Review: It's Cooking Icon vs. Nobody Blogger in Half-Baked Julie & Julia!
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Review in a Hurry: Ever try baking or eating half a soufflé? Well, onetime genius Nora Ephron has treated us to half a foodie movie: two cups of fine, aged wine, courtesy of an amazing Meryl Streep, and two cups of air, supplied by Amy Adams. The ingredients fly and culinary disasters go down like flaming Bananas Foster. But does anyone care?
Tim Gunn: Bring Me Meryl and Angelina!
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Tim Gunn would like a word with Meryl Streep.
"I am her biggest fan and I can't get enough of her," the Project Runway mentoring guru tells me. "But wearing my fashion hat, I want to say to Meryl Streep, 'You need to accept responsibility for what you are wearing. I don't know that you do.' She is so smart, so stunning, and she has a great figure."
Gunn says he'd love to go shopping with Ms. Streep to help her—yup—make it work.
"Sometimes she gets it right, but more often she doesn't," Gunn says. "The message she's sending is, I'm too smart for this and it doesn't matter to me what I'm wearing. I want to say to her that it should matter to you."
Gunn may finally get that chance to chat with Streep on Sunday, when he cohosts ABC’s live pre-Oscar special with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts and Jess Cagle (Entertainment Weekly's managing editor).
Gunn is also hoping to meet Angelina Jolie on the big day. No, he doesn't think she needs any help in the fashion department.
SAG Repicks Slumdog Millionaire, Mad Men, Heath, Tina & Alec
Actors typically don't want to be typecast. But apparently they don't mind a little repetition.
At points it seemed as if the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards was following the same script as a certain spherically themed film- and television-honoring awards show that took place two weeks ago, but tonight's ceremony did feature a few variations—despite the fact that Slumdog Millionaire, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Mad Men and 30 Rock still won a whole new slew of shiny trophies.
As Slumdog Millionaire continued to bust out of its little-film-that-could shell by winning the evening's final award, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Ledger and Winslet racked up more supporting-actor ammo heading into next month's Academy Awards.
Winslet was honored again for her role as a former concentration camp guard who has a lusty affair with a teenager in The Reader (a role for which she's competing in the Best Actress Oscar race), while Ledger seemingly cemented his Oscar-frontrunner status for his still-resonating performance in The Dark Knight.
Slumdog's Freida Pinto to Clint: Make My Workday
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Slumdog Millionaire beauty Freida Pinto may be the new It girl in Hollywood these days, but she's not looking to relocate from her native India for the sunny glitz of Tinseltown anytime soon.
"I'm going to back to Bombay. I have a wonderful agent there," Pinto told me at yesterday's In Style and Diamond Information Center lunch in Beverly Hills. "But I'll probably be going back and forth."
Slumdog is Pinto's very first movie. And things are moving fast.
Critics Vote Milk, Slumdog, Heath, Anne and Meryl
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The prime-time portion of the posthumous honoring of Heath Ledger has begun.
The late thesp was named Best Supporting Actor at the 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Thursday—not the first award bestowed upon Ledger for his extraordinarily nuanced performance in The Dark Knight, but his most public win to date and his peers' first chance to give him an evening-gown-and-tux-clad standing ovation.
"Anyone who's seen any of the extraordinary work that Heath did knows that I can't presume to speak for him in any way, because his voice was as unique as it was original. But...I know that I speak for all of us when I say that working with him was one of the greatest experiences any of us ever had or probably ever will have," said director Christopher Nolan, whose film also notched a win for Best Action Movie, in accepting the trophy on Ledger's behalf.
The superhero blockbuster lost out on the top prize, however, to critical darling Slumdog Millionaire, which rose above all comers with a leading five wins, including Best Picture and Best Director for Danny Boyle.
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