Published 10.24.08 in Metro
Mental image of the day? Check.
With his big-screen moving photo spread, “High School Musical 3,” hitting theaters this weekend — seriously, its box office take is going to be all the money our country has left — Zac Efron has had to go on the record to combat some nasty rumors. No, silly, not those nasty rumors. We’re talking about the nasty rumors that he’s shower-averse.
Turns out someone was spreading lies about how when the Disney commodity gets stinky, he forgoes actual bathing in favor of swabbing himself down with baby wipes. Which makes sense, since that’s how you clean an android. Or a Real Doll.
But Zac won’t stand for it. “I assure you I showered this morning — minutes before I got here. And I do it every day. Sometimes twice,” he told Moviefone. (The fact that he told another robot isn’t helping his case. Just saying.)
So why make a big point of the denial? “My dad was kind of like razzing me for it,” Zac explained. Wait, “razzing”? Someone needs to tell the good scientists in Anaheim to update this model’s slang software.
Leaving so soon?
In what can only be seen as a lack of confidence in Barack Obama’s ability to clinch the election, Halle Berry has actually done what many Hollywooders have only threatened to do before: She’s purchased property in Canada. Maybe she knows something the rest of us don’t.
Maybe John McCain really does have something up his sleeve that will decimate Obama’s candidacy over the next two weeks. If not even Halle Berry, who withstood filming and promoting “Catwoman” can stomach a McCain presidency, what hope do the rest of us have?
Or maybe, you know, it’s just because her boyfriend — and the father of her child — is Canadian. But probably not.
The Oscar-winner and “Swordfish” star splurged on a 63-acre estate in St. Hippolyte, Quebec, near the home of boyfriend Gabriel Aubry’s parents. Berry obviously hasn’t been reading her BusinessWeek, or else she’d know that there’s something of a real estate crisis here in America — and not in Canada. Seriously, she could’ve gotten 63 acres of prime, ocean-front real estate down here for a couple of People’s Choice Awards gift bags. Instead she chose… Quebec?
We’ll let native son Aubry explain: “It feels great,” he told the Montreal Gazette. “Anything we can do in our own hometown is always a good feeling.” Oh, really? Anything? Why don’t you try campaigning against the secessionists in that there hometown of yours, and let us all know how much of a “good feeling” that is.
On with his head
Good news for wax figure enthusiasts everywhere — and one auctioneer in particular: that missing head of a Paul McCartney waxwork that went missing last week? Has been recovered by a lucky homeless man, or “tramp,” as the oh-so-polite British press calls him.
Tony Silva found the head in a garbage bin and collected the £2,000 reward. “It was the strangest thing that ever happened to me,” the master of understatement told the London Mirror.