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Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 6:28PM Flicks and Bits cool fan-made posters for X-Men Days of Future Past
Playbill is Jewel up for the part of Cinderella in Into the Woods? I am always rooting for thirtysomething and forthy something ladies on up (as everyone knows) but isn't she at least 15 years too old for this part?
Cinema Blend Emily Blunt will play the very plum role of the Bakers Wife -- does anyone know if she can sing?
Le Noir Auteur on Angelina Jolie's recent op-ed
Tom & Lorenzo Julianne Moore's photospread in Madame Figaro
Variety well this is unexpected... Uma Thurman to play Anita Bryant in a biopic about the famous orange-juice peddling homophobe
Allure Zoe Saldana naked for Allure. And also revealing her weight for some reason
THR the assembled cast of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac photographed... It's almost like a less cozy messier Vanity Fair cover
In Contention The Bling Ring reviewed from Cannes
Broadway.com now that Smash is cancelled, here are five ideal roles for Megan Hilty shoud she return to Broadway. Ooh, I love the idea of her as Queenie in The Wild Party
Salon equates The Great Gatsby to Spring Breakers because someone had to
Variety Ralph Fiennes to star in Two Women based on a Russian play about a landowner's wife who falls in love with her son's tutor. No word on who will play the title characters or what part the other woman plays. I'd happily take Ralph Fiennes back in leading man roles, please.
James Franco Can't Help Himself!
Did you read the actor's thoughts on The Great Gatsby for Vice Magazine? And make sure to look at their attached graphic, a cheeky recasting of the film.
And Neither Can Gwynnie...
Just days after Gwyneth Paltrow's "unfun" comments about the "Punk" Met Ball (which we wrote about here) finished circulating, the latest edition of GOOP hits and it's all about what Gwynnie decided to wear to the "Punk" Met Ball -- that pink dress with the horizontal cutout which I personally might have been more appropriate at the SuperHero themed Met ball a year or three back. As previously noted I don't read GOOP but since Pepper & Marge have got me on a Paltrow kick, so I did this time. Turns out her hairdresser tried adding a few blue strands to her hair but the actress nixed the idea and went with a natural ponytail. So punk! I love Gwynnie but I am horrified that this hideous look too 5+ people and three separate fittings and adjustments to come into being.
Reader Comments (19)
OT ----- Why no updates to acting charts????
Oh my god the description on that nymphomaniac picture!
In the center of the picture stands Uma Thurman in a domina pose with her leg astride a table underneath which Udo Kier lies, looking up with apparent fear and awe.
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Mark -- i do them at the speed i can do them. but it does make me feel bad when people don't read the blog and just keep asking about the charts.
You had me at naked Zoe Saldana
And while we're on the topic of attractive people let's just remind everyone that Julianne Moore is 52. What the hell? Seriously?
Half my hair is already going white.
Kudos to Emma Watson for making some wise, artistically sound career choices. She acquitted herself nicely in "My Week with Marilyn" and charmed Immensely in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." It's often hard to predict how child actors will fair once adulthood hits, but her shrewd taste in projects should keep her working for quite a while.
Ralph Fiennes is one of a handful of actors whose work excites me the way an actresses work can, so putting him in any movie is a great idea as far as I'm concerned. I'm still mad that he and Nicole Kidman didn't get to do The Reader because I've been dying for them to make one together!
I have absolutely no hope for Into the Woods.
Weird Zoe Saldana interview. Was that a coming out? I'm always torn about these kind of things with the starlets. On one hand, it's great to see an up and comer, especially a young woman of color, come forward and come out. On the other does it really help anyone if you're going to make it into some kind of coy "Just write three dots and let that be my answer" kind of thing?
In happier gay news, Emma Watson seems awfully determined to hang on to that post-Perks crush I've been nursing. Reviews for Bling Ring are unsurprisingly divided, but I'm glad to see someone like Guy is behind the film. Love Sofia Coppola, and I love her best in fun Marie Antoinette pop songs and vapid rich people mode.
Nate, I read your blog faithfully with utter joy. I just brought up the
Charts because they are so awesome! Please don't feel bad on my
Account. I love your site.
All I want is for A24 to have a double-bill of Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring for one special weekend. And Guy Lodge's review was wonderful.
I don't know if you can calll that singing, but Emily Blunt, Kevin Kline and Stanley Tucci accompanied Anne Hathaway during the Kennedy Center Honors to Meryl Streep. It was actually bakground singing for less than a minute, and there were other professionals also backing. But, well, at least it's something. You can watch it on YouTube.
Emily Blunt can sing, see Gideon's Daughter, a British drama with Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson, that Emily won a Globe for. It was only one song though, doubt she has the voice of Anne Hathaway or Amy Adams, who I saw as the Baker's Wife.
A double dose of Uma... Thank God! Is Nymphomaniac and Anita exactly what her career needs at this stage and age?
choog -- provided she makes the most of those roles, yes. I wonder about Nymphomaniac. I mean the cast is so huge. how much screen time could any of them have (other than Gainsbourg)?
keegan -- thanks for the heads up
The fact that Jewel is being considered for Into the Woods is just beyond atrocious. Rob Marshall has no idea what the hell he's doing. The show needs really smart actors who can do farce--then switch to pathos . . . while being able to do justice to Sondheim's score. This isn't Les Miz, whose pop schlock score benefitted from some roughed up vocals to up the drama . . . Sondheim needs great singers. The drama is IN the score.
If Emily Blunt can sing, I am happy with her casting. Baranski is in talks to play the evil stepmother (good).
If they want to please the fans, I hope they have cameos for Joanna Gleason (Cinderella's Mother's ghost?), Bernadette Peters (Granny?) and Chip Zien (who could play the Mysterious Man again as he did in the Park last summer).
Dear God I so want to see Thurman as Anita Bryant, if only for a recreation of that whole pie in the face moment of amazingness.
I agree the Anita Bryant pic is a good move for Thurman. I also think that working with Von Trier is a smart idea, even if the role is small.
Maybe things will start turning around for Uma, she deserves more prolific work.