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7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | The heartiest of Defamer congratulations go out today to the marketers behind The Dark Knight and Iron Man, whose savvy trailers have now captivated legions of inhaler-clutching fanboys and the highly discriminating eyes of those judging the Golden Trailer Awards. The films claimed the top prizes in the Action and Summer Blockbuster categories respectively at last night’s ceremony at the Orpheum; other notable winners included Tropic Thunder (Comedy), No Country For Old Men (Drama), Atonement (Romance) and, in a miracle of better-late-than-never recognition, The Assassination of Jesse James took home the evening’s Best Voice-Over hardware. Even the Weinsteins didn’t go home empty-handed, as their teaser for Awake won the Golden Fleece prize for best false advertsing. Way to go, Harvey; we hope you can remember where you put the key to the trophy case. [Golden Trailers via Spout Blog] More »
7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | The heartiest of Defamer congratulations go out today to the marketers behind The Dark Knight and Iron Man, whose savvy trailers have now captivated legions of inhaler-clutching fanboys and the highly discriminating eyes of those judging the Golden Trailer Awards. The films claimed the top prizes in the Action and Summer Blockbuster categories respectively at last night’s ceremony at the Orpheum; other notable winners included Tropic Thunder (Comedy), No Country For Old Men (Drama), Atonement (Romance) and, in a miracle of better-late-than-never recognition, The Assassination of Jesse James took home the evening’s Best Voice-Over hardware. Even the Weinsteins didn’t go home empty-handed, as their teaser for Awake won the Golden Fleece prize for best false advertsing. Way to go, Harvey; we hope you can remember where you put the key to the trophy case. [Golden Trailers via Spout Blog] More »
Why Does Keira Knightley Always Look So Sad?
8:35AM Molly Friedman | Most stars have their own trademark pose on the red carpet. Think Renee Zellweger with her pursed lips looking like she just took a shot of lemon juice, or Lindsay Lohan’s classic blowing kiss move. As for Keira Knightley, with her wildly perfect facial features and oddly appealing underbite, she’s patented “The Pout.” As she puts it: More »
Keira Knightley’s Handy Make-up Tips For Flat-chested Girls, Drag Queens, Etc
11:24AM Clem Bastow | If you’ve seen Atonement or Pride And Prejudice – or, really, just seen Keira Knightley out and about – then you would be aware that the lovely lass is about as busty as co-star James McEvoy. So, you might also have been confused when, in the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, she appeared to be bustin’ out all over like nobody’s business.
Well, Knightley has helpfully revealed the decidedly retro tricks of the trade that gave her cleavage its heaving depth in all those ripped bodices – good, old-fashioned make-up!
It was all an illusion, made possible by the film-studio art of “bosom make-up”. It is a skill from Hollywood’s golden age that fell out of favour with the advent of silicone enhancement.
Miss Knightley said: “They painted my tits on me for the films, which is extraordinary because it’s kind of a dying art form – in the past, they used to have whole sections of the studios devoted to bosom make-up.
“And I loved it, completely loved it. Because it was the first time in my life I had big tits, and I didn’t even need surgery.’
She said the process of creating the cleavage took 45 minutes every morning before filming started.
A make-up artist would apply a slightly darker shade of base make-up between Miss Knightley’s own breasts to create a shadow to increase the ‘cleavage effect’.
Beginner drag queens, male participants in Year 12 muck-up week “cross-dressing day”, sit up and take note. “Boobs” drawn on with black texta will no longer cut it. More » 
BAFTAs Buck The Green Trend, Go ‘Orange’ Instead
7:19AM Defamer Hollywood | While No Country For Old Men has been collecting most of this award season’s Best Picture statuettes, the stuffy limeys at BAFTA instead decided to award their prize to one of their homegrown jewels, the weepy Anglophiliac wet dream Atonement. However, the most intriguing award of the night had ostensibly nothing to do with a great performance and everything to do with ensuring that the British Academy of Film And Television’s bottom line was sufficiently padded. The award in question, the Orange Rising Star Award, was handed to Shia LaBeouf and presented by the mobile phone company Orange. Now that the normally reserved BAFTAs have cashed in their principles for a taste of the almighty dollar pound note, can The Oscars be far behind? More »
Robbed Of Their Moment, This Year’s Golden Globe Victors Agree That It’s Just An Honor To Win
7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | After a disorienting Golden Access Globes Press Hollywood Conference Awards that left nominees and audiences alike utterly befuddled (we understand Sally Field was fished out of The Grove’s dancing waters fountain at 3 a.m. delivering an impassioned speech about bringing the troops home to two security guards on a golf cart), our traditional Globes parties post-mortem promised to be a similar mess. Still, if there were awards, and there were winners, by God there’s going to be a reactions round-up, even if it comes off sounding a lot like the ones you read after the nominations are announced: The Atonement crew toasted their win at a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, where the ghost of O.D.’d John Belushi smiled over their WWII romance’s win. [Variety] Marion Cotillard enjoyed her win for La Vie en Rose from the Four Seasons. “I’m enjoying so much what’s going on here, I can’t be disappointed in any way,” she said, convincingly masking her extreme disappointment. [Variety] Julian Schnabel learned of his Best Director win at New York City airport baggage carousel, upon turning his cellphone on: “It was very glamorous. It was one of those existential moments. I was extremely happy.” [USA Today] Like Ernest Borgnine’s bash, Sweeney Todd producer Richard Zanuck made it a family affair, taking in the press conference from his son’s home in Beverly Hills–which is nice, but not, like, seated next to Johnny Depp with lots of water glasses and fancy silverware nice: “I must say, it’s a wonderful thing to be seated at a table and all the suspense of that. All that was nonexistent (tonight), but it doesn’t take away from the honor.” [Variety] “Glenn Close, best TV actress/drama for FX’s Damages, was in a bar in New York’s meatpacking district with the show’s cast and crew. ‘It’s a wonderful way to watch — we were rooting for our team.’” She then mounted the counter at the Brass Monkey for a celebratory striptease patrons won’t soon forget. [ABC News] Best Actor in TV Series, Musical or Comedy winner David Duchovny went to see a movie while the winners were announced: “I kinda didn’t want to watch, it would just make me tense or nervous, so I went out to see a movie at four (o’clock) and I knew I wouldn’t be home until it was announced. I knew if my phone was ringing when I walked into my hotel room that I would have won. And it was. Nobody calls a loser.” And with that, this year’s ceremony wiped the snot from its nose as it checked its phone in vain for any congratulatory messages. [AP] More »
Trade Roundup: Actress Plucked From Obscurity, Granted Bond Girl Immortality
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Unknown actress Gemma Arterton has been anointed as the newest Bond girl, with her agent confirming her “nice-sized role” in Bond 22, though it’s still unclear whether her part will fall into the “superspy sexual conquest” or “extremely attractive, but sexually unavailable, Mi7 functionary” categories of 007-supporting females [THR] Members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts are (preliminarily, at least) head-over-heels in blighty* love for Atonement, listing the Joe Wright adaptation 17 times in their awards longlist (a mere 15 options per category!) for the BAFTAS, an announcement that mostly serves to let the public know which movies have been pre-snubbed for their eventual nominations. [*We only put that in for the benefit of our readers who are driven insane by Varspeak.] [Variety] More »
