabra,” the Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, garnered 2.4 million viewers in its premiere Sunday on HBO. The Steven Soderbergh-directed television movie was a huge hit for the cable network, giving it its best audience since the 2004 movie “Something the Lord Made.” (Claudette Barius / Associated Press)
This past season¿s newest “American Idol” judges joined in the exodus from the singing show that once seemed unstoppable.
On Thursday, Carey’s reps confirmed rumors of her exit via Twitter, with the glitzy pop icon planning to shift her focus back to her music career and prepping a world tour. But, surprise! Shortly after Carey’s announcement, Minaj took to Twitter to kiss “Idol” goodbye as well.
“Thank you American Idol for a life changing experience! Wouldn’t trade it for the world! Time to focus on the Music!!! Mmmuuuaahhh!!!” she tweeted. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
Kate Upton, who was previously bashed by lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret, was said to be “not thrilled” when photos of her surfaced on the back cover of the company’s latest catalog. The curvaceous model, who shot to fame by landing the cover of Sports Illustrated twice, appeared in the catalog wearing the company’s black Body bra, but reports say the photos were used without her permission.
“Kate is not thrilled Victoria’s Secret is using these photos. She is not contracted to work with Victoria’s Secret and was not notified before the images, taken in 2011, were used,” Upton sources said this week. Her camp and the company both remained mum on the topic. But we’re pretty sure her fans are not complaining... (Timothy A. Clary / AFP /Getty Images)
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Neil Patrick Harris, a.k.a. host savant, was tapped this week to emcee the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards.
It will mark the second time the jack-of-all-trades actor, about to ride out his stint as lothario Barney on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother,” has hosted the ceremony. He last anchored the event in 2009, when it aired on CBS.
Not to mention he’ll be hosting his fourth Tony Awards ceremony on June 9. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Adam Levine, the Maroon 5 singer and coach on NBC’ “The Voice” singing competition, set viewers and the Twitterverse ablaze Tuesday night by muttering under his breath, “I hate this country” after two of his three singers were eliminated by viewers during the latest round on the show.
Levine responded Wednesday by tweeting dictionary definitions of the words “joke,” “humorless,” “light-hearted” and “misunderstand” in efforts to deflect the criticism. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
Philip Seymour Hoffman left a detox center that he entered for 10 days to get ahead of drug problems that were said to have been spinning out of control, according to reports on Friday.
“The Master” actor revealed to TMZ that he’d started using drugs again about a year ago, starting with prescription pills, then escalating to snorting heroin. He said the heroin use lasted only about a week, but he decided to check himself into a detox facility on the East Coast to take control of the problem. (Jennifer S. Altman / For the Times)
