Celebrity photos of the week: Saving Mr. Banks and Paging Mr. DiCaprio
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Let the games begin. Here’s the charming English actress Emma Thompson at the L.A. premiere of her new film ‘Saving Mr. Banks.’ How does she maintain her youthful appearance at age 54?KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/Reuters
Well, sucking the life force out of her co-star Paul Giamatti seems to be part of her reinvigoration regimenKEVORK DJANSEZIAN/Reuters
Ms. Thompson tried the same trick with her good friend Julie Andrews but only developed a dusty coughKEVORK DJANSEZIAN/Reuters
Also in ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ is former ‘West Wing’ fixture Bradley Whitford, who now appears to have taken on the guise of an oleaginous insurance salesmanKEVORK DJANSEZIAN/Reuters
Younger actors B.J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman are also in ‘Mr. Banks,’ but spent most of the premiere dodging the succubus Emma ThompsonRichard Shotwell/The Associated Press
Hello, Newman...Richard Shotwell/The Associated Press
Next stop: Washington, D.C., where a handful of American celebrities got all dressed up to receive Kennedy Center honours at the White House. Here’s the doleful eighties singer Billy Joel entering the event. He used to be The Piano Man!JONATHAN ERNST/Reuters
Here’s Kennedy Center recipient Shirley MacLaine making her entrance. She used to be a psychic actress!JONATHAN ERNST/Reuters
Here’s musician Herbie Hancock making the scene. He used to be cool!JONATHAN ERNST/Reuters
And here’s Martina Arroyo. She’s an opera singerJONATHAN ERNST/Reuters
Also turning up at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony was former ‘Brady Bunch’ mom Florence Henderson, lookin’ pretty fine for 79JOSHUA ROBERTS/Reuters
And here we have the actress Glenn Close, lookin’ for rabbitsJOSHUA ROBERTS/Reuters
Also at the White House was Gayle King, who couldn’t get her bestie Oprah to come, so she had to settle for bringing her daughter Kirby. This counts as your Christmas present, kiddoJOSHUA ROBERTS/Reuters
In other news, the Paris premiere of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ had director Martin Scorsese breaking out his jazz hand movesFrancois Mori/The Associated Press
Here we have ‘Wolf’ star Leonardo DiCaprio looking far too serious for an actor who began his career on the sitcom ‘Growing Pains’Francois Mori/The Associated Press
Oh, how the Paris paparazzi tittered with delight when DiCaprio made the mistake of posing beside the much better-looking French actor Jean DujardinJACKY NAEGELEN/Reuters
And Mon Dieu, wasn’t Monsieur DiCaprio upstaged even further when French acting legend Catherine Deneuve showed up in an outfit made out of bathmatsJACKY NAEGELEN/Reuters
“Easy, Leo,” the actor told himself. “There’s always The Great Gatsby 2… wait, what?”JACKY NAEGELEN/Reuters