Sharon Stone's Lopsided Rack Honored By Bad Cinema Kudosfest

Seth — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:20:32 EST

Members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have set for themselves one of the most difficult tasks imaginable: Every year, they sift through piles of detritus in an attempt at narrowing an overly crowded field down to a few outstanding instances of big-screen turkeydom. They then bestow among the most deserving of these cinematic poo-gems show business's most uncoveted honor, the Razzie. Leading the nominations this year with seven nominations is Sharon Stone's universally panned return to the icepicks-and-exposed-beaver terrain that first put her on the map, Basic Instinct 2. Tied for most noms, including Worst Picture and Worst Remake/Rip-Off, was the Wayans brothers' Little Man:

Shawn and Marlon Wayans shared a worst-actor nomination, while sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff shared a worst-actress nomination for "Material Girls."
The other worst-picture nominees were the fantasies "BloodRayne" and "Lady in the Water" and the thriller "The Wicker Man."

Joining Stone and the Duffs in the worst-actress category were Lindsay Lohan for "Just My Luck," Kristanna Loken for "BloodRayne" and Jessica Simpson for "Employee of the Month."
"Basic Instinct 2" also had a nomination for worst screen couple for Stone's "lopsided breasts."

While Stone is anticipated to be the night's big winner, neither she nor her asymmetrical rack are expected to be big enough sports to show up to collect their awards, à la Halle Berry. The race is still very much a wide-open field, however, and we wouldn't be surprised if a Razzie night upset were to give Wicker Man—a clip reel of which making its way around the internets has managed to thrill a whole new generation of bad cinema aficionados with its nightmarish vision of Nick Cage in a bear suit punching chicks out—were to steal the top honors of Worst Picture and Worst Screen Couple for Cage and his ursine disguise.

RAZZIE Voters Get Back to BASICs In Picking the Berry Worst of 2006 [Razzies.com]
'Instinct 2,' 'Little Man' lead year's worst [CNN/AP]

Nicholas Cage Buys A House As Creepy As He Is

Seth — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:49:11 EDT

As international airport security checkpoints are being frantically refitted with urinals and spitbuckets in a panicked effort to confiscate every last drop of errant fluid that may later be turned into a deadly detonation device, it seems, for better or worse, that World Trade Center couldn't have chosen a more appropriate weekend to premiere/re-scare the shit out of us. Satisfied that his work here is done, WTC star Nicholas Cage has reinvested some of the dividends from his Campaign of Healing™ into himself, purchasing his very own castle way off in, of all places, low-on-terrorists'-to-do-list Bavaria:

Last month he bought a castle in Bavaria called Schloss Neidstein. The inspiration? His mom.
"Her ancestors are all from good old Bavaria," Cage, 42, tells the German magazine Bunte about his mother, dancer Joy Vogelsang. [...]

Schloss Neidstein sits on a hill with a stunning view of its 395 acres of forest, meadows and fields. The castle itself has 28 rooms, including 10 bedrooms and five bathrooms - 9,688 square feet in total.

The story about his mom is sweet, though we have a feeling his purchase has less to do with honoring his Teutonic heritage, and more to do with the eccentric actor wanting to fully embrace the vampire lifestyle. It's a delusion that first planted itself in Cage's head early in his career, with his cockroach-eating turn in Vampire's Kiss, and most probably won't end until Cage lies with a broken leg in a thicket thirty feet below his bedroom window, after unsuccessfully thinking his bat wings would carry him across the Bavarian night sky.

Nicolas Cage's New Home is His Castle [People.com]

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