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Shia LaBeouf Loved That His Lawless Co-Star Tom Hardy Was ‘Too Big to Be Sexy’ as Bane

“You’re amazing,” Shia LaBeouf was heard wooing a young woman last night at the top of McKittrick Hotel, at the after-party for the The Cinema Society and Manifesto Yves Saint Laurent screening of Lawless. “You’re incredible. You’re an astronaut!”

“Did Shia just call that lady an astronaut?” a friend of The Observer asked, confused. If everyone was a tad difficult to understand, we understood, as Lawless had also starred a marble-mouthed Tom Hardy doing an American accent. The actor was regrettably absent from the screening–he was shooting Mad Max in Australia, we were told–which ruined our chances of doing our spot-on Bane impression for him. His loss.

Instead, we called over the hyper-maniac, hyper-masculine Mr. LaBeouf, whom  Harvey Weinstein had praised earlier in the evening as being the love child of himself, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Read More

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Anne Hathaway and Marion Cotillard (and Ron Howard, Donald Trump, Penn Badgley…) at The Dark Knight Rises Premiere

Last night, the cast of The Dark Knight Rises gathered at the AMC Lincoln Square theater to promote their movie (not that it needs the help). The male cast tended towards black garb, while the two female leads coordinated on snow-white. This probably has some good-vs.-evil theme, but unlike most Batman fans, we’re not philosophy scholars. Read More