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The Halle Berry Game

Film, Magazines, Polls
The BBC News website are playing a very exciting game with us today:
What is Halle?
What is Halle?

Indeed, what could Halle Berry – one of the world’s most beautiful women and a fine actress (mostly, anyway) possibly be voted as by men’s magazine Esquire? My top guesses were:

  • Best Snail
  • Top Makeup Wearer
  • Awesomest Use of Eyes
  • World’s Greatest Retro Computer User
  • No. 1 iPhone Application Creator

But no! It’s none of these! Halle has instead been voted “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire readers. I know, weird, huh?

Ma, how does this thing called Facebook work?

Film, Technology, The Internet,

BBC News reports that Aaron Sorkin, creator of TV drama The West Wing, is due to make a film about the founders of Facebook. As part of Aaron’s exciting preparations for the movie, BBC News reports that he has

even opened a Facebook account to aid his research

Now, that’s not exactly going above and beyond, is it? He’s taken two minutes (three, if he’s especially computer illiterate) out of his day to set up a Facebook page. No so impressive, Aaron!

I want to see some proper research going on. I want to see Aaron Sorkin spend every waking minute of every day from now on updating his profile, adding new photos, tagging people, “find out” what his exes are doing, changing his status (“Aaron has writer’s block, LOL!”), playing Scrabulous…er, scratch that, playing “What Would Be Your Stripper Name?”… I want him to set up his own, completely new, social networking site and grow it into a 100 million user plus website. I want to see him kidnap the actual founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, assume his identity and start living his life for him. I WANT SOME PROPER RESEARCH, I tell you!

The Oscars 2008

Award Ceremonies, Fashion, Film

So, the Oscars took place last night. Yeah, I know, you’d never have known if I hadn’t have told you, right?! I’m sure you all know the winners (generally, No Country For Old Men), who was there (the expected, and the not-so expected…Miley Cyrus? Is she getting any Oscar anytime soon?), who had a baby bump (everyone) and, most important of all, who wore what. Generally most outfits were good if a little blah. No spectacular failures, but nothing spectacularly good either. Hmmm. Maybe the recent writers’ strike also caused a dress designers’ strike?

Here’s my favourite dress of the event – an usual mermaid-influenced number, as worn by La Vie En Rose‘s Marion Cotillard. And she also won the Best Actress award. Yay for her all round!

Marion Cotillard

And for the all-round package, I think Penelope Cruz looked stunning:

Penelope Cruz

80s Style Fierceness – Eva Green on Vogue

80s, Fashion, Film, Magazines

Here’s Bond Girl Eva Green on the cover of January 2008 UK Vogue. She always has that sultry, gothic thing going on. Here, she looks fierce. She looks hot. She looks majah, as Victoria Beckham might say. But, there’s something about her hair, makeup and outfit that kind of screams “1983” to me:

Eva Green, Vogue Jan 08

And I don’t think that rather lurid shade of orange they’ve used for the titles on the cover is really helping.

Wonky Photoshop

Film, Magazines

This is Hilary Swank on the cover of the December issue of UK Tatler. Now, say what you will about her, I actually think she looks quite pretty, relaxed and natural here. Except there’s something weird going on with the with her hairl and face. Clearly one of the two has been added on later, or altered – the angle’s all wrong! Just keep looking at that hairline, and it begins to look like an optical illusion. It looks like they just got a picture of her face and added it on to someone else’s body. (Which makes the “pretty, relaxed and natural comment” go out the window.) Or, they’ve added the hair on after – like one of those websites where you can test different hairstyles!

Tatler December 2007 Hilary Swank

However, my favourite bit* of the whole cover is her expression. It’s like she’s saying “You guyyys!” Maybe the whole sentence was “You guyyys! Photoshop in my hairstyle later…that’s hilarious!”

*Actually, that’s not strictly true. My REAL favourite bit is the “The champagne workout: Party hard & stay thin” line. Hmm, best get down to the newsagents tomorrow…

Take Who? Take Me? Take What? That That?

Film, Music

Take That 
Jason (left) bravely protects the rest of the band
(I always knew he was the brave one.)

Not content with breaking teenage boys’ hearts in the 80s (probably, I was neither a teenager nor a boy in the 80s) Michelle Pfeiffer yesterday chose to attack British supergroup…erm…group…Take That. Upon being asked if she was a fan, she replied:

Sorry, who? I have never heard of that band before?

And they’ve even performed a song in your new movie, Stardust! Little Mark will be crushed, I’m sure. (Well he is quite little, it wouldn’t take much to crush him, huh?)

Sex and the City Film Update

Fashion, Film, TV

Sex and the City 

Today’s Daily Mail has lots of new photos from the set of the Sex and the City film, currently being shot in New York. SPOILER! DO NOT click on the link if a) you don’t want to know a possible plotline (although rumours also suggest this is a fake storyline being “filmed” due to leaked scripts), and b) you have a phobia of truly hideous dresses. For they truly are. And I thought they were supposed to be stylish ladies.

National Movie Awards – Only Harry Potter Fans Care

Boring, Film

Daniel Radcliffe 

The first National Movie Awards were held in London last night. Methinks it’ll be the first and last time they’re held. They’re somehow associated with ITV, and pretty much every single awards show ITV ever do is a complete farce. (Remember that “Sports Awards” held a few years back? Presented by Ulrika Johnsson – why? And a previous attempt at a film awards show, broadcast live, in which the highlight was Robin Williams accepting his award by satellite: “This award makes me feel so…so….cheap!”)

Well, Daniel Radcliffe won Best Male Actor, and Emma Watson won the Best Female award. Daniel beat out Daniel Craig and Johnny Depp, whilst Emma won over Judi Dench, Eva Green (Bond girl in the last Bond outing) and Keira Knightley. Who votes for this stuff, the public? Oh, wait, they do. The Sun also reports that acting royalty such as Christian Slater and Misha Barton attended the ceremony. Wow. Oh, and the paper also helpfully adds that the Awards are “Britain’s answers to the Oscars”. No. They’re. Not.

P.S. Why are they called the “Movie Awards”?? We’re not American!

Sex and the City – Carrie’s Interesting Plot Twist

Fashion, Film, TV

More pictures from the set of the Sex and the City movie, due to be released in May 2008, have emerged. And the reveal something VERY interesting – a brunette Carrie! (Played, of course, by Sarah Jessica Parker.)

Carrie Bradshaw - Sex and the City

Goodness, what do you think might have happened??! Did Carrie, like, go to the local drugstore and get a bottle of really dark brown hair dye after a massive bust-up with Big? Did her hair stylist convince her it was apt to change her hair colour as often as she changes her Manolos? Maybe this will be some kind of flash-forward where Carrie will have forsaken being fashionable and stylish and instead will sit at home with her nine cats, watching Jeremy Kyle. (After a quick relocation to the UK, of course.)

Ahh, who cares? 🙂

Sex and the City Film…Filming!

Film, TV

Shooting the Sex and the City movie finally got going last week in New York, after several years of squabbling and difficulties in getting the popular TV series to the big screen. All major characters will apparently return and the storyline seems to continue from where it left off.

In one recently filmed scene, the four ladies strut down the street only to be stopped in their tracks upon spying four girls who are younger versions of themselves:

Sex and the City film

Wow, what are Ashlee Simpson and Lily Allen doing there? Lily’s looking good. But why is the younger version of Samantha, on the right, looking so short and stumpy??

Here’s the “comical” moment when the real girls see their other selves:

Sex and the City movie