| | |  | Michelle Williams News & Gossip
|
|
| | Michelle Williams at the Oscar nominees luncheon: adorable or too precious? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
|
|
|
|
|
Here are more photos from yesterday?s Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills. I always think this must be one of the best events during the awards season – you don?t have to wear a gown, you don?t have to pose on a red carpet, you get to eat lunch with friends and other talented people, and you pose for a big ?class photo? at the end. It seems more low-key, and as such, it?s never a big fashion event. Still, it?s nice to look at the photos. First off, here?s Michelle Williams, back to her beloved pale colors and Mia Farrow-in-1973-styling. Michelle is actually wearing a Victoria Beckham dress! Eh, I still don?t like it on Michelle.
I love Glenn Close?s face, and I love her talent. I?m happy she was nominated for an Oscar this year. But dear God, that is one ugly coat.
I love this color on Melissa McCarthy.
Can we talk about how great Meryl Streep looks? She?s so beautiful. I love her hair these days, and Meryl isn?t a hair person. This look is perfection except for the panty hose-with-open-toe shoes thing.
I actually like Rooney Mara?s outfit here. The blazer is Thierry Mugler and the jumpsuit is Asos. The pants need to lose an inch or two, though.
Viola in too-bright Juan Carlos Obando. I love her in bright colors, but this is just too ?look at me!? for my tastes.
Octavia Spencer looks great here. I love her hairstyle!
And here?s a little Demian Bichir, because I haven?t been paying enough attention to him. He?s fine, isn?t he?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
More Photos Here
    |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams: Lovely at the "Late Show? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
|
|
|
|
|
Stepping out for a media appearance, Michelle Williams was spotted at ?The Late Show with David Letterman? yesterday (February 1).
The ?Dawson?s Creek? darling looked fabulous in an Erdem floral print dress teamed with Giuseppe Zanotti heels as she strolled inside the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City.
During her recent interview on the ?Today? show, Ms. Williams confessed that hearing that she was nominated for an Oscar took her by complete surprise.
Michelle shared that she was getting her daughter Matilda ready for the day when her pal came in and declared, ?Michelle, they just called your name on TV.?
She added, ?It was a very sweet way to hear that news ? [the nomination announcement] slipped my mind, which is something that?s so great about having a kid. You get really absorbed.?
More Photos Here
    |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams announces plans to take a career break to be with Matilda | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
|
|
|
|
|
When I think of this year?s Oscar races, it?s basically come down to ?Anybody but Clooney? in the Best Actor category. I want Brad Pitt to win, but failing that, anybody but Clooney. At this point, I have similar feelings about the Best Actress race – Anybody But Michelle. Part of the problem is Michelle wants to win an Oscar for playing Marilyn Monroe, one of the most icon ?sexy? women ever. And Michelle just? isn?t. She isn?t sexy. I saw My Week With Marilyn, and I thought she gave a solid performance, but the film is deeply flawed (it?s ridiculous at various points towards the end), and Michelle?s performance is uneven because of her lack of sex appeal and her wonky voice work.
But Michelle is considered a major contender, up there with Meryl Streep and Viola Davis. I personally think Viola is going to take it home, but God knows. Michelle could be a spoiler – IF her Oscar campaign works. Which is a big IF. I think Michelle?s Oscar campaign still has some significant rough edges. Mostly because I think the ?little girl lost? thing is just an act, and I think many, many people see through it. But there?s also a problem with her schizophrenic messaging. ?Sexy? Michelle versus ?Single Mom? Michelle versus ?Little Girl Lost? Michelle versus ?The Widow Ledger? Michelle. Thus far in the campaign, she?s posed in her underwear on the cover of GQ, flashing her cleavage and baring her body, but it felt so creepy and invasive because it was joined with a tear-soaked, ?fragile? interview. She wants to be seen as a capable single mother? but she won?t stop talking in that affected little-girl voice. I could go on and on, but the whole thing is just upsetting me. Anyway, Michelle is currently taking pointers from Natalie Portman?s Oscar Campaign last year – more focus on all of the ?mom? stuff. Which is why we?re getting this new interview:
Michelle Williams may be raking in trophies and accolades for her work in My Week With Marilyn, but nothing compares to the pride that comes along with her biggest role to date: Mom to 6-year-old daughter, Matilda.
In fact, Williams, 31, has cleared her schedule of upcoming film projects in order to spend more time at home with her little girl.
“I just want to go back to being a mom for a while,” Williams — who welcomed Matilda with the late Heath Ledger in 2005 — told E!’s Giuliana Rancic on Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild red carpet.
Raising her daughter as a single mom, Williams admitted to GQ that she had hoped to give her a sibling, at least before ex Ledger’s 2008 death.
“I really wanted, and I really expected or imagined, that Matilda would have siblings that were close to her age. I wanted that for her. But I couldn’t make that happen,” Williams explains. “And now that she’s 6 that isn’t even a possibility anymore. So something that was making me feel impatient, that’s been removed. For whatever reason, that’s not our luck, or our path.”
In the meantime, Williams is anxious to share Ledger’s legacy with his daughter, who was just 3 at the time of his death.
“You know, as hard as certain things have been for me, it’s been harder thinking about how things will be for her,” she has said. “I have a lot of things that she doesn’t, and some of what I have I can give to her — the memories that I have, the objects that I have, the physical reminders that I have, the stories.”
[From Us Weekly]
For the love of all that is holy. I do NOT understand the conversation about giving Matilda siblings – I understand what she?s saying explicitly – that she missed the window to give Matilda siblings close to her age. But what?s the implication here? Is Michelle seriously implying that because Heath isn?t around to father any more babies, Michelle is simply not going to have any more babies ever? What?s implicit is that Michelle?s vadge has closed up shop through grief – I guess we?re not supposed to remember that she?s dated several men since Heath died (and she was seeing other men when he was still alive?)? I truly believe that Michelle?s subtext is that she?s gotten some kind of second virginity through grief. That?s what she?s selling – virginal, untouched, fragile, delicate, easily broken. It?s BS.
As for the ?taking a break? thing – fine. Sure. Good for her. She?s much, much too ?fragile? to handle much more of this.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN.
More Photos Here
    |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams in asymmetrical Valentino at the SAGs: budget or cute? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
|
|
|
|
|
Let?s start with what I liked about Michelle Williams at last night?s Screen Actors Guild Awards. I liked that she wore a bright color – this red/pink Valentino dress was vibrant, and the shade looked gorgeous on Michelle, who all too often wears pastels and pale, wispy colors that wash her out. I also loved Michelle?s hair last night – she gotten it to a great honey color that suits her skin tone, and the length, especially in the front, is great on Michelle. I also love that Michelle?s forever awards-show date is her BFF Busy Phillips. I know it?s partly a strategic move, and let?s not pretend that Michelle hasn?t had significant boyfriends over the years and all, but I just like that Michelle and Busy always do awards shows together. Their friendship seems genuine and sweet, and I?m guessing Busy is a true girl-friend to Michelle.
So, now on to what I dislike about Michelle?s look at her appearance last night. While the dress was a pretty color, the asymmetrical length threw me off, as did the lace detailing on her shoulders. The worst, though, was the shoe choice. As the cameras panned down, it really looked like Michelle was wearing stripper shoes. Also: dear God, Michelle?s little girl voice bugs me. It?s so affected. She?s making an effort to put present herself a certain way, that of an oh-so-fragile girl-woman, and the voice affectation is part of that. It drives me up the wall.
Speaking of affectations and Oscar campaigns, I think Lainey has been right-on with her theory that Michelle is following The Natalie Portman Method of Oscar Campaigning – it?s all about motherhood and being an ?accessible? (FRAGILE!!) single mother for Michelle. So I?m including some photos of Natalie Portman from the SAGs too. She?s too precious (and a mother!!!!!) to walk the red carpet, but she was still at the show to present Best Actor, and she deigned to pose for photos backstage. Natalie wore this Giambattista Valli haute couture gown that reminds me a lot of her Oscar gown from last year – similar shade, similar drapey design with some fluffy detailing at the bust. It?s pretty.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
More Photos Here
    |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams Glams Up the 64th Annual DGA Awards | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
|
|
|
|
|
After having skipped out on the red carpet arrivals, Michelle Williams took the stage as promised at the 64th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards in Hollywood, California on Saturday evening (January 28).
The 31-year-old Oscar nominated actress lit up the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland as she worked her way up to the podium to announce one of the night's honorees.
Miss Williams' DGA appearance comes as she's readying for yet another awards show spectacle tomorrow night (January 29) at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Among the trophy hopefuls, Michelle is nominated for Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading Role for her work in "My Week with Marilyn" while facing off against a strong field including Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep and Tilda Swinton.
More Photos Here
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe for GQ | | Added 12 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
|
|
|
|
|
Michelle Williams graces the cover of the most recent GQ. She plays Marilyn Monroe in some movie. I think. I don’t know.
Michelle Williams on her education, and how she ended up being home-schooled (a better fit with her acting work):
Her last formal school was Santa Fe Christian in San Diego; later its principal would denounce Williams after she appeared in Brokeback Mountain. (?Michelle doesn?t represent the values of this institution,? he said. ?She made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn?t approve.?) ?It didn?t really bother me,? she says, when I allude to this.
No twinge, I ask, when you suddenly found out that you?d been living a sinful, artistic career?
?It wasn?t any surprise to me,? she says. ?I knew. I remember my mother saying to me at one point, ?Just don?t make anything your grandmother couldn?t see.? And at that point I knew I was living a sinful artistic career, because I had done, and I knew I would do.?
…on how the role that first made her famous?the Dawson?s Creek bad girl Jen?still somewhat played into regular sexy-girl stereotypes, only made her swerve in the opposite direction with all the more resolve.
?I wouldn?t say that that would be one of my first qualities as a human being?being sexy,? Williams reasons. ?And I think because my character on Dawson?s Creek was sexy?sexualized?sexual?I saw all the negative attention and connotations that can come along with that. And that those things can keep people from seeing you clearly.?
…on why she thinks her and Heath Ledger were drawn to each other:
?There?s an answer that I know,? she says, ?but I don?t want to say.? She talks around this not-saying for a while, then says, ?Our initial meeting, the circumstances of how we first met, were cosmic or something.? They were together through the shoot, and soon she was pregnant. ?Yeah, a lot of things happened at once,? she says. ?It?s a bit like: We had a lot of things to do, because we didn?t have a lot of time, or something.?
Writer Chris Heath asks if she thought there was a part of her that imagined she and Ledger would have somehow ended up together:
?That would make me way too sad to answer,? she says quickly, and I hurriedly begin another question, about something completely different, hoping that if I say it fast enough these new words will chase the old words away from where they are hanging in the air between us, and maybe she will let me pretend that it was something I never said.
?No, no,? she says, and I can see the tears forming, and I think she means that she doesn?t want to answer any more questions about anything. I mutter some kind of apology under my breath.
But, even now, I?m wrong about everything. Mostly she is just trying to stop my new question. She has something to tell me.
?No,? she says. ?I said it would make me too sad to answer but it?s also???and she nods even as her voice breaks once more with tears???one of my favorite things to imagine.? And through the tears, a beaming, almost beatific smile stretches room-wide across her face. ?It?s actually one of my favorite places to visit.? GQ
How many more years people are going to keep asking her about her dead husband who probably banged Lindsay Lohan at one point after their split. No wonder she has to go to her happy place whenever they bring it up.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams Heats Up GQ February 2012 | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
|
|
|
|
|
Showing off her super sexy side, Michelle Williams is red hot on the cover of GQ Magazine?s February 2012 issue.
The ?My Week with Marilyn? babe gives readers a first-hand look at her smoking-hot body and previously-under-emphasized sex appeal.
Michelle shared, "I wouldn't say that that would be one of my first qualities as a human being -- being sexy. And I think because my character on Dawson's Creek was sexy... sexualized... sexual... I saw all the negative attention and connotations that can come along with that. And that those things can keep people from seeing you clearly."
"When you play sexy you're kind of playing just for men. That is something you have to police and turn it on its head. I mean, sexuality has been a part of my work, obviously...Blue Valentine...but it's never been sexy. It hasn't been beautiful."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in GQ | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
|
|
|
|
|
This just goes to show you what a nose job, platinum blonde wig and a shitload of makeup can do for a gal. It worked for the real Marilyn Monroe, so why not the actress playing the part of Marilyn Monroe in an upcoming movie? It’s life art imitating life… imitating life imitating art. No, that’s right. An extraordinarily average looking girl gets manufactured into a glamorous starlet (Michelle Williams real life) in order to star in a movie (art) based on the real Marilyn Monroe (life) and pose for a subsequent promotional photoshoot for GQ magazine (art). If you’re high right now, I probably just blew your motherfucking mind.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Michelle Williams goes fragile, weepy and 'sexy' for GQ, talks about Heath Ledger | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
|
|
|
|
|
Isn?t this surprising? Out of all of the younger actresses currently working today, Michelle Williams is the one I?d least expect to see in her panties on the cover of GQ. She just doesn?t seem like that kind of actress, does she? Meaning, she seems to actively avoid putting herself out there as ?sexy?. Sure, she?s selling My Week With Marilyn, in which she plays one of the most iconic sex symbols ever. But it just doesn?t feel like Michelle, does it? Go and look at GQ?s slideshow – it?s very sexy and? it makes me uncomfortable. She always so fragile, it feels like this was done against her will? Unless that fragile thing is just an act, I guess.
As for the interview – it?s pretty in-depth, and this is one of the few times where an interviewer has really plowed right into the Heath Ledger questions, especially regarding the fact that they had been separated for nearly a year before his death. The interviewer also notes at the beginning of the piece that Michelle cried a lot – so she?s still selling fragile. Fragile and ?sexy?. You can read the whole GQ piece here, and here are some highlights:
It seemed crazy at first. Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe? We all knew the two-time Oscar nominee could act?but could she make us drool? America, we have our answer. And what Williams gives GQ in drop-dead gorgeous photos, she equals in insights regarding her incredibly emotional journey thus far. Correspondent Chris Heath meets with Williams in two different cities over three days, and the pair discuss everything from living on her own at age 15 to avoiding playing sexy characters (?I mean, sexuality has been a part of my work, obviously?but it?s never been sexy, it hasn?t been beautiful?) to her imagining she would end up with Heath Ledger (?It?s actually one of my favorite places to visit?).
She?s not drawn to the darkness: “Maybe when I was in my early twenties and my late teens, I was more prone to sitting in it or lacerating myself with it,” she says. “Now I want to move out of it. I have a daughter. I want a happy life.”
On her education, and how she ended up being home-schooled (a better fit with her acting work):
Her last formal school was Santa Fe Christian in San Diego; later its principal would denounce Williams after she appeared in Brokeback Mountain. (?Michelle doesn?t represent the values of this institution,? he said. ?She made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn?t approve.?) ?It didn?t really bother me,? she says, when I allude to this. No twinge, I ask, when you suddenly found out that you?d been living a sinful, artistic career? ?It wasn?t any surprise to me,? she says. ?I knew. I remember my mother saying to me at one point, ?Just don?t make anything your grandmother couldn?t see.? And at that point I knew I was living a sinful artistic career, because I had done, and I knew I would do.?
Being legally emancipated at 15: When Williams legally emancipated herself from her parents at 15, she didn’t do so because of any family schism, but for the independence and the practical advantages?she says she no longer needed a tutor and could work adult hours. When I suggest that it was pretty ambitious and self-contained to think she could handle it, she agrees. “It was just stupid. I didn’t know what I was taking on,” she says. “I don’t think things through very often?I don’t project into the future about how a situation will turn out. Even the simplest things, I’m guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time. In my work it’s a capacity that’s served me well, but in my life it can be a problem.”
On playing a bad girl on Dawson?s Creek: ?I wouldn?t say that that would be one of my first qualities as a human being?being sexy,? Williams reasons. ?And I think because my character on Dawson?s Creek was sexy?sexualized?sexual?I saw all the negative attention and connotations that can come along with that. And that those things can keep people from seeing you clearly.?
On Brokeback Mountain: “I didn’t know what to make of it,” she says. “Maybe when you see something different for the first time, you don’t know how to categorize it. It doesn’t really fit with anything else. Like the first time you listen to Bjrk. The first time you eat sashimi.” She hasn’t seen it since. But she does know what she thinks of it now. “I think it’s a great film. And…it’s probably obvious but…” She pauses for a long time, and when she picks up the thought her voice is quieter and higher: “…well, he’s really quite astounding in it. Heath.”
How she and Heath Ledger were drawn to each other: ?There?s an answer that I know,? she says, ?but I don?t want to say.? She talks around this not-saying for a while, then says, ?Our initial meeting, the circumstances of how we first met, were cosmic or something.? They were together through the shoot, and soon she was pregnant. ?Yeah, a lot of things happened at once,? she says. ?It?s a bit like: We had a lot of things to do, because we didn?t have a lot of time, or something.?
Dating after Heath?s death: She explains that a year or two ago, she was putting herself under a lot of pressure to find someone new to spend her life with, for a particular reason. “Because I really wanted, and I really expected or imagined, that Matilda would have siblings that were close to her age. I wanted that for her. But I couldn’t make that happen. And now that she’s 6 that isn’t even a possibility anymore. So something that was making me feel impatient, that’s been removed. For whatever reason, that’s not our luck, or our path.” A further thought. “You know, as hard as certain things have been for me, it’s been harder thinking about how things will be for her. I have a lot of things that she doesn’t, and some of what I have I can give to her?the memories that I have, the objects that I have, the physical reminders that I have, the stories. But she won’t really have any that are solely…” And that is where that sentence ends.
Was there a part of her that imagined she and Ledger would have somehow ended up together? ?That would make me way too sad to answer,? she says quickly, and I hurriedly begin another question, about something completely different, hoping that if I say it fast enough these new words will chase the old words away from where they are hanging in the air between us, and maybe she will let me pretend that it was something I never said. ?No, no,? she says, and I can see the tears forming, and I think she means that she doesn?t want to answer any more questions about anything. I mutter some kind of apology under my breath. But, even now, I?m wrong about everything. Mostly she is just trying to stop my new question. She has something to tell me. ?No,? she says. ?I said it would make me too sad to answer but it?s also???and she nods even as her voice breaks once more with tears???one of my favorite things to imagine.? And through the tears, a beaming, almost beatific smile stretches room-wide across her face. ?It?s actually one of my favorite places to visit.?
[From GQ]
There?s a lot of other stuff in the article in which Michelle?s hipster passport is stamped repeatedly but I found that stuff boring. But, several things struck me about the way Michelle deftly handled the questions about Heath: first, she?s re-imagined him, and she?s still in love with the memory she?s conjured of him, which may or may not be the reality of who he really was. Secondly, she doesn?t want to discuss the idea that both of them had moved on to other partners (in Heath?s case, multiple partners) after their split in 2007. She?s claimed ownership of Heath?s last years that way, for better or for worse.
Photos courtesy of Michael Thompson/GQ, GQ?s slideshow.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Critics Choice Fashion: Michelle Williams is gorgeous in black-and-white Chanel | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
|
|
|
|
|
As I mentioned before, I recently saw My Week With Marilyn, and I really was impressed with Michelle Williams? performance. I?m not fighting with you about her anymore, at least not about her talent. She?s talented, and her work as Marilyn Monroe was solid-to-great. I?ll be pleased if Michelle ends up with another Oscar nomination for Best Actress. But I?ll be kind of disappointed if she wins – I don?t think she should win. It was a good enough movie overall for her to win. But I?m happy to see her at all of the awards shows.
So here?s Michelle at last night?s Critics Choice Awards, where she lost to Viola Davis (who owned it). Michelle went with Chanel, from the 2012 Resort collection. Michelle memorably wore Chanel to last year?s Oscars too, and I absolutely loved her Oscar gown. I?m not completely in love with this gown, but it?s okay. It fits her beautifully and I like that she went for monochromatic black-and-white rather than a wispy, delicate, fragile pastel or barely-there metallic.
As for her styling – meh. I?m still happy that her hair is darker, but the cut is still too short, I think. She needs to grow out those itty-bitty bangs. She can still have short hair, she should just have it, like, a shaggy Mick Jagger cut. I?d like to see her with a different lipstick color too, I think. But one word about Michelle?s skin: PERFECTION. She has beautiful skin!! It looks flawless here, and it looked flawless in My Week With Marilyn too.
Also – I?m pretty sure Busy Phillips was just there as Michelle?s date. Busy is often Michelle?s date at these events, and I think their friendship and girly date nights are super-cute.
Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| | | 5.469.808
Photos Online+ 4.395 past week
1.797
Users Online | | |
| | | | | | | | We Salute
Robin Tunney
Photos of Robin Tunney will not count in your daily view limit, if you are a registered member
Tribute ends in
2 days | | |
| | | | | |
|
