<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, v for vendetta]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, v for vendetta]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/vforvendetta http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/vforvendetta <![CDATA[Getting Your Silvers Straight]]>
Page Six is having some trouble keeping their various Hollywood Silvers straight, with an item running today identifying V for Vendetta's producer as Ron Silver celebrated star of Timecop and the woefully shortlived Fox porn industry drama Skin instead of superproducer Joel Silver, the man who brought the world Swordfish (the movie, not the entree), and Ultimate Frisbee (the sport, not the movie). If you should run into either one at a function, we'd typically suggest printing and saving the above side-by-side to tell them apart; but let's face it from a few paces away and after a couple of glasses of chardonnay, we'd probably fall victim to an embarrassing misidentified producer faux pas, too. Best to simply corner them, and repeat "Love your work, Mr. Silver," until they grow weary of the gushy formalities and tell you to "Just call me Ron/Joel, alright?" seconds before ducking out, thereby relieving you of any unwanted awkwardness.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=156108&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Natalie Portman's Bad Hair Days]]> portmanhair.jpgBlissfully unaware of the unpleasant undertones of a young Jewish girl addressing a roomful of Germans about the varied pleasures of having one's hair shaved off, Natalie Portman recently told a group of reporters at the Berlin International Film Festival how much she enjoyed going follicle free for the shooting of V for Vendetta:

Natalie Portman says she fulfilled a long-standing ambition by shaving her head for the sci-fi thriller "V for Vendetta."

"I was really excited to get to shave my head _ it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse," Portman told reporters at the Berlin International Film Festival. "It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl."

However, "I wasn't used to being looked at so much," the 24-year-old actress said. "Walking down the street, I can usually blend in, and people really stare at you when you're a girl with a shaved head."

If we were one of the world's most exquisitely-featured and instantly recognizable actresses (sadly, we aren't) we would imagine being "looked at" would be a common occupational hazard, regardless of hair length. Still, we'll take Portman at her word, and assume her shorn do caused many a passerby head swivel and confused whisper, usually along the lines of "First the Princess Padme braided moose antlers, now this. Is she trying to de-hottify herself?"

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=154542&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Natalie Portman's Hair Is News]]>
Let's make sure we have this straight: Natalie Portman will let the V for Vendetta hair department shave her head and glue a strip of carpet down the middle because it makes sense for the role, but won't go topless when playing a stripper? OK, maybe this argument doesn't exactly track. We still have a lot of work to do before we've worked through our complicated feelings about Closer.

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