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- Event Report: I Have Now Heard Cee-Lo's "F*** You" Live
- Stalk Exchange: Scarlett Johannson's Rough Patch
| Event Report: I Have Now Heard Cee-Lo's "F*** You" Live Posted: 14 Nov 2010 11:45 AM PST I went to a party yesterday. Would you like to hear about it? I see no reason why you wouldn’t, because parties are awesome, unless they are lame. But this one was not lame because there was free beer and also tacos. Tacos, you guys, tacos. Question: If 200 enthusiastic party-goers are each holding a glass tumbler full of Heineken, how long will it take for your super-chill vibe to be disrupted by the sound of shattering glass? A: Approximately 2.5 minutes, unless the music is especially loud. Crushable’s Barbie correspondent Tyler Coates went to the event together, and we got totally lost trying to find the thing. We ended up wandering aimlessly though the Samuel Gompers Housing Projects on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which, if you’ve ever read Lush Life, you’ll know was a very smart idea. We finally found the event based mostly on the fact there it was surrounded by incredibly bright lights that not even my great-grandfather after a shot of morphine would have missed (we are dumb), and wandered in during Diplo’s set. Meaning: hooray! Do you guys know that Diplo has a tattoo of a diplodocus on his forearm? A dino tattoo on his arm! That’s like the cutest thing ever in the history of the world. (Full disclosure: Diplo’s totally on the celebs-it’s-cool-for-me-to-sleep-with list I handed my boyfriend after our six-month anniversary. Actually that’s a lie — I don’t have a boyfriend, because I’m the type of person who makes lists of people I’d like to have sex with.) But anyway, Diplo was rad and there were those tacos which Tyler and I totally ate two of apiece. After that we got pretzels! We are disgusting slobs! (Please, nobody tell Diplo.) You know what was even better than the pretzels, though? Cee-Lo Green and his all-female backup band clad in lacy white jumpsuits from American Apparel. He ended his set with “Fuck You,” and I was all like: um, isn’t this song supposed to have a ukelele? I thought it best not to mention anything though, because it’s pretty embarrassing to forget both your key instrument and your barbershop quartet. Tyler and I left after Cee-Lo, mostly because there were no more pretzels. Pete Rock and Nas were going on later, but we had other parties to attend — parties where the beer was not free and the ukeleles were unfortunately more abundant. Sigh. Post from: Crushable Event Report: I Have Now Heard Cee-Lo's "F*** You" Live  |
| Stalk Exchange: Scarlett Johannson's Rough Patch Posted: 13 Nov 2010 11:38 AM PST
Obviously Scarlett has sex appeal to spare. Her looks and charm have been used to help boost box office figures for movies from The Other Boleyn Girl to He’s Just Not That Into You. In fact, ScarJo’s sexy performance in Match Point even helped reboot Woody Allen’s film career. But she’s also had some missteps. In Allen’s Vicki Christina Barcelona, Scarlett Johannson perpetrated the stereotype that American women will sleep with any European man who looks at them strong. In a movie filled with nuanced and interesting performances, hers wasn’t particularly deep. Granted, there she only had to be swept up by Javier Bardem. But there are far less excuses to be made for what she did in Scoop. Much greater actors and actresses have been felled by trying to impersonate Woody Allen. But in this stunner, ScarJo tries to morph her sexy frame into Woody Allen’s neurotic narrator role. It was an utter disaster. And especially tragic considering how well she did in Match Point. But directors who have tried to move ScarJo beyond a femme fatale have suffered for it. For reference, see movies like The Other Boleyn Girl, The Prestige, and The Nanny Diaries. In Iron Man 2 we learned that Scarlett can sort of do her own stunts, but action star is not likely going to be a big stop on her resume. Now, as she’s getting further up there in age, she has to start proving herself quickly if she’s going to keep doing this acting thing. She’s also doing some singing, and recently released an album of standards. Her voice is nice, but as Spin commented at the time: “There’s nothing particularly compelling about Scarlett Johansson’s singing.” The most recent blow to her stock was the casting rumors for the new adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Up until newcomer Rooney Mara was chosen for the part, Scarlett’s name was being pushed as a candidate for the role. Worse, she was apparently pushing hard for it. When a name brand star loses out to a nobody, that’s a pretty clear sign that you’ve lost some of your luster in Hollywood. Tonight on Saturday Night Live, we’ll see if she can excel in a comedic way. But if she puts in a performance on the level of Mad Men seductress January Jones‘ earlier this year, Scarlett is really going to be in trouble. She needs to prove that she can act, or at least be funny. Which means that for now, ScarJo’s stock is firmly set to hold. Post from: Crushable Stalk Exchange: Scarlett Johannson's Rough Patch  |
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For many men (and women) Scarlett Johannson is pretty close to the platonic ideal of beauty. Blonde, busty and beautiful, she made a huge impression acting against Bill Murray in Sophia Coppola’s 2003 movie Lost In Translation. Since then, her specialized brand of sex appeal has launched a very profitable film career. But in the last few years, she’s gotten some negative criticisms – for her acting skill and attempts to launch a music career. Tonight she’s hosting Saturday Night Live. Is her stock set to buy, sell or hold? Check out our Stalk Exchange to find out.| You are subscribed to email updates from Crushable To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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