After announcing to the world she was quitting acting for a year, to see vista views of the world with her family and get over her mild depression from the film industry and charity work commitments, Emma Watson complete with a good cleansing ale, a teacup pig and actor Hugh Laurie, stepped out in black and white to get her much deserved star on Hollywood’s walk of fame. Gotta love this sensible British wench. I kid. Revising her role of nasty Nanny McPhee, Thompson killed it. Most fun star moment in a while on the Walk of Fame in the hood. Too funny.
In celebrity entertainment news in Hollywood, here’s how you the people voted our top ten news items of choice. May democracy on blogs live on.
1. Liza Morales pictures rate big
2. About Horiwood: Ms.Debbie Hall was a visionary saint. Go Denver Moore & Roger Hall!
3. Britney Spears & Sons cover Elle Magazine
4. Justin Gatson and friends get naked for PETA
5. Suzanne Hinn is a very bad girl, we still love!
6. Cerebral filmmaking: Inception Sequel
7. Kimora Lee Simmons joins Tyra Banks
8. Alessandra Ambrosio for Victoria’s Secret
9. Selena Gomez gets the chop
10. Band Action: Billy Ray Cyrus & Brother Clyde bring fusion music
Alright, back to Emma. Speaking to the Daily Mail about rewriting a version of My Fair Lady Thompson puts the diva diss into Audrey Hepburn‘s perfection (how dare she!). Anyways, always a riot, Thompson had this to say: “I’m not hugely fond of the film. I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee.” Emma went on to explain the art of twee (that means everything is all ‘tickety boo’ or ‘pai rawe’ when in New Zealand), Thompson adds: “Twee is whimsy without wit. It is mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that’s not for me. She can’t sing and she can’t really act, I’m afraid. I’m sure she was a delightful woman – and perhaps if I had known her I would have enjoyed her acting more, but I don’t and I didn’t, so that’s all there is to it really.”
Going on to Daily Variety Magazine Thompson disses the Hepburn further by saying: “I find it chocolate-boxy, clunky and deeply theatrical. I don’t think that it’s a film. It’s the theater piece put onto film. It was Cecil Beaton’s designs and Rex Harrison that gave it its extraordinary quality. I don’t do Audrey Hepburn. I think that she’s a guy thing. I’m sure she was this charming lady, but I didn’t think she was a very good actress. It’s high time that the extraordinary role of Eliza was reinterpreted because it’s a very fantastic part for a woman.”
Michael K reports Emma inadvertedly commenting on Fishburne situations in Hollywoood saying: “To Emma, Pygmalion, the play that My Fair Lady is based on, is truer to the character of Eliza Doolittle. Emma thinks that the musical made light of Eliza’s father selling her ass to the highest bidder, “It’s a very terrible thing he does, selling his daughter into sexual slavery for a fiver. I suppose my cheekiness is in saying: ‘This is a very serious story about the usage of women at a particular time in our history. And it’s still going on today’. Yes, OK, it’s a wonderful musical, but let’s also look at what it’s really saying about the world. Fans of the original won’t want another one to be made – and honestly, one has to just cope with that. The original is incredibly long. The audience can expect less songs.”
You always have to love anyone, who remembers that costume designers are often the angels of many stars image and success as actors in epic films. To be the perfect human coat hanger for a great fashion designer and director’s vision on celluloid is also a wise way forward to win your Oscar. So, go Emma for this reminder!
Alright, just as well Emma had the teacup piglet with her to blame as she salutes the British hops industry, because striking her own star against Audrey’s beauty, to sell your own film later, is the art of American celebrity but also a big gamble too, so let’s blame a show biz piglet moment for Emma’s ballsy comments, because it’s not like Audrey is still alive to slap this beyotch back with a beer drenched fiver to the forehead at an English pub in a drinking game of ‘bitch, puh-leaze!’ is it your turn yet, already? is it? Lol!
Audrey would have laughed at Emma’s humor I’m sure. Here’s the art of Hepburn as a reminder, that she was the female original Elvis/ Michael Jackson of Hollywood art expressionism. Cinematic perfection. Let’s give it up, to a great. Because as much as we are able, as fiery as they can be with their words, it is the greats who create art and shape us all with their spirit and magic.
[Images courtesy of The Daily Mail. Bauer Griffin, Splash]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 8.6.2010~
