for nat's sake!

i havent updated this site in about 8 billion years but ive sort of resurrected it briefly because i keep getting quoted on www.natalieportman.com (see the 'good goya review' entry and the 'friday, july 20th' entry) and it makes me feel like i should, i dunno, defend myself or something.

omg, there are naked old people on tv and they were about to have sex and then the old woman farted. it smelled. i bet.

anyway, so, about my obsession with natalie portman. its not really an obsession and i know for a fact cause i actually asked a psychiatrist (well, it was my mom, but she is a psychiatrist so she would know) about it. seriously! i was actually worried about it even tho ive never done anything weird, i just had this compulsion to find all this information about natalie p (and prior to that peter sarsgaard, of all people) and then, basically, just sit on it. he said it was nothing unusual and likened it to having a crush on some guy and wanting to know everything about him. harmless. ugh, whatever.

i think this entry might be solidifying the theory that im obsessed with np rather than dissolving it. erm, oops.

paris served a disservice -- seriously

k, seriously, i am the LAST person to defend paris hilton because i pretty much hate everything she stands for -- shes like those girls i went to high school with who locked themselves in the bathroom while they smoked and giggled about my inability to get past the threshold. and shes 26! she acts like the popular clique head at 26? its ridiculous and makes her a pretty worthless person in the grand scheme of things. HOWEVER, i do think it is not just to have given her the sentence that the judge did initially (throwing her back into prison was probably a good idea, tho, after that idiot released her on the grounds of her 'health' -- who ever heard of such inconsistency in incarceration?). over 40 days? considering the number of celebrities (and regular joes) who have gotten off with slaps on the wrist for much bigger crimes, this is obviously a bit anomalous. i mean, yes, paris is a hideous person and she is famous for being rich and what could be more despicabel than that? but, seriously, the world is full of people way worse than her. im a little scared of living in a world where putin roams the kremlin as a free man while some pointless socialite cries for her mommy while in some california cell.

hidden palms, aka why i stopped hoping and learned to hate the cw

so, while those among us who are smart enough to be are mourning the demise of veronica mars, kevin williamson (the man behind dawson's creek), has, unfortunately, been hard at work producing a new show called hidden palms. the cw looks like they are majorly banking on it but to me it looks like the o.c. with brain damage. the plot? "a rebellious teenager movies with his family to palm springs." they'll probably milk about five seasons out of that pithy premise. why cant there be a show about an unattractive (although, to be fair, taylor handley, the main kid in hidden palms, is erring on the uggo side) geeky teen moving to, like, minnesota or somewhere UNsunny. heh, i just noticed one of the key words for the show is "interracial relationship" - i bet theres, like, one minority in it. anyway, without further ado, here's the trailer. see it and weep for the future of teen soaps:

and the palme d'or goes to...

Romanian Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

best european film, cannes

control, anton corbijn

michel gondry meets natalie p

man, wes anderson, wong kar-wai and now michel gondry? natalie portman is one lucky girl to get all this majorly talented love when she is not majorly talented herself (what :/ its true). i never thot id say this but i really quite like this song of paul mccartney's, its very plinky plonky and folksy and not totally adult contemporary like his other stuff. it fits perfectly with the ghost-y video that michel gondry directed (apparently paul mccartney just liked his movies, then he called natalie p to ask her to be in the video and introduced himself by saying "hi, i'm stella's dad" - np. wears vegan shoes that stella mccartney designs). anyway, here's the video, it premiered on youtube for some reason (mackenzie crook - gareth keenan from the office - is also in it and gondry used a victorian method to create the ghosts - window reflections):

sonorous sweeney todd

k, im super excited cause i just read an interview with johnny depp at the telegraph and i TOTALLY didnt realise that he SINGS in sweeney todd! its the greatest thing EVAH! i LOVE it when actors sing in movies. i even sat thru that sheit film duets just so i could hear gwyneth paltrow's milquetoast-y vocals! and when sarah polley sang all those tragically hip songs on the sweet hereafter it was like i was in heaven! anyway, heres the jd quote that made me giddy:

"Tim took a risk when he asked me to play Sweeney Todd because neither he nor I knew if I could sing when I accepted it," says Depp. "I went into the recording studio with a friend of mine to see if I could do it. My singing's not unlike the mating call of a rutting stag. It's a strange sound, but I haven't been fired yet."

rutting stag my ass! i bet he sounds as good as jeff buckley! u cant look that good and not have every inch of u - including yer singing voice - bathed in beauty.

PS im even MORE giddy because sweeney todd was actually a real killer! hurrah for thrillers!

sarah cannes, or tries

i do love sarah polley. i love her despite her rampant political affiliations and the fact that she takes herself too seriously. i feel like shes probably a lot of fun if yer watching some lame movie together, even tho she would probably never be in that situation. but, for godssake, if shes gonna do the dressing up thing, she should know from past experience (she herself has admitted that she doesnt know how to dress herself) that she needs MAJOR reinforcements. i dont think she has ever even ACCIDENTALLY fallen into a nice outfit - shes the anti-style queen.

anyway, knowing she was on her way to cannes as a jury member, she was fully aware of the red carpet entree etc. and it looks like she did try this time around but, like i said, u need j-lo's stylist at times like this when yer sarah polley. but, from the looks of it, she could only get rachel zoe at the last minute. i dont know who the hell designed it but that black taffeta mess looks like something you find in the prom section of the bay :/ and the shoes are equally bad. and the dress is so busy i have no idea why she went and paired it with dangly pink cake-decorations for earrings. AND EVERYONE KNOWS IF YER WWEARING AN OFF-THE-SHOULDER DRESS YOU WEAR YER HAIR DOWN!

i feel stupid even mentioning this, let alone devoting a whole blog entry to it, considering polley has just managed to impress the pants off the film community with her first director's effort, but it just drives me nuts that such a cute canadian always looks so dowdy. i cant shake the feeling that people probably think we dont have proper stores here or something. they forget that beauties like elisha cuthbert are actually from here as well :/

i love u sarah, let me dress you too...