Elle magazine’s latest suite of covers for its annual Women in Hollywood issue features a group of six diverse and talented beauties: Penélope Cruz, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Marion Cotillard, Naomie Harris and Melissa McCarthy.
It is McCarthy’s cover, however, that’s causing some controversy, according to USA TODAY.
While her fellow cover girls show flashes of skin in form-fitting dresses, crop tops and bodysuits, McCarthy appears in a knee-skimming dress covered with an oversized trench coat.
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The editorial move has some style watchers upset that a full-figured woman seems to have been treated differently than her thinner counterparts.
The flap doesn’t seem to be affecting McCarthy, though. In fact, she’s just happy to be included.
“Listen, until I am stopped at the gate, I’m going to keep showing up,” she told gossipy omg.com. “(Elle is) a magazine I grew up with, and I hadn’t done anything quite like that. I was nervous. It was kind of amazing.”
'Transformers' director attacked
Hollywood director Michael Bay was attacked and slightly injured Thursday on the set of the fourth installment of the “Transformers” movie series, which is currently filming in Hong Kong.
A Hong Kong police spokeswoman said two brothers who own a shop near the movie set approached Bay and demanded 100,000 Hong Kong dollars ($13,000). When Bay refused to pay, they assaulted him, she said. The brothers also allegedly assaulted three police officers who were called to the set.
■ Related: Man attacks Michael Bay on 'Transformers' set with air conditioning unit
The spokeswoman said Bay suffered a minor injury to his face but declined medical treatment.
Paramount Pictures gave a somewhat different account of the incident, which it said occurred on the film’s first day of production in Hong Kong. It says that a man allegedly under the influence of a narcotic substance rushed onto the set with an air-conditioning unit and swung it at Bay’s head. The studio says Bay ducked and wrestled the unit away from the man.
“Transformers 4: Age of Extinction,” starring Mark Wahlberg,is to be released next June. Scenes for the film were shot in Detroit and other Michigan locations over the summer.
Farrow heading to MSNBC
It’s suddenly a busy time in the public eye for 25-year-old Ronan Farrow.
MSNBC announced Wednesday that it had hired Mia Farrow’s son, a human rights activist and former Rhodes Scholar, to host a weekday program on the left-leaning cable television network, which has long endured poor ratings. The show is expected to debut sometime next year.
MSNBC chief executive Phil Griffin said that Farrow’s show “will be a game changer for MSNBC, representing a fresh approach to how we deliver news.” He didn’t specify what he meant.
Farrow founded the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Youth Issues during President Barack Obama’s first term. On Tuesday, the Penguin Press announced that in 2015 it would publish his book “Pandora’s Box: How American Military Aid Creates America’s Enemies.”
Farrow made headlines recently when his mother suggested in an interview with Vanity Fair that he could be the son of Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen, as was long assumed. Allen has called the claim absurd.
KK posts a selfie
Hollywood is obsessed with the post-baby body, which means that postnatal stars of all stripes make it a point to quickly appear in a bikini or some other revealing piece of clothing to let the world know that, yes, they’ve still got it.
Enter Kim Kardashian.
USA TODAY reports that the new mom to 4-month-old daughter North has taken to Instagram with a sultry photo of herself in a skimpy white bathing suit. She shows plenty of side boob, and the backside that has made her millions is on full display.
She captioned the photo simply: “#NoFilter,” to which baby daddy Kanye West replied on Twitter: “HEADING HOME NOW.”
Briefly
■ Veteran character actor Ed Lauter, whose angular face and stern bearing made him an instantly recognizable figure in scores of movies and TV shows during a career that stretched across five decades, died Wednesday at age 74. He died of mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer most commonly caused by asbestos exposure, his publicist said. Lauter played the brutal prison guard who was Burt Reynolds’ nemesis in the 1974 comedy-drama “The Longest Yard” and the sleazy gas station attendant in Alfred
Hitchcock’s last film, “The Family Plot.” In “Death Wish 3,” he was the violent cop who teams with Charles Bronson to rid New York City’s streets of criminals. More recently he was the butler to Berenice
Bejo’s French ingenue in 2011 Oscar winner “The Artist.”
■ “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy says the show will conclude after its sixth season in 2014-15. At an event Wednesday night at L.A.’s Paley Center, Murphy said that the death of “Glee” star Cory Monteith had forced him to come up with a different ending for the show. “I knew what the last shot was — he was in it,” Murphy said. “When a tragedy like that happens, you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so we’re figuring that out now.”
■ Ann Arbor-reared rocker Andrew W.K. says he’ll be spreading his party-hearty gospel on New Year’s Eve at Irving Plaza in New York City. Tickets start at $39.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. today via livenation.com. For more, go to andrewwk.com.
■ General Mills’ Betty Crocker brand will be at Detroit’s Eastern Market on Saturday for #Sweetroit, a family-friendly Sweetest Day celebration featuring a cupcake tasting. The event runs 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Special guests include former Detroit Tigers star Willie Horton, Alexis Wiley of WJBK-TV (Channel 2) and reigning Miss Michigan USA Elizabeth Ivezaj. They’ll join local nonprofits Gleaners Community Food Bank, Focus: HOPE and the Coalition on Temporary Shelter for the cupcake-tasting competition. For more, go to bettycrocker.com.
■ Comic and Emmy-winning actor Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) has a deal with Gallery Books for the memoir “When the Balls Drop: How I Learned to Give Up, Stop Trying, and Enjoy Life’s Second Half.” Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Thursday that the book is scheduled for 2015. Garrett, 53, plans to base a TV show on his memoir, according to Gallery.
Compiled by Greg Crawford with reports from staff writer B.J. Hammerstein and Free Press news services
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