Kristen Stewart playing insecure and neurotic, but rock solid

The Yellow Handkerchief clips, starring Kristen Stewart, William Hurt, Eddie Redmayne and Maria Bello.

"The car's driver is a painfully insecure teenager named Gordy (Eddie Redmayne), who doubts most of what he does and seems to apologize just by standing there. At a rural convenience store, he encounters Martine (Kristen Stewart), running away from her life. He says he's driving to New Orleans. No reason. She decides to come along. No reason. They meet a quiet, reserved man named Brett (William Hurt), and she thinks he should come along. No particular reason.

The formula is obvious, but the story, curiously, turns out to be based on fact. It began as journalism by Pete Hamill, published in the early 1970s. In the movie's rendition, Brett fell in love with a woman named May (Maria Bello), then spent six years in prison for manslaughter charges, although his guilt is left in doubt. Martine slowly coaxes his story out of the secretive man.
You don't need an original story for a movie. You need original characters and living dialogue. "The Yellow Handkerchief," written by Erin Dignam, directed by Udayan Prasad, has those, and evocative performances. William Hurt occupies the silent center of the film. In many movies we interpret his reticence as masking intelligence. Here we realize it's a blank slate, and could be masking anything. Although his situation is an open temptation for an actor to signal his emotions, Hurt knows that the best movie emotions are intuited by the audience, not read from emotional billboards.
Stewart is, quite simply, a wonderful actress. I must not hold the "Twilight" movies against her. She played the idiotic fall-girl written for her, as well as that silly girl could be played, and now that "Twilight: New Moon" has passed the $300 million mark, she has her choice of screenplays for her next three films, as long as one of them is "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse." Kristen Stewart as Bella in "Eclipse" scene Jacob Brings Bella Back Home

In recent film after film, she shows a sure hand and an intrinsic power.
I last saw her in "Welcome to the Rileys," where she played a runaway working as a hooker in New Orleans. In both films she had many scenes with experienced older actors (Hurt, James Gandolfini). In both she was rock solid. Playing insecure and neurotic, yes, but rock solid". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Interview on David Letterman - INCEPTION

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Interview on David Letterman - INCEPTION

Diablo Cody Interviews Adam Brody at Red Band Trailer

Actor Adam Brody stops by the trailer to talk about "Captain Oats", fame, and Diablo's astonishing weight gain

Adam Brody and Kristen Stewart in "In the Land of Women" (2007)
Kristen Stewart as Mallory in "Welcome to the Rileys" (2010)

"Kristen Stewart may be one of the most sought after and hounded celebrities around these days, but she is not getting an sympathy from former costar Adam Brody! Adam gave an interview to Diablo Cody for her new online talk show, Red Band Trailer, where he said of Kristen’s notorious complaining: “It’s only gotten worse, I’m sure, being a celebrity. At the same time, I don’t have a lot of patience for people who moan about it too much. Because there are many things you could do. It’s like, quit … you don’t need to be an actor, so it’s like if it’s that much of a problem … there’s the door.” Wow!
Adam Brody and Courteney Cox on the set of "Scream 4" (2011)

Adam was himself a hounded young celebrity when he was one of the breakout stars of the hit show The OC, so he has been through a somewhat similar experience as Kristen. He also choose to take time off following his time on the show and now opts for smaller independent films. His next film, The Oranges, will team him up with Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester! Source: www.hollywoodlife.com

Internet is giving everybody a voice

Lindsay Lohan, photoshoot by Scott Nathan (2008)

"Lindsay Lohan to shill for their products. Now she's warning her fans not to Google her or their computers could fall victim to viruses. The company issued a press release earlier which included a quote from LiLo about how clicking on links to strange websites boasting of info on Lohan could ultimately infect your computer with a virus. Here's what Norton—and LiLo—had to say:Lindsay Lohan in Markus Klinko Indrani photoshoot (2010)

"I know I am very newsworthy, especially with everything going on and I'd hate to see my current situation cause frustration or damage to my fans," says Lohan. "If my friends and fans want to know what's going on with me, they need to stick to reliable news media outlets and not click on just any link in a search result. Better yet, please follow my Twitter feed and get the news straight from me!" Source: gawker.com


"We positively had goosebumps over the first part of the trailer, which uses a rendition of Radiohead's "Creep" by the Belgian girl's choir Scala over a series of chats and status update screens on a Facebook page. The second half of the trailer finally puts faces to the dialogue we've been hearing in teaser spots, and wow, we're impressed. Jesse Eisenberg looks like he has the part nailed, we're loving the brown color palette Fincher is using in those early Harvard scenes and it looks like the cast is firing on all cylinders". Source: theplaylist.blogspot.com

Microsoft this week announced the addition of Facebook and Windows Live to its social network plugin for Outlook. Once installed, it will include the social data available about the sender, visible to the recipient from her latest Facebook updates.

Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010)

Bourdieusian concepts offer a means to explain daily uses of social tools (social networks/fields), animated by flows of information. They further provide an explanation for how micro-level processes relate to macro-level phenomena. It would appear that socialization is what makes the Internet so "addicting". A British psychologist, Mark Griffiths, is studying "Internet addiction" and he defines "technological addictions" as "non-chemical (behavioural) addictions which involve human-machine interactions".
"Talking on the Internet, people regress. It's that simple", says expert Normand Holland. We access to Internet via different technologies including dial-up, 3G, ADSL, WiMax, Wi-Fi, etc. The main benefits of broadband is that the connection is always on, so access to the Internet is a a lot faster than the old dial up connections.

The government’s plans for implanting broadband in UK promises access to 2Mbps speed by 2012. Many homes and small businesses in rural areas are struggling with slower connection speeds, and the super-fast broadband projects couldn't not reach rural areas if they are not backed by public funds. Rural markets (defined as having a population less than 10,000) in the U.S. experienced a 16-percentage point increase in broadband penetration from 2007 to 2009, the fastest growing geographic market segment.
Jake Gyllenhaal attending "Teach For America Week" - Dominguez High School, Compton on 29th October, 2002

Broadband penetration was a topic highlighted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President Obama earlier this year. The Recovery Act provided a total of $7.2 billion to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

You can compare internet service by entering your address, clicking in your area, checking the cheapest high speed internet providers.

New York, the largest local market, reached 96 percent broadband penetration in Q1 2009. Communities in every U.S. state but Delaware have applied to become test markets for Google's planned high-speed broadband network.

Google announced plans to deliver 1 gigabit-per-second fiber connections to 50,000 to 500,000 people. End users will pay a "competitive price" for the access, Google says. The company plans to choose where to build the network by the end of this year.
This map displays where the responses were concentrated. Each small dot represents a government response, and each large dot represents locations where more than 1,000 residents submitted a nomination.

Jake Gyllenhaal incites man-crushes, inspires toy figures

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nick (Italy) magazine.

MTV Shows

Kris Allen Has A 'Man Crush' On Jake Gyllenhaal
Source: www.mtv.com

My hubby has actually a man-crush with Jake too! (partially enhanced by my perseverant fondness, and he never declared any of these same-sex crushes before), my brother... not yet (he's not much the man-crushes guy type, lol)


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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Premium Format Figure
Source: www.sideshowtoy.com

Series: It's Movie Time From: It's Movie Time
Length: 00:05:00
This week on It's Movie Time, John and Kristin journey to the desert to cover Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Sex and the City 2.
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MakingOf Interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page attending "Inception" - Paris Press ConferenceEllen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt attending Inception Premiere in Los Angeles

"MakingOf recently sat down with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to discuss how he goes about choosing his projects, and what advice he has for aspiring filmmakers who want to break into the industry. The up-and-coming star opines that it’s important to take advantage of the exposure that the Internet and other technological advances have afforded us versus more traditional methods.
“If you want to move to L.A. and get an agent, I’m not going to say ‘don’t do that,’ but, to be honest, if what you really care about is making things and being creative and getting your art seen by people… it’s not really the way to go. Nowadays, I’m working with a special effects guy from Scotland and a writer from Ireland, and they don’t have to live in L.A., they don’t have agents, and their work is going to screen at Sundance. I think that’s the future of how things are going to go.” Source: blog.makingof.com

Twilight Eclipse - Rosalie's Advice To Bella

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene Director: David Slade Writers: Stephenie Meyer, Melissa Rosenberg Studio: Summit Entertainment Plot: In ECLIPSE, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. Tayalor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Entertainment Weekly (outtake)

In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life

Dakota Fanning in Marie Claire & Flare magazines

Dakota Fanning in Flare magazine by Max Abadian, August 2010


The Runaways Making of Part 1/2
Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in "The Runaways" (2010)

"Reviewing The Runaways in The New York Times, A.O. Scott gushed: "Ms. Fanning, who has shown herself a remarkably disciplined and self-aware actress almost since toddlerhood, displays heartbreaking vulnerability as well as frightening poise." The Denver Post called her performance "uncorked."
One lasting friendship to emerge from the experience was with Kristen Stewart, the 20-year-old Twilight lead who played Joan Jett to Fanning's Currie. According to both young women, re-enacting the intimate friendship between Jett and Currie brought them close instantly, and a mutual respect has kept them that way. "Dakota is so unfaultingly steady," Stewart says. "In most cases, I feel like she's older than me. It's only when she starts talking about boys that I remember how young she is." The two, who briefly shared the screen in Twilight: New Moon, reunited in this summer's Eclipse, the third installment of the series, with Fanning reprising her role as a diminutive child vampire in a long cape and Mary Janes. Her character, Jane, can inflict pain with her thoughts, achieved while staring intently at her victims with eyes that appear reflector-red, thanks to a pair of color contacts. Given how much actors rely on their eyes to communicate emotion, the contacts were a handicap that might well have unsettled another, less confident performer. "It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes — it's been something that people have always talked about," Fanning says. "But I enjoyed the red. You're automatically transformed into a creature when you put those red eyes in." Fanning (who has been reading since she was 2) tore through the Twilight books after she was cast. "They're so addicting!" she says, though her natural taste in literature tends toward the more refined: Right now she's reading Jeffrey Eugenides' novel, The Virgin Suicides". Source: www.marieclaire.com

Dakota Fanning wears a white dress (designed by Kate Moss for Topshop) at "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" Press Conference
Dakota Fanning in Marie Claire magazine photoshoot by Tesh, August 2010

Prince of Persia The Sands of Time (Farewell Princess)

Scenes from Prince of Persia The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley.

Songs Farewell Princess and Persian Teardrop.

Full trailer for "The Social Network"

Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew-Motherfuckin'-Garfield as Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin (the creators of Facebook). Directed by David Fincher.