The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2009-03-27) Reese Witherspoon's Mad Libs Acceptance Speech!
Reese is up for a Kids' Choice Award, but she tells Ellen that she has a hard time coming up with acceptance speeches. Ellen then thinks up the perfect solution: The two will create an original speech by playing a simple game of... Mad Libs!
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2009-03-27)
"Reese Witherspoon finds "tough" being short.
The Legally Blonde star - who is reportedly engaged to boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal - says she's has had enough boobs, backs and armpits to last her three lifetimes.
And since playing a giant in her new movie, Monsters vs Aliens, Reese has started to hate the fact she only comes up to most other people's chests and has to deal with looking at boobs and armpits every day of her life.
She says, "It's still me at concerts or the supermarket, dealing with people's backs and their armpits and stuff.
"That's sort of the challenge of being 5 foot 2. It's tough."
Reese, 33, recently revealed that she had teamed up with Jim Brooks, Paul Rudd and Bill Murray for an as-yet untitled film about softball". Source: www.showbizspy.com
"Prince of Persia, a lengthy graphic novel based on a long-running series of video games, touches some primal chords.
There is a scene, for instance, in which a man wearing the pelt of a lion leads an actual pride of lions into battle. A forsaken messiah-type lives in a ruined city on the outskirts of a desert town, scurrying to and from civilization through a network of abandoned irrigation tunnels. His lonely life among the ruins strikes a lyrical note. People are beheaded by scimitar in the tale, and others have their tongues chopped off in a graphic public ceremony. There is stirring beauty, and effective violence.
The long and convoluted story is loosely based on a video-game franchise that has been around since the 80s—which, in turn, was loosely based on Arabian Nights. To understand what's happening here, you need to keep the book's two parallels stories separate. They both involve saving a princess and a bloodline, and overturning some kinda tyranny, and they are drawn similarly - most readers will probably find it a bit challenging to follow. I certainly did.
The art owes something to Will Eisner. LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland's expressive faces, brutish soldiers, cute belly dancers, dusty Arab cities, and so on are really excellent. There's nothing amateurish here. The graphic novel coincides with yet another iteration of the Prince of Persia video game, and a Jerry Bruckheimer / Disney (the Pirates of the Caribbean team) film to be released in 2010". Source: www.playbackstl.com
"The more you love, the more you can love-- and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just". -Robert A. Heinlein.
"When the desperate Mrs. Livingston and her husband try to contrive an anti-Semitic ransom scheme to generate media interest in Jimmy's disappearance, the point is that she is the bigot and her son is such a decent spirit that even her xenophobia can't taint him. (''Bubble Boy'' even explains why she is so frightened.) When it clicks, the picture should shock you into laughter -- enough to make you wish it were better and applaud its efforts anyway".Source: www.nytimes.com
"He is kind of guileless. He doesn't seem like a jerk," Kat Dennings (Norah) told Reuters in a joint interview with Cera.
"He doesn't have lesions or active sores or something," Cera said.
"Not on his fingers," Dennings joked. "I don't know, girls can tell when someone's acting nice -- like, acting like a decent human being -- when they're are not. He's not acting like that. He's very nice. I think girls can identify with a real nice person." Source: www.reuters.com
"I was not warned that Emile Hirsch was so funny. I thought for sure that he was yet another serious, mumbly young actor - I meet them all the time, the kinds of guys who don't comb their hair and don't shower to detract from how gorgeous they are, and who don't like to talk about anything except 'The Moment' or 'The Craft' - and that's if you can get them to talk at all.
But Hirsch isn't like that. He's genuinely hilarious; when some dumb reporter asked him about 'Tokyo drifting,' he came back with a reply that had me cracking up for a long time. And he's incredibly personable, too, another trait you don't find it too many of these serious young actors. It seems like he's found the zone between being a terrific actor and a decent person, and he's comfortable there". Source: www.chud.com
SxSW is a hot poppin tech gumbo -- signed up for Twitter @hitrecordjoe -- saw "We Live In Public" 500 Days of Summer is playing here in Austin at the end of the week, but South By Southwest is not just a film festival. It's most known for its music, and then there's what they call "Interactive." The tech, the net, the new media. I decided to come down to Texas early, and try to humbly soak it up. Glad I did, I've met so many cool people here, kicking so many asses. It's good to know that awesome people are building the future.
@ronen and I ceremoniously signed me up for Twitter in front of the state's capital.
Jake shopping in Beverly Hills, on 26th March. Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com
Jake sported a red and white buttoned plaid shirt, jeans and a black derby hat.
Jake has joined forces with Global Green USA, attending the the launch of National Green Schools Initiative last month, building a garden during Green Service Day at Manual Arts High School.
Talking about Global Green, Jake tells: “What I learned is that something like this is possible. There are so many things that I’ve thought of [including making] gardens like this. I had always thought this is possible on a mass scale. This is possible within a massive city like Los Angeles!”
Green Schools Initiative: Day of Service with Jake Gyllenhaal (Short)
"Our lead is James Brennan played perfectly by Jesse Eisenberg. This is a less overtly awkward Michael Cera type, but older. He is a college graduate, in transition between college and seeking a Graduate degree in Journalism - after majoring in Renaissance studies. He also happens to be a Virgin. Not an inept one, but one of choice. He's had opportunities, but his love of Renaissance literature has given him a lovesick fascination with true love. Although peer pressure and his own natural attraction and desire for intercourse... well, it is on his mind.
This isn't another of those comedic romps about getting laid, though that is the overall arc of this story. It's more about real human types that take a summer job at a theme park like ADVENTURELAND and what that summer could very well have been like.
I found the story to be very honest feeling. You don't have ridiculous over the top disgusting gags for laughs' sake. The drugs and drinking isn't about stereotypes with half-closed eyes acting like burn-outs... But about sharing a single joint after work to take the edge off - and the kinds of conversations that these types of people would have. People get hurt in this film and some triumph. This is a film that has a shared soul with movies like AMERICAN GRAFFITI and DAZED & CONFUSED, though not nearly as GREAT as those films - at least not upon a single reflection.
The cast is wonderful. I dare you to not lust after Margarita Levieva's Lisa P or not fall a little in love with Kirsten Stewart's Em. These are not perfect types, but characters that surprise you with their flaws and their merits. Martin Starr is again masterful as a wonderful Nikolai Gogol and other Soviet literature. He smokes a pipe and is acutely self-aware that his major prepared him for isolation and self-loathing, which in turn leaves him frustrated.I know I'm describing a film that feels like a downer, but it isn't. I LOVED spending the summer with these characters. I loved how there are no overt VILLAINS, only mistakes that flawed humans make and then chose to forgive or be condemned by.
I honestly feel we need more movies like this that help with the balance. I enjoy the silly goofy crap, but it doesn't inspire a generation to anything but losing itself in mediocrity and the science of distraction. This film feels honest, sweet and funny. That may not be as marketably cool as "from the creator of SUPERBAD," but it is a very very worthwhile film experience". Source: www.aintitcool.com
Jake having Lunch With Maggie & Ramona At Ammo In LA, on 25th March, 2009.Jake Gyllenhaal, sister Maggie and Peter Sarsgaard take Ramona Sarsgaard to Central Park in NYC. last month, on 2nd october 2008. Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com
"Reese Witherspoon finds "tough" being short.
