“I want to do everything. I would definitely love to take on something that is physically totally different from what I look like and what I’m used to doing, do something like a ‘Monster.’ I have to push myself and try something I’ve never tried before, put myself out there, be vulnerable and really take a huge risk.” – The Jessica Biel campaign to be taken seriously kicks into high gear as she admits she would even, *gasp*, ugly herself up for a role if it would earn her an ounce of respect. [MTV]
“I think we’re one of the best bands making records today, and do I think we should be selling more records than Maroon 5? Yeah, because I think we’re better. That’s if it were a just world. It’s not a just world. Actually, why don’t we put The Bravery in there instead? No, let’s not use The Bravery.” – With success finally within grasp Spoon’s Britt Daniels long-dormant ego finally arises. Their new album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was originally going to be called both Trouble Minx and Fish Face. [A/V Club]
“You used to have to die before assorted hacks started munching your remains and modelling a new version of you out of their own excreta.” – ’60s counter culture feminist author Germaine Greer is naturally angry about the film adaptation of the”The Hippie Hippe Shake.” Based on Richard Neville’s memoir as his stint as the editor of the Australian hippie magazine Oz, Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy had signed on for lead roles and playing Greer in the film is model-turned-actress Emily Booth [Guardian]
“Everyone’s lost in a sea of special effects. I’m not against anything as a tool—it just shouldn’t be a way of life. I think a digital enema would do the most good for everyone right now.” Legendary cinematographer and Woody Allen favorite Gordon Willis thinks your CGI-infested movies are worthless and could use a rectal cleansing. [TONY]
“I had no interest in Edie Sedgwick. I barely knew who she was.” – After failing right out of the gate due to multiple extenuating circumstances [Harvey Weinstein, crooked producers, rushed delusions of Oscar grandeur] “Factory Girl” attempts to get a second life on the expanded, directors-cut DVD, however director George Hickenlooper inadvertently admits that maybe he wasn’t the best person on planet earth to make a biopic of Edie Sedgwick? [New York Times]
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