Rosario Dawson”s Horrifying Movie Choice

Rosario Dawson (“Sin City”) was apparently shocked by the graphic cruelty displayed in her latest movie, “Descent.”

The film is another addition to the Hollywood dung heap of flicks that focus on suffering, torture and cruelty while packaged as entertainment.

“Descent” includes a brutal rape scene in which Dawson portrays a victim who eventually goes after her attacker and with the help of a friend imposes an even more vicious form of revenge.

“It was horrifying for me to watch it,” the actress tells the World Entertainment News Network and acknowledges the need to warn people of the dreadful content before they line up at the box office.

“But it’s also really amazing how much the affect is. It really humanized a lot of us who are part of this experience because it brought up a really deep conversation that most of us don’t ever want to talk about,” she adds.

Torture flicks humanizing? Next she’ll be telling us that mindless flicks boost the IQ.

‘Invasion’ Déjà vu

It all started in 1955.

Author Jack Finney penned a sci-fi novel called “The Body Snatchers,” in which seeds from outer space invade the planet, take folks over while they’re asleep and grow evil body doubles in creepy plantlike pods.

The tale so captured the public’s imagination it’s been made into a movie four different times.

First it was “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Then it was “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” for a second time. Third time it was simply “Body Snatchers.”

Now another cinematic installment is about to hit the theaters. For a change of pace, it’s called “The Invasion.”

It stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and once again hits on some timeless social and political themes—individualism vs. conformity, personal freedom vs. social control, human compassion vs. callousness.

Guess every couple of decades we need a movie reminder to keep us from becoming dreaded “pod people.”

Thoroughly Modest Michelle

It’s back to the big screen for Michelle Pfeifer.

In her latest movie roles, she’s a villain times two.

In “Hairspray,” Pfeiffer plays mean ex-beauty queen Velma Von Tussle opposite John Travolta, who dresses up as a Big Beautiful Woman for his Edna Turnblad role.

And in “Stardust,” Pfeiffer plays a wicked witch who’s on a search for eternal youth.

Speaking of eternal youth, Michelle seems to have found it in real life.

She’s also hung onto something else that in Tinseltown is quite rare—her modesty.

It turns out that Pfeiffer passed on the starring role of the film “Basic Instinct.”

Why? Because she didn’t want to bare it all for the camera.

Had she taken the movie part, Pfeiffer would have played scheming seductress Catherine Tramell. Instead Sharon Stone took the risqué role and the rest is sordid cinematic history.

“I just couldn’t do that one, because of the sexual parts, the nudity. My father was still alive. I’m kind of prudish,” Pfeiffer is quoted as saying by Contactmusic.

The star adds, “I am not that uninhibited about my body. I’m modest.”

‘Grey’s Anatomy’’s Ellen Pompeo Chides the Media

Not one to get into the tabloids for her excessive partying, “Grey’s Anatomy”’s Ellen Pompeo is sharing her thoughts on the topic of fame and responsibility.

“I just worry about the girls who look up to me,” Pompeo tells Los Angeles Confidential Magazine.

Pompeo is concerned on two fronts.

With the extreme emphasis being placed on thinness, the actress doesn’t want her fans to deprive themselves of nutrition. “I don’t want them to think I starve myself or don’t eat, and that to be like me that’s what they have to do.”

She explains that she is naturally on the slim side and finds the media to be “irresponsible” on the subject.

Pompeo is also concerned about the “famous for being famous” phenomenon.

“What are we doing to this younger generation?” Pompeo asks. “We’re so focused on the wrong things. We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.”

After the coverage of young women like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, Pompeo has a succinct message for the tabloid press: “I just think the media should take this country in a different direction.”

Papa Gorbachev’s Got a Brand New Bag

Hollywood is not the only place former communists are drawn to.

Louis Vuitton, the French manufacturer of chichi leather goods and other high-end paraphernalia, has chosen its new celebrity rep.

If you’re thinking Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johansson or Reese Witherspoon, you’re off the mark. The latest face of Louis Vuitton is actually Mikhail Gorbachev.

Not just a former Soviet leader and environmental activist anymore, Gorbachev will be featured in a Louis Vuitton ad campaign for the designer brand.

The commie chic celeb will have some big-name co-stars in the advertisements, like legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve and supermodel Steffi Graf and her tennis champ spouse Andre Agassi.

Gorbachev will be seen riding in a car with a Louis Vuitton bag at his side, and in the background will be the oh-so-untrendy Berlin Wall.