Sideshow: Mirren tells of date rape
Dame Helen Mirren, who in the early 1970s caused a stir in London's theater world for being unabashedly sexual and a great Shakespearean actress, has raised some eyebrows, and a couple of gasps, across the pond over an interview in the British edition of GQ in which she reveals she was date-raped "a couple of times" as a young woman. "Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will," she said.
Dame Helen Mirren
, who in the early 1970s caused a stir in London's theater world for being unabashedly sexual
and
a great Shakespearean actress, has raised some eyebrows, and a couple of gasps, across the pond over an interview in the British edition of GQ in which she reveals she was date-raped "a couple of times" as a young woman. "Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will," she said.
As for drugs, Mirren, 63, admits she tried pot and LSD as a teen. "I loved coke," Mirren adds. "I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties."
Mirren says she finally met
Queen Elizabeth II
, whom she portrayed in
The Queen
.
"She said, 'Hello, it's lovely to meet you,' " Mirren said of the queen. Meanwhile, the queen's hubby,
Prince Philip
, "just talked about the sandwiches."
From heartache to art
Is the real
Miley Cyrus
actually an embittered, angry rock girl? Take "7 Things," her angry tune about heartache, which reportedly is about her ex-bf.
"Your friends, they're jerks/ When you act like them, just know it hurts," Miley sings with such sweet girlie-girl rage. Filmmaker
Brett Ratner
coyly discloses to MTV that the hated boy is famed music boi
Nick Jonas
.
"Most of my songs are for the girls who hate their current or ex-boyfriends," admits Miley, who is 15-going-on-45.
Blowing in the wind
"With the wind blowing in his hair,
Paul McCartney
shares a tender moment with New York socialite
Nancy Shevell
." So begins the New York Daily News' little
poesy
about Paul, who recently took his new socialite paramour on a cruise on his boat, which is called
Linda
.
"It's my antidote to chaos," McCartney says of Linda, the love boat. Paul has successfully kicked second wife
Heather Mills
to the curb (with a fat, juicy $ settlement), while Nancy is about to finalize her divorce from politician
Bruce Blakeman
.
Taking a 'View' on Sarah Palin
The
View
gals yesterday kicked off their new season with serious
Grrrl Power
with an episode about the topic du jour, Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin
.
Cohosts
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
and
Sherri Shepherd
applauded GOP presidential candidate
John McCain
for naming Palin as his running mate. "Now we have a woman . . . with a 'real' vibe . . . She's an outstanding woman . . . a lot of people are energized," Elisabeth said. Sherri, for her part, said, "You tell me what mother cannot come in and run the country after having five kids." News that Palin's teen girl is pregnant hasn't cooled her supporters' ardor.
Duchovny's addiction issues
So what kind of sexual addiction so blighted
David Duchovny
's life he was compelled to go to rehab? Fox 411 says the big D.D. is
not
having an affair, as has been rumored. It seems the
Californication
star may be addicted to online porn.
The actor's people refuse to elaborate.
The irreplaceable is replaced
E!Online says
Uma Thurman
has been
un
-cast as the femme fatale in
Quentin Tarantino
's remake of the 1977 cult classic,
Inglorious Bastards
.
Diane Kruger
(
Troy
) will replace her in the World War II drama, which is a dirtier take on the
Dirty Dozen
.