Category: Celebrity

  • Brown Eyed Girls Got Away with Warm Hole~

    Yup~ no typo there.

    They do have indeedy a song called Warm Hole (웜홀, womhol), which everyone’s trying to pretend it’s Wormhole. Considering the song, I wonder how that was gonna fly on a ‘live’ performance, but they did.

    The only minus? Lipsync. I’m sure they can come up with a way that JeA doesn’t have to do a choreography and just focus on the vocals, no? Music Core performance of Hot Shot, anyone? She was even great with the Sixth Sense bit. Nothing tops that Music Core performance. Legendary.

  • Tabu for Filmfare Nov’15 by Vivek Bhatia

    It was Tabu’s birthday yesterday, so happy birthday!

    The web was flooded with wishing-well graphics and trivia posts of some of the same-old same-old trivia bits. The best one was Jitesh Pillai [1][2] who shared some photos of the new issue of Filmfare Magazine– Tabu has a couple of pages in a shoot by Vivek Bhatia [Facebook], there doesn’t seem to be an interview, just a photoshoot of four shots with short texts.

    — May 8th, 2016 edit —

    I don’t know why I was under the impression that Vivek Bhatia was in charge of the photoshoot. Correction: these photos were by Abhay Singh.

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    She gets up with the morning’s prayer on her lips… and the night’s pleasure in her eyes.

    Is that suggestive or is that suggestive?

    And the cherry on top? The Filmfare issue also includes a short 10-trivia article on Vidya Balan with photos by Rohan Shrestha [used here][and here]. However, it doesn’t seem to be connected to this mysterious photoshoot that I loved so much. My favorite bit about that?

    If there are no subtitles in an English film, then I don’t enjoy watching it. The actors speak so softly that I can’t understand the dialogue. I hate to miss even a single word.

    There’s so many mumblers, nowadays. I do watch everything with subtitles— English, Spanish, French, Portuguese… in that order, and if there’s none available in those, I’ll try to wing it in Chinese.

     

  • You know these eyes~ by laistakanashi

    We haven’t seen Yu Aoi fanart in quite some time, and I ended up seeing this doing the rounds on Twitter~

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    You know these eyes, you know those freckles~

    It’s lovely captured by laistakanashi on Instagram.

  • Girly Zhou Xun, Kwai Lun Mei + Tang Wei for Rene Liu’s Wish You Well

    My limit for sap is through the roof, as I got all warm and fuzzy when I found this song Rene Liu recorded with mah gurls Zhou Xun, Kwai Lun Mei and Tang Wei (whom I’ve just recently warmed up). They’re all super cute and super dork and super sappy together. I love it.

    The song is called Wish You Well (我要你好好的), a single of Rene’s latest album of the same name, but it’s one of the last songs to get a video. The song Murmur of the Hearts (念念) [MV] is also on this album. I thought maybe it was for a movie, but doesn’t seem likely.

    Happy listening~ DORK AWAY!

  • Konkona Sen Sharma for Nayantara’s Necklace

    I’m enjoying all these liquor short films [1] that are coming up. I don’t even drink. This time around Indian actresses Konkona Sen Sharma and Tillotama Shome are two neighbor friends despite their seemingly different personalities for a short sponsored by Seagram’s Royal Stag.

    Directed by Jaydeep Sarkar, the short seems to come as… sort of a clash with the image of a whisky brand. But I’ll take it.

    The struggle of concealing one’s self.

    Really hard-hitting ending.

  • Yu Aoi for Daigo Matsui’s Azumi Haruko wa Yukuefumei

    7 years — SEVEN FREAKING YEARS! — after starring on Yuki Tanada’s One Million Yen Girl, Yu Aoi is finally going to star in a new movie as a lead. The lucky production? An live-action adaptation of Yamauchi Mariko’s (山内 マリコ) book AZUMI HARUKO wa Yukuefumei (アズミ・ハルコは行方不明), which translates to Azumi Haruko Is Missing, which will be directed (and most likely adapted) by Daigo Matsui (松居大悟).

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    My Japanese is going to the gutter. lol

    BUT! The internet (meaning me) is all excited about it! Actually, I see a lot of tweets on it, but I’m too lazy to read or google-translate them, so I will just pretend we’re all excited about this.

    YesAsia has an “English title,” and lists it as Lonely Girl Has Gone.

    I don’t know what the book is about, if you do- tell me. Other essential info? Apparently it started shooting in mid-September, and it’s set for a 2016 release.

    Sources: Natalie, Yahoo JP. Big version of this photo on Eiga.

  • Nicole Kidman for Interview Mag Oct’15 by Fabien Baron

    After what seems a positive stint doing theater in London (once again), Kidman is prepping for the promotions of the American adaptation of the Oscar-winning Argentinean film Secret in their Eyes, which also stars Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

    Here’s a nice interview, conducted by Lee Daniels (who gushes about her), with some very nice photographs by Fabien Baron.

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    Go straight to Interview Magazine’s website for it and more photos.

  • Chang Chen for Femina China Sept’15 by Sun Jun

    A gorgeous of a man with photos by a photographer that knows gorgeousness xD

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    I didn’t know Femina had a Chinese version!

  • Yu Aoi + Anne Suzuki for Filt Feb’2015 by Fumihito Katamura

    I’m on a high after watching Shunji Iwai’s The Case of Hana & Alice, which is honestly just wonderful. The film opened back in February with both Yu Aoi and Anne Suzuki back in their roles and promoting the film. I ran into a short interview they did for Filt for their Feb-Mar’15 edition, which feature this beautiful picture of the both.

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    … and their 3D pencil doodle.

    All photos by Fumihito Katamura.

  • Chang Chen for Esquire HK

    This is an oldie pic of Chang Chen for Esquire Hong Kong photoshoot published back in December 2014, credited to KAON [Instagram].

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    More photos on Esquire HK. And here’s a video of the shooting done by BOKEHK Creations.

    There’s also a shoot and video of Aaron Kwok for the August’15 edition, shot by Kaon R Workshop, and sharing because- WHY NOT?