Kate Winslet Is Old
Just Jared have got some snaps of the beautiful Kate Winslet looking old and wrinkly on the set of The Reader in Germany. The film follows a man (Ralph Fiennes) who has been sexually obsessed with an older woman (Winslet) for years. However, it turns out she is prosecuted for Nazi war crimes when it is revealed that she was a guard at Auschwitz!
So not only is Kate Winslet playing an old women, she is playing a bitch of an old women who makes younger men sexually attracted to her and was a part time Nazi. I demand they give Kate the Oscar now! She’s been nominated 5 times and its about time she won one. Heavy make-up helped Charlize Theron, sex helped Halle Berry and war helps about everything when it comes to Oscars. This role is all three rolled into one!
For more pics of Kate Winslet looking old, click her grey hair below!
Fear Itself: Spooked
This is what is fun about anthology shows, and why I can never understand why they never do better in the ratings. As much as people bitch about and resist taking a chance on long-form new serialized programs like the ’05-’06 trinity of Invasion, Surface and Threshold, you would think they would embrace a series where each episode truly stands alone. With a show like this, your investment into it won’t be impacted in any way if the network pulls the plug after only thirteen episodes, or even just four.
And yet, anthology shows tend to struggle even more than heavily serialized fare. In fact, Fear Itself got its ass handed to it by Swingtown in the head-to-head premieres last week. The big question is, with the “not-so-good” nature of the premiere, how many people came back to see this much improved second episode, and how many will stick around for Daniel Knaupf’s outstanding episode next week? While last week was a poorly written and acted “monster of the week” boobfest, this time we got a well constructed good old-fashioned haunting.
I liked the set-up to get us into this haunting. Eric Roberts played a police officer stripped of his badge for essentially killing a suspect to get more information out of him. Then we cut to years later and now he’s a private investigator, spending his time taking pictures of cheating spouses and extorting his clients when he gets the chance to. With the background established, he was hired to watch a house overnight so that he might catch a cheating husband, and the client (Cynthia Watros) even suggested he go to the abandoned house across the street to set up as he wouldn’t be bothered there.
And just like that, we got the character into the haunted house. From there, I really enjoyed the twist of the house he was set up in, giving him visions of events occurring in the house he was watching; visions for him alone, as his partner (Larry Gilliard Jr.) who was set up down the street in a van never experienced any of it. The effects on the spectral manifestations were spot on, and the tension was very well handled. About the only thing I would have appreciated more was a true sense of danger for Roberts’ character.
All in all, though, the hauntings seemed to be more about addressing the sins of his youth as channeled through his adult behavior. Of course we were going to tap back into the incident that got him removed from the force, but even more compelling for me was the ultimate sin committed as a result of a childhood accident. In a way, his emotional and psychological issues emanate almost completely as a result of what his father forced him to do.
Good horror pulls us into the psyche of our victim and a good haunting is as much psychological as it is just violence and gore (see last week’s “The Sacrifice” for just such a lack of depth). “Spooked” gave us disturbing images, from Roberts’ father jamming bullets into his gums to the ever-changing images on the wall, and a complex back story connecting all of the disparate elements by the end. But it was the personal connection to those images by both Roberts and Watros that made them all the more compelling.
Again, the only thing that could have made it more “scary” would be if the specters came across as true threats to Roberts. As it was, they appeared to simply be there to show him things he didn’t want to remember, freak him out a bit and think about what kind of a person he was. The real and physical dangers came only from the encounters between real people within the episode.
The potential in the story is such that it could have been made a lot more intense and exciting by increasing the threat factor from the hauntings themselves and doing more with Gilliard’s character. As it was, his role was essentially to sit in the van and say to Roberts, “Nope, I don’t see anything.” I get that it was Roberts who was the target of the hauntings, but to pull his partner and friend into the danger, even if he remained skeptical to the whole thing, would have increased the tension and the stakes tremendously for the already embattled Roberts.
In the end, though, we got a typically satisfying horror short story conclusion. Lessons were learned, in some cases, but as is often the case, these lessons are learned too little too late and we must pay for the mistakes we’ve made in life. And as we pay for those mistakes, we in turn corrupt the next generation of innocents, so the cycle can continue. Maybe I’m over-analyzing things, but I’ve read a lot of horror stories and novels, and seen a lot of horror shows and movies and I just found this to be a wholly satisfying experience of the genre.
We Love Charlize Theron’s Filthy Mouth
She’s been a monster on film, but we didn’t know Charlize Theron talked like one, as she does in British GQ.
Of course, it might just the topic: the tabloid attentions of the paparazzi. In short, she’s not a fan and doesn’t think being in the tabs is part of her job description or of anyone else’s.
We’ll let her explain…
“It comes across as this really sad need for approval. I’ve heard people make comments like, ’You don’t really want to be in the tabloids, but you need to be for your career.’ They believe it’s actually important. It’s not. It’s ugly,” she says.
“Like, your life belongs to us now? That’s the deal? I didn’t get that memo. It wasn’t sent to me and I didn’t sign it. So, f–k you.”
We’re totally going to use that line on our landlord next time he’s all up in our face about “his” rent. Whatever, bitch!
Via Faded Youth Blog
Kimora Lee Simmons’ Bitchin’ Advice for Women
Kimora Lee Simmons doesn’t mind if you think she’s a bitch.
“As a woman, if you’re outspoken and you know what you want, you’re a bitch,” the Style Network reality-show star says in the new issue of Giant magazine. “And if you don’t know what you want, then you’re a ditz. It’s very hard to gain men’s respect, and men in the industry disrespected me all the time.”
But Simmons is the one laughing all the way to the bank. The 33-year-old former model and mother of two is creative officer of Phat Fashions, the company started by her ex, Russell Simmons, which now includes Baby Phat, Phat Farm, Phat Farm Kids and the new juniors’ label Fabulosity.
“Many [women] don’t know if they should speak up and run the risk of looking stupid or bitchy,” Simmons says. “I always say, ‘Go for bitchy’ ’cause they’re gonna say you’re a bitch no matter what.’ If you’re smart and you speak up, you’re a bitch. But at least you get what you want.”
Simmons, however, is a bit more reserved when it comes to dishing about her Oscar-nominated actor and Calvin Klein underwear-model boyfriend Djimon Hounsou. Although mum on details, she does say, “I’m just happy and grateful to go home to my kids and a man that loves and accepts me for meglamorous or not.”