The Megan in Red

Megan Fox was snapped from one of her better angles... at last night's premiere of Warner Bros.' "Jonah Hex" at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.

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Sex and the WTF is on Her Head?

Sarah Jessica Parker and her headdress at last night's London premiere of "Sex and the City 2," and the crab nebula.

So alike, and yet only one is stunningly beautiful.

Think Pink!

Chexy's Saturday Matinee

Here's a little gem from the Ed Sullivan Show... with Sammy Davis Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald.



Gnarly, dude!



Your Chexy has been eating a vegetarian diet for two weeks, and I feel great!




Here's Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon in 1937's "Ready, Willing and Able."



ty Decaying Hollywood Mansions

A Star is Born

Oh the horror. There's talk of remaking "A Star is Born" yet again, perhaps with Beyoncé and Russell Crowe.

There have been three so far; the 1937 version with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, then Judy Garland's version in 1954 with James Mason, and the ghastly 1976 version with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

The Janet Gaynor version has some great dialog and was one of the early color films. Janet walked away from Oscar-winning success in films in 1938, and returned nearly 20 years later for one more, "Bernardine" with Pat Boone, of all people.


In 1978, she appeared on the Oscar telecast, handing Diane Keaton the Best Actress award for "Annie Hall."


Her last acting gig was on "The Love Boat" in 1981.


Janet Gaynor was riding in a taxi in San Francisco in 1982 with her husband and Mary Martin and her manager. A drunk driver in a van ran a red light at Franklin and California Streets, hitting the cab, and Gaynor suffered 11 broken ribs, a ruptured bladder, a broken collar bone, kidney damage and pelvic fractures. The taxi driver and the drunk sustained minor injuries.


She lived for two more years. Martin's manager, Ben Washer, was killed. The van driver, Robert Cato, was convicted of drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter and sentenced to 3 years.



Gaynor is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her second husband, one of filmdom's great fashion designers, Adrian.


In September of '84, Cato was paroled after getting time off for good behavior. Janet died that same month of injuries attributed to the crash. Rather than pursue another charge against Cato, the DA chose not to investigate her death... at the request of Gaynor's family.

Happy Birthday, Beulah Bondi

Character actress Beulah Bondi was born in Chicago on this day in 1888. You likely know her best as Jimmy Stewart's mother, Ma Bailey, in "It's a Wonderful Life." She's terrifying in the "Life without George" sequence as the operator of a run-down boarding house.

She played Jimmy Stewart's mother in four films. (The other three are: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Human Hearts, and Vivacious Lady.)

Here she is, singing and dancing in 1948's, "So Dear to My Heart," a Disney country yarn with folksinger Burl Ives.



Beulah made her first Hollywood film "Street Scene" in 1931 -- she was 42, and went on to appear in over 70, with her last role on TV's "The Waltons." She also played Mrs. Greer in "The Snake Pit," who suffered from delusions of grandeur.


Her "Walk of Fame" star is at 1730 N. Vine St. (near Capitol Records).




She died New Year's Day 1981 at age 92 of injuries sustained in her three-story Hollywood Hills home when she fell over her cat.

"What distinguishes the real actor from the pseudo is the passionate desire to know what is going on in the hearts and minds of people."

--Beulah Bondi

Just Walk Away, Renée

Renée Zellweger as she appeared last night at the premiere of "My Own Love Song" at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, and an ugli fruit.

So alike, and yet only one is pretty.



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Check That!

Rotund movie producer Harvey Weinstein as he appeared last night at the Broadway opening of "The Addams Family" in NYC.

Nice tie!

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Cage Rage

German director Werner Herzog posed on Monday in front of a poster at a Paris press conference for his Nicolas Cage corker, "Bad Lieutenant."

Chexy's Big Poll:



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Madame Chair

"Precious" star Gabourey Sidibe as seen at the film's Australian premiere today in Sydney, and a girl sitting in an inflatable red chair.

So alike, and yet only one is liable to burst.

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Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk

Former Madonna stooge Guy Ritchie as he looked at the premiere of his film "Sherlock Holmes" in NYC, and stooge Curly Howard in his heyday.

So alike, and yet only one was born Jerome Lester Horwitz.

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