People: Leto kicks around scripts, Oscar trophy
Jared Leto says that while his Oscar has led to new opportunities in Hollywood, he isn’t overly concerned with the trophy itself.
The actor-musician took home the gold statuette last month for his supporting role as transgender drug addict Rayon in “Dallas Buyers Club.” It’s sustained a few scrapes since then after circulating among friends.
“I damaged it. But then I came home and saw it had another nick on it. So it looks like someone else had fun with it, too,” Leto said. “My Oscar is a filthy mess. Everybody was pawing that thing. I kind of was just passing it around at parties. A couple of times I lost sight of it and I thought, ‘You know, if it goes away, it’s not meant to be mine.’ But it always seemed to find its way back to me.”
The 42-year-old said his success with “Buyers Club” has renewed his interest in acting, partly because of top filmmakers’ renewed interest in him.
“Yeah, I’m looking at scripts and reading scripts. Which is interesting because I didn’t read scripts for years before ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ ” he said.
Egging video shows ‘Suspect Bieber’
Surveillance video obtained by detectives investigating Justin Bieber allegedly shows him high-fiving friends moments after eggs were thrown at his ex-neighbor’s house in Calabasas, an investigator wrote in an affidavit.
Los Angeles County prosecutors are considering whether to charge the 20-year-old Canadian-born recording artist with felony vandalism after a neighbor reported the eggs caused thousands of dollars in permanent damage to his home.
Bieber, through his attorney, has denied any wrongdoing.
But shortly after the January incident, Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators searched his home for evidence.
In a search warrant affidavit, sheriff’s Detective Ginni Alvarez said they observed on security camera footage a “male white who resembled and who I will refer to as Suspect Bieber run from the direction of Victim (Jeffrey) Schwartz’s residence and up the driveway at Suspect Bieber’s residence out of view.”
The detective wrote that several males who followed Bieber are seen hiding behind vehicles in the driveway. A short time later, the detective wrote, “Suspect Bieber is observed ‘high-fiving.’ Suspect Bieber and other males appeared to be laughing and celebrating.”
The detective noted she was able to confirm the young man she describes as “Suspect Bieber” is the same person the victim’s family identified in the Jan. 9 egging incident.
Alvarez noted Bieber was wearing the same white sweatshirt with black images and dark-colored baseball hat on the video as on an Instagram photo of him that day.
The birthday bunch
Announcer Casey Kasem is 82. Rhythm-and-blues singer Cuba Gooding is 70. Rock singer Kate Pierson (The B-52s) is 66. Rock musician Ace Frehley is 63. Pop singer Sheena Easton is 55. Rock singer Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy) is 30.