Having recently been named the next recipient of a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, Jennifer Aniston is moving on to the next stop on the certified legendary actor train: a visit to "Inside The Actors' Studio."
With nearly two decades of Hollywood dominance under her belt -- and a new career direction with her upcoming raunchfest of a film, "Horrible Bosses" -- Aniston took time to reflect on the role that truly launched her to superstardom.
"It's one of the greatest jobs I ever had," Aniston said of her NBC sitcom, "Friends." "It gave me everything. It gave me this ridiculously blessed life and career and taught me so much, and it's the best time I ever had."
The love she felt for the show made it quite difficult to film that final episode.
"It was just awful. The last scene, we just wept, cried our eyes out, in front of the whole show," she said. "A couple of us stayed really late and we crawled up to the roof of stage 24 and we drank champagne and just watched the sunrise. It was really wonderful."
When it came to launching a movie career, one of her first huge hits was "The Breakup," with Vince Vaughn. In it, she played one half of a couple that splits up, but loves their apartment so much, ends up cohabitating -- very gingerly. While her emotion for the show informed her final day on "Friends," it was her personal life -- (see: Pitt, Brad) -- that helped her make her "Break Up" performance memorable.
"It was just a beautiful story about a couple breaking up. And I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue. And I sort of honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of exercise some of that," she said. "I enjoyed it. It really enjoyed it. You would think otherwise, because even the producers were like, 'I don't know if we should ask you to do this,' but I was like, why not? Turn the page, let's move on."
High school never truly ends, its lessons and laugh, taunts and first times living forever in memories. Those years are a shared (sometimes unfortunately so) experience, so many hands holding on to the electric fence at once, and so movies that touched hearts during that shared adolescence quickly become beloved classics -- and those that can cater to both the emotions of those that can most directly relate, and the viewer looking back at that time, well, those are the stories that stick.
FIrst time director David Robert Mitchell, who to this point has only completed two short films, looks to capture both that present pain and yearning reminiscence in his debut feature, "The Myth of the American Sleepover." A sort of mini-"Love Actually" story, it follows a number of interconnected story lines about teenagers doing their best to grasp on to the last days of the summer -- and make it count for something heavier than pool parties.
"Sleepover" stars a largely unknown cast that is already gaining special critical notice: aside from being a nice metaphor for the sense of invisibility during high school, the group won the Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast at the 2010 South By Southwest competition.
Filmed in Michigan, near Mitchell's childhood home, it drew freely from his own memories and classic teenage films, he told the New York Times.
"I embraced a lot of things, even some of the clichés, that happen in teen films," he told the paper. "The approach was to try to show them in a more natural way."
Here's the synopsis (via /Film); below that, check out the trailer. And for more information and a (beautiful) review of the film, click over to Pajiba.
Stacey Dash stars alongside Lisa Raye in VH1′s popular drama series “Single Ladies.” The sexy 40+ starlet reinvigorated her acting career as Val, a hopeful ‘I love, love’ kind of girl. Stacey is featured in Runway Magazine where she discusses staying in shape, upcoming projects and her fashion sense.
On how she stays in shape
I eat healthy, I run and I work out with a personal trainer who does a very strenuous, athletic workout with me four to five time a week.
On her character Val’s fashion sense
Val’s fashion style is constantly evolving. It’s inspired by iconic fashion figures of the past, and she puts a contemporary spin on it. [Fashion consultant] Anthony Williams and I have total control when it comes to the vision of Val’s style.
On her upcoming projects
I’m a mother, so I’m focused on my children and am working on a few projects I have in the making. At the moment I’m building my battered women shelter task force and working on a skincare line and lifestyle brand. I also have a book coming out called “How to Stay Dashing,” which should be released by the fall.
He's Natalie Portman's first child, and, if rumors are true, he has a very symbolic and orderly name.
A report at Israel Hayom relays that the Israeli TV show "Good Evening with Guy Pines," revealed that Portman named her and fiance Benjamin Millepied's first son, born in June, Alef, which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Portman, of course, is a native Israeli, having originally been given the name Natalie Hershlag.
The report on the TV show aired last month; The Huffington Post also received a tip last month that Portman had indeed named her son Alef, but her representatives declined to confirm. HuffPost has reached out once again for comment, and will update when more is known.
This weekend, Sean Penn took to the beach in Malibu, showing off his fit physic and his fetching new lady, Stacey Koplin.
Bauer-Griffin snapped photos of the new pair walking along the surf together. Penn and Koplin looked relaxed and comfortable on the sandy shore. Penn later showed off a very toned chest and the two ended the day with a jet-ski ride.
For more photos of Penn and Koplin's beachside stroll, click over to Bauer-Griffin
There are few things guaranteed in the upside down, always changing world of Hollywood, but here's one thing you can bank on: a successful film, if at all possible, will get a sequel.
And as the summer moves forward, "Bridesmaids" is becoming more than just a success.
A big opening weekend got the speculation started, but having just passed "Sex and the City" as the highest grossing R-rated female-driven comedy of all time, there's little doubt that Universal will be hungry for another helping of the Kristen Wiig-starring, Paul Feig-directed and Judd Apatow-produced laugh factory (with names like those, was there any doubt it'd be a hit?).
Thus far, no green light has been given, but Feig already is licking his chops to get it made -- if the script is worthwhile.
"It's not officially been moved toward, but I'd be very open to it," he told Movieline. "It would just have to be as good or better than this one. What you don't want to do is the one that ruins the memory of the first one. But nothing would make me happier if we could make another one with this amazing cast, and people go, 'That's awesome!' If it's as good or as better than the first one, that would be fantastic. Because everything around it was great -- the cast, the people behind the scenes, the stories we're telling, the fact that we get to do movies for and with hugely talented women. What could be better than that? It would be great to carry that on, but, again, it has to be high quality."
Feig made similar comments back in May, when he wasn't quite sure how well the film would do at the box office.
"Who knows? I mean, it depends how we do in the next couple weeks, but I know there's definitely ... it's already been brought up," he told NY Magazine. "So, um, you know, when you get a group that's this deep and this good, it's a crime to not use them again. You just want to make sure that you do it as well as you did the first one and try to make it better, even. So, we're up for the challenge."
