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He’s had quite a year, having been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, as well as some major movie success. And last night Hugh Jackman took over the reigns as the host of the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
The “Australia” stud gushed about his experience as host, telling press, “I had the time of my life.” But despite his best efforts, critics largely panned the Oscars.
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| | Hugh Jackman brings it for an incredible opening Oscars act | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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With no major upsets expected this year, and no blockbusters nominated, the Oscars really had to shake things up to interest viewers and keep them watching for the full three plus hours of industry-focused awards. From most people’s estimation, Jackman’s first act succeeded. The Oscars definitely have a different feel this year.
The introductory song and dance number was incredible. Jackman performed quick musical tributes to all of the nominated pictures after joking that he wasn’t able to do an opening number due to the recession. A rudimentary set was then brought out to represent the Slumdog Millionaire game show set with pizza boxes.
Jackman’s next number was for Frost/Nixon. He dragged a faux surprised Anne Hathaway from the first row of audience. Anne can really sing as we’ve seen on SNL.
There was an hysterical skit with dancers in unitards for The Reader, with Jackman singing that he hadn’t seen it. He posed with his face behind figures of different ages for Benjamin Button, eliciting laughter from star Brad Pitt in the first row. Hugh was his hands on knees for Wrestler, ending up in a hastily-made ring with two cut-out Oscars.
He sang at the end “I am the Oscars, I am the Wrestler, I am the Reader, I’m Wolverine” and earned a standing ovation.
Hugh promised drunk, naked Oscars with some YouTube moments and he seems to have brought it. He still has to deliver on the naked part, although I’ll settle for shirtless.
We’ll update this post with the video when it becomes available.
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| | S.S. Happy Birthday, Love, Hugh | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Yes, today happens to be a national holiday and my birthday, so I’m presenting myself with some nice pictures of Hugh Jackman being the bearer of mass hotness that he is. He always seems to be so gentlemanly when he’s out, he’s always smiling for the cameras–it’s like he’s smiling for me! Yes he is!
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| | Hugh Jackman hopes the Oscars are like a big, drunken, naked party | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hosting the Oscars seems like a great honor that no one would really want, since every host since Billy Crystal has been almost universally panned. Jon Stewart hosted in 2006 and 2008, and the episodes of The Daily Show where the correspondents made fun of his performance were always more funny than Stewart during the ceremony itself. Let?s just not even mention poor David Letterman.
The new Oscars producers threw us for a loop when they bypassed the traditional TV host/stand-up comedians and hired the “Sexiest Man Alive” Hugh Jackman as host.
For those who only recognize Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, he?s not a novice. He hosted the Tony awards from 2003 to 2005, and won an Emmy in 2004. He is quick-witted with improv and knows how to work a room, as he did as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz.
Plus, he?s really hot. He told Entertainment Weekly he?s not afraid to use his sex appeal if it helps turn the Oscars into a party.
I?m Australian. I think it goes with the citizenship, doesn?t it? When I have a party, the first thing I do is give the guests a shot glass with a little vodka or something. Now, I can?t do that for all 6,000 people at the Kodak Theatre, but I?ll be trying to do it in spirit. It?s going to be a celebration of movies. We?re in the world of showbiz, and the Oscars have to be more show than business.
?Nudity. I?m planning on getting nude for a lot of it?.No words, nothing, just me having a shower. That?s also a very Australian thing to do at a party.
[From Entertainment Weekly, print edition, February 6 issue]
With Oscar ratings in decline since Titanic had its banner year, new producers Bill Condon and Laurence Mark appear to be going for a more ?That?s Entertainment!? vibe.
Listen, it?s too early to give details, but it?s fair to say there?s going to be singing and dancing. The fact that they?ve hired me is a sign they?re taking a different route. I?m not a stand-up comedian, and that?s generally the way things have gone. But I?ve done some hosting, and I really enjoy it?.I do love things going off script. I hope there?ll be some spontaneity. If people know what to expect, then your party?s dead.
[From Entertainment Weekly, print edition, February 6 issue]
Hugh admits the Oscars are too long and promises they?ll be shorter, although he doesn?t say how, considering they?re still handing out 24 awards, including those that few people outside of show business care about, like Art Direction and Sound Mixing.
Hugh confesses that he dreamed of someday hosting the Academy Awards after his Tony gig, but he figured it would be at least another decade before it might happen.
I couldn?t get back to sleep, I was so excited?.I told my wife and she was jumping up and down on the bed. The thought of a kid from the northern suburbs of Sydney hosting it, that took a while to sink in.
[From Entertainment Weekly, print edition, February 6 issue]
Hugh is a great talent, Viva Laughlin notwithstanding, so I hope he does well as host. If he flops, then I hope he at least hosts some of the show from the shower.
The Oscars with Hugh Jackman as host will air February 22.
Hugh Jackman is shown out in NY with his son Oscar, 3, daughter Ava, 3 and a half, and his wife of 12 years Deborra-Lee Furness. Credit: Splash News.
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Hugh Jackman told The Sun how his wife likes him to wear his movie clothes in the bedroom like the white blazer from Australia!
The actor, 40, said: ?She loves me in costume because it makes her feel like she?s having an affair ? in a good way.?
The pair met in 1995 on an Aussie TV drama.
Hugh said: ?I played a prisoner with tattoos and she?d say, ?Don?t take your tattoos off tonight!??
I wonder if she had him dress up as Wolverine too? I can think of some good uses for those blades!!!
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| | Nicole Kidman couldn't bear to watch herself in 'Australia,' critics agree | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Nicole Kidman gave an interview to a Sydney radio station in which she revealed that she had a difficult time sitting through her epic film, Australia, and that it was only the second movie she’d acted in that she’d actually watched in her entire career. Then she said that she fled her native Australia immediately after the film opened in an attempt to avoid reading any negative coverage of her performance:
It was expected to be the blockbuster that saved Australia’s tourist industry - because with ‘local star’ Nicole Kidman in the key role, where could it go wrong?
But in her eyes, her role in the 50 million movie Australia was a flop.
She admits in an astonishing interview with a Sydney radio station that she couldn’t bear to watch it when she attended the premiere in the harbour city in November.
Miss Kidman, who plays an English aristocrat who falls for a cowboy played by fellow Australian Hugh Jackman as they drive a herd of cattle across the outback, told radio station 2dayFM that she couldn’t look at the movie and be proud of what she had done.
In fact, she revealed, she ’squirmed’ in her seat throughout the Sydney premiere.
Miss Kidman, who attended the premiere with country singer husband Keith Urban, said: ‘I can’t look at this movie and be proud of what I’ve done.
‘I sat there and I looked at Keith and went “Am I any good in this movie?”
‘But I thought Brandon Walters (an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy) and Hugh Jackman were wonderful.
‘It’s just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all.’
She said she was so nervous about her performance that she fled Australia as soon as the premiere was over with her husband and their five-month-old daughter Sunday Rose.
‘We ran because I didn’t want to read anything. I didn’t want to know.
‘I saw my sister and my family and we saw Keith’s family and then we were straight on a plane.’
She said she had only attended the premiere to please director Baz Luhrmann, with whom she made ‘Moulin Rouge’.
‘I don’t usually see my films, but because of Baz I had to see it. I saw “Moulin Rouge”.
‘I’ve really only seen that and this in my whole career.
‘It gets worse as I get older.’
[From The Daily Mail]
Kidman’s performance has been widely panned by just about every critic out there. In fact it had a lot of people asking if she could really act anymore. To be fair, an overly-Botoxed brow never helped an actress in terms of her actual performance. But to say Kidman came off as stiff is an understatement. I can’t help but wonder if Nicole would feel similarly about her other movies if she’d seen them. I can see how hard it would be to watch yourself on film, no matter what. I can’t even imagine how you could sit through a nearly three hour movie when you come off as flat and awkward.
Nicole has often been labeled frosty, and she has picked some roles that work well with it. That might be something to consider in the future. Along with keeping syringes away from her forehead.
Here?s Nicole and Keith taking Sunday Rose to church on Christmas morning in Nashville. Images thanks to Fame.
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| | Hey Ladies! It's Hugh Jackman! | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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I thought it was about time for some more eye candy for us ladies, and here to deliver it is none other than the gorgeous, delicious, manly man Hugh Jackman, who also seems to be quite the family man. Can he possibly be any more effing hot? You’re welcome, ladies, you’re welcome.
Here he is out shopping and playing with his kids, Oscar and Ava. Awwww!
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| | Hugh Jackman reveals the secrets to his buff body | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We hear so much about the diets and work outs of female celebrities in Hollywood, but the man whose body I most admire has given up his secrets to that physique. And it sounds like really hard work.
Your body is incredible. What training do you do?
I started training intensively in the gym two years ago to get into the right shape for X-Men Origins. It meant my body got bigger and bigger during Australia, and [director] Baz Luhrmann said: ?I?m not sure if we can cut our film together because you keep changing.? I train for an hour and a half a day, five days a week ? weights, treadmill, rowing, everything. Then I do what my trainer calls ?a play session? on the sixth, which previously would have killed me in itself.
What about diet and eating?
It?s all about eating. I get up at 4am and eat egg whites, then every three hours after that. I have a combination of protein or steamed vegetables and brown rice. Then after midday, no rice or carbohydrates. It?s just vegetables and meat or fish.
You must be incredibly disciplined.
I?m not going to live this way for the rest of my life. I do have treats, I love dark chocolate, beer and red wine. I love going out for dinner and do cheat sometimes.
Metro UK
It?s good to hear that Hugh really does suffer for that body, because if he tried to claim that it was the result of running around after his kids or a fast metabolism, then I would just have to roll my eyes. Do we ever believe it when a celebrity says that? They make it sound too easy.
Now, to talk my husband into adopting this regime?he has the beer part down!
The studio behind his new X-Men spin off Wolverine know that body is well worth publicizing ? they?ve released promotional shots for the upcoming movie and in at least two of them make excellent use of a shirtless High. I?m not sure about the grimacing facial expressions, but I guess this is Hugh as Wolverine, not Hugh as the world?s sexiest man alive.
Hugh Jackman is shown shirtless at the beach on 10/13/08. Credit: Bauergriffinonline.
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| | Hugh Jackman Bids Farewell to the Big Apple | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Following a night of family fun the previous evening, Hugh Jackman was spotted toting a baby seat as he packed up his car and left New York City on Monday (December 29).
Accompanied by his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their two kids, the “X-Men” hunk said his farewells before driving off - only to be spotted by paparazzi a short while later grabbing drinks at a New Jersey gas station with son Oscar by his side.
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Taking some time out of his busy schedule to tend to his adorable family, Hugh Jackman was spotted all over New York City yesterday (December 28).
The “Australia” stud spent the afternoon with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their adopted kids Oscar (8) and Ava (3) at Hudson River Park, playing on the playground and kicking the soccer ball.
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