day 91

relation-ships: some going strong, some sailing on

salma hayek has gone and tied the knot.  the actress/producer/hollywood mogul and her baby-daddy french billionaire boyfriend, after an on and off affair, finally made it official on valentine's day in a paris church.  the couple have one child - daughter valentina - and split up in july 2008, only to get back together only recently.  this is hayek's first marriage but her beau, francois-henri pinault, is on his third and has two children from his previous marriages.  the couple are a major power in the world of entertainment, with hayek being all over tv and movies and pinault owning two of the biggest fashion houses out there, yves saint laurent and gucci.  in other couples' news, milo ventimiglia and his heroes castmate hayden panetierre (talk about crazy last names) have called it quits.  the couple, who had been together for over a year, decided that the age difference was just too much and that the duo were in two different points in their life.  i wonder if the break up had anything to do with the rumors that hayden is also planning to leave the show.  the actress apparently wants to branch out and get away from the show that is slowing dying in the ratings.  

iron man 2 - double the drama

with terrence howard already out of the sequel, there may be even more casting shifts on the second installment of the robert downey jr franchise.  emily blunt was brought on board to play the role of the black widow and may already be out.  blunt has been trying to work out scheduling conflicts between iron man and the jack black helmed gulliver's travels and is reportedly having quite the difficulty.  and producers aren't looking at this like its a bad thing.  now that emily may be out, the team behind the film is gunning for scarlett johnasson to take the role.    scarlett has already met with producers and is eager to take the action role, something she really hasn't tapped into yet.  this is a big blow to emily blunt.  the british actress really hasn't had a megahit in the states since the devil wears prada and the iron man sequel would have been a second launching pad for the actress.  it will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of weeks with filming supposed to start in the next couple of months.  hopefully emily will be able to work out her schedule and maybe scarlett can be used in a different capacity on the film?