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Post by dawne27 on Aug 8, 2009 20:32:23 GMT -5
Gerard Butler wants to date a dumb woman ANI7 August 2009 The Times of India News & Interviews:| Gerard Butler has said that he would love to date a ''dumb woman''. Gerard Butler (AFP Photo) More Pics The ''Ugly Truth'' actor, who has been romantically linked to Jennifer Aniston, has said that he is attracted to different types of women and cannot make up his mind on what he really wants from a relationship. "I couldn't actually tell you what I look for because it's different in each woman, but part of it is being smart and part of it is being dumb,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying. He added: "Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, ''That doesn't work, now I want a smart woman.'' Then you get a smart woman and you go, ''No, that doesn't work.'' So it's just killing me right now." However, the 39-year-old actor has laughed off reports that he dated his ''The Bounty'' co-star Jennifer, insisting that he has had enough of being linked to different Hollywood beauties. He joked: "Oh Jennifer Aniston and I are getting married, then I''m marrying Cameron Diaz, then I'm marrying Joan Rivers and I''m going to be a busy guy." .......................................................................................................  - who'd thunk it? oh gerard dahling -  (waves a hanky) tah-tah...upstate new york dear |
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Post by dawne27 on Aug 8, 2009 20:36:10 GMT -5
BUTLER OPENS UP ABOUT 'MISERABLE' LOVE LIFEGERARD BUTLER has destroyed his reputation as a Hollywood Lothario - by insisting his love life is "pretty miserable".
The 300 star has gained a tabloid reputation as a ladies' man after he was linked to a string of beautiful women, including actresses Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz.
But he insists it's a struggle to find suitable female companions since being thrust into the limelight as a successful actor.
Butler says, "Love is something that I've definitely felt a couple of times. It never worked out, it made me nuts, but I absolutely want to experience it again. And it's about f**king time!
"I've definitely had lots of fun. Now I'm more serious about things - I don't mess around anywhere near like I used to. It was a lot more fun when I was under the radar. Now going on a date is going to be well publicised. I would be lying if I said my love life is amazing at the moment. It's actually pretty miserable."
07 August 2009
Contactmusic.com
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Post by Dianne on Aug 9, 2009 3:26:37 GMT -5
Indian newpapers print the oddest articles don't they? And they got that one quote about Joan Rivers and such originally from Conan.
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Post by princetongal on Aug 9, 2009 5:17:16 GMT -5
OKAY, we do have an article thread!!!! I never knew! Thanks!
Yes, those India articles seem that they get a bit lost in the translation. I find them funny. I am sure Gerry said the dumb/smart thing, but I think that they also edited it to make him seem a bit more shallow than he ever wanted to. Again, what is so refreshing about this man - NO EDIT button!!!! LOVE HIM!!!!!
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Post by Dianne on Aug 9, 2009 8:57:07 GMT -5
OKAY, we do have an article thread!!!! I never knew! Thanks! Yes, those India articles seem that they get a bit lost in the translation. I find them funny. I am sure Gerry said the dumb/smart thing, but I think that they also edited it to make him seem a bit more shallow than he ever wanted to. Again, what is so refreshing about this man - NO EDIT button!!!! LOVE HIM!!!!! HA!! You are probably right Prince, he was lost intranslation, but then again with Gerry.... I can hear him saying; " I've dated really dumb girls, I mean real morons. You know the ones; big breasts, no brains? And I have dated the intellectual types and I found out, it's all good."  Remember gals, this is from my twisted brain...and not a real Gerry quote.  |
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Post by dawne27 on Aug 13, 2009 16:43:17 GMT -5
a day in the life of......(ergo)
"The Times of India
Butler's bodyguard wanted by police
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Hollywood hunk Gerard Butler's body guard is wanted by the police after he allegedly smashed the car of a paparazzo on the set of the actor's new Gerard Butler (AFP Photo) More Pics
movie 'The Bounty'.
The security guard reportedly clashed with the photographers on the sets of the movie where the Scottish actor is shooting with his rumoured girlfriend, 'Friends' star, Jennifer Aniston, reported New York Post.
The film sets have been swarmed by photographers ever since reports of a budding romance between the leading pair surfaced and Butler's bodyguard Chris Tsipouras has reportedly clashed with snappers several times over the last few weeks as they scrambled to get a shot of the '300' actor and his rumoured girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston.
But tensions reached a high when Tsipouras allegedly damaged the paintwork on photographer James Devaney's vehicle while it was parked in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn. Local residents witnessed the alleged crime and reported it to police.
"I was surprised that the community had my back. They saw a guy going up to my car with a key scraping the side," he told the newspaper.
Butler and Aniston have continually dismissed reports they are a couple after they were spotted walking along a beach arm-in-arm earlier this summer. "
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Post by dawne27 on Aug 13, 2009 16:44:28 GMT -5
sorry,
i will NOT post the article about the 'hickey' on gerards neck.
nope.
won't do it.
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Post by sassenach on Aug 13, 2009 16:57:31 GMT -5
Oh, boy !  Seems that this Chris Tsipouras fellow is a compatriot of me (and JA).... Hmmm....should i call my US relatives in case someone knows someone else who knows someone that can link me with Gerard's bodyguard ?  Greek diaspora's connections are as skillfull and wide as maybe only the Jewish community be.....  |
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Post by sassenach on Aug 13, 2009 17:25:15 GMT -5
OOOOOOPS ! Correction - just got back from Googling Tsipouras.... He doesn't seem to be a guy you'll be glad to meet, even if you are a papparazzo or not.... Justice problems, girls....I mean BIG problems..... |
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Post by dawne27 on Aug 25, 2009 10:44:12 GMT -5
sunday mail.co.uk ( online post)
Gerard Butler follows in Sheena Easton's footsteps with accent change
Aug 23 2009
HUNKY actor Gerard Butler has admitted he's losing his Scottish accent - just like Sheena Easton.
Paisley-born Butler says he has started picking up an American twang similar to the Nine To Five singer.
The 39-year-old said: "I have to confess I always hated any person from Scotland who went and lost their accent in the slightest.
"When Sheena Easton made it in America and suddenly started talking in an accent, I swore and threw shoes at her on television.
"But I've spent a year and a half now playing roles as an American and I'm not comfortable enough doing those accents only when we film, so I have to keep it up all the time.
"I really hate myself for doing that."
Butler plays a maverick TV star in his current movie, romantic comedy The Ugly Truth.
He said: "Everybody expected me to do it as a Scotsman but the character was American to me, so I played him that way."
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Post by dawne27 on Aug 25, 2009 10:47:54 GMT -5
the scottish brogue is so pronounced. it must be terrificly hard to alter it to 'standard americanese'?
even so, my family folks 'think' they lost their accent over time & we didn't hear it BUT when taped or recorded WHEW it shines through.
i don't think gerry will EVER loose that beautiful lyrical celtic sound. nope. not ever!
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Post by dawne27 on Sept 3, 2009 14:17:34 GMT -5
this was posted today online from:
" MTV.com
Sep 3 2009 2:43 PM EDT
Gerard Butler Returns To High-Adrenaline Action With 'Gamer'
'Between takes, he's working out,' Milo Ventimiglia says of pumped-up star.
By Eric Ditzian
In 2006's graphic-novel adaptation "300," Gerard Butler was a loincloth-wearing, six-pack-baring Spartan king of blood-spilling domination. In the years since, the Scottish actor has largely opted for far less gory fare, like the rom-coms "P.S. I Love You" and "The Ugly Truth."
The futuristic sci-fi flick "Gamer" (out Friday) places Butler squarely back in the high-adrenaline, kill-or-be-violently-killed territory of popcorn action flicks. And once again, Butler is looking seriously pumped up.
"On set, he had a little Radio Flyer wagon with weights on it," co-star Milo Ventimiglia told MTV News. "So in between takes, he's working out, and I'm like, 'Uh, all right.' He'd go around the corner, and I'd sneak in, do a couple dumbbells."
Ventimiglia and Butler had to pack on the muscle if they were going to survive the production with all their bones intact. "Gamer" sprung from the minds of writer/director Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the duo behind the manic "Crank" films. Their new movie takes place a few decades in the future, when a video game allows users to control actual death-row inmates in combat situations. With echoes of old-school sci-fi films like "The Running Man" and "Soylent Green," "Gamer" delivers supersize, "Crank"-style action sequences pop-pop-popping with explosions, machine-gun fire and acrobatic stunts.
"Mark and Brian are able to combine the futuristic aspect of it, they're able to combine the action aspect, they're able to combine the moral to the story of these different themes," co-star Chris "Ludacris" Bridges said. "They have that young energy. They have that energy that Hollywood is always waiting for — whatever's new. And I feel they have a real grip on exactly what is needed right now and what people are looking for and what's going to keep people entertained."
Ventimiglia agreed: "It's reaching into the future as opposed to throwing something so far out that you can't grasp what's happening. The technological advances are approaching our world now. You see that things could go in that direction. And the escape — with all this war and crap around us, where do you go? You're gonna control somebody else and live out somebody else's life while you're sitting at home eating doughnuts."
MTV is taking you "Behind the Screen" on Friday, September 4, at 7 p.m. Tune in to check out exclusive clips from "Jennifer's Body" and "Ninja Assassin," your first look at "Clash of the Titans," a special appearance by Rain and a revealing exclusive interview with Megan Fox.
Check out everything we've got on "Gamer."
For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com."
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Post by dawne27 on Oct 14, 2009 18:03:19 GMT -5
Parade.Com 10/14/09 Gerard Butler: 'I Have a Lot of Fire in Me' by Jeanne Wolf Gerard Butler hasn't wreaked this much havoc on the big screen since he took on the Persian hordes in 300. He's co-starring with Jamie Foxx in Law Abiding Citizen, playing a widower who leaves a trail of death and destruction after the man who killed his family plea bargains instead of facing trial. Butler told Parade.com's Jeanne Wolf how far he'd go to get revenge. When to take a stand. "My mom was a big fighter who would never turn the other cheek. Like, if she had an issue, she would take you on and confront you. And more than a few times she'd be on your case in public. I was always like, 'Oh, mom, don't. Just let it go.' But I think there is a time to stand up for what you believe in and that's definitely what my character does in this movie. I think it can be pretty cathartic and empowering for audiences because they know that terrorists are allowed to play by any rules and we can't. There are certain rules that we have to abide by, and I think that gets very frustrating." Jamie Foxx: 'It's Hard To Be A Celebrity Nowadays' Where he draws the line. "You imagine anybody touching your family and you think, 'I wouldn't just pay them back, I'd do worse.' I have a lot of fire in me when it comes to that. I can understand that motivation of taking your own pain and turning it into calculating revenge. I would take great joy in making them suffer in the most horrific ways. I mean, how could you possibly turn the other cheek?" Speaking of cheeks. "I do once again get a bare butt scene in this movie. I love to show my rear-end in roles. I'm thinking it's becoming a bit of a habit, a bit of a tradition that I have to show my a— in every movie that I can. No, actually it was always a great moment and it speaks volumes about this character. So if there is a scene where I have to drop my drawers and I think there is a genius reason behind it, I'm ready. If I have to bare my a— again in future films, then so be it." 10 Hollywood Couples Who Met On Set His cheeky secret. "I've always had a tight a—. Actually, I have kind of a skinny, tight a—. I can't believe we're talking about this. I did want a certain look for my body in this movie. I was kind of inspired by watching De Niro in Taxi Driver. You know, there's that scene where he's doing the push-ups and he's so cut. But whenever I make those decisions to get ripped to shreds for a role, I go, 'Oh, s—. Here we go. It's going to be another three months of trying to diet and trying to get myself back in shape." Not your typical fitness buff. "I'm very extreme, so sometimes I keep it in my head to train a lot and other times I just abandon the whole thing, especially when I travel. Sometimes I get into traveling mode and pop off to New York or Scotland and London or even into Iceland and India. When I'm doing that, it's very difficult to keep up my fitness regime. So then I just start eating like a pig until I think, 'OK, it's time to swing the other way again.' I'd say it's a constant battle." Photos: Jennifer Aniston's Hot Romances Sharing the set with Jennifer Aniston and many paparazzi. "When we did The Bounty together, there was by far the most paparazzi I've ever seen around a movie set. Unfortunately, for poor Jennifer, it was the photographers plus all the rumors about she and I having a romance just because we were doing a movie together. That brought even more paparazzi. They'll take 10,000 photographs in one day just waiting for that moment where you have a hug or you look at each other a certain way, even though it's totally innocent. And then for me, there always seemed to be time when you scratch indelicately or pick your nose or something. They're just waiting and you don't realize they've got you until you see the photo somewhere. You make that one wrong move and they go, 'Ha, got you, you bastard.' A lot of them are really good people, but some of them are a nightmare." His own journey through the justice system. "I was pretending to be this lawyer in a very traditional Edinburgh firm, but I felt like a little Glasgow boy who was totally at sea and could barely deal with clients, let alone do complicated legal work. The day I was fired was the worst day of my life. But now I think, 'If that hadn't happened where would I be? Would I be alive?' I guess I'd still be stuck in an office instead of having the greatest job in the world." www.parade.com/export/sites/default/images/-v4/celebrity/2009/1018/default-gerard-butler-v2.jpg |
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Post by dawne27 on Oct 17, 2009 6:38:57 GMT -5
TIME /cnn.com online article "Law Abiding Citizen: Hannibal Lecture By Richard Corliss Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 Gerard Butler in the movie Law Abiding Citizen LAC Films Back in 2000, Steve Martin was talking about the hack writer's trick of getting sympathy for one character by making another one a total rotter. "I think that's the cheap and ugly way out," he said. "What I hate in movies — I mean action movies — is, 'We need the audience to really hate the bad guy. So let's have him kill two 6-year-olds.'" Related Specials TIME's Fall Entertainment Preview More Related The Very Lively Death at a Funeral Anatomy of a Manhunt I Am Time Bandits Martin was thinking too small. The current recipe, cooked up in last year's Death Race and this week's Law Abiding Citizen, is to have some malefactor slaughter the leading character's wife and child — the love of his life and his hope for the future — as he watches helplessly. After that, any transgression, including wholesale murder, is understandable. In real life, good men may try to gulp down the black bile of their devastation and move on. They would answer Bernard Shaw's question to the 1988 Democratic candidate for President — "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" — in Michael Dukakis's measured tone, putting principle above vengeance. But that heroic restraint wouldn't make for a good movie. Then again, neither does the drearily sadistic Law Abiding Citizen. (See pictures from Nigeria's budding film industry.) Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is the mild, happily married Philadelphian who's forced to watch his family's atrocity up close. The two killers are arrested, but assistant DA Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who's wary of trying a case he might lose, cuts a deal, letting one perp testify against the other. One is condemned to death, the other gets a light sentence. Outraged and embittered, Shelton lies low for 10 years, then activates a revenge scheme that is both madly complex and simply mad. He executes the killers in approved mad-scientist fashion — one by remote control in prison, the other by surgically removing precious body parts and injecting him with "poison from the liver of a Caribbean puffer fish" — and, when the police arrive, strips naked to greet them, as if he were Leonidas facing the Persians at Thermopylae. Shelton is put in prison, and that's where the murder games begin in earnest. Apparently Shelton — and director F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job) — spent the last decade studying movies like Death Wish, the Saw series, The Brave One, Untraceable and other examples of revenge gorenography. The genre was launched with the 1962 Cape Fear (and its John D. MacDonald source novel), whose killer not only tracks down the lawyer who prosecuted him but terrorizes the man's wife and child. The movie's sobering climax — the lawyer refuses to kill the killer, because he will not be reduced, even in extremis, to his animal impulses — was rectified in the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake, where wily psychopath Robert De Niro dies several times. The same year, The Silence of the Lambs brought the genre its essential wrinkle of the evil genius, beating the criminal-justice system even as he bites its face off. Law Abiding Citizen is yet another Hannibal lecture: a tutorial in civics porn. Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer posits that the law is so weak and corrupt an arbiter of guilt that punishment can't be entrusted to it, or even to private contractors. (Care to make a little money on the side, Blackwater?) No, revenge is a dish best wolfed down right now, because this time it's personal. And for Shelton, the body count of retribution is "gonna be Biblical" — as in the Egyptian children killed by God's decree. By midspree, and from the seemingly airtight confinement of his prison cell, Shelton has effected the violent dispatch of most of the people who had even a peripheral role in his killers' judicial fate. And since Rice has a loving wife, and a child about the same age as Shelton's own when she died, the viewer fully expects them to be Shelton's next target. (SPOILER ALERT: They're not.) The plot has holes deeper than the ones ... no, we can't say, since that would tip the movie's one surprise. We'll just say that, while Shelton is terrorizing Philadelphia by masterminding his crimes from his solitary cell, the prison officials might have thought to post a 24-hour guard nearby. Still, caulking those holes wouldn't help its stars bring emotional plausibility to their roles. Foxx seems both fretful and distracted; he can be a vital screen presence, but his characters need to act, not just react and endure. Butler has the showier part, but his impersonation of the tragic hero is undercut by his weird resemblance to Soupy Sales. You start hoping that Shelton will kill somebody with a custard (or puffer-fish) pie to the face. No such luck. The not-very-surprising ending of Law Abiding Citizen is that the real victims are the audience. And what revenge can they take? They probably can't even get their money back" img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0910/law_abiding_1015.jpg**************************************************** yes indeed, everyone is entitled to their own personal viewpoint. right. right. here's mine: (raspberry 'sploooooooooooshtch')  |
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Post by Dianne on Oct 17, 2009 9:03:53 GMT -5
BUTLER'S DETOXING
Hollywood hunk GERARD BUTLER is undergoing a brutal detox regime in a bid to lose weight and get healthy.
The 300 star is surviving on a diet of just lemon water and cayenne pepper, designed to cleanse his body of toxins - a method he turns to whenever he needs to trim down and get in shape for a film role.
But he's finding it extra tough this time - because he's undergoing the gruelling detox for his own peace of mind and has to rely on himself for motivation.
Butler explains "I'm on a cleanse right now. I have the lemon water!
"It's a nightmare because normally there's time constraints and I have my trainer and nutritionist to enforce the law.
"I'll literally have people there hiding cupcakes from me. Once my trainer caught me, he said, 'You're in that trailer over there, right? I heard you're eating chocolate cake', and I'm like, 'Me? No!' My heart is literally pumping so fast trying to sneak this cake when my trainer's not looking!"
17 October 2009 14:16
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