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Monday, August 04, 2008

Christmas Wedding?!

"Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon is to marry Jake Gyllenhaal at Christmas.

Brokeback Mountain star Gyllenhaal, 27, has told friends he and Reese, 32 – who won Best Actress for Walk The Line – plan to wed on or around his birthday on December 19 after he finishes his new film, Prince Of Persia.
Wedding belle: Reese Witherspoon is set to marry

A source on the set of the £100 million epic adventure, currently filming in Morocco, said: ‘Jake is telling everyone they are getting married at Christmas.‘He told me he had proposed several times but she kept telling him she wanted to give their relationship more time. When he asked her again a couple of weeks ago, she finally said yes.’

Reese, who has two children with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, met Gyllenhaal in 2006 while filming the thriller Rendition". Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

"Prince of Persia" delay

"Not content to let one of their potential blockbusters get crushed by giant, transforming robots, Disney has decided to push PRINCE OF PERSIA back a full year to Memorial Day 2010. The movie was originally scheduled for release on June 19, 2009, one week before TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN would unleash its LaBeoufness on the world. The on-the-record reason for pushing PERSIA back was to "allow plenty of time for post-production" and an "extra cushion" in case of SAG delays. (I've heard car salesman with better bullshit lines than that.) Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer feel they could have a PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN success with PERSIA and want to make sure it's the idea conditions for a release. Strangely their new date still puts them in one week's proximity to another franchise juggernaut - SHREK GOES FOURTH. PERSIA, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Alfred Molina and Gemma Arterton, just began filming this week in Morocco".
Source: www.joblo.com

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Michael Cera & Kat Dennings Video

"Red Sonja" trailer

Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez promotioning "Red Sonja" (2008).

Aviva in "Desperate Hippies"

A spoof of Desperate Housewives about stoner chicks living on Weedsteria Lane starring Aviva the hot chick from Superbad.

Maggie's fashion disorder?

"Surely, promoting The Dark Knight was the perfect way for this indie princess to present her quirky personal style as a charming antidote to Hollywood’s cookie-cutter starlets. Instead, she gave us a fashion roller-coaster, sporting a schizophrenic range of looks that made us wonder if she threw them into her bags at random, possibly while blindfolded.
Maggie’s lone hit came at the Stateside premiere, to which she wore a gorgeous black flowered Dries Van Noten gown (above, center), with minimal accessories beyond the kind of shoulders that make us drop and do ten (okay … five) on the spot. -Note from Weirdland (Our collaborator Penny Lane knows Mr. Van Noten's secretary!)- That's the perfect modern, offbeat spin on a classic cut, and a great example of keeping it simple without being a snore.

But it’s sandwiched between two fussy, bipolar flops. Maggie's floor-length blue-and-black Zac Posen is the clothing version of a split-personality soap-opera character: the pretty, generally well-liked sheath fighting to peek out from behind the domineering, overworked, bed-jacket-esque overlay that appeared one day after a bump on the head and started slutting around town ruining their joint reputation. And that vintage black cocktail dress can't figure out WHAT it wants to be. Did she knot a velvet toga over a slip and think a feathered headband would be the magic Band-Aid that patched it all together?
Multiple personality disorder, dressed in Gaultier and Stella McCartney.

Then Maggie threw in a few ill-advised retro curveballs. So while we’d hoped to emerge from the shadow of The Dark Knight’s press onslaught refreshed by Maggie’s off-kilter charm and sassy style, here we are throwing up our hands and saying to ourselves, "I wonder what Katie Holmes would have worn if she'd stuck around?" The only firm statement these looks make is that Maggie favors an updo. And unless she’s hankering for an Us Weekly cover about her bobby-pin addiction, we hope she’ll consider a more all-around cohesive approach to her next summer-movie fashion spree. After all, if you want your clothes to make a statement, it's better if they're not speaking in tongues. —The Fug Girls
Source: nymag.com

Saturday, August 02, 2008

Nick and Norah's Blogs

Nick's Blog:
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight, surrounded by gays
Location: Hoboken, NJNick's Interests
Books: High Fidelity, About a Boy, Songbook, The Baby-sitters Club (my sisters’), Yugo Owners Manual
Television: The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Arrested Development
Music: Green Day, Death Cab, The Shins, Jeff Buckley, Beck, Where’s Fluffy, Elliot Smith, Sinatra, lots of others
Movies: Waking Life
Interests: Tris Nick's Schools:
Hoboken High School, Hoboken, NJ
Source: www.randomhouse.com

Norah's Blog:
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: That question is racist…or sexist…or homo-ist…or something “ist” that’s very wrong and judgmental. Who cares? Love is love. Lust is lust. Or so I’ve heard.
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Norah's Interests:
Books: Charlotte’s Web, I Capture the Castle, White Teeth, Please Kill Me, Franny & Zooey, Angela’s Ashes, Dangerous Angels, The Adventures of Augie March, Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird, High Fidelity, Catch-22, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, In Cold Blood, Tropic of Cancer, Harriet the Spy, The Virgin Suicides, The Book Thief, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Sweet Soul Music, Nine Stories, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Tender Is the Night, On the Road, The Man Called Cash, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dharma Punx, The Exes, The Outsiders, Their Eyes Were Watching God, All the President’s Men, The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom… obviously I could go on forever

Television: My So-Called Life, Wonderfalls, Gilmore Girls, Buffy/Angel, The MacNeil Hour on PBS, C-SPAN, any documentary where they show a surgery in excruciating detail, Full House, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Daria, TRL (sux), The Office (UK version)

Music: Duke Ellington, The Clash, The Jam, Beastie Boys, Ella, Belle & Sebastian, Minor Threat, Cesaria Evora, Merle Haggard, Green Day, Britney, Rancid, The Raveonettes, Q and Not U, Cat Power, Ash, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Eat World, Fugazi, Tenacious D, Paul Kelly, Fiona Apple, Charlie Rich, Elliott Smith, Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello, Kirsty MacColl, Le Tigre, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Calexico, Shakira, Curtis Mayfield, Yo La Tengo, Architecture in Helsinki, Wilco, Dusty Springfield, The Shins, Nick Cave, Where’s Fluffy…and a million more probably

Movies: Team America, Rushmore, Jesus Is Magic, Back to the Future, Heathers, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mad Hot Ballroom, Lost in Translation, 25th Hour, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Boogie Nights, Garden State, Spice World, Say Anything, The Sound of Music, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Interests: Jordan Catalano, Joe Strummer, Tres Cool, the future of the United Nations, tikkun olam, global warming, Coke vs. Pepsi (Coke), Memphis vs. Nashville (Memphis), Angel vs. Spike (Angel), pie vs. cake (pie), song lyrics, song lyricists, Brown University, kibbutzim, borscht, trust, college radio, satellite radio, pirate radio, Amnesty International, Judaism, the Olsen twins, the revolution probably will be televised, Lloyd Dobler, reading and listening to tunes, corporate hippies, Hideous Becomes You Norah's Schools:
Friends Country Day School, Hohokus, NJ: left cuz no C., no me
Sacred Heart School, Tenafly, NJ: Jewish valedictorian/Catholic girls school, mazel for me
College: Undecided. Toss up between Brown University or pulling up weeds on a kibbutz in South Africa.
Source: www.randomhouse.com
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Excerpted from Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Text copyright © 2005 by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Excerpted by permission of Knopf Books for Young Readers, a division of Random House, Inc.
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