Here at GFY, we are often asked, “Don’t you girls like ANYTHING?” The answer, of course, is no. We hate kittens and babies and Christmas. We hate presents and kissing and ice cream. We hate lip gloss and Luke Perry and football.
Listen, of course we like things. We like lots of things. I like all those things I just mentioned, especially the ice cream. But the website is not called Hey, I Love Your Outfit.com. That being said, sometimes we like to feature people wearing things we love (especially if they often wear things we don’t), and sometimes we like to give a shout out to people who almost always look good. (I believe the kids used to call this “giving props.”) Today, it’s the latter…
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2008 May 25
Well Played: Kate Winslet
I know the Oscars only ended like um, not even two weeks ago. And I know it’s absolute insanity to begin talking about next year’s Best Actress race, but what can I say? I’m certifiable.
Now, you can’t always foresee an Ellen Page or a Marion Cotillard nomination. The best you can do is predict your picks based on pedigree. And the following actresses seem to have the right genetic makeup to make them contenders for a nomination in 2009.
Continue reading Your Best Actress Academy Award Nominees… of 2009
Let’s assume that Kate Winslet gets nominated for the Oscars again next year, a safe bet considering she usually makes the cut whenever she’s in a worthy film.
Even though she’s only 32 years old, she’s already been nominated and lost five times — that’s a record tally for someone her age. Voters adore her so much that she often gets nominated even when her equally compelling costars don’t: Leo DiCaprio (Titanic) and Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
However, if Winslet gets nommed and is defeated again, she’ll tie another record — Oscar’s biggest loser among actresses — a dubious title currently shared by Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter.
This upcoming year Winslet has two shots at new bids. One is opposite DiCaprio as lover again, this time in Revolutionary Road, director Sam Mendes’ drama about a disillusioned suburban couple faking a happy life. The last time Mendes — who is wed to Winslet in real life — had a film with a similar theme in the derby, it won five Oscars, including best picture of 1999 (American Beauty). It almost won best actress too, but Annette Bening was eclipsed in the home stretch by Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry) after Bening won the equivalent kudo at SAG.
Winslet will also be considered for her lead role in The Reader as a mysterious German woman whose secret complicity in the Holocaust gets exposed. The latter comes from the creative team that gave us the overhyped The Hours (director Stephen Daltry, scripter David Hare), which nonetheless swept up kudos galore in 2002, including lead actress Oscar and Golden Globe and BAFTA trophies for Nicole Kidman.
Winslet may be partially to blame for her tragic Oscar fate so far, considering she might have won in 1998 if she hadn’t turned down a role that earned an Academy Award for Gwyneth Paltrow: Shakespeare in Love.
Source: The Envelope
2008 May 18
“Anglo Saxon Attitudes” DVD Release
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (mini-series) — Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet appear in the Andrew Davies-written U.K. Mini-Series
Available in North America on July 1st
| Posted by David Lambert | 5/18/2008 |
The classic British story Anglo Saxon Attitudes, a novel by Angus Wilson, was adapted into a mini-series for U.K. television in 1992 by master storyteller Andrew Davies. The 3-episode production stars Richard Johnson and Tara Fitzgerald, and you can spot both Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace) and Kate Winslet (Titanic, Finding Neverland) in one of her first roles.
On July 1st Acorn Media will release a 2-DVD set running 229 minutes, that includes the a Biography of screenwriter Andrew Davies, Program Previews, and Cast Filmographies among the extras. Cost is $39.99 SRP in the USA, and CA$49.99 SRP in Canada. Here is the studio description of this release, followed by the box art:
A darkly comic, take-no-prisoners satire, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes skewers British social and academic hypocrisy to the very core. Richard Johnson (The Camomile Lawn) stars as Gerald Middleton, a distinguished, retired historian coming to terms with his life’s folly.As a student, Middleton witnessed the unearthing of the Melpham idol, a pagan fertility figure that electrified modern medieval scholarship by turning up in the grave of a 7th-century bishop. He also began an affair with Dollie (Tara Fitzgerald) — the fiancée of his best friend, the man who had privately confessed to planting the idol as a hoax. While trying to reveal the truth, Middleton wrestles with his monstrously overbearing wife and their three emotionally dysfunctional children.
Based on the novel by Angus Wilson, the story teems with outlandish characters engaged in all manner of deceit, especially the most damning of all: self-deception.
Source: TVShowsOnDVD.com
2008 May 15
Mother’s Day: magazine scan
Kate and Mia made an appearance in a Brazil’s magazine, which featured tons of celebrity mums for the Mother’s Day edition. Kate cites Mia’s comment on her cooking (English translation included):
GALLERY LINKS:
• Magazines: Caras International – May 9, 2008
2008 May 01
Here’s Hoping
by Monica Shapiro written for richardyates.org
My sister Sharon and I went to the movie set this summer. There in all their Yatesian glory, were Frank and April not understanding each other, understanding each other too well. DiCaprio and Winslet were perfect. Mendes seems to be succeeding in bringing the book to life in this further medium — non-readers will be able to see the Wheelers, and Howard Givings, and Mrs. Givings, and to contemplate life on Yatesian terms. Brilliant casting, a screenplay that seems to have left well enough alone, and a director who seems to get it, the humor as well as the tragedy.
It is impossible for me to imagine only knowing the film version of a book, and I can’t help hoping everybody wants the experience to be available both ways; but how miraculous is it, that an artist’s great lifelong desire should be granted; that people should listen to him, and continue to know the people he gave voice to, forever. That is what Hollywood can do for literature.
For all his dismal takes on things, Richard Yates lived on hope. On his best days, he was writing forward to the world. People would hear what he had to say, because he was saying it well and speaking from his open heart. He knew that unglamorous honesty would always interest some in every generation. The present didn’t matter.
And to that, Dad’s reaction would have been: “That’s crazy man’s talk. Mental wards are full of guys ‘writing forward to the world'”
2008 Apr 01
Articles about Kate in Germany
For shooting with Kate Winslet (Titanic) traffic society Görlitz next week puts her timetable on the head. For the filming of Bernhard Schlink’s best-seller The Reader the British actress on the second week-end in March rises in a historical streetcar. “Nothing goes as well as before”, said small farmer with oxen of the Connex Sachsen GmbH (?) on Thursday. He meets by order the VGG the arrangements with the film people. The team around the British director Stephen Daldry takes from the 7th to the 9th March Görlitzer rails in fitting.
The action plays in the post-war German land where 15-year-old pupil Michael Berg falls in love with much older conductor Hanna Schmitz. As a law student he meets her years later in the courtroom again when she sits with a war crimes trial as an earlier concentration camp supervisor on the dock. Kate Winslet and the German up-and-coming actor David Kross crisp show the unequal pair in the film. Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth belong to the occupation furthermore. (ut/dpa)
