Get Giselle and Scarlett Naked!
Wanna go home with a nearly naked Scarlett Johansson or Gisele Bündchen?
Photos of the these glamorous beauties in various states of undress will be up for auction on May 7 during Allure magazine’s “Most Alluring Bodies” exhibit at Skylight in New York City.
Regan Cameron’s photo of Bündchen features the Brazilian beauty topless in jeans and a big floppy hat. But don’t go gettin’ all excited: She poses with her back to the camera.
As for Johansson, Annie Leibowitz captured the starlet lying on a couch in a pair of underwear and a beaded top. Also up for grabs is a never-before-seen shot by photographer Eve Arnold of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits.
The auction, hosted by Allure Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells, kicks off Skin Cancer Awareness Month and benefits New York University’s Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group.
Guess Who: Clint Eastwood Edition
Name the actress photographed above on the set of Clint Eastwood’s new movie. This one is pretty easy, unlike our past “Guess Who” posts. Answer.
Hints:
- She majored in film at New York University.
- Has the letter “H” tattooed on the inside of her left wrist.
- Her last name means “pretty” in French.
The answer is…
In Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling, Angelina Jolie plays a woman whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD. When it seems that her real son has been murdered by a child serial killer and the child returned admits to fraud, she takes her case to the city council and takes down the mayor, the police chief and several corrupt officers, concurrently sparking changes in the insanity legislation.
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Y: The Last Man creator Brian K. Vaughn Aspires to Direct Movies
Brian K. Vaughn wants to direct a feature film, but not the big screen adaptation of his popular Vertigo comic book series Y: The Last Man.
“I would like to direct, but much smaller things, along the lines of something I’ve done in comics where it’s much more personal and I would have complete control over and doesn’t involve a hundred million dollar budget like Y with planes falling out of the sky and people bleeding out of every orifice,” Vaughn told at Wondercon 2007.
Before becoming a comic book writer, Vaughn studied film at New York University.
“Do I want to direct? Yeah, very much so. But I’m pretty bad at it, which I probably shouldn’t announce because it would take me out of the running. I love it but I have no interest in directing Y: The Last Man, it’s just much too huge of an undertaking.� I think I’d just much rather turn that over to someone else.”
Y: The Last Man is currently set up at New Line Cinema where Vaughn was given the opportunity to draft the screenplay.
“I think most people are like ‘Why isn’t it an HBO series?’ Like, it can only be a television series to be done correctly. I never felt that way. Maybe because I’m the only person who knew exactly how Y ends and I’ve always been able to see it as something with a three act structure - something with a clear beginning middle and end,” explained Vaughn.
The Eisner Award winning writer also explained that the film version is much different from the comic book series:
“I just went back and started to reread stuff that I started writing probably when I was 25, when I first started working on the book - and all I see is ‘Oh my god this is terrible.’ It’s just aweful looking at those early issues. So I just found stuff that I wanted to fix and change,” explained Vaughn. “I took the themes that I loved, and there is all the characters that hopefuly you love, but it’s an entirely new story. It’s an entirely different medium, movies from comics, so I wanted to come up with something new so that people that just love the book aren’t bored. It’s like you’ve enjoyed it once, I have an obligation to give you something new.”
And while nothing is officially greenlit, that could change tomorrow.
“It’s a very slow road, these movies getting made,” said the writer. “Nothing could happen or you could hear a big announcement tomorrow.”
Alison Lohman Biography
Date of Birth: September 18, 1979
A native of Palm Springs, California, Alison Lohman always wanted to perform, despite her lack of family showbiz connections. She took acting and dance lessons, and by the age of nine, landed her first professional role playing the youngest daughter Gretl onstage in The Sound of Music at Palm Desert’s McCallum Theater. Two years later, she won the title role in the musical Annie and was awarded with the Desert Theater League’s award for Most Outstanding Actress in a Musical.
Presented with an award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts upon graduation from high school, Lohman was given a scholarship to the New York University School of the Arts, but decided instead to move to Los Angeles and begin her career. Her first jobs were guest appearances on the television series Pacific Blue and 7th Heaven.
Her feature film debut came in the forgettable alien flick Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998), and the following year, she appeared in no less than three features — The Thirteenth Floor, The Auteur Theory and The Million Dollar Kid — as well as a guest appearance on the television series Crusade, and a continuing role in four episodes of the show Safe Harbor.
In 2000 Lohman landed a regular role on the new television series Tucker, as well as the lead role in a TV movie called Sharing the Secret, in which she played a teenager suffering from anorexia. Later that year she landed a sizeable role in the feature Delivering Milo, alongside Albert Finney and Bridget Fonda.
The following year she appeared in Alex in Wonder (2001) as well as landing a recurring role as the teenage daughter on the TV series Pasadena. In 2002, she appeared in the forgettable White Boy, but also landed the plum role as Michelle Pfeiffer’s teenage daughter in White Oleander (2002). Lohman delivered a heart-wrenching performance as the young girl who sees her mother arrested for murder, then goes through a variety of foster homes while still being manipulated by her imprisoned mother. The movie was her break into the big leagues, and she moved on to her next role in Ridley Scott’s Matchstick Men (2003), starring opposite Nicolas Cage as a con artist’s teenage daughter.
Lohman lives in Los Angeles, but travels home often to visit her family in Palm Springs. Her hobbies include horseback riding, ballet and playing guitar.
Filmography:
Big Fish (2003)
Matchstick Men (2003)
White Oleander (2002)
White Boy (2002)
Alex in Wonder (2001)
The Million Dollar Kid (1999)
The Auteur Theory (1999)
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998)