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Anne Hathaway Moves On to Underwear-Shopping Stage of Rebound

STV — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:25:54 EST

The new issue of Vogue features cover girl Anne Hathaway at the height of her powers: a likely Oscar nominee, newly single, two films on the way, and shopping for discount knickers.

It's a welcome diversion for reader and subject alike, who, for too long, have been treated to the media's limited view of Hathaway as merely the dog-abandoning, Senator-meeting ex ensnared in a lousy Italian boyfriend's Vatican-land baron delusion. We think it's really over now that the actress has finally made it to London for a bit of on-the-record, boutique-crashing catharsis:

"Look, she's buying cheap knickers!" somebody says. And, indeed, Hathaway is in the lingerie department, surveying the three-for-£7 panties in polka dots and funny florals—girly things. She's also interested in camisoles, jumpsuits (she tries on a strapless black corseted romper), and things that in her mind fall into the "lounge around" category. [...]

We're back to knickers for one last look. It's a psychologically charged moment. For the truth is that Hathaway recently split up with Raffaello Follieri, her boyfriend of four years, and is trying to replace all the clothes and underpinnings she associates with that relationship and that she has since tossed out—i.e., domestic apparel, those sweatpants and T-shirts and his/her sweaters in which you tackle crosswords and struggle for the remote control. "This is harder than I thought," she suddenly confesses. "I haven't done this yet. I don't know how I want to look when I lounge around."

Oh, Annie, you don't need Vogue for that. Ask the FBI — there's evidence.

The Awakening [Vogue]

Weed, Flops and Other Kevin Smith Tips For Pity Party of the Century

STV — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:46:35 EST

More than a month after the box-office immolation of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, the shellshock is finally wearing off for Kevin Smith. The self-pity, though? Not so much.

In an epic podcast recently undertaken with his longtime producer Scott Mosier, the filmmaker describes the initial instant he realized the scope of Zack and Miri's opening-day underperformance — that morning after Halloween, in a slo-mo fog that he acknowledges sent him retreating into the succor of his "weed cocoon," wondering why his comely, supportive wife hasn't yet left him for a more profitable auteur. Are you kidding, Kev? And miss out on the good times? Like, "Wes whatever" may have respect and success, but you won't hear about his toilet-pulverizing escapades on The Tonight Show. Buck up!

SModcast 68 [Quick Stop Entertainment]

Over at Postsecret, the leading online...

Mark — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:35:04 EST

Over at Postsecret, the leading online repository of anonymous confessions, a writer reveals that he or she welcomes the forced respite the strike provides from having to churn out crap that pays the bills. Of course, as discussed earlier, the conflicted scribe is probably also happy to have another excuse to put off filling up a blank Final Draft screen for a while. [Postsecret]

Travolta Vampirism Shocker! 'I Like To Fly At Night,' Says Creepy, Undead Star

Mark — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:40:03 EDT

In a shocking interview airing later tonight, Guantanamo-quality Extra interrogator Jerry "Dr. Answers" Penacoli inserts a series of bamboo shoots underneath Hairspray star John Travolta's exquisitely manicured fingernails until the enigmatic actor comes clean about his controversial bedtime, unexpectedly admitting under the duress of Penacoli's punishing, Geneva Convention-violating techniques that he is, in fact, a vampire: "I fly sometimes at night. I catch up on all sorts of business I have to do...I do my work out at night."

The full press release after the jump, for those strong enough of constitution to learn the truth uncovered by Extra, yet too impatient to wait until dinnertime.

JOHN TRAVOLTA ON RUMORS THAT HE IS NOCTURNAL (Los Angeles - June 19, 2007) - John Travolta sits down with "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli about his new film, "Hairspray." He set the record straight about reports he stays up all night - living a nocturnal life.
Travolta says, "Since I was five, I've always been nocturnal. My mother did theater, she'd come home at 2 in the morning and my dad and I would wait for her. I never got out of that habit."

About what he does late night, he continues, "I fly sometimes at night. I catch up on all sorts of business I have to do. I work out. I do my work out at night."

Extra TV [extra.warnerbros.com]