Skateboarder Griffin Collins talks with ESPN about working with Heath Ledger on Lords of Dogtown and how he has contributed photos of Heath to the latest issue of Skatebook - a coffee table book about skateboarding.
There's also a surprise Natalie mention.
A lot of the photos are from the set but we'd party at his house so I have a bunch of those. I have a Polaroid in the book of a bunch of people in a hammock and there is a girl spreading her legs. The guy next to her fell off the balcony right before this. I thought he was dead but he got right up. I shot it at Heath's house. And Natalie Portman might have been in that hammock too. It was always interesting hanging out with Heath off set. He was beyond humble with what he had. I got some good photos out of those parties.
Does that mean Natalie is in the photo that's in the book? If you're into skating you can order the book here...and then let me know :-)
I've posted stranger things. Not many though. Here we have a photoshop transformation from Natalie into Asari from the fantastic series of games - Mass Effect.
Right then, its time to start thinking about the next pic battle. We've done magazine battles and public appearances and now, for the first time, we're going to tackle promo photos from films.
The poll today is to determine what you guys would prefer. Should Rachel and I choose the images that will partake in the battle ourselves? Or do you guys want to have a say?
The former means we can probably kick things off as early as next week. The latter means it will probably be a more protracted selection period.
I've just updated the My Blueberry Nights film page with the average rating from all your votes. As with the IMDB rating, it would seem viewers enjoy it quite a bit more than the critics did. The gulf is huge.
A quarter of those who voted haven't seen the film, which is a shame because Natalie's section of the film is definitely worthwhile for fans to check out.
A bit late considering when the film was released but perhaps timely due to the currently running poll for My Blueberry Nights.
It's a report from the location scout of the film and while nothing mind blowing, there is a Natalie mention and some insight into director Wong Kar Wai.
One wonders how much the language barrier was a problem in other aspects of the production.
MSN have put together a Most Desirable Women of 2010 list. It's ridiculously light on content and annoyingly wants you to inflate their numbers by clicking to see each next entry. Here's the hard work that went into Natalie's entry.
With a knockout combination of beauty and intelligence, the actress charges into the 17th spot.
A few new pics emerged from the set of Black Swan today. Natalie looks super psyched about heading in to work and being photographed while doing so. Thanks to Celeb-Gossip.
I finally caught up with the anthology film, "New York, I Love You". After it was finished I considered writing that fact on my hand because I already felt the few stand out moments fading away in the rear view mirror.
To be fair, for a moment, I probably disliked as many NYILY shorts as I did with Paris Je T'aime. What was missing was at least a handful of really great shorts, but with NYILY I felt most of them fell into a very safe an uninspiring "well that was...OK" camp.
I may be wrong but I get the impression that the producers really tried to reign in the filmmakers, to make the stories much more uniform in the hope that it plays more like a normal feature film. To "help" this they use little epilogue moments from previous shorts as a segue between two other shorts.
To brighten up our friday here in Stockholm we have the free newspaper "Metro" that today has a "how to achieve the Natalie Portman-look" tutorial, along with some products and pictures of her at different red-carpet events dating back 10 years.
PDF can be found here and you need to head to page 20. And understand swedish. And it helps if you don't have a penis I guess.
It's been awhile since Natalie was in any kind of play, having done The Seagull in 2001 and Anne Frank while still in High School, but by the sound of this NY Post article, she would very much like to return at some point.
NATALIE PORTMAN is desperate for another turn on Broadway - but fears inflated ticket prices have stifled creativity in theatres.
But Portman fears she may not get another chance to tackle a gritty role in a play - because high prices mean many theatre-goers are unwilling to buy seats for less well-known productions.
She tells the New York Post, "It's gotten so expensive that the audiences you get aren't up for something experimental."
The very first Hesher reviews out of Sundance were quite mixed and then we went on a run of very positive reactions. Well, to underline the fact that this movie is going to split opinions, here's a new review that expected greatness but got...meh.
Hesher is rude, crude, oddly funny and at times, mindless. The balance of sentiment and brutish behavior is done well until the last act where it all falls apart. To me, the film doesn’t know what it wants to be and in the end it turns into a typical quirky indie film, complete with slow motion to increase the sentiment of its pursuit. Hesher falls short of something special.
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[Natalie] is completely wasted in this movie, both in performance and charcter. When will people learn, throwing glasses on a person does not make them unattractive and awkward.
