Internet gossip hound Perez Hilton has his own idea of just what it takes to be a real MTV Movie Awards host, and he's throwing down a challenge to this year's master of ceremonies, "The Love Guru" star Mike Myers. Hope you've been practicing your moves and meeting with your vocal coach, Mike!
The MTV Movie Awards will air live on MTV on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, with MTV News' "Coming Attractions" preshow kicking the evening off at 7:30 p.m. ET! Meanwhile, stay tuned to the MTV Movies Blog and MovieAwards.MTV.com.
American audiences may have just been introduced to Russell Brand thanks to a scene-stealing performance in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," but the British comic is quite well known in his native land. No, REALLY well known, after Brand wrote a “warts and all” autobiography, “My Booky Wook,” which chronicled his rise to fame and his subsequent drug addictions.
Brand would like to keep it that way (the part about Americans not knowing about his past, that is), telling MTV News that he's decided not to move forward with a movie adaptation of "Booky Wook," which was to be directed by "24 Hour Party People" helmer Michael Winterbottom.
"I'm not going to make the Booky Wooky into a film anymore because then people in America will learn what my past is like. [Of course],people that can be bothered to read will know that I have a checkered past," he laughed. "Fingers crossed, we give them a book I've written already, I don't have to do no more homework!" Read more...
