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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Shirtless Prince of Persia

"Jake Gyllenhaal channels his inner brute and shows off his newly buff body on the set of his latest movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, in Morocco, North Africa on Monday morning.
The 27-year-old actor, who has an entire mane of hair now, held hands with his actress girlfriend Reese Witherspoon. The couple spent the the weekend at the exclusive luxury Moroccan hotel Amanjena. Gyllenspoon grabbed lunch on Saturday at a Moroccan restaurant followed by a tour of the local sights.

In the film, Jake will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Gemma Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world".
Source: JustJared.buzznet.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

Ready for a baby?

"Jake Gyllenhaal is keen to start a family with Reese Witherspoon, according to a new report.

Insiders say that a baby announcement is likely to come before the couple tie the knot.

“Kids are something Jake and Reese discussed very early on,” a source tells Life & Style.

“He made it clear that he definitely wants to have children. He just wanted to make sure Reese would be willing, too, before he allowed himself to get serious with her.

“That's how important it is to him.”

Meanwhile, Jake has been busy getting in some parenting practice with Reese's kids with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4".

-By Cher Tippetts
Source: www.entertainmentwise.com

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Smart women in movies

"Kim Voynar cited some of these too in her list of smart movies for girls.
1. Grindhouse (Death Proof)

Groups of women friends talk and talk (and talk) throughout Death Proof, about their sex lives and their boyfriends and the music they like and other trademark Quentin Tarantino topics. However, there's that one conversation with Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Tracy Thorn that centers around cars, and cars in movies, and one car they are itching to drive. How often do you get to hear four women talk about muscle cars? The subsequent stunts by Zoe Bell are just icing on the cake. Tarantino previously offered us another movie that followed The Bechdel Rule, Kill Bill, in which The Bride trades barbs with several women she's about to do battle with ... not to mention that scene in the hotel room.
2. Juno

I find the dialogue in this movie to be really annoying at times, but at least it covers a range of pop culture topics. You can't get away from the subject of sex or relationships in this movie -- the main character is pregnant -- but that doesn't mean that the women focus solely on the opposite sex. Admittedly, most of Juno MacGuff's conversations with other women do tend to be related to her pregnancy, but that's technically allowed under the Bechdel Rule.
3. Hairspray

Both the 2007 version and the 1989 (my favorite) meet the Bechdel Rule standards. Tracy Turnblad does have a big crush on Link Larkin, but that doesn't seem quite as important to her as dancing, keeping her hair bouffant, and fighting social injustices (sometimes all at once). Hairspray may be a fluffy musical, but it has plenty of teenage girls and their moms, as well as deejay Motormouth Maybelle, and they're far more than foils for the menfolk. (I wanted to include Mamma Mia!, and realized that although it's full of female characters, they really do only talk about the male characters.)
4. Persepolis

I know I said I wanted to focus on Hollywood films, but I couldn't resist mentioning this French film from 2007. The film is animated, but it's hardly for children. Marjane is an Iranian girl who grows up during the Islamic Revolution during the 1980s. She has some romantic encounters, but I love watching the child who wants to be like Bruce Lee as she gets in trouble in her teen years for listening to rock music, and eventually has to come to terms with how she feels about her homeland. I'm especially fond of her conversations with her grandmother, who is voiced by Catherine Deneuve.5. Bring It On

It's another teenage-girl movie, and it's about cheerleading, which is not exactly Higher Thought. Still, most movies about girls who participate in athletics or dance tend to focus on just one girl who lives for her sport or practices with the guys, and doesn't seem to have a lot of female friends. In Bring It On, we get a whole team, headed by Kirsten Dunst, with Eliza Dushku as the reluctant new cheerleader. One girl might be interested in the other girl's brother, but mostly these girls are interested in becoming cheerleading champions. Speaking of cheerleaders, I very nearly included But I'm a Cheerleader on this list, but then realized that three of the seven movies would include women in cheerleader outfits and that just seemed too damn weird.
6. Set It Off

I had to go back to 1996 for this one, but I've only seen it myself in the last year and I think it could use some attention. Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Viveca A. Fox and Kimberly Elise star in this F. Gary Gray film about a group of women with big-time money problems who see a possible solution in robbing banks. It takes longer to get underway than I'd like, and the ending didn't quite satisfy me, but I loved the female characters in this film, particularly Smith's and Queen Latifah's. They tend to have much bigger and more interesting problems than romance. (And I'm starting to wonder if Queen Latifah uses the Bechdel Rule to pick roles, because it's amazing how many of the films she's in that fit the criteria.)
7. Cold Comfort Farm

As long as we're going back to the 1990s, I might as well include Cold Comfort Farm, a film I love to bits. John Schlesinger directed this adaptation of Stella Gibbons' novel (which I also love) about a young woman in 1930s England who decides to move in with, and reform, her country cousins. Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) has to mull over her future with her friend Mrs. Smiling (Joanne Lumley), and then once she arrives at Cold Comfort Farm, dispenses advice to both male and female relatives whose lives just aren't tidy enough to suit her. I especially like the fate of Aunt Ada Doom".
Source: www.cinematical.com

Michelle Williams for Boy

"Today we bring you photos of Michelle Williams, the newest blog star for Boy, Band of Outsider’s preppy basics for the ladies. We e-mailed the label’s designer Scott Sternberg for a quick e-thought on why Williams was his “boy” of choice. His praises are below.

Michelle is beautiful, cool, low maintenance, funny, sweet, talented, smart and curious. And fun to hang out with. Therein lie the qualifications for shooting a Band of Outsiders look book". Source: themoment.blogs.nytimes.com
Fall.
Michelle Williams in Boy. Shot at the home of Paul Fortune.
Cotton corduroy suit. Cotton flannel shirt.
Scottish cashmere men's crew neck sweater.
Worsted wool suit trousers.Grey tweed frock coat.
Washed bengal striped shirt.
Cropped wool blackwatch tartan trousers.
Band of Outsiders for Manolo Blahnik Canvas Spectators.Wool gauze tartan cropped swing jacket.
Cotton end on end smock shirt.
Suit trousers.
ID bracelet borrowed from Fenton.Wool melton topcoat with detachable raccoon shawl collar.Wool gabardine peak lapel suit.
Wool gauze tartan waistcoat.

Saturday, August 09, 2008

The wrong attitude

"Paparazzi
I don't understand how the first amendment doesn't protect "Celebrities"

[...] People keep telling me, "Oh just accept it. That's the way the world is. It's not going to change."

No. They're wrong. That's the wrong attitude. Maybe because it's not happening to them and they don't care.

And there's been plenty of laws that didn't exist before and because people didn't just accept it -- people took a stand -- that's why there was change.

I chose not to accept this".

Charlyne Yi

Source: blog.myspace.com

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