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Nick and Norah's Book Contest

"Score points by recruiting new members to your club and correctly answering quiz questions. The first club to reach certain select point levels wins prizes, so get started now!

Organize the club that scores the most points by the end of the contest and you personally could win a Sony VAIO® Notebook PC, Sony Reader Digital Book, Rolly™ Sound Entertainment Player, a copy of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist movie tie-in book signed by the authors, a code redeemable for book(s) from the The eBook Store from Sony, a Guy and Eva E-Gift Card and more!

Other Prizes Include:

Dickies Clothing
Urban Decay Cosmetics
TEGO Skin E-Gift cards from MyTego.com
Fox Socks
Baskin Robbins Gift Checks
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Merchandise
And more!

Source: www.sonypictures.com

Michael Cera likes Weezer

"I'm playing "Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo." Rather, the album is playing me. It is ear-fucking the shit out of me. If I listen to "Blast Off" one more time, my neighbors might call the fuzz.Like most Gen Y-types, I've been enjoying this man's pop confections since I was basically a kid. I was surprised/tickled last year when Michael Cera, then 18, asked me "Do you like Weezer?" I was like, "Of COURSE I like Weezer! I was 15 when the Blue Album came out! They were mine first! Seriously, I should be trying to turn you on to Weezer." Blew my mind.

It's really cool that the Weez now have a second wave of teenage fans who consider the music theirs. I mean, it is theirs. But you know what I mean. This must be how my parents felt when I ran downstairs reeking of Spiritual Sky incense and announced that I'd discovered an incredible band called the Doors.

Anyway, I love, love, love this record. I can't even choose a favorite song. Lyrically, Cuomo has this amazing ability to sound totally idiotic and profound at the same time. I choose to interpret that as emotional genius. Your call".
Source: Diablo Cody at Blog.myspace.com

MICHAEL CERA ("Buddy Holly" by Rivers Cuomo) VIDEO:

Shiny Selma Blair

Selma Blair with Jake in "The Good Girl" Hollywood Premiere.
"Selma Blair was spotted in this trashtastic blue get up on the set of Kath and Kim the other day with some cozy slippers and James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning perhaps to read between takes. Selma told us she gained over 20 pounds to play the role and although she still looks fabulous, we can expect Selma to keep growing out of her clothes and more into her character. She said she loves playing and figuring out her new role as Kim. Selma's also spending her days on the set giggling with her co-stars, Mikey Day and Molly Shannon. Sounds like the energy on this show is amazing and if Selma's outfits are any indication of the over the top character she'll be playing then it's just more of a reason to watch the show next month."
Source: popsugar.com

Sunshine and Thunder

"Downey hopes the action superhero film “Iron Man”, set for release in May, will be the first of a series. “It’s funny,” he says. “If things had been a little bit different, if an opportunity like this had arisen when I was younger, I might have felt daunted by the possibility of doing three of them and having to stay in shape for 10 years. There are so many ways that a guy can hinder his career, and none of them are subtle. My hindrances were pretty clear”.

Until he was 8 years old, Downey knew he might, in fact, be a superhero. But, “It was beaten out of me.And then I turned 42, and I’m finally doing this movie.”The actor’s maverick filmmaker father, Robert Downey Sr., once cast his son, then 5, as a puppy. Upon hearing of his son’s “Iron Man” coup, Downey Sr. remarked, “God, the last time I heard you this excited was when you were screen-tested for ‘Chaplin.’” Which was in 1991.

The younger Downey is deeply proud of his father’s films (”Putney Swope,” “Greaser’s Palace”) and feels greatly influenced by the elder’s boldness as a social critic. “My dad was always outside the fray,” he says. “He’s always been a bit of a weirdo. But after all is said and done, I am just really grateful that I was born into a family that put their art first. The downside is that when you put your art first, it doesn’t always pan out so well.”

Even now that he’s middle-aged, Downey Jr. can identify with the characters in “Little Miss Sunshine.”"When I see that dysfunctional family, demonstrating to us how we can all be OK, I kind of feel like it’s a triumph for weirdos,” he says. Not that he’s ready to embrace any outre status. Downey is proud of his current mainstream appeal in Hollywood, and that includes not only “Iron Man” but also “Tropic Thunder”.

”Now I’m looking at these three posters,” he points out. “And one says Ben Stiller, the other says Jack Black, the other says Robert Downey Jr. And I’m just going, "Wow, it’s just so nice to be in the game". Source: reelsuave.com

"It's a very busy weekend at the movies, with three movies in wide release, and several more hoping to grab your dollars on a more limited basis. This is one of the last hurrahs for summer, and certainly, in terms of movies with tremendous financial potential, it's the last big weekend for at least a month.

Probably the most notable new release is Tropic Thunder, the new comedy co-written and directed by Ben Stiller, who also stars opposite Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. They play three of Hollywood's biggest actors whose war movie comes apart at the seams when the fake war they're fighting becomes a real war they don't know they're fighting".

Source: www.getthebigpicture.net

Jennifers' Body first review

"we've got another "first ever" review today - this time a look at the horror-comedy JENNIFER'S BODY. Starring Megan Fox with a script by JUNO Oscar-winner Diablo Cody. It was meant as an homage to films like EVIL DEAD but was it successful? "That Chilean Kid" caught a screening of the film (he was told they were the "first outside the studio" to see it) and shares with us his thoughts (some mild spoilers ahead).

Okay so in my respective city they had screening for a movie and my friends got some tickets for it. It said "dark horror comedy with Megan Fox." Nonetheless not only *SPOILER ALERT* did we not see her topless but the movie was indeed quite awful.

First the story is about two girls who have been glorious friends since they played in the sandbox and Jennifer (Megan Fox) is the preppy school cheerleader who all the girls wants to be and all the boys want. Needy (Amanda Seyfried... the girl from MEAN GIRLS who coul tell the weather with her boobs) is the social outcast. Not to give away much but one night something bad happens and Jennifer becomes a monster thing that eats boys. And Needy becomes the hero who tries to stop her.

So far, nothing special. The opening scene opens up with some light JUNO-ish music and for a split second I think that it's Juno narrating, what with quick quips and a sarcastic tone. Everything moves very much like JUNO and in fact most of the cast from JUNO is back. J.K. Simmons is back in a delightfully funny role as a teacher with a hook for a hands and the haircut of a crazy person. Juno's mother is back as another mother and even the Asian girl from outside the abortion clinic scene is back for just one scene again. Why you can even see Diablo Cody as a bartender if you look close.Everything is moving until Fox comes back and is drenched in blood and everything switches gears to horror. At first it is kind of interesting until Fox pukes up black goo or as Needy says "pure evil." I for one saw it as the fall point of the film. The entire audience took it in for a few minutes then just laughed their heads off at what was supposed to be a scary scene. From there Needy freaks out, Jennifer runs, and we switch into drama mode of Needy crying and freaking out. Then back at highschool its JUNO mode. And thats the film basically in a nutshell.

To describe it in one word? Schizophrenic. The film continuously switches gears and like a first time driver with stick shift, it happens to fast and the car dies (in this case the film falls flat). Dark comedy? Yes there is a scene where J.K. Simmons thinks a youth screaming is just mourning and yes that was funny but that was just about the only scene where people laughed because it was meant to be funny. This movie is one of those cases where we weren't laughing WITH you. We are laughing AT you.

The film's performances are pretty decent. Seyfried does as good as one could to hold up the film even though it's this bad. Megan wasn't horrifyingly bad but neither was she good. There was a scene where it's a real big close up of her kissing another chick (YES!!!!). The men in the audience hooted and cheered even though it was completely random and the director put it in as a a kind of apology for not giving up the real goods (no Megan Fox boobage). Brody was a pretty quirky character as a indie singer just trying to make it in the real world but no real screen time to make it good enough. His lip syncing was dreadful as well.

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JENNIFER'S BODY opens in theaters in 2009".
www.joblo.com

Kirsten into N.Y. scene

"Since March, when she moved to New York (and into a $3 million Tribeca penthouse she bought last year) to star in Andrew Jarecki’s "All Good Things" with Ryan Gosling—after a stint in rehab at the Cirque Lodge in Utah, which she told the press she entered for “depression”— Ms. Dunst seems to be everywhere. In the past few months, she’s been spotted walking in Soho in black shorts and a flannel shirt, hair tousled, Barack Obama Rolling Stone cover visible; in a white T-shirt dress, walking with Dave Ransone, the tattooed bartender of the Rusty Knot and East Village bar Black and White; sitting on a stoop on Broome Street while chatting on her cell phone in cut-off shorts and rugged vintage boots; watching the British indie pop group the Ting Tings at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg in a loose green dress and a white headband (à la Arden Wohl); strolling with Mr. Creed in a straw fedora and floral vintage dress; lunching at Café Cluny in the West Village; and dining at Freeman’s on the Lower East Side, saying to a group of people at her table, “I’m so glad I met you guys!” “She hasn’t been around here in like a year, and then she was nowhere, and then she just shows up in New York being seen every single night,” said a 28-year-old male model who lives in Los Angeles and is part of the bicoastal Beatrice-Chateau Marmont crowd. “She’s going to like every concert and every event, and people there are, like, obsessed with her!”

Much like the new kid at school, Ms. Dunst has picked her lunch table of downtown cool carefully. The new Kirsten (as she’s known around town) rolls out of bed, throws on one of her several pairs of Ray Bans and wanders around lower Manhattan, puffing on American Spirit Blues. She doesn’t care so much about Hollywood as she does about her image outside of it; being just another downtown brooding artist seems somehow truer than being a done-up L.A. celebrity. (Ms. Dunst’s publicist, Steven Huvane, declined to make her available for an interview.)

Ms. Dunst is never photographed hopping in and out of chauffeured SUVs in five-inch heels. Instead, she roams around in Worishofer sling-back sandals—the grandma shoe that’s become part of the downtown vintage aesthetic—portraying a kind of new, seemingly accessible celebrity that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams personified by moving to Brooklyn and walking the streets without the bodyguards or disguises employed by their Los Angeles counterparts. “The Beatrice was Heath’s haunt,” the male model said. “You could always find him there, having a drink on his own at the bar, his bike locked up outside. I think it taught all these other stars how to be that kind of cool and how much people there appreciate it.”

“She clearly seems to be into that scene right now, but we should applaud her!” said the music writer. “It speaks well of her that she’d rather hang out in Lower East Side dive bars than lunch at the Ivy.”It’s a kind of celebrity that others with Ms. Dunst’s level of stardom, like Mary-Kate Olsen, have attempted, but failed, to cultivate; Ms. Olsen may look the part, but she’s rarely without her black Escalade and beefy bodyguards. And just a few years ago, Ms. Dunst seemed to be heading down a path well-trod by many lithe blond actresses before her. A star since the age of 11, when she kissed Brad Pitt in Interview With a Vampire, Ms. Dunst has also played a tortured young girl in Virgin Suicides; the captain of the cheerleading squad in Bring It On; and the title role in Marie Antoinette.In 2002, she started dating the actor Jake Gyllenhaal. In the aftermath of their breakup in 2004, she began to be sighted in L.A. in questionable states of sobriety in the company of various actors; the gossip blogger Perez Hilton took to calling her Kirsten Drunkst. And thus, many in her circle seem to view her newfound attachment to New York as an attempt to remake herself as not just another Hollywood starlet.A 22-year-old model met Ms. Dunst in May 2007 at the Empire Diner. Ms. Dunst overheard the model talking about a Beirut show at Bowery Ballroom and came over to ask about it. “I didn’t even recognize her, but I was like, holy cow, this person is friendly!”

The model asked Ms. Dunst about her dress—it was Marc Jacobs—and a friendship sparked.

“I’m Kirsten,” Ms. Dunst said finally.

“I was like, ‘Oh, you’re Kirsten Dunst!’ Crazy!” said the model. “And then she basically just asked for my phone number and I gave it to her.” The model said she didn’t see Ms. Dunst around very often until this spring, when the actress became a regular at the Beatrice.Ms. Dunst also frequents East Village mixology bar Death and Co., the Lit Lounge, and Bowery Electric, where Catherine Pierce of the girl group the Pierces spins on Monday nights; in May, Ms. Dunst celebrated her 26th birthday there.

But most of the time, Ms. Dunst can be found at the Beatrice Inn, perched on the counter behind the DJ booth, smoking cigarettes and bopping her head around to her boyfriend’s tunes.

Despite reports in Page Six of Ms. Dunst pursuing the actor Emile Hirsch and Drew Barrymore’s ex Justin Long, her friends say she has not done either. And depending on whom you ask, she and Mr. Creed still may or may not be together. Most describe Ms. Dunst as shy and heavily guarded. Some said that she can be a party girl when no one is watching. “She doesn’t really stand out at Beatrice,” said one regular. “When Lindsay [Lohan] used to come into Bungalow 8, it was like Elizabeth Taylor was there or something, but Kirsten pretty much blends in.”

Blending in is perhaps the point. After all, Ms. Dunst’s move to New York came in the wake of her time in rehab, a period that the gossip blogs attributed to her breakup with Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell. “It seemed like she went through a rough patch of maybe drinking more than she should, but I’m not one to talk,” said party photographer Patrick McMullan, who’s been photographing Ms. Dunst for years. “She really seems to be embracing New York.”

And the 22-year-old model, who said that she and Ms. Dunst have had talks about the “rough stuff,” agreed. “I think she’s found a level of her own in New York,” she said".
Source: www.observer.com