Category: Celebrity

  • Evan Rachel Wood for Flaunt by Yu Tsai

    Crazy good looking photo by Yu Tsai.

    Evan Rachel Wood by Yu Tsai

    What’s the deal with Wood? Oh, man… I used to be a big fan during her Once and Again days, I even rented that Little Secrets movie (with David Gallagher whom I had the biggest crush on… and ultimately dated Poor Man’s Angelina Megan Fox *eek!*, and Michael Angarano… who now dates Kristen Stewart (?)) – Anyway, I was a big fan when Thirteen came out… I was in Vancouver and I got to see it in theaters! LOL’ I thought I had seen the best shit ever, xD – I even own it on DVD… and then they came, the Lolita roles~ one after the other, I just got sort of bored of it.

    Pretty Persuasion, Upside of Anger, Down in the Valley, Running with Scissors (with Ryan Murphy, Gwyneth and Mary Cherry! LOL) – but I got tired.
    And the whole Marilyn Manson business, with the VonTeese look. Tiring.

    However, in 2007 she did King of California (with Michael Douglas), The Life Before her Eyes (with Uma) and Across the Universe, which I thought were pretty okay, so I got interested again. Add to that, The Wrestler and I’m sold.

    ANYWAY, enough crap talk. Some more photos below the break.

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  • Tsk, Tsk~ Photoshop…

    I am a geek!
    I use Photoshop like crazy.

    Nowadays, I take loads more photographs than my student days, but to be honest, I hate re-touching photographs to get rid of wrinkles… or how I like to call them, expression lines.

    I love funny faces, big smiles… but then again, I also delete minor things like distracting marks (if it’s too distracting) and choose over-exposed for light purposes, as well as soft light to decrease the hard shadows that make wrinkles pop out~ after all, women don’t like to see their wrinkles

    black and white also works wonders~

    one of the reasons why I love this photo of Heidi Klum, though this photo of Marion Cotillard is also a good one of a different type~ and just for the sake of crazy good looking faces, here’s Carmen Kass.

    and Greta Garbo during her 1945 days~ I’ll love you forever, Greta xD

    Anyway, what’s up with this post you say?

    Well, photographer Peter Lindbergh speaks a bit about on this article by The New York Times – Smile and “Say No Photoshop” –  and I have some pics to illustrate his views… of not-retouched models! *legasp!*

    “My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today,” Mr. Lindbergh said in an e-mail exchange. “Heartless retouching,” he wrote, “should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”

    Cindy Crawford by Peter Lindbergh

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  • Ueno Juri to Itsutsu no Kaban Promo!

    … or “Ueno Juri and the 5 Bags” – whatever your pick on names is~

    I think I’ll have to tag this different. O_o

    Juri Ueno and the 5 Bags - Title

    Anyway~~~ Trailers are out!
    Exciting! Funny Juri, Singing Juri!!
    Like I’ve said before, I love this WOWOW projects.
    Please WOWOW release Itsutsu no Kaban (plus One Million Yen Girl, and Camouflage) with English subs!

    You’ll appreciate it… at least mildly. LOL

    Promos after the break~
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  • Wet Juri Ueno on Shiseido Ads

    Juri Ueno - Shiseido Cosmetics

    Wet hair, that is…
    minds of the gutter, s’il vous plait~

    You can check all hi-res photos over here.

  • When you ask me to fangirl…

    I’ll fangirl, but I doubt Isabelle Huppert would appreciate that fangirling. In fact, when I fangirl – I don’t gush. I do the opposite. I will not bother you. It’s a very fine line for me from ignoring someone because I don’t really care, to try to ignore someone because I know they don’t want to be disturbed.

    Blame my mom for it. LOL

    Anyway, I got to see Isabelle Huppert pretty up close.

    The whole “people don’t shove your camera onto her face” thing didn’t work out here. Everyone was flashing her(with their cameras, not the other type of flashing… though that’d be hilarious),
    but I was at bay.

    So here is a photo-chronic LOL

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  • Winslet on a Miniseries Version of Mildred Pierce

    Joan Crawford - Mildred PierceIt’s been announced that Kate Winslet will be in a new adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel Mildred Pierce. This time around a miniseries… possibly involving HBO, directed by the Far from Heaven (Julianne Moore) director Todd Haynes. HBO does pretty good miniseries…

    but I dunno how to feel~~~

    Before, the novel was adapted into the movie that earned Fab Joan Crawford her Oscar for Best Actress in 1945.

    I loved the movie. It came with my Joan Crawford movie collection, and it made me want to slap Veda so so SO bad~~~ I’m fascinated by the way Crawford led her life… she took it all, man. Until the end.

    They don’t make them like that any longer. Stars love to bitch now. They want their privacy, but do nothing. They love the attention, but they bitch. That’s how they make them now…

    As you may also know… I’m also fascinated by Greta Garbo. Fell in love with the both of them. Garbo gave it all up for her privacy. That’s how you do it… stars now can’t.

    Also, my dad loved the movie too. xD
    Had so much fun watching it, and wanting to slap Veda around too.

  • Kate Moennig on Three Rivers

    CBS’s new medical transplant drama (?) Three Rivers~
    hmm… dunno, don’t really have much interest on Network TV as of lately,
    but any reason to see Katherine Moenning in scrubs~~~
    LOL

    good on my book… and good on your book too, right?

    first, must admit. The character promo shot looks not like her.
    blame Photoshop~~~ good thing? the promo episode still, pretty hot.
    LOL, almost like Shane cleaned up her act and became a Dr. @_@

    Three Rivers - Still

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  • More Shorts of the Day~

    Too much to post today, not enough time to single post everything
    so another round of shorts here…

    First, Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) has joined Twilight.
    WHAT??? Geez… I have nothing left to say about this.
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    Independent Spirit Awards are ready for a call of entries for the 25th edition:
    EARLY DEADLINE:     Monday, September 14, 2009
    FINAL DEADLINE:     Tuesday, October 6, 2009

    as you may know, Spirit Awards nominations mark the beginning of Award Season~

    NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
    AWARDS CEREMONY: Friday, March 5, 2010

    hmm… March? Later than I expected, but oh well~
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    The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has added more titles for this year’s event, including screenings for Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora (with Rachel Weisz), and Natalie Portman’s Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.

    Those are added to the list of Precious, Kore-eda’s Air Doll and Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother, which I mentioned back in this post…
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    and finally… I received an email of Sony Pictures announcing Michael Jackson’s “This is It” – the last rehearsals and behind-the-scenes footage on HD and digital sound to be released on October 30th.

    won’t post the “press release” because it’s so long, and to be honest – pretty boring to read.

  • I has two YAM teaser for you~

    big enough so you can see…
    small enough so you can’t read~~
    xD

    YAM005 - Teaser - Yu Aoi

    YAM005 - Teaser - WB's Popular

    YAM005 will be released this Saturday (15th), in the meantime~
    check back on old YAM issues, and join our YAM group~

  • Bibi on Rong Chen Blog

    A new interview with Bibi came out… yesterday!
    Or actually… two days ago considering they’re like 14hrs ahead of me~

    Bibi Zhou @ Rong Chen Blog

    Very cute interview, where they look back a bit on her singing…
    Bibi’s mom is also there! And she’s got dimples!!! LOL
    And Bibi doing celebrity impersonations~~~ xD – She is very good, if she weren’t singing, she’ll be doing that, I bet. Also pointing out the difference between herself singing, and doing impersonations.

    Sorry, no subs… but still fun to watch.

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