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Scarlett Johansson will make her directorial debut with the film adaptation of the Truman Capote novel, Summer Crossing.

Aldamisa announced Thursday that it will be selling the project to foreign buyers at the Cannes Film Market, while CAA will handle U.S. sale.

Based on Capote’s long-lost first novel of the same name, the film follows a 17-year-old debutante who, during the summer of 1945, skips a Parisian trip with her parents to build a relationship with a valet attendant.

“Several years ago I began working alongside the Capote estate and writer Tristine Skylar to adapt Summer Crossing, an inspired early work of Truman's which has long captured my heart,” said Johansson. “Being able to bring this story to the screen as my full length directorial debut is a life dream and deep privilege.”

Capote’s first novel was lost for many years, as the prolific author never published it, and had thrown it into the garbage for disposal. It surfaced at an auction in 2004, and was published with the blessing of Capote’s former editor.

Oleg Boyko, who is also a producer on Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For 3D, and Aldamisa co-chairman Sergei Bespalov, will serve as producers on the film, along with producer Barry Spikings. Peter D. Graves will executive produce. Production is slated to start in the first half of 2014.

Aldamisa is also shopping Jon Favreau’s Chef, which will co-star Johansson, at the market.

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New study shows that a woman's reading material reflects her willingness to put out

Guess what, guys? A single female traveler's choice of airport reading material can indicate whether she's interested in hooking up with you! It turns out The Great Gatsby is as clear an indicator of sexual availability as a female baboon's red ass. And just as easy to spot—that cover is so iconic! (Assuming, of course, that the reader is a full-grown woman and not a high school student who has to plow through it for sophomore English.)

This information is proudly brought to you by MissTravel.com, which has conducted the world's first-ever study of the subtle links between reading material and hookup potential.

Gawker once called MissTravel.com "the #1 prosti-travel website", but Jennifer Gwynn, the site's PR manager and one of the great minds behind the study, claims that the site is really all about bringing people who like to travel together. Well, so long as one is "Attractive" and the other is "Generous." But even though this sounds like the plot of Pretty Woman, and even though MissTravel's sister sites include SeekingArrangement.com, we totally, totally should not be leaping to conclusions.

It all began innocently enough when Gwynn and her colleagues decided to ask the site's 47,230 female users about their reading habits. "We wanted to find out if our users are readers," she reports. "We found out that they don't read unless they're traveling."

Brandon Wade, the site's founder and CEO, found that nugget interesting. "We wanted to take that information and see if we could find meaning behind the books they choose," he said in a press release, "and use it help the guide man [sic] in his search for romance abroad."

The books MissTravel used in the survey were all New York Times bestsellers, the books most readily available in airport bookstores. They divided them into general categories—blockbusters, thrillers, humorous biographies—and tried to correlate the women's choice of reading material with their attitudes toward casual hookups.

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"Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling..." I went on Twitter a few weeks ago to promote my book The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World (pub date May 21, shameless plug). Immediately I started getting tweets from mostly college-age kids quoting lines back to me from the clip of former E! reality star Alexis Neiers calling me to complain about my March 2010 article in Vanity Fair on the Bling Ring. That's the band of teenaged thieves who between 2008 and 2009 robbed the homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and other members of Young Hollywood -- now the subject of Sofia Coppola's film The Bling Ring (premiering June 14, and showing this week at Cannes).


"IF YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME I HAVE TO RERECORD IT!" someone tweeted, paraphrasing Alexis shouting at her mother, former Playboy model Andrea Arlington Dunn.

This clip from Alexis's short-lived reality show, Pretty Wild (2010), seemed to have become a thing. "#LifeWouldBeAlotBetterIf Nancy Jo answered the phone when Alexis Neiers called," tweeted YouTube satirist/blogger Tyler Oakley. I wondered what about that moment people still found so entertaining, three years later. Was it because Alexis -- who had been charged with the burglary of Orlando Bloom (she pleaded no contest in May of 2010 and was sentenced to 180 days in jail; she served 29) -- was upset because I had allegedly misidentified her shoes? "Like, you saying that I wore six-inch Louboutin heels to court with my tweed skirt," Alexis complained, "when I wore four-inch little brown Bebe shoes!" "29 dollars!" chimed in her mother.

I don't mean to be a party pooper here, but I've never found the clip all that funny. Alexis was in real distress during that call -- but not over the mislabeling of her shoes, I think, or even my story. She later revealed in an online interview that she was using drugs at the time (she was sentenced to a year in rehab in 2010 after police found black tar heroin in her house. She says she is now sober). Nick Prugo, another Bling Ring member, confessed in an interview with me that he had been addicted to coke; and Rachel Lee, the gang's alleged ringleader, who is still in jail in California for the burglary of The Hills star Audrina Patridge, said in a letter to the court that she had been using drugs.

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Ellis rails against activist group Glaad for imposing a sanitized version of homosexuality upon complicated lives of individuals


Bret Easton Ellis, the novelist who turned being a bad boy into a literary form, has now deployed his considerable powers of invective to attack what he calls the "gatekeepers of politically correct gayness".

In a lengthy diatribe in Out magazine Ellis begins by bemoaning the way that the recent coming out of basketball star Jason Collins was handled by the media. Collins was treated, the novelist says, like a "kind of baby panda who needed to be honored and praised and consoled and – yes – infantilized".

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New 'Divergent' photo! Watch Tris go Dauntless

Afraid of heights? Let’s just say you probably wouldn’t make it in Dauntless.

The highly anticipated adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best-selling Divergent is still filming in Chicago, but EW has gotten this exclusive first look of Tris (Shailene Woodley) out on a ledge and perched to jump as part of initiation into her faction. For those of who haven’t read the books, in the dystopian world of Divergent, all of society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (selfless); Erudite (intelligent); Candor (honest); Amity (peaceful) and Dauntless (brave). Our heroine, sixteen-year-old Tris Prior, has chosen the Dauntless faction which involves a lot of very scary initiation tests—like the time she stood still while knives were thrown at her head.

“In this photo she’s already jumped off the train and onto a seven story building as part of the initiation rite for the Dauntless,” explains director Neil Burger. “The next thing they have to do is jump from the building and down through a courtyard that has a deep, black hole. It’s terrifying.”
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James Ellroy’s 1990s novel L.A. Confidential was turned into an acclaimed feature starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger and produced by Regency. Now Ellroy and New Regency are shopping an L.A. Confidential sequel targeted for the small screen, Deadline said.

Ellroy wrote the project on spec as a TV drama series, which is being pitched to broadcast and cable networks as well as emerging distribution platforms, with multiple outlets interested. The project is reportedly eyeing a straight-to-series commitment. The sequel continues the themes and stories from L.A. Confidential, a murder mystery which examined the intersection of organized crime, police corruption, celebrity and tabloid journalism in 1950s Los Angeles. The 1997 film, co-written and directed by Curtis Hanson, earned nine Oscar nominations, winning two awards, for best screenplay and best supporting actress (Basinger).

The L.A. Confidential sequel is one of the first major projects to come out of the TV division of New Regency, which was re-started last year with the hire of Syfy’s Andrew Plotkin. It combines the company’s strategy of mining its movie library for TV series adaptations and bringing in new material. Meanwhile, Ellroy just sold another LA-set period drama. Based on Ellroy’s 2012 novella Shakedown, the project, which has been set up at FX as a pitch, is set in the tabloid world and underbelly of Los Angeles circa the late 1950s.


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This needs to hurry up and happen, love this flaw-free movie...

The snobs and critics will have a field day with the US author’s latest work – but I’m not joining in
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I have always been an admirer of Gwyneth Paltrow, I am not afraid to admit it. She was so good in my favorite movie, A Perfect Murder. I also think her secondary career as a lifestyle guru is rather inspiring. If there wasn't a GOOP, I would not have an eye-mask that has hollow indentations so that your eyes can blink.

When Gwyneth came out with her newest cookbook, It’s All Good, I was really excited. I have her other cookbook, My Father's Daughter, already. It is a really good cookbook for the average woman (me). There are some healthy recipes and there are some delicious recipes. One time I had a dinner party and I made beer-battered fish tacos from that book and everyone liked them. This is saying a lot because usually my dinner parties are miserable failures in which people start ordering sushi in front of me like I'm not even there.

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OP: Super long, but thought it would amuse a few people here. Viva la Goop tbh.

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Count Candace Bushnell as the latest celeb to fall victim to the hacking epidemic.

A hacker going by the (apt) pseudonym of Guccifer apparently broke into the email account, Twitter feed and website of the Sex and the City author and subsequently posted online the opening sections of her next novel, tentatively titled Killing Monica.

Guccifer—who previously earned notoriety for exposing former President George W. Bush's new hobby as a painter—extracted the first 37,000 words of the unpublished manuscript from an email that the 54-year-old scribe had sent to her editor at Grand Central Publishing, according to The Smoking Gun.

After creating 50 screen grabs of the text and uploading them to a Google Drive page, the hacker then sent a tweet through Bushnell's account to her 9100 followers announcing the leak: "Here you can read my last book, 'killing monica' first 50 pages; enjoy as long as you can!"

The famed writer was unavailable for comment. But she did confirm to The Smoking Gun who was behind the attack.

"Guccifer!" she told the site, perplexed as to why she was targeted. "My emails are pretty tame. This is very odd."

She added that she ended up battling with the hacker for control of her email account and was forced to change her password several times.

It's unclear what Guccifer's motivation was for choosing Bushnell as his latest victim.

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book post anyone? what are you currently reading ONTD?