Happy belated birthday, Michelle Williams!

Happy belated birthday, Michelle Williams!!

Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda Ledger at coffee shop for breakfast on 30th August 2009.
Michelle Williams at Art Festival "Opening Night at the Works" - 03.09.2009, Portland.

AnOther Magazine photoshoot
Michelle Williams in Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2007
Photography: Craig McDean

Michelle Williams in VOGUE - October 2009:
Miu Miu embellished metallic minishift. Victor Osborne fedora. Roger Vivier square-toe shoes with silver buckle.Left: Blumarine sequined silk dress.
Right: Oscar de la Renta ivory tulle tweed scoop-neck dress with embroidered trim and attached brooch. Albertus Swanepoel porkpie hat.Left: Marc Jacobs textured Lurex jacket. DKNY striped long-sleeved shirt. Proenza Schouler navy faille shorts.
Right: Narciso Rodriguez white-and-black jacquard jacket and matching mini. Source: style.com

Michelle Williams in Vogue US Interview:

-On dealing with Heath's death: "I have been severely accident-prone over the past 12 months. I fell downstairs, broke a toe, put my fingers in a blender — seriously distracted. [I would often] cry, nap, sit and stare, try to figure out what to make [Matilda] for dinner, talk to friends on the phone. I was holding it together by a string and a paper clip in the Fall and Winter. I didn’t know if I could keep it all together."

-On grieving with Matilda: "I just don’t see the upside to this. You console yourself by saying it’s all a deepening process. But it’s weird. After the first year, the pain is less intense; it’s less immediate. But the magical thinking goes away, too. And that’s a whole new reckoning. But every time I really miss him and wonder where he’s gone, I just look at her."

-On splitting with Spike Jonze: "The timing was impossible. I thought falling in love again was the only thing that was going to save me from the pain. This erroneous idea: it just makes things more complicated."
Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger at Toronto Film Festival - "Brokeback Mountain" Photocall, on 10 September, 2005.

-On before Heath died: "Brokeback Mountain was an unrepeatable moment in time, a very charmed time in my life. I was in love; I was in a movie I was proud to be a part of, and with a beautiful brand-new baby. Everything was good in that moment. [After we split I started filming a movie in Sweden because] I just didn’t want to be at home. Geography is a great solution for heartbreak."

-On dating while having a daughter: "I obviously don’t know how to [date with a child, but] I’m falling more and more in love with her and I think she deserves the bulk of my attention. We’re lucky. I can work. She can go to a good school. There’s a lot there for her. And she can know her dad in so many ways, and so many of his friends who will be able to tell her so many stories. His friends, his family — they were a big part of his life, and they will be a big part of her life."

-On her future: "I feel hopeful and grateful. For a while I thought we had lost everything. It makes you want to love better and live better and treat people better.There is a great Gloria Steinem quote — and I’m paraphrasing — ‘Become the man you want to marry’. I’ve taken that on. What qualities do I find attractive, and can I find them in myself? What am I missing? Can I be that for myself?" Source: www.popsugar.com

Read the whole article in www.style.com/vogue

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze

Jake Gyllenhaal, with his co-stars Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore and Daveigh Chase at the premiere of "Donnie Darko" in Hollywood, on 22nd October, 2001.


One of the best scenes in Donnie Darko: Jim Cunningham Scene (Patrick Swayze and Jake Gyllenhaal discuss about personal empowerment).

"Patrick Swayze has died after a brave battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57 years old.

The actor was born in Houston, Texas on August 18, 1952 -- son of choreographer/dancer Patricia "Patsy" Yvonne Helen and Jesse Wayne Swayze, an engineering draftsman. Swayze began dancing at a very young age, but didn't make his acting debut until 1979 in his role as Ace in "Skatetown, U.S.A."
His big break came in 1987 when he played dance instructor Johnny Castle opposite co-star Jennifer Grey in "Dirty Dancing". The low-budget film became a surprise hit and catapulted Swayze to international fame. Patrick snagged a Golden Globe nod for his role in the movie, and displayed his singing chops on the soundtrack by crooning "She's Like the Wind", which he also co-wrote. Swayze achieved box office success again -- along with another Golden Globe nod -- in 1990's "Ghost", co-starring Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
Patrick also starred in the cult classic "Point Break" in 1991 -- the same year he was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive."Swayze met his wife Lisa Niemi in 1970 -- when the actor was only 18 and she began taking dance lessons from Swayze's mother. They fell in love and married in 1975 --- and were inseparable.During the '80s and '90s, Swayze struggled with alcohol addiction. In 1994, he entered rehab and took a break from show business to breed horses on his ranches in California, Las Vegas and New Mexico.
The actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2008, and began undergoing chemotherapy and other cancer treatments at Stanford University Medical Center. He was reportedly a heavy smoker.

During the summer of 2008, following treatment, Patrick defied all odds by filming "The Beast", an A&E series about a veteran FBI agent. The show premiered in 2009 on USA.

Swayze is survived by his wife of 34 years".

Source: extratv.warnerbros.com

"Patrick Swayze, you're an Angel Warrior. You can remain with us as a GHOST. Every morning, you can bring us a RED DAWN. Without you in the world, each morning, is more like an ugly, gray STEEL DAWN. You were certainly made of steel, Pat. You had the heart of a TIGER Warsaw. You had UNCOMMON VALOR. Nobody put you in a corner. Anybody can see what a magnificent soul you are; everyone loves you, including your NEXT OF KIN, and OUTSIDERS. You are now DIRTY DANCING on the streets of Heaven, in the CITY OF JOY. Your legacy extends everywhere, including NORTH & SOUTH. You were in TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING... well I say, To Patrick Swayze, thanks for everything. We love you, Patrick, we always will. And we miss you already". Source: Patrick Swayze Imdb Board

Demi Moore's twitter message to Patrick:

"And in the words of Sam to Molly. "It's amazing Molly. The love inside, you take it with you". I love and will miss you Patrick".

Jake Gyllenhaal at US Open 2009

Jake Gyllenhaal watches the match between Roger Federer of Switzerland and Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina on day fifteen of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 14, 2009 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. on 14th September 2009, New York.

Pictures courtesy of www.iheartjakemedia.com

Some stills of Leonardo DiCaprio's recent films

Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt shooting "Inception" by Christopher Nolan (2010).

Leonardo Dicaprio in "The Basketball diaries":


“The Basketball Diaries”, reissued in a mass-market edition in 1980, became enormously popular, especially on college campuses. In a film adaptation in 1995, Leonardo DiCaprio played the part of Mr. Carroll.The writer’s good looks and flair for drama made him ideal raw material for rock stardom. “When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it,” he told the poet Ted Berrigan in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, with the encouragement of Ms. Smith, he formed the Jim Carroll Band, whose first release, “Catholic Boy” (1980), is sometimes called the last great punk album". Source: www.nytimes.com

Amanda Seyfried discussing the tongue issue

"The 23-year-old star of Atom Egoyan's new film "Chloe" said she had to learn that older actors draw the intimacy line at having a co-star's tongue in their mouth."A lot of us in the younger generation, the people that I've worked with, haven't got the memo about the tongue issue," Seyfried said Sunday during an interview promoting "Chloe" at the Toronto International Film Festival."It's still very awkward kissing your co-worker, it's just not natural, but there's a lot of tongue involved in the younger generation when I make out with my co-stars."
Seyfried - who also starred in "Mamma Mia" - can be seen kissing two fellow actors onscreen at the festival: Julianne Moore in "Chloe" and Megan Fox in "Jennifer's Body".While the tongue apparently wasn't an issue with Fox, Seyfried said she has discussed the issue with both Moore and Jeanne Tripplehorn, her co-star on the HBO show "Big Love", who are both in their 40s.

"There are way different boundaries with that generation. It was a big education on that."The Allentown, Penn., native said "there's a certain intimacy boundary in a professional setting" among the older generation."We do what's natural to us", she said of young actors using the tongue". Source: jam.canoe.ca