Idolator

Last month, we told you about Cleo, Steven Soderbergh's musical about the life of Cleopatra that will supposedly star Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Jackman, and the songs of Guided By Voices. (Also it's in 3-D.) Today, a new castmember was announced for the flick: Ray Winstone, whose musical-acting chops can be seen in the above scene from Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains. He'll play Julius Caesar in the film, which is bringing together '70s rock operas, former Spin writers, the music of Robert Pollard, and backlots trussed up to look like ancient Egypt in ways that I don't think any of us have ever seen, except maybe during Theraflu hazes. More »

Along with the news that Ryan Gosling has been hand-selected by Courtney Love as the man who will play Kurt Cobain—and get raked over the coals by pretty much every self-styled pundit who owns a copy of Nevermind forthwith—comes the tidbit that she has chosen Scarlett Johansson to play, um, Courtney Love. You can debate the visual accuracy of this bit of casting via the compare-and-contrast pics above (the one of Courtney's actually from 1995, but it's still a pretty good representation of her pre-plastic-surgery self, I think), but as someone who knows Hole's catalog—and Courtney's persona during the Live Through This years—pretty well, I would think that La Love would want someone who could, y'know, emote to play her, va-va-voom curves be damned. More »