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Nude scenes and next-door smiles

"Powder Blue" is getting a limited theatrical release on May 8th, but not that many people know what it's about, except that Jessica Biel is nude in it.

In the film Biel plays a stripper who gets contacted by her ex-con father (Ray Liotta) after serving a 25 years in prison. And to prepare for the role she had to not only do research but also get in the best shape of her life.

Access Hollywood caught up with her to see some of the training that went into getting ready for the part. Watch the video below to check it out". Source: www.worstpreviews.com

"The Girl Next Door" is no "Boogie Nights", a sexy comedy but for the slightly younger set, so being sexy for the teen market can be risky. "I didn't feel the pressure of having to do it for the public. I think just personally for myself, I had a place where I felt like I had to stop, which was full nudity. I push it to a certain point, obviously, in the opening of the film, but the director and I kind of talked about it, and I had a strong opinion on the fact that we could make a teen comedy and not have to do full nudity".
Source: www.girl.com.au

31 Things Every Man Should Own

"The things we love. The things we need. The items, were they to be lost, we would briefly mourn and immediately replace. Here, a collection of objects no man should be without.

Chef's Knife
With a good kitchen knife, you're holding something heavy and well-balanced. The food yields to it. Cooking becomes a craft, not a chore". Source: www.esquire.com

More pictures of white perfect smiles:

Reese Witherspoon.

Natalie Portman.

Robert Pattinson.

Kirsten Dunst.

Amanda Seyfried.

Heath Ledger.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

Gemma Arterton.

Zooey Deschanel.

Amy Adams.

Evan Rachel Wood.

Anne Hathaway.

Edie Sedgwick.

Ellen Page.

Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Jake Gyllenhaal.

Emile Hirsch.

Lindsay Lohan.

Sarsgaard talks on The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Zuckerman, director and Ebon Moss-Bachrach ask each other questions on moviefone's "Unscripted"

"I think it's more interesting to play someone who is out of touch with who they really are," said Sarsgaard, 38. "I think that's pretty common. And they create a fantasy, either by lying or acting out, that they and everyone else believe in. I'm very interested in people who construct their personalities.

"I call it the Blanche DuBois syndrome," he continued. "For the whole play [A Streetcar Named Desire], she can speak in a funny voice and wear crazy clothing and talk about crap, and then there's one moment where she suddenly talks in her own voice and seems her age, and we see who she really is. As long as you have that moment, even if it's only 30 seconds long, then all the rest of the fabrication will seem interesting. So that's what I'm always fighting for: Give me a chance to express, in any way that's interesting, what the flip side is."

There's a wonderfully subtle flip-side moment in Sarsgaard's new film, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and it was his idea. Based on an early novel by Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys), it's a coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Great Gatsby and Sophie's Choice: One restless, mid-1980s summer, a naive yearner named Art (Jon Foster) falls under the sway of a glamorous, volatile couple, Jane and Cleveland (Sienna Miller and Sarsgaard).

Cleveland, a small-time hood with a motorcycle and rebel hair, is a man of great appetites for short durations. There's no sexual partner, drug or activity he won't try, and for a time he's happy to have Art around as a witness.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh film shoot.

"Art gives Cleveland a kingdom to be the king of," Sarsgaard said. "If you think of Cleveland by himself, he suddenly deflates somewhat. But around Art, he's got a better sense of his fabricated self. He's like, 'Ahh, I am this, because you see me as this.' " But Sarsgaard made sure to throw in a moment where Cleveland freaks out when he can't find his keys. "I didn't want to show him opening his heart directly, just something to reveal a crack."

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is part of a growing trend in 1980s entertainments, including the films Adventureland, 17 Again (which flashes back to 1989) and the upcoming Lymelife (set in 1979), and the new Broadway musical Rock of Ages, whose score consists of eighties-hair-band power ballads.

Though Mysteries was shot in only a month, Sarsgaard frequently flew back and forth between Pittsburgh and New York, because Gyllenhaal was nine months pregnant with their first baby. "It was this very small airplane, a Seneca, just me and the pilot," Sarsgaard said. "The producer really helped me make it work, because it's very difficult to leave your spouse when she's having Braxton-Hicks contractions." Daughter Ramona was born in October, 2006, three days after Mysteries wrapped.

Sarsgaard finds fatherhood "a lot more fun" than he thought it would be. "But you only get out what you put in, and they [children] know when you're not putting in - and it doesn't go over well," he said, laughing.

"But then I'm a hero, because I made dinner," he said.

Sarsgaard's pretty content with his career, which this past year included an acclaimed Broadway run of The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas, an off-Broadway production of Uncle Vanya opposite Gyllenhaal, the upcoming horror thriller Orphan with Vera Farmiga, and the new Nick Hornby movie, An Education. "I don't know if people get me," he said, "but in my latest forays into theatre, I felt like I was doing as much acting as I had ever dreamed of doing. I feel completely satiated at the moment. I certainly have gone through periods where I was disappointed, and periods where I couldn't find an opportunity, or express myself fully. But this latest one, Maggie and I just created it, in a 200-seat East Village theatre, with a fantastic director, Austin Pendleton, and it was so much fun. So that's all I need."

He planted the periwinkle, by the way. "It's excellent ground cover; it'll grow anywhere and it's got pretty little flowers," he said. "It looks great."
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

The Joker toy figures

"How accurate can an action figure's likeness get to its human counterpart before it crosses over into being downright creepy?

Hot Toys may have found the answer with their latest "cop disguise" variant DARK KNIGHT Joker, the upcoming debut of their high-end MMSDX figure series that features a rather chilling resemblance to late star Heath Ledger (made all the more unnerving by the "Parallel Eyeball Rolling System").

This isn't the first Joker figure from them, (their Bank Robber version from last summer was a hot item) but this new model seems almost disturbingly similar to the real thing". Source: www.hottoys.com.hk

Reynolds likes Pattinson, Hirsch liked Kristen Stewart

"Twilight" photoshoot outtakes of Robert Pattinson.

"Ryan Reynolds seems to have co-starred with Kristen Stewart in Adventureland for one reason: To meet Robert Pattinson.
The actor, who is married to Scarlett Johansson, tells MTV that he finds Stewart's onscreen Twilight love to be "dreamy."

"I love Twilight," Reynolds gushes. "Oh my God are you kidding me? Robert Pattinson in a word: dreamy."

Reynolds, 32, plays a handyman at an ailing amusement park who is having an affair with a girl half his age (Stewart). But his assessment of the actress is considerably less generous than his description of Pattinson.

"She's an old, old soul," Reynolds noted, while describing his love scenes with her. "Sometimes I wonder if she's one of the Golden Girls with a great face lift." Ouch!

Apparently, Reynolds is saving all his love for RPattz. In fact, he jokes (or does he?) to MTV that he likes him in that way.
When asked if he wanted to work with him, Reynolds replied:
"Oh are you kidding me?" Reynolds replied. "Look, I'm not gay—but I'm thinking about it." Source: www.celebuzz.com

Emile Hirsch: Yeah, the family that he needs and working with Brian Dierker and Catherine Keener and Kristen Stewarts, who’s a wonderfully beautiful young actress, that to me… I loved it, because here I would be facing off with a grizzly bear or risking life and limb climbing off the edge of some rock cliff for Sean, but then I got a couple of weeks to just spend with these wonderful people in this great town and everyone knew what a great time I was having… Sean would look at me and be like “God, you are just having so much fun here” and I’d be like “Yup! This is great! I love the people, no bears… it’s all good…”
Quint: “No risk of broken necks…” Kristen’s really good in the film, too.

Emile Hirsch: She’s wonderful; I really loved working with her. She’s a great person. I think she was just so natural with her performance and she’s so beautiful too. Just her beauty is the kind of beauty where you look at her and you know she’s just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the out. You can just tell.

Quint: She works very well in the movie and it’s the closest you get to a romance, but I like the fact that it was kept very brother and sister type.
Emile Hirsch: Yeah!
Source: www.aintitcool.com