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needless to say a new production involves more than the dancing new sets and costumes had to be designed and created which sent even more ripples of energy out through the company even a fresh marketing and public relations campaign had to be devised everyone became caught up in the enthusiasm of the project and you could feel the power of the project practically surge through our building when the ballet opens at the four seasons centre for the performing arts this week it s going to be an amazing moment there s nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life romeo juliet opened at the four seasons centre for the performing arts in toronto on november 16 2011 and runs until november 27 2011 for more information please visit www nationalballet ca leave a comment magnificent obsession posted in hot video on november 12 2011 by miranda wilding our friday musical highlight is material girl by madonna and now it s time for me to exit stage left leave a comment the versace h m debut posted in glamour style on november 12 2011 by miranda wilding donatella versace knows how to throw a party the designer debuted her much anticipated line for h m at a star studded event in manhattan on tuesday night that included a full length fashion show a private concert by prince and some serious late night shopping the collection is fun donatella told people as she headed into the bash it starts with the iconic moment gianni s black leather and gold studs then there are the miami prints that people know the best i wanted to show them the real thing and then it goes through the evolution of versace from the prints to my collections up to today i m very happy tonight she added i didn t expect such a turnout i knew it would be exciting but not like this i m very proud of my mother allegra versace wearing vintage versace chimed in i ve been wearing the h m line i love the fact that it s going to make all these clothes accessible to kids my age the celebrities who showed up in great numbers were also enthusiastic uma thurman recalled a particular versace moment she wore one of donatella s gowns to the golden globes a few years ago and nicki minaj even paid tribute too this is what donatella wanted she said pointing to her wild green wig and what donatella wants she gets following the fashion show positive reviews were flying i loved it emma roberts told people the clothes the hair and makeup were amazing i feel like it was really done right i m unsure of a lot of collaborations but this made so much sense it was so fun and young and i would wear everything emma and the rest of the crowd then moved into another room decorated to look like a disco and watched nicki minaj and prince take the stage the iconic artist even came back for an encore performing purple rain and dedicating the tune to donatella when the concert ended after 1 am a curtain opened revealing a huge display of the versace h m line on racks mannequins and tables with every outfit and accessory in the show available in great numbers and all sizes and until the wee hours fashionistas with credit cards drawn went wild i m a little bit sad that the collaboration is over tonight donatella mused i worked with a fantastic team of people and i learned a lot most importantly though she was happy to share her brother s legacy with a younger audience i d never touched the prints since my brother died she admitted i took them from the archives and added the fun and excitement and glamour exactly what versace is all about leave a comment q la the tough extraordinarily talented ellen barkin posted in film on november 9 2011 by miranda wilding this article is written by robin sayers at la times magazine hearing that i ve met with ellen barkin inquiring minds want to know is she as gorgeous as she is on screen definitely what s that voice like in person imagine a recently awoken rip van winkle but much sexier does she curse like a sailor sort of she drops only variations on the f bomb but freely and with aplomb as anyone who frequents her new but headline grabbing twitter feed will attest was she wearing stunning jewelry actually less than most women and lastly is she really dating a guy in his twenties ellen doesn t comment on her romantic life but the short answer is this probably the long answer were it in a movie would be too strange for fiction ellen barkin s career was launched in barry levinson s directorial debut the 1982 dramedy diner this month she stars in the dramedy another happy day written and directed by barry levinson s son sam reportedly ellen barkin and sam levinson have been dating for three years and share her west village townhouse he has all but confirmed this in the press and the handsome auteur was with her when she picked up this year s best featured actress tony for the normal heart surprisingly the first turn on broadway for the new yorker back in 2006 when she unloaded 20 3 million worth of baubles from her ex husband billionaire financier ron perelman she told journalists in a twist on hollywood parlance that what she really wanted to do was produce on another happy day which scored sam levinson the waldo salt screenwriting award at sundance she does just that considering the epic saga that was her divorce and the fact that this searing performance is arguably her finest work on film it seems unlikely that ellen could have scripted this latest act any better robin sayers let s start at the beginning of your career is it true you studied acting for seven years before you landed a big audition ellen barkin ten years ten years before any audition not just big i wasn t looking for auditions it wasn t as if i was trying to get auditions and couldn t no i studied acting from when i was a first year student in high school to maybe 26 then i went on my very first audition by choice rs where did you go to college eb i went to hunter because there was a brilliant director named lloyd richards he directed all those plays on broadway but this was before most of them it was hard to be a theatre major because there weren t that many courses so i had to be like theatre slash something and when i finished every theatre or english or history course i left like 16 credits shy of graduating laughs rs do you have a rigid process when you build a character eb i m method trained how is this character like me what does she think of her mother what does her mother think of her it s like construction and then yes you hope you re talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer s work you ve done and whatever else sprinkles down on you and it s all caught on film or on stage there s a craft involved like there is in building a table and there are rules you have to follow and laws of gravity of motion actors need equipment but unlike a carpenter your tools are not outside of you rs you were both a producer and actress on another happy day what initially drew you to the movie eb the minute i read the first scene i d all ready committed in my head and it just got better from there the character is very very different from me at her core i never played what s that cliché a people pleaser i never played a character who was always aware of being judged and afraid of being judged and always questioning her actions she s such a complicated character because she s so fragile and aggressive at the same time i feel proud saying it s an extraordinary film as an actor it s a piece of work that i know everybody says this with every last movie they make i am so proud of just having tackled i didn t say uh nobody s really going to relate to this or ok wait we re moving into some unsympathetic territory here look i m 57 years old i don t have to be coy any more rs and the director eb he s a brilliantly nonjudgmental filmmaker which i find fabulous and refreshing i love a filmmaker with an axe to grind as well but sam is just kind of like you are the camera not i am the camera as the director i don t ever want to be a director i just can t have a first idea i never have even as a child i just don t see things visually rs but you seem to have an innate understanding for what directors are after eb i have enormous respect for them i have to say i haven t worked with a lot of directors who have mistreated me i ve been extremely lucky even in terms of the final movie and how it compares to what i brought to the table i went to see the ides of march i am in awe of george clooney as an actor writer and director and i overheard a very humorous thing but quite telling there s a dramatic moment where something big is about to happen a window in an suv comes down and george you can barely see his eyes says you got a couple minutes to philip seymour hoffman phil gets in the car and the doors close and i said i know my friend george he s shooting this scene like fill in the blank so the camera just stays on the car for what was going on to play out in real time philip gets out the car drives away and you re just looking at him then i overheard someone say why wouldn t he shoot the scene in the car and i thought so you could shoot it in your head like don t you want to fill in that blank rs you re certainly not shy about speaking your mind and you ve even put your money behind what you believe politically eb well we re experiencing divisiveness in terms of our politics like the religious right has identified themselves because of the propagandizing and illiteracy of i don t know news corporation maybe they have identified themselves with this extremist right wing insurgency of a party this tea party they call it a grassroots movement grassroots you re attached to the wrong ship and that just shows you the enormous and don t misquote me here the enormous success that has killed us in terms of fox news the blatant lying that passes itself off as journalism i don t even need to get there to go mental can you imagine a legitimate newsperson walter cronkite dan rather tom brokaw just lying on the news let alone the entertainment factor you know news as entertainment and because of the enormity of the money behind that machine they have convinced this ever growing group of really struggling working class people that these fuckers can somehow in some way represent them they do not i mean let s not even start because that ll take up a whole month if i go down that road rs ok we ll swap topics beauty magazines have written about how women have to decide which is more important their ass or their face because when your ass is smaller your wrinkles show more and vice versa eb yeah and you know it s your face a lot more people see your face unless you re a stripper and by the way whoever sees my ass all ready likes me enough that they don t care if it s a little flat and skinny skinniness is not your friend when you re over 40 i d like to gain a good 10 pounds but i did always have a fat round face that plagued me when i was young when i started to make movies i couldn t look at myself my mother would say i had that same moon face and you re going to like it when i d say yeah but i don t have your cheekbones and she d say you do you just can t see them yet it is clear i was never the pretty girl i had my two front teeth knocked out when i was 10 and didn t fix them until i was 19 i have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it s been broken 12 times but never has been my nose was always red so people called me rudolph my whole face is off centre my nickname was skinabo skin and bones and i have you know squinty slitty eyes rs do you appreciate now how cool your eyes are eb you know when the conversation went from like slitty eyes to bedroom eyes i thought what are bedroom eyes do i really have them but i always talk about this because if you are the beautiful girl every door in the world is open to you immediately when you re that pretty you don t develop fuckin anything else when i d meet those girls even decades ago i would always say listen this is only gonna take you so far so read a fuckin book make a fuckin friend have a conversation and stay in school rs did you like living in l a eb i loved it it was the smell i d just think this is so different than anything i ve smelled before i moved to l a when i was 40 and lived there for five years because my son was going into first grade and i was spending so much time like literally half the year doing movies in l a i just thought like the cliché if i lived here i d be home i lived above coldwater in a kind of east coast style shingled country house we had beautiful trees a gorgeous front lawn a tree house for my kids pool in the backyard a beautiful picket fence there had been so many brutal winters in a row with the kids in new york on with the snowsuit off with the snowsuit feed them change them i just said i m done i gotta get the fuck outta here i can t roll the stroller over the icy snow and then have to go back home because someone needs to have their diaper changed there s gotta be a better way in l a you just open your door and out they go but i did not know how to drive a car being a true new yorker rs yeah that could be a problem in los angeles eb the only thing i could do was movie drive which i did very unsuccessfully having taken out several cameras camera operators and mailboxes i took driving lessons and i got a license oh my god the world s worst when i passed my test i didn t understand why there wasn t a major ceremony at the dmv i was like do you people get it i couldn t drive i m 40 four zero and i just passed my driving test rs did you buy yourself a nice car a convertible maybe eb no an audi i had children but i was always a terrible driver i was never on a freeway i mean never i had a friend who moved up to mulholland we were best friends our kids were best friends and before she bought her house i was like do not buy that house i can t drive up mulholland i m never going to be able to come home at night and i could never do carpool i d just say to the other mothers i m not your girl i ll make the sandwiches i ll cook for the lunch i ll go on the class trips but you do not want me driving your children in fact i d like you to drive my children rs when you go out to l a now do you drive or are you driven eb i rent a car but i m still not good at it rs so if readers see you on the road they should know to leave a wide berth eb smiles leave a comment johnny depp what becomes a legend most posted in film on november 9 2011 by miranda wilding this article is written by decca aitkenhead at the guardian in the weeks leading up to this interview i began to think there must be some law that makes it illegal not to love johnny depp everyone melts into a puddle at the mention of his name men go even loopier than women and the higher men rank on the coolometer of fame the more in love with him they seem to be keith richards brad pitt the gallagher brothers the dudes all adore jo...