Hollywood star quietly compromises artistic integrity
Hollywood actors pretend to have integrity by turning down adverts in their native America, only to sneak off to Japan to make a shit-load of Yen by starring in ads that their agent swears won’t be seen outside of Japan. If you’ve seen Lost In Translation, you know how this works.
Except… we have the worldwide internet (the clue is in “worldwide”) now, which means anyone can visit YouTube and watch Messrs Clooney, De Niro, Pitt etc. sucking on a fat corporate exhaust pipe.
In this recent example of shilldom, Brad Pitt sells SoftBank mobile phones by push-starting a Citroen 2CV. Kerching!
Random stuff we found by the side of the internet…
• First test drive of the all-new Ford Mustang KITT (pictured), star of the forthcoming Knight Rider movie. Does it still have a “Turbo Boost” button? Jalopnik has the answer.
The best of the rest:
• Is there a future for Nascar’s “Car of Tomorrow”? [Sports Illustrated]
• For the last time this season, Martin Brundle answers a whole lot of F1-related questions [ITV]
• Top 10 vehicles made out of Lego [Le Blog Moto]
Jarno Trulli, who has a home in the Alpine resort of Pontresina, will next week teach the Swiss ski team in the subtle art of how to drive a racing car very fast. The likes of Didier Cuche, Daniel Albrecht and Marc Berthod will assemble at an airfield in the Swiss municipality of Bad Ragaz for a lesson from Toyota’s evergreen pilot.
Maybe in the winter, Cuche and co. will return the favour and teach Trulli how to ski like a downhill racer.
Here’s a promotion shot for the new 007 movie, Quantum of Solace, showing Bond girl Olga Kurylenko behind the wheel of a golden Ford Ka. Ford won’t say if Bond himself will drive the Ka in the upcoming film, but it’s a long way from the sexy supercars of Bonds gone by.
Daniel Craig drove a humdrum Ford Focus in Casino Royale. That was the second instalment of a three-movie sponsorship deal between Ford and the Bond producers that began with the woeful Die Another Day in 2002 - remember the “invisible” Aston Martin (back when Ford owned Aston)?
The Focus was bad enough, but god we hope Bond doesn’t end up driving the Ka. It’s just wrong - we could hardly think of a less appropriate car for an uber-cool secret agent. What next, Ernst Stavro Blofeld on a Segway? M on a moped?
Actress trapped in car by vicious pack of snappers
Poor Sienna. First she accidentally ends up topless on a yacht with a married man, now she’s been forced to run a gauntlet of paparazzi at a gas station in Malibu. The pack of paps surrounded her as she was filling up with petrol. She asked them to leave, saying “I’m just trying to fill up my f**king car!”
But paps don’t know the meaning of the word “leave”, so of course they stayed and took even more pics. Sienna retreated to the relative safety of her car, and an attendant filled up for her. She then drove to the nearest police station to ask for help. Oh, grow a backbone you waste of skin.
As Grid Crasher suspected, it looks like the rumour that Nicole was seeing will.i.am is bulls**t. This photo, taken at LAX airport yesterday, shows that F1’s hottest couple are stuck on each other. Or she’s stuck on Lewis, at least.
