Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles correspondent. He lives in Malibu, and divides his time between the local beach and the Hollywood Hills. He headed out west in May 2008, and has being trying to make sense of the First City of Showbusiness ever since. You can track his every move at twitter.com/guyadams.
This weekend’s box-office charts will make ugly reading for Disney, whose ambitious $150m kids flick The Sorcerer’s Apprentice opened to a raspberry of public disinterest, but they will make even uglier reading for Jerry Bruckheimer, the superstar producer behind the ill-fated project.
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 3:41 am
There is sadness for people who, like me, have in recent years enjoyed the occasional spectacle of America getting its collective knickers in a twist over, say, Bono saying a rude word at an awards ceremony, or Janet Jackson displaying half a bejewelled nipple (see above) for a fraction of a second on live TV .
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 15 July 2010 at 4:17 am
It wasn’t so long ago that being moderately famous seemed, quite literally, like a license to get away with murder… Well things are certainly different now.
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 6:53 am
It’s been open season on Mel Gibson today, after the website Radaronline claimed to have heard a secretly-recorded tape in which the actor told the mother of his child: “You look like a fucking pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers, it will be your fault.”
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Friday, 2 July 2010 at 3:59 am
Knight & Day has now been in cinemas for exactly two weeks, in which time it has managed to make a total of $44 million at the global box office. Since the film’s production budget was $117 million, and tens of millions more were spent on marketing it, this is not exactly an unqualified success
By Guy Adams | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 6:53 am
The dispute regarding Arizona’s new law cracking-down on illegal immigrants has seen endless allegations of racism thrown around, principally by opponents who fear that it will lead to police harassment of anyone who happens to have olive skin.
Behind the scenes, though, the ongoing controversy is also sparking an ugly and increasingly tribal clash between members [...]
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 30 April 2010 at 2:47 am
THE BEST of Tiger's comments this afternoon came not during his interview with ESPN's reporter Tom Rinaldi, but instead during his chat The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman, who used her feminine wiles to unpeel the onion of that comically-guarded personality.
You can read transcripts of the two stage-managed chats here and here. You can watch the ESPN one here. The Golf Channel [...]
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 22 March 2010 at 1:04 am
Sandra Bullock's decision to cancel her trip to London for last night's premiere of The Blind Side do to “unforeseen personal circumstances” has America's supermarket tabloids speculating about the potential state of her marriage.
According to no less reliable a source than In Touch magazine, Bullock’s heavily-tattooed husband, Jesse James, has been having it away with [...]
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 18 March 2010 at 5:36 am
Alaska’s most famous daughter has been in Los Angeles since Tuesday, when with typical chutzpah, she chose Jay Leno’s sofa, at the studios of NBC, one of the world’s biggest broadcasting conglomerates, to rail against the “mainstream media.”
Today, she and her entourage descended on Hollywood, where they trawled through pre-Oscar celebrity “gifting” suites with the [...]
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 4 March 2010 at 6:48 am
Football is again under fire after cancelling the premiere of a film intended to be launched at Wembley Stadium next week to counteract homophobia in the professional game.
Gay campaigner Peter Tatchell, of the protest group Outrage, has described the mothballing by the Football Association of the 90-second online film – made by advertising agency Ogilvy – as a [...]
By Guy Adams | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 8 February 2010 at 11:21 am
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