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Traicie was in Los Angeles and Nola in San Francisco (the two women chose not to be fully identified) when they got married in the virtual chapel of iRom.org an online wedding registry, on Nov. 9. The ceremony isn't legally binding...
...blond, she's curvaceously configured, and she has those remarkably proportioned lips. Naturally, in tabloid land, they figure Scarlett Johansson for the latest in the long line of movie bombshells dating back at least to Jean Harlow. That is an image that her appearance as Nola Rice, tragic fulcrum of the plot Woody Allen has devised for his well-received new movie, Match Point, is bound to enhance?except with Johansson herself: "I never think about that stuff. I like to think of myself as, I go to work and I act. It's my professional life...
Johansson, 21, certainly does not see Nola as a femme fatale. To her, Nola is "a survivor?trying to make it any way she can." Maybe so. But one can also profitably see her as an acutely observed projection of a typical post-adolescent female, sexually venturesome ("No one's ever asked for their money back"), capable of a childish petulance and willfulness, yet also able to view with harsh, accurate cynicism the world of privilege she wants to join and needs to reject...
...wealthy and handsome Tom Hewett, (Matthew Goode) then marries his pleasant sister, Chloe (played adorably by Emily Mortimer), securing him life-long financial success. His perfect existence is disturbed by a near-obsessive attraction to Tom’s exquisitely beautiful fiancée, a failing American actress, Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson). As Chris grows both more successful in London society and more involved with Nola, he seems to be propelled by unnaturally good luck, until he is forced to make a critical choice between his two lives. Rhys-Meyers (the heroin-chic soccer coach from “Bend...
...phone for an interview with The Harvard Crimson, she returns pleasantries with gruff, no-nonsense intonation. She’s all out of sultriness at the moment, her stock no doubt still replenishing from the double seduction she enacts in “Match Point.”Like Nola Rice, her character in the film, Johansson is a complex being. In the course of the interview, she is by turns cynical and bright-eyed, modest and—when it comes to talk of college—way too cool for school. She handles the interview like an utter...