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| | Kate Hudson releases her first single, 'Talk About Love?: good or boring' | | Added 114 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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If you told me Kate Hudson did an album ten years ago and it faded into obscurity I would believe you. Shes just someone who has her finger in a lot of pies, like Fabletics, a vodka brand and a supplement line. Shes said Im an Aries. I get bored. I gotta keep moving, which might explain her latest foray into music. Kate has released a single co-written with venerable multi-Oscar nominated Linda Perry and Kates fiance, musician Danny Fujikawa. Its called Talk about Love and its very mid, for lack of a better word. First heres People Magazines writeup about it. In her press release for the song, Kate said I wanted it to be something delicious and sexy and all the things that I believe in.
Kate Hudson?s debut single has landed!
The actress-turned-singer?s first song ?Talk About Love? has finally dropped after weeks of anticipation from fans, providing a burst of blended rock/pop sounds for listeners to enjoy.
In the song ? co-written with Linda Perry and Hudsons fianc Danny Fujikawa ? the actress, 44, celebrates having a love connection at the deepest level possible while belting out vocals over columns of synth, guitars and a jumping rhythm track guaranteed to raise the mood.
?You only have one first single,? Hudson said of her musical debut in a press release. ?And I wanted it to be something delicious and sexy and all the things that I believe in.?
?I wanted it to be open and seeking, searching to find something powerful. But I also wanted the music to be the rock, the pop, the dance music and even a bit of the alternative records I love,? she continued. ?It was a lot to put into one song, but thankfully, I had some wonderful people working with me. And so, here we are!?
Hudson worked independently with producer Johan Carlsson and Fujikawa to form a fresh sound for the song that also felt natural to her. The collaboration developed into the makings of an album which the actress has teased will be released later this year.
[From People]
This single, which is below, isnt bad. I like the retro vibe, but its like a theme song on a CW show. Its budget Lady Gaga without the soul or variety. The refrain is OK and it grew on me I just dont find it memorable or catchy. Good for Kate for doing music if she wants though. There are so many other musicians who are doing complex, nuanced and haunting music who dont get much attention at all. Im thinking specifically of Chadwick Bosemans widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, who sings as sahn. Her music is phenomenal and some of her videos on YouTube have less than 2,000 views. Shes in a different genre and she does slower jams but they just have so much heart. Id love it if she got wider recognition. As for Kate, sometimes celebrities dabble in things they want to do rather than things theyre passionate about and it shows.
Heres that single from Kate.
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| | Margot Robbie on her Oscar snub: the biggest award is that 'Barbie' shifted the culture | | Added 114 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s been more than a week since the Oscar nominations were announced and we learned that Oscar voters didn?t think Greta Gerwig deserved an Oscar nomination for directing Barbie, nor did the voters think Margot Robbie?s performance as Barbie was worthy of a Best Actress nom. Those same voters absolutely thought America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling were worthy of Oscar noms though, and Barbie is nominated for Best Picture, which means Margot is nominated as a producer. Greta is nominated in adapted screenplay because her original screenplay was ?adapted? from? dolls. Again, the whole thing is still shocking, ridiculous, sexist and asinine. AMPAS continues to look so foolish. Margot didn?t issue any statements about the snubs last week, but she took part in a SAG-AFTRA screening on Tuesday, and she ended up addressing the situation:
?There?s no way to feel sad when you know you?re this blessed,? Margot Robbie said during a panel at a special SAG screening on Tuesday night.
?Obviously I think Greta should be nominated as a director, because what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing, what she pulled off, it really is,? Robbie said. ?But it?s been an incredible year for all the films.?
Barbie is the only billion-dollar film solely directed by a woman, and it outstripped all other films at the box office last year, bringing home $1.4 billion worldwide. As Robbie said, the reaction to the film has become a kind of cultural phenomenon: ?I just suspect it?s bigger than us. It?s bigger than this movie, it?s bigger than our industry.?
Robbie also clearly pointed out that she is ?beyond ecstatic that we?ve got eight Academy Award nominations, it?s so wild.? Those nominations include Best Picture, Supporting Actress for America Ferrera; Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, Costume Design, Production Design and Best Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. ?Everyone getting the nods that they?ve had is just incredible, and the Best Picture nod,? Robbie said.
?We set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact. And it?s already done that, and some, way more than we ever dreamed it would. And that is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this.?
Robbie had the SAG screening audience laughing as she described listening in movie theater bathrooms for audience reactions and then being in a pub in Scotland overhearing a group of men on a bachelor party trip discussing the film. ?It was just truly fascinating,? she said. ?There were people at the table who refused to see the Barbie movie. One guy was like, ?Dude, it is a cultural moment, don?t you want to be a part of culture?? And the other guy was like, ?I?ll never see it,? and by the end he did want to see it. It was a whole thing.? Robbie recalled she couldn?t resist approaching the group to say hello. ?It took a full minute for them to realize, and I was practically out the door. And then they were like, ?Ohhhh!? It was very funny.?
?People?s reactions to the movie have been the biggest reward of this entire experience, whether it?s having a moment like that, or whether it?s listening in the bathrooms, or whether it?s seeing what people are writing online, or even just seeing how much Pink I can see in this room right now. I?ve never been a part of something like this. Not like this. I?ve done comic book stuff and that gets a big reaction, but this felt very different. It still feels very different. And I can?t think of a time when a movie?s had this effect on culture. And it?s amazing to be in the eye of the storm.?
[From Deadline]
A completely mature and measured response from a woman who executive produced and starred in a film about how women are diminished, marginalized and dismissed. What else can she say, really? ?Those fking misogynistic douchebags!? Of course not. She?s still got to play the game to some degree. I hate that she has to eat those snubs and she?s still expected to show up with a smile on her face, to be grateful for those eight nominations. If only there was a well-written speech about just that in Barbie!! But I also agree with her that Barbie?s cultural impact is huge, and the film?s impact on the industry is huge. Which makes it all the more egregious that she and Greta were snubbed.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Kim Kardashian is executive producing a BBC docuseries on Elizabeth Taylor | | Added 114 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I totally forgot that Kim Kardashian used to be and still is obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor. I mean, same Elizabeth Taylor was an amazing woman who lived a huge life full of drama, marriages, affairs, Oscars, diamonds, perfume, activism and more. Kim wishes! Kim actually got to meet Elizabeth Taylor in 2011 when she was sent to Taylor?s home to interview her. That was actually Elizabeth Taylor?s final interview. In any case, Kim is now executive producing a BBC docuseries on the life and times of Liz Taylor. Kim will appear in it too.
BBC Arts has commissioned Academy Award-winning production firm Passion Pictures (Searching for Sugar Man, Wham!) to make a three-part documentary series on Elizabeth Taylor, executive produced by and featuring Kim Kardashian. The BBC unveiled the project with the working title Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar on Monday, noting that Taylor is ?one of Hollywood?s most famous names.?
Executive produced by Kari Lia, Hamish Fergusson and Kardashian, the series promises to feature ?privileged access to those who knew her best, including members of Elizabeth Taylor?s family, friends, and colleagues from throughout her stellar career.? And it vows to shine the spotlight on ?a superstar who transformed not just Hollywood but fame itself, as she went from child star to highest-paid actress in the world.?
A show description also highlights: ?For too long the story of Elizabeth Taylor has been told as a soap opera. The eight marriages, the diamonds, the addictions. This series gives Elizabeth Taylor the significance she richly deserves, in all her incarnations: as an actor, rebel, business mogul, and activist ? to reveal how Taylor created the blueprint for modern celebrity.?
The series will take a deep dive into the legendary star?s craft and technique as an actor and ?how she reinvented the nature of fame, even as she smashed the glass ceiling in Hollywood, before going on to become a billion-dollar businesswoman, activist and advocate.?
The series promises to ?draw on never-before-heard audio tapes, interviews, and unseen TV footage, alongside rich archive of her movies.? It will also feature interviews with a range of stars who knew Taylor personally, including Kardashian, ?who conducted the last interview with her before she died, Dame Joan Collins, a friend and Hollywood contemporary who competed with Elizabeth for the role of Cleopatra, Margaret O?Brien, who went to school with her on the MGM backlot, close friend Carole Bayer Sager, leading scientist Dr. Anthony Fauci who worked alongside Elizabeth in the fight against AIDS, and others.?
Said Kardashian: ?Elizabeth Taylor was unapologetically herself, a fighter. She is proof that you can keep evolving and changing and have different chapters in your life ? and she paved the way for all of us who came after her with that blueprint.?
[From THR]
I wonder if they?ll interview Colin Farrell, who was a dear friend to Elizabeth in her final years she absolutely adored him and said that she saw a lot of Richard Burton in him. As for the docuseries? I know I should yell about this and I guess we should be disgusted at Kim or something? but I don?t hate it? The summary is correct Elizabeth Taylor did it first, she broke through so many glass ceilings, she was a huge AIDS activist, she used her fame to create wildly popular side-gigs like her perfume lines, and she did love to get married. I actually hope Kim helps introduce Generation TikTok to Elizabeth Taylor because they will be gagged.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, STARSTOCK/Photoshot / Avalon, Photoshot/Avalon, WENN/Avalon, Band Photo / uppa.co.uk / Avalon.
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| | Emma Stone's NYC promotional street style: very cute or kind of blah' | | Added 115 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Emma Stone lives in New York, but she was seemingly in town this week just for a quick promotional blitz, and then she jetted off? somewhere? Maybe to London, because the Cruella sequel is in pre-production. (Incidentally, I loved the first Cruella film and I?m so glad a sequel is coming.) Emma appeared on Good Morning America, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and probably several other shows. I?ve never been crazy about Emma?s style, but I really love her sad-beige outfit in these photos. It?s very ?70s, very Ralph Lauren. The tuxedo dress is meh, and her airport outfit looks like my winter uniform, minus the red loafers.
Emma?s still talking about Poor Things, for which she?s nominated as an actress and producer. This is also Oscar-campaigning for her, by the way. Poor Things made a surge at just the right moment. I don?t know if her late surge will translate into any Oscar statues though. While Emma is beloved by Oscar voters, I think the Best Actress Oscar is Lily Gladstone?s to lose. Now, could I see a situation where Emma gets a surprise win because Lily and Sandra Huller split the vote? Perhaps. But Emma is not ?campaigning? like a frontrunner, she?s just hustling to promote the movie in general, which is probably the smartest way to campaign.
Meanwhile, Emma did a cute Jeopardy thing on The Late Show. She talked before about how much she wants to appear on regular Jeopardy.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Rachael Ray wakes up at 3-4 am and is so loud she wakes her husband up too | | Added 115 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m trying not to take this onslaught of celebrities sharing how much they get done between 3-7am personally, but the struggle is real. I understand that people tend to fall into one of two camps, early bird or night owl, and I?m also aware that some studies say there are people who simply need less sleep. I grew up with one of those people, an early bird who functioned on fairly little sleep. My father, like Dolly Parton (first time I?ve uttered that statement), would wake up in the wee hours and pretty much get a whole day?s work in by the time my mother and I, night owls, would be rising for the day. It was hard not to feel like a schlub by comparison. Rachael Ray is among that anointed, productive crowd, as she described to People Mag while chatting up a new partnership with A&E:
Rachael Ray has been cooking up something big.
Ray?s production company, Free Food Studios, formed a partnership with A&E Networks. The deal will bring ?in the kitchen? content and various new shows from both Ray and other talent over the next two years.
The project means Ray, 55, is having a hard time finding a moment to relax ? but she?s just fine with that.
?I?m not really good with downtime. I love to work. I love it. I love to have my brain very active, and if I?m not writing shows, I?m drawing ?foodles? I call them ? recipes on paper ? and writing books and things,? the iconic television cook tells PEOPLE. ?I don?t like being idle. I?ve never been good at it.?
She even jokes that she wrote ?120 pages? of one of her cookbooks on her honeymoon. ?I really am bad at doing nothing!? she says proudly.
Ray says she starts as early as 3 a.m.
?I can?t sleep. I wake up at three or four in the morning, and I just start working because I can?t stop thinking about it,? she says. ?I?m not very good at sleep. I never have been. Even when I was a little girl. My nickname was Little Hoot because I was a night owl.?
Her husband of over 20 years, John Cusimano, prefers a little more R and R. ?He loves to sleep. Unfortunately, once I get up and turn all the lights on and start typing and turn the coffee on, he?s forced to get up pretty early, too,? Ray quips. ?He?s usually up between five and six?The other morning he said, ?You realize it?s three o?clock in the morning, right???
Another main reason Ray likes to stay hyperactive is that she?s always curious about trying out new things and taking on reimagined business ventures.
?I?m always game for anything, and I?m a person who?s over 50 years old. I?m trying to still remain relevant, which is an honor,? she says. ?It?s cool to be over 50 and get new opportunities that keep getting thrown at me.?
[From People]
Real question here: do Rachael and her husband live in a studio apartment now? Why is she turning on the lights in the bedroom if he?s still sleeping? At the very least she could flip them on for getting dressed and then turn them back off when she?s done. And is the coffee being made in the bedroom?! Why must he be forced to wake up at the same time?! My vehemence stems from empathy!! Rachael may start her day before daybreak, but she should leave the hubby to his own circadian rhythm. Also, is it me or was that quip about her honeymoon a little rough? Not working doesn?t necessarily mean doing nothing. Rachael and John have been married for nearly 20 years, though, so if they butt heads I?m sure they?ll have one of their signature vents and move on. As for her new A&E shows, she?s working on one where she?ll be cooking from her home in Italy. I?m gonna need several boxes of pasta handy when that airs.
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| | Isla Fisher's tips for making friends: make people laugh, be funny | | Added 115 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I like Isla Fisher. I think she?s adorable, hilarious, and gorgeous. Isla has three children with husband Sascha Baron Cohen and has been acting since 1993. She?s currently co-starring with Josh Gad in Wolf Like Me on Peacock. While promoting Season 2, Isla talks a bit with People about her upbringing. Isla?s dad worked for the United Nations and was stationed all over the world, from Oman where she was born, to Scotland, Australia, and the U.K. Going to a new school every year was tough for Isla, but she figured out how to make new friends. Her secret? Make ?em laugh, make ?em laugh?
As a child, Isla Fisher says she wound up moving constantly, thanks to her fathers job as a banker for the United Nations. Fisher credits the upheaval with becoming a performer. Because I had to learn to make new friends quickly, the thing that I leaned on was humor and storytelling, so it was a natural fit to want to tell stories as an actor, she explains.
Her best tip for fitting into a new environment? I definitely feel like letting your inner idiot out are the best tips for making new friends, she says. You make people laugh and theyre nice to you. Its pretty pretty basic.
[From People]
Hey, you know, drawing people in with humor is a tried-and-true method of attracting people in general. Everyone likes to laugh and if you?re a natural-born performer, then I can totally see how you?d use that talent especially as a kid to ingratiate yourself into otherwise uncomfortable social situations. I?ve never been a particularly funny person, but have always tried to make up for it by attempting to at least be witty (I can pun sometimes!). I also learned early on that validating those who do use (appropriate, non-derogatory) humor to fit in socially was a key integration tool, as well. But most importantly, the older I get, the more I?ve realized that a lot of the time, simply listening to what someone else has to say when asked about themselves goes a long way.
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| | Calista Flockhart on her weight: 'I just have small bones, and I just am lucky.' | | Added 115 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Calista Flockhart works so rarely in television or films, it always feels like an event when she?s actually out of the house. She?s now starring in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, and she plays Lee Radziwell, Jackie Kennedy?s sister. She?s joined by Naomi Watts (Babe Paley), Diane Lane (Slim Keith), Chloe Sevigny (CZ Guest), Molly Ringwald (Joanne Carson) and Demi Moore (Ann Woodward). Calista recently gave a pretty great interview to Maureen Dowd at the NY Times about Feud, about being married to Harrison Ford and about life in general. She also touches on the ?90s sh-t all of the conversations about her short skirts and whether she had an eating disorder. Some highlights:
She would have had lunch with the Swans: ?Maybe once. I felt very sorry for them. Here they are, the toast of New York ? rich, jewels, apartments, houses in the country, houses in Europe. They travel all the time on private planes. They have yachts. They are dictating what is in and what is not. Underneath all that, they were very sad, very lonely and really unhappy women.?
She loved the costumes but her real style isn?t like that: ?I should have lived in the ?60s, for sure?[but] I?m not going to wear a purse that says Gucci all over it, because that just seems strange. I?m also just very frugal. I have some really beautiful designer clothes, but 90 percent of my wardrobe is from Nordstrom. Just what?s comfortable, what works. I have a uniform. I switch from a gray sweater to a black sweater back to the gray sweater to a black sweater.?
On Lee Radziwell: ?Truman Capote recognized that she was living in her sister?s shadow, and he would say things: ?You?re so much prettier. You?re so much smarter. You?re more interesting. You have better style.? She really needed to hear that. I think it made her really love Truman. He was fun, and she confided in him, like they all did.?
On all of the criticism of Ally McBeal?s short skirts: ?I have a lot of distance and perspective, and I?m still incredulous. I cannot believe that I was scrutinized and pursued like that. It was intense and it was unfair.? Ms. Flockhart recalled how casually that wardrobe decision had been made: ?I said to the costume designer: ?It either has to be long or short. It can?t be in the middle, because that doesn?t make my leg look good.? She said, ?OK, let?s go short.? I said, ?Cool, let?s go short.? And then all of a sudden there was this huge short-skirt scandal, which was really fun.?
The conversations about whether she was anorexic: ?I don?t think that would ever happen today. They call it body-shaming now. I haven?t thought about it in a long time, but it?s really not OK to accuse someone of having a disease that a lot of people struggle with. It wasn?t the case, and there was nothing I could do to convince anybody or get out of it. If I had worn a big padded bra, they probably would never have been able to target me in that way. I look back at pictures, and I?m the same then as I am now, and nobody says a word now. I was an easy target, I guess. It was painful, it was complicated. I loved working on ?Ally McBeal,? and it just made it sour. I was very sleep-deprived and I was depressed about it. I did think that it was going to ruin my career. I didn?t think anybody would ever hire me again, because they would just assume I had anorexia, and that would be the end of that.?
She?s always been naturally small: ?I honestly have never been in a situation where I have to watch my weight. My mom is 4-11 now, and she weighed 93 pounds when she was married. Talk about a little tiny elf. I just have small bones, and I just am lucky.?
Why her marriage to Harrison has worked: She mused that one of the reasons that it has worked is because she was ?really content being home? as a full-time mom. ?I didn?t have the same dreams at the time, so we weren?t competing with each other. We?re very independent of each other in some ways and probably incredibly codependent on each other in others.?
Her independence startled him at first. ?It scares him, I think, sometimes. When I first met him, he said, ?You are the most self-sufficient woman in the world, and I don?t know how I feel about that.? I remember I said, ?What are you talking about?? Because I didn?t recognize I was self-sufficient. The other reason it works is, we?re both pretty introverted. We stay home a lot, homebodies, which is nice.?
[From The NY Times]
If you go to the full piece, there?s a cute back-and-forth between Harrison and Calista about how they met (Harrison was interviewed separately). Basically, Harrison caught a glimpse of Calista at the 2002 Golden Globes and he was like ?who is that??? He went over to her and tried to chat her up but she was ambivalent, but they kept talking later in the evening and he asked her out, and they?ve basically been together since their first date. She doesn?t make a big deal about ?oh, I?m the wife of a Hollywood power player,? and it feels like neither of them really revel in that side of things. She?s just happy at home, raising her son and living her life. I also believe her when she says that she?s just naturally small. Some people are just fine-boned. And yes, all of those conversations about her body were gross at the time.
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| | Jessica Biel finds it 'deeply satisfying' to eat & drink in the shower | | Added 117 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When did you realize that Jessica Biel is weird? She was well into her 30s before I realized that Biel is a whackjob. When she married Justin Timberlake, I think most of us felt bad for her because Justin is no prize and he makes everything (even their wedding and Jessica?s first pregnancy) all about Justin. Then the weirdness started creeping in Jessica is a full-fledged anti-vaxxer who lobbies on behalf of anti-vaccine legislation. She and Justin moved out of LA and NYC to live full-time in Montana. Jessica kept launching weird side hustles which went nowhere (Au Fudge, anyone?). Well, now Jessica is trying to convince people to? eat in the damn shower. This is just? unhygienic.
Jessica Biel is ready to start a movement ? a shower-eating movement. The actress, 41, shared a hilarious video on TikTok this week detailing how ? and why ? she eats in the shower. Fans asked her to elaborate after she professed her love for the concept in another video in late December.
Guys, thanks for all these questions about shower eating. Im just so thrilled everyone is so interested. I really want to start a movement, a shower-eating movement, Biel said. I think, for people who are multitasking, its just going to be a relief in so many ways.
She continued by listing her rules, which included having a ledge or something where you can stick your cup.
I like to take a bite or a sip and put it on the ledge, and then you do your thing. You wash your hair ? keep the soap out ? thats a big deal. Its pretty simple, guys. You can do this. I find it deeply satisfying. The only tricky thing is that when youre chewing, you got to keep your mouth closed because I still like to get under the water while Im chewing, and for whatever reason, I want to open my mouth at the same time and spit water, Biel said.
The 7th Heaven alum joked that she has the urge to spit water because she gets spit in the face with water all the time by my kids and ended the video by summarizing her pro tips.
Chew, do not open the mouth [and] do not let the shower water in. There you go, enjoy your shower-consuming, Biel said.
Its not the first time Biel has opened about eating in the shower. In late 2020, she shared a since-deleted picture on Instagram of an empty plate, fork, and cup of joe sitting on the ledge of her shower. Biel said she was enjoying chicken, apple sausage, and an espresso, captioning the photo, Yes. I eat in the shower. I admit it.
[From People]
Again, this is in the shower. Not the bath. I can see having a glass of wine and maybe something small, like a small bowl of cashews, in the bath. For years, I used to brush my teeth in the shower, but otherwise? yeah, you should just concentrate on washing yourself and not eating wings or whatever. Find a better way to manage your time so you can enjoy your food and then enjoy your shower separately. This is so gross.
Jessica Biel sparks a shower-eating movement on TikTok. Embrace multitasking with a designated spot for snacks in the shower?just keep the soap out! #ShowerSnacking pic.twitter.com/CqLvvj3njh
curlycurl (@curlycurlworld) January 26, 2024
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| | Nicole Kidman on winning her Oscar: 'I went to bed alone; I was in bed before midnight' | | Added 118 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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No one really had a divorce/comeback storyline like Nicole Kidman, before or since. Those of us old farts who watched it unfold in real time were in awe. She went from one half of THE Hollywood A-list couple to a woman divorcing her Scientologist husband, all while dealing with a miscarriage and (basically) being forced to leave her two kids in Scientology so she could escape. Then Nicole rewrote her own narrative, doing a string of acclaimed and award-winning films and showing up to every red carpet looking like a million bucks. Moulin Rouge, The Others, The Hours, Cold Mountain, Dogville, all released within a three-year period, with Nicole getting back-to-back Best Actress Oscar nominations in 2002 and 2003. She ended up winning in 2003 for The Hours. While she was riding a professional high during that tumultuous period, she was mostly single and trying to figure out what was next for her romantically. That is the focus of Nicole?s version of her 2003 Oscar-winning night. Kidman spoke to Dave Karger for his new book, 50 Oscar Nights, about what she felt and did on that night.
As Nicole Kidman?s career reached one of its highest peaks, the actress was experiencing one of her most personal lows. The star, 56, won her first Oscar in 2003 for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, just a year after her first nomination for Moulin Rouge!. But behind her bright smile and glamorous Jean-Paul Gaultier gown hid a private struggle; Kidman had recently finalized her divorce from Tom Cruise after 11 years of marriage.
?I was struggling with things in my personal life, yet my professional life was going so well,? she told author Dave Karger in his new book 50 Oscar Nights (on sale Jan. 23). ? That?s what happens, right??
On stage, Kidman briefly broke down before composing herself (?Russell Crowe said don?t cry when you get up there and now I?m crying?), and was played off before she was able to finish her speech. Afterwards, she felt the urge to go home.
?I?m not a big party girl, so I was going to skip the Vanity Fair party, and everyone was like, ?You?ve got to go. You?ve got to walk through the party carrying your Academy Award,? she recalls in the book. I said, ?That just feels like gloating, and it doesn?t feel humble.? Like, what? You can?t walk through carrying the award! That feels really inappropriate. They?re like, ?That?s what you do.?
Ultimately, she did go to the storied bash, at least for a little while, with her engraved Oscar in hand: ?So I literally walked in, carried it around, was completely overwhelmed, emotional, shaking, and I didn?t enjoy it. I was almost apologetic, which is so stupid. I wish I could have enjoyed it more,? she says. Afterwards, in the quiet of her hotel room, Kidman was confronted with the urge to find love again.
?I went home and ended up ordering takeout and eating it on the floor of the Beverly Hills Hotel, she says. I sat on the floor of the hotel eating French fries and a burger with my family and went to bed. That?s when it hit me. I went, I need to find my love; I need a love in my life. Because this is supposed to be when you go, ?This is ours.??
The Oscar evening ended with a whimper. ?I went to bed alone; I was in bed before midnight. If I ever won again, I?m telling you, I?d be out for 24 hours.?
[From People]
I get it she was still in the middle of that crazy ride which started when Tom Cruise filed for divorce. She barely had time to think, she was working on back-to-back projects and she had a moment of taking-stock on Oscar night. Something I hate is this idea that a single woman can?t or shouldn?t be proud of her achievements, or that an Oscar means nothing unless Nicole had a boyfriend or husband to validate her and her award. But I also think it?s more complicated than that in Nicole?s case.
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| | Margot Robbie & Greta Gerwig's Oscar snubs 'will sting for a long time' | | Added 120 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m going to keep writing about the Oscar snubs for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, even though some of y?all are going to keep commenting sh-t like ?but it was a bad movie? and ?they didn?t deserve anything.? If you want to keep doing the patriarchy?s work, so be it, I can?t stop you. As I?ve said, I?m enjoying all of the thinkpieces, analysis and reactions to the snubs. It?s fascinating to watch as Oscar voters freak out (in a sort of ?are we the villains?? way) and it?s interesting to see, like, Oscar historians talk about how significant these snubs were.
Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwigs individual omissions from the recently announced Oscars 2024 nominations wont be forgotten anytime soon, according to an expert.
Its definitely not a good look that the Academy members left out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie for directing and starring in a movie thats largely about how impressive women are often marginalized, says Dave Karger, Turner Classic Movies host and author of 50 Oscar Nights.
Even though [Robbie and Gerwig] both received nominations for their work on Barbie in other categories, these two high-profile omissions will be remembered ? and they will Sting ? for a long time, Karger tells PEOPLE.
The films comedic nature may have also affected overall nominations, he adds.
I do think that the Academy membership has a bit of a bias, unconscious or otherwise, against true comedies and towards heavier dramas, says Karger. Greta and Margot surely made it on to thousands of ballots, but since those ballots are weighted towards voters? No. 1 and No. 2 favorites, we can assume they simply didn?t earn enough of those top-tier votes.
[From People]
?These two high-profile omissions will be remembered ? and they will Sting ? for a long time.? Is he saying it will Sting for Robbie and Gerwig, or it will Sting for the Academy that they bungled it so badly? As all of the Barbie-haters have screamed a million times by now, Gerwig and Robbie will both be fine Barbie?s success ensures that they will get to make anything they want with any kind of financing. Robbie proved herself as one of the top producers in the industry, and Greta is already working on Narnia. But yeah, the snubs will ?sting? for Robbie and Gerwig personally and professionally, and they?ll also Sting for the industry. If there?s one thing AMPAS doesn?t want, it?s to look this out of touch, this sexist, this anti-woman. AMPAS has spent years trying to weather the ?Oscars So White? issues, and now their voters are discriminating against white women who made the most successful and creative movie of the year? Come on, it?s bad.
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