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Anne Hathaway and James Franco have been announced as the hosts for the 2011 Academy Awards and both are highly tipped to be nominated for best actor and actress at the awards show.
Franco is expected to be nominated for best actor for his role in 127 Hours while Hathaway is expected to be nominated for her role in Love and Other Drugs, which you can see her naked in. A press release says…
“James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27,” said Cohen and Mischer. “We are completely thrilled that James and Anne will be joining forces with our brilliant creative team to do just that.”
The Oscars will take place on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Kind of a random selection but it makes sense, what do you think of this years hosts?
source: Franco, Hathaway to Host Oscar® Show [Oscars]
Travel Advice From Chris Rock – City Rag
Jessica Simpson Is Ready For Tomorrow – IDLYITW
Justin Bieber’s Anti-Bullying PSA – Daily Fill
Mark Ruffalo Makes Terror Watch List – Pop Eater
Bristol Palin Prayed Through DWTS – The Superficial
Eva Longoria Is Looking For A Skilled Tattoo Remover – ICYDK
‘Burlesque‘ Opens Today, Go See It – Popbytes
Chanelle Hayes Still Talking About Jack Tweed – Holy Moly
Christina Aguilera Is Pregnant? – Anything Hollywood
Miss December: Let’s Get Naked! – Betty Confidential
Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving Song – Celebrity Smack
Sea Lion Snoop Dogg – Wonderwall
Dennis Rodman Gets Special Attention – F-Listed
Rihanna Wants Children – Why Fame
Cookie Monster Auditions To Host ‘SNL’ – Tabloid Prodigy
OMG, He’s Naked: James Franco – OMG Blog
Food For Thought On Thanksgiving – Zelda Lily
Demi Moore’s $150,000 Skin Treatments – Hollywood Life
Operation Turkey Undercover – College Candy
Why Is Suri Cruise Wearing Shorts? – Holly Baby
Olivia Munn Photoshopped For Magazine Cover – Drunken Stepfather
Paris Hilton Countersues Over Hair Extensions – Allie Is Wired
GQ announced that Scarlett Johansson was their babe of the year for 2010, now they have released their top 4 men of the year and I’m quite surprised by their choices.
Jeff Bridges, 60. Icon of the Year. Won his first Oscar this year and went on to sit for the best photograph of his career.
Stephen Colbert, 46. Patriot of the Year. The still-hilarious Comedy Central host who led the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear along with Jon Stewart in October.
Drake, 24. Breakout of the Year. The Canadian rapper and former ‘Degrassi’ actor whose star blew up this year in a manner we can only describe as Bieberesque. Also, BFFs with Lil Wayne.
James Franco, 32. Leading Man of the Year. Despite a penchant for being weird, still does a mean James Dean impression and pulls off resoundingly terrific work on the silver screen.
I’m glad to see Drake on the list, he definitely had a great year. Who do you think deserves to be named on GQ’s men of the year?
source: Meet GQ’s Men of the Year: Colbert, Franco, Bridges and Drake [Popeater]
Death Becomes Them – City Rag
Katy Perry Is Delusional – IDLYITW
Emma Watson Has Protective College Friends – Pop Eater
Taylor Lautner Has A New Girlfriend? – Daily Fill
Lady Gaga’s Number One Fan Is A Ghost – Holy Moly
LeAnn Rimes Has No Regrets – Amy Grindhouse
Willow Smith’s First Live Performance – Tabloid Prodigy
Bret Michaels Sabotaged His Career – The Superficial
Where’s Taylor Swift? – ICYDK
Kathy Griffin Has A Little Crush – Wonderwall
Katie Price Is Still Alive Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather
Gwen Stefani Is Adopting? – Holly Baby
Kendall Jenner Is A Freak – Hollywood Life
Selena Gomez Speaks Out Against Bullying – Hollywire
Amy Sedaris’ Secret Ambition – OMG Blog
James Franco, It’s Time To Lose The ‘Stache – Popbytes
41 Shirtless Dudes For Matthew McConaughey – College Candy
Words Affect Culture & Ron Howard Doesn’t Get It – Zelda Lily
Emma Watson Has A New Mystery Man – Why Fame
Get Jessica Alba’s Body – Betty Confidential
Ashlee Simpson’s New Haircut – Celebrity Smack
Pink Wants You To Abuse Your Children – Celeb News Wire
Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Sara Souza – F-Listed
Mariah Carey’s Miracle Baby – Celebrity Baby Scoop
Jon Gosselin Humiliated At Taco Bell – Allie Is Wired
Who’s On The Fence? – City Rag
Christina Hendricks Must Read – IDLYITW
Kristen Stewart Can’t Wait To Start Filming – Daily Fill
Marissa Jaret Winokur Stinks – Hollybaby
Madonna Seen Kissing A New Man? – Holy Moly
Ryan Seacrest Tweets His Feet – Tabloid Prodigy
OMG, Winners: Drag Up James Franco – OMG Blog
Rosario Dawson Rocks Two Dresses In One Night – Hollywood Life
T.I. Disappointed With Prison Sentence – Wonderwall
Adam Lambert New Zealand Concert Photos – Celebrity Smack
Kanye West Penis Dropout – Celeb News Wire
Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Richelle C. - F-Listed
Whitney Port Has A Cameltoe – Drunken Stepfather
Yes Means You’re Idiots – College Candy
Cindy Crawford Does Bullett Magazine – Popbytes
Our 10 Favorite Harry Potter Moments – Betty Confidential
Paladino Property Housed Gay Clubs – Zelda Lily
Paris Hilton Has Quit Partying – Anything Hollywood
Another Duet For Rihanna & Eminem – Hollywire
Christina Aguilera Looks Like This Now – The Superficial
Miley Cyrus Confronts Paparazzi Again – Amy Grindhouse
Jessica Simpson Gushes About Her Dude – Why Fame
Lady Gaga Getting Chunky? – Allie Is Wired
The other day we posted a new photoshoot showing James Franco in drag for the new issue of Candy magazine whch was photographed by Terry Richardson. Well here is some more magazine covers which had a member of one sex dressed up as the opposite.
James Franco, Candy (Fall Winter 2010/2011). Photographer: Terry Richardson
Lady Gaga as Jo Calderone, Vogue Hommes Japan (September 2010) Photographer: Nick Knight
Neil Patrick Harris applies lipstick, New York (September, 2009)
Andre J. (with Carolyn Murphy), Vogue Paris (November, 2007)
Brooke Shields, The Advocate (April 25, 2000)
k.d. lang (with Cindy Crawford), Vanity Fair (August, 1993)
Boy George, Cosmopolitan UK (December, 1984)
Richard Nixon, Esquire (May, 1968)
Gary Cooper as The Texan by Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post (May 24, 1930)
Puck, 1895. Caption: “Goodness me, Kitty! Don’t stand there with your hands in your pocket that way – you don’t know how ungentlemanly that looks!”
source: 10 Gender-Bending Magazine Covers, 1895-Present [Flavor Wire]
James Franco is really pushing the limits of whatever it is he’s trying to prove. For the newest issue of “Candy” magazine, James appears in drag for a photo shoot done by famed celeb photographer Terry Richardson.
“Candy” magazine is the first magazine that is completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny. Men and women alike have the opportunity to showcase their body modifications, from having surgery to just wearing makeup.
Check out the rest of the photos from the photo shoot, below!
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What do you think of the shoot? Weird or racy? Did you think he was a real woman at first?
source: [terry's diary]
Worst Celebrity Tans – Daily Fill
Jennifer Lopez Gives Fierce Head – City Rag
Brad Womack Named The New ‘Bachelor’ – Pop Eater
Dania Ramirez Had A Pool Party – The Superficial
Lil’ Kim Opened A Hair Salon – Tabloid Prodigy
Mariah Carey Is Deceptive – IDLYITW
The ‘Amazing Race‘ Premiere – OMG Blog
Is Kate Moss Trying To Get Pregnant? – Holy Moly
Recovering Addicts Give Lindsay Lohan Advice – Hollywood Life
The Jonas Brothers Are Giving Back – Betty Confidential
Selita Ebanks Makes Macy’s Sexy – F-Listed
Run If Naomi Campbell Ever Gives You This Look – Popbytes
Bobby Brown & Wife In Miami – Celebrity Smack
Katherine Heigl Is Trying To Quit Smoking – ICYDK
It’s The First Movie With A Like Button – Hollywire
James Franco Lies About Falling Asleep In Class – Amy Grindhouse
Rihanna’s Stupid Clown Costume Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather
Lady Gaga’s Grandfather Has Passed Away – Why Fame
Jon Voight Defends Shiloh’s Tomboy Style – Anything Hollywood
Stephen Colbert Brings The Hilarity – Zelda Lily
Why Everyone Needs To Be Watching ‘Lone Star‘ – College Candy
Paris Hilton Settles That’s Hot Lawsuit – Allie Is Wired
Tina Fey’s Virgin Video – City Rag
Megan Fox Says More Dumb Crap – IDLYITW
Angelina Jolie Says Brad Is Her Only Friend – Pop Eater
Lisa Marie Presley Had A Good Night – Tabloid Prodigy
Katie Price Calls The Paparazzi “Scumbag Cowards” – Holy Moly
OMG, Shana Tova! – OMG Blog
Spencer Pratt Admits Infantile Behavior – The Superficial
Miranda Kerr In Bikini Pics – Drunken Stepfather
Will Miley Cyrus Trip Already? – Amy Grindhouse
Willow Smith’s First Promo Pic – ICYDK
Don Johnson Wins Relevancy Money – Why Fame
Tom Brady Car Accident Details – Hollywood Dame
Lindsay Lohan Wants A Baby?!?!?? – Hollywood Life
Justin Bieber Is Overworked, Overpaid – Betty Confidential
Rethink Cheerleader Stereotypes With ‘Hellcats‘ – College Candy
Let’s Talk About Sex: The Netherlands Approach – Zelda Lily
Wife Of Gospel Star Marvin Sapp Dies Of Cancer – Wonderwall
Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Leticia Castro – F-Listed
Floyd Mayweather Jr Might Be Arrested – Celebrity Smack
January Jones As Emma Frost – Celeb News Wire
James Franco Prefers Gay Roles – Anything Hollywood
Dina Lohan’s House Got Egged – Allie Is Wired
If you’ve ever shook hands with James Franco then I hope you washed your hand after it because in an interview with the Hollywood Reportera dmits that he likes to masturbate a lot – up to four or five times a day, every day.
In Danny Boyle’s new movie 127 Hours, James plays real-life mountaineer Aron Ralston who got stuck under a boulder for several days so he knocks one out before cutting off his own arm with a knife.
James says that Aron has never admitted to masturbating when it really happened because he is “kind of a gentleman” but James isn’t, he is more than willing to discuss masturbating. He says…
OK. You asked the question. [pause] I spend a fair amount of time alone, especially when I travel maybe to something like this or for work or whatever, but I’m in hotels a lot for a lot of my life. And I don’t mind it because I have a lot of stuff to do on my own. I have a lot of reading to do for school or whatever. [pause, laughs] You asked! So, when I’m alone, I do masturbate a lot. I don’t know why. It’s like you have those days where it’s just like, I have a ton of writing to do, or a ton of reading to do, and you’re just like, OK, I’m going to be on the couch all day or in bed all day just doing that… I tend to have a four- or five-time day. [breaks out laughing] So, I probably would have if I was stuck under a rock.
I suppose you can’t blame him, if I was stuck up in a hotel room all the time I would be having a little fun alone time. But how the hell does James Franco find the time to do it four or five times a day? I would get beyond bored.
source: Brief Q&A with ‘127 Hours’ star James Franco covers amputation, masturbation [Hollywood Reporter]
Coco Opens Up – City Rag
Drew Barrymore Is A Total Scrapper – Pop Eater
Lindsay Lohan Owes UCLA $130K – IDLYITW
Big Brother’s Lane Had A Dickus Slip – Tabloid Prodigy
Lady Gaga Poses As Her Alter Ego Jo Calderone – ICYDK
Olivia Wilde In A Bikini – The Superficial
Samantha Ronson Visits Lindsay Lohan – Celebrity Smack
John Travolta’s Amazing Hall Of Wigs – Celeb News Wire
Video Fix: 127 Hours With James Franco – Popbytes
Katy Perry Is Fond Of Suckers – Holy Moly
Cindy Crawford Is Smokin’ Hot At 44! – Betty Confidential
Jennifer Aniston Signs On For Naked Pothead Role – Anything Hollywood
SI Swimsuit Issue Coverage Sexist, Stupid, Seven Months Late – Zelda Lily
Decoding Heidi Montag – College Candy
OMG, He’s Packin’: Joe Jonas – OMG Blog
Karissa Shannon Is Getting Noticed Of The Day – Drunken Stepfather
See Tom Hardy’s Naked Photos! – Why Fame
Tiger Woods Was Late To Daughter’s Birthday Party – Hollywood Life
Sandra Bullock Agrees To TV Interview – Hollywire
Has Fantasia Barrino Gone Too Far? – Wonderwall
Jon Gosselin Is Writing A Parenting Book, Fat – Celebslam
Hayden Panettiere’s Oompa Loompa Party – Hollywood Dame
3D Movies Without The Ridiculous Glasses! – F-Listed
Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth Split Up – Allie Is Wired
These days most actors are only in the business to make a quick dollar and get famous, but there are some who actually still care and enjoy acting. Cinema Blend have come up with a list of 20 actors who do care and deserve your support.
Ricky Gervais
In 2004, The Office became the first British sitcom ever to win a Golden Globe for Best Comedy. They never filmed another episode. Three years later, despite reported requests to guest star from Madonna, Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell, Ricky Gervais decided not to film another season of Extras. Walking away from a starring role on a major sitcom just as it becomes most profitable is almost unheard of, doing the same thing twice is either a sign of lunacy, a testament to just how much he really cares or an almost superhuman belief in his own abilities as a comedian. Decades ago, people said the same thing about Bob Newhart, more recently, they’ve said it about Dave Chappelle. I haven’t the slightest idea what the truth is, but that’s pretty damn good company to be in. Ricky Gervais deserves your support because he left two brilliant, critically-adored television shows of his own creation to do a movie lampooning God. Then he followed it up with a sentimental dreamedy about growing up in England. It’s as if he’s deliberately killed all momentum he had, cocksure he could rebuild again at any time of his choosing. We’ve yet to see the best out of Ricky Gervais, and when it comes, Cinema Blend will be the first in line to say I told you so. We’ll probably end up sharing credit with Barry from EastEnders.
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen is a smolderer. He opens those intense, I-know-how-to-build-my-own-kitchen eyes, and he wins my girlfriend over every time. Obviously, I want to hate him because anyone that ruggedly handsome has to be despised on principal alone, but like Paul Newman and his absurdly delicious salad dressing, there comes a day when you just have to admit a dude’s alright. Viggo Mortensen could have gone the way of Eric Bana, it certainly would have been expected by this writer, but since The Lord Of The Rings climaxed, he’s done nothing but take intense borderline indies and one movie about horses. Turns out that’s excused because he’s reportedly just real into horses. I would write a movie about polish sausage if someone paid me, a man can’t change who he is. Viggo Mortensen is a character actor at heart, he’s a method, no-restraint genius who looks like a mechanic, crossed with zoo keeper, crossed with a brooding former model turned emotionally-tortured bad boy. I need to stop holding that against him. If not for my own credibility, so he won’t steal my girlfriend and kill me with his bare hands in my sleep on his way to winning at least three Oscars before he’s done.
Bill Murray
Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent. He has an answering machine. Leave him a message and if he likes your movie, he might call you back. Most likely he won’t. I suspect Bill Murray cares about life more than he cares about movies. He spends his days on drunken golf outings or eating lunch with Anthony Bourdain. When he chooses a movie it’s only because he thinks it’ll enrich his life to do it. Maybe it’ll enrich yours too. He’ll show up on set when he feels like it and when he arrives, he’ll be everything you could ever hope Bill Murray would be. He’ll hang out at crack jokes, he’ll entertain the crew between takes. When someone turns the camera on, he’ll give it his dead pan all, he’ll elevate every scene he’s in, he’ll make your movie better than it ever could have been if you’d cast anyone else. Then he’ll wander off back to his life, randomly tending bar in Austin and doing whatever it is that Bill Murray does with his endless weekends. He’d like to win an Oscar, he probably should have gotten one for Lost in Translation. But he doesn’t care about pleasing his fans, he won’t do anything just because you want him to. He’ll only do it if he wants to. Bill Murray mostly he cares about life and while you’re cashing paychecks for doing movies about giant robots, he’ll be out there living his.
Kate Winslet
I think Kate Winslet would be better off if she made more movies like The Holiday. That opinion, along with many others, is why I’m not necessarily a writer you should support. For all the laurels I’ve rested on, all the middle-of-the-road, audience-pleasing editorials I’ve delivered, I could never be Kate Winslet. Conventional wisdom dictates one should take roles which further her career, monetarily or critically, Kate Winslet has spent the last decade and a half taking movies like Little Children and The Reader which have merely reinforced her reputation as a woman more interested in achieving than pleasing. There’s nobility in that aim. Only the virtuous would sacrifice manufactured emotion for brutal honesty. That’s why I’m willing to sacrifice Michael Caine, who was originally going to be on this list. 20 actors is more search friendly than 21. Kate Winslet is better than that. That’s why she gets her own paragraph.
Crispin Glover
I’m pretty sure I get Crispin Glover about thirty percent of the time. That’s about twenty percent higher than most people and twenty percent less than Crispin Glover gets himself. Maybe. The how’s-and-why’s of the most honestly, happily eccentric man in show business are too confounding for a single paragraph. There was his Letterman appearance where he fired a roundhouse kick at Dave’s head, his republishing of a book about rats with CIA-style blackouts, his asking the director to remove all of his lines in Charlie’s Angels. The outlandish idiosyncrasies are enough to make OCD-patients look benign. He’s either accidentally stumbled upon that genius level of insane a few people have every generation or he’s carefully calculated an intentionally eerie public persona, the likes of which haven’t been topped since Nero. Lou Reed, on his most desperately anti-social day, skewers toward mass appeal projects twenty percent more than Crispin Glover. It’s like he carefully measures out just enough rope to almost hang himself and then climbs further up the tree. Peeping Toms, one-armed bellhops, Andy Warhol, these are the men Crispin Glover puts life into. He’s a personification of the mystery box, a creepy, off-putting Knave of Hearts lurking behind door number three. I can support that, at least thirty percent of the time.
Morgan Freeman
Wanna know what Morgan Freeman is up to right now? He’s narrating Through The Wormhole on the Discovery Channel. Let’s take a second to think about that. Morgan Freeman, a beloved actor with his handprints at the Chinese Theater, is doing the voice work for a little-seen basic cable documentary series. It’s certainly not because he can’t get work or because he’s somehow now incapable of acting, Morgan Freeman is still at the height of his cinematic power and influence, which is why he’s narrating one of the most fascinating programs on the origins of life I have ever seen. Maybe Through The Wormhole shows up without Freeman’s involvement, in fact, it likely does, but would Discovery be running highly-rated marathons of it? I seriously doubt it. Morgan Freeman invokes an aura of legitimacy. Even when he does absolute shit like Evan Almighty, it never really tarnishes his ability, probably because he never stoops or panders, grovels or lowers himself to embarrassment. All the greats, Joe Dimaggio, Ted Williams, they struck out too, but they did so with class, with a confident, I’ll-get-you-next-time grin. Don’t believe me? Then go ahead and stamp your forms, sonny. I doubt Morgan Freeman gives a shit.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams made a movie about walking around town looking for your dog, and it was one of the best movies of 2008. If there’s a great movie you’ve never heard of, odds are she’s in it. She could do blockbusters, where she’d invariably be cast as some superhero’s girlfriend. She’s pretty enough, she’s talented enough, and she’s well known enough. I’m sure Marvel wishes they could get her in The Avengers. They can’t. I doubt they’d even ask. Michelle Williams isn’t in it for the glory, or the money, or even accolades. She’d have to be in movies people are likely to see, to get any of those. I’m left to assume that she works because she genuinely likes acting, and chooses her roles accordingly. She’s quietly perfect in everything she does. When she’s in an ensemble you may not even notice her, because she’s so good she’s simply that character. She’s famous, but when you see her you’ll almost never think “hey that’s Michelle Williams”. Even though you’ll never notice, everything is better with her in it, and if it wasn’t already good she wouldn’t be in it anyway. Got a lost dog? A midget in need of a friend? A gay husband in need of a confidant? Got a quiet, incredibly smart movie which probably won’t sell tickets but really should be seen anyway? Give Michelle Williams a call.
Tom Hanks
More than anything else, this list is a celebration of risks. It’s an ode to the men and women who try new things, carve their own paths and make us alter the way we see movies; why is why, at first glance, Tom Hanks seems a bizarre fixture amongst the Viggos and Kate Winslet’s. There’s something intuitively safe about Tom Hanks. One big budget film a year in which he plays a loveable good guy tearing at the audience’s sympathies. But like a wise father who knows when its time for discipline and when it’s time for ice cream, Tom Hanks is only safe because he’s consistently proven for two decades that he knows what he’s doing. Ask people what their favorite Hanks movies are and not only will you get different answers, you’ll get different genres. Philadelphia is a legal drama about AIDS. Saving Private Ryan is a horrifying World War II picture. That Thing You Do, my personal favorite, is a disposable piece of early 60s nostalgia. Cast Away, The Green Mile, Catch Me If You Can, Bachelor Party, hell even You’ve Got Mail has its ardent supporters, me included. Tom Hanks may not stray us too far from our comfort zones, but right now, at this moment, he is the only actor in Hollywood who still carries a legitimate seal of quality. This paragraph was written in the USA and is Hanks-approved.
Edward Norton
I’ve never played Clue with Edward Norton, but I’m almost positive he takes notes on the questions other players ask, just like I’m positive he buries players for cutting across the middle, argues like a woman scorned and consistently orders the best thing on the menu. Edward Norton is the type of guy who despises second place performances and phoned in efforts with every ounce of his will power. One could argue he simply fights for the sake of fighting, obsesses for the sake of obsessing, his difficult-to-work-with reputation would probably speak to that, but I honestly believe he’s just life-or-death invested in everything he does. You can’t partially commit to paying a skinhead, nor can you obscure your own identity behind a mask for an entire movie because it somehow selfishly helps you. Edward Norton cares, probably too much. He’s the guy who corrects the teacher when he’s misinformed, even when he knows it’ll get him kicked out of class. What’s worse being a tedious failure or a disliked genius? I don’t know. Let me rewatch Primal Fear before I answer that.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Lewis spent eight months learning and training for his character in The Last Of The Mohicans. This is not unusual in itself—the training—even the guys in The A Team went to Army Boot camp. But the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis are different from that of Bradley Cooper not simply because of Day-Lewis’ clearly superior acting or his ability to mold dialogue (which are obviously not part of Bradley Coopers will-be-handsomer-than-thou schtick), but in the choosing of characters and the projects he picks. This becomes obvious with only one glance at Day-Lewis’ Filmography. While the man has been on the radar since the mid eighties and has been given leads since ’88, when he played in Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the last twenty years, he has acted in nine films. Nine, yes the same number, yes, there’s a joke in there somewhere, but we’re not finding it so let’s move on. Suffice to say, we should support Daniel Day-Lewis, because if we don’t, he might actually have to take his first role for a paycheck in decades. I hear Phil’s character needs a father in The Hangover 2.
Julianne Moore
Do you remember Julianne Moore in The Fugitive? I do, and I saw that movie once, probably five years ago, played on cable with commercials. And it’s not just her hair (that would clearly cause members of South Park to riot), it’s not her height, her lissom lack of curves, or even her charming smile. It’s not the role she plays in the film—she’s a doctor who helps Harrison Ford’s character in a modestly important part. There’s something more important than a striking appearance in Moore’s portrayal of Doctor Anne Eastman. She’s memorable, and whether her convincing acting was the entire culprit or whether her body language and facial features played a part is an entirely beside-the-point argument, because on the merit of this role in The Fugitive, Spielberg cast her as a lead in The Lost World without an audition. Then, P.T. Anderson had to actually court her repeatedly for his film Boogie Nights. I’d like to present a few more points of evidence. Ms. Moore has often and repeatedly taken roles that would offer her more interesting parts over more money, although she has had successful box office hits. Her recent foray The Kids Are All Right exemplifies this. She once said, “I don’t understand fame without content.” And if there is anything a movie watcher should support, it’s content over fluff. Julianne Moore has taken the acting world into two hands and triumphed. And maybe, just maybe, Julianne Moore could be the one ginger South Park residents could love.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 29 years old. In acting years, this is the equivalent to Julianne Moore appearing in the made for tv-movie Money, Power, Murder. It’s Pacino before The Godfather, Spacey before Glengarry Glen Ross… it’s Costner while his scenes were being deleted from the Big Chill. I know, I know, the opposite argument could be applied to this paragraph—that many actors begin youngish careers and are successful. What separates Joseph Gordon-Levitt from these other young career seekers is his choice of roles. He’s not picking roles blindly, he’s not an “if you find a fork in the road, take it” kind of guy, but he’s also not simply an obscure-indie-loving, “I took the road less traveled by,” kind of guy. By straddling two worlds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is able to have his cake and eat it too. Which means we get to see him play fresh characters across the board, from Brick to The Lookout, from (500) Days of Summer to Inception. Even when he chooses big budget films like G.I. Joe, he still feels Downey fresh. Pretty clean for a kid who began his career doing peanut butter commercials.
Jet Li
Jet Li is on this list because he isn’t Jackie Chan. Both once had an unmatched talent for brilliant action sequences. Earlier in his career and right up through the 90s, Jackie Chan made better movies than Jet Li. He just did. Jackie had better stunts, Jackie has a sense of humor. Jet Li simply has the ability to kick ass. But in the new millennium, as they both got older and the stunts got harder to do, Jackie Chan sold out. He stopped doing his own stunts and lied about it. He started doing horrible, Hollywood babysitting movies, just for the paycheck. And while early in his career Jet Li was never as good as Jackie Chan, later in their careers he’s the one who didn’t sell out. Instead of using his fame to get big paychecks doing terrible movies, Li used it to fund passion projects like Hero and the beautiful martial arts history movie Fearless. When he does do a big Hollywood movie, he tries to pick something interesting. His movies aren’t perfect and neither are his choices. But even though he’s older and the stunts that made him famous are getting harder to do, Jet Li hasn’t sold out. Jet Li will never be as fun to watch as Jackie Chan, he’d never be able to pull of a real acting role like Jackie’s in The Karate Kid. Jet Li’s idea of slumming it is doing a ridiculously fun movie like The Expendables or being the best thing about a bad Mummy movie. Jet Li will never be a babysitter and his work, while far from perfect, is almost always worth the price of admission.
James Franco
James Franco is not a good actor. But it’s not a lack of effort which makes him mediocre at best, merely a lack of talent. Franco compensates by making it a point to be interesting. He picks roles he has no business doing, seeks out projects that better actors might be afraid to touch, and damn his ability he’s doing them anyway. James Franco should probably try to get by solely on his James Dean good looks, he should probably go wherever that crooked smile takes him, but he’s not interested. Talented or not he’s out there doing the insane and the ridiculous. He shows up when you least expect him, playing the weirdos, the stoners, pulling off the crazed hillbilly cameo in a movie for an audience which will ultimately forget he was ever in it. James Franco does soap operas, just because it seems like fun. He finds his way into movies which, if his role were played by someone else, might have won them an Oscar. James Franco’s only real asset is that he’s pretty, but he refuses to use it. James Franco is not a good actor and many of the movies he’s been in might have been better if his role were given to someone else. But that’s not his fault, that’s not his problem. Some of those movies wouldn’t have been made at all without him. James Franco is not a good actor, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving it his all. He’s too small to play running back, too slow to hit a fast ball, too short to dunk on an NBA regulation hoop. Sure he could give it up, move to China, and have a successful career in men’s table tennis instead; but he’s out there, giving it everything he’s got anyway. James Franco should probably be Ashton Kutcher, but he’d rather be Dustin Hoffman. He’ll never get there, and I suspect he knows it, but you have to love the guy for trying.
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges didn’t really like making movies at first. He did it because everyone else in his family did it, and they sort of talked him into it. But Jeff wasn’t going to stick with it, unless he really fell in love. At some point, he did. These days Bridges doesn’t do it unless he loves it. Jeff is Hollywood legacy, he doesn’t have to make movies, he chooses to make them. When he chooses one, he chooses it only because it’s something he believes in, only because it’s something he thinks you’ll believe in. Sometimes he’s wrong (The Door in the Floor) but most of the time he’s right. Every time Jeff Bridges shows up on screen there’s always reason to think and hope that this could be the next Big Lebowski, the next Fisher King, the next Tucker, the next Starman. Jeff Bridges cares about what he’s doing. He cares about the characters he’s playing. He cares about his audience. Maybe he’ll make the occasional wrong move, every once in awhile he’ll do The Men Who Stare At Goats. It doesn’t matter, the movie may be bad, but odds are he’ll still be the best thing about it. He’ll probably even make it watchable. The day Jeff Bridges stops caring is the day he stops doing it and holes up somewhere to focus entirely on his photography. It doesn’t matter what Jeff Bridges is in, rest assured that he’s only doing it because he believes it’s worth your time.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep is so good that she’s become a cliché. She’s good in everything and everyone knows it. She’s a character actor, when you need someone to play a culinary Big Bird or the bitch from hell boss. She’s a leading lady, whenever you need someone to make out with Alec Baldwin. She has two Oscars, but she’d probably have more, except these days everyone just expects Oscar-worthy performances from her. Lately, she delivers at least one of those, almost every year. She’s done it by being good and making it a point to work with good people. These days she really doesn’t have to go through the effort. She’s Meryl Streep and if she’s attached to a project other good talent will surely follow. So she could phone it in, and let the Steve Martin carry the load. But she won’t. She’s the consummate professional. Meryl’s name on a movie poster is a symbol of quality, it means something, the way Ford used to back when Henry was still alive and the company gave a damn. The way Disney used to, before everyone found out Walt was probably a secret Nazi. The way GE used to be, back when they were all about making great toasters. Most of the names we’ve come to rely on have long since had their reputations tarnished. But not Meryl Streep. She’s still going strong.
Adrien Brody
After winning an Oscar for his work in The Pianist Adrien Brody had the hardware he needed to chart his own course. He could have carved out a career doing period dramas and kissing girls in corsets. That’s what respectable Oscar winners do. Or he could have thrown it all away for a series of big paychecks lending credibility to horrible films, let’s call that the Cuba Gooding Jr. method. Instead he decided to make movies about things he liked and Adrien Brody, it seems, loves smart quirky, genre movies. He likes brain-benders about science run-amok. He likes detective stories, and time travel and fantasies about strange other worlds. Maybe his choices haven’t always worked out, I don’t think anyone would argue in favor of The Jacket, but they’ve all come from the right place. Brody picks movies because he thinks they’re interesting, or because they’re about things he’s interested in. Whether or not that results in something good every time around, it always seems to result in something that tries. The thing is, Adrien Brody is out there trying. He’s not cashing paychecks or chasing more awards attention, he’s just doing movies he thinks he’d like to see on screen and in the process hopes that it’s something you’d like to see too. Everything Adrien Brody does at least attempts to be something bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s not the usual shlock. He could do Transformers 3, and maybe he’d make more money. He could do a Jane Austen movie, and he’d almost certainly get more respect from the cinematic snobs. But instead Adrien Brody does Splice and Adrien Brody does Predators, because Adrien Brody is doing what he loves.
Leonardo DiCaprio
As I write this, Leonardo DiCaprio has 22 film projects in development. He’s not starving for an audience; in fact, he may be one of four individuals whose films I will see regardless of whether I am interested in their content (the others being Day-Lewis, Spacey, and Cruise). I’m not choosing to write about him because I feel an urgent need for readers as individuals to support DiCaprio—he is such a prevalent icon at this point regardless of whether you liked his accent in Blood Diamond or the authenticity of his knife throwing skills in Gangs of New York. In the last decade, nearly every movie he’s made is watchable, in the sense it has some interesting shit going on, often because of DiCaprio himself (and most often because these films are good). Did you read the Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road is based on? It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, only it gets more aplomb in critical circles. The reason I bring up Revolutionary Road, is because the narrative closely follows my feelings on DiCaprio. The first thirty pages are classic, filled with new and interesting narrative styles and ideas, the ideas. If you reread again there is always something new, something you missed the first time that you wouldn’t have even known how to look for. After that, the book sort of takes on its own vibe, goes in directions that aren’t reassuring or familiar, and are sometimes even unlikeable. Yet for some reason, it is still compelling, and you find yourself sucked in to the very end. This is DiCaprio’s talent, to try new things, to sometimes steer off course, to go out to sea, but to know that when he’s going, to paraphrase Chris Rock, he’s going out fucking.
Ellen Page
Ellen Page has no business being on this list. She’s only 23. She hasn’t been around long enough to earn a place on it. We didn’t want to put her on it, but her work demands it. The thing is, Ellen Page may be only 23 but she’s already been in more good movies than more famous, more well-traveled, better respected Hollywood actors twice her age. That just can’t be an accident. Sure she had a role in the mostly terrible X-Men 3, but the brilliant part of that decision is that the entire movie was so shallow and empty odds are you’ve already forgotten it. But starting with Hard Candy in 2005 she’s made it a point to show up in some of the best and most interesting movies released every year and worked with some of the best writers and directors the movie industry has to offer. Maybe it’s her unconventional look or her even more unconventional style of acting that keeps them casting her, but a lot of it, you have to think, has been up to her. It’s not just that she keeps picking good movies, but she keeps picking different movies. Movies that no one else is doing. She’s been a molested child out for revenge, a pregnant hipster, a genius prodigy, a roller girl, and a dream designer. All of that in a space of less than five years. Ellen Page is too young to be on this list, too new to have a reliable track record. But here she is anyway.
Russell Crowe
It feels like Russell Crowe has made about thirty bad movies in a row. I looked it up. In actuality, he’s made nine movies in a row worse than A Beautiful Mind. That’s ten movies in a row worse than Proof Of Life, eleven movies in a row worse than Gladiator, and twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider. That’s not to say everything he’s done since The Insider has successively debilitated like the reflexes of Mohammed Ali after Joe Frazier beat the living hell out of him in Manilla, but it has been a slow, yet steady chug down from the untouchable good graces of the American public. Twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider, yet Russell Crowe is on this list largely at my behest. I can’t fully explain it away, or excuse his choices, but I can say I still believe in Russell Crowe. I believe in him because he narrates documentaries about Robin Hood on the History Channel, because he did a fucking Western. His recent choices may not have proven fruitful but it wasn’t because they were back-up plans. This is a man who truly cares about getting other men right, getting the nuances down, getting stories he believes in made. Cinderella Man is a good movie; so too are American Gangster and 3:10 To Yuma; they can’t all be better than The Insider. But if you keep watching long enough, another one of ‘em will be.
source: 20 Actors Who Deserve Your Support [Cinema Blend]
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