[Free For All] November
Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 by New KidClick on photo to enlarge:
[Six degrees] Diana Jenkins: "Snobs drove me to leave Britain"
Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 by CagedThisIsLondon (and as reported in the Telegraph)
Just for info: Jenkins co-hosted the Darfur fundraiser with Clooney in London in 2008 which raised £10m and produced Room 23 featuring Clooney, Crawford and others in aid of her own human rights clinic.
With a thump, the latest issue of Tatler arrives. This unashamed paean to elitism and luxury carries an interview with Diana Jenkins, a 36-year-old ex-Bosnian refugee married to Roger Jenkins, the former £40 million-a-year Barclays star banker.
Yet, despite having become rich in our city, Diana is curiously bitter about London. The high-cheekboned Diana, or to use her real name, Sanela, came here penniless: "London for me was about hustling, surviving, about where I could find a job to earn money." She did make money - enough to enable her to set up a jewellery business....
Oscar watch: Clooney & Damon - the double showdown
Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 by CagedOscar watch
Dave Karger has fun with the fact "that good buddies George Clooney and Matt Damon are competing against each other in this season’s Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories.
In the lead race, Clooney headlines 'Up in the Air' with a quintessential star turn, while Damon shows off his droll comedy stylings in 'The Informant!' And in the supporting contest, there’s Clooney’s goofball performance in 'The Men Who Stare At Goats,' while Damon gets serious as a South African rugby player in 'Invictus.'" Dave says, "I’ve only seen three of these four performances, but my hunch is that Clooney’s stronger shot is for Best Actor while Damon seems a better bet for Best Supporting Actor."
Fantastic Mr Fox looks good in corduroy…and you can too
Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 by CagedCorduroy is back!
Wes Anderson is spearheading the revival of this natty trend
For over a year now, I have taken a lot of ribbing. When I bought a light-brown corduroy suit last autumn, in the eyes of most friends all that was missing were the leather elbow patches and perhaps, one day, a pipe to go with my beard.
Fortunately, Roald Dahl rode to the rescue. The surprise combination of Fantastic Mr Fox, stop-motion animation and kooky film-maker Wes Anderson seems to have catapulted corduroy into the fashion magazines. Ever since Anderson dressed Mr Fox up in a natty double-breasted cord number and gave him George Clooney's voice, the buzz is as audible as fingernails raked across the trouser leg...
[Up in the Air] Luggage Product Placement Win a Trip to Hollywood
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by New Kid
by Tanya Irwin, 50 minutes ago
Travelpro luggage manufacturer has inked a product-placement deal with Paramount Pictures.
The original inventor of "Rollaboard" luggage will be featured in the dramatic comedy "Up in the Air" starring George Clooney, scheduled for a December release.
To support the partnership, Travelpro has developed a marketing program launching Nov. 17 that includes print, online and in-store advertising and a consumer sweepstakes offering the chance to win a trip to Hollywood, along with Travelpro luggage. For its more than 2,500 retailer partners, Travelpro will sponsor a drawing offering two winners a trip to the official movie premiere.
Sophie Dahl tells Vincent Graff about midnight feasts at her grandfather's house, greedy ex-boyfriends and the grown-up pleasures of nursery food
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by New KidGuardian UK Thanks to Crumble WIA!
It had been two years since Sophie Dahl had, rather to her dismay, made a name for herself as the "large" model who was going to smash the fashion industry's obsession with skinniness. She'd quietly begun regular visits to the gym -
"I didn't really want anyone to know... it was all a bit surreptitious, as if I were having an affair" - when her mobile phone rang. It was her personal trainer calling to leave a message about her next session.
If Dahl was already uncomfortable with her secretive new regime, she felt even more vulnerable once her gym teacher had put down the phone - or thought he had. Unfortunately he hadn't hung up properly, and the voicemail was rather more revealing than he or Dahl would have hoped. The trainer turned to his companion and said: "So you know who that was, right? She says that one day she wants to have a body like Cindy Crawford. Have you seen her, poor cow? If we were ever to make a workout video it would be called Loud and Lumpy. Biggest arse I've ever seen. Big everywhere, actually."
[OMP!] Photo: Canalis and Piero
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by New KidClick to enlarge photo:
(supposedly new photos but I'm not feeling it)
[New York Film Commission Strikes Back] Film Permits no longer available for viewing
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by New KidNY Daily News
The guy with the flash thinks this policy's trash.
The public will no longer be allowed to leaf through the weekly stack of city film permits - a longtime treasure-trove for celebrity-hunting paparazzi - at the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.
Instead, starting Dec. 1, anyone who wants to see the permits, which detail when and where movies, TV shows and ads are being made, must request them in writing under the Freedom of Information Law.
[Fantastic Mr. Fox] 20 ANIMATED FEATURES LINE UP FOR 2009 OSCAR® RACE
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by New Kid[Press Release]
Beverly Hills, CA — Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®.
The 20 submitted features are:
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”
“Astro Boy”
“Battle for Terra”
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Disney's A Christmas Carol”
“The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”
“Mary and Max”
“The Missing Lynx”
“Monsters vs. Aliens”
“9”
“Planet 51”
“Ponyo”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure”
“A Town Called Panic”
“Up”
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” “The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Planet 51,” “The Princess and the Frog,” “The Secret of Kells” and “A Town Called Panic” have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and meet all of the category’s other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process.
Under the rules for this category, a maximum of 5 features can be nominated in a year in which the field of eligible entries numbers at least 16.
Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.
The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - Entertainment Weekly Review "A"
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by New KidEntertainment Weekly [this is the same guy who gave "Goats" "F" grading]
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Nov 11, 2009
Release Date: Nov 25, 2009; Rated: PG; Length: 88 Minutes; Genres: Animation, Kids & Family; With: George Clooney and Meryl Streep
OUTFOXED George Clooney is master of his domain in Fantastic Mr. Fox
Who'd have guessed it? Wes Anderson, creator of the rascally stop-motion fable Fantastic Mr. Fox, turns out to be born to make animated films. I say that with a bit of mischief, because I'm not a big fan of Anderson's work (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited). What I now understand, though, is that in essence, he's always been making cartoons; he just confused the issue by putting real live actors in them. Before, he twisted reality into a permanent ironic pose. Now, in the infectiously primitive talking-animal world of Fantastic Mr. Fox, he's become an ironic realist.
Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk. Yet Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney), Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), and their son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), inhabit a world that's disarmingly, well, lifelike.
There are jokes about flipped real estate (they move from a hole to a tree — i.e., an upscale condo), plus a very unchildlike soundtrack powered by the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones. As a hero, Mr. Fox has the arch self-possession to insist to his wife that he poaches poultry ''because I'm a wild animal.'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films. With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper.
To Wes Anderson: More, please! A
