"It feels like Spring again You sprung this on me and then It feels like Spring again But I guess it never really ends It just comes around again And I collect all the cards that you sent. But I could not say If I should stay I might not even Even remember your name Oh what a shame Oh I'm a bad valentine, a bad valentine I'm a bad valentine Oh I'm so bad, bad, bad, all the time Oh I'm a bad valentine Ooh I love you baby Aah I love you maybe Ooh I love you baby Or maybe, maybe I'm just insane. I'm a bad valentine, a bad valentine Oh I'm so bad, bad, bad, all the time Oh I'm a bad valentine" -sung by TRANSVISION VAMP. Wendy James was one of the 80's girl-crushes I had.
HELEN MIRREN SHOCKS BAFTA VIEWERS WITH F-WORD "The journalist warned her it was "a channel where people don't swear". She replied, "Where people don't swear? F**king nutbag!" Source: Mirror.co.uk, 2-12-07.
"There was plenty of rudeness to go around on both sides, not just from the famous but from the fans as well. From one who stood for hours on the red carpet to hopefully get a photo with Kate Winslet, I can attest to it. Most notably, with Jake Gyllenhaal, who was gracious with his time and generous to a fault. As he stopped to sign for someone next to me a man rudely yelled practically in his face 'are you gay' over and over and Jake gave the most brilliant look at me and the girl whose paper he was signing. We all three were embarrassed for him (the man, not Jake). Jake loudly said 'no' back to shut the bloke up. This apparently did not satisfy and the man said 'bisexual', Jake laughed no, looking straight at me, as if he couldn't believe it. I think my jaw was hanging at the man's audacity. I must have looked so funny. The man finally shouted 'dating Austin' (redundantly, for hello, it's a man's name) and Jake laughed and said 'no' again before moving on. Anyway it was the most comical and surreal moment for my brush with celebrity and made me grateful I'm just a nurse. I wouldn't have had the patience with such rudeness." Source: www.Talkentertainment.com, found by Penny Lane.
Penélope and Jake talking during BAFTAs. Penélope Cruz arriving in car to Nobu Berkeley Restaurant, London, 12th February.
"Jake Gyllenhaal dines at London’s exclusive Nobu restaurant on Monday night wearing a “The Duffer of St. George” cap. (Duffer sells everything from fresh and funky streetwear to modern looks.) Jake, 25, recently walked the red carpet at the BAFTA Awards." Source: www.JustJared.com Source: Squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants
Ok, dear weird kindred, marriage and insomnia can be a strange combination, specially if your husband is so understanding somehow it makes feel you more guilty. The case is that there is a guy out there who supposedly was in love with me (sounds 100% corny at this point, I know, but not it's less true even so), and I want to dedicate to him this post. I won't say his name, because maybe that only would magnify my vanity, but we shared a story. His favourite song was "California Sun" by The Ramones, and his favourite movie is/was "Memento", we would watch things as "The Blank Generation" and would get drunk, we would listen to Herman Brood songs and even cried when he committed suicide, and read fanzines, so I have too much class (or I'm much of a coward) to post this in the San Valentine day. You said me you danced without a sense of rhythm, but you know what? you're a liar.
"All my friends say I'm a fool/I can't still stand that new boy hangin' around/ Every night, honey, you're, you're not on the dancefloor/I know he is back in town/ And Marguerita, I want you so much/Can't handle myself/Tryin' to find me another love/But I just turn out to be foolin' myself, 'cause honey/I want you/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else./Hey, didn't see you hangin' around in the après-ski/And I didn't see you downtown/I know your rock'n'roll fancy playboy kind of boyfriend/ And I hate to see him back in town/Hey, Marguerita, I want you so much/Can't handle myself/Oh, I tried so hard to find me another love/But I just fooled myself, 'cause/I want you/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else/'Cause when you're near/I can hear you moan/As long as you're hangin' round/I don't feel down/Hey!/ I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else/Hey!/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else/I love you like I love myself/And I don't need no, I don't need nobody, child/(Hey, mama) I love you like I love myself/And I don't need nobody else." "I LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE MYSELF" -HERMAN BROOD.
"The Motion Picture Academy held its Sci-Tech Awards Saturday night at the Beverly Wilshire , a new venue for the kudofest, which has bounced around for several years. New mom Maggie Gyllenhaal hosted, looking radiant in a pewter dress while beau Peter Sarsgaard watched from a front table. As usual, the honorees included more than a few cutups. "An award like this is a rare and beautiful thing. An award like this to a geek... is the square of that" quipped Industrial Light & Magic's Colin Davidson from the podium. [...]
Gyllenhaal warned everyone at the outset that "I fulfilled my college science requirement by taking earth science and dinosaurs," then ploughed gamely through monologues about densitometers, optical flow-based image manipulation and lossy compression. More of a problem, she said, was her contact lenses, which need a new prescription and weren't strong enough for her to see the script on her teleprompter.
"I couldn't even read 'I-L-M,'" a chagrinned Gyllenhaal told Variety afterwards. Still, she kept the aud on her side and got a big hand at the end. As for Sarsgaard, he said "I just love watching her talk. Especially in a nice dress." Source: Weblogs.Variety.com, found by Penny Lane.
"I was really killed by Babel, I loved it so much. Especially the two women, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi. And what else? Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby. She's my favorite, she's the best actress working. I'm obsessed with her. I think she is the real deal." -Gwyneth Paltrow dixit. Source: www.ew.com
Sienna Miller (above) and Eva Green (below) at Baftas. For the following of the Baftas Ceremony (London, 11th February 2007), read the Live BAFTAs Blogging in Jake Watch.
"Teen movies used to be about growing pains, bunking off school and prom night. Now it's mental illness, apocalypse and suicide." -Skye Sherwin on how a genre got dangerous.
"The teen movie, as we know it, appears to exist only in a haze of Gen X nostalgia for the mid-1980s powerhouse that was John Hughes and his acolytes. But the American teen movie never really squeaked its last gasp. The forthcoming "Brick", for example, is a leftfield, low-budget indie film that defies expectation. First-time writer-director Rian Johnson's novel offering melds high-school movie with deadpan noir, creating a dark, surreal world where a 16-year-old gumshoe goes in search of his missing ex-girlfriend.
[...] Between then and now, however, a swathe of independent films has proved there is a market for a different kind of American teen movie in a world where youth sells and age buys. Films such as "Election", "The Virgin Suicides", "Donnie Darko", "George Washington", "Ghost World", "All the Real Girls", "Napoleon Dynamite", and "Mysterious Skin" are just some of the high points. [...] "Back in the day - in the mythologised 1980s of break dancing, Molly Ringwald, bangles and Coca-Cola-can engagement rings - the teen movie was a clearly defined set of conventions.[...] "The much chewed-over suicide of Kurt Cobain in 1994 marked an end of the purity of rebel teen spirit. The second is the Columbine high-school shootings in 1999. The defining tone of subsequent teen movies for grown-ups is summed up in a single word: angst. There has been mental illness and apocalypse (Donnie Darko), suicide pacts (The Virgin Suicides), paedophilia (Mysterious Skin) and a whole lot of dead bodies (George Washington, Mean Creek). Rian Johnson sums it up nicely: "Life is just high school with more money, right?" Source: http://Arts.guardian.co.uk
"Because Brick is a classic Film Noir. But with a high-school twist. And some David Lynch quotes thrown in. [...] It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before, it has a chemistry and charm all its own, and an impact that spells classic. In that sense the comparison to Donnie Darko is justified." Source: www.chokingonpopcorn.com
"Our antihero, Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), tries to get to the bottom of a narcotics underworld that has swallowed up his ex-girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin). He never stopped loving this druggie even after she left him cold. [...] The triumph of Johnson's coiling plot and bleakly funny look, and Gordon-Levitt's crisp, shaded performance, is that you buy Brendan's asphalt-playground alienation and romantic anguish. The writer-director supplies the actor with words and actions that weather Brendan beyond his years. Gordon-Levitt gives them a depth charge. When you see Brendan and Emily breaking up in a flashback, he looks young and unformed. Pain, not time, has aged him." Source: www.Baltimoresun.com
"Laura (Nora Zehetner) - film noir’s most memorable icon, the femme fatale." Source: www.bbc.co.uk
"In the So-Cal teenage wasteland of a seamy high school, a girl (Emile de Ravin of Lost) goes missing and presumed dead. Her ex-boyfriend Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) cannot help her, but can't let it go, can't help but descend into the shadows in pursuit of the unattainable young woman (those shadows are especially deep and foreboding, thanks to cinematographer Steve Yedlin). A private dick led by a woman: it's Philip Marlowe all over again." Source: www.grouchoreviews.com
