Kate and Hugh Jackman Make "Raunchy" Short Film

Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman will appear in a risqué comedy segment for Peter Farrelly (There's Something About Mary) in an upcoming anthology movie.

Farrelly's short will see Jackman play a man whose testicles are located under his chin. Winslet is to play a woman who goes out on a date with Jackman's character, and is the only person who notices the unfortunate placement of his genitalia.

Zombieland actress Emma Stone - who is starring with Kieran Culkin in one of the 17 shorts making up the project - revealed details on the Winslet/Jackman film in an interview with Movieline.

She said: "[It's] kind of like Kentucky Fried Movie. In that vein. It's just really, really funny. Kieran Culkin and I did our short together a couple of weeks ago, directed by Griffin Dunne. But wait until you see the Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman one. That's the only other one I've seen. The humor is so raunchy.

"All of the stories are completely different. I think they're going to tie them together; I don't know how. I can't give it away, but theirs is called The Catch. He's a bachelor... but there's a catch. She's going on a date with this bachelor, and you will not believe what you see when you see it. It's so f**king funny."

Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk and Brett Ratner are also directing segments of the untitled movie, while Gerard Butler, Naomi Watts, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Justin Long and Sam Rockwell are among the cast.

Tuesday, April 6 2010, 9:06am EDT
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor

In the Beginning: 'Heavenly Creatures': 1994

Trailer:



Montage:



Selected Scenes:






The Promise of something HUGE.



A brief clip with the stars and the real juliet and pauline:



Pauline's Dream:

Kate: 6/1/09: Premiere of Sam Mendes' 'Away We Go'

Today on DVD: 'Revolutionary Road' A-

Often bleak. Sometimes dreary. Generally rough and tough to watch. Yet brilliant. A marriage is made in "heaven". A marriage erupts. A marriage implodes. Then explodes. A marriage goes to hell. Lives are torn asunder. A slice of many lives hidden behind closed doors and picket fences. The american dream as nightmare. It happens every day.
Sam Mendes brilliantly captures it on film.

Also see it for three brilliant performances:
Leo DiCaprio who should have been Oscar nominated.
Michael Shannon who was nominated for his supporting role.
Kate Winslet who WOULD have been nominated if 'The Reader' had been held off until 2009. And she still would have won. Probably two years in a row. An embarrassment of riches well deserved.

And once and for all she did win her Oscar for the better performance in the better role for 2009. Kate's loss in 'Revolutionary Road' was to herself in 'The Reader'. She is obviously too good for her own good. Not too great a cross to bear or problem to have. And yes she should have won for better roles. By that I mean also won for better roles than either of these period. 'Little Children' to be exact. It didn't happen. But this does not diminish her Oscar this year.
Kate Winslet Oscar Winner.
There. Period. Amen!!!
Stop the battle of which was her better role in 2008 once and for all. It's a done deal. Only I'm still allowed. HA!!!
Now Kate let's get number 2!

Beat Actress Nomination 2005

THE BIG INSULT.

Hillary Skank won for 'Million Dollar Baby'
Kate should have won in the most versatile role of her career to date: 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.

Her Clenintine was amazingly different and comic.
She was brilliant. Jim Carey was robbed of a nomination for the film. It remains his best work to date.

Hillary Skank indeed!!!

Kate WAS the Best Actress that year!!!

The Day Before SHE Came

turn volume on to hear blancmange's 'the day before you came'

(best viewed if you watch on full screen)

2/21/2009 New York Daily News

From My Former Hometown Newspaper








When was the first time you saw Kate Winslet? Sure, the English actress officially came into moviegoers' view as one-half of a dysfunctional, desperate-to-love pair of teenage murderesses in Peter Jackson's 1994 "Heavenly Creatures." But most people have a moment and a movie when they really, truly saw her.
That sense of discovery is crucial to every Winslet performance. But she doesn't force it; often it's just the opposite. Sometimes she's still as a ghost, as if she were always there, waiting for the camera to come around.
The shadowy entrance she makes inside a tunnel at the beginning of "The Reader," which earned Winslet a sixth Oscar nomination in 14 years - a record for someone 33 years old - will forever haunt the young man who meets her there in director Stephen Daldry's Holocaust drama.
For her character, Hanna Schmitz, is not who she appears to be, not when Michael (David Kross) meets her when he's a teenager in Berlin in the '50s - and Hanna is in her mid-30s - nor when he reencounters her years later and discovers her culpability in Nazi atrocities.
But "The Reader" is, among other things, about reconciling truth and memory, perception and reality. And Hanna is someone who runs from all of those things, leaving Michael to try and understand why she did what she did.
In Winslet's other major movie of 2008, "Revolutionary Road," her character, April, is first glimpsed at a party, the camera lazily scoping the room until it finds her - and stops. Just like Leonardo DiCaprio's Frank Wheeler, we, too, have no need to look further: She's our focus. And like Frank, we'll try damn hard to figure her out.
In 1995's "Sense and Sensibility," the first time Oscar noticed her, she was a Jane Austen spitfire in a bonnet. In "Iris," she was the young Iris Murdoch, grabbing life but unaware of the ravages it would inflict. (She got noticed for that, too - Best Supporting Actress, same as "Sense.")
And in "Little Children" - the last time she got a Best Actress nom - she's first seen sitting quietly on a bench in a playground, aching so badly for a life beyond motherhood it hurts.
"Titanic" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" were her other Best Actress chances, and two parts on either side of a mountain: modern woman in the making, and modern woman unraveling. (In "Eternal Sunshine," she almost hops out of her seat in front of Jim Carrey while they ride the LIRR, a girl with blue streaks in her hair, talking a blue streak.)
In all of these films - and others of hers as different as "Jude," "Quills," "Finding Neverland" and "The Holiday" - Winslet can be counted on to just connect. And every time she shows up, no matter the character, we see something new.By Joe Neumaier

Today: Best Actress Nominees And My Pick

Three great performances: Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep and Melissa Leo.
One good performance: Angelina Jolie.
One hysterical, over the top performance in the worst movie of the year: Anne Hathaway.

You know who I want to win. You know who I think will win. You know who I think should win.

You know they've snubbed her 5 times already.
You know I don't trust the voters.
You know I shouldn't care.
But this year I do more than most in this category.

So I'm going out on the proverbial limb.

The winner should be: Kate Winslet.
The winner will be: Kate Winslet.

'At The Movies' Best Actress Pick

We Kate fans are not alone!

Oscar Nominee Luncheon 2/2/2009

Create Your Own

Kate The Great Times Two!!!

The GOLDEN GLOBES honored Kate Winslet with TWO count them TWO awards last night. Even just one would have been long overdue. So my heartfelt congratulations to Kate. And now I can only hope Oscar finally comes through with at least one. And for the record Hollywood make it the TOP one. I am mad with joy today!!!


THE BEST ACTRESS WIN: 'REVOLUTIONARY ROAD'






THE SUPPORTING ACTRESS WIN: 'THE READER'










Kate and Leo on 'Revolutionary Road' with Charlie Rose:





And once again the TRAILERS of both 'Revolutionary Road' and 'The Reader':

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With Husband Sam Mendes who directed 'Revolutionary Road'