Archive for April 29th, 2009

Brit actress Rachel Weisz says that she is not a celebrity like Tom Cruise.

The Oscar-winner says that she doesn’t get recognised on the New York streets where she lives.

“I’m not Tom Cruise,” Weisz, 38, says. “I don’t get hassled.”

The mother-of-one who will appear in three movies – including the screen adaptation of novel The Lovely Bones – this year has a definite sense of where she fits in, in the scheme of things.

She says: “I remember watching a television interview with Gael Garcia Bernal, and he was asked about the difference between being a celebrity and an actor.

“He said: ‘It’s apples and oranges, really’. And that is so true.

“It’s a categorical error to talk about the two things in the same breath.”

Weisz made her comments in an interview with US style magazine Black Book.

Although she currently lives in Manhattan’s East Village with her fiancé director Darren Aronofsky and their two-year-old son Henry, she was raised in Hampstead, North London.

The Mummy Star began acting when she was a student at Cambridge University, but reveals she didn’t always turn in a polished performance.

“I think I was pretty crap at acting in the beginning because I was too operatic, and it’s taken me a while to learn how to tone that down.”

Ironically this summer Weisz will star in a London production of the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.

She will play Blanche DuBois in the classic US Southern drama.

Source: Splash News

Six-foot beauty Elle Macpherson reportedly stole the show at a recent London dinner and towered over most of the men there.

Elle, 45, was attending a dinner for American fashion designer Michael Kors at the China Tang restaurant at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

The mum-of-two was dressed in a white dress and flat golden sandals to attend the posh dinner.

A guest said: “Not many 45-year-olds can get away with a mini dress and bare legs, but Elle can still carry it off.”

The guest added, according to British newspaper the Daily Express: “Even in her sandals, she towered over half of the men in the room – including Michael Kors – so it was probably a good idea to leave the heels at home!”

The Godfather has received an honour too good to refuse… by being named the best film score of all time in a Hollywood poll.

The Francis Ford Coppola classic topped a list of 100, beating Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, Gone With The Wind, Doctor Zhivago and Star Wars to win the title.

Film bible The Hollywood Reporter commissioned the poll to honour the 100th anniversary of the film score, which was first written in 1908 by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Industry insiders voted on their favourites.

The 1972 film beat the score for Jaws, which was written by John Williams, whose name appears four times in the top ten – Williams also wrote the scores for Star Wars, ET, and Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was voted number five on the list, while Gone With the Wind from 1939 made number eight, with Tara’s Theme being called “probably the most recognisable movie theme”.

Other movies included on the top 100 were Lord of the Rings, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, The Great Escape and Chariots of Fire.

The Hollywood Reporter says: “The final results offered some surprises, most notably the fact that the top score did not go to John Williams, who topped the AFI’s [American Film Institute] 2005 film music poll with Star Wars.”

Source: Splash News