Fashion and suicide of film characters

Michelle Monaghan and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Source Code" (2011) directed by Duncan Jones

Jake Gyllenhaal was joined by fellow co-stars Vera Famiga and Michelle Monaghan to promote the movie, which sees Gyllenhaal waking up in the body of an unknown man and given a repeating eight-minute mission to prevent a suicide bomb on a Chicago train". Source: www.metro.co.uk

Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Emilio Estevez in "The Breakfast Club" (1985) directed by John Hughes

"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain... and an athlete... and a basket case... a princess... and a criminal... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club".

Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson - the nerd of the group. He gets detention for having a flare gun in his locker that went off by accident. Johnson has a troubled home life because his stern parents want him to do well academically and he frequently thinks about committing suicide, the main reason that he had the gun in the first place. At the end, he writes the essay for Mr. Vernon on how he sees the group, thus giving them the name "the Breakfast Club."

Emilio Estevez's first wife was a model Carey Salley (1984-1986)

Natalie Kenly, ex-nanny, model and Charlie Sheen's goddess

"Something which Charlie Sheen's 'goddess' should have taken on board before last night's diabetes gala. Because Natalie Kenly looked like she had dressed for a fancy dress party in her French maid-style outfit.
The 24-year-old made sure all flashbulbs were pointing her away posed for pictures at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's annual gala. And while other female guests dressed demurely and suitably for the fundraising night, Kenly looked like a French maid in her short and strapless sequinned black dress with chiffon netting and a white skirt over the top". Source: www.dailymail.co.uk


It’s always hard to write a main character out of a series, especially a figure that is popular and beloved by the American public. Which is why the head warlock himself suggests that Charlie Sheen’s Two And A Half Men character commit suicide. When talking with Access Hollywood, Sheen says he regrets that the sitcom uncle he played didn’t end it all in the most gruesome way possible, in order to be found by Jon Cryer‘s uptight dad character. “I feel bad for the fans because there was never that final episode where Alan, like, comes into my room calling my name and pulls back the closet door and there I am hanging, with a note saying, ‘How do you like me now, Chuck?’, Sheen laughed. Well, that would actually get us to watch the show for once. Can’t argue with ratings!
Source: www.thefablife.com


"It didn't take long for Grahame to discover that she'd been effectively blackballed. Everyone knew of her behavior on the set of "Oklahoma!", and despite another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Ado Annie, no one wanted to work with her. Her career was effectively over. When later asked about having to play the game in Hollywood, she replied, "I don't know what the game is. I don't think I ever understood Hollywood." Source: www.shebloggedbynight.com

“She has the manner of a schoolgirl and the eyes of a sorceress.”
-Cecil B. Demille describing Gloria Grahame.

The book "Suicide Blonde: The Life of Gloria Grahame" by Vincent Curcio is at its strongest when analyzing Gloria’s career, and the author includes an excellent analysis of why she never became a star: “She was offbeat, both in her beauty and her acting, and producers never were sure what to do with her.”

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in "In a lonely place" (1950) directed by Nicholas Ray

“She had a terrible way of appearing to be totally absent from anywhere, which is probably the very thing that made her a star in the films; she put a peculiar kind of distance between her and what was happening at the moment. This disengaged quality about her in films is what made her unique. There was a kind of loneliness about Gloria, and in a way, her greatest acting moments were lonely moments.” Source: phoenixcinema.wordpress.com

Edith Bowman interviews Robert Pattinson - London press junket

Edith Bowman catches up with Robert Pattinson about Water For Elephants.

Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson at "Water for Elephants" press conference in Australia

New promotional still of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight saga: "Breaking Dawn" (2011)

Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson attending the press conference for "Water for Elephants", on 5th May 2011 in Sydney, Australia.


Preview of Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon's T4 Interview
Interview airs tomorrow on T4 at 11.50AM (GMT)

Reese Witherspoon in Glamour Magazine Russia (May 2011)

Believing in miracles: "The Way" by Emilio Estevez, "Love & other drugs"

Edward Zwick directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in the dramedy "Love & other drugs" (2010)

"Jamie meets sarcastic, sexy Maggie Murdock (Hathaway) while he's shadowing Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria) during rounds. She bares her breast as he looks on. The catch - she has early onset Parkinson's disease.
When Bohemian artist Maggie discovers that Jamie is a salesman and not an intern, she decks him in the parking lot. The two won't admit it, but it's love at first sight.

It's 1998, the age of Big Pharma and medical miracles. Viagra is about to be released. Jamie is poised for super success. The little blue pill is the drug everyone wants!
Maggie gives up. Jamie has dragged her to lectures around the country. Progress and even cures are documented with chelation therapy and other approaches. Maggie insists there is no cure. She only believes in drugs". Source: www.associatedcontent.com

"I believe in miracles a lot more now," says 48-year-old Estevez, who also wrote and directed The Way. "And I have taken the word 'coincidence' out of my vocabulary. I believe that there is divine intervention. "Miracles happened on a daily basis and it got to the point where the crew were true believers too. If they didn't have any spirituality going into this, they did have by the end".
"Lives changed on this film. My son Taylor met his wife on the Camino and they now live in Burgos, in northern Spain. "Other relationships were also forged by crew members. One said she met the man of her dreams there and got married." Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

"Martin Sheen plays Tom Avery, an American ophthalmologist who receives word that his son has been killed while walking the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage trail in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain sometimes referred to as The Way of Saint James. Perhaps impulsively or perhaps in desperation, Tom decides to walk the pilgrims’ trail himself, to finish the journey his son began.
Obviously, such a role calls for an actor of immense talent, both to convey the depth and layers of feeling of a parent mourning his child and to eschew the more melodramatic histrionics that would cause such material to become overly and overtly sentimental. Sheen, one of our national acting treasures, is perfect for such a part, bringing it gravity but also dignity.

I love that in introducing a movie about fathers and sons, rituals and traditions, Estevez chose to describe Sheen by borrowing from another famous director, John Huston, talking about his own father. “He never tried to sell you something.” Source: 1morefilmblog.com


A video tribute to Andrew 'Andy' Clark (Emilio Estevez) the 'jock' in the hit 80's movie "The Breakfast Club" (1985) directed by John Hughes. Song: Lonely No More by Rob Thomas

Cary Grant's gay rumors, Blake Shelton apologizes LGBT after mocking Jake Gyllenhaal

Cary Grant and Shirley Temple as Dick and Susan in "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947)

"Cary Grant's daughter has penned a memoir about the famous actor, admitting he liked it when people called him gay. The British screen icon, who was married five times, was often dogged by rumours that he was bisexual. But his daughter Jennifer Grant, 45, says the Hot Saturday star actually liked the mystique surrounding his sexuality because it 'made women want to prove the assertion wrong'.
In the memoir, Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, Jennifer writes: '(You) Can't blame men for wanting him, and wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. 'When the question arises, it generally speaks more about the person asking.'
In the Thirties, rumours swirled about his close friendship with fellow actor Randolph Scott, who he met on the set of the 1932 film Hot Saturday.Shortly afterwards they moved into a Malibu beach house together, which became known as Bachelor Hall". Source: www.dailymail.co.uk


Jake Gyllenhaal, Gay icon, Pet icon or Stubble icon?

For example, at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas over the weekend, Shelton joked about actor Jake Gyllenhaal ending his relationship with singer Taylor Swift.
After noting that he didn’t “understand in the first place” why anyone would break up with someone like Swift (“she’s beautiful, she’s talented, she’s sweet”), he paused and noted, “wait a minute, he [Gyllenhaal] was in Brokeback Mountain.”
The comment prompted laughter and applause from the audience – and according to some, kicked off a stream of cracks at the expense of the LGBT community that have since become part of Shelton’s repertoire.
Update: As of 11:50 a.m., GLAAD’s Director of Communications Rich Ferrano announced that, after working with the gay activist organization’s Entertainment Media team over the course of the morning, Blake Shelton issued an updated apology for last night’s comments. Shelton’s tweet reads: “I want my fans and The Voice fans to know that anti-gay and lesbian violence is unacceptable!!!!”
Source: lgbtweekly.com

Olivia Wilde in Glamour magazine, June 2011

Olivia Wilde in Glamour magazine, June 2011