Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

"The Loyal Customer" clue 2

http://www.laineygossip.com/Charlize-Theron-is-great-as-a-bitch/21827

When Charlize is a bitch...

When she is her true self...

She’s awesome.

I’ll come back to this in a minute.

Oh look, another year went by and Victoria Beckham did not make the cover of US Vogue. Instead, the final issue belongs to Charlize Theron in service of her upcoming role in Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, due out in December, for which she has an outside shot at another Oscar nomination.

What a strong, strong year for lead actresses. There are 7 who could easily be considered without any objection:

Viola Davis
Glenn Close
Meryl Streep
Elizabeth Olsen
Michelle Williams
Charlize Theron
Tilda Swinton

And that doesn’t even include Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Wiig, and Jodie Foster in the equation, and they’re on the outskirts too.

As for Charlize, well, if you believe all the people who are supposed to say good things about her, and they’re all quoted in the Vogue article, she gives an astonishing bitch of a performance in Young Adult that should rank as one of her career best. Seems like Charlize is going bitch rather often these days. As Sarah noted in her post about the Snow White and the Huntsman trailer the other day, it’s Charlize’s deliciously Evil Queen that is the centrepiece of the film. She’s awesome. Because, frankly, that’s what she is. A mega, mega, mega bitch. Trust me, I’ve seen it. My colleagues have seen it. Like, it’s breathtaking what a f-cking bitch she is, even in an industry full of crazy ass goddamn bitches. And then there’s Charlize. Few can step to Charlize. Except Julia Roberts. So it’s brilliant casting then that both will play the Evil Queen next year just three months apart.

And this Vogue article?

Doesn’t offer anything terribly insightful - she was sad about the end of her relationship and tried really hard to make it work, duh - mostly because you can’t really get any insight when you’re writing with a massive erection. So, you know, she’s super cool and makes an awesome mix tape, and is really beautiful, and isn’t a Hollywood fraud.

Dude, she played Rita in Arrested Development. You couldn’t at least go there?

OK! Night night!

Source

November 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM

The Loyal Customer




Share/Bookmark

"He turned out to be the cliché" clue 2

http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Celebrity/20397/Details/21311/Jon-Hamm-and-Jennifer-Westfeldt-Emmy-Awards-2011-19sept11

Jon Hamm looked bummed out when Mad Men won for Best Drama. Jon Hamm also has a man-crush on Coach Taylor. This is why we love Jon Hamm. Who looked, as usual, very handsome last night. And very chivalrously helped several ladies up on stage. And he loves his lady so much, Jennifer Westfeldt, which is why I wish, I wish so much, she would stop with the nonsense all up in her face. Because whatever she’s trying to fix with all that sh-t, it cannot be fixed with a needle or a filler, and this was the perhaps too-subtle point I was trying to make last week: she is too smart to be fighting it this hard; but a girl who is fighting it this hard, well, that’s a girl who’s probably holding on really, really too tight, right?
.
One day a few years ago, Antonio Banderas looked at his wife Melanie Griffith and he told her, “I love you so much, only you, and this is why I cannot accept any more plastic surgery because you don’t need it, I will still love you when you stop, I will always love you so please stop.”

Supposedly she did.

I wonder if Jon Hamm will say the same to Jennifer Westfeldt. I wonder if he will tell her that she is bright and talented, that she can write and create, that she is more than just a witless starlet running around pretending to be 25 forever, and that as such she doesn’t have to paralyse her face anymore, because it’s so much more interesting when it moves.

I hope he tells her that every day and she listens. I hope she listens and they make it.

Westfeldt’s Friends With Kids which screened at TIFF last week was just acquired yesterday by Lionsgate. I didn’t get a chance to see it but several of my colleagues did, and LOVED it.

September 19, 2011 at 4:37 AM

He turned out to be the cliché



Share/Bookmark
http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Celebrity/20397/Details/21232/Jon-Hamm-and-Jennifer-Westfeldt-at-TIFF-2011-to-promote-Friends-With-Kids-12sept11

It was really cute when they were full on making out upstairs at the Grey Goose/Soho House party. This happened before they hooked up with George Clooney and Stacy Keibler. He adores her. He really, really adores her.

But ...

I mean you’re looking at these photos. And we’re thinking the same thing, right? Because in person, seeing her, all of us there were thinking the same thing. The same thing I thought when I watched her on Grey’s Anatomy and if you’ve been reading this blog a long time you’ll have heard it before but for the benefit of those who are relatively new...

Remember when Jennifer Westfeldt was on Grey’s Anatomy and she played the woman with cancer and she was supposed to be sick but in every scene her skin was rosy and glowing and the picture of health? That made me crazy. And, well, seeing her in person, several times now, you realise some things are hard to make OVER, you know what I mean?

Of course, being the bitch ass gossips that we are, the logical next part of this discussion is who he is now, and who she is now, and how f-cking hard that must be and if it’s not actually hard, how f-cking awful it is that everyone just makes that assumption.

Having said that, how accurate is the assumption?

The common observation amongst many of us seeing them this weekend as they promoted Friends With Kids at TIFF was that she seemed...clingy. Courtney Shea, the VISA TIFF Insider called her a drag. Click here to read Courtney’s encounter with Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt on Saturday night. I disagree with Courtney about Hamm’s height. His height is fine. But on the drag part...? Maybe a little. And this worries me for them. Tell me I’m wrong. Tell me I’m wrong. Give me another way to see it. I am asking you for serious.


September 12, 2011 at 6:52 AM

He turned out to be the cliché



Share/Bookmark

"Thin For Nothing" clue

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Category/1005/Details/15171/Kellan-Lutz-rejected-from-New-Moon-afterparty-and-Ashley-Greene-a-nobody-in-New-York

Second tier no-names

Twilight is a huge franchise. But only Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and maybe Taylor Lautner are now household names. The actors on the second tier are still greeted with a very loud WHO?

Such was the case with Kellan Lutz the other night at the LA New Moon premiere afterparty when he was rejected at the door because they didn’t know him from a Kardashian. Lutz and his massive vain ego did not take kindly to the slight. He lipped off security but still had to enlist the help of the crowd chanting “Let him in” before he could gain access. Ohhhh…shame….

Lutz admitted to the incident on Ellen yesterday but only after telling a story about some man who fangirled him at a spa while he was naked. That’s a dude who should never leave his house again. He was also probably wearing Ed Hardy.

And then there’s Ashley Greene. After trying to upstage Kristen Stewart by dressing like Susan Lucci at the LA premiere on Monday, Greene was in NYC last night and somehow scored herself an invitation to the Tim Burton event at MoMA with Johnny Depp in attendance. Am told by several photogs and a reader called CS who was there that Ashley walked right past the line and… they didn’t know her name. So eventually the paps were all like – oh yeah, you, Twilight girl, let’s take your picture. Then she posed. Like hard posed. Like Posh hard posing.

Too hungry, too desperate. Like that Annalynne McCord without the bent over kissy blows.

November 18, 2009 at 1:34 AM


http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/21590/As-IF-Ashley-Greene-in-Allure

There’s a new Twilight movie coming out in a month. Just today I received an email from a friend about it (Relax, I’m not outing you, you can read the rest of the article without panicking) and she was wondering if she should go to see it at one of those theatres that will play all 3 preceding movies before the new one. That way it’s 8 hours of Robert Pattinson all at once. I have not replied.

Anyway, in advance of the upcoming hysteria, the faces of the franchise are appearing all over the magazines. This includes the third tier players. Like Ashley Greene who is on the cover of the November issue of Allure...because Kristen Stewart was already committed to something better.

What?

You think Allure would have chosen Ashley Greene over Kristen Stewart? If you said yes, you are wrong.

Anyway, being on the cover of Allure has now given Ashley Greene a major case of the delusions and that gives us the opportunity to As IF her into Supporting Actress Eternity. For some, this is an honour. For her, it’s called Hell. Because in Ashley Greene’s mind, Ashley Greene is a Lead.

During her interview with Allure, Greene posits that she never wanted this kind of attention. That all she wants to do, for real, is to act:


"(Fame is) a double-edged sword. It's amazing to be known, and it's great that there is this audience that wants to know about me. But I'm like, 'I'm going to be known for coming out of the gym rather than [for] what film I have coming out.'"

As IF Ashley Greene has ever made any film that’s worth knowing for when it’s coming out. Take away the number of times she appears on blogs in her gym clothes - As IF people walk around saying to themselves, “Oh that Ashley Greene, I can’t wait to see her in that movie about the girl who marries the vampire”.

Have you EVER heard Twilight referred to as the Ashley Greene Movie?

As for her Twilight co-stars, now, suddenly, Ashley Greene’s on the same level as Robert Pattinson:


"Rob. Oh, Rob. He's very endearing, but you've seen his interviews. He's like, 'Ah, I don't know.... Oh, God,'" Greene bumbles in imitation. Despite poking a little fun at him, she credits Pattinson (she calls him a "phenomenal actor") and the rest of the actors for helping her cope with sudden fame. "All of us essentially were unknown. So everyone kind of went through this crazy whirlwind [together],'" Greene says. "It was really nice to be able to confide in people who were going through the exact same thing."

The same thing? Ashley Greene is the same as Pattinson and Kristen Stewart?

As IF Anna Wintour knows Ashley Greene. As IF Graydon Carter knows Ashley Greene. Ashley Greene could pass Anna Wintour in a restaurant and Anna would ask her for a clean fork!

The same thing?

As IF Kristen Stewart had to date the MIDDLE VAGINA JONAS VIRGIN to get some play, and even then no one cared!

The same way no one cares about Greene’s friendship with Seth McFarlane:


"Seth and I are friends, and he texts me: 'I didn't know that not only were we dating, but we have since been confirmed to not be dating,'" Greene says. "I can assure you that we're not."

Um, I spend my whole day reading gossip headlines. NEVER have I read a gossip headline about Seth McFarlane and Ashley Greene. As IF she didn’t try to create it though.

And As IF she’s Angelina f-cking Jolie!!!


"I'm really happy that she’s doing well," she says of Demi Lovato. The actress also rolls her eyes at the rumor that they fought over Jonas. "She and I never had a problem with each other," Greene says. "But, you know, it doesn't go away.... Jen Aniston still gets asked about Angelina Jolie."

As IF she didn’t just compare her pathetic little non-story to the Greatest Gossip Triangle in the Modern Gossip Era!

As IF she didn’t just give herself the Jolie position in her weak ass attempt to create for herself a triangle situation!

As IF she didn’t just liken JOE JONAS to BRAD PITT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is an emergency. It’s a crisis state. When people like Ashley Greene can go off talking about themselves like this and remain unchecked, we are officially in the sh-ts. Occupy Hollywood!
Click here to see more of Ashley Greene in Allure.

October 18, 2011 at 11:59

Thin For Nothing
Share/Bookmark

"They're creeping everyone out" reveal

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22194/oney-Mara-behind-the-scenes-of-The-Girl-With-The-Dragon-Tattoo

I could never be a publicist or a personal assistant for a celebrity. It’s not the hard work I’m afraid of; it’s the adult babysitting. They are SO fragile and insecure and narcissistic, it’s an exhausting experience. And, frankly, it can be really, really sad.

I’ve been really hard on Rooney Mara the last couple of weeks for the “aloof”-ing and the SVU trashing. As previously noted, people who are aloof don’t generally point out their own aloofness. People who really, really want to be aloof will try to convince you that they are. In her case, it’s self preoccupation - standard behaviour for an actor - and also, as expected, terrible insecurity.

An article has been published in the Swedish press featuring interviews with some of the local extras and crew who worked on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I love Google Translate.

Donald Josephson has a scene with Mara in the film. Here’s his account of his experience:

I have two lines in the film. Lisbeth Salander comes to the computer store that I work in and I said: "Unfortunately, this computer is completely broken. I hope you have a backup. "

I biked to the set. When I arrived expecting a self-trailers, buffets and assistants.

The scene was a real computer shop on Götgatan, which was redesigned and thoroughly equipped with Apple logos.

The most fun was to keep up with Rooney Mara in "The Green Room", the room where the actors wait between shots. To be part of there and hear her anxiety over whether she would be better than Naomi Rapace. She had lots of those "Mirror mirror on the wall" moments in there. Mara asked all the time her assistant, "Did we not do better when we did this scene? Don’t I look better than her? Am I not better? Am I not young? Am I not cool? "And the assistant just replied:" Yes, yes, yes! You are the best, you're the best! "

This ...is pretty much standard procedure. It’s a f-cked up life, the acting business. The promises almost never materialise. They’re repeatedly rejected, and when they aren’t rejected, they are constantly afraid they will be. And so the people around them, they keep telling them what they want to hear. And when they hear it, they either start to believe it, or try to believe it but doubt it, and spend the rest of the time searching for a truth that feels authentic... which, sometimes, eludes them forever. Because in Hollywood, well, does the truth even exist?

Michelle Williams delivers an extraordinary representation of this in My Week With Marilyn. Marilyn’s issues were exacerbated by drug dependency and all that other sh-t she was carrying around with her from when she was a child. But her lack of self worth was not unique. It manifests itself in different ways for different people. For Rooney Mara, there’s the fake aloof-ery and bravado. And of course, you can imagine, under those circumstances, what David Fincher must represent: Creator and God. Everything.

I will be seeing Dragon Tattoo Girl this weekend. All of my colleagues say she’s incredibly compelling. I believe it. Oh but the cost...

Click here to read the Swedish article with more insight from others who participated in the production of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

December 22, 2011 at 10:37

They're creeping everyone out
Share/Bookmark

"Cash Only" clue

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22104/Smutty-Tingles-for-December-13--2011

Oh look. How close the paps came to Lindsay Lohan on the beach in Hawaii. She must have been really, really scared. (The Superficial)

December 13, 2011 at 12:17

Cash Only
Share/Bookmark
http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Celebrity/20042/Details/22053/Rachel-McAdams-needs-to-pick-up-her-career

I briefly mentioned this the other day in the article about Emma Stone - click here if you missed it. Duana and I have discussed this a few times lately: Emma Stone is what Rachel McAdams was from 2004-2007. The Wall Street Journal had a lengthy piece on how Rachel was the most sought-after, the most talked-about, the most promising actress. And then... it just kinda... fizzled. She’s not Lindsay Lohan or anything. They just... they let the momentum slip away.

Poor choices, or poor management? A combination of both?

It’s so disappointing. Because Rachel McAdams has that rare thing - women love her (don’t you love her?? I love her so much) and she’s not SJP, men are attracted to her, in that way Steve Carell described in Crazy, Stupid, Love: she’s so sexy and cute at the same. Also, she can act.

I don’t know what happened.

Morning Glory was... kind of a mess. And she was terrible in Sherlock Holmes 1. I couldn’t enjoy her either in Midnight In Paris, a film that’s on my Top 5 of 2011. She was the only weak link for me. Rachel? Yes, Rachel. Rachel who is one of my favourites.

This must change.

Will it be better this time for Sherlock 2? Here she is at the premiere last night. She apparently only has a cameo. Will it improve in The Vow? Oh la. I mean I know that a LOT of you will be seeing The Vow and crying, like Sasha, so it’s clear what The Vow will do for you. But what will The Vow do for her?

What will it do for her that The Notebook didn’t? (Gulp) Isn’t it like pressing reset?

Perhaps then the best hope is the Terrence Malick movie she shot earlier this year. The problem with a Malick movie is that he takes forever to put it out. Tree of Life was 5 years. She needs to start closing some other projects. Some interesting projects. Projects that remind everyone why she was the best part of The Family Stone which Duana reminded me of recently. She was GREAT in The Family Stone. God I want her to be great again.

December 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM

13 December 2011 Smutty Shout-Out
Share/Bookmark

Cash Only

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22123/Cash-Only-blind-riddle

SO easy.

Who was paid $15,000 in cash this week in exchange for frolicking around in her bikini on the beach? That’s a lot of cash money for you and me, true. But for them? It’s change. It’s really, really not much. In that world, it’s almost nothing. Consider that Tori Spelling supposedly charges at least 4 times that for a photo op with her kids and you get a sense of how low this piece of sh-t is scraping these days. She used to be able to throw that much away on a night out.

Oh and by the way, it had to be cash. She was super hard up for the cash. What are some of the things one might pay for in cash only?

December 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM

Update (12/15/11):

Share/Bookmark

"06 December 2011 Live Blog" clue 2

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22106/Weekly-Live-Blog-December-13--2011
Comment From AW
LAiney, one last clue on last week's liveblog riddle???

Lainey: Brooklyn.

December 13, 2011 at 12:59

06 December 2011 Live Blog
Share/Bookmark
http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22106/Weekly-Live-Blog-December-13--2011
Comment From Anais
Lainey, did you ever give a clue later on last week about the Blind Riddle you posted at the end of last week's LiveBlog?

Lainey: Anais - no meme.
December 13, 2011 at 12:59

06 December 2011 Live Blog
Share/Bookmark
http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22097/December-13--2011-Smutty-Shout-Outs

Have I ever told you about the sweetheart actress who keeps losing out on parts because her manager is a crazy bitch? She’s too loyal to leave her but no one wants to work with her representative. And she’s so blind to it she can’t figure it out.

December 13, 2011 at 8:52 AM

Update (2/15/12):

Share/Bookmark

"Doctor's orders" reveal 3

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22048/George-Clooney%E2%80%99s-girlfriend-loves-babies

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler were out for dinner last night in LA. Every pap in the city was there to shoot them. You know what I will always love about him though, no matter how frustrated I am with his girlfriend game?

I love how chill he is in these situations. I love that he doesn’t snarl, he doesn’t hide, he doesn’t whine, he doesn’t protest, he doesn’t threaten...and he remembers to tip the valet!

Straight up, George Clooney is a pro. He understands this is part of the life, this sh-t is what happens in exchange for everything else: Como, the money, the women, the access, the influence. When you choose Hollywood, when you choose the career George has followed, this is what you get. If George Clooney doesn’t cry about it, why are the 20 year old babies on tv shows crying about it??? Please.



As for Stacy, well, more and more it looks like she’s heading to the Oscars. Because HE is heading to the Oscars. Unless she f-cks it up. You know how you f-ck it up with George? You ask for a wedding and some babies. No no, Stacy hasn’t asked for those...yet. But she did post this on her Twitter with the caption:

My two loves...

Could be a nephew or a niece. Could be a friend’s kid. I’m just saying less has scared him away. You know how he is. She’ll have to make up for this baby picture with a nice firm headlock tonight.

December 7, 2011 at 10:53

Doctor's orders
Share/Bookmark

"06 December 2011 Live Blog," it's not...


http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22038/Weekly-Live-Blog-December-6--2011

Not Cumby. Not RDJ. Not Fassy.

December 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM

06 December 2011 Live Blog
Share/Bookmark


http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22038/Weekly-Live-Blog-December-6--2011

But yes, this is a serious actor.

December 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM

06 December 2011 Live Blog
Share/Bookmark
http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/22038/Weekly-Live-Blog-December-6--2011

Would you still love him if you knew that he stomps around the set, holding up production, when his tea is brought to him at not the right temperature? (more...)

Would you still love him if you found out he delayed filming, and an entire crew, for several hours, because he HAD TO HAVE HIS LUNCH from a place that was off site so they had to drive there to get it and come back, only it was missing an ingredient and he sent it back?

Would you still love him if he refused to report to set after visiting wardrobe and found out someone else had been joking around with his hat and he insisted it wasn't sitting right on his head anymore?

December 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM

Update (12/13/11):

Share/Bookmark

"Three Weeks" reveal 2

http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/21970/Anne-Hathaway-and-Adam-Shulman-unofficial-but-totally-official-engagement-pap-photos

Anne Hathaway is engaged to Adam Shulman. One photographer was able to get clean shots of them and, most importantly, the ring in the park the other day in New York. It was a beautiful autumn day. The dog was with them. They were dressed casually but complimentarily, not too matchy matchy but also not clashy either. And, of course, totally oblivious to the fact that they were being photographed, right?

What?

Annie would never set up pap shots, please. Don’t be ridiculous. She also totally doesn’t care if Christian Bale’s heard about it yet. Maybe she told him at work.

So if this is how we’re kicking off this engagement, how might it end when the wedding comes around? Hathaway is favoured among designers. The dress will be a thing. Photographing it will be a thing. A Vogue cover? Perhaps. Valentino or Marchesa?

November 29, 2011 at 10:51

Three Weeks
Share/Bookmark

"Doctor's orders" reveal 2


http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/21955/George-Clooney-spends-Thanksgiving-in-Mexico-with-Stacy-Keibler

Thanksgiving 2009, George Clooney spent it in Mexico with friends Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford. Also his girlfriend at the time, Elisabetta Canalis. Click here to see the photos.

Thanksgiving 2011, there’s a new piece. But everything else stays the same. Even, almost, his outfit. Here’s George Clooney with his injured elbow in Mexico for Thanksgiving weekend with Stacy Keibler, hanging out with some other famous people including Alex Rodriguez who, I’m sure, George wouldn’t mind hosting for as long as he wants to stay.

As for that elbow...

How exactly was that elbow injured? This, perhaps, is what sets Stacy apart from the others. As a former wrestler, she may be able to go farther, more adventurously, if that’s your thing, than her predecessors. Strength wise, I guess, she could certainly take him to a whole new level of danger.

As mentioned in today’s site introduction, the National Board of Review will announce its list this coming Thursday. It was just two years ago, in 2009, when Elisabetta Canalis was presented to us, that Clooney’s last Oscar-hyped film Up In The Air won the NBR award for Best Picture and went on to several Oscar nominations, including one for Clooney, but was shut out of every category.

Some say Clooney has a much better chance this time with The Descendants. The Descendents has received some really impressive universal acclaim. I saw it again this weekend and, I mean, it’s a good movie, no doubt. Well written, well paced, beautiful chemistry, maybe a little obvious at parts, but heartwarming nonetheless. My problem with it however, and I thought maybe it would go away on the second viewing but it didn’t, is that George Clooney, it’s official...

He’s lost me.

I can’t watch a George Clooney movie anymore without seeing George Clooney. In other words, whatever he’s doing up there, I don’t believe him. I don’t believe George more than I don’t believe Brad Pitt. At least in Moneyball, I could go there with Brad Pitt as Billy Beane. This time in The Descendants, I couldn’t separate George Clooney from his character. You could argue that back in the day, in the days of Monroe and Taylor and Gable and the rest, that that was what defined the Movie Star. But back in the day, they went to the movies to see Movie Stars. People don’t go to movies for Movie Stars anymore. The Movie Star might even be dying. I wonder then if George and his increasingly archaic Hollywood playbook, I wonder how he’ll confront this truth as he moves forward with his career past 50 years old. It really might be time to move permanently behind the camera.

November 28, 2011 at 8:03 AM

Doctor's orders
Share/Bookmark

"They're creeping everyone out" clue

http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Celebrity/21030/Details/21578/Rooney-Mara-covers-Vogue-with-David-Fincher%E2%80%99s-approval

It’s not just Rooney Mara ...

In the November issue of Vogue.

It’s Rooney Mara AND her creator David Fincher. Yes. I said creator. Read the article and see if you don’t feel the same way afterwards. One of the BEST Vogue celebrity profiles in a LONG, LONG time. So much better than the generic and safe Sarah Jessica Parker/Jennifer Garner/Jessica Biel pieces we get all the f-cking time in fashion magazines that don’t offer anything insightful, provocative, or, more appropriately, because it is a FASHION magazine after all, stylish.

We are approaching the release of the Fincher version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. This is Hollywood. By the end of their marketing strategy then, their goal is to make you forget about every other Lisbeth Salander you ever knew. Rooney Mara IS Lisbeth Salander. Because David Fincher commands?

Oh but it’s a fascinating relationship. In Daniel Craig’s words: “It’s f-cking weird!”

Hit me up after you read about how she looks at him. How she can’t camouflage, even in front of a journalist, her devotion to him, her consuming need for his approval. About everything. Even what she eats. The food control! He’s her food boss! He is comfortably her food boss, in front of someone who’s stated purpose in their presence is to be an observer and report back, there’s no denying he’s her food boss. Her everything boss.

Counter-thinking? Let’s behave like this on purpose to start a conversation? Like a distorted version of Blomkvist and Salander? It’s not like David Fincher is a stranger to a mind game. Sure. And if that was the intention, well, they did it really well. Because we’re supposed to see it through the writer. And the writer totally bought it.

Something about Fincher’s filmmaker’s approach though... I think this is legit. I think he’s control and order and with an actress of Rooney’s... inexperience, shall we say, this is exactly how he’s playing it. It is a 3 movie franchise, right? You could do worse for a mentor, I guess. It’s creepy and fascinating to me at the same time. Adds yet another dimension to the anticipation for this movie. Brilliant, non?

Anyway, I need to stop writing so that you can go off and read it. I promise. It’s a must. Including the part where Fincher explains why he didn’t cast Scarlett Johansson who supposedly threw down an amazing audition but... well... find out for yourself why she didn’t get the part.

Click here to read the piece and see more photos. Of course Anna Wintour chose the least interesting shot to turn into the cover.

October 17, 2011 at 11:59

They're creeping everyone out
Share/Bookmark

They’re creeping everyone out

http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/21923/They%E2%80%99re-creeping-everyone-out-blind-riddle

This director doesn’t have a reputation for engaging in tomfoolery on his sets, and this starlet has no reputation at all, yet they’ve been raising eyebrows with their vaguely off-putting relationship, which is inching into “professionally inappropriate” territory. Their weird fascination with one another is making some folks wonder if they could become a liability while promoting their film. She’s infatuated but he’s playing Pygmalion, a scenario that always ends messily. Someone should warn her, bless her little heart.

November 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM

Update (2/15/12):

Share/Bookmark

"Casting Couch" "the replacement" reveal 2

http://laineygossip.com/Lifestyle/Details/21505/Blake-Lively%E2%80%99s-ugly-ass-Marchesa-dress-at-Gossip-Girl-100th-episode-party

If you’ve been reading long enough, you know my feelings on Marchesa. I have hated Marchesa...forever. Like years. Some of my very fashionable friends, including Sasha, don’t understand this. They think Marchesa is the sh-t. I mean, sure, once in a while, once a year, someone might wear something Marchesa and it’ll be an anomaly but for the most part, Marchesa, to me, is tacky and gross, clothing for figure skaters who grew up to dance in Vegas.

And on that note, here’s Blake Lively at the Gossip Girl 100th episode party in New York on Saturday night wearing Marchesa. The definitive Marchesa. A dress that is totally indefensible. A dress that even Gisele Bundchen could do nothing with. A dress I have a hard time believing Blake, yes, even her, actually, seriously, picked for herself. So I’m wondering if there was a screenplay and an audition attached to it. That would be the only explanation.

November 21, 2011 at 6:56 AM

Casting Couch
Share/Bookmark
top