TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Joel Stratte-McClure NOT FOR KIDS?: Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro Toro may refer to:
Simple narrative typically of folk origin dealing with supernatural beings. Fairy tales may be written or told for the amusement of children or may have a more sophisticated narrative containing supernatural or obviously improbable events, scenes, and personages that received a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign film and opens on Friday. ``This is an incredibly brutal fable, and those of you expecting `Harry Potter' are going to have an aneurysm aneurysm (ăn`y  rĭzəm), localized dilatation of a blood vessel, particularly an artery, or the heart. ,'' Del Toro told Selma Blair and others attending the premiere at the Egyptian Theatre on Monday night. ``For anyone seeking a gentler type of film, there's still time to catch `Eragon.' '' The director of ``Hellboy'' continued his amusing critical assessment during the after party at Cafe des Artistes. ``This is not a fantasy film for the family -- unless you're one of the Mansons,'' Del Toro said as he headed to the bar. ``It's a complicated parable about choice and disobedience and definitely deserves its R rating.'' ``Pan's'' actors -- 12-year-old Ivana Baquero Ivana Baquero (born 11 June 1994) is a Catalan child actress best known for her starring role in Pan's Labyrinth. She was born in Barcelona, Spain. When she was 10 years old, director Guillermo del Toro chose her to play the lead role of Ofelia in Pan's Labyrinth , Maribel Verdu, Sergi Lopez and Doug Jones -- took Del Toro's quasi-disparaging remarks in stride Adv. 1. in stride - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in good spirits . ``Guillermo knows that a foreign-language, artsy art·sy adj. art·si·er, art·si·est Informal Arty. , layered film is a real crapshoot in America,'' said Jones, who spent five hours each day being made up as either the satyr satyr (sā`tər, săt`ər), in Greek mythology, part bestial, part human creature of the forests and mountains. Satyrs were usually represented as being very hairy and having the tails and ears of a horse and often the horns and legs of Pan or the Pale Man. ``And this Wizard of Oz-ish story is definitely a unique mix of horror, fantasy, fairy tale, history, relationship drama and moral ambiguity.'' What's the film's message? ``Is there a message?'' asked Verdu as she left the party to take an early-morning flight to Madrid. ``Everyone who sees it will have a different interpretation.'' But the meaning was clear for Baquero. ``I definitely take fairy tales This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as fairy tales by a strict definition much more seriously than I did before I made this movie.'' OH, THE HORROR: The scream queens in the low-budget eye-popper ``Black Christmas'' weren't surprised to see Tara Reid and ``Entourage's'' Rex Lee Rex Lee (born January 7, 1969) is a Chinese-American actor best known for his role on HBO's Entourage. Lee plays Lloyd, assistant to Ari Gold, the bombastic agent character played by Jeremy Piven. at Tuesday's premiere at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The two horror film fans wanted to be among the first to see why ``Christmas,'' which opens Monday, has prompted an outcry from organizations claiming that it's sacrilegious sac·ri·le·gious adj. 1. Grossly irreverent toward what is or is held to be sacred. 2. Having committed sacrilege. sac and contrary to the spirit of the holiday. ``I love to scream and get really scared,'' said Reid, who appeared in ``A Return to Salem's Lot'' when she was 12. ``I get even more excited when I hear that a film offends people who can't take a little splattered splat·ter v. splat·tered, splat·ter·ing, splat·ters v.tr. To spatter (something), especially to soil with splashes of liquid. v.intr. blood with their Christmas dinner.'' ``At heart I'm a teenage girl and just love the `Ugh' moments in horror films,'' added Lee, the ``Entourage'' star who let out a blood-curdling scream on the red carpet . The ``Christmas'' actresses who lose their heads in the film, including Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy and Kristen Cloke, insist this is high-quality horror. ``Usually they get a bunch of unknown girls and kill them off in this kind of film,'' said Winstead, who picked up a Hollywood Life Breakthrough award this month for her role in ``Bobby.'' ``But we are all very professional, established and talented. Of course, we get killed anyway.'' Trachtenberg insists that the film has a wholesome theme. ``Spend Christmas with your family or at the mall if you want to survive the holidays,'' she explained during the after party at Memphis. And definitely don't let a movie wreck your Christmas. ``We just wanted to put out an alternative to the Oscar contenders and holiday feel-good films,'' said Winstead. ``We didn't mean to offend anyone.'' CARREY CARES: Jim Carrey, who hosted the mother of all holiday parties at Paramount Studios last weekend, may be honored as the nation's official Santa Claus next Christmas. The actor not only collected more than 1,000 toys for needy Southern California children, he also put out nearly $500,000 to throw a benefit for the Los Angeles Fire Department's ``Spark of Love'' toy drive. ``I can't think of a better way to spend my life savings,'' quipped Carrey, who will appear in ``The Number 23'' early next year. Carrey had almost 500 helpers, including girlfriend Jenny McCarthy, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Ron Howard, Morgan Freeman, Brooke Shields, Cuba Gooding Jr., Brian Grazer, Mark Ruffalo, Virginia Madsen, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus and scores of kids. After all, who could resist the venue that transformed the lot's Stage Six into an elaborate winter wonderland with 200 pine trees, faux snow and two gigantic gingerbread gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of houses. There were also seven Christmas carolers, six face-painting elves, five emperor penguins, four live reindeer, three flowing chocolate fountains, two caricature artists and one Olympic-size ice skating rink. Carrey, McCarthy and their respective kids weren't the only ones to exhibit their talents on the ice following a show that featured professional skaters Sasha Cohen and Surya Bonaly. The second-hottest guy on skates was Cruise, who sped around the rink like an action star until he put on the brakes to glide with former feuding buddy Brooke Shields. And who did we see kissing Santa Claus? No, not Katie Holmes, who apparently only makes out with hubby Tom. But Jenny McCarthy in front of a playfully despondent de·spon·dent adj. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. de·spon  dent·ly adv. Carrey. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) BAQUERO: Takes her fairy tales seriously. Kevin Winter/Getty Images (2) REID: The scarier, the better ... and don't forget the blood Frazer Harrison/Getty Images (3) CARREY and McCARTHY: Ooops! (4) CARREY and McCARTHY redux Refers to being brought back, revived or restored. From the Latin "reducere." : We saw Jenny kissing Santa Claus Robert Evans |
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