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Anyone else trying to watch all the nominated films before the telecast or am I the only film-nerd who does that?
Yep, my boyfriend and I are planning to watch 'em, lol. We're still catching up to last year's nominations!
Anyone else trying to watch all the nominated films before the telecast or am I the only film-nerd who does that?
I did last year. But this year I don't know. I am definitely not into the Theory of Everything or The Imitiation Game.
well, so much for that ploy-
The widow of the man Jennifer Aniston recently described as the first true love of her life slammed the actress for using her late husband as a publicity tool.
"He was my first love five years we were together," Aniston recently said of Daniel McDonald, who passed away from brain cancer in 2007. "He would have been the one! But I was 25, and I was stupid." McDonald went on to marry actress and filmmaker Mujah Muraini-Melehi after his relationship with Aniston ended.
However, it seems McDonald's widow isn't happy with the fact that Aniston is throwing his name around in interviews. Muraini-Melehi posted about the recent flood of attention to her Facebook page. Redbook reports:
Mujah told Inside Edition, "Daniel and Jennifer had a relationship over 20 years ago, when they were both still very young. She made a life choice, but so did he. I am sorry that Jennifer did not realize the treasure that was Daniel when she had the chance, long before he and I met and long before he died. It pains me to read the headlines that allude to her losing him tragically when in fact she was not present during his long and difficult illness. Perhaps Daniel's gift was to teach her how to love, and to appreciate what she has with Justin Theroux."
"After Daniel died, I reached out to her to give her back all the photographs from the time they were together," she wrote. I never got an answer back from her."
http://jezebel.com/widow-of-jen-anistons-first-love-you-werent-there-for-1679592021
The widow of the man Jennifer Aniston recently described as the first true love of her life slammed the actress for using her late husband as a publicity tool.
"He was my first love five years we were together," Aniston recently said of Daniel McDonald, who passed away from brain cancer in 2007. "He would have been the one! But I was 25, and I was stupid." McDonald went on to marry actress and filmmaker Mujah Muraini-Melehi after his relationship with Aniston ended.
However, it seems McDonald's widow isn't happy with the fact that Aniston is throwing his name around in interviews. Muraini-Melehi posted about the recent flood of attention to her Facebook page. Redbook reports:
Mujah told Inside Edition, "Daniel and Jennifer had a relationship over 20 years ago, when they were both still very young. She made a life choice, but so did he. I am sorry that Jennifer did not realize the treasure that was Daniel when she had the chance, long before he and I met and long before he died. It pains me to read the headlines that allude to her losing him tragically when in fact she was not present during his long and difficult illness. Perhaps Daniel's gift was to teach her how to love, and to appreciate what she has with Justin Theroux."
"After Daniel died, I reached out to her to give her back all the photographs from the time they were together," she wrote. I never got an answer back from her."
http://jezebel.com/widow-of-jen-anistons-first-love-you-werent-there-for-1679592021
She never named him, and admitted she was young and stupid and he was the one looking back on it.
Sensationalism much?
How many of us look back on our 1st love and think they were probably the one? I've reflected. . .
JENNIFER Aniston says she believes her first actor boyfriend was “the one” and that he sent her fiance Justin Theroux after dying of a brain tumour.
Speaking to the New York Times, Aniston, 45, says her first boyfriend was her soulmate but that she stuffed it up, saying he was an “unappreciated boyfriend”.
“He was my first love — five years we were together,” she said. “He would have been the one. But I was 25, and I was stupid. He must have sent me Justin to make up for it all.”
Aniston is believed to have been talking about actor Daniel McDonald who had guest roles in a string of TV shows including Sex and the City, CSI: Miami and Law & Order.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...nald-was-the-one/story-fn907478-1227180994965
Sensationalism much?
How many of us look back on our 1st love and think they were probably the one? I've reflected. . .
JENNIFER Aniston says she believes her first actor boyfriend was “the one” and that he sent her fiance Justin Theroux after dying of a brain tumour.
Speaking to the New York Times, Aniston, 45, says her first boyfriend was her soulmate but that she stuffed it up, saying he was an “unappreciated boyfriend”.
“He was my first love — five years we were together,” she said. “He would have been the one. But I was 25, and I was stupid. He must have sent me Justin to make up for it all.”
Aniston is believed to have been talking about actor Daniel McDonald who had guest roles in a string of TV shows including Sex and the City, CSI: Miami and Law & Order.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...nald-was-the-one/story-fn907478-1227180994965
They didn't have to. We all knew the media was going to dig it up. Jen did that for a publicity grab because she's desperate for this Oscar.
What does saying she let this unnamed guy, who was "the one" go stupidly at the age of 25 have to do with getting an Oscar? Next I'm gonna hear she didn't give enough Rolex's to get a golden globe!!!
It doesn't. . . it was part of an interview. I don't think anyone truly believes a love story impacts an Oscar opportunity, lol!
If she gave Rolex's I assume Julianne Moore, Viola Davis, Quvenzhane Wallis Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix did as well?
If she gave Rolex's I assume Julianne Moore, Viola Davis, Quvenzhane Wallis Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix did as well?
I don't know what everyone else's definition of "soulmate" is but generally I understand it to be a two-way street. She had no contact with him for years and had no idea how he felt about her when he died. for her to insert herself into his marriage and life story by suggesting that they had such a cosmic connection that he sent Justin to her is ridiculous and offensive. She has given thousands of interviews over the years and now she chooses to talk about this? Would you be okay with having some ex-girlfriend of your husband refer to him publicly as their "soulmate" after he passed away?
She didn't though, lol! It was a conversation about her first love, and how she was young and stupid. . . he later died. She's not inserting herself into anything, never named him or anything.
I guess if you don't like her than any slant is possible however.
I guess if you don't like her than any slant is possible however.
I don't disagree with you and it is one of the very few times I think Jen has said something that didn't make a whole lot of sense when I heard he was sick after their relationship and he was married to someone else. I don't think what she said was in good taste. Hence I don't think she said it to get an Oscar???? Better had she not said it at all.
Putting the Cloak of Rachel to Rest
You can star in one of the most beloved sitcoms of the last quarter century, win an Emmy, be paid $1 million per episode, find as much success in movies and still have more than a little something to prove, along with a whole lot to lose.
So in the seconds before the first public showing of Cake at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Jennifer Aniston was a wreck inside.
It didnt hit me until the lights went down that the most people whod seen it were eight people, and all of a sudden we were in a 1,500-seat theater, she said, her eyes widening at the memory. I just didnt know how it would be received. Its a vulnerable, terrifying moment.
Cake, about a devastated womans uncertain recovery, does away with pretty, peppy Aniston and installs a pill-popping harridan in her place. She has scars on her face, flab on her body, an anguished gait and an acid tongue. Its a kind of glamour-for-grit statement just familiar enough to raise the possibility of eye rolls in lieu of applause. Its a plea of sorts, and Ms. Aniston had no guarantee of a charitable answer.
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But when the lights rose in Toronto, the audience did, too, giving her a standing ovation. And while the movie, which opens nationally on Jan. 23, got mixed notices from the handful of critics who weighed in, she got just enough positive recognition to essentially muscle herself into the awards season.
She has been an indefatigable whirlwind over the last few months, following the media script of a publicist known as an Oscar whisperer and attending more than a dozen question-and-answer sessions at special screenings in California and New York. And its working. In December she picked up Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice nominations for best actress.
She recognizes this moment as perhaps her best chance to take away the cloak of Rachel, she said, referring to her part on the sitcom Friends. The intensity of her desire to do precisely that was suggested by her reaction when, toward the start of our interview recently at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, I noted that a reviewer for The Guardian had called Cake a showcase for her hitherto hidden acting chops.
Hmm, yes, very deep underneath, she said of these ostensibly buried gifts, adding that the notion was kind of head-scratching Wow.
A few minutes later, she returned to the critics hidden phrase, again registering frustration with its insinuation that something other than talent and craft had gone into her work in Friends and about two dozen movies, not all comedies, since the mid-1990s.
And she alluded to the phrase twice more after that. In each instance, her otherwise smooth, affable manner took on the slightest of edges. You have to do something really dark to be taken seriously, I guess, she said. Then, referring to both the duration of Friends and its popularity in syndication, she added: If youre in someones living room every week for 10 years and every day on God knows what network, people are going to have a hard time saying, O.K., were going to see you do what now? without making associations. Its a Catch-22. Its like: I know I can play this part, you just have to let me. And then its I cant let you play that part, because Ive never seen you do it. There were jobs that I really wanted and would fight and fight for and then the obvious previous Oscar winners would get them.
For example?
She shook her head. No go. She knows too well how much the media loves to pit one celebrity against another. To believe the tabloids, she has spent the last decade in a grudge match with Angelina Jolie, whose husband, Brad Pitt, was of course married to Ms. Aniston first.
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Jennifer Aniston portrays a pill-popping woman in constant pain in Cake. Credit Cinelou Releasing Its ridiculous that the two names have to go into the same sentence and there has to be a compare-and-despair thing, she said.
But fate keeps nudging the names together. One of the surprising subplots of the Oscar race is the way Ms. Jolies much-discussed, doggedly promoted prospects for a best director nod, for Unbroken, dimmed just as Ms. Anistons odds for a best actress nomination brightened. Along the way, there was also that Sony nastiness, including disparaging emails from the producer Scott Rudin about Ms. Jolie.
Ms. Aniston beat back any discussion of that. I dont want to give any fuel to the fire, she said. She is practiced and game enough to permit 30 seconds of conversation about Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt. But a full minute is pushing it. Her posture stiffens.
For a long time now, Ms. Aniston, 45, has been one of Hollywoods most mercilessly chronicled celebrities, pressing on through a ceaseless storm of gossip and a constant swarm of paparazzi.
They would interrupt our shots, recalled Daniel Barnz, the director of Cake (whose credits include Beastly and Wont Back Down), describing takes of outdoor scenes ruined by the whistling of photographers trying to put a startled expression on Ms. Anistons face and get her to look their way. We didnt have the budget or manpower to keep them at bay.
And she has clearly developed strategies for the fishbowl. She surrenders just enough so that she doesnt have to give up too much. She scatters tidbits of apparent revelation amid anodyne lines.
You can star in one of the most beloved sitcoms of the last quarter century, win an Emmy, be paid $1 million per episode, find as much success in movies and still have more than a little something to prove, along with a whole lot to lose.
So in the seconds before the first public showing of Cake at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Jennifer Aniston was a wreck inside.
It didnt hit me until the lights went down that the most people whod seen it were eight people, and all of a sudden we were in a 1,500-seat theater, she said, her eyes widening at the memory. I just didnt know how it would be received. Its a vulnerable, terrifying moment.
Cake, about a devastated womans uncertain recovery, does away with pretty, peppy Aniston and installs a pill-popping harridan in her place. She has scars on her face, flab on her body, an anguished gait and an acid tongue. Its a kind of glamour-for-grit statement just familiar enough to raise the possibility of eye rolls in lieu of applause. Its a plea of sorts, and Ms. Aniston had no guarantee of a charitable answer.
Continue reading the main story Video
She has been an indefatigable whirlwind over the last few months, following the media script of a publicist known as an Oscar whisperer and attending more than a dozen question-and-answer sessions at special screenings in California and New York. And its working. In December she picked up Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice nominations for best actress.
She recognizes this moment as perhaps her best chance to take away the cloak of Rachel, she said, referring to her part on the sitcom Friends. The intensity of her desire to do precisely that was suggested by her reaction when, toward the start of our interview recently at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, I noted that a reviewer for The Guardian had called Cake a showcase for her hitherto hidden acting chops.
Hmm, yes, very deep underneath, she said of these ostensibly buried gifts, adding that the notion was kind of head-scratching Wow.
A few minutes later, she returned to the critics hidden phrase, again registering frustration with its insinuation that something other than talent and craft had gone into her work in Friends and about two dozen movies, not all comedies, since the mid-1990s.
And she alluded to the phrase twice more after that. In each instance, her otherwise smooth, affable manner took on the slightest of edges. You have to do something really dark to be taken seriously, I guess, she said. Then, referring to both the duration of Friends and its popularity in syndication, she added: If youre in someones living room every week for 10 years and every day on God knows what network, people are going to have a hard time saying, O.K., were going to see you do what now? without making associations. Its a Catch-22. Its like: I know I can play this part, you just have to let me. And then its I cant let you play that part, because Ive never seen you do it. There were jobs that I really wanted and would fight and fight for and then the obvious previous Oscar winners would get them.
For example?
She shook her head. No go. She knows too well how much the media loves to pit one celebrity against another. To believe the tabloids, she has spent the last decade in a grudge match with Angelina Jolie, whose husband, Brad Pitt, was of course married to Ms. Aniston first.
Photo
Jennifer Aniston portrays a pill-popping woman in constant pain in Cake. Credit Cinelou Releasing Its ridiculous that the two names have to go into the same sentence and there has to be a compare-and-despair thing, she said.
But fate keeps nudging the names together. One of the surprising subplots of the Oscar race is the way Ms. Jolies much-discussed, doggedly promoted prospects for a best director nod, for Unbroken, dimmed just as Ms. Anistons odds for a best actress nomination brightened. Along the way, there was also that Sony nastiness, including disparaging emails from the producer Scott Rudin about Ms. Jolie.
Ms. Aniston beat back any discussion of that. I dont want to give any fuel to the fire, she said. She is practiced and game enough to permit 30 seconds of conversation about Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt. But a full minute is pushing it. Her posture stiffens.
For a long time now, Ms. Aniston, 45, has been one of Hollywoods most mercilessly chronicled celebrities, pressing on through a ceaseless storm of gossip and a constant swarm of paparazzi.
They would interrupt our shots, recalled Daniel Barnz, the director of Cake (whose credits include Beastly and Wont Back Down), describing takes of outdoor scenes ruined by the whistling of photographers trying to put a startled expression on Ms. Anistons face and get her to look their way. We didnt have the budget or manpower to keep them at bay.
And she has clearly developed strategies for the fishbowl. She surrenders just enough so that she doesnt have to give up too much. She scatters tidbits of apparent revelation amid anodyne lines.