Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney Engaged: Singer & Actor Getting Married

Congrats are in order! Lady Gaga is reportedly engaged to actor Taylor Kinney after he proposed on the most romantic day of the year. So sweet — find out all the details here!

Lady Gaga has anything but a bad romance. In fact, the sexy singer, 28, just became engaged to actor Taylor Kinney, 33, after he proposed on Valentine’s Day. The happy couple allegedly celebrated their engagement at her family’s restaurant NYC restaurant, Joanne Trattoria, a new report claims.

Taylor Kinney & Lady Gaga Engaged — Actor & Singer Are Getting Married

The happy news was first reported by Us Weekly. The site claims that Lady Gaga was pictured outside her NYC apartment on Feb. 16, smiling from ear to ear. Wearing a purple fur coat, she strategically covered her ring finger with her other hand.

Gaga and Taylor first met on the set of the singer’s “You & I” music video in 2011. Interestingly, she wore her mother’s wedding dress in scenes of the video, which starred the Chicago Fire actor.
 

Lady Gaga’s Engagement Ring — Singer Shows Off Diamond Ring On Instagram

 

They started dating a few months later, but split in May 2012 before reuniting the following month.

Apparently, Lady Gaga has been ready to say “I do” with Taylor for quite some time. During a recent interview with Howard Stern, she said, “He is the right guy. How do we know? It’s this feeling…”

Lady Gaga’s Dream Wedding

So what will their wedding be like? She teased it a bit during the same interview with Howard Stern.

“If I get married, I’ll be hanging out in a pickup truck at a David’s Bridal while my stylist is screaming at me,” she said.

HollywoodLife.com has reached out to both Lady Gaga and Taylor’s reps for comment.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you happy for Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney? Are you surprised they’re engaged? Tell us how you feel!

Cr  :  Hollywoodlife / Chris Rogers

George Lucas beats Steven Spielberg to title of Hollywood's richest movie mogul

Research firm names Star Wars creator as Tinseltown’s wealthiest film-maker, with fellow director-producer Spielberg in third place

Top of the heap ... George Lucas. Photograph: Brad Barket/Brad Barket/Invision/AP

Star Wars creator George Lucas has been named as Hollywood’s richest mogul in a survey published by Wealth-X, a Singapore-based organisation which describes itself as “the world’s leading ultra-high net worth (UHNW) intelligence and prospecting firm”.
Wealth-X say Lucas has a personal net worth of $5.4bn (£3.5bn), the majority of which would appear to derive from the $4bn sale of his production company, Lucasfilm, to Disney in 2012. Lucas has also benefited from producing six (and directing four) Star Wars films, and controlling the ancillary merchandising and spin-off materials.
Just behind Lucas is the veteran Israeli producer Arnon Milchan, responsible for Once Upon a Time in America and Pretty Woman, and whose New Regency Productions is a profilic independent outfit within Hollywood, counting LA Confidential, Mr and Mrs Smith and Fantastic Mr Fox among its credits. Next is Steven Spielberg, who aside from his celebrated directorial career has credits on a string of films through his Dreamworks studio, including the blockbuster Transformers films.
No woman features on the list, and the majority of the names are over age 50. The youngest person on the list is 40-year-old Ryan Kavanaugh, whose production company, Relativity Media, has been involved in such films as American Gangster, A Serious Man and The Social Network. James Cameron, director of the two biggest-grossing films of all time, Avatar and Titanic, manages 10th place on the list.

Full list of richest moguls

1. George Lucas – $5.4bn
2. Arnon Milchan – $5.2bn
3. Steven Spielberg – $3.3bn
4. Austin Hearst – $1.9bn
5. Ryan Kavanaugh – $1bn
6. Jeffrey Katzenberg – $910m
7. Thomas Tull – $870m
8. Jerry Bruckheimer – $850m
9. Steve Tisch – $720m
10. James Cameron – $670m

Cr  :  The Guardian

Birdman: 'spectacular'

Is it a bird? Michael Keaton soars in Birdman  

Photo: Fox Searchlight

 

Michael Keaton has a Dark Knight of the soul in this career-defining, genre-defying superhero film

Almost the first thing we see in Birdman, the new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a faded Hollywood star named Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) meditating in his dressing room. What’s unusual about the shot, apart from the fact that Riggan is hovering a clear three feet above the floorboards, is that from that moment until 10-or-so minutes from the end of the movie, the camera doesn’t so much as blink.

 

The vast majority of Iñárritu’s hilarious, beautiful, film-defying film plays out in an apparently continuous, cut-free sequence that prowls through the St James Theatre in New York City, where Riggan hopes to resuscitate his flagging career.
We’ve seen the long-take trick before, perhaps most notably in Hitchcock’s 1948 chamber thriller Rope, which masked five of its 10 cuts by slinking in close to its cast. But in Birdman, the effect’s entirely different. Working with the great cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Iñárritu turns the film into a high-wire act – live, unpredictable, light as air, yet also fatalistically locked on course. While it’s going on, you’re glued to the impossibility of what you’re seeing. Once it’s over, you can’t believe what you saw.
Yet Birdman isn’t a piece of empty showmanship. It’s a piece about empty showmanship, and its unhinged premise – a fairground-mirror image of the career of its leading man, who starred in Tim Burton’s two mega-grossing Batman films then quit the franchise on principle – couldn’t have been told in a smarter way.

Birdman is a film about the seductions of fame and prestige

Riggan is a casualty of film: two decades ago, he bailed from the smash-hit Birdman superhero franchise between its third and fourth instalments, but his enormous fan-base didn’t follow. Now, the only thing that can save his ego is acclaim, which is why he’s on Broadway, starring in and directing a play he’s adapted from a Raymond Carver short story.
But as the show crunches through its disastrous previews and towards opening night, reality springs a leak. In floods the psychological turmoil of the Carver story and also blockbuster carnage: giant, robotic crows peck at skyscrapers, while military aircraft strafe the Broadway crowds.
And hovering over it all is the spectre of Birdman himself – normally invisible, but sometimes glimpsed in his beaked mask and feathered cape – dripping poison in Riggan’s ear, like a malevolent Jiminy Cricket.
Riggan’s mania is fuelled by the seductions of fame and prestige, and how the two are, ultimately, nothing alike: “You’re not an actor, you’re a celebrity,” sneers Lindsay Duncan’s toxic theatre critic when Riggan buttonholes her after a disastrous preview night. But it’s also a film about faces, and the way in which all of us start to crumble the moment our masks drop.
There’s a scene in which Riggan’s fresh-from-rehab daughter (a superb Emma Stone) punctures her father’s pretensions with a monologue that’s delivered like a knitting needle to the gut. But while the words are furious, it’s the involuntary wince of sadness that flashes across her features in the silence that follows that makes us feel their point.
Keaton gives, in at least two senses, the performance of his career. He summons up all the manic comic energy of his early work in films like Night Shift and Beetlejuice, but Riggan seems half-fried by it, and as the heat increases on all sides, you can almost smell the sizzle. And he could hardly be better supported: Edward Norton is uproarious as his preening, co-star; Naomi Watts and Andrea Riseborough perfect as actresses jangled by insecurities; Zach Galifianakis tamped-down and terse as Riggan’s bumptious producer; Stone tremendous as the lone voice of reason, faltering and defiant.
This is grand, spectacular, star-powered cinema – a cosmological blockbuster – that makes us ask again what cinema can do and be. Call it a Dark Knight of the soul.

Birdman is released in the UK on January 1 2015

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Cr  :   Robbie Collin from The Telegraph