December 2009
13 posts
“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe...”
– The Beach
I forget how much I love Alex Garland. And then I remember.
“1. Find a subject you care about.
2. Do not ramble, though.
3. Keep it simple....”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via shaneguiter) (via bethlehems)
this post is fantastic. →
fuckyeahohnotheydidnt:
sugarspun:
aseriesofserendipities:
it’s the best celebrity candids of the year.
“I walked into the theatre hoping for a nice evening and came out as a hard-line...”
– The New Yorker, on the first Sex and the City movie. Which I quite loved, but not blindly.
“[SJP] plays Carrie, the writer whose voice-overs keep us up to speed with the...”
– ARE YOU KIDDING ME NEW YORKER
“Everyone has Samantha, or had her at some point; so she would like us to...”
– The New Yorker, on Sex and the City, The Movie (#1)
“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what...”
– John Mayer
from an interview in the sunday times, 20/12
Interviewer: What is most important about your characters in 'It’s Complicated'?
Alec Baldwin: Jake is not a guy who wants to have a fling with his ex-wife because he’s bored. This is a man who is still in love with his ex-wife. My job on this movie was to make her — Meryl’s character — feel loved, because my character is in love with her. He married somebody else and he made a mistake, and now he wants to come back.
Meryl Streep: For me, it was just to let myself be pulled, pulled, pulled into it — even though I knew it was bad for me — and try to not get lost.
Baldwin: I don’t think Jane is primed to even let Jake in until she finds she has feelings for another guy. She’s ready to be with someone, it’s been 10 years, but when she sees him, she panics and she goes back to someone she knows.
Streep: That’s the smartest thing you ever said, and, by the way, from now on I’m saying that was my motivation, even if it wasn't.
Baldwin: I have spoken to a lot of men about this. You are lying there in bed in the last desiccated, arid months of your bad marriage. You’re lying there hoping a meteor hits that house and kills everybody in it. You can’t take another night of the tumbleweeds blowing through the bedroom, and you can’t eat another pint of ice cream and watch late-night news shows. You fantasise about a woman you want to be with. And Jake is a guy who goes out and meets and marries that woman. But by the time you have gotten out of the one marriage, gone out on your own, identified and seduced and married the other woman, a few years have gone by. All of a sudden, you’re 51 years old and your new wife is 31, and you’ve changed, and you’re thinking, “There are a lot of things about my ex-wife I really miss.” I know a lot of men who are like Jake. They think they want a certain thing, but by the time they get it, they’ve changed and they don’t really want it. They want...
Streep: They want to go home. It’s all about going home. And the longing to make that right.
Ask an Academic: Why Women Have Sex |... →
ljm:
gillianmae:
What’s the next frontier in sex research?
Buss: If I were to single out one domain, it would be the female sexual orgasm. There needs to be more research to determine whether it has an evolved function, or possibly several evolved functions (or possibly no function, as some argue). When this is discovered with definitive scientific evidence, it will make for big news. I’m...
Why Women Want Angelina Jolie's Life →
I can still remember a Tonight Show appearance where she was promoting Girl, Interrupted. Leno, I think, brought up Lisa Rowe (the real-life person Jolie portrayed in Girl) — when asked what she thought of Rowe, Jolie looked straight into the camera and said, “Find me.”