I have the sneaking suspicion there’s a reason that I had never heard of this movie, until the studio started rolling out the pre-release publicity. A Little Bit of Heaven stars Kate Hudson as an escapee from a Lifetime tv movie, one of those free-spirits with a dreaded disease.  She’s got the pre-requisite group of close, quirky friends and of course the gorgeous love interest whom she doesn’t meet and fall in love with her until after she’s sick. In this case it’s her doctor, played by Gael Garcia Bernal.

Synopis:

A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN is a love story set in New Orleans about an irreverent young woman who unexpectedly falls in love with her doctor.

Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson) is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she’s afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.

Academy Award® nominee Kate Hudson is joined by Academy Award® winners Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as Gael Garcia Bernal (“Letters to Juliet”), Lucy Punch (“Dinner for Schmucks”), Romany Malco (“The 40 Year Old Virgin”), Rosemarie DeWitt (“Rachel Getting Married”), Steven Weber (“My One And Only”) and Treat Williams (“What Happens in Vegas”). The film is directed by Nicole Kassell (“The Woodsman”) from an original screenplay by Gren Wells.

The only thing that makes sense about this is the presence of Kate Hudson who had her one good role with Almost Famous and has been hanging on by her fingernails ever since.  What the hell are the rest of these people doing in this movie? Peter Dinklage? Because this was filmed in early 2010 before Game of Thrones made him a household name. Who's Whoopi Goldberg supposed to be, an angel? Am I simply too jaded to get the subtleties at play here? Watch the trailer and you decide.

Here’s the other reason I don’t have a lot of hope for this movie: It was released last year everywhere else in the world but the US where Kate Hudson is supposedly “a star”. A Little Bit of Heaven opens in US theaters and VOD on May 4^th (opposite The Avengers. I suppose this is what is known as counter-programming), but before that, on Ultra VOD April 3. 

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Adam Lambert looks quite devilish (in the naughtiest of ways bitches) and super fine with a closely cropped beard and moustache at the New York opening night of Whoopi Goldberg’s Broadway play Sister Act.

Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Hasselback, Joy Behar, Brooke Shields, Grace Hightower (Robert DeNiro’s wife)  and Sylvester Stallone joined Whoopi for the opening night of the show in which Whoopi is the lead producer.

Patina Miller makes her Broadway debut filling the shoes that Whoopi filled in the movie by the same name (and the sequel).

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Whoopi Goldberg is pissed off people and yesterday on The View, she let everybody know about it.  She read an article in the New York Times article about the lack of racial diversity among this year’s Academy Award nominees and when she didn’t see her name mentioned in the article, she flipped her lid.

Whoopi Goldberg Defends Christian Bale’s Crazy Ass

In case you didn’t know, she won an Oscar for her part in 1990′s Ghost, with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

“I am embarrassed to tell you it hurt me terribly,” Goldberg said on the View Monday. “When you win an Academy Award, that’s part of what you’ve done, your legacy. I will always be Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg, and [I] have been dismissed and erased by the New York Times film critics, who should know better.  Not only am I an Academy Award winner.  I have made over 50 films. I have been nominated twice – once for The Color Purple, once for Ghost. And I won for Ghost.This is not hidden information, and to these two critics, who are the head critics of the New York Times … it’s hard not to take it personally.  There’s a lot of stuff that people say and do but this is sloppy journalism.  People in Somalia know [about my Oscar win].  People in China know.”

A spokesperson for the Times responded with this statement,

“The error lies with those who are reading the story incorrectly,” the statement reads. “The point of the piece was not to name every black actor or actress who has been awarded an Oscar, it was to draw a comparison between the number who won prior to 2002 (the year Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won) and those who have won since.  And the story states very clearly that in 73 years, prior to 2002, only seven black actors/actresses won Oscars.”

So what do you think?  Who was out of line here?  Or was this really just a misunderstanding?

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Lady GaGa donned a red PVC dress and matching eye makeup to greet Queen Elizabeth at last night’s Royal Variety Show where she also performed Speechless, but had to tone down her performance:

“I wanted to do the suicide scene but was told it wouldn’t be appropriate. I’ve also had to tone things down generally. But it doesn’t matter because I’m a massive fan of the queen – I was so excited and have even been practicing my curtsey,”

“When I first came up with what I was doing I said, ‘Oh my f**king God, it’s fabulous, I hope the queen likes it!’ ”

I’m sure she did.  :)  Also attending:

• Whoopi Goldberg
• Michael Buble
• Anastacia
• Chaka Khan
• Bette Midler
• Lulu
• Diversity
• Frank Carson
• Katherine Jenkins
• Peter Kay
• Miley Cyrus

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Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig pose on the red carpet for their Broadway opening night of ‘A Steady Rain’ at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York.

Despite breaking the ‘Broadway record for the highest weekly gross of a non-musical production, making $1,167,954 in its opening week,’ the play itself is getting lukewarm reviews.  It runs until December 6.

Just the chance to see these two live in person would be worth it, don’t you think?  Family and friends alike came out to support these two great actors:

• Deborra-Lee Furness
• Satsuki Mitchell
• Bobby Flay
• David Schwimmer
• Zoe Buckman
• Matthew Morrison
• Naomi Watts
• Liev Schreiber
• Jerry Seinfeld
•  Ellen Barkin
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Gayle King
• Matthew Broderick
• Jeff Goldblum

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Vanessa Hudgens is seen leaving Mr. Chows in Los Angeles

Jewel is also seen outside of Mr. Chows

Matt Lauer is outside the NBC Studios in New York with his kids and his arm in a sling from his run in with a deer

Whoopi Goldberg signs autographs outside the BBC Studios in London, England

Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt leave Bar Deluxe in Los Angeles

Michael J. Fox is outside the Late Show With David Letterman

Jessica Alba is all smiles in Los Angeles as photographers surround her

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The ladies of  The View discuss the infamous Christian Bale tape.  You know, when it came out and I heard it, I thought to myself, if George Clooney were on Christian’s set, what would HE have done?  George has a stellar reputation for being respectful and not tolerating egos and mistreatment of people on movie sets (and elsewhere).  I’d be real curious to know what he thinks of this.

What do you think about what Whoopi has to say?