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Natalie Portman's Ex Not Afraid to Show Off the NSFW Bits She'll Be Missing

Kyle Buchanan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:15:00 EDT

Until their recent breakup, the unlikely pairing of actress Natalie Portman with scruffy, Manson-resembling troubadour Devendra Banhart had people asking, "What exactly does she see in him?" We tried to explain that starlets love themselves some hairy hippies, but still, the naysayers would not be deterred. Now, Banhart may have provided some insight into the matter with the album art for his upcoming side project, Megapuss. Baring all in a very, very NSFW manner, the folk singer shows off what had until recently been the sole property of one Queen Amidala:

From l-r: Megapuss cohort Greg Rogove, Banhart himself, words.

Here, we see that Rogove's lightsaber is no match for Banhart's knife.

Yes, yes, Devendra, we get it. Genitals. Here's a cookie.

Megapuss LP Art Features Devendra's Naughty Bits (NSFW!) [Pitchfork]

BREAKING! Natalie Portman Hippie-Free! After...

STV — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:20:00 EDT

BREAKING! Natalie Portman Hippie-Free! After six months at Devendra Banhart's aromatic side, Natalie Portman is reportedly making a clean break from her hirsute paramour's patchouli-stinking grip. "Natalie and Devendra will remain friends but need some space and time away," a Banhart source says, but our own spies near Portman's New York base insist the actress will begin washing that man right out of her hair — after a V For Vendetta-style shearing and 48-hour delousing quarantine, naturally. Welcome back, Nat! [ITW]

The Trick To World Peace? Give A Star A T-Shirt And A Pen

Sadie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Mother Theresa could have saved herself so much time if she'd just learned that the trick to saving the world is just to sign up a few celebrities, get them to doodle on an American Apparel tee, and sell the result for charity! Lately, this rather labor unintensive mode of giving back has been running rampant, with celebrities lined up to draw stick figures like five-year-olds at a birthday party waiting to decorate their own cupcakes. Of course, within this spectrum is a wide range of commitment (and skill) levels, ranging from the truly half-assed to the off-puttingly earnest. Which is all very laudable. And then, apparently, people buy them: Bono and, most recently, Elettra Weidemann, have enlisted loads of celebs for their respective tee initiatives and when the one-offs go up for auction, they always bring in the big bucks. After all, who wouldn't want a Billy Baldwin original? Hundreds of seconds of compassion and effort — with accompanying captions, naturally — after the jump.

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Ten Hairy Hippies That Do Inexplicably Well With The Ladies

Kyle Buchanan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

They're one of Hollywood's most glorious odd couples: pixie dream girl Natalie Portman and Manson-resembling folk singer Devendra Banhart. Still, despite the fact that Portman was game enough to appear as an octopus in one of Banhart's videos, she still can't seem to shake those naysayers clucking, "Is she really going out with him?" She is — and she's hardly the first fresh-scrubbed starlet to fall for a charming, soap-eschewing bohemian. With the help of Molly McAleer, we've put together a Top Ten list of the world's most loved-up hippie womanizers. Is it their devil-may-care facial hair, their free love attitudes, or their penchant for sharing necklaces that draws in Hollywood's most beautiful ingenues? Burn some incense and meditate on the subject — we'll be out back crafting a swingset made of hemp and spit.

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Natalie Portman And 'Ratty-Assed' Boyfriend Invite You Into Their Trippy 'Tantric Revelry'

Molly Friedman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Feel like crying today? Great! Thanks to Natalie Portman, queen of bizarre short films that never fail to please, a new music video collaboration with her homeless-but-hot folk singer boyfriend Devendra Banhart will bring on the tears. Whether they’re from fits of laughter or rage, we can’t say for sure. What we do know? This acid trip of a video starring Natalie as Princess Carmensita and Devendra as her “ratty-assed Compadré,” whose impressive Harry Potter treasure trail peeks out from various loincloths, might just be the best short Natalie has ever been in. Sure, her Gangsta Rap on SNL was epic (“All the kids lookin’ up to me can suck my dick!”), her bare butt saved Hotel Chevalier from putting us to sleep, and the best short film from Paris, Je T’Aime featured Natalie in one of the most romantic visions of Paris we’ve seen to date. But can any of these compare to killer snakes flying out of her eyes, demon avatars best viewed while stoned, or watching Natalie transform herself into an octopus, whose tentacles Devendra “entangles himself in”? Watch this truly bizarre video after the jump.

From what we can tell, Devendra plays the Ewan McGregor savior type to Natalie's Nicole Kidman-esque captive, à la Moulin Rouge, rescuing her from some kind of King capable of multiplying himself in an effort to hypnotize the doomed lovers. But thanks to a magic rainbow attack thrust from Devendra's forehead and dusted with Natalie's "divine aura," the King is dead. Unfortunately, a Goddess of Change lures Nat's hero away by wearing nothing but blue body paint (Devendra "likes her dress"), and our Princess pouts, turns herself into an octopus and, well, we finally get it. Banhart is not some scruffy hobo undeserving of the most likable actress in town — he's kind of gorgeous, his torso is kind of mesmerizing, and as for the song? It's headed straight into our iPod as soon as we finish this post.

NATALIE PORTMAN GOES BOLLYWOOD IN BOYFRIEND'S MUSIC VIDEO [People]

If This Guy Can Date Natalie Portman, Then We All Have A Shot

Douglas Reinhardt — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:50:00 EDT

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If you're a music blog reading hipster, Devendra Banhart is best known as the hippie folk rocker that dozens (okay, maybe hundreds) of Pitchfork readers would go ga-ga over. But to the rest of the world, he's known as the Charles Manson lookalike who's dating sweet little Natalie Portman. Regardless of how you think of him, Banhart was spotted exiting a Greenwich Village sex shop yesterday afternoon. According to the photo service that took this picture, Banhart spent nearly two hundred dollars on sex toys. We're not sure how to react to this news, but one thing is certain — we really hope that this spending spree came as a result of Portman dumping Banhart. Otherwise, we'll never be able to look at Portman again without thinking about that Groucho Dildo. Yuck.

[Photo Credit: Flynet]

Natalie Portman's New Boyfriend: Loveable Hippie Or Serial Killer?

Molly Friedman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:45:00 EDT

When we first saw pictures of Natalie Portman walking through New York with her new boyfriend, we initially thought Nat had started volunteering at her local homeless shelter, acting as a mentor for one lucky (and possibly blind) hobo. But then they made out. So who is this caveman-esque guy and what on earth is Natalie thinking? While at first glance folksy singer Devendra Banhart hardly looks like a pretty boy, we found some far more flattering shots of Natalie's new arm candy with his guitar from years ago. And even if Devendra's put on a pound or two since they were taken, we still had to do a double take and make sure we weren't looking at photos of Jim Morrison himself. Judge for yourself after the jump.

But just as we were ready to forgive Devendra for his silly name and give our stamp of approval, we read that his latest album was called Little Boys. And he really does sing about...little boys. As Banhart told Stereogum, he "watched the movie Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, about NAMBLA...swimming in my head was the idea of a song about a schizophrenic hermaphrodite with the male and female physical characteristics in one body." And suddenly that shaggy beard and set of piercing dark eyes looked less Morrison and more Manson.

[Photo credits: Ramey via People, Wikipedia, Rantsnjibes]

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