We have new affiliates in Weirdland with four amazing sites devouted to four fantastic actresses, thank you very much, Natasha! Two blonde ladies: Our dear Kirsten Dunst, and my "next door" crush Elisha Cuthberth. And two very special brunettes: Ellen Pageand Nikki Reed.
"I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here". -Kirsten Dunst."I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message" -Ellen Page. "I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan". -Elisha Cuthbert. "Most teen movies are fantasies, like The Princess Diaries. But my movie is coming from a completely different angle, which is truth. This is what really happens" -Nikki Reed (about the movie Thirteen).
Jake leaving a Clothing Store In New York City on 11th February.
"We skipped across Delancey to Allen & Delancey to get our drink on for 6 bucks. The cocktails had these whimsical names like "The Atlantic Ruin" and "William and Mary" plus they were quite lethal and delicious. About halfway through my drink I notice a guy with a newsboy cap walk in who looks a lot like Jake Gyllenhaal (ever heard of him?). Two seconds later he looks up with and oh, yup it IS him. My mind froze as did my ability to articulate anything but, "Alia. Jake. Gyllenhaal." In college I had a sad, torn little photo of him from Interview above my sorority house desk. We go way back. The rest of the night became a blurry, euphoric memory". Source: everheard.blogspot.com
Without any great sense of urgency, you are not one for all-night sessions to get to know your partner inside out. Instead, by doing things together and building understanding, your relationships tend to evolve at their own pace. Yours is a slow-burning love.
Your calm love can withstand pressures that would cause others to crumble, from long spells of absence to temporary indiscretions. While you may not seek the highs of wild passion, you are also less likely to be laid low by romantic tumult. With fewer campaigns to fight and wounds to heal, your relationships are more often characterised by comfort and contentment. You are best matched with like-minded people with whom to share routine and companionship.
Without the need for emotionally exhausting love, you may choose to avoid the “passionate” and “extreme” lovers. What you see as stable, they may see as dull. Alternatively, you may be the rock they need, and they may provide the crazy passion that you enjoy tasting.
Best match:
Steady and Unconditional
If your partner is a steady lover:
Take it slow. Your relationship will grow naturally over time; it's your mutual interests that will bond you.
Famous steady lover: Sharing her recipes for meatballs and garlic bread on her website goop.com, Gwyneth Paltrow is more a picture of domesticity than a party girl.
EXTREME LOVER
For you, love is all-consuming.
As an extreme lover, you tend to find relationships a source of life-affirming passion and soul-destroying heartache. For you, love is like a roller coaster.
You may find it hard to relax and enjoy your relationship, being gripped with the fear of losing your partner and spending hours turning the relationship over in your mind, looking for signs that they don't really love you (and discounting any that show they do). Warmth from them brings relief but no lasting satisfaction. Indeed, you may sometimes feel that your appetite for affection is insatiable. It is.
You may know that your possessiveness is self-defeating but you can't help feeling it - and showing it. Far too in love to play it cool, you can find yourself acting against your better judgment, racked with jealousy and extremes of emotion.
While the “steady lover” type may have the patience to calm your insecurities, they may grow weary of the emotional turmoil that you bring to the relationship.
To find lasting satisfaction you must first find the source of your neediness - a lack of close connections? Discontentment or low self-esteem. Avoid the “playful lover” types. Their detachment will press all the wrong buttons, causing you distress.
Best match:
Unconditional and Passionate
If your partner is an extreme lover:
Give them lots of reassurance and remember that their suspicions and doubts are all about them, not you.
Famous extreme lover: Kirsten Dunst described ex-boyfriends such as Jake Gyllenhaal as “possessive” men who started to resent the time that she spent with her family". Source: women.timesonline.co.uk
Joe: Nailed's tumultuous (that's putting it lightly -- production stopped at least 2-3 times as they ran out of money) road to completion almost made me forget what an intriguing prospect it is creatively. Yeah, yeah, Jessica Biel -- but look at all that other talent. Plus: Paul Reubens! Jon Stewart! Kirstie Alley! Even if it's bad, it could be a total glorious car wreck. I am way excited to find out.
JA: Way excited doesn't even BEGIN to cover my expectations. Yes, David O. Russell's is by all accounts a terrific (as in size, not nature) prick. So is very nearly every director whose films I enjoy. I don't want to be his assistant, I want to watch the wonderful insanity that springs forth from his corrupt brain.
If I were the sort who was into making lists - wait, what are we doing here? - I Heart Huckabees would probably make my top 10 for the decade so far, and I didn't even like it that much the first time I saw it. But then I saw it again. And again. And again, and the fucker swallowed me whole. And that cast! Yes give or take a Biel - although I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt as of right now - it's like Russell took an ice cream scooper to my skull and splatted my deepest fantasies out onto a marble surface and rolled them up into human form like some sort of brain-to-human version of Cold Stone Creamery.
Whitney: I think putting a nail in someone's head sounds funny. There was a dude that actually happened to. A spike went through his head in a mine and it changed his personality. While he was once friendly and sweet, he suddenly turned into a totally asshole. I learned all about it Psych. 101.
Fox: The premise for this film sounds amazing in it's absurdity. Huckabees was that way, too... I guess everything of Russell's is that way if you think about it.
"Alpha Dog" - SPOILER SCENE: Spoiler Scene of "alpha Dog", Elvis Schmidt (Shawn Hatosy) kills Zack Mazursky (Anton Yelchin), while Keith Stratten can't stand the pressure and goes back to the car. Frankie Ballenbacher (Justin Timberlake) assists to Elvis against his will in the murder.
I think Shawn Hatosy made a spectacular acting job in a controversial role, there is a progressive enhancement of his violence that is paradoxically calm until the ending scene. Elvis wanted to be one of the bad boys, he wanted to be accepted by his boss Johnny Truelove and pay his dues. But he didn't think for a second he was carrying away with him a boy's innocent life.
"Oscar Night 2006 feels like a million years ago. You remember – it's the night that Brokeback Mountain, although being shamelessly robbed of its deserved Best Picture statuette, still managed to take home three awards. It's the night that Philip Seymour Hoffman's gay novelist squeaked past Heath Ledger's gay cowboy in the Best Actor race. Felicity Huffman was up for Best Actress for playing an MTF in Transamerica. And at the previous day's Independent Spirit Awards, pioneering queer filmmaker Gregg Araki was basking in multiple nominations for "Mysterious Skin", a film considered to be a high watermark in an already remarkable career.Yes, the success of Brokeback lifted long-gestating projects like The Mayor of Castro Street, The Front Runner, Stone Butch Blues, and The Dreyfus Affair out of development limbo, but as of today none of them have a firm shooting date set. And independent cinema, where queer voices have been breaking the rules of cinema and exciting audiences with new possibilities for at least the past few decades, seems content to make one toothless genre picture (lesbian romantic comedies! gay thrillers!) after another. [...]
“Filmmakers like Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, or Tom Kalin [Swoon] don't come along every day”, says critic David Ehrenstein. “Gus did several mainstream films [Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester] with no gay content whatsoever. Now he's back to the avant-garde [Elephant, Last Days], with complex conceptual works and plenty of boys smooching. Todd was always too cool for school; I await his Bob Dylan fandango I'm Not There with great anticipation. As for Tom, it's taken all this time for him to get his second feature, Savage Grace, made.”Industry observers say that the Brokeback phenomenon – Olson describes it as “not so much a blip as a solar eclipse; we get one every ten years” – was never necessarily going to change the game for queer movies in the marketplace.
“There have been some moderate, small gay films that studio specialty divisions have been taking out to a good deal of success, like Notes on a Scandal and The History Boys,” observes Hu. “But Brokeback was still a low budget – $14 million – film that was still developed and distributed by a [Universal Studios] specialty division. The fact that it struck a chord with audiences globally doesn't mean it's going to create shockwaves with the studios hurrying to create the next gay blockbuster.” Source: www.afterelton.com
"Years before the recent California Proposition 8, there was California Proposition 6: an initiative to ban – or fire – homosexual teachers from public schools. Fighting that proposition was one of the many causes championed by Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into a major public office in America.
[...] Depending on where you stand on gay rights is likely to determine whether or not you’ll see Milk. As the director of a cause movie, Van Sant is likely to only preach to the choir. If you’re on the fence about seeing it, there’s a big reason to go: the acting, particularly Sean Penn’s. The guy once famous for beating up photographers is totally believable as Harvey Milk. Penn’s Milk is gentle, he’s effeminate, he’s slight, he’s not that sure of himself early on – and he’s totally believable. The supporting cast is made up of some actors who are on considerable rolls. Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild) is a young Milk supporter who goes from skeptic to reliable lieutenant. Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men, W) is Milk’s frustrated fellow city supervisor, who probably deserves to be in the movie a little more. And the biggest surprise is James Franco as Milk’s supportive but frustrated boyfriend – who earlier this year was a hysterical stoner in Pineapple Express. Between the two roles, he’s having a breakout year". Source: www.moviejungle.com
See a new featurette from Focus Features' "Milk", Academy Award® nominee of eight awards including Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay (written directly for the screen).MoviesOnline: Is Sean a good kisser?
JAMES FRANCO: He’s…I don’t know what to say. He’s okay. What did Diego say that it was dry? That’s what he told somebody else. It was fine. Yeah, it was fine. Top 30.
MoviesOnline: A lot of gay characters are either very flamboyant or they tone them down so they’re acceptable to an audience. In this movie, you’ve got a vast array of different personalities. Was that something that Gus wanted or was that in the script? JAMES FRANCO: Right. I think…I can’t speak for the other actors, but I think from what I see and read into it that all the characterizations are kind of based on the real people because they are all real people and some of them are still around, you know? So Emile had the real Cleve Jones there all the time and Lucas had the real Danny Nicoletta there. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, if somebody was playing me, I’d probably want myself to be portrayed in a certain way and so, to have Cleve Jones over my shoulder the whole time might be weird. I don’t know. But I think like Emile’s characterization is based on what the young Cleve Jones was like and so with me, you know, I got that interview with Scott Smith so that combined with what everybody told me about Scott. He wasn’t that flamboyant, you know? He was just…I guess what do you say? Kind of butch or something? He was definitely like…he dressed like there’s a way of dressing that a lot of people did at the time called the Castro clone. So they wore like plaid shirts and jeans and construction boots and Scott certainly dressed that way and I actually liked the clothes. I would wear those clothes, but my characterization is just based on what I think the real Scott behaved like. The same with Sean, you know? That’s kind of how Harvey was so I think it wasn’t like oh, we need a flamboyant around here, we need this here. It was just based on the real people.Source: www.moviesonline.ca
"The most romantic movies are about the subtle gestures, the moments in between intimacy, and Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain captures them against a vibrant Alberta landscape. Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger are amazing as ranch hands who fall in love".
"I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here". -Kirsten Dunst.
"I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message" -Ellen Page.
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"I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan". -Elisha Cuthbert.
"Most teen movies are fantasies, like The Princess Diaries. But my movie is coming from a completely different angle, which is truth. This is what really happens" -Nikki Reed (about the movie Thirteen).
