We’ve got some of the best celebrity quotes from this past week, including Madonna wanting to get run over by a train, Hugh Jackman getting interrupted, and Jessica Simpson’s fear of something.
“I’d rather get run over by a train.”
– Madonna, expressing her opposition to getting married again, on “Late Show with David Letterman”
“You want to get that?”
– Hugh Jackman, addressing an audience member after a ringing cell phone interrupted his Broadway show, “A Steady Rain”
“I don’t call them birthdays. I refuse birthdays.”
– Mariah Carey, explaining why she calls the day she was born an “anniversary,” to “USA Today”
“Oprah, I’ve never done that to a black woman before.”
– Chris Rock, weave-checking the talk show host, on air
“Is this a set up?”
– Lisa Kudrow, after she was pressured into singing the “Friends” classic, “Smelly Cat,” at the Rock a Little, Feed a Lot benefit concert to benefit Feed America
“I’m old, so I need to work fast.”
– Desperate Housewives’ newest resident, Drea de Matteo, 37, on planning to have her second child sooner rather than later, to “USA Today”
“Gloves are off.”
– Michelle Obama, on lobbying for her hometown of Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, to “People”
“I don’t like to look at Penélope directly. It is too overwhelming.”
– Woody Allen, on his former leading lady’s stunning beauty, to “Vanity Fair”
“I haven’t been to Pinkberry since last July, so it’s been a year and a half I’ve been sober!”
– Sherri Shepherd, experiencing her own version of sobriety, to People
“WTF?!? Do I really have to sleep like this?”
– Jessica Simpson, roughing it in a mosquito-netted bed during her trip to Uganda for her upcoming docu-series, “The Price of Beauty”, on Twitter
Freida Pinto has been tipped to be the next Bond girl in the up coming James Bond movie.
Apparently she first got Bond executives while they were casting for the latest movie, Quantum of Solace, but according to a source she was “too young at the time to have a part as a love interest for a secret agent. ”
The source added “but she has blossomed into an incredibly stunning young woman and would look perfect on Daniel Craig’s arm”
Of course what that last statement means is that since Slumdog Millionaire became a huge success and cleaned up at all the awards shows, Freida’s hollywood star has also risen and Bond execs know it is in their best interest to get her.
On top of that , Slumdog director Danny Boyle is expected to direct the next Bond movie, her chances are a lot higher to grab the role.
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Isn’t it funny how Hollywood works? They won’t look at you twice while you are trying to make it but then once you have one successful hit, your career shoots up and everyone wants a piece of you. This is whats happening to Freida Pinto, she is also expected to be in the new Woody Allen movie.
Some actors specialize in romantic leads. Others make careers as evil geniuses or nurturing moms. Today, let’s give nerds a place in the sun. They trip, they choke, they make us roll our eyes and shake our heads. Sometimes, they even get the girl (or guy). They are the kids you made fun of in high school — or they’re you in high school. No need to say which.
Woody Allen
Although he played the romantic lead in many of his own movies (especially the early ones), Woody Allen is a nerd extraordinaire. In Play It Again, Sam, he makes a killer first impression on his date by dropping her coat on the floor and then swinging it into some breakables. The agonizing discomfort he goes through in Bananas while trying to buy a nude magazine might literally make you itch. With his thick glasses, unkempt hair, and nervous stammer, Allen remains the gold standard of nerds.
Anthony Michael Hall
Sometimes a director finds a go-to nerd and sticks with him, which is what happened when John Hughes found Anthony Michael Hall. Hall managed a triple dose of teenage awkwardness in Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. Whether dancing in a “very hot” manner for Molly Ringwald or recounting his tragic inability to make a lamp that works, Hall is, by turns, cringe-worthy and sympathetic. Getting his pants pulled down by Robert Downey Jr. elevates him to classic status.
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller perfectly illustrates the nerd necessities. First, an obliviousness to looking and acting stupid. See: Zoolander (pursed lips, odd strut, interchangeable “looks”). Second, incurable klutziness: in There’s Something About Mary, he suffers the ultimate self-inflicted groin injury. Third, a genuine desire to fit in: witness Stiller’s sad attempts to impress — or at least survive — his alarming potential father-in-law in Meet the Parents.
Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack’s character in Sixteen Candles was officially called Geek Girl #1, and her big scene involved banging her headgear against a water fountain as she tried to get a drink. She went on to play a boatload of wacky sidekicks, from the inappropriately loud and brassy (Working Girl) to the frazzled and clumsy (Broadcast News) to the cross-eyed and rather dim (Married to the Mob).
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis elevated nerdiness to an art form, incorporating slapstick, weird costuming, and even weirder voices as he played put-upon working-class heroes in The Disorderly Orderly, The Errand Boy, and The Big Mouth. He could wring laughs and squirms out of a confrontation with a salty bowl of soup (Cinderfella) or an invisible typewriter (Who’s Minding the Store?). Even his smoothies, like Buddy Love, in The Nutty Professor, were dweeby.
Clint Howard
For stellar under-the-radar nerd performances, look no further than the career of Clint Howard, brother of director Ron Howard. He played small but memorable roles in a slew of comedies like the Austin Powers series and Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. He also appeared in B-horror flicks like Carnosaur and The Wraith and some high-profiles (Apollo 13, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon).
Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis rose to prominence on Second City Television, then went on to reprise one of his most notable characters — co-host of The Great White North — in The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew. His nebbish visage graced Club Paradise and Brewster’s Millions, but he really hit his stride with roles in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Little Shop of Horrors. Moranis impresses most when contrasted with a more confident screen mate, as when he played opposite Bill Murray, in Ghostbusters.
Curtis Armstrong
Curtis Armstrong is uncool yet defiant as the repulsive Dudley “Booger” Dawson in the Revenge of the Nerds series. In the first film, he won an arm-wrestling match by picking his nose and grossing out his opponent. He followed up by snorting snow, in Better Off Dead, and displaying his extreme delicacy, in One Crazy Summer. Armstrong went on to roles in other loser-friendly movies like Bad Medicine, Van Wilder, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
Amy Sedaris
Her résumé is heavy with television roles, but Amy Sedaris’s cinematic turns as a nerd girl are strong enough to warrant inclusion here. As Jerri Blank, in Strangers With Candy (which she co-wrote), she’s painful to watch: seeing a grown woman struggle to fit in with snobby high-school students is almost as excruciating as watching a teen do it. In Bewitched, she played nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz, a role originated by Alice Pearce.
Michael Cera
If anyone can make it desirable to be (or date) a nerd, it’s Michael Cera as Paulie Bleeker, the chronically uncomfortable baby daddy of the title character in Juno. In Superbad, McLovin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) may have out-geeked him point for point, but Cera’s Evan was still the nerd linchpin. He’s showing signs of inching toward romantic hero (Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist).
