Did Jennifer Lopez And Bradley Cooper go on a Date

Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper have sparked the rumor mill, after they went out to dinner together a few days ago. The pair was spotted at Per Se, a restaurant located at Columbus Circle in New York City.

Any hint of romance has been denied by the actor’s reps, their dinner date has been explained away by saying that they were simply discussing a future “project,” But according to TMZ sources the dinner was “romantic” and intimate. And The New York Post has reported that the couple were “heavily flirting” with each other over dinner.

Both are fairly recently single; Lopez split from husband Marc Anthony after seven years of marriage in July, Cooper and Renee Zellweger announced their split after two years together in March. A simple two hour dinner together has well and truly triggered a great deal of speculation of whether they were up to more than just business.

Hathaway Named Hasty Pudding Woman of Year

CAMBRIDGE: Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway can add another honor to her list: the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award presented annually by Harvard University’s budding thespians.

Hathaway will be feted Jan. 28 at a humorous “roast” and parade held by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe. Hasty Pudding men traditionally dress up in women’s clothes for the event.

Hathaway made her name as a teen in “The Princess Diaries,” and has since showed her range in comedies like “Get Smart” and dramas such as “Brokeback Mountain.” She was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009 for “Rachel Getting Married.”

Hasty Pudding honors performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution” to entertainment. Recent women of the year have included Renee Zellweger and Charlize Theron.

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Hathaway Named Hasty Pudding Woman of Year was first posted on January 15, 2010 at 4:12 pm.

New In Town Movie Review

Urbanites often find it difficult to get out of their comfort zone which happens to be the city they live in. A city sucks peace out of your life and compensates for it by offering you with better infrastructure facilities and availability of technology. Work rate quickens and money flows in faster. But the professionalism of a bustling city leaves no room in your life to actually live it to the fullest. Humanity, unconditional love, innocence are words that seem apt only in a fairy tale… unless, you get to experience it yourself.

Lucy Hill (Renee Zellweger) is an ambitious woman who lives in Miami and works for a food processing giant. She loves her city life but wants to climb the corporate ladder. She thus grabs an opportunity of handling her company’s underperforming branch in New Ulm, Minnesota hoping a promotion sooner.

Once she shifts to her new town, her down-to-earth Minnesotan staff helps her regain humanity. Promotion is no longer the only goal which motivates her to make her branch excel in the business. She even launches a new product on her own when her company plans to shut the branch owing to its continuous bad returns.

New in Town has a sweet story to tell but unfortunately the execution isn’t great enough. Characters and their affection for each other just don’t come across, nor the romantic relationship that Lucy shares with Ted (Harry Connick Jr). Ted happens to be the union leader of the branch, is a widower and lives with his 13 year old girl in New Ulm.

The film evokes a few laughs in few scenes but that’s it. There is nothing extremely comic or romantic or even emotional in this film as is intended by the director.

Renee Zellweger disappoints as she is anything but the charming actress we have seen in Jerry McGuire, Bridget Jones’ Diary and many such beautiful movies. She seems uninvolved and detached from her character. We wonder if its bad make-up or actual signs of ageing but Renee looks haggard! Harry Connick Jr plays his part well but his character itself being poorly sketched he doesn’t have much scope anyways.

The story should ideally make you feel warm and mushy inside but you don’t feel anything when it ends.

How Lucy goes about single-handedly launching the new product and thus saving jobs in the new town – the process itself is missing thus making the film shallow and mediocre.

You can safely give this film a miss…

Cast: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr

Direction: Jonas Elmer

Genre: Romantic Comedy

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New In Town Movie Review was first posted on December 12, 2009 at 12:34 pm.
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Jessica Tandy

Actress Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates: a loved one, sparkling blue eyes, doyenne of stage and screen career of actress Jessica Tandy spanned nearly six decades and a half. In that time frame which enjoyed a remarkable revival film at the age of 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and beauty of consent. Jessie Alice Tandy was born in London in 1909, the daughter of Harry Tandy, a traveling salesman, and Jessie Helen Horspool. His parents enrolled as a teenager in the Ben Greet Academy Of where she showed immediate promise. She was 16 when she made her professional bow as Sarah Manderson in the play “The Manderson Girls” and later was invited to participate in the Birmingham Repertory Theater. Within a couple of years, Jessica was making a series of premieres of others as well. His first West End play is “The Rumor” at the Court Theater in 1929, its Gotham bow was in “The Matriarch” at the Longacre Theater in 1930, and its role in initial film was as a maid in the indiscretions Eva (1932).

Jessica tandyJessica married British actor Jack Hawkins in 1932 after the couple met at the completion of the work “Autumn Crocus” last year. They had a daughter, Susan, before parting ways after eight years of marriage. An unconventional beauty with a little severe, sharp-eyed, hard-line features, was passed over for leadership roles in the movies lady, focusing heavily on transatlantic race across the stage 1930 and 1940. She grew in stature, while the promulgation of a succession of ladies premiere of Shakespeare (Titania, Viola, Ophelia, Cordelia). While enjoying personal success in other parts of works such as “French Without Tears,” “Honor your father,” “Jupiter Laughs,” “Anne of England” and “Portrait of a Madonna.” And then she gave birth to Blanche DuBois.

When the work of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire “opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, Jessica’s name became forever associated with this character fascinating southern belle. One of the most complex, beautifully drawn, and still coveted femme parties of all time, went on to win the coveted Tony Award. Apart from the introduction of Marlon Brando for the general audience, “Streetcar” hit the marquee value of Jessica to a thousand times. But not in the movies.

While his colleagues estimated stars Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden had the luxury of recreating his role in Elia Kazan Stark black and white film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Jessica was devastating overlooked. Vivien Leigh, who played on stage in London and had already immortalized another timid, manipulative Southern Belle on celluloid (Scarlett O’Hara), was a celebrity more commercial film at the time and signed on to play the delusional Blanche. To be fair, Leigh was nothing less than astonishing in the role and went on to deserved to win the Academy Award (along with Malden and Hunter). Jessica require his revenge in Hollywood in subsequent years.

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Jessica Tandy was first posted on November 9, 2009 at 11:14 am.