Scarlett Johansson

Lucky Californians. First off, they got a dose of the Scottish shoegazer grandpops Jesus and Mary Chain’s return. And then there was Scarlett proving her singing skills.
The rumour was indeed true. She might not be on the band’s first comeback gig but she was really at the Coachella.
According to Uncut, the actress showed up onstage with the reunited Jesus and Mary Chain on their warm-up gig on April 26 singing “Sometimes Always” onstage in Pomona, California. But Starpulse debunked that there was no Scarlett but instead a giant drag singer Annie Hardy who was with the band’s first comeback show.
However, the day after the band’s warm-up gig, Jim Reid and co. this time was joined by the actress taking the main stage of the Coachella music festival on Friday.
Singing vocals on the track “Just Like Honey,” the actress was caught sporting a ’60s psychedelic mini dress, a straw hat smacked in red high heels. Access Hollywood said that “Scarlett joined the band on stage three-quarters of the way through their set.”
According to NME, Jim was heard telling the crowd: “This is fucking unreal.”

The band took the stage just after the sun had set over the mountainous California desert. Dressed all in black, they tore through classics including ‘Head On’ and ‘Some Candy Talking’ as well as a new song.
“Are you having fun?” he asked. When the crowd responded positively he quipped, “Well let’s see what we can do about that!”
This didn’t stop the audience from dancing and cheering throughout their hour-long set.
Just when The Jesus And Mary Chain appeared to be winding things down, Lost In Translation actress Johansson took the stage dressed in a colourful paisley mini-dress. Without saying a word, she joined Reid on vocals for the chorus of ‘Just Like Honey’.
“Wasn’t that nice?” Reid asked after they finished their duet and Johansson left the stage.
The band then launched into their final song, ‘Reverence’, before wrapping things up.

Jim did not introduce the actress to the screaming crowd but hugged her at the end of the song.
Aside from Scarlett, other celebrities who were spotted in the crowd are Coachella regulars Danny DeVito, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz, even wild child Lindsay Lohan and Adam Brody from “OC California.”

Scarlett standing with the band

Is she at ease handling the microphone?

Mesmerising the crowd with “Just Like Honey.”

The original “Just Like Honey” off the band’s 1985 album “Psychocandy.”

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The Jesus and Mary Chain and Scarlett Johansson

Ahh, poor Scarlett.
She is having a love-hate relationship with the media. First, there are the clever pronouncements she uttered in every interview and how the press love it. Then the hordes of paparazzi who want to snap a piece of her and how she totally hates it, to the point of writing in bold letters that the photographers are “harassing her” posted on her handmade placard in 2006.
Once again, TMZ is deriding her lack of amour and sense of humour to sly photographers who want to point their cameras at her.

The paparazzi took aim at Scarlett Johansson this weekend — with one cameraman screaming “bitch!” at her as she flew past.
Photogs went wild trying to get a shot of Johansson heading into an SNL afterparty at McCormick & Schmick’s late Saturday night in New York. When the stacked starlet tried to brush by the crowd, one cameraman started shouting “don’t be a bitch! Bitch! Bitch!” Yeah, that’ll get her to strike a pose.

One of the things that separates the young actress from the rest of her contemporaries in Hollywood is her curves and her fascination to retain them. Just like the British actress Kate Winslet, she despises starving herself to achieve that “child look” in which the Olsen twins and Nicole Richie are famous/notorious for.
She has the body and she has the cellulite. No doubt about that. She might not be sporty, doesn’t go to the gyms and sweat herself till she drops. And she doesn’t have any regrets if she hasn’t the fitness club membership to tone her abs.
In her recent “Saturday Night Live” appearance where she was the host, a few of her shots took so many Scarlett haters of this website to slam her choice of not to hunger herself and gym absence.
As long as she is happy with her body, it doesn’t matter if she has gained weight.
This is a clip from her “SNL” intro appearance goofing around and singing with “Sanjaya,” the booted out “American Idol” finalist.

If you have missed the show or you want to see it again, You Tube has a great collection for mass consumption.

Scarlett Johansson on SNL, celebrity weight

Watching the “Nanny Diaries” trailer where Scarlett plays a nanny to a boy from an upper-class family in Manhattan is a fresh air from what she’s doing (or has been done). Her personality seems to have changed too with this comedy. I haven’t read the book but it sure looks fun on the big screen. Finally, there’s the definite month for its release, which is September this year. Just in time for Oscars??? I can’t wait to see Laura Linney, who played her employer from hell.

Not only she is paired with the cutesy Chris Evans, she is also brunette. Now the question is: is she real blonde?
Here’s the movie’s official poster.

It isn’t a good week for actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers who reportedly checked into a rehab due to his drinking problem. I don’t think he’s riding into the bandwagon of celebrities going for treatment. He might be an Irish and drinking is in his blood but the 29-year-old actor seems to be a workaholic lot. Thing is he shouldn’t mix alcohol with working.
Aside from his successful TV series “The Tudors,” which began airing on April 1st in the United States, where he plays the young Henry VIII, he’s doing films right here and there. An official message from his rep has been released to People.

“After a non-stop succession of filming, Jonathan Rhys Meyers has entered an alcohol-treatment program,” rep Meredith O’Sullivan says. “He felt a break was needed to maintain his recovery.”
Meyers’s rep adds: “Jonathan plans to resume his schedule following completion.”

He has become somewhat a household name in 1998 after portraying as a glam rocker in Todd Haynes’ “Velvet Goldmine.” The story is loosely based on David Bowie’s life from his pre-glam to Ziggy Stardust’s era. It has become a cult movie but is not popular among the diehard Bowie fans. David himself has never encouraged it, even to the point of forbidding his songs to be included in the soundtrack.

The pretty Irish lad starred with Scarlett on the movie “Match Point” that came out in 2005. Directed by Woody Allen, the title refers to the character he plays, Chris Wilton, who is a tennis pro searching for a new life direction and the role of luck plays on people. He seems to have found it when he befriends the members of a wealthy British family. Emily Mortimer (Chloe) and Matthew Goode (Tom) play siblings in the family. He soon starts an amiable relationship with Emily’s character. Until he meets Nola Rice, Scarlett’s character, a struggling actress who is engaged to Tom. The film delves you in till you find yourself rooting for Jonathan’s character to succeed even though it isn’t right. Woody Allen is playing with your neuroses and fears and, man, he wins.
I swear, upon watching it I thought about my little lies hoping that my loved ones should not know. It is a relief that that you are not in the characters’ shoes.
Jonathan is known to have dated his costars including Toni Collete from “Velvet Goldmine.” It was rumoured that he and Scarlett, who did some intimate scenes, were involved for some time. Both of them denied it though. His present girlfriend is Reena Hammer, an heiress. Page Six reported that the couple were spotted having some wild public hanky-panky in a club without ordering anything.
He currently serves as the new face of the men’s fragrance Hugo by Hugo Boss.
Meanwhile, fans have to wait till Mr. Rhys Meyers, ho hypen please, is back on track. Hopefully too some channels in Germany and Austria will consider airing “The Tudors” in local TV.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point, Woody Allen, Velvet Goldmine, The Tudors

Way back in high school doing a dressing-up drama where I and my orgmates played “beauty contestant uglies,” a friend overheard the boys at the back who quipped, “Geez, what a sight for these pretty girls!” Hell, it was flattering but it could be a lot of fun for someone who is an actress and has made her name through countless lists of beauty/sexy ranking and magazine covers.

Just for laughs, Scarlett played down her physical appearance by dressing up as an ugly alien during last Saturday’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.” She appeared as a balding alien living in a comedienne’s stomach on US television.

The actress hosted the satirical show when she came out to play a “quatto” who had taken over cast regular Maya Rudolph’s stomach in one sketch.
She ended the hilarious skit by tongue kissing a fellow quatto, played by comedian Andy Samberg, while human guests at a party threw up.
Johansson further showed off her comedy skills on the show by playing Donald Trump’s socialite daughter Ivanka, a bratty socialite on the hunt for a trampy prom dress and the daughter of a New York marble column salesman. Source

Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg, Maya Rudolph

Scarlett admits in one of her interviews abroad that the reason the press sees her differently is due to the fact that she doesn’t live in California. Unlike the alleged “fakeness” surrounding Los Angeles, New York is huge and chaotic. Scarlett, an avowed New Yorker, definitely showers the city with adoring phrases any way she can.
After the live TV groping by E! reporter Isaac Mizrahi in 2006, the horrified Scarlett doesn’t hold grudge against the reporter and would be happy to talk to him at other events in case Isaac would like to touch her again, “I can take care of myself. I’m from New York.”

On Monday, photogs caught the hooded Scarlett showing “some team pride” to her city by wearing a Yankees cap on her way through LAX security.
“I love New York. I loved growing up here,” She was quoted telling Glamour magazine. Thanks to her mum and dad, who gave her the freedom she needs.
“My parents were always very liberal and open,” she said.
Scarlett revealed that she used to hang out around George Segal’s sculpture, Gay Liberation, and hunted almost every bar at Christopher Street.
“I used to love to play around George Segal’s Gay Liberation sculpture of the couples sitting on the bench at Sheridan Square. I’d run up and down Christopher Street and sneak into the bars.”

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According to the New York Post, Scarlett hopes to portray Betty Grable, an American dancer, singer, and actress from the ’30s till ’50s, in the movie.
A source told a US newspaper: “She wants the role. Scarlett just knows she wants to play the part. With Betty Grable’s life set in the ’40s, there wouldn’t be a heavy accent on nudity, which is something Scarlett does not want to do. Not that there’s necessarily at this precise moment a script already written, greenlighted and ready to go about bandleader trumpet player Harry James’ movie star wife. This generation’s hotshot beauty just knows she wants to play the part.”
Betty’s sensational bathing-suit photo, with her head looking over her right shoulder, became the No. 1 pin-up girl of the World War II era, which was later included in Life Magazine’s “100 Photos that Changed the World.”
One of her popular movies is “How to Marry a Millionaire” with Lauen Bacall and Marilyn Monroe.
Betty was also known for her shapely legs, which were showcased in all of her 20th Century Fox Technicolor musicals and were famously insured by her studio for $1,000,000 per leg at Lloyds of London. She died of lung cancer in 1973 at the age of 56.
Scarlett, who was once again again quoted by saying that she doesn’t think monogamy is natural, thinks that any person remains faithful to one partner. “I’ll get flack for saying this, but I do believe that human beings aren’t instinctively monogamous.”
Betty married twice. While Scarlett ejoys her bachelorettehood.

Betty Grable

Scarlett can’t stand celebrities who sell their personal stories and insists it’s “vulgar.”
She is adamant she will never tell journalists her innermost thoughts and she can’t understand why other people do so.
She says, “I’ll never sell my sob story to some magazine. I read those issues in which people are crying on a reporter’s shoulder and the reporter writes, ‘Then she starts to sob…’ “Stories in which gals open up a little too much make me go, ‘Aaaagghh!’ They talk about their bulimia or their drug addiction. I think: ‘Why are you doing this?’ It’s vulgar.”
On the other hand, she might play Nellie Forbush of the famed “South Pacific.” Rumour has it that after declaring her love for the musical during an interview, the New York Post reported that Scarlett was in talks to play US Navy nurse Nellie, which is scheduled to open in January 2008 at the Lincoln Center.

In an interview with the latest UK edition of Glamour magazine, Johansson admits she’s a huge fan of the Rodgers And Hammerstein show, but she has a problem with the heroine’s surname, which shares a similarity to Us President George W. Bush.
She says, “I’ve thought about it (playing Nellie). Wouldn’t it be great?
“Though I’d have to be named ‘For Bush’, which I don’t think I could stomach.”

Scarlett is a Democrat and has campaigned for presidential candidate John Kerry during the 2004 elections. She was quoted saying after Bush’s reelection: “”(I was) disappointed. I think it was a disappointment for a large percentage of the population.”

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Scarlett is still shocked and saddened by the racism that still exists in the world. She is disappointed to discover prejudice wherever she travels.
She says, “People are still so racist. It amazed me–all over the world, not just here. I wonder if people are born with prejudice and we have to overcome it. Or is it, we’re born without it and it’s a learned thing?”
Last month’s interview with Parade got her into thinking that “people today are very cynical.”
“They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it’s front-page news—trying to figure out who’s dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares? There are so many other things, shocking news stories that we should be paying attention to. But that’s kind of how it goes. It feeds itself.”
Her concerns might not have anything to do with her lineage but more on the state of the world today. The actress is part Jewish through her mother-side. Scarlett’s mom, Melanie Sloan, is also her manager. Scarlett’s Dad, by the way, is Danish. In fact, Scarlett carries two passports though admits that she cannot speak her father’s native language. Her parents got divorced when she was 13. It was during this time when her breakthrough “The Horse Whisperer” with Robert Redford and Kristin Scott Thomas became such a big hit.

racism and humanity according to Scarlett Johansson

For Scarlett admirers/audience in the United States, Scarlett will be one of the guests on “Saturday Night Live” come April 21. Aside from the young actress she will join Emmy winner Shia LaBeouf, who makes his SNL debut. Touted as one of the most sought-after young actors working today, Shia stars in the upcoming thriller “Disturbia.”
Avril Lavigne will be there too.
Joining Scarlett on the show is Bjork. This is the singer’s second appearance on “SNL,” performing selections from her soon-to-be released sixth CD “Volta.”

Surfing the fascinating YouTube, I came across Scarlett’s 2005 film “Match Point” in seven minutes! Aside from Scarlett, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer and Brian Cox were also there. Directed by Woody Allen.
Get to hear Scarlett’s throaty voice, “So who’s my next victim, you?”

Match Point, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Brian Cox

Just how many polls do we have for the sexiest body in Hollywood?
Glamour joined the bandwagon as it unveiled its 20 sexiest women in Tinseltown.
“With curves to rival Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett embraces old-school Hollywood style and exudes body confidence. Does she ever have an off day? In a word, no. It seems that curves are in and size zeroes are not the most admired.” The woman magazine wrote.
Does it mean size 0 is out? Compared to Kate Moss, the supermodel is losing every ranking in the media and has landed only on the 20th place.
Following Scarlett is “Sin City” Jessica Alba. The third place went to Gisele Bündchen. Actress Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie finished the top five.
Other stars who made the top 10 include Mischa Barton and Rachel Bilson, Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Brook
Glamour asked 5,000 women to vote for which female figure in the world of celebrity that they found the sexiest. Scarlett Johansson was the No. 1 pick.
According to Scarlett in the recent Vanity Fair issue for she was the cover, “Sex appeal is something that comes out of you. You can force it, but to me what’s really appealing is when someone just exudes sexual energy. Women shouldn’t be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images.”
The rest of the top twenty were filled out by, in this order, rival Jessica Biel, Cameron Diaz, Sienna Miller, Gwen Stefani, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Jessica Simpson, Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, and Kate Moss.
Scarlett was recently spotted with Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds over Easter, who used to date Jessica early in February.
She admits that she keeps her romances privately. The reason: she doesn’t want to go through the pain publicly if it doesn’t work out. When she had an affair with Josh Hartnett she didn’t make a big deal out of the romance.
“To see a relationship end, it’s painful, it’s sad. I don’t feel it’s necessary to let the world know who I’m dating or how it’s going.” She told Seventeen.
Former flame Josh is rumoured to be dating Spanish actress Penelope Cruz. “After a series of secretive dates, the couple is reportedly set to go public with their new romance after planning a holiday together in Turks and Caicos.”

top 20 Glamour’s sexiest women, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Gisele Bündchen, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Kelly Brook, Jessica Biel, Cameron Diaz, Sienna Miller, Gwen Stefani, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Jessica Simpson, Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Kate Moss

Ahhh, Scarlett’s confused lovelife.
Looks like the recent Seventeen interview is passe. Our Scarlett was spotted getting smoochy with another Ryan. No, not Ryan Philippe as we previously gathered but Ryan Reynolds. The Canadian actor and former fiance singer-songwriter Alanis Morisette officially ended their relationship February this year.
According to The Sun, which is in itself confused of all Scarlett’s pronouncements, she was all over actor Ryan over Easter. The pair were seen holding hands and kissing while out for dinner and clubbing in New York on three consecutive evenings.
A source told celeb website Perezhilton.com: “Ryan and Scarlett were being quite cute, enjoying each other’s company. I saw Ryan give her a quick kiss on the cheek, after which she blushed and looked very coquettish.”
Let’s give this couple say, a couple of weeks till a month, okay?

Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson