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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Anne Hathaway is Hollywood’s New ‘it-girl’
‘IT’ is that quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force. With ‘IT’ you win all men if you are a woman – all women if you are a man. ‘IT’ can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.
That’s how English romance novelist Elinor Glyn defined the term “it-girl,” a phrase that entered the public imagination with the 1972 film It based on one of her novels and starring the original it-girl, Clara Bow.
Hollywood is perpetually on the hunt for this elusive quality, this blend of sexuality and innocence, of materialistic chutzpah and good valises, of swagger and sincerity that tend to sell tickets. As the Cameron Diazes, Drew Barrymores and Gwyneth Paltrows age out of group that includes Amy Adams, Michelle Williams, scarlet Johansson and Keira Knightlely, contenders to the crown that for years belonged to Jula Roberts, perhaps the last female movies star who everyone agrees actually guaranteed attendance in the theaters.
At the moment much of Hollywood is chattering about pretty Anne Hathaway, another dark-eyed, dark-haired beauty, who was plucked out of relative obscurity by Roberts’ own star-maker, Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall. Disney was explicitly looking for the next Audrey Hepburn when Marshall cast this New Jersey-raised actress, with one short-lived TV series to her credit, as the lead in the 2001 hit franchise, The Princess Diaries.
Seven years later, the 26-year-old Hathaway has finally been transformed into the it-girl of the moment, with a string of commercial hits to her name, and heat fueled by her unexpected but thoroughly wrenching performance as an addict on furlough from rehab for her sister’s wedding in Rachel Getting Married. Already, Hathaway is getting Oscarbuzz.
And she’s getting the sympathy vote. Ironically enough, there’s often nothing that endears a star to her audience more than love’s travails ,a bad boyfriend or two.
Hathaway’s Italian boyfriend of four years, Raffaello Follieri, has recently been sentenced to prison for 54 months for fraud. The double whammy of on-screen and off-screen despair has curious despair has curiously combined to give Hathaway heft and maturity, making her more than just another pretty face.
Hathaway also has deftly managed the media circus Although it-girls inevitably magnetize attention, it’s not every starlet who’s forced to explain herself to such august pop culture pashas as David Letterman, who recently grilled Hathaway about her personal life.
Dressed demurely in black, Hathaway tried joking, “As far as relationships crashing and burning, I did pretty great. Scorch that earth.” But being Letterman, he wouldn’t desist, asking her questions such as, “Was there ever stuff missing out of your purse?” She mostly laughed, except for when she hid her face in her hands, literally trying to shield herself from his comic barrage.
Vanity Fair offered up a pretty good vivisection of her jet-set love affair with Follieri, and it “made her more interesting,” notes one top talent agent. “There is something about the poor girl, the ones that can never find the right love interest. It’s part of the type, if you look back through history.”
Indeed, although film historian Janine Basinger recoils at the thought that audiences enjoy seeing their cinematic icons suffer, she does note that a little glimpse of real vulnerability can burnish a star’s allure. “There is some thinking that it makes all the women identify with her.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad boyfriend. One the appeals for a female star is sense of vulnerability or being human, of not being greater than the rest of us, of not being detached from us because they’re more beautiful or have better clothes. Historically, we like women stars like June Allyson who seem human.
“Our stars don’t have to be perfect. They just have t be imperfect in a way we can tolerate, and that’s unpredictable and related to how we see them on-screen.”
Of course, Hollywood also appreciates Hathaway’s growing box-of-fice clout. Insiders per her price per movie between $5 milllion and $10 million, and Hathaway’s seeming imperfections dovetail nicely with what has become her commercial niche, the girl-power comedy. Streep (or Miley Cyrus or any of the tween stars) --- have risen to glory with a devoted female fan base.
For yound women, the greater fantasy is not finding a man but finding yourself, becoming the person you were destined to be. (That’s the real theme of Titanic, perhaps the biggest chick flick of all time.)
Fox 2000 chief Elizabeth Gabler. Recalls Hathaway pitching herself for the The Devil Wears Parada, which, at that very early stage in the game, didn’t hve Streep attached to play the viperous fashion magazine editor.
She was absolutely committed to getting the role. She gave us script notes on the third act, sys Gabler. “Annie was feeling that her character would walk away (from her assistant’s life). She is in Paris, and has a changed perspective on life.” The studio wound up using a version of this idea in the film, and ultimately cast Hathaway in the part.
More comedies are coming down the pike starring Hathaway, including Bride Wars, a female version of the burgeoning bromance genre, about best friends (Hathaway and Kate Hudson) who inadvertently turn into battling bridezillas; The Fiance, about a woman who want to dump her fiancĂ© much to her parents’ chagrin; and a sports comedy in the vien of Broadcast News featuring Hathaway as an aspiring and definitively spunky sportscaster.
As one studio executive noted, Hathaway is practically the only twenty something woman whom a studio would comfortably stake a romantic comedy on – and she’s still about half the price of a more established actress like Reese Witherspoon.
10 Most Famous Hollywood Party Girls
Even though Hollywood’s Party girls seem to have taken a vacation recently, some say because the economic mess making Americans less likely to think their over-indulgence entertaining anymore, they are still active.
Here is the Top 10.
1. Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton can easily be the queen of the Hollywood party scene but even she doesn’t seem to like the headlines anymore.
Ever since her disastrous and humiliating stay in the Los Angles County jail Paris has maintained not only a low profile but is actually cleaning up her image.
She has moved in with her steady boyfriend and spends a great deal of her time working on selling her cosmetics and clothing, and then she is in partying. Maybe Paris has hung up her spurs, maybe not.
There have been reports of her disturbing neighbors with loud parties. The best indicator might be seeing how she does once the economy lifts.
2. Britney Spears
Britney Spears who got caught up in a very public emotional meltdown just a couple of years ago, in and out of rehab and shaving her head; she was trailed by paparazzi constantly and even married one of the photographers who was trailing her.
Spears also seemed to fade from view as a Hollywood party animal. Britney is not healthy, and on a concert tour, albeit under a tight regime after she was carried away from her home, strapped on a stretcher and admitted to a hospital.
Even when it seemed that Britney would go forever as the party girl of the century, she seems to have left the circuit.
3. Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie has to be mentioned along side her partner in partying crime Paris.
First climbing toward both popularity and notoriety on the hit show “The Simple Life” that she co-starred in with Paris, Nicole, daughter to legendary singer Lionel Richie, became famous for her foul language on screen and wild behavior off screen.
Now the mother of two children, Nicole started toning down her act before Paris did.
Arrested several times for DWI and resisting arrest, and recently caught doing another sex video, Nicole was on her way to a bad slide before friends and family intervened.
4. Lindsey Lohan
Lindsey Lohan, arrested in 2007, actually faced jail time has now started therapy and has stopped drinking.
She did live up to her reputation as a hard partying girl with the debut of her new collection for Parisian fashion house Emanuel Ungaro, by showing super short pink dresses and blazers to be worn over bare skin.
The show, held in Paris’ famed Louvre museum was abuzz when she showed up in a white mini dress and red stiletto heels. It appears that Lindsay still hasn’t matured like the rest of the girls and flashing her panties in Cannes recently seems to bear that out.
5. Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was once known as America’s “good girl” has a perfect image in the 80’s and 90’s and then her behavior changed. She started showing up late for interviews and photo shoots and even started canceling concerts and talk show appearances.
Because of her missed performances and rapid weight loss, speculation about drug use and problems with her husband singer Bobby Brown began to circulate.
Then on January 11, 2000 she was found to have marijuana in her luggage at the airport but boarded her plane with Brown before authorities could arrive. Houston, having been through rehab, seems to have settled down well.
6. Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore has been one of Hollywood’s naughty beauties for many years, specializing in scandalizing the public with her antics.
Drew, who comes from a famous Hollywood family with it’s own share of past scandal, came to fame when she was seven years old with her portrayal of Gertie on “ET” and reportedly took her first drink at nine, her first marijuana at 10, cocaine at 12 and rehab at 15.
Many of her movies, “Poison Ivy”, “Gun crazy”, “Bad girls”, didn’t help her image, and neither did posing for Playboy or flashing her breasts on the David Letterman Show.
Her last antics were the breast baring make out sessions with Heather Graham.
7. Heather Graham
Heather Graham keeps a long list of men in her life and some women also if the lip-locking adventures with Drew are any indication. Heather has had numerous sex shots and videos taken that appear all over the internet.
Her list of different boyfriends includes Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Ed Burns, Pete Yorn, and James Woods.
Heather came from a family that did everything it could to prevent their daughter from going to Hollywood. Bitten by the acting bug early and her career blossomed while her personal life seemed to go in every direction but the right one.
8. Tara Reid
Tara Reid is being called the Queen of the Botched plastic surgeries by the Hollywood press after a bad liposuction procedure a few years ago. That hasn’t stopped the hard partying “American Pie” star however.
Tara was photographed recently in Miami hosting one of her famous $5 parties with free booze.
By the looks of the photos she got a little free coke out to the deal also. Tara’s antics aren’t slowing any as she gets older. She even appears on LA beaches in a string bikini, flashing her belly scares for the entire world to see.
One reporter, seeing the photos of her on the beach said that a night with Tara might not be worth the price of a warm can of Milwaukee’s Best.
9 . Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie may be out to save the world single handedly during the day but she is still a dark force at night.
In 1996 she scrawled the name of her then husband Jonny Lee Miller on her white shirt in blood.
Four years later, at the Oscars she declared loudly “I am so in love with my brother right now”, and followed it up with a very long kiss.
Her vials of blood around the neck with then husband Billy Bob Thornton and her tiger back tattoo are hard reputations to live down. Maybe people would believe if she adopted another 10 kids.
10. Madonna
Madonna, the original “material girl” defines scandal. Taking the stage at a tender age, Madonna has virtually owned the tabloids for nearly 30 years, and shows no sign of slowing down.
She has been arrested for possession, public nudity, assault and a variety of other charges and on top of this, seems upset that her recent petition to adopt was turned down basically because of her non-mom like history.
Her shows, her movies, her personal life have been a virtual media circus since the day that she stepped on stage. If getting older is supposed to slow you down, someone forgot to tell the Material Girl
Here is the Top 10.
1. Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton can easily be the queen of the Hollywood party scene but even she doesn’t seem to like the headlines anymore.
Ever since her disastrous and humiliating stay in the Los Angles County jail Paris has maintained not only a low profile but is actually cleaning up her image.
She has moved in with her steady boyfriend and spends a great deal of her time working on selling her cosmetics and clothing, and then she is in partying. Maybe Paris has hung up her spurs, maybe not.
There have been reports of her disturbing neighbors with loud parties. The best indicator might be seeing how she does once the economy lifts.
2. Britney Spears
Britney Spears who got caught up in a very public emotional meltdown just a couple of years ago, in and out of rehab and shaving her head; she was trailed by paparazzi constantly and even married one of the photographers who was trailing her.
Spears also seemed to fade from view as a Hollywood party animal. Britney is not healthy, and on a concert tour, albeit under a tight regime after she was carried away from her home, strapped on a stretcher and admitted to a hospital.
Even when it seemed that Britney would go forever as the party girl of the century, she seems to have left the circuit.
3. Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie has to be mentioned along side her partner in partying crime Paris.
First climbing toward both popularity and notoriety on the hit show “The Simple Life” that she co-starred in with Paris, Nicole, daughter to legendary singer Lionel Richie, became famous for her foul language on screen and wild behavior off screen.
Now the mother of two children, Nicole started toning down her act before Paris did.
Arrested several times for DWI and resisting arrest, and recently caught doing another sex video, Nicole was on her way to a bad slide before friends and family intervened.
4. Lindsey Lohan
Lindsey Lohan, arrested in 2007, actually faced jail time has now started therapy and has stopped drinking.
She did live up to her reputation as a hard partying girl with the debut of her new collection for Parisian fashion house Emanuel Ungaro, by showing super short pink dresses and blazers to be worn over bare skin.
The show, held in Paris’ famed Louvre museum was abuzz when she showed up in a white mini dress and red stiletto heels. It appears that Lindsay still hasn’t matured like the rest of the girls and flashing her panties in Cannes recently seems to bear that out.
5. Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was once known as America’s “good girl” has a perfect image in the 80’s and 90’s and then her behavior changed. She started showing up late for interviews and photo shoots and even started canceling concerts and talk show appearances.
Because of her missed performances and rapid weight loss, speculation about drug use and problems with her husband singer Bobby Brown began to circulate.
Then on January 11, 2000 she was found to have marijuana in her luggage at the airport but boarded her plane with Brown before authorities could arrive. Houston, having been through rehab, seems to have settled down well.
6. Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore has been one of Hollywood’s naughty beauties for many years, specializing in scandalizing the public with her antics.
Drew, who comes from a famous Hollywood family with it’s own share of past scandal, came to fame when she was seven years old with her portrayal of Gertie on “ET” and reportedly took her first drink at nine, her first marijuana at 10, cocaine at 12 and rehab at 15.
Many of her movies, “Poison Ivy”, “Gun crazy”, “Bad girls”, didn’t help her image, and neither did posing for Playboy or flashing her breasts on the David Letterman Show.
Her last antics were the breast baring make out sessions with Heather Graham.
7. Heather Graham
Heather Graham keeps a long list of men in her life and some women also if the lip-locking adventures with Drew are any indication. Heather has had numerous sex shots and videos taken that appear all over the internet.
Her list of different boyfriends includes Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Ed Burns, Pete Yorn, and James Woods.
Heather came from a family that did everything it could to prevent their daughter from going to Hollywood. Bitten by the acting bug early and her career blossomed while her personal life seemed to go in every direction but the right one.
8. Tara Reid
Tara Reid is being called the Queen of the Botched plastic surgeries by the Hollywood press after a bad liposuction procedure a few years ago. That hasn’t stopped the hard partying “American Pie” star however.
Tara was photographed recently in Miami hosting one of her famous $5 parties with free booze.
By the looks of the photos she got a little free coke out to the deal also. Tara’s antics aren’t slowing any as she gets older. She even appears on LA beaches in a string bikini, flashing her belly scares for the entire world to see.
One reporter, seeing the photos of her on the beach said that a night with Tara might not be worth the price of a warm can of Milwaukee’s Best.
9 . Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie may be out to save the world single handedly during the day but she is still a dark force at night.
In 1996 she scrawled the name of her then husband Jonny Lee Miller on her white shirt in blood.
Four years later, at the Oscars she declared loudly “I am so in love with my brother right now”, and followed it up with a very long kiss.
Her vials of blood around the neck with then husband Billy Bob Thornton and her tiger back tattoo are hard reputations to live down. Maybe people would believe if she adopted another 10 kids.
10. Madonna
Madonna, the original “material girl” defines scandal. Taking the stage at a tender age, Madonna has virtually owned the tabloids for nearly 30 years, and shows no sign of slowing down.
She has been arrested for possession, public nudity, assault and a variety of other charges and on top of this, seems upset that her recent petition to adopt was turned down basically because of her non-mom like history.
Her shows, her movies, her personal life have been a virtual media circus since the day that she stepped on stage. If getting older is supposed to slow you down, someone forgot to tell the Material Girl
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