Looks like Rebel Wilson won her fight against Sacha Baron Cohen!
08.03.2024 - 17:23 / deadline.com
Sacha Baron Cohen and Chris Rock had the good sense to arrive early at the Jean-Michel Basquiat Made on Market Street exhibition at the Larry Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.
They surveyed the 30 or so Basquiat art works in relative peace ,before the throng arrived.
Cohen tells me he came straight from writing something “for TV” that might shoot in Los Angeles or in London, he wasn’t sure. Interesting.
There may also be a film. But before anything else he’ll be seen along with Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville and Louis Partridge in Disclaimer, the TV drama thriller Alfonso Cuarón has written and directed for Apple TV+.
Rock and Cohen had skedaddled with pal Guy Oseary to see Madonna by the time Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright presented himself at the gallery. It was wholly appropriate that the American Fiction star be there. Some 28 years ago, Wright portrayed the artist in Julian Schnabel’s biopic Basquiat. The actor fist-bumped me but wasn’t overly keen on dragging up memories of playing the renowned painter who died in 1988.
I was taken by guests who brought their pooches to the show.
Sylvia Ades over from New York cradled Daisy her maltipoo as she studied Basquiat’s works.
Ades revealed that Basquiat’s Luna Park, 1983, an acrylic and oil stick on canvas, is from her private collection and that she agreed to loan it to the exhibition co-curated by Gagosian and Fred Hoffman, who had been a close friend and collaborator of Basquiat’s.
“I’m getting it back,” Ades joked.
I trooped off to the upper gallery space to study Luna Park and was stunned by it’s coherent ambition and its size. “It’s big, isn’t it ?” Ades agreed.
Another dog lover was Alex Brookhart who was there with Kenny and described as an “LA
Looks like Rebel Wilson won her fight against Sacha Baron Cohen!
Rebel Wilson‘s memoir has been revealed, in which she describes in detail her alleged interactions with Sacha Baron Cohen as they worked on 2016’s “The Brothers Grimsby.”Wilson, 44, said that she initially met Cohen, 52, during a dinner party in 2013 and was later asked by the “Borat” star to play his girlfriend, Dawn, in the ill-fated R-rated comedy. “It felt like every time I’d speak to SBC, he’d mention that he wanted me to go naked in a future scene,” the “Rebel Rising” excerpt read, which was obtained by People on Wednesday.
Rebel Wilson is doubling down on her feud with Sacha Baron Cohen!
Rebel Wilson has been making headlines this week for her feud with Sacha Baron Cohen amid the upcoming release of her memoir, in which she writes about working with the actor.
Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse have welcomed their first child together.The pair were captured this week out in Los Angeles with a pram in pictures obtained by The Daily Mail.The couple were first linked in 2018 before getting engaged last year. Waterhouse announced her pregnancy at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City in November, by revealing her baby bump on stage.In footage shared on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Waterhouse told the crowd: “I’m extra sparkly today because I thought it might distract you from something else that’s going on.” She then opened her coat to reveal a baby bump, to cheers from the audience.
is an “a–hole” who behaved badly on the set of a film the duo starred in and is now trying to stop the publication of her forthcoming memoir “Rebel Rising,” which calls him out.“Thanks so much to everyone who has sent gorgeous messages of support in the last few days and to those who share with me their stories of the a–hole!,” Wilson, 44, posted on her Instagram Story.“Don’t worry I won’t be bullied or threatened by this guy! And am working hard behind the scenes to make sure my book comes out!”The Aussie actress added: “Ps my book is not ABOUT this guy – this is one chapter!” The pair starred in the 2016 spy comedy “The Brothers Grimsby,” in which Baron Cohen, 52, played a working-class Brit-turned spy named Nobby and Wilson played Dawn, the mother of his 11 kids.Their ugly spat began March 15 when Wilson said in an Instagram video that a portion of her book would be devoted to a “massive a–hole” she once worked with.“When I first came to Hollywood, people were like, yeah, ‘I have a no-a–hole policy. [It] means like, yeah, I don’t work with a–holes.’ I was like, ‘Oh yeah.
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tried to threaten her over her upcoming memoir, “Rebel Rising.”Wilson previously slammed a “massive a – – hole” A-lister, whom she later revealed as the British actor. The pair previously co-starred in the 2016 comedy “The Brothers Grimsby.”“While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during, and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby,” a spokesperson for Cohen, 52, said in a statement to The Post on Monday.
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2024 Oscars were hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, March 10, airing on ABC (in the new earlier time slot of 7 p.m.). The Christopher Nolan flick starring Cillian Murphy was this year’s frontrunner, with a staggering 13 nominations — including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., respectively. The Best Actor race was a battle between Murphy, Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”) and Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”).Murphy took home the expected win, and Nolan and Downey Jr.
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