Emily Blunt on Why She Almost Quit Acting
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Celebrity Gossip,
Emily Blunt used to think acting was a ridiculous career choice.
The Young Victoria star recently revealed that she used to think about quitting acting to do something more substantive. “A movie can change your life. I used to be very British about it all, ‘This is a lot of silliness. I should be doing something worthwhile,’” Emily said.
However, the 26-year-old beauty’s opinion was altered dramatically when a distraught fan told her how much better she had felt in herself after watching her critically-acclaimed comedy film.
“Then this woman came up to me and said, ‘I have to tell you, I had the worst day. My husband divorced me, my kid got expelled from school. Then I watched The Devil Wears Prada and I laughed my a*s off!’ And I thought how marvelous it was that a simple comedy could have that effect on someone,” Blunt recalled.
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Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,
Since 1995, Vanity Fair has been churning out legendary covers tipping its hat to Hollywood. And year after year, photographer Annie Leibovitz has been counted on to produce those stunning and memorable images. Remember the one with Tom Ford and the two nude ladies (Scarlett Johannson and Keira Knightley)? How about the cover with Uma, Kate and Cate?
This season, the magazine will honor the ‘Fresh Faces of 2008’:
Those pictured include: Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), Amy Adams (Enchanted), Jessica Biel (The Illusionist), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada), Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Ellen Page (Juno), Zoë Saldana (Vantage Point), Elizabeth Banks (Fred Claus), Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty).
Make note of these ladies. Some of their careers will soar, while others will become faded segments of Vanity Fair’s history (e.g. Fairuza Balk, Jordana Brewster, Edward Furlong, Johnathon Schaech).
To see a slideshow of all fourteen Annie Leibovitz covers, click here.
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Bestselling Novels Moving to the Big Screen
Posted by Shannon Bennett Categories: Adaptation, Adventure, Period, Romance, Books,
We’ve come to accept the following as fact - if we enjoy a book, sooner or later, Hollywood will ruin it for us. Not even chick lit is safe anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I will be there on opening night for The Jane Austen Book Club, even though that inner librarian impulse is puckering her lips and telling me to reject adaptations outright always. And we’ll suck it up when we recommend the read to a friend and she says, “Oh, I saw that one! It was great.”
However, lately, we’ve been pleasantly surprised by adaptations like The Devil Wears Prada and the most recent Harry Potter film, which, rather than raping the material and leaving it for dead, actually did it justice, and were good films in the same go. So, maybe Hollywood is shaping up, maybe Jane Austen will smile down on Friday’s theatrical release instead of completing the roll into the next grave that started when Mansfield Park opened.
Regardless, if you want to picture your own characters before their faces become replaced by Evan Rachel Wood and Zac Effron, you’d better get on the following titles, because they’ve been optioned:
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