Hot Gossip Topics: Natalie Portman's Dancing, Lindsay's Name, Liz's Will....

By Michael Musto Thu., Mar. 31 2011 at 10:19 AM

They all came up at Daniel Nardicio's "Sh*t Show" last night at Bowery Poetry Club, where I gleefully addressed them all as a gossipy guest star.

Here are the topics, followed by my educated stabs at responses to them:

1--Natalie Portman didn't do most of her dancing in 'Black Swan', according to her body double. The director counters that she did 90% of it and the double was used just as a fallback.

Well, Don Ameche won the Oscar for performing a breakdance that he actually didn't do. Movies are about illusion, editing, and making you believe in unreal things. Still, I refuse to believe this is another Flashdance, with a fake "Maniac". I'm going to believe Natalie did every plie if it kills me. Otherwise, Oscar messed up again.

2--Lindsay one name.

Well, if your father was Michael Lohan, wouldn't you drop your surname? Especially if you could at the same time enter the glamorous world of Cher, Madonna, and Tiffany?

3--Victoria Jackson's homophobic comments.

Victoria who? Oh, yeah, the woman who briefly became famous thanks to Toonces the cat. Why has Glee become every loser's excuse to unleash their horrid homophobia? Hey, Vicki. Sliming the gays isn't the same as sliming Christians who slimed the gays first!

4--Liz Taylor left all her dough to AIDS charities.

I'm speechless with admiration. Even in death she's paving the way.

5--Rebecca Black's "Friday".

You know, the video that's gotten over 64 million clicks because it's the worst thing since organic pizza? I should make something so awful! Rebecca's obviously some kind of genius to capture the world's attention like this! But she should wipe that shit eating grin off her face. It's not "fun, fun, fun..."

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Dr. Phill

Blah Blah Blah, long live Elizabeth Taylor !

Almay

Mila might have seen Natalie do all her dances, but that doesn't mean that's what ended up in the final print after al that editing.

shegaveitherall

"She did do every ounce of every one of her dances." - Mila Kunis - I 100% believe that is the way Natalie is, she would not settle for anything less that putting in all that is physically possible given the time period. Plus she had to do so, as they could not have done good convincing face replacements in the shots where they were best to do if she hadn't danced the routine. Of course there is no way she would equal a ten plus year trained professional dancer, and use of a professional dancer plus cgi was the obvious way to do the film. The overall product was awesome to me. I'm sure most of what is seen on screen is Natalie untouched just simply do to the work involved in doing the cgi. It's not like they had a large budget, or spent a really long time in post production.

Winters

She went through a lot of ballet training, supposedly, but I guess not for the closeups.

Melinda9

This is really confusing. NPortman won the Oscar which I thought was for 'acting' because people thought she did the dancing in Black Swan. I don't think you had to be a ballet fanatic to see that even in the closeups, her head, neck and shoulders were incredibly stiff, unlike any principal dancer I've ever seen. It's like she has no feel for dance at all and no understanding of what ballet is all about. They should've spent the year of training making her look graceful in the closeups and acknowledged that a real ballerina was doing the rest. (aargh!)

Movielover

LOVE our Liz. There will never be another like her. Vicky Jaxson is a complete idiot and turd, with no taste, style or talent. No wonder she doesn't like gays. I heard her say on tv she didn't think women should be medical doctors. She lucked into semi fame on SNL, but she is really...blech! Glad her career is in the toilet.