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| | Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe get Australian stamps | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When I was a kid, I used to collect stamps for a brief time. ?Brief? because stamp collecting is very time-consuming and deserves a lot patience, patience which is difficult for a child to muster. I had some really beautiful stamps, though, and I learned a little about how and why each country puts certain things or people on their stamps. Many of Great Britain?s old colonies still put members of the royal family on their stamps, even after gaining independence. In America, we never put living people on stamps - people have to be dead for a certain number of years before they can be considered ?stamp worthy?. Many other countries feel differently.
Australia is one of those countries. They have no qualms about putting their biggest exports - their actors - on their stamps. Their current batch features Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe and Geoffery Rush - all Academy Award winners. Australia?s Post released the stamps yesterday.
You?ve seen them on the silver screen, and now Oscar-winners Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Geoffery Rush may soon be starring in a letter box near you after their homeland Australia recognised their achievements by putting them on postage stamps.
The 55 cent (36 U.S. cent) stamps, which went on sale on Thursday, bear pictures of the four Australian Hollywood stars and are part of Australia Post?s celebrations for the January 26 national day, Australia Day.
?The four Academy Award winners were named the 2009 Australian Post Australian Legends in recognition of the outstanding contributions they have made to Australian
entertainment and culture,? managing director Graeme John said in a statement.
In addition to their Oscar gold, the stars will also be presented with a 24-carat gold replica of their stamp in recognition of the honour, the statement added.
[From Reuters]
It?s a nice gesture, but what about Oscar-nominated Aussies? Naomi Watts must feel left out. And what about Heath Ledger? A stamp with Heath would have been a nice way to commemorate his life and work. Out of all of the stamps mentioned, though, I would most want to lick Geoffrey Rush!
Here?s Cate Blanchett on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 5, 2008. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.
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| | Cate Blanchett says Brad Pitt is 'annoyingly in love' with Angelina | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cate and Brad in a still from Benjamin Button
More grist for the mill, but here goes. Cate Blanchett sat down for an interview with Britain?s Telegraph to talk motherhood, marriage, Brad Pitt and Benjamin Button. In the interview, she slyly references Brad and Angelina?s relationship, which she witnessed first hand while filming Benjamin Button in 2007. She jokingly calls Brad?s love for Angelina ?disgusting? and, with tongue firmly in cheek, she alludes to never wanting to work with Brad again because it?s annoying how much in love he is with Angelina.
Of all the challenges presented by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ? the near three-hour running time, the unusual story structure, the copious amount of make-up ? Cate Blanchett found that her biggest problem came courtesy of her leading man, Brad Pitt.
“Honestly,” she smiles, “to see how in love with Angelina he is, it was really quite disgusting. Awful in fact. It’s in my contract now: I won’t ever work with him again.” She is joking of course.
They were excellent in Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu’s 2006 drama Babel and here they shine once again, playing lovers in director David Fincher’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.
“We talked a lot about moisturiser,” laughs Blanchett, “because there were so many prosthetics involved for both of us. I really shouldn’t complain, though, because Brad really went through the wringer with make-up and special effects. You work until 10 o’clock at night and then you are maybe up at 4am the next morning because it takes six hours to get the make-up on.”
The film is a love story, of course, although with the director of Seven, Fight Club and Zodiac at the helm, it does not feel overly mawkish.
“When one deals with an epic romance, a film like this could have easily gone into the sentimental, but given that we have got David Fincher, who is the world’s greatest cynic at the helm, we were safe.?
“Also I grew up with my grandmother, so having three generations in one household also makes you more aware of things like [mortality]. I guess that was one of the major challenges. That, and avoiding sentimentality.” She smiles.
“Plus, of course, Brad being annoyingly in love and the fact that we were so tired. We shot in New Orleans and the kids were always waking up in the middle of the night. So we weren’t getting much sleep.”
…In spite of her claims, it seems unlikely that Blanchett will retire any time soon; she has four potential projects on the horizon. Is there anything that might tip her over the edge? “Oh, that’s easy,” she chuckles, “having to work with Brad again!”
From The Telegraph
I?m sure there will be some people who will claim that Blanchett was not, in fact, joking. But from watching Brad and Cate together in a few interviews (like that charming Oprah interview a few months ago), I really do think they have a silly, fun, brother-sister type relationship where they can joke around with each other, even about the personal stuff. And I really enjoyed the part of the interview where Cate discusses how she and Brad talk about skin care - that really rings true, considering I?ve always thought of Brad as pretty high maintenance when it comes to his beauty treatments.
Here are stills of Cate and Brad in Benjamin Button, thanks to
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| | Cate Blanchett's husband said he?d divorce her if she had plastic surgery | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Cate Blanchett is one of the many Hollywood actresses who claims to shun cosmetic surgery. But unlike many of the others, Cate definitely hasn?t had any. She says that her husband would divorce her if she did. Cate has a really beautiful way of viewing the body as it ages, and talks about the history that?s shown through the changes. There is a real depth and passion to what she says, and she makes some great arguments about loving what you?re given.
Cate Blanchett tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts that in terms of plastic surgery, “I haven’t done anything, but who knows. Andrew said he’d divorce me if I did anything. When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person…. You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.”
“I’m not a spokesperson against the world of injectables,” Blanchett tells Bennetts. “If you grow up in an environment where your mother gets you a boob job when you turn 18, what hope is there? But I didn’t grow up in that world. The reason I went to train as an actor was that I was interested in it for the long haul. You can become very self-obsessed, but you’ve got to keep looking outward.”
[From the Huffington Post]
I?ve always had this thing about preferring vintage and antiques to modern, mass produced stuff. My reasoning was that I liked that my things had a history to them. It had never occurred to me to perhaps view myself in the same way, but that?s exactly what Cate’s talking about. I think there?s a simple beauty to that. It?s not just about acceptance, it?s about appreciating the way parts of your story are told by the changes in your body.
Cate?s previously mentioned that she thinks people get plastic surgery out of “self obsession” and “fear,” noting ??Look at a man or a woman in their 50s and all I see when they have brushed their years away with surgery is self-obsession and fear. That?s not particularly attractive.?? Of course when you have a face like Cate?s, it is probably a little easier to be accepting.
I understand why people want to look better as they age, and I think it?s hard for many of us not to keep track of the changes in our face as they appear. I?m not sure that I?d go so far as to say it?s self obsession, but I think it can show a lack of acceptance. But give me ten years and I might be singing a different tune.
Here?s Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton at the premiere of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in Sydney on December 10th. Images thanks to Fame.
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| | Brad Pitt says life before fatherhood was 'a dead end' | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt sat down for a lengthy interview with the Los Angeles Times to promote The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and he?s still talking about Angelina and their family, aging, politics and New Orleans. Honestly, I didn?t realize that the film carried on to 2005, I thought it was just a straight-up period piece only going as far as the immediate post-WWII years. Apparently, it goes up to Hurricane Katrina.
“Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all,” says the actor, who turned 45 on Dec. 18. So far, he indicates, the pluses and minuses are adding up just fine. “I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day,” Pitt says.
That existential swap lies at the heart of David Fincher’s film, loosely adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth from a whimsical 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Brought into the world on Armistice Day, 1918, as a slack-skinned, 80-year-old man, Benjamin bears witness to many of the century’s epochal events, while the film leapfrogs from New Orleans to Murmansk to New York to the Ganges. Finally he and the film come home to rest in the Crescent City just as Hurricane Katrina is about to strike.
But none of Benjamin’s picaresque adventures or brief encounters shapes him more than his passionate, odds-defying relationship with Daisy Fuller (Cate Blanchett), a ballerina who meets Benjamin when she’s still a child. Although the pair’s prime years overlap oh-so-fleetingly, their souls merge in a lasting union. The bittersweet irony of their predicament raises the question of whether “Benjamin Button” is, in the end, a tragedy.
In some ways, “Benjamin Button” plays as an elegy for New Orleans and for a lost (or rapidly vanishing) part of what culture critic Greil Marcus called “the Old, Weird America.” Personally, Pitt says, he won’t be sorry to see the current White House administration exiting stage left. But he thinks it would be premature to start writing a national obit.
“America’s known for our ingenuity,” he says. “We put a man on the moon, for Christ’s sake. And it’d be a shame to lose that definition because of some kind of fear of losing what we were, or what we had. That’s the quickest way, I think, to end it all. We’re going to be all right.”
Because it spans the character’s entire life, “Benjamin Button” inadvertently serves as a showcase for Pitt’s various cinematic personas. At one point in the movie, he evokes Jack London’s Sea Wolf as a craggy sailor of fortune. Later in the film, when Benjamin reaches his prime, Pitt brings to mind James Dean on a motorcycle, or John F. Kennedy on his sailboat, navigating the swells of destiny.
“It’s a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take,” Pitt responds. “And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.”
[From LA Times]
I really like that line - ?The greater the love, the greater the loss.? It?s a little Oprah-y, but it communicates volumes beyond the normal public relations shenanigans. Brad talks more about Angelina and his acting process. The most ZOMG moment comes when he refers to his life before Angelina as a “dead end,” although I don?t care for the way the LA Times guy refers to Brad?s children - separating them between ?their own? and ?adopted?. My feeling is that the best, most politically correct way to refer to these (or any) children is biological and adopted, not ?their own?.
As everyone but a handful of Himalayan monks doubtless knows, the woman who sleeps by Pitt’s side these days is Angelina Jolie, with whom he shares parenting duties for six children (three of their own, three adopted). During an interview of an hour’s duration, Pitt refers repeatedly to his satisfying home life and the way it has refashioned his priorities.
“I had a whole other life and I got to experience a lot. And I probably got away with more than I should,” he says. “And it kind of ran its course, you know, it kind of hit a dead end.” Fatherhood, he notes, is “the direction I always thought I would go in. But not until, with Angie and it felt like a natural evolution, a natural direction.”
Pitt agrees that, as he has matured professionally, “I don’t have to grope as much for the character. I can get there quicker, so it’s not as much trial and error,” he says. “Also, as I get older, more experiences, I’m more fine-tuned in what I’m after, what I think speaks in the piece. And lastly I want to hurry and get home to my kids.”
[From LA Times]
David Fincher, the director of Benjamin Button, is also quoted in the piece. He talks more about how Brad?s acting process has changed, and comes close to saying that Brad?s a better actor now then when they first met, some-odd 14 years ago. Personally, I agree. I always that Brad was rather “pretty but dumb,” but his personal and professional choices the past few years have really impressed me. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is getting great reviews, with a lot of people singling out Brad?s performance, and he?s an early favorite for an Best Actor Oscar nomination. Benjamin Button is in theatres now.
[Thanks to Daisy242 for the heads up on the LA Times piece!]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are shown at the premiere of The Case of Benjamin Button on 12/8/08. Credit: WENN
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| | Cate Blanchett: 'Benjamin Button' in Australia | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Taking her sure-to-be-hit movie down under, Cate Blanchett was spotted hamming it up on the red carpet at the Australian Premiere of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” earlier today (December 10).
The “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” actress was absolutely radiant as she posed outside the Sydney Theatre in Sydney, Australia, sporting a shiny sleeveless silver dress with strappy heels.
More Photos Here
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| | Cate Blanchett Dazzles Benjamin Button Premiere | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out to promote her new movie, Cate Blanchett attended the world premiere of “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” at Mann’s Village Theatre in Westwood on Monday night (December 8).
The always-fashionable mother of three looked stunning in an Alexander McQueen sculpted dress layered with a cute pencil skirt as she strutted the red carpet.
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| | Cate Blanchett is a bell | | Added 16 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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The NYDN is making fun of Cate Blanchett for dressing up as a bell to the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And rightfully so. The only way this dress makes sense is if Kim Kardashian was wearing it because it’d be the only thing that could fit around her huge ass. This doesn’t make Cate look glamorous at all. It makes it look like she should be standing outside of Wal-Mart by Santa making a jingling sound and asking you to donate.
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Adding her name to the list of screen legends, Cate Blanchett was given a coveted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday afternoon (December 5).
The “Babel” babe headed to the front of the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd., greeting fans and posing for pictures as the famed honor was bestowed upon to her.
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