Jake & Reese: LAX Airport

Jake and Reese Witherspoon arriving at LAX Airport, on 4th May, 2009. Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com

500 days of summer & The Brothers Bloom

"You knew it starred Zooey Deschanel — who you like off and on, depending on the role and just how pixie she is - and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who impressed the hell out of you in Brick and Mysterious Skin and, by rights, should be well ahead of Zac Efron on the “next big Hollywood leading man” chart.
It is, after all, the best indie romance since Eternal Sunshine of the Mind, a movie that fills you with that helium-like affection and a movie that will alternate between playing your heart strings like Eddie Van Halen on a coke bender and Yo Yo Ma covering a Beth Orton ballad. Jumping around chronologically, 500 Days of Summer tracks the rise, the fall, and the possible rise again of Tom (Gordon-Levitt), a greeting card maker with an architecture background, and Summer (Deschanel), an assistant in the greeting card company.

It’s a story about love, but it’s not a love story".

Source: www.pajiba.com
"Whatever magical ability Wes Anderson once had to mesh well-crafted, supremely acted films with heart-bump, pitter-patter, soul-tug whimsy may have left him in 2001, but the spirit of Anderson’s first three films has been transplanted into the talent of Rian Johnson. In tone and aesthetic, The Brothers Bloom is the spiritual successor to The Royal Tenenbaums, but it’s less wink/nudge, less precocious, less satisfied with its own sense of cleverness, and even more novelistic in its approach. It possess the same heightened sense of reality, though; the same offbeat sensibility, and the same fairy-tale quality that Tenenbaums radiated, only The Brothers Bloom is the sort of fairy tale you might hear Ricky Jay recite to distract you from a 90-minute sleight of hand trick. Mark Ruffalo is charmingly slick in an uncharacteristic role in which he’s not any form of mope, which is Adrien Brody’s territory in The Brothers Bloom and he plays his part perfectly: A sad, empty man waiting for his inner puppy dog to rise to the surface and lick the world’s face. But it’s the two women in The Brother’s Bloom who steal it, own it, and sell it back to you for twice the price". Source: www.pajiba.com

Elvis, Marilyn, and Dean Collectibles

A very special Million Dollar Bill featuring Elvis Presley! This Million Dollar Bill serves to recognize different periods in the the life of the King of Rock 'N Roll! Licensed through Elvis Presley Enterprises.
Special Million Dollar Bill featuring Marilyn Monroe!! The perfect gift for all lovers of Norma Jean :o). Same size as actual currency. Great for resale or use in promotions. A COLLECTIBLE FOR ALL AGES. Licensed through CMG Worldwide.
A very special commemorative note featuring James Dean! This Million Dollar Bill serves to recognize the life, career and fast times of American Icon James Dean. This note was created on behalf of the Official James Dean Fan Club (James Dean Remembered),CMG Worldwide and Marcus Winslow whom are the official representatives for the estate of James Dean. A portion of all sales goes to this organization.


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Catherine Hardwicke interview

-The girls didn’t need to be convinced.-We toured malls the week before [the movie] opened. When we went to Dallas, there were one thousand girls screaming like it was Beatlemania and yelling “I want to have your baby” at Rob [Pattinson, the male lead] and all that. He had done a few indie movies since then, and a play, and this and that. He had been unemployed for a little while. His career wasn’t exactly shooting for the moon.-[Before I cast him] I was pretty desperate. I didn’t think I had found the right Edward. It’s a tall order: He had to be the most handsome guy in the world, and he had to have pale skin, and he had to be believable as a high schooler, and he had to be a really good actor, and he had to feel otherworldly. A lot of the kids who [auditioned] were really cute but looked like they could be the prom king.-What about Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella?I had seen Into the Wild—I thought she was so good in that. There’s the moment where she’s sitting on the bed and is so vulnerable. You can just feel what she’s feeling. She wants to connect, and Emile Hirsch is great: “No, I can’t do it—you’re underage.” I loved her from that scene, and I thought, “I just have to meet this girl.”

-Her career has also been helped enormously by this.
-She’s an incredible actress. She’s been doing small roles in indie films, but even though that’s where her heart is, she can now get movies green-lit, because she has star power.-Has this film had a similar effect on your career? Thirteen [Hardwicke’s directorial debut, in 2003] was big as far as it went, but it didn’t succeed on the scale that Twilight has.
-Oh, no. I mean, [Thirteen] was only in one hundred theaters total, so it made nothing compared to [Twilight]. On opening weekend we beat Thirteen by $65 million!
So what’s the practical impact?-Any of that stuff appeal to you?
-A lot of it doesn’t. But I’ll try to read the script all the way through to see, because the truth is that when I got the script for Twilight, it wasn’t even close to what we filmed. It was a whole other script that had been developed at Paramount before the book was released. Somebody read the novel in galleys and said, “Oh, I think this could be a cool movie.” It took extreme liberties. There was an FBI agent involved, and girls were on Jet Skis by the end, like Charlie’s Angels, and Bella was a track star—she wasn’t just a clumsy everygirl. So I read that script, and I read the book, and I went to my meeting with the studio and said, “You know what? This script should just be thrown in the trash. We have to start over and make it like the book. Because that’s where the heart is. That’s why these kids around the world are connecting with it.” And that’s what we did.-Well, Thirteen was something I wrote from scratch with [Thirteen actress] Nikki [Reed], and that came from no material other than life. The draft that we wrote in six days was very close to the movie that you see. It’s got the same first scene, the same last scene—it’s pretty damn similar. But it became richer and deeper as I worked with [lead actress] Holly Hunter. When I met with her, she would have ideas, and I would write new scenes for her, which improved it greatly.

On Twilight we had a screenwriter who the studio had worked with before, but I went up and scouted all the locations and found these crazy things I wanted to put in. I don’t know if you remember the scene where they go outside and fly through the treetops. There’s not anything even remotely close to that in the book, but it was created to visualize a feeling of being in love—crazy, ecstatic love. I told the screenwriter I wanted to do it, and she put it in the script, very bare-bones, and then I elaborated on it and did storyboards". Source: www.texasmonthly.com

Sean Penn in "Deflating The Elephant"

Narrated by Academy Award® Winner Sean Penn, new documentary "DEFLATING THE ELEPHANT", examines best-selling author George Lakoff's framework on language "framing" to embed right-wing ideology into the minds of America. The last forty years of political discourse are put under the microscope to unveil the deceptive terminology that is used by the conservatives, and what the progressives should do to effectively communicate liberal ideas to the public. More in the press release below. DVD on streets May 19, 2009. Source: Blogcritics.org

MET Costume Institute Gala 2009

Kate Hudson, Stella MacCartney, Liv Tyler and Kate Bosworth at MET Costume Institute Gala 2009. Jessica Biel, designer Atelier Versace.Kirsten Dunst, designer Chanel.Madonna, designer Louis Vuitton.Eva Mendes, designer Calvin Klein.Marion Cotillard, designer Christian Dior.Leighton Meester, designer Louis Vuitton.Emmy Rossum, designer Carolina Herrera.Jessica Alba, designer Jason Wu.
Anne Hathaway, designer Marc Jacobs.Giselle Bündchen.Katy Perry.Emma Stone.Bar Rafaeli.Rachel Weisz.

 Source: www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com
 Source: www.celebutopia.net

Some details of Maggie & Peter's wedding

"The longtime couple exchanged vows inside the cloister of a convent called the Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, a luxury bed and breakfast in Brindisi, Italy, before just 40 close friends and family members, including the bride's brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and his girlfriend, Reese Witherspoon.

A family friend, whom a source says donned a top hat for the occasion, officiated at the half-hour ceremony, which took place at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. The chef and his team brought a special kitchen to the convent in order to accommodate the banquet. Guests enjoyed Castel di Salve wines – from a winery in the nearby town of Lecce – with their meal.

A traditional Italian music group, Zimbo, entertained at the reception. "We played songs by Domenico Modugno like, 'Tu Si Na’ Cosa Bella Pe Me' (Translation: 'You Are a Beautiful Thing for Me') and the famous hit 'Volare,' " a member of the group tells PEOPLE.

The following day, the bride and groom, who are parents to 2½-year-old daughter Ramona, had brunch with family, including Jake and Reese. They later biked to the town where they were spotted doing some shopping, according to sources, and spent time at a secluded beach called Acquaviva, known for its mixture of fresh spring water and sea water".
Source: www.people.com