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Despite her Hollywood pedigree, Isabella Rossellini has sought decidedly novel roles. Famous for acting turns in Blue Velvet, Cousins and 30 Rock (where she has played Jack Donaghy's Big Beef and Cheddar-loving ex-wife), Rosellini's latest role has her appearing in homemade costumes-as an expiring bee, an orgasmic snail or an angst-ridden limpet...
...Rossellini writes, directs and stars in the Sundance Channel's Green Porno a series of short films that charmingly portray the sexual habits of oft-ignored animals. The first season had Rossellini tackling bugs; Season two, which finds her focused on marine life, premiered on April 1. (See pictures of 10 animals facing extinction...
TIME: How did Green Porno first come about? Rossellini: The idea came about because Robert Redford wanted to experiment in short film format, and one of the missions of Sundance is to be on environmental subjects. So, I had the two elements: something short and something environmental. I have been personally always very interested in animal behavior-not particularly the sex life, but on animal behavior in general. I thought it would make a fun and appealing series to explain how animals mate-especially animals that are not mammalian, that are far from us. It's a wild world...
...them, based on my drawings, added a lot of details to it. We also decided to keep the colors very simple and very bright, which was dictated by the fact that we imagined these films to be viewed on a lot of mobiles. (Read a 2006 interview with Rossellini...
...breakup with his fiancée. Presumably, he has bipolar disorder, but his ups and downs seem decidedly normal for someone who has two beautiful women suddenly walk into his life and, at night, goes home to boringly stereotypical old-world Jewish parents, Reuben (Moni Moshonov) and Ruth (Isabella Rossellini).Gray’s typical Brighton Beach setting—2007’s “We Own the Night” and his 1994 debut “Little Odessa” were set there—seems bleaker than ever, a halfway house for Manhattan mistresses like...