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| | Scarlett Johansson & Matt Damon: "We Bought a Zoo" NYC Premiere | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Capping off a full day of press duties, Scarlett Johansson was the center of attention at the premiere of "We Bought a Zoo" in New York City on Monday night (December 12).
The 27-year-old actress dazzled on the arrivals carpet at the Ziegfield Theater venue while promoting the Cameron Crowe directed film alongside co-stars Matt Damon, Elle Fanning and Thomas Haden Church.
Based on true story, the movie surrounds a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of a bizarre staff and many misadventures, the family works to rebuild the neglected zoo back to its original wonder.
Talking about the picture, Miss Johansson told this morning during her "Today" show appearance, ?It is a true story based on Benjamin Mee. He wrote a book about his experience and there is also a documentary about his experience. I think the film is really about starting over. I think it's about a sort of human connectivity that allows us to kind of overcome obstacles that seem larger than life at times.?
Also starring Patrcik Fugit and John Michael Higgins, "We Bought a Zoo" is set to hit theaters on December 23rd.
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| | Matt Damon explains his bald head: 'it's called 'The Lauer?' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon was just on the Today Show brightening up my morning with his deep voice and new chrome dome. (That video is above.) He’s promoting Contagion, the killer virus movie by Steven Soderbergh. It’s out this Friday and fingers crossed that it will dominate the box office. I know I’ll be seeing it.
To start the interview, Matt Lauer wore a face mask and said that he uses Purell all the time and found the movie terrifying. Damon explained that it was based on real science and that he learned filming the movie that the people at the Center for Disease control are excellent scientists. He said they “are really a competent, capable, dedicated group of people. … I feel like there’s a great group of minds that are constantly vigilant about protecting us.”
As for the takeaway from the film, Damon said “Don’t panic.” Here’s more:
On remaining calm in the event of a potential real-life outbreak
“That’s the quandary that a lot of these people when they have this information are in. ‘How do we disseminate this information in a way that creates the least amount of panic?’
“When you think about anthrax, which killed two people and shut down an entire airline industry. So if we can’t kind of take a deep breath and count to ten and make a reasonable assessment of what we need to do… the media incidentally is a bit part of that.”
On if the media makes too much of these health scares.
“You’re under pressure to get people to tune in. Fear sells a lot better. In a real situation like that, I think the media would have to resist the temptation to sell the panic because that would actually be putting gasoline on the fire.”
On making six movies with Soderberg
“We’re shooting [the Liberace movie] next summer. I could talk your ear off about him. He’s just a brilliant director. This movie he used just two lenses. The camera’s at eye level the entire time, it moves only when the characters move… When I stand next him and he’s directing I just learn so much, and I’m always very proud of the movies we make.”
On his bald head
“It is [for a role] but it is called the Lauer. [The movie] is called Elysium it’s coming out in 2013.”
On his girls going back to school.
“Red alert [the nickname his wife gave him] is going to be there. Lot of drop offs tomorrow. We have a seventh grader starting a new school,I love it. I used to walk to school as a kid; I just love that part of it. We have a 7th grader starting a new school, and my kindergartener is really excited because she’s going back to school and seeing her friends…. [The 3 year-old] still doesn’t know she’s going to school!”
I know this guy says he’s not going to go into politics, but he would be a damn natural at it. Once he amasses his millions and another Oscar for acting this time, he needs to look into it. He’s gracious, funny, smart and continues to impress me as one of the most genuinely decent actors around. I know there are rumors about him (read the comments on this earlier post) but I don’t believe them at all. You can’t kill my crush, damnit!
Here’s the trailer for Contagion again.
Photos are from the Contagion premiere in Venice on 9/3/11 and of Matt arriving. Credit: Fame Pictures, WENN.com and Kika Press, PacificCoastNews.com
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| | Matt Damon brought his wife Lucy to Venice, groped her on the red carpet | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve already covered the photos of Dame Goop at the Venice Film Festival, so here is her costar, Matt Damon and his shiny head too. I know he shaved his head for a movie, but I really, really dislike this look on him. He looks so much hotter with hair. But! I like that now that he?s 40, he?s finally ?filled out?. Long gone is his boyish, skinny (but built) body - his face has filled out and he seems like he?s carrying around twenty pounds that he?s never going to lose. It looks good on him. Sidenote: can you believe that he?s 40?!?! When did everyone get so old?
Anyway, here?s Matt and Lucy at the premiere of Contagion. Lucy wore Gustavo Cadile, which looks kind of like vintage Badgley Mischka, or current Elie Saab. I don?t love the dress, but I think it?s kind of cool and unusual that Lucy is showing off her tan lines. In the age of fake-bakes and tanning beds, it?s nice to see someone who came by their tan the old-fashioned way. I always like that Lucy looks like a normal person - she?s really pretty, sure, but she looks like a normal mom of four who just happens to be married to a movie star. I also like that Matt is groping his wife a bit - that?s his hand on her ass. Now we know why she keeps getting pregnant.
By the way, Matt told reporters that his wife?s nickname for him is ?Red Alert? because of how he fusses over their kids. Matt said: ?I?m probably more protective than I?ve ever been now that I have children. My wife [Luciana]?s nickname for me is ?Red Alert.? I sometimes check to see if the kids are breathing. I tend be a little overprotective without trying to be a helicopter parent.? Aw? is it possible that Matt is really and truly this nice and decent? Is it possible that he loves his wife and kids, that he has a great marriage and that he?s truly the exception to the ?Hollywood douche-cheater? rule? Fingers crossed.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Bald Matt Damon thrills the crowd at the Save Our Schools march & rally | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon took part in a Save Our Schools march and rally on Washington on Saturday for teachers’ rights. Damon’s mother, a former teacher, was at the event along with his former high school history teacher. The famous actor rallied the crowd with a speech praising teachers for shaping his life and outlook. Save Our Schools is calling for teacher empowerment and grassroots support to help end the practice of tying school funding and teacher salaries to standardized testing. Damon made many thoughtful comments about the cause:
Matt Damon dedicated his Saturday to a cause close to his heart, rallying with teachers on a march to The White House.
The Bourne Identity star, whose mother was a teacher, joined the Save Our Schools March to protest the use of standardized testing throughout the education system.
In a touching speech to the amassed crowd, Damon, 40, discussed how he feels his own public school education impacted his life.
“As I look at my life today, the things that I value about myself, my imagination, my love of acting, my passion for writing, my love of learning, my curiosity, came from the way that I was parented and taught,” Damon told the crowd as the sun beat down on his head, shaved bald for his next role.
“And none of these qualities that I just mentioned, none of these qualities that I prize so deeply, none of these qualities that have brought me so much joy, that have made me so successful professionally, none of these qualities that make me who I am can be tested,” he said.
?Now don?t get me wrong. I did have a brush with standardized tests at one point. I remember because my mom went to the principal?s office and said, ?My kid ain?t taking that. It?s stupid, it won?t tell you anything and it?ll just make him nervous.? That was in the ?70s when you could talk like that.?
Damon also voiced support of all the educators throughout the United States.
?We love you, we thank you and we will always have your back,” he said.
[From Radar Online]
Both of my parents are retired teachers, and I admire the work that educators do and know a little about it. It’s a tough job for low pay and there’s a ton of bureaucracy to deal with. I’ve been out of the loop since they retired, but it sounds like it’s even worse now with these new federal policies. It’s heartening to see Damon lend his celebrity to this cause and you can tell that it’s one he cares about deeply.
Damon has been sporting a bald head for a little over a week. He shaved it for a role in a science fiction film called Elysium, which he’s been filming in Vancouver. It also stars Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. As Lainey points out we’ll be seeing plenty more of Matt this year. He has two films coming out: Contagion in September and We Bought a Zoo in December. I always love to see him on the big screen, with hair or without. (I much prefer with, but I’m not going to be picky.)
I love this picture of him spraying sunscreen on his head.
photo credit: Fame Pictures
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| | Matt Damon got the hotness back and then some | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon has been looking a little too “middle aged dad” lately. He was perfectly buff when he filmed Adjustment Bureau, but when he promoted it in early March he’d gained some weight and was sporting long fug hair. On the Piers Morgan show in March he was just as attractive as ever, but he looked like a more serious, older version of himself. He was sporting some cute but nerdy glasses on too.
Damon made an appearance at an event honoring him last night. He was one of the people celebrated at the “Made in New York” awards for his “‘significant contributions’ to the city?s entertainment and new media industries.” Damon lives in New York now with his family so that he can spend time with them while he’s filming. He told the audince that he used to come to New York with Ben Affleck to audition and that “our dream was…to actually some day get a movie… that [is] shot in New York.” Damon has fulfilled that dream several times over.
You can see that he’s taken some weight off, which he probably gained as sympathy pounds during his wife’s last pregnancy. He’s also cut his hair short. He looks like Jason Bourne again and like he’s erased ten years.
I’ll take Damon any old way, but this look is the one that won me over 13 years ago in Good Will Hunting, and this is the one I prefer.
Is it blasphemous to say that he should maybe consider dyeing his hair, like his good buddy Ben Affleck?
Here’s how he looked in February:
And in March:
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| | Matt Damon on his wife: 'I met her and everything got easy after that' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon says so many nice things about his wife of nearly six years, Luciana, that you wonder if they ever fight. Like what’s life like at the Damon mansion in Miami? When Matt isn’t on set do they play happily with their kids during the day, marveling at the cute things they do and letting nannies change diapers? Do their evenings consist of sitting down to chef prepared gourmet meals and then retiring to their huge master suite to have kinky sex? I’m sure that’s just my fantasy and that life is still a pain in the ass for super rich married people who seem to be hot for each other, but it’s probably less of a pain.
On Ellen, Damon told the story of how he met his wife in Miami where he was somewhat accidentally filming that otherwise bad career move, Stuck on You. (He never names the film, which goes to show how much he thinks of it.) He almost didn’t go out that night, but then he reluctantly went to a bar, saw his wife working there across the room and the rest is history. It’s also a nice tie-in to promote his new movie, about fated romance vs. career, The Adjustment Bureau.
On turning 40 and “the big questions that weren’t answered when I turned 30?
Well I always hoped that I would meet someone that I wanted to spend my life with and start a family with and then that happened. But before that happens, you’re going, “I wonder if I’m ever going to meet somebody.” And then I met her and everything got easy after that.
On meeting his wife at the bar where she worked
I decided to do this movie with the Farrelly brothers in 2002. I met with them and we talked about it. I made the decision to do that which was a big decision. We were supposed to shoot in Hawaii and then the movie got moved to Miami. I had never really hung out in Miami. One night in the middle of the shoot, the crew, a couple guys, said, “We’re going to get a beer somewhere.” I said, “I’m not really into it.” They said, “Come on,” and kind of dragged me along. We ended up at a bar where my wife was the bartender. I literally saw her across a crowded room, literally, and eight years and four kids later, that’s my life. I don’t know how else our paths would’ve crossed if that didn’t happen. If all those things didn’t happen.
[From the Ellen Degeneres show, received via e-mail]
Damon’s interview with Ellen will air today and I can’t wait to watch it! The guy always cheers me up when I see him interviewed. He has a real joy for life and he’s genuinely funny. It’s also touching to hear a celebrity gush about their partner and seem to really mean it, too. I don’t get the impression that Damon has much to hide, but he’s also one of the best actors in the world so I could be surprised. He does play “angry” exceptionally well.
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Matt Damon
Emily Blunt
With their film hitting theaters on March 4th, a first look of Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in ?The Adjustment Bureau? has hit the web.
Based on a Philip K. Dick story, ?The Adjustment Bureau? casts Damon as "an ambitious politician on the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate named David Norris. When he meets beautiful ballet dancer Elise Sellas (played by Blunt), he is instantly smitten -- and the course of his future changes, prompting the Adjustment Bureau to intervene, no matter what the cost."
"He was only meant to meet this woman Elise that one time, because it's not in the plan for them to be together ? but David is completely obsessed with her," explains Matt.
Emily adds, "I think it speaks volumes about the attraction that these two people really have for each other, that he's willing to risk a lot for her."
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| | Matt Damon says most psychics are scam artists | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I love Matt Damon, to the point where I felt like Sammie was stepping on my toes a little when she covered a story on the guy yesterday. There’s a new story on Damon today, so no worries. That medium psychic movie that Damon starred in as some kind of favor to Clint Eastwood, Hereafter, is coming out in the UK at the end of this month, so he’s still doing press for it. Damon has hinted in the past that he’s not on board with the notion of more than five senses, although he’s tried to sound open to the idea for the sake of the film. He goes a little further with his thoughts on the supernatural in this latest interview. Matt claims that most psychics are “charlatans” and admits he didn’t consult one for his role.
Matt Damon has described psychics as “charlatans” following his work on Clint Eastwood’s supernatural drama Hereafter.
Damon plays a psychic in the film, but claimed that he refused to meet with any actual practitioners during his research for the role.
“Had I found a good one I would have,” Damon told Bang Showbiz. “What I was worried about was that it was just going to take me down this rabbit hole of charlatans.
“I think a large part of that space is occupied by pretenders, which is not to say there aren’t people out there who are genuinely touched in some way,” the actor explained.
Damon claimed that he did however talk with Martin Sheen in preparation for Hereafter, due to Sheen’s claim to have had a near-death experience after suffering a heart attack.
“He told me his incredible story one day when we were working on The Departed together,” Damon added, suggesting that he wasn’t a complete cynic.
[From Digital Spy, thanks to Kaiser]
Another day, another reason to fawn on Matt Damon. I took a death and dying class in college, and we had a lecture from a man who had gone through a near death experience. I still remember that day vividly as it was one of the most impressive and convincing person stories I’d ever heard. (The details were very similar to the stories told in books by Kenneth Ring on NDEs.) I later learned more about the human brain, along with the detail that the brain is flood with neurochemicals when we die, and that a lack of oxygen can cause a person to see a “tunnel” with a “light” at the end of it, similar to stories about heaven. It’s reassuring to hear that the transition won’t be unpleasant, wherever we end up when it’s all over.
As for Damon’s claim that most psychics and mediums are charlatans, I have to agree. It’s also telling that he said that people could be “touched,” since “touched” is a euphemism to “not all there.” (Although it’s possible his comments were translated to Brit-speak.) Damon doesn’t believe in the supernatural, but he’ll do what he has to do to talk up his films.
It’s only moderately related, but I’d like to also point out that it was so ripe on RHOBH this week that Kyle consulted a psychic after all she went through with Camille’s “psychic” at that dinner party from hell. She’s so much more like Camille than she’s willing to admit.
Here’s Damon on the set of “We Bought a Zoo” yesterday, with costar Thomas Haden, in LA. He’s looking good but he needs a haircut! Included are some gratuitous photos of him eating celery.
Photo credit: Fame Pictures
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| | Matt Damon: 'any man worth his salt wants a woman who is smart and strong and secure' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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How does a Hollywood actor in a business that frequently objectifies women teach his daughters not to be treated as objects?
That’s something Matt Damon addresses in an interview with Katie Couric in Glamour magazine. Matt has 4 daughters with his wife Lucy.
Katie Couric: What kind of message do you hope to impart to your daughters about their place in the world?
Matt Damon: I want them to know that their decisions matter and that their actions matter. I want them to have a sense of responsibility for the way they treat people. And I want to help them build an ethical framework with which to approach the world.
KC: …and girls are always trying to figure out what guys want, if you were editing a magazine for young women, what advice would you give?
MD: I can only speak to what attracts me. What attracted me to Lucy was her strength, her sense of herself. So I’d say don’t worry about what everybody else wants you to be. And don’t be afraid to be all those things I want for my daughters. There are always articles about what men want, but I guarantee you that any man worth his salt wants a woman who is smart and strong and secure in who she is.
[Glamour, print edition, February 2011]
How cool is he? I think he really means it too. Some actors might say they want strong, smart women but always leave the party with the shallowest dingbat in the shortest skirt.
Matt is the co-founder of Water.org, an organization “committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries.”
Matt is also teaching his daughters another important lesson in life. Matt is true to his Boston roots and promises that his daughter will support “the Red Sox, because they love their dad.”
These photos of Matt with his two middle daughters and wife at the airport is from October, 2008. Credit: Bauergriffinonline. He’s also shown on 12/14 with his wife, Luciana and on 1/17/11 on the set of We Bought a Zoo, an upcoming Cameron Crowe movie. Credit: Fame
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| | Robert DeNiro Honored with Cecil B. Demille Award | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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The 68th annual Golden Globe Awards hit a high point when Robert De Niro was given the prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award earlier tonight (January 16).
The ?Raging Bull? actor received his trophy from Matt Damon, who admitted he hadn?t heard of DeNiro until he was recruited to star in his film ?The Good Shepherd.?
From there, the audience was treated to a 3-minute montage of some of DeNiro?s films selected from his four-decades-long career.
Robert also noted that he?d be happy to present Mr. Damon with his own Demille award when the time comes.
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