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Mika Lost French Knighthood on Night out
Singer Mika was knighted for his services to music in Paris, France at a secret ceremony last month (Feb10) - but misplaced his medal on the same day. The Grace Kelly hitmaker was handed the Knight in the Order of Arts honour at the prestigious ceremony -
on 2010-03-06 04:47:02
Mika 'call me Bisexual'
Flamboyant pop star Mika has addressed persistent speculation about his sexuality, confessing he is bisexual.The Grace Kelly hitmaker has previously refused to confirm or deny rumors he's gay, insisting he doesn't want to "label" himself, but now the sing
on 2009-09-24 04:49:31
FILM
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK: Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 thriller "To Catch a Thief" stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and screens as part of the park's summer series "Movies With a View." Thursday at sunset. 1 Main St., at Plymouth St...
on 2009-07-25 04:48:58
IN THE MED BUT MAKES NO WAVES
THE comedy "The Girl From Monaco" revolves around Bertrand -- a dignified Parisian lawyer summoned to the fairy-tale land of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier to defend a rich, older woman accused of murder. He would seem to have everything he...
on 2009-07-03 04:48:46
Faith Hill's Many Faces
The country star gets glammed up for several transformations in Redbook. Hold the blonde jokes, please: if blonde is good enough for Twiggy, Grace Kelly and Brigitte Bardot, it's good enough for Faith...
on 2009-04-23 04:51:11
Hollywood Romance: Grace Kelly & Prince Rainier III
With performances is Dial M for Murder and The Country Girl, for which she won an Oscar, Grace Kelly became one of cinema's biggest stars and still remains a big screen icon.But away from the cinema screen Kelly's personal life was the subject of tabloid
on 2009-04-10 04:50:48
Oscar red carpet fashion
While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been celebrating film's best and brightest for more than 80 years, the glamour we associate with the Oscars truly started in the 1950s, when stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Janet Leig
on 2009-02-24 04:47:34
Audrey Hepburn Voted Most Beautiful
Audrey Hepburn has been voted as the ultimate Hollywood beauty, according to Marie Claire.The fashion icon beat the likes of modern beauties, Keira Knightley, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Cameron Diaz.Angelina Jolie came second, while the beautiful Grace Kell
on 2009-02-13 04:49:50
The Life and Mysterious Death of Sunny von Bülow
She was a debutante compared to Grace Kelly – but did her husband try to kill her?
on 2008-12-08 04:46:23
Madonna's tell-all brother
Madonna's brother is set to write a tell-all book about his famous sister. Christopher Ciccone has signed a deal with publishers Simon and Schuster and will be working with Wendy Leigh, who's responsible for writing biographies on Liza Minnelli, Grace Kel
on 2008-06-12 08:50:20
Christina's New Ad Campaign
The new mom goes Hitchcock for jewelry designer Stephen Webster. From Grace Kelly to Tippi Hedren to Kim Novak and Janet Leigh, legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock sure...
on 2008-03-05 16:47:33
Mika Denies Madonna Snub.
Mika Denies Madonna Snub.... British pop star Mika is baffled by claims he turned down the chance to collaborate with Madonna on her new album. The Grace Kelly hitmaker was reported to have refused an offer from Madonna to work on her forthcoming LP - but
on 2008-02-03 12:46:48
Mika Almost Banned From Attending Brits.
Mika Almost Banned From Attending Brits.... British pop star Mika was almost banned from performing at this year's (08) Brit Awards after he revealed stage secrets to the media. The Grace Kelly star has been nominated for four awards at this month's (20Fe
on 2008-02-02 04:46:12
Sick Mika Cancels London Gigs.
The Grace Kelly hitmaker was due to perform at the capital's Hammersmith Apollo on Monday night (03Dec07) and Brixton Academy on Tuesday night (04Dec07), but had to pull out of the gigs after advice from his doctors.
on 2007-12-04 16:49:03
Gritty's the new pretty for femmes
Award Central: Hardscrabble roles leave little room for glamour -- In 1955, Grace Kelly won an Oscar for her role as the wife of Bing Crosby's alcoholic, has-been actor in "The Country Girl," donning strings of pearls, clingy satin dresses and a slash of
on 2007-11-17 00:46:31
Grace Kelly Iconic Fashion Honoured By Saks
This week New York's famous department store will showcase glamouros star's style as part of the city's month-long tribute to Princess Grace.
on 2007-10-23 22:49:03
AMAZING GRACE
If marilyn Monroe was the 1950's' blond bombshell, Grace Kelly was the era's tenor sex - sleek, sophisticated and above all, cool. Among the 11 movies she made in just six years are "Rear Window," "High Society," "Dial M for Murder" and "To
on 2007-10-16 02:26:56
Grace Kelly still reigns as style icon, 25 years after her death
Twenty-five years after a car accident ended her life, actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly is being celebrated in New York with 12 days of exhibits and auctions, starting today.
on 2007-10-16 02:23:43
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Mark wrote:
> mooseboyskip@hotmail.com wrote:
> original poster is not a native English speaker, and he was
> approximating an English synonym for a foreign word or phrase.
> known foreign actresses that are not classically beautiful in the movie
> star or starlet sense. So my guesss is that "not too shiny" can either
> mean "not too famous" (as in stars who don't SHINE as brightly) or "not
> too gorgeous" (as in stars who are not so radiant).
As in "not too gorgeous"
> I'm wondering now if the original poster would mind clarifying this.
Yes, they may not look as fancy as an Ava Gardner, a Grace Kelly or a
Catherine Deneauve...but I'd sure love to lay them down, anyway.
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"Thanatos" wrote in message
news:atropos-5602CE.21455318032008@news.giganews.com...
> In article
> ,
> TranslucentAmoebae wrote:
possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/
responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/
> difference?
He can't tell you...too drunk.
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
news:vpuCe.803$FY.19691@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/50842004.htm
> July 17, 2005, 10:30:14
> reason he has so many female fans is because they "feel sorry" for him.
simply
> want to sort out his fashion sense, and it hasn't even occured to him why
he
> is frequently voted one of the world's most beautiful people in magazine
> polls.
> me.
> Maybe they saw ED WOOD or a snippet of BEFORE NIGHT FALLS and they saw me
in
> drag and they want to give me tips on how to dress as a woman." .
urging
> her to become a painter even though she's just six years old.
> just six months after she was born, in a bid to inspire her to become an
> artist.
> valuable when she's a famous painter.
> I'm keeping her sketches.
and
> also showed her how to keep her brushes clean..
Maybe I'm brain damaged from too many knocks on the head as a child but
I never know what gives anyone sexual magnetism and with guys it's
impossible and alien and even with women I always seem to pick up on
something obscure in the extreme, like I think Amanda Plummer is very sexy
but I find Pam Anderson no more appealing than an average pickupworthy girl
at closing time. Jenny McCarthy's dullness is almost annoying as the anoying
character which has become her stock in trade and Anna Nicole Smith is such
a train wreck all her charms are lost and he accent is too close to some of
my relatives and contrary to poplular opinion all white treash don't want to
marry or have sex with their cousins.
Right now there is sort of dearth of sexuality like that of even the
recent past when the Sharon Stone's and Kim Basingers's and Demi Moore's
were as sweet, warm and tasty as the foam on fresh milk. And I can't compare
any of the newer girls to Marilyn or Kim Novak or Grace Kelly or Audrey
Hepburn or even the sun-washed fresh as dasies 1960's girls like Connie
Stevens, or the gorgeous girl next door fleur du mal's Sue Lyon and my
personal object of worship Mimsy Farmer (who 28 years ago smiled at me at an
outdoor market in Italy.)
As for guys, my guesses are usually wrong. Mickey Rourke and Matt
Dillion looked like they'd be good bets as objects of female obsession both
both for varrying reasons have faded in the Califonia sunset. Alec Baldwin
and John Travolta appeared somewhat simian to me when they were younger but
some women seem to like that. John dispite the mythology seems a regular guy
now who'd be fun to know becuase he has his own plane and he's into the
family thing which always impresses me. Guys like Clint Eastwood and Sean
Connery seemed carved from some mystical rock and Richard Gere who women
seemed to worship looked to much like some of my cousins, the ones I hate,
for me to like him. Brad Pitt and Johhny Depp are like yin and yang but not
being a woman I don't know which is which. Brad is the ripped one while
Johnny seems kind of short and stocky and some who was a crew man on Don
Juan Demarco said wearing his heeled Don Jaun boots he was only eye to eye
with Brando who was listed 5'10' in his bio, but being short didn't hurt Tom
Cruise with women until his Sceintology started reminding you of that former
party pal who after waking up in his own puke in a side ditch in Vegas after
a drunken night of whoring finds Jesus. I think Mr. Depp (aside from the PR
hyped Anti-Americanism which if probably more smoke than fire) was smart not
to follow the leading man thing which always puts an actor in danger of
being compaired to someone impossible to match like the young Brando, or
Monty Clift in A Place in The Sun or the Young Mr's Newman or Beatty or the
guarenteed career sabatoguer comparison James Dean which I think may have
destroyed some of those above. Mr Depp has always been at his best as the
sadly hopeful weakling with a dream, Ed Wood, Gilbert Grape, Edward
Sissorhands and Don Juan DeMarco, so perhaps it's the guy who girls think is
cute who has that vulnerable loser thing only without deliberately trying
for some archaic concept of 1950's semi-beatnik unthinking "hipness," which
no matter how a modern star tries can't match the raw appeal of Brando,
Dean, or the young king, The King himself, Elvis.
Mr. Depp's conscious refusal to play stereo-typed leading man can only
be thought of as genius. But sexual magnetism, who knows? What do I see a
guy with a roundish face and small mouth, who if I was back training in
Philly in Dr. Orne's lab being giving some military LSD or something, would
make me wonder if he was Betty Boop's brother.
Please Depp-maniac's, don't attack. I see most celebrities as cartoon or
children's movie or TV animals. To me Kim Bassinger a personal is Jeff's the
original TV Lassie, with the white flame mark on the face, a dog so
beautiful that I would have died for it. Sharon Stone is My Friend Flicka, a
filly I would have walked across the Sonora Desert barefoot in the dead of
summer to get a chance to ride. I always had a thing for riding filly's, I
loved when they were skittish and always nipping at me.
One of my favorite Kirk Douglas movies is Lonely Are The Brave with him
breaking jail and trying to escape life in the modern would on a gorgeous
filly. I cry at the end of that movie every time I see it. It's impossible,
like when Bambi's mother is shot or when Tommy Kirk has to shoot Old Yellar,
or when Claude Jarman has to let his pet fawn Flag go ( I still have trouble
watching The Yearling because it's so sad) Or the little Hopeful little Girl
in a tree Grows in Brooklyn or the last kiss at the Gestapo sirens come,
Diary of Anne frank, if you don't tear up there's something wrong with you.
Or maybe there's something wrong with me. After a lifetime of
brutization and rejection maybe I'm the sick one because I only tear up at
the same things that made me cry when I was a kid.
In any case, whatever Johnny Depp's appeal, he has a slightly hapless
regular guy quality that makes him one of my favorite actors. I must have
watched Ed Wood ten times. Gilbert Grape only twice, it's so sad. I even
liked that weird thing with Cristina Ricci which was sort of creepy because
of their age difference, like that Autumn in New York thing with Richard
Gere and Wynonna Rider.
Inside I'm sympathetically thinking run dude, get out of there before
the cops grab you for messing with little miss jail bait. Each has there on
right to whatever relationship they chose as long as children aren't
involved but as a survivor of the seventies when as a rock and roller you
didn't ask how young the girl was if she was willing, only if she was on the
pill, I flinch ever time I see much older guys and young girls.
Even in real life when I was in LA I was always sort of grossed out by
some middle aged Alan King looking guy with some dewy eighteen year old
girl. I think that's why both the Lolita movies creep me out so much. It's a
bit like watching Muhammed Ali boxing at the end of his career, inside
you're feeling like Jackie Cooper in The Champ, "please don't Champ, please
don't!"
You're going to get hurt or killed and nobody really cares when some old
Palooka dies, nobody except the little kid who loves him. Dispite it
supposedly being a man's world, if a guy is a bloodied up loser no one
really cares except maybe the little kid he was taking the beating to
provide for.
I think it's why people love the Rocky 1 and Cinderella Man stories,
because inside we know that most guys are going to go out with their backs
on the canvas and blood leaking from their ears, or if they are poets or
writer s or musicans or just the lonely butcher in Brooklyn, you just know,
the odds are high that they'll wind up just another stumble-bum, dying of a
heart attack on the bus to work or lying on the street like Jack Kerouac
drowned in his own drunken blood. In the real world there aren't many heros,
and not all the losers are wife beating villians, mostly life is full of
average guys who never have a dream come true, who day in and day out take a
beating and put up with it, or if they get broken down and can't take the
beating any more, like a fighter hitting the canvas, they don't get the
prize belt, the money, the gold ring or the girl. And no adays women in
interest of their own survival don't want a beaten palooka anymore than
they want a case of the cramps.
So those bums on the street or beat down boxers or average joe's sitting
in the dark watching tv alone crying in their beer are called losers and no
one really cares and there's no one to cry for them, except maybe some
little kid.
Maybe it's the loser inside someone like Johnny Depp that appeals, but
is it sexual magnetism? Ask a woman or a gay man. I don't know from sexy in
men.
To me, the sad losers he's played are in the great tradition of Jack
Palance in Requim For a Heavyweight or Ernest Bourgnine in Marty or Brando
as Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront, average guys who like average guys in
real life mostly get kicked around cheated and lied to. Johnny Depp's
affinity for similar loser characters in a modern era has the same kind of
class as the men I mentioned above. And you believe him on screen which is
pretty rare these days. He's a class act.
Ambrose
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Mega Watts
By Fenella Souter
May 4, 2005
Don't let those girl-next-door looks fool you. Yes, she's nice, but there's
steel in Naomi Watts. It's what makes her such a potent screen presence;
it's what made her persist when Hollywood ignored her. Fenella Souter meets
the actress who doesn't suffer fools gladly.
She is very good-looking, so it's hard to blame the man in the lobby for
staring open-mouthed as she sashays across the marble floor. His hopeless
glance takes in the slender thighs, the gleam of knee-high boots, the curve
of waist beneath her short jacket, the promising chaos of her tumbling hair.
She ignores him, of course, and drops into an armchair.
That's not Naomi Watts. Naomi Watts is the diminutive blonde making an
alpine descent from the monstrous, Mafia-black four-wheel-drive on the
forecourt. It's like Ann Darrow being released from the paw of King Kong.
She, too, is dressed in hipsters and a short jacket but she cuts an
innocuous figure in her flat-heeled, suede Pocahontas boots, her hair
scraped back in a careless ponytail. Nobody pays any attention to her,
except Miss Spiky Boots, who leaps to attention.
You see, Milano (and yes, that's really her name) is Watts's personal
assistant.
The scene could be the closing moment of a Hollywood movie in which we learn
that talent and persistence can beat va-voom.
Earlier scenes might have shown Watts smiling bravely at premieres - not her
own
- dwarfed by a statuesque beauty named Kidman; whispers on either side of
the red carpet: "Her? Oh, she's that blonde girl who's always with Nicole."
We might see her fragile figure weeping in a seedy LA apartment after being
overlooked - again - at audition number 103. Packing and unpacking her
suitcase, poised to throw it all in.
Yet our plucky heroine pursues her dream against the odds, the naysayers,
the knockbacks, until one day, cult director appears out of fog of failure
and puts her in cult movie. She's on her way...
That happens to be the true story, more or less, of Naomi Watts's long years
in the LA wilderness. Her rescue at 32 by David Lynch and Mulholland Drive,
the film that showed Hollywood she could act - really act (and, of course,
she's not exactly plain) - is part of the great thespian myth of "the big
break".
Since then, Naomi Watts, now 36, has shone in offbeat films like 21 Grams
(for which she won an Oscar nomination), I Heart Huckabees and Le Divorce,
as well
as the horror movie The Ring, always surprising audiences with the emotional
nuance she extracts from the unremarkable clay of her anodyne good looks.
Still, even that blank, slightly off-centre beauty has proved useful: she
can be polished to luminous, Grace Kelly fragility or reduced to looking
like a scrawny junkie in need of rehab.
She now has so much work it must be hard to remember what she's promoting.
She has come to Sydney to attend the premiere of The Ring Two and to talk
about We Don't Live Here Anymore, which will be released next month. Based
on short stories by Andre Dubus, Watts plays an unhappy, adulterous
housewife seeking solace in Mark Ruffalo. Laura Dern plays, splendidly, his
unhappy wife.
For the past eight months, Watts has been filming King Kong in New Zealand
with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. It's by far her biggest
project. In August, she is scheduled to start on a film version of Somerset
Maugham's The Painted Veil, with Ed Norton.
Milano has gone off to do whatever it is personal assistants do, which is
unlikely to be some spectacularly trivial task. Watts isn't the sort to
demand Perrier water run through reverse osmosis or insist her coffee be
stirred clockwise. Disappointing, really.
As a movie star, isn't there pressure to behave a certain way?
"As a movie star? My goodness, come on, please! I don't feel any different
today than I ever have. I don't have a staff or an entourage. I do have a PA
but there isn't anything I ask her to do that I couldn't do for myself.
Nothing happened for me except for the last few years, so I know exactly how
to run my life without someone."
She's just an ordinary person who earned a reputed $17 million last year.
But it really doesn't seem to have gone to her head. She retains the good
manners of the English boarding-school girl she was before her mother
dragged her to Australia at 14. She apologises for being late and greets me
warmly, offering a hand as light and fine-boned as a bird's wing. The rest
of her is like that, too - all slender frame and delicately wrought limbs.
She makes sure I'm happy with where we're sitting. Would I like to order
something to eat?
One fears she's going to display the unalloyed niceness of Betty in
Mulholland Drive, but then, actors are rarely their parts. Perhaps it's
because she has been up since 3am and has a headache, perhaps it's because
she's thinking about the upcoming premiere and would rather be washing her
hair than doing an interview, but she seems distracted. There are even
moments when she displays something approaching a nanny-ish tendency to
admonish, a sort of irritable commonsense.
In the production notes for We Don't Live Here Anymore, director John Curran
observes that Watts does not "suffer fools gladly".
I learn what he means after a bumbling question about whether she's been
playing against a normal person or an actor in a gorilla suit for King Kong.
She gives me a look that is to become familiar: a slow, sharp gaze that
hovers somewhere between pity and exasperation.
"No, he's not in a hairy suit. That would be silly," she says, of this film
that has a giant ape take over New York. "Silly and off-putting."
A week or so later, in Wellington, New Zealand, she started telling a story
about the first night she had spent in her rented house at Karaka Bay. "The
wind was so strong I thought, 'There's no way this house is not going to
fall off the cliff!'"
Still, the house must be built for those sorts of conditions...
"Of course it is!" she retorted. "But you just don't know! I was in the
house alone at night. The winds were moving at such a rate, I thought I'd be
lucky to make it through the night."
This mildly intemperate streak is to be applauded. For the most part Watts,
like many celebrities, relies on a repertoire of crafted anecdotes and
industry compliments: everyone is marvellous and talented ... it's such a
privilege ... she doesn't consider herself ... no, she's never seen herself
in competition with Nicole ... etc, etc.
Still, can one blame the famous for their caution?
Take Mark Ruffalo's recently reported deion of Naomi Watts as "classy
trailer trash". Watts is astonished to learn it was held up by at least one
reporter as part of the new "trend" of famous people being rude about other
famous people - the new part being, presumably, that it's carried out in
public.
First she laughs at my mispronunciation of his name. ("Ru-ffalo? It's
Ruff-alo." Now you know.) Then says:
"That's so ridiculous. Mark and I are like brother and sister and I'm really
good friends with his wife and he's got a really fabulous sense of humour
and we tapped into each other's sense of humour straight away.
"I think his point was - I can plug into both worlds. I can be sophisticated
one moment, and bawdy and nasty in another. I can be all proper and neat,
and the next thing I'm obnoxious and ... and ... whatever.
"If he wanted to insult me he certainly wouldn't be doing it in public."
Well, that has cleared up the Ruffalo matter. There are, however, two other
subjects Watts can't escape in interviews: Heath and Nicole.
All right, I asked her about Nicole, whom she met as a teenager when they
auditioned together, but she brought up Heath - briefly, and indirectly -
all on her own.
The night is coal-black beyond the windows of Watts's two-storey house in
Karaka Bay. The glass reveals only the reflection of the room; airy,
high-ceilinged, modern.
By day, you can see a breathtaking sweep of Wellington harbour. To the right
is tragedy, the stretch of reef that sank the Wahine ferry in a ferocious
storm in 1968, and across the bay, make-believe, the distant glint of Peter
Jackson's King Kong "New York".
Rain is plunging and soaring on great blasts of Antarctic wind, but it's
snug in here. There's a fire burning, and set out on the low coffee table is
a bottle of red wine, a plate of cheese and biscuits and a bowl of
pistachios, which Watts cracks her way through as she talks.
It's a relief to see her eat something: she is so slim (note to gossip
magazines: but not anorexic). She practises transcendental meditation to
keep her mind in shape but she's not an exercise nut. Still, if this is
dinner, it's not much to be getting on with.
Watts has had a long bath to clean off jungle mud from the day's shooting
and she looks scrubbed and fresh and very pretty. She has on a deep-pink,
fine-knit peasant top that reveals densely creamy shoulders and, one can't
help noticing, the pert nipples that had a walk-on part in 21 Grams. Below
it, she wears jeans and another pair of soft boots. And a heat pack, slung
so artfully around her slender neck it looks like a chic accessory.
The "jungle" is King Kong's Africa, recreated in Jackson's Miramar studios
which are down the hill from here - this house is one of many the director
rents for his stars. Watts has been doing much of her own action work, and
she has strained her neck and her lower back.
A CD plays softly in the background but not for long. "Shall I turn that
music off?
It's not adding ambience," she says briskly, pronouncing the word the French
way.
But then neither are the ear-shattering barks of Bob, in frequent amateur
duet with the baritoned Ned. Bob and Ned are the dogs Watts brought over
from LA, knowing she was going to be in Wellington for many months for King
Kong. They are gifts, she says. From Heath Ledger, which she does not say.
(Ned after Ned Kelly, the film that brought Watts and Ledger together.)
The dogs are an odd pair who bear some resemblance to Heath and Naomi. Ned
is a mild-mannered American cocker spaniel, handsome but slightly
dopey-looking, while Bob is a sweet, tiny, sharp-featured Yorkshire terrier,
with a slightly wary disposition.
It has been a long day for Watts. She had been upset earlier by news that an
old friend had suddenly fallen ill and, although it turned out to be less
serious than first feared, it meant our interview was postponed until this
evening and time is limited.
We move, perhaps more quickly than one would have liked, to the subject of
her father.
Her parents divorced when she was four and her father died when she was
seven. I had been under the impression that he was killed in a car accident
but she looks startled and then uncomfortable when I check that with her.
"No, no, that's not right," she says and then falls silent.
Something else happened?
"It's not something I talk about."
In the early '70s, Peter Watts was a road manager and sound engineer with
Pink Floyd. His role with the legendary band was significant: on fan sites,
he is referred to as the "Floyd sound's founding father", the man
responsible for shaping the band's style of live sound. His laugh appears at
the beginning of Dark Side of the Moon.
He was also a man in love with the rock'n'roll lifestyle, an enthusiastic
player in that wild, chaotic, drug-fuelled decade that was fun for some and
fatal for others.
Watts left the Floyd crew in "mysterious circumstances" in 1974. In 1976 he
was found dead in his Notting Hill house, apparently as a result of heroin
abuse. He was 30.
Naomi Watts, so young at the time, has few memories. "Even before they
divorced, he was working and on the road a lot. I don't remember much."
In 21 Grams, Watts gives a wrenching portrayal of a woman who loses her
husband and two small children in a road accident. According to the
character's backstory, Cristina grew up without a mother. Working on the
film illuminated Watts's own loss.
"I read a lot of literature about what it was like to have one parent and
the fantasies you create as a child. It felt completely normal for me at the
time, but in retrospect, you go, 'Oh God, that's what this or that was
about.'
"There were a lot of things I read that I could identify with. For instance,
I always thought I would die at the same age my father had died. The fact
that I'm living beyond his point of death is like I'm living on borrowed
time or something."
Watts's mother Myfanwy ("Miv"), a boho, free-spirited young woman interested
in costume and set design, struggled to bring up Naomi and her brother Ben,
19 months older. They moved frequently - Kent, Sussex, Cambridge, Norfolk -
and after Peter Watts died, moved in with Naomi's grandparents, in North
Wales, for three years.
Watts used to adapt her accent as a way of fitting in. "I was always someone
who really wanted to be accepted at each new place and that meant you had to
adjust very quickly."
When Naomi was 14 years old, her mother insisted on taking the family to
Australia.
"I thought it was the most ridiculous idea I'd ever heard. I was furious. We
weren't
just moving countries. We were going to the end of the earth."
Her mother asked her to give it six months, and that was enough for her to
settle in. "But it was a difficult adjustment, a culture shock. I'd come
from [an English boarding school] where skirts and socks are a certain
length and the discipline was much more rigid.
"In Australia, you don't feel cool when you're a skinny little pasty thing.
We were the dorky kids from England that people might make a joke at. When I
was moving around schools in England, I would find the cool group pretty
much straight away, but in Australia I hung back."
In her family, she'd long felt the odd one out.
"When I was growing up I felt I didn't have a voice, creatively speaking,
and so many of my family members did. My brother was a great artist and then
became a photographer, my mum was someone who could paint beautifully and
decorate, my stepfather [her mother remarried when Naomi was 10] was
a singer, my mum's sister is a wonderful artist.
"I'd always been interested in drama, but it's not that easy to say, 'I want
to be an actress.' You kind of have to be 'invited' to act. It's not like
you can just paint a picture and say you're an artist."
Did you try painting or photography?
"Ohhh yeah! I tried everything!" she laughs. "I was terrible at it. I always
felt like I was the weak link."
She had a series of odd jobs. She was a papergirl, a negative cutter, the
manager of a delicatessen on Sydney's North Shore. She did some modelling
and some commercials (later she would do the famous lamb roast commercial,
where she turns down a date with Tom Cruise).
By 19, she was an assistant fashion editor of Follow Me, a fashion magazine.
"Then a friend of mine talked me into doing a weekend drama workshop. By
that stage, I'd already decided being in front of the camera was not an
option for me any more. I'd done this weird modelling stint in Japan and it
was not a good experience.
I was obviously never going to be a model anyway - I was too short and I
didn't have that high-fashion look.
"Anyway, we got to the Sunday, mid-afternoon, and the drama teacher said to
me, 'What are you doing with your life? This is what you love. This is where
you belong.
It's time for you to stop denying it.'"
She gave notice the next morning.
"I thought, 'They're right. I don't need to be up at night worrying about
which cufflinks I should put on someone or what length the skirt should
be.'"
I mutter something about fashion being an empty world, but that's going too
far.
"No! I love fashion and it has great rewards and you can be very creative.
It's just as important as every art form..." She hesitates. Then giggles.
"Ummm, well, maybe not as important. I take that back."
Her colleagues were incredulous when she told them she planned to become an
actor.
"It sounds so ridiculous. But I knew it was time to take a risk and pursue
my dreams. Two weeks later I had the audition for Flirting."
That 1991 John Duigan film also starred a young Nicole Kidman, which raises
the subject of the Tall One. Does it annoy Watts that the two of them are
constantly linked in the media?
"It annoys me that people are still fascinated about how we met or why we
became friends. Most interviewers who only have a short time with me will
probably want to ask that question, and probably the Heath question, because
they're controversial and they know that they will either rile me up or
they'll get something good.
"Or they'll get something lovely and glowing and, either way, that could be
the caption of their story, right there.
"I just think, 'Oh God, this is a bit boring. Do you know that every single
person has asked me that?' We're moving on now, I think."
(At our previous meeting I had seen an example of "lovely and glowing" after
I'd asked whether it had been hard watching Nicole race ahead when they had
begun at the same level:
"We were never really at the same level because she'd done quite a few films
before I started. After Flirting, she went to the States pretty much
straight away," she said. "I always say, look at how inspiring that is, that
a friend from the same part of the world is doing so well. Maybe there's
hope for others.")
Do you think they ask Nicole about Naomi Watts?
"Probably not," she says, "but I bet they ask her about Tom."
Okay, I'm going to have to ask you the Heath Ledger question now.
"Come on! This is the Good Weekend, isn't it?" she says, rocking back on her
haunches and laughing. "This is not New Idea!"
Even if it were New Idea, she wouldn't discuss why they broke up last year.
It's another off-limits subject.
For those who didn't follow the romance, the story is that at one point
Ledger was attending her premieres and they were reportedly looking at
property together, then it was over. Then they were back together, then it
was over, apparently for good.
The popular theory floated by gossip magazines was that Ledger was too
"immature" (he's 10 years younger) and didn't want to change his party-boy
ways. Watts wanted to settle down and have children.
While her feelings about Ledger remain her own, it is true that Watts keenly
wants children. "I love children, I'm very good with them." She wants to
align herself with and be actively involved in a charity that helps them,
but she also wants her own.
She talks about achieving motherhood with the same determination she must
once have brought to the matter of career success.
Isn't not being in a relationship (monosyllabically, she allows she is not)
an obstacle? Apparently not.
"I'll have children no matter what," she says.
You mean adoption?
"I wouldn't rule out any option. It's very easy to make statements about
those sorts of things. I'm not closed to anything. Adoption or having a
baby... I've got plenty of friends who imagined themselves having their
children in the most perfect harmonious way and ended up having to go
through hoops to become a mother."
There are many things Watts is reluctant to discuss, but dreams, and their
pursuit, aren't among them. "One of the greatest things in life is knowing
what you want," she says, pouring another glass of wine. "It's very hard to
discern that sometimes, but every significant thing that has happened to me
has been a result of being really clear about what I want.
"It's also about knowing why you want it. Plenty of people in the industry
want success for the wrong reasons. I love what I do and it really excites
me to be able to express feelings and articulate truths that other people
might identify with."
What are the wrong reasons, I begin to ask ...
"Wait, I want to finish what I was going to say. What I do is what I call
'human sharing', bringing us together, hopefully ...
"The wrong reasons," she says, giving me The Look, "are really obvious -
riches, fame."
She might not have sought riches or fame but her success has brought her a
measure of both. She recently bought a house in LA and is becoming an art
collector, concentrating on photography - works by Diane Arbus, William
Klein, Sebastio Salgado and soon, perhaps, a Bill Henson. She fell in love
with his recent exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.
"I literally had heart palpitations, like a rush of inspiration and creative
juices just surging through me ... Does that sound pretentious?"
One measure of success, she says, would be never having to audition again.
"The moment you walk in the door and you are yourself, they're scrutinising
and assessing and jumping to all kinds of conclusions. You're so raw and so
judged, so far from yourself.
"After years of being in those rooms, you become this robot. You feel like,
'Okay, they're not going to like my humour. At that last audition, I cracked
a joke and it fell on deaf ears. Or I embarrassed someone because I said
something about their hair or told them something about the .'
"So, I can't be this, I can't be that ... until you walk in and you're
nothing. You're just this big bubble of air that has no chance of having an
impact on anyone. It just goes downhill from there and you set yourself up
for failure."
When King Kong is released in December, Watts may find herself in a
different league of celebrity. Would she like to be more famous?
"Why? What would any more fame buy me now, really?"
Adulation? Greater recognition?
"I'm not that sort of person. I'm an observer. As unbelievable as that
sounds, given my work, I've never been a person who walks into a room and
wants to absorb all the energy and attention. I like to stand on the
sidelines and watch."
In the house in Karaka Bay, it's a quarter to nine and the fire in the
living room is dying. Watts, who has to be on the set at 6am, looks ready
for bed. She still has the heat pack on, now tied around her waist, and her
cheeks are flushed from the warmth.
The storm is putting up a strong case for staying inside, but Watts insists
on walking out into the wild night to see me safely into a taxi. As we part,
she gives me a quick, warm hug and waves me off, a determined little figure
shivering in a black coat.
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A Janic priest wrote:
> This is the *3rd* sensational Offering before the FULL CROW MOON of
ANNO
> IVSTINI I, making the Symbolic murder ("gathering") of Crows at the
> Great Goddess JANICE's feet to number *22*.
> Terry Ratzmann .... 8
> Jeff Wiese ........10
The 3 "sensational" multiple Offerings which preceded the FULL CROW MOON
of A.I. I were duly followed -- in the wake of the FULL CROW MOON -- by
3 Momentous singular Offerings:
Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, John Paul II -- and Prince Rainier, the
longest reigning monarch in Europe.
Rainier, of course, was the Consort of Grace Kelly, the iconic actress
whose career came to an abrupt halt in the 1950s.
Princess Grace was born on Black King Ryan's birthday in MCMXXIX --
exactly one TWIN week after "Black Tuesday" of the "'29 Crash".
The Sacred Midpoint between her birthday and the birthday of Our Lady
is
September 16th
which is one TWIN day after the date
that Princess Grace was Offered in an automobile crash -- and one TWIN
week before the date that James Dean was Offered in an automobile crash.
Rejoice in Her Serene Highness!
She was a worthy avatar of Our Holy Queen!
MissourianII
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NY DAILY NEWS...RUSH AND MOLLOY
He may have ruled a canap=E9 of a country, but Prince Rainier of Monaco
provided his children with a supersize inheritance.
Palace insiders say Rainier, whose funeral is tomorrow, left an estate
of close to $4 billion. (Building that Monte Carlo casino certainly was
a good idea.)
Word is Prince Albert and Princess Caroline will receive most of the
chips - more than $1 billion each - while Princess Stephanie, whose
romantic scandals left Monegasques aghast, will come into a measly $30
million or so.
"Her father didn't trust her with the money," a source tells us. "But
on his deathbed, he made Albert promise to look after Stephanie and her
children."
Among those due to attend the ceremony are French President Jacques
Chirac, Britain's Prince Andrew and John Lehman, a Reagan
administration Navy secretary and a cousin of Rainier's late wife,
Grace Kelly.
Not expected to attend is Caroline's husband, Prince Ernst of Hanover,
who just came out of a coma from a pancreas infection but remains in
the hospital.
Meanwhile, the three months of official mourning will prevent Caroline
from attending the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala here on
May 2.
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"Aida Lott" wrote in message
news:1109903555.928326.290980@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> job.
>
http://www.synapticenergy.com/celebs/images/maelstroms_eye/me681-denise_rich
ards_017.jpg
> Let's be fair, Denise is a very cute girl, not classically beautiful or
dumbfoundingly stunning, but she's really very cute with a sweetly girlish
sexuality about her that appeals to both men and women. If were fifteen
years younger and met her in a bar I'd make a point of talking to her but if
she didn't give me her number I wouldn't be devastated as if say I'd been
refused by Gene Tierney, Veronica Lake or Ava Gardner, or Grace Kelly had I
been in their age frame. I've lived in the clouds of "what if" for almost
thirty years because Mimsy Farmer gave me a lingering smile in a market in
Rome thirty+ years ago. Back then I was scared to talk much because people
always were always laughing at my accent. I couldn't even bring myself to
speak to her or ask her for an autograph. In those days, hard core, rural
southern accents like mine was back then, were associated with dueling
banjos and city boys getting raped by guys who talked like me, while on
canoe trips or like rednecks in pickup trucks shooting 12 guage loads of
double ought buckshot into Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda.
Completely without makeup, Miss Farmer was truly a goddess that sunny
day in Rome.
Ambrose
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~~Here is another story about him and his photos
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107815,00.html#2
piscesrr wrote in message news:...
> Photographer Francesco Scavullo Dead at 81
> Francesco Scavullo, Photographer Who Did Portraits of Grace Kelly and
> Liz Taylor, Dies at 81
> NEW YORK Jan. 6 — Fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo, who shot
> covers for Cosmopolitan magazine for more than 30 years, died Tuesday
> morning of heart failure, his companion said. He was 81.
> weak, and then collapsed, Sean Byrne said.
> portraits of celebrities such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor,
> Scavullo was also recognized for his photographs of children. One of the
> most famous was his 1975 portrait of a young Brooke Shields.
> children themes Scavullo himself cited in a 1985 interview with The
> Associated Press.
> the interview. "I was fascinated when my mother got done up. My mother
> made the transformation from Cinderella every day of her life."
> whose father owned the old Central Park Casino. As a youth he got a job
> assisting the fashion photographer, Horst, and learned much of his craft
> from him.
> lucrative and lengthy career that included photographing covers for
> Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. At the peak of his
> career he commanded as much as $10,000 a sitting.
> said. "He helped a lot of needy people and never mentioned it."
> may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8285935%255E16
947,00.html
Nicole Kidman: Time of her life
From The Times
January 03, 2004
There's a line late in Cold Mountain, the 1997 hit novel by Charles Frazier
that is now a $110 million film, where its female protagonist, Ada, is
described as looking "so beautiful that it made (her lover's) cheekbones
hurt". It's with that in mind that one approaches an interview with Nicole
Kidman, preparing for a more-than-willing ache.
Kidman is the Ada chosen by the writer-director Anthony Minghella for his
screen adaptation. And one can see why. She has to project a beauty and
spiritual essence that will keep Inman (Jude Law), an itinerant Confederate
soldier, slogging homeward from the civil war, a 19th-century American
Odysseus in search of his Charleston-bred Penelope.
For Cold Mountain, Kidman has flowing strawberry-blonde hair, often worn up
in a Grace Kelly pleat. Today, though, the porcelain skin and blue eyes are
framed by a bobbed black wig, which she is wearing while finishing scenes
from her latest film, a remake of The Stepford Wives. The coiffure is
austere, but the brilliance of her eyes is there to be savoured. Sitting
with her long legs outstretched, she looks even taller than she does on
screen.
Within minutes, she is warming to Cold Mountain's theme. "What's so
wonderful about it is that it is based on these two people needing something
and needing to conjure something based on a few captured, fleeting moments
that then have to sustain them through the years. So, when they meet up
again, it's like, 'Who are you? What are you? Is this actually based on
nothing, or am I going to be able to discover the person whose belief helped
me endure?' If Ada and Inman hadn't had that faith in their love, they
wouldn't have been able to endure the war. So when they come back together
and look at each other and say ..." She sighs, dreamily. "... and say,
'There's something here I feel that affects me, that I can respond to, that
is real."' She rephrases her thought: "You can call it love, but they're
saying, 'I need you.' And that, I think, is beautiful."
So, in its way, is Kidman's precis of the film, offered at a time and place
in her life that are literally worlds away from the often unforgiving
Romanian countryside where she and Law began shooting Cold Mountain in July
2002. (Kidman describes wearing heat packs on her face to keep warm.) Since
then, she has, of course, won an Oscar for her proboscis-heavy Virginia
Woolf in The Hours, headlined the most controversial film at this year's
Cannes festival (Lars von Trier's merciless allegory Dogville), won a Golden
Globe nomination for her performance in Cold Mountain and played a janitor -
yes, you read right, a janitor - in Robert Benton's upcoming movie version
of the Philip Roth novel The Human Stain. That said, it's probably no more
surprising to see Kidman acting "menial" than it is, in the same movie, to
find Anthony Hopkins playing a character who is black.
Throughout it all, Kidman's star has ascended ever higher, even as her
one-time renown as the ringlet-laden sidekick to Tom Cruise has all but been
forgotten. At this point, who can dispute the decision, in October, of US
magazine Entertainment Weekly to feature the 36-year-old Kidman toute seule
on the cover of an issue naming the 101 most powerful people in show
business? (In fact, she was 10th on that list, which was headed by the
producer Jerry Bruckheimer; his photograph, presumably, sells fewer
magazines.) Kidman possesses both class and clout. And, yes, a beauty worthy
of Frazier's language, one that you don't have to be Inman to love.
Not, Kidman is quick to tell you, that she is comfortable watching herself
on screen. As of our meeting in early December, she had seen neither The
Human Stain nor Cold Mountain, and she absented herself from the gala Cannes
screening of Dogville in May in favour of a glass of red wine in the foyer.
"They have to drag me literally by a leash around my neck to get me in."
Just like Judi Dench, I volunteer, another Oscar winner (and a favourite
performer of Kidman's) who can't bear to watch herself.
"Thank God," says Kidman, "there's somebody else with the same insanity."
Her own, it seems, extended to that tearful night in March when she beat
Renee Zellweger and Julianne Moore, among others, to win the best actress
Oscar. "I did not even think I was going to go. I'm terrible at taking any
compliments. I'm so hard on myself that even to stand up and accept
something like that, I feel like I'm not worthy of it." For much the same
reason, she cringes when I mention the telecast, the previous night on
American television, of the evening in her honour given by the American
Cinematheque in Los Angeles. "It was actually a bit embarrassing," she says.
"I looked at my work and thought, 'Gee, I don't deserve this; get back to
acting class, Nicole!' I was aghast at some of the stuff, particularly
because Sydney Pollack (director of her next film, The Interpreter) was
there, and Anthony Minghella, Stephen Daldry ... I was sort of apologetic. I
said to Sydney, 'You're going to fire me.' I thought he'd be thinking, 'What
have I cast this woman for?"' False modesty? No more than one finds with
Dench, who has long lamented so-called "instant acting" in cinema as against
the repeated opportunities provided by the stage to get a part right.
Kidman has far less theatre experience, but her thinking is much the same.
"The films are gone, they're done. Anthony (Minghella) says this about
movies, 'You have to abandon films. It's not like they're finished; they're
never finished.' But it's like abandoning a baby, and I feel that, I find it
difficult to accept praise, partly because I feel as if I had nothing to do
with it. You have no idea how you give a performance; you have no idea how
you get the role; you have no idea how any of this happens. It's all so
lucky and fortuitous."
Still, we're all capable of helping to create our own luck, and Kidman has
an obvious talent for creating hers. It wasn't for the money (there wasn't
any to be made) that she appeared on the London stage in The Blue Room,
giving a performance that prompted queues through Covent Garden ("I remember
Courtney Love getting really pissed off that I couldn't get her a ticket,"
deadpans Kidman), and was seen by Baz Luhrmann and Daldry. That led, in
turn, to her roles in Moulin Rouge and The Hours.
The Human Stain, The Hours and Dogville all deal in different ways with
damage, but at the moment Kidman is keen to lighten up. That explains her
sitting opposite me in chic black pyjamas, hands stuffed deep into her coat
to ward off the biting New York winter chill, on the Stepford Wives set. In
this new , Kidman inherits Katharine Ross's original role as the
Stepford men's prime "victim", or domesticated bimbo. The movie, co-starring
Bette Midler and Glenn Close, should have been finished weeks ago, but
Kidman and Matthew Broderick, who plays her husband, still have several
days' extra shooting to go.
Kidman, however, is in fine humour, despite the most antiseptic "office"
possible allocated for the interview. "We're in prison," she laughs, some
freshly cut flowers the only antidote to the dreariness. Her cheer is
amplified by the movie itself. "This version of Stepford is a comedy; it
isn't a thriller, though there is a sting. We're just trying to have some
fun - and, I suppose, laugh at everything - but with some satire mixed in
there."
There was a time, one reckons, when Kidman risked her own on-screen
Stepford-isation in such generic work as Days of Thunder, Far and Away (both
opposite Cruise) and, more recently, the silly Sandra Bullock movie
Practical Magic, in which the two women played sibling witches. Kidman cites
her bravura performance as a deadly weathergirl for Gus Van Sant in To Die
For, in 1995, as the turning point. "Strangely enough, that was incredibly
easy, because Gus and I were just like, 'Oh, whatever.' He'd come off Even
Cowgirls Get the Blues, and everyone was saying about me, 'Oh, she can't
act.' So the two of us had absolutely nothing to lose. And fortunately, Buck
Henry had written this that was phenomenal."
Nowadays, her status as a risk-taker is pretty much nonpareil. "You've got
to try to avoid doing what people might expect from you, to run away from
that. Partly, that's why I will go and do things like Dogville (a brutal
fable in which Kidman plays Grace, whose name is grimly ironic)." To avoid
the burden of expectation? She nods. "Take it off me. I don't want it. I do
not want to be expected to have a movie make money, or be expected to be
good. Just let me do my work and make it something we can all, hopefully, be
proud of."
It helps, of course, that Kidman is what Daldry has described as "a
transforming actress, which is something stars are often not". Kidman likes
Daldry's phrase. "It's terrible," she laughs. "I can morph into anything:
watch out. It's weird, because I can take any hair colour and my voice sort
of changes. I don't know, I'm like Zelig - one of my favourite movies. Oh,
God, I love Woody Allen. I saw Manhattan only the other night, and I cried."
Minghella, speaking from LA the morning after the Cold Mountain premiere, at
which Kidman finally saw the finished film, expands on Daldry's observation.
"It's very easy to celebrate the kind of work she has done in the past few
years and see this rosary of performances. But imagine being at the
beginning rather than the end - imagine the conversations she must have had
with agents and managements, about choices that in retrospect are very
smart, but at the time must have made them incredulous: 'I think I'll go off
to Spain to work with Alejandro Amenabar on The Others. I'll go to Sweden
with Lars von Trier. I think I'll go off and do a musical. I think I'll play
a supporting role in The Hours."' Her CV, says Minghella, "suggests somebody
whose mind and ambitions go a long way beyond the zip code of Beverly Hills.
That's what's most extraordinary."
The celebrity factor, of course, doesn't hurt either, whether with or
without Cruise, pregnant or not, dating or not dating this person or the
next. (Kidman this year won damages from several British papers that alleged
an affair on the Cold Mountain set between her and Law.) Most recently, she
has kept American tabloids buzzing with "is she-isn't she engaged?" queries
over her latest beau, rock'n'roller Lenny Kravitz. Their joint attendance in
October at a private pre-release screening of Kill Bill merited an entire
paragraph in The New York Observer, the city's hippest broadsheet.
Kidman is too smart not to expect the question when pressed for details on a
relationship that no longer finds her, as People magazine put it in April,
"soaring solo". She gives an affectionate sigh as I mention Kravitz's name,
then firmly but gently makes her point. "I've said over and over: I can't
discuss it. Honestly, my protection mechanisms towards any person in my life
are on guard, partly because I can't have a life, and also because my
natural inclination is always to want to discuss things, to talk about
things. At the same time, I could never go through that kind of publicity
again" - the clear reference here is to the protracted break-up with
Cruise - "particularly if something didn't work out. If something does, it's
a different thing. Also, as far as I'm concerned, nothing ..." She starts
the sentence over. "Here's what I'm about: I'm either in a very, very
committed, important relationship that I will stand up and be thoughtful
about, and I'm married - or I'm not. There's nothing in between." She
laughs. "I suppose it's slightly old-fashioned."
One senses that Kidman has seen no shortage of fictions written about her.
"I'm used to that, not just with films but with men, worries, everything. I
somehow get linked to people I've never met, which can be a little odd. You
meet them at a party and go, 'Hey, good to meet you. I saw we were together,
supposedly, and we're going to get married."' Her response to it all?
"Honestly? I've been given a lot of blessings, so at the same time you have
to say, well, thank you for the good things, and I accept the bad." She also
chuckles at the much-vaunted notion that she and Vin Diesel, of all people,
were going to do a remake of Guys and Dolls. "That's not true, though I hear
Vin's got a wonderful singing voice." And of the many other projects linked
to her, only Pollack's politically themed The Interpreter is definite
(though a screen version of the TV series Bewitched, with Will Ferrell to
co-star, looks more than likely).
Kidman has taken on The Interpreter for her 11-year-old daughter, Bella, the
older of the two children she and Cruise adopted. "I'd like to play a woman
who speaks five languages and plays the cello, so I can have my daughter see
me play that. It's saying: 'Women can be smart, and you don't have to run
around in a bikini. You can sit there and play the cello and wear a pair of
grey pants and a blazer and speak five languages and still be a really
interesting, amazing woman.' That's what I'd like to put on screen, just as
a balance - I don't mean to sound snobby - because we need more educated
women for the next generation of women to see and to aspire to be."
Snobby? More like smart, especially since Kidman knows equally well when it
is bikini time. Over the holidays, she says, she'll be in Fiji after her
stint in Sydney. "I want to get my kids to an island, grab a bikini, get a
cocktail." She stops herself. "Am I allowed to say that?"
She is also looking forward to some Oscar nominations for Cold Mountain.
"There was so much blood and guts put into this film. I would so love it to
get nominated; I am going to say that blatantly."
Our time draws to a close, and Kidman is summoned for a costume change.
"I'll be wearing a little khaki skirt, heading in the Stepford direction."
On the drive back into Manhattan, I do a double-take as I pass a new
apartment complex on the West Side known as The Nicole, urging interested
parties to visit the website thenicole.com. What would the Nicole make of
this, I wonder, but I think I know. She'd look surprised, find it gently
absurd, then have a good laugh. .
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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Grace Kelly all over again, eh?
On 07 Feb 2004 18:39:47 GMT, withbacon@aol.comzesjfgso (Neely OHara)
wrote:
>I'm still waiting for her "tragic" death so they can get a real actress like
>Cate Blanchett or Samantha Morton to play her in the biopic...
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If you are not with the one you love, love
the one you are with.
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:...
> http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/2004/07/14/story156907.html
(...)
> And onlookers were shocked by the dishevelled appearance of the glamorous
> superstar, who paused briefly to drain the bottle dry.
(...)
Britney, "glamorous"? Remember when the word was reserved for the
likes of Grace Kelly and Greta Garbo?
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
news:3XkFb.1236$g21.32182@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Entertainment/WolfFiles/Wolf_Files-1.html
> The Rich and Famous Have Nothing to Fear But . Their Own Phobias
> afford 12 boxes of Kleenex like germ-phobic billionaire Howard Hughes.
it's
> interesting to note that some stars have obsessions even more bizarre than
> our own.
> But Thornton's got so many phobias, he makes Woody Allen look like Russell
> Crowe.
> and chromophobia (fear of bright colors). But what do you call the fear of
> antiques? The Bad Santa star refuses to stay in a room with furniture
built
> before 1950.
lives
> some 14.8 million Americans to varying degrees.
> gamophobia (fear of weddings), genophobia (fear of sex) or even
> pentheraphobia (fear of mothers-in-law).
> of us learn to cope with our phobias and lead relatively normal lives.
> what sort of Neverland would you live?
David
> Beckham? Click through the following pages for a look at the phobias of
the
> rich and famous, including John Madden, Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci 1. John Madden: No Air Game
> Many jet-setters don't like to fly - even in first class. Say what you
will
> about the inflated ego of Monday Night Football's John Madden. The sports
> commentator is famous for keeping both feet on the ground.
> coast-to-coast demands of his job. He drives more than 60,000 a year, and
> his $700,000, 45-foot motor home, "The Madden Cruiser," is famous in
stadium
> parking lots across the country. If the game's in Hawaii, call Dan Fouts.
> Aretha Franklin, Whoopi Goldberg and Muhammad Ali are known to be queasy
> riders
> claustrophobia rather than aviophobia. The former football coach has never
> been afraid of expressing himself.
> Talk about perfectionism: In David Beckham's closet, each shirt is filed
> according to its color. Each can of soda is lined up in his refrigerator
> like soldiers at attention. Beckham is sometimes described as an
> ataxophobic - a person who fears disorder.
> as Posh Spice, told People magazine two years ago. "If there are three
cans
> of diet Coke he'd throw one away rather than having three because it's
> uneven."
really
> is next to godliness.
directed
> a 2002 TV documentary on the football star. "The DVD player has to be
> parallel to the edge of the table."
> A fear of clowns is no laughing matter, especially to Johnny Depp and Sean
> "P. Diddy" Combs.
> while promoting Sleepy Hollow. "There always seemed to be a darkness
lurking
> just under the surface, a potential for real evil."
denied
> that his performance contracts call for a "no clown" clause, perhaps
because
> it doesn't fit his bad-boy image.
> children's clown turned serial killer who tortured and killed 33 boys and
> young men.
> victims' families or something, but I found out that wasn't the case,"
Depp
> told the San Francisco Examiner.
> kid," he recently told Entertainment Weekly.
> Life is a cabaret of legal trouble for Liza Minnelli and her estranged
> husband David Gest. Earlier this year, he sued her for $10 million,
claiming
> he was a battered husband.
> her.
> 15-month marriage. The show business producer claims to be taking 11
> different medications a day, some more than once, for headaches, nausea,
> hypertension, scalp tenderness, insomnia - and phonophobia.
phony.
> After all, she denies all the allegations of violence.
> fear of the sound of your own voice.
> reporters, "I have enough grounds for 14 divorces here," he said. "We
could
> divorce the entire Yankee team, including the bullpen."
> Here's something to put in Christina Ricci's Christmas stocking - a Weed
> Whacker. The 23-year-old actress admitted to British Esquire this summer
> that she suffers from a form of botanophobia - and we're not exactly
talking
> about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
I
> have to touch one, after already being repulsed by the fact that there is
a
> plant indoors, then it just freaks me out."
> myself because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open
up
> and let the shark out."
> Being The Man With The Golden Gun gave Roger Moore a nervous tic. The star
> of seven James Bond films was decidedly more shaken than stirred by his
> License to Kill firearms.
> pick up a gun I start blinking," said Moore at a 1993 UNICEF fund-raiser.
> still tell his boss he's deep undercover.
> Was Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, chicken around eggs? To
> witness his ovophobia, just watch To Catch a Thief.
> actress Jessie Royce Landis - playing the part of Grace Kelly's mother -
> harpoons her sunny-side-up eggs like Norman Bates in the shower scene of
> Psycho.
> smoking bans at the dinner table - a predilection tied more to his food
> hang-ups than fears of secondhand smoke.
> daughter, Patricia O'Connell, told the Chicago Tribune in 1993.
> that yellow stuff would run all over. He thought it was absolutely
> disgusting."
> received from Hitchcock's assistant:
> "'He hates eggs, he hates cigarettes, and frankly, he hates you.' "
> Woody Allen turned his neurosis into a career. "I've been killing spiders
> since I was 30,'' he boasts to Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
> sunshine, dogs, children, heights, small rooms, crowds, cancer and various
> illnesses, and any place on earth outside Manhattan.
> pays for the therapy bills? It's hard to say.
> call it Anhedonia - the inability to feel pleasure.
the
> meaning of the word. Allen compromised on naming the film after Keaton's
> character three weeks before the premiere
> 9. Billy Bob Thornton: Panophobia?
> It's hard not to laugh at Thornton's phobias. A 48-year-old guy who's
afraid
> of antique furniture is really off his rocker - assuming it's an old
rocker.
> king," said Thornton, who went into shock after checking into a five-star
> hotel in London, when his ex-wife Angelina Jolie was filming Laura Croft:
> Tomb Raider.
chair,"
> Thornton later told Oprah Winfrey. "I don't really know. But anyway . I'm
> totally serious. And I can't eat around antiques."
thriving
> in Hollywood despite his idiosyncrasies.
> Monster's Ball, says he was only able to eat in one scene if he used a
brand
> new plastic fork, right out of the box.
> recent issue of Maxim, stage sparks a reaction in him, he says, that
"almost
> borders on Tourette's."
> with a picture of 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
> not something I can really explain."
> Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
think. Reform scholl gave me quite a few. Bathrooms, to this day I'm in and
out of them like a shot. It doesn't help that the sadistic staff of work
farm the county sent indigent and incorrigible kids to youth work farm back
then, often used the large public bathrooms for carrying out abuse and
torture. Ceramic tiles give me nightmares. Cold tile floors all part of
that. We used to have to lay on the tile flor naked for hours before we'd be
beaten. Speaking in a too loud voice, cursing, masturbation farting,
belching, and even stuttering were punished with approx a half hour beating
for each offense, so those human biological functions are off the itenerary
as are . Another bathroom connected fear is the fear of bathtubs and water
drawig out of them. Lisa Cruz, the breathy voiced songstrees of Twin Peaks
fame shares that one with me. I have taken showers for forty years for fear
of bathtubs and drainng water. Buckets full of water. You get your head held
under the water for two minutes at a time, them pulled out and revived, and
then have it done five ten or twelve times and see if you can look at a mop
bucket without getting afraid.I have a whole array of others, including fear
of being locked in small places, being caught in wild game traps, and being
drowned in cattle dip troughs. My cousin, Wolf, (Adolph) tried to kill me
that way repeatedly. Cattle dip is nasty stuff, that gets in your skin and
makes your breath smell like chemicals, and even your mouth taste like
you've been drinking chemials.Oddly the Army loved that stuff and nearly all
the recruits from OCS into psy war studies for special investigations and
recon had come from heavily abused backgrounds. Of course, part of the
training was dealing with the fear and functioning anyway. A little secret,
the fear is still there, but they give you a new fear to control it, not
letting anyone know you are afraid. Sorry, sometimes I forget how desturbing
some of my past can sound to an outsider.
Ambrose
>
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:...
> http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/2004/07/14/story156907.html
(...)
> And onlookers were shocked by the dishevelled appearance of the glamorous
> superstar, who paused briefly to drain the bottle dry.
(...)
Britney, "glamorous"? Remember when the word was reserved for the
likes of Grace Kelly and Greta Garbo?
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
news:3XkFb.1236$g21.32182@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Entertainment/WolfFiles/Wolf_Files-1.html
> The Rich and Famous Have Nothing to Fear But . Their Own Phobias
> afford 12 boxes of Kleenex like germ-phobic billionaire Howard Hughes.
it's
> interesting to note that some stars have obsessions even more bizarre than
> our own.
> But Thornton's got so many phobias, he makes Woody Allen look like Russell
> Crowe.
> and chromophobia (fear of bright colors). But what do you call the fear of
> antiques? The Bad Santa star refuses to stay in a room with furniture
built
> before 1950.
lives
> some 14.8 million Americans to varying degrees.
> gamophobia (fear of weddings), genophobia (fear of sex) or even
> pentheraphobia (fear of mothers-in-law).
> of us learn to cope with our phobias and lead relatively normal lives.
> what sort of Neverland would you live?
David
> Beckham? Click through the following pages for a look at the phobias of
the
> rich and famous, including John Madden, Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci 1. John Madden: No Air Game
> Many jet-setters don't like to fly - even in first class. Say what you
will
> about the inflated ego of Monday Night Football's John Madden. The sports
> commentator is famous for keeping both feet on the ground.
> coast-to-coast demands of his job. He drives more than 60,000 a year, and
> his $700,000, 45-foot motor home, "The Madden Cruiser," is famous in
stadium
> parking lots across the country. If the game's in Hawaii, call Dan Fouts.
> Aretha Franklin, Whoopi Goldberg and Muhammad Ali are known to be queasy
> riders
> claustrophobia rather than aviophobia. The former football coach has never
> been afraid of expressing himself.
> Talk about perfectionism: In David Beckham's closet, each shirt is filed
> according to its color. Each can of soda is lined up in his refrigerator
> like soldiers at attention. Beckham is sometimes described as an
> ataxophobic - a person who fears disorder.
> as Posh Spice, told People magazine two years ago. "If there are three
cans
> of diet Coke he'd throw one away rather than having three because it's
> uneven."
really
> is next to godliness.
directed
> a 2002 TV documentary on the football star. "The DVD player has to be
> parallel to the edge of the table."
> A fear of clowns is no laughing matter, especially to Johnny Depp and Sean
> "P. Diddy" Combs.
> while promoting Sleepy Hollow. "There always seemed to be a darkness
lurking
> just under the surface, a potential for real evil."
denied
> that his performance contracts call for a "no clown" clause, perhaps
because
> it doesn't fit his bad-boy image.
> children's clown turned serial killer who tortured and killed 33 boys and
> young men.
> victims' families or something, but I found out that wasn't the case,"
Depp
> told the San Francisco Examiner.
> kid," he recently told Entertainment Weekly.
> Life is a cabaret of legal trouble for Liza Minnelli and her estranged
> husband David Gest. Earlier this year, he sued her for $10 million,
claiming
> he was a battered husband.
> her.
> 15-month marriage. The show business producer claims to be taking 11
> different medications a day, some more than once, for headaches, nausea,
> hypertension, scalp tenderness, insomnia - and phonophobia.
phony.
> After all, she denies all the allegations of violence.
> fear of the sound of your own voice.
> reporters, "I have enough grounds for 14 divorces here," he said. "We
could
> divorce the entire Yankee team, including the bullpen."
> Here's something to put in Christina Ricci's Christmas stocking - a Weed
> Whacker. The 23-year-old actress admitted to British Esquire this summer
> that she suffers from a form of botanophobia - and we're not exactly
talking
> about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
I
> have to touch one, after already being repulsed by the fact that there is
a
> plant indoors, then it just freaks me out."
> myself because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open
up
> and let the shark out."
> Being The Man With The Golden Gun gave Roger Moore a nervous tic. The star
> of seven James Bond films was decidedly more shaken than stirred by his
> License to Kill firearms.
> pick up a gun I start blinking," said Moore at a 1993 UNICEF fund-raiser.
> still tell his boss he's deep undercover.
> Was Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, chicken around eggs? To
> witness his ovophobia, just watch To Catch a Thief.
> actress Jessie Royce Landis - playing the part of Grace Kelly's mother -
> harpoons her sunny-side-up eggs like Norman Bates in the shower scene of
> Psycho.
> smoking bans at the dinner table - a predilection tied more to his food
> hang-ups than fears of secondhand smoke.
> daughter, Patricia O'Connell, told the Chicago Tribune in 1993.
> that yellow stuff would run all over. He thought it was absolutely
> disgusting."
> received from Hitchcock's assistant:
> "'He hates eggs, he hates cigarettes, and frankly, he hates you.' "
> Woody Allen turned his neurosis into a career. "I've been killing spiders
> since I was 30,'' he boasts to Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.
> sunshine, dogs, children, heights, small rooms, crowds, cancer and various
> illnesses, and any place on earth outside Manhattan.
> pays for the therapy bills? It's hard to say.
> call it Anhedonia - the inability to feel pleasure.
the
> meaning of the word. Allen compromised on naming the film after Keaton's
> character three weeks before the premiere
> 9. Billy Bob Thornton: Panophobia?
> It's hard not to laugh at Thornton's phobias. A 48-year-old guy who's
afraid
> of antique furniture is really off his rocker - assuming it's an old
rocker.
> king," said Thornton, who went into shock after checking into a five-star
> hotel in London, when his ex-wife Angelina Jolie was filming Laura Croft:
> Tomb Raider.
chair,"
> Thornton later told Oprah Winfrey. "I don't really know. But anyway . I'm
> totally serious. And I can't eat around antiques."
thriving
> in Hollywood despite his idiosyncrasies.
> Monster's Ball, says he was only able to eat in one scene if he used a
brand
> new plastic fork, right out of the box.
> recent issue of Maxim, stage sparks a reaction in him, he says, that
"almost
> borders on Tourette's."
> with a picture of 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
> not something I can really explain."
> Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
think. Reform scholl gave me quite a few. Bathrooms, to this day I'm in and
out of them like a shot. It doesn't help that the sadistic staff of work
farm the county sent indigent and incorrigible kids to youth work farm back
then, often used the large public bathrooms for carrying out abuse and
torture. Ceramic tiles give me nightmares. Cold tile floors all part of
that. We used to have to lay on the tile flor naked for hours before we'd be
beaten. Speaking in a too loud voice, cursing, masturbation farting,
belching, and even stuttering were punished with approx a half hour beating
for each offense, so those human biological functions are off the itenerary
as are . Another bathroom connected fear is the fear of bathtubs and water
drawig out of them. Lisa Cruz, the breathy voiced songstrees of Twin Peaks
fame shares that one with me. I have taken showers for forty years for fear
of bathtubs and drainng water. Buckets full of water. You get your head held
under the water for two minutes at a time, them pulled out and revived, and
then have it done five ten or twelve times and see if you can look at a mop
bucket without getting afraid.I have a whole array of others, including fear
of being locked in small places, being caught in wild game traps, and being
drowned in cattle dip troughs. My cousin, Wolf, (Adolph) tried to kill me
that way repeatedly. Cattle dip is nasty stuff, that gets in your skin and
makes your breath smell like chemicals, and even your mouth taste like
you've been drinking chemials.Oddly the Army loved that stuff and nearly all
the recruits from OCS into psy war studies for special investigations and
recon had come from heavily abused backgrounds. Of course, part of the
training was dealing with the fear and functioning anyway. A little secret,
the fear is still there, but they give you a new fear to control it, not
letting anyone know you are afraid. Sorry, sometimes I forget how desturbing
some of my past can sound to an outsider.
Ambrose
>
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/263250p-225381c.html
By GRAHAM FULLER
What is it about Scarlett Johansson and older men?
Not the ones the 20-year-old actress allegedly prefers dating over guys her own
age - but the mature stars she captivates on screen.
Johansson herself doesn't know. All she will say about her current older male
co-stars is "Dennis [Quaid] was deliciously adorable, and I could easily put
him in the place of a father figure. John [Travolta] is like a little kid in a
50-year-old man's body."
Her supreme confidence has been borne out by her ability to hold her own with
some serious players:
In "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), made when she was 13, she played the injured
rider whose traumatized mount is healed by Robert Redford's title character.
In "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001), she plays a teenage pianist who offers to
perform a sexual act on a barber (Billy Bob Thornton) who has sponsored her.
In "Lost in Translation" (2003), she plays a married Yale graduate in Tokyo who
becomes emotionally (but not sexually) intimate with a middle-aged American
movie star (Bill Murray).
In "Girl With a Pearl Earring" (2003), she plays Griet, a chaste Dutch
housemaid, who finds an unlikely soulmate in the married artist Vermeer (Colin
Firth).
In "A Love Song for Bobby Long" (opening Dec. 29), she plays feisty Pursy,
whose mother leaves her a house in New Orleans occupied by an alcoholic former
professor (Travolta), who was once her mom's lover.
In "In Good Company" (also opening Dec. 29), she plays an NYU student who
begins a love affair with the coltish whiz kid (Topher Grace) who's become her
father's boss. Dad (Quaid) explodes.
In "A Good Woman" (unreleased) she plays Meg, Oscar Wilde's naive Lady
Windermere, whose more experienced new husband (Mark Umbers) sleeps with an
adventuress (Helen Hunt).
It's not just fathers and father figures who confuse and awaken Johansson's
characters, however. Mothers, too, play their parts, as one might expect in
rites-of-passage stories. In "Bobby Long," Pursy finds her long-last father as
she searches for the soul of her mother; in "A Good Woman," Meg's long-lost
mother is revealed.
Johansson herself hadn't noticed the connection. "I have never thought about
it," she says. "It is weird that there is that bizarre parallel. To me it is
different, though, because [my] characters are so different. In both pieces,
they discover their mothers, but along the way [in "Bobby Long"], Pursy
literally discovers her father.
"Pursy has a lot of aggression about being abandoned," Johansson continues,
"whereas Meg idolizes her mother. She has this idea she was this righteous,
beautiful woman. I guess it's because she thought her mother died when she was
a little girl. I think when you have a parent die when you are young, you
imagine them to be perfect. And, of course, Meg finds out her mother has had
this very seedy lifestyle.
"Pursy meanwhile, knew her mother and has these memories of her being a heroin
addict - and a complete mess."
ARISTOCRATIC APLOMB
It's too early in Johansson's already glittering career to say if the roles
she's picked say anything particular about her hidden needs or desires.
But it's not too early to say that Johansson is a major star, one who's aware
of her glamour (as a Calvin Klein model) and who handles herself with cool,
aristocratic aplomb in public. Despite her husky voice, she is the nearest we
have now to Grace Kelly. Last week she was nominated for the Best Actress
Golden Globe for her work in "Bobby Long"; this goes with her two Globe nods
last year for "Lost in Translation" and "Girl With a Pearl Earring."
"Star power is really something the audience grants you, which is just lovely,"
Johansson says. "It is just a wonderful thing to think that the audience has
the final say in what they want to see in a film."
Johansson has leapfrogged the "starlet" stage most movie actresses must go
through. She has done this by projecting disarming shrewdness or demureness in
her films, though in "Bobby Long" she shows her gritty side. Firth noticed that
quality in her when they made "Girl With a Pearl Earring."
"Whenever you talk about your colleagues, you're supposed to gush," Firth says.
"So it's actually quite difficult when you really like someone. Everyone [on
"Girl With a Pearl Earring"] was crazy about Scarlett. She didn't alienate
anybody, she's totally genuine, and she doesn't have any saccharine in her
personality at all, which, I think, is why people have such direct faith in
her.
"Scarlett can come across quite tough and quite worldly. She doesn't come on
with anything cute, but says what she means and doesn't suffer fools."
Quaid was impressed with her presence and immediacy on "In Good Company."
"She was 19 when we did it. I remember back when I was 19 and I just didn't
have the wherewithal she has," he says. "She has the innate ability to exist on
screen. There's never a false moment." Quaid pauses and adds, "She's also a
cutup."
In "Girl With a Pearl Earring," Vermeer breaches 17th-century Dutch etiquette
by staring at the virginal Griet when her hair tumbles down. In "Bobby Long,"
the raw Pursy blossoms under Bobby's influence.
Johansson can't escape her beauty and sex appeal on screen, but she doesn't
exploit them either - a trap the majority of young actresses fall into
(especially when doing magazine photo shoots).
"I would say the character I play in Woody Allen's [upcoming film] is slightly
that way," she says. "But she's not an exhibitionist. I don't know if I find
that so interesting. Maybe it could be, but it depends on if you can find out
why someone is that way.
"To play a character that is overtly sexual and promiscuous without having the
explanation behind it just doesn't interest me. If you don't want to watch a
movie with a character like that, then you certainly wouldn't want to be one.
If there's no psychological depth, what is the point of it?"
Not that Johansson hides her lights under a bushel. Last April, dressed in
skimpy lingerie, she pouted and cavorted with the Pussycat Dolls burlesque
troupe at the Viper Room in Los Angeles. Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton,
Charlize Theron, Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani have also strutted their
stuff with the Pussycats. Johansson says Calvin Klein did not object to her
appearance.
"Oh, no, not at all. I am not owned by Calvin Klein, and Calvin Klein has been
nothing but nice to be me, but I would not take a campaign that forced me to
alter my image or the person I am. Altering my image is what I do.
"It is not 1954. The reason why I did it was that it seemed like a lot of fun,
and I am a very sexual person. The Pussycat Dolls is such a great way to
express your feminine wiles and charms. The girls that do it are so sexy and
confident and talented, and they are all amazing dancers and singers.
"There is nothing sexier than a classy burlesque show," she adds. "There is
something so much more erotic, I think, about almost baring it all but not
baring it all. I think teasing someone with the idea of what it could be like
to be with you is much sexier than riding on someone's lap."
One of the downsides of fame is that it promotes gossip that can limit a star's
ability to preserve his or her mystery on screen. There was much chatter about
Johansson having a supposed tryst with actor Benicio Del Toro on Oscar night
last February. Does Johansson regret talking about it to Elle magazine?
"What I don't regret about the comment I made was that it was very obviously
sarcastic," she says. "I said, 'Apparently I was having an affair in the
elevator,' but it was printed and circulated throughout the press without the
word 'apparently.' I felt that the whole point of me making that comment was to
kill that rumor.
"It made me realize that you can't be sarcastic. It's bad, because you can't
really be yourself in an interview with someone because it is going to be
exploited in some way. The whole scenario was silly.
"I just had another interview that said I was hanging out with Prince William,
whom I have never met. I am sure he is very nice and very cute, but I've never
met him. Whatever. At first, all this really infuriated me and I started
getting things retracted, but it almost feeds the problem because then people
think you are actually interested in what people have to say about you. I don't
even read it now."
She hesitates when she's asked who's she's dating, then comfortably replies: "I
have to protect my private life much more than I ever thought I had to. Part of
me preserving my mystique and not inviting gossip is not talking about it.
That's the stance I take."
Work makes her happiest, she says. "I've been working hard and I think that's
what keeps me out of trouble, really. I have been so busy I haven't really had
the time to float away. I think idle hands are the devil's playground, and when
you don't have something to do, you get all weird and self-conscious. But if
you are busy, you keep a healthy attitude.
"With every experience I've had, I've learned about myself as an actor and how
far you can push yourself. You are always pushing yourself to the limit and you
can always bring it back. If you are completely self-aware, you'd never be able
to give everything onscreen, which you should. I don't know if I am getting
better. Hopefully I am not getting worse."
Star File: Scarlett Johansson
Born: Nov. 22, 1984 in New York City
Parents: Karsten, general contractor; Melanie, film producer, divorced.
Family: Twin brother Hunter, older sister Vanessa, older brother Adrian, older
stepbrother Christian.
Education: Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City.
Stage debut: "Sophistry" (1993, Playwrights Horizons, New York).
Key films: "North" (1994), "Just Cause" (1995), "If Lucy Fell" (1996), "Manny &
Lo" (1996), "Home Alone 3" (1997), "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), "Ghost World"
(2000), "The Man Who Wasn’t There" (2001), "An American Rhapsody" (2001),
"Eight Legged Freaks" (2002), "Lost in Translation" (2003), "Girl With a Pearl
Earring" (2003), "The Perfect Score" (2004), "The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie"
(2004, voice only)
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- 583 x 738
- gkelly015r.jpg
- Dec 24th, 2005
- alt.binaries.nude.celebrities
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- 602 x 761
- gkelly014r.jpg
- Dec 24th, 2005
- alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities.caps
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- 763 x 908
- Grace_Kelly0144r.jpg
- Dec 24th, 2005
- alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities
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Pics Info
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- 424 x 500
- cb_grace_kelly_0197.jpg
- Apr 3rd, 2004
- alt.binaries.celebrities.alist
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- 638 x 805
- cb_grace_kelly_0188.jpg
- Apr 3rd, 2004
- alt.binaries.celebrities.pics
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- 1132 x 1444
- cb_grace_kelly_0221.jpg
- Apr 3rd, 2004
- alt.binaries.celebrities.pics
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- 783 x 987
- cb_grace_kelly_0166.jpg
- Apr 3rd, 2004
- alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities
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