It has been bugging me that the media keep reporting that Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan hooked up on the set of Grindhouse. Not because I think they didn't, as some argue, but because I believe they began an affair long before production on Grindhouse began.
See, sometimes time, not sleuthing, reveals the answers to blind items:
From Page 6 NY Post, September 2005:
WHICH sexy actress — known for dating a crazy rocker and a media man — is now in a full-fledged affair with a successful Latino director? Problem is: He's married and has no plans to leave his wife.
Hmm, crazy rocker: Marilyn Manson, media man: David Zinzenko, successful Latino director: Rober Rodriguez and the sexy actress in question? Rose McGowan.
Soon after that blind item, Page 6 wrote this:
"ROSE McGowan is leading the pack for a big role in "Sin City" director Robert Rodriguez's sequel, "Sin City 2." Our spies say McGowan, who has spent the last few months ingratiating herself with the director, is being championed by Rodriguez but still has to pass muster with producers and studio heads. Rodriguez's mentor, Quentin Tarantino, is also said to be co-directing the sequel, as he did the original "Sin City." "
And what do we have here, in the photo above? Why that's the now out and open couple of Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez photographed looking rather cozy in May 2005 (!), oh, and they were photographed leaving that party in the same car too, for shame.
It's a cinch.