The Oscar will be delivered to Michelle Williams

"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed it was preparing to send the Oscar Ledger won last month for his iconic performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight to Matilda's mother, actress Michelle Williams, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, with Matilda.

The announcement solved the mystery of who would look after the Oscar until Matilda turned 18.

Under Academy rules the deceased actor's next of kin takes ownership.

With Matilda aged just three, the Academy ruled the Oscar would have to be held until her 18th birthday.
On Oscar night Ledger's parents, Kim and Sally and sister Kate, accepted the award on stage and at a backstage media conference admitted they were not sure who would take care of the statuette until Matilda became an adult.

Kim Ledger raised the possibility it would go back to Australia.

"She can't sign for it until she's 18, so it stays in trust here or in Australia," Kim Ledger said at the press conference backstage at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

Academy spokesperson Leslie Unger, however, confirmed Williams, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, with Matilda would receive it.

"We expect a representative of the Ledger estate to bring the statuette in tomorrow so that the engraved plate can be affixed," Unger told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

"Soon after that, we expect the statuette to be delivered to Michelle Williams."

Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au

Jessica Biel is Jessica Rabbit

Here's Justin Timberlake as he is seduced by cartoon character Jessica Rabbit - played by his girlfriend, Jessica Biel.
The U.S. singer made a surprise appearance on U.S. television comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live.Jessica Rabbit, the seductive wife of Roger Rabbit in animated fantasy film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was last week named the sexiest cartoon character by Cadbury's.
Viewers cheered as Timberlake, who is reportedly set to wed Biel this summer, made his cameo on Saturday night's show."During Weekend Update, Timberlake and Andy Samberg spoofed the comic strip Cathy -- Samberg playing Cathy and Timberlake playing her adoring husband Irving. "I swear on Charles Schulz himself, if Jessica Rabbit walked in here right now I wouldn't even blink," Irving says.

Biel then walks in dressed as Jessica Rabbit wearing a tight, red dress and long purple gloves -- she asks Irving to take a walk and he immediately accepts. "Sounds good, later fatty," he says to Cathy.

"SNL" spoofed the comic strip characters after a recent survey from Cadbury Daily Milk ranked the sexiest cartoon characters leaving Cathy off the list". Source: www.etonline.com

SNL - Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel video:

Defensive masculinity

"Alpha Dog lives up to its title as one of modern American cinema’s most powerful evocations of the tortured, defensive masculinity of the lower-class young male. Every character (including the victim) is desperate to prove his manhood – or at least that they’re not the “bitch” or “faggot” of the bunch. However, the same tough dudes who beat each other senseless with Fight Club-level brutality reduce themselves to diva-worthy temper tantrums and crying jags whenever the consequences of their impulse-control-challenged behavior sinks in.
Timberlake is top-notch – it’s hard to imagine any but the absolute cream of Gen-Y actors (Bale, DiCaprio, Gyllenhaal) playing his part any better. His final major scene with young Zack in the rocky caves of Joshua Tree is emotionally devastating in every sense of the word. The film’s gangsta soundtrack and original score (with several contributions from the rock/rap group Lowd) is very effectively applied, with the mordantly in-joke choice of “Goodbye to Hollywood” as the closing song. Nick Cassavetes’ writing and direction is appropriately discomfiting, with his technique kicking up several notches as the storyline progresses, in what is obviously a labor of love. And for a movie about such grim subject matter, Alpha Dog actually manages to have a (dark) sense of humor without indulging in simpering, cutesy irony or making inappropriate light of what ultimately happened". Source: www.filmstew.com

In the movie Jarhead, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a young US marine who has followed the path of his father to the military duties.
In the article “Modernism and Masculinity” by Gerald Izenburg:
“It gave him (men) a means of resolving the persistent inner tension by turning the battle outward against an external enemy, and identifying wholly with soldiers--literal, rather than literary, warriors. Turning the battle outward, he (men) could also split off and project his internally threatening femininity outward onto the enemy…”

The word “alpha” describes an individual to be the dominant or top ranked and also shows the dominant aspect of a marine’s wife. The Marine Corps jargon “alpha unit” is used to describe the spouse of a Marine. Another term that is also used would be Delta Whiskey, which stands for "dependant" wife.

International Women's Day

"International Women's Day is celebrated in countries throughout the world with festivals, parades, and special events. Hostelling International is bringing the celebration to Boston with the International Women's Day Film Festival.

The mission of the Boston International Women's Day Film Festival is to promote a greater understanding of the extraordinary lives of women around the world through relevant and thought-provoking films and discussions.

This is the second year of the festival, sponsored by Hostelling International. The goal of this festival is to showcase films honoring the struggles, victories, and remarkable experiences of women around the world. Through this event, we aim to celebrate the lives and contributions of women from all corners and walks of life". Source: www.hinewengland.org

"On February 3, 2009, Break the Cycle, an organization aimed at empowering youth to break the cycle of domestic violence, addressed Congress. According to them, at least 17 states have introduced or passed legislation to try to take on the problem of teen dating violence.
Sadly, a necessity in a society where teens think Chris Brown was justified in beating Rhianna or that she must have done something to deserve it. A society in which teens believe that violence is not only normal, but sometimes even laughable and the butt of sad jokes.

According to Kathy Doherty, executive director of Between Friends, a Chicago based group which goes into schools to help educate teens about domestic violence, educating young people is the key.

“When we first get there, it’s not unusual for kids-both boys and girls-to say it’s OK to hit your girlfriend or boyfriend. By the time we’re done, they say, yes, it is abuse, and, no, we shouldn’t do that.” Souce: 20-forty.com

"At the same time, as part of this process, men are indoctrinated into violence as a means of protecting themselves and others, to solve problems and conflicts, and assert their perceived positions as men.

In many parts of the world, we are constantly fed images of men being violent. Through films, books, television, magazines, video games – we see men being violence and violent men revered as role models and even heroes. So an equation embedded in dominant masculinity becomes - to be a man, a strong successful leader, you also must be ready to fight, and if you don’t happen to be in the right social group to be a successful leader, you still have to be ready to use violence…perhaps even more so.Thus, dominant forms of masculinity encourage personal violence in men, and they help to legitimize other forms of violence as well. Part of gender-based violence as a “policing mechanism” is for men to establish, assert or protect their masculine identity. But men’s use of personal violence also permits and legitimizes the use of other types of organized violence – and visa versa. It is a vicious cycle of violence, a culture of violence into which men and women are socialized.

However, seeing masculinities as socially constructed does not mean that men are merely passive beings being shaped by “society” or “culture”. Men and women are active in producing gender discourses and acting them out. Men are responsible for their violence, and are part of the problem when they allow for violence – especially violence against women and girls - to exist in their communities.

We can further identify broader notions of responsibility when gender-based violence is placed within the social structures and histories of violence that both men and women have created and reproduce. Here, we can move beyond the interpersonal violence of men to examine the violence that lies at the heart of masculinity's stratifying of difference - the misogyny, homophobia and racism that are embedded in discourses of masculinity. It is here we begin to understand the relationship between ideals of masculinity, gender-based violence and other uses of violence as a means of establishing and maintaining power relationships and structural inequalities such as those based upon race, class or religion, etc. Violence, privilege and injustice are intimately linked". Source: toolkit.endabuse.org

New Affiliate: EdwardHeartBella.com

We have a new affiliate here in Weirdland: Edwardheartbella.com, a resource on the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) and Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan). Jake Weird is in the Male celebrities affiliates list. Check out their updates, news, gallery, etc., related with "Twilight". Thank you very much, EdwardHeartBella.com Staff!

The Prince of Persia promotional stills

Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com

This is a veritable Prince, so Zac Efron can start to take notes in his metrobook.

"High School Musical couple Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens portray a scene from the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty as Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip.

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz snapped the photo, as re-posted on Stitch Kingdom".

Source: Justjared.buzznet.com

Emile Hirsch (Since I don't have you)

A video featuring some stills of Emile Hirsch in "The girl next door", "Imaginary heroes", etc. Songs "Since I don't have you" by The Skyliners and "Summertime blues" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.