Random Winona Tidbits...

[vulcannonibird]

And as no publicity is bad: Winona and Gwyneth made a run at the continueing popsugar.com Top 100 celebs:

Winona - 2nd
Gwyneth - 3rd

And to bring another related (Hello, Johnny) celeb in: Kate Moss - 1st

Link

[Don]

What Ms Paltrow said was:

Back in the day, I had a “frenemy” who, as it turned out, was pretty hell-bent on taking me down. This person really did what they could to hurt me. I was deeply upset, I was angry, I was all of those things you feel when you find out that someone you thought you liked was venomous and dangerous. I restrained myself from fighting back. I tried to take the high road. But one day I heard that something unfortunate and humiliating had happened to this person. And my reaction was deep relief and…happiness. There went the high road. So, why does it feel so good to hear something bad about someone you don’t like? Or someone you DO like? Or someone you don’t KNOW? I once asked the editor of a tabloid newspaper why all of the stories about a famous British couple had a negative bent. He said that when the headline was positive, the paper didn’t sell. Why is that? What’s wrong with us? I asked the sages to shed a little light.

Here’s to washing our mouths out with soap...

Love,

It is really not clear to me that Gwyneth is talking about Winona. That bit seems to be tabloid spin.  I really don't see why people are mad at Ms Paltrow. I think you are being manipulated by the tabloid press.

Somebody mentioned Winona Ryder News Channel and I agree that that was an excellent site with lots of news and pictures. The vibe I got was that it was somehow associated with her publicist. Does anybody know the full story?

[CHRIS B]

Mario Batali: I'm Gwyneth Paltrow's "Frenemy"
Wednesday April 22, 2009

Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali attend "SPAIN...On The Road Again" launch party on September 21, 2008 in New York City.
Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Frappe Inc.
Buzz up!Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't referring to Winona Ryder when she recently wrote about a "frenemy" who was once "hell-bent" on taking her down.

She was referring to Mario Batali, jokes the chef, her Spain … On the Road Again cohost.

See how Gwyneth Paltrow's style has changed over the years

At the NYC Food Bank's Can-Do Awards on Tuesday, Batali kidded about rumors that Ryder and Paltrow's friendship soured after Paltrow went after Ryder's part in 1998's Shakespeare in Love.

"Well, I wanted the part as well, too, I must point out," Batali joked with Us. "And I said some very nasty things about both those girls in the bathroom one day. And thank God there were no blogs yet at that time because no one was able to write it down!"


Kidding aside, he said he thought it was interesting that bloggers began speculating that Paltrow was referring to Ryder.

"People who used to have to try to write a letter to get it published by the editor now can write it and have it immediately published and have it become actual fact in no time at all," he said.

But Paltrow can't complain.

"If you're going to be famous and make $5 million a movie, you gotta take the lumps," he said. "It's just like Sean Penn in his early days. He'd punch a camera man. If they're in your face, you can punch them. But you got to take the heat for punching them. It’s all about taking responsibility for your actions."

http://www.usmagazine.com...-paltrows-frenemy-2009224

[eagle-rare]

 Here we go. It seems that her "frenemy" could have been a number of people,big surprise,she actually knows more than one person. Latest speculation? Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and one of Santa Claus' elves, a close friend. Seems that Gwenyth was due to get a lump of coal in 1982,something about towel-snapping a freckled girl in the gym locker room. Evidently she found Santa's list on a coffee table in the elve's apartment and switched the "bad" check mark to "good". Ho-Ho-Ho- Oh , man.

[CHRIS B]

Here we go. It seems that her "frenemy" could have been a number of people,big surprise,she actually knows more than one person. Latest speculation? Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and one of Santa Claus' elves, a close friend. Seems that Gwenyth was due to get a lump of coal in 1982,something about towel-snapping a freckled girl in the gym locker room. Evidently she found Santa's list on a coffee table in the elve's apartment and switched the "bad" check mark to "good". Ho-Ho-Ho- Oh , man.

  Oh, man!!

Speaking of the man, I just bought a Ferlinghetti bio today, which by the way is the most up to date bio on him and it's from 1990- I mean 1990!!!!! that's almost 20 years ago! Something should be done about that...!   

[vulcannonibird]

A quite interesting article at the Film Experience Blog - Whatever became of Winona Ryder?

I have to agree with most except with the part that Angelina Jolie stole GI from Winona - Angie was great, but Noni was as great!

Always interesting the comments: Group "A" loves and adores Winona - Group "B" can't stand her - and one or two are in between. I've experienced this polarisation among friends and colleagues also....

[Gary]

http://www.guardian.co.uk...nona-ryder-film-comebacks

[eagle-rare]

 One of the most intelligent articles I have read concerning Winona. Considering the author never actually talked with her, she did the best she could to deliver an objective and factual piece. Good read.

[CHRIS B]

I hope some photos show up soon!

while Winona Ryder, sporting what looked like a striped sailor top (was she taking fashion advice from possible frenemy Gwyneth Paltrow, who recently endorsed Breton shirts on her Web site, Goop?), mentioned that she didn’t want to catch the swine flu.

http://www.vanityfair.com...-gramercy-park-hotel.html

[CHRIS B]

 

Top 5 Books That Need Movie Adaptations

5. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

I happened to stumble upon this 2008 novel, written by the author of Fight Club and Choke by some weird/happy accident. Here's the simple description of the plot: Cassie Wright is a porn star who's fallen on hard times, and to make some cash and cap off her "career", she intends to break the world record for "serial fornication". She's gonna sleep with SIX HUNDRED GUYS ON CAMERA. The story is told through the perspective of #72, #137 and #600. I dunno how the hell this could get made (much less get by the MPAA), but a movie about a woman who wants – willingly wants to bed 600 guys could wind up being one of the more messed up character studies in a while. I would give the part of Cassie Wright to Winona Ryder. She is in need of an edgy comeback role. Right now, she's known as "the actress who shoplifted", instead of the actress who was on the cusp of greatness eight years ago. Hell, let David Fincher take the reigns as he did with Fight Club.

http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/104559

[s18]

Top 5 Books That Need Movie Adaptations

5. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

I happened to stumble upon this 2008 novel, written by the author of Fight Club and Choke by some weird/happy accident. Here's the simple description of the plot: Cassie Wright is a porn star who's fallen on hard times, and to make some cash and cap off her "career", she intends to break the world record for "serial fornication". She's gonna sleep with SIX HUNDRED GUYS ON CAMERA. The story is told through the perspective of #72, #137 and #600. I dunno how the hell this could get made (much less get by the MPAA), but a movie about a woman who wants – willingly wants to bed 600 guys could wind up being one of the more messed up character studies in a while. I would give the part of Cassie Wright to Winona Ryder. She is in need of an edgy comeback role. Right now, she's known as "the actress who shoplifted", instead of the actress who was on the cusp of greatness eight years ago. Hell, let David Fincher take the reigns as he did with Fight Club.

http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/104559

no F thanks :/

[eagle-rare]

ick.

[ty]

 
haha oh yes, i'm sure playing a porn star who is attempting to bed 600 guys is the perfect comeback role for winona 

[oinone]

Winona Ryder hasn't had surgery - she just eats salad

The 'Stay Cool' actress, 37, has amazed fans with her line-free face but her make-up artist insists her youthful looks are all natural.
Kim Collea said: "She hasn't aged and let me tell you, she has had absolutely nothing done.
"She is a very healthy eater, and I think that is a big part of it. It sounds boring, but the girl eats a lot of salads. And you know those giant Big Gulps cups that most people fill with soda? She's got hers filled with water."
Winona prefers a natural look and only opts for make-up in neutral tones.
Kim added to People magazine: "When it comes to Noni, less is always more. With her I did a mix of Neutrogena, Chanel, and this stuff called Alison Raffaele which is a natural line. She likes everything to be natural. Her palette is all ivories, and beiges and very light browns."
Kim is a big fan of her friend and client's style, in particular Winona's ability to accessorise.
She added: "She has the most amazing handbags. Designers send them to her. They are beautiful."

http://news.bgfashion.net...rgery-she-just-eats-salad

[CHRIS B]

Winona is the queen of the comeback kids
Saturday May 16 2009

If there's one film guaranteed to give your average movie star a severe case of the heebie jeebies, it's Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. For therein lies every screen icon's worst nightmare -- oblivion. Norma Desmond used to be a big shot, a luminous silent screen beauty deluged by fan letters and feted by Cecil B DeMille. But by the time William Holden's hard-on-his-luck writer stumbles into her life, Norma is a relic of a bygone age, clinging pathetically to former glories.

There have been lots of real Norma Desmonds down the years, and Gloria Swanson, the woman who played her in Wilder's film, was one of them. But any star who feels his grip on the greasy pole faltering should take comfort from some of the remarkable comebacks that seemingly dead-in-the-water actors have managed.

A few months back it was Mickey Rourke who returned, Lazarus-like, from beyond the cinematic grave to shine in Darren Arnofsky's The Wrestler and almost win an unlikely Oscar. And this summer it's Winona Ryder who looks set to return from a lengthy stint in the celebrity wilderness.

Ryder shot to fame in her late teens in films like Heathers (1989) and Beetlejuice (1988). Strong performances in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991) and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) cemented her reputation as a rising star, and in the early 1990s her relationship with Johnny Depp made them the Brangelina of their time. But by the late 1990s things were looking bleaker for Winona: there were rumours of drug dependency, and she hadn't had a decent hit in years.

In 2001, her already faltering career seemed doomed when she was arrested for shoplifting at the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, and was subsequently made an example of by a DA looking to make a name for himself.

Bruised by the humiliation of a public trial and the 500 hours of community service she was rather unfairly lumped with, Ryder retreated from the limelight, abandoning Los Angeles for her native San Francisco and disappearing altogether from public sight.

Over the last couple of years she's been tentatively putting her toe back in the Hollywood water, but this summer she's set to star in a number of high-profile films, beginning with JJ Abrams' Star Trek, which opened here last week. In it, a handsome but barely recognisable Ryder plays Spock's human mother, and that turn will be followed by appearances in a couple of eagerly awaited films.

Later this year she'll star with fellow comeback kid Mickey Rourke in The Informers, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis book about hedonism in 1980s Los Angeles. And she is apparently excellent alongside Keanu Reeves and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

The fact that a major studio has permitted Ryder's presence in a big budget film like Star Trek is a sure sign that her sins have been forgiven, because at one point she was considered uninsurable. Her route back to the top, then, looks fairly secure, and if she manages it she'll join a distinguished bunch of film folks who've managed to claw their way back from the brink of oblivion.

Katharine Hepburn is ranked by the American Film Institute as the greatest female film star of all time, but she might have become a mere footnote in cinema history if she hadn't recovered from an early slump. After shooting to stardom in the early 1930s, a string of flops combined with Hepburn's abrasive personality and open contempt for Hollywood mores led to her being declared "box office poison" in a famous poll of film distributors across America in 1938.

It was a blow from which many would not have recovered, but Kate was made of sterner stuff. She used her friendship with Howard Hughes to buy the rights to the hit play The Philadelphia Story, which she then sold on to MGM on one condition -- that she play the female lead. She did, and the 1940 film catapulted her back to stardom.

Joan Crawford was also on that 1938 box-office poison list, and her problems were compounded by the fact that she'd specialised in Depression-era melodramas to such an extent that she was considered a bad and terminally old-fashioned actress. Her star faded to such an extent that by 1943 MGM had bought out her contract and turfed her out of her studio-owned bungalow. But Crawford had a need for fame, and after wangling her way into Warner Brothers, fought tooth and nail to land the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945), against the express wishes of director Michael Curtiz, who only agreed to casting after seeing a powerful screen test. The film revived Crawford's career, and even won her an Oscar -- to the disgust of rival Bette Davis, who'd initially been offered the part.

More recently, John Travolta suffered one of the most dramatic falls from grace when, after becoming a big star in the late 1970s on the strength of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978), he disappeared off the radar for more than a decade.

In the early 1980s, a string of flops and some very bad career choices left him in straight-to-video limbo for much of that decade, and it wasn't until 1994 that his career was given the kiss of life when Quentin Tarantino asked him to star in Pulp Fiction. After that people remembered that he could act, and his rehabilitation has been remarkable.

Ben Affleck nearly drowned in the wake of his disastrous entry into the vortex otherwise known as Jennifer Lopez; and Rob Lowe recovered reasonably well from the 1988 discovery of a sex tape involving him and several females, one of whom was a minor.

But surely the comeback king of this generation of actors is Robert Downey Jr, a hugely talented screen performer who has several times scuppered himself on the verge of triumph by exploding into rehab in the full glare of the spotlight. Once uninsurable, he's now a major star again, but with Downey, you never know what's around the corner.

http://www.independent.ie...omeback-kids-1741371.html