Word: junebug
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...pick her clown name. Rooney, whose father was a clown, said that when she searched online for clown names starting with “M,” she found her own name, Molly. In the end, however, Rooney decided to throw out Molly for “Junebug,” chosen because she was born in June...
...Junebug, Enchanted and Sunshine Cleaning, Adams radiated a warm, perky presence, and she works hard to do so here. But she's defeated by the indignities in the script (Anna plops in the Irish mud about 63 times) and by director Anand Tucker and director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel. Why do the cinematographers of romantic comedies so often make their leading ladies look like that Nick Nolte mug shot? (In Leathernecks, Sigel cast Renee Zellweger in a similarly unflattering light.) Adams is 35, and all we see are her crow's feet. Which at least gives you something...
...performance in Ripley's Game was never seen in American movie theaters; he hailed Lodge Kerrigan, director of Claire Dolan, a drama about a prostitute, as a personal "hero" who makes only the films he wants to make the way he wants to make them; and he hailed Junebug as a "spiritual and transcendental" experience, after revealing that a bout with food poisoning caused him to fall asleep during the film's initial screening at Sundance...
...revealingly chic outfits. Stewart puckishly demanded the world for sympathy for poor Hollywoodians: ?There are women here who could afford barely enough gown to cover their breasts.? I?m no fashion expert, but I?ll vote for Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams, the downhome gal from Junebug looking uptown resplendent, and for whatever frock the slap-yourself-silly gorgeous Salma Hayek was wearing under her soft curls and sexy cheekbones. I?ll also hand out an Oscar for golden perkiness to Witherspoon, who looked lovely in a spangled dress, and sparkled indefatigably...
...that they?ve left Miramax and started the Weinstein Company. Of the first four films released under their new banner, two cadged Best Actress nominations: Transamerica and, for Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents. Ferocity over likability could also lift Weisz, in The Constant Gardener, over adorable Amy Adams, in Junebug. The same logic applies to both Actress categories: do you want the driven idealist or the down-home cutie? As for Supporting Actor, Hollywood may want to reward George Clooney, the hunk with a liberal heart; but Gyllenhaal really deserves...