Epstein Secrets

ould win Best Foreign Film. He told me The Artist would take Best Picture and Director. Actor was a tight race between Brad Pitt, Jean Dujardin, the “Clooney of France” and the real George Clooney. George was essentially running against a version of himself, which only slightly amused him. The biggest dil

Williams with her daughter Matilda Ledger headed to the swimming pool. Innocently standing there with no makeup she was remarkably the antithesis of Marilyn Monroe. I told her she so deserved the Oscar for her mesmerizing transformation which did not cheer her up knowing the Emma Stone 60 | AVENUE MAGAZ

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ne or two to win for weeks. Their ca=paign fell apart after Xmas by over exposing George and sending a confusin= message on tv spots...first showing Clooney crying over the dying wife th=t was not convincing and then showing him running around in flip flops ind=cating a comedy. They never recognized that

s turned the press =ff. Harvey worried for months about how to get Meryl the Oscar when he had prom=sed it to Michelle Williams for her sensational Marilyn. As much as Meryl=wanted it, she could only bring herself to do limited publicity for a bad =ilm. On "The Help" Disney overplayed the race card with

uced HBO's "Game Change" director Jay Roach who is an authority on Hitler, to George Clooney who is writing a thriller about the Nazis stealing art. Clooney whispered, "The Frenchman is winning." I thanked Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett, got on the bus and prayed that I get invited back.

movie. I sat next to director, Michael Apted who was editing "Of Men and Mavericks," a surfer film he co-directed with Curtis Hanson. "My Week With Marilyn's" English director Simon Curtis insisted we join Kenneth Branagh at The Weinstein Company's bash at the Soho House in time to hear Tony Bennett sin