Scarlett Johansson

Like what we have gathered this week, Scarlett has flown to Spain to star in the new Woody Allen’s said to be “love letter” to the European country. If you were in Barcelona right now, you might have a chance to see the actress and the A-list director working on their new project.

Scarlett is Woody’s current flavour of the month. She was in his former films “Scoop” and “Matchpoint.” In the Spanish project, she plays as a tourist in Spain. Hence, images of her holding a camera. Would that be a real working (digital) camera????

According to the news, the shooting will take seven weeks. Aside from Barcelona, other locations will be a one-week stay in the northern Spanish region of Asturias and one day in New York.

Barcelona would be the second European city to feature in a full-length Allen movie.

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Scarlett’s former “Match Point” costar Jonathan Rhys Meyers revealed to OK magazine that he would never date an actress. He was romantically linked to Scarlett, aside from her was said to have romanced Toni Collette and Rachel Leigh Cook.

The handsome Irish actor avoids dating Hollywood stars because they are all “drama queens.”

“I’m not intimidated by tough women, I’m attracted to them. I wouldn’t date an actress. Too difficult and too competitive. I’m the only actress in my life! They are all drama queens. Let me say, from someone who is a drama queen, they all are. Actors all have different personalities, but they’re all just f***ing actors! I’ve never really made friends with any actors because they are bitter twisted creatures - including me.”

He is currently dating an heiress, Reena Hammer.

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Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Toni Collette, Rachel Leigh Cook, Reena Hammer

Digging the goodness of YouTube.com, I have found this early interview of a then 17-year-old Scarlett when she was promoting “Eight-Legged Freaks.” One of the films that I am pretty sure Scarlett would not remember once she gets much older and aims for more serious directors and projects. Dubbed as a B-movie, she discussed her encounter with a cockroach when asked by her host if she ever had an arachnophobia and her impression of Billy Bob Thornton.
Noticeably Scarlett was a redhead here. This was a year before her second breakthrough, “Lost in Translation.”

If anyone knows the name of the show and the host, I am inviting you to share the info with me.

Update: The guy who posted the interview video replied that it was culled from “The Late, Late Show” hosted by none other than the comedian Craig Kilborn.

Eight Legged Spiders, arachnophobia, Scarlett Johansson in 2002, Craig Kilborn, The Late Late Show

After garnering mixed reactions during the first day of Coachella Festival on April 27, Scarlett ended this week hosting a gala with Daniel Lalonde, the president and CEO of Louis Vuitton North America.
She was also spotted hobnobbing with the 27-year-old Antoine Arnault, son of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, who is also a member of the luxury giant’s board and the director of communications, in charge of advertising, books and the Louis Vuitton Cup, plus coordination of LV’s website.
Aside from Scarlett and the LV bigwigs, other stars who came in to celebrate LV’s new “LoVe” collection at the Fifth Avenue store in New York included REM’s Michael Stipe, Alex Kingston, Mya, among others.
She was caught wearing a metallic pink and bluish Louis Vuitton corset-inspired top and pleaded skirt combining them with silver pumps, red-orange earrings and ring and a barrette with the same colour that parted her platinum blonde hair on the right completing her look.
If you can still remember the famous brand chose Scarlett to carry its products and has been assigned to be LV’s official face ever since last year.
No wonder that the actress really took it to heart. The 22-year-old actress revealed: “If you go to a glamorous event, you should look glamorous.”
The Thursday’s gala is “to give a boost to the Louis Vuitton Love Party in aid of Oxfam.” The actress has become increasingly involved with the charity. Earlier this year she took advantage of a break from making movies to visit India and Sri Lanka with the organisation to meet tsunami survivors and see for herself what conditions were like.
Though she might look having a break, Hello said that she is due back in front of the cameras soon with director Woody Allen to film his next big screen offering, “Midnight In Barcelona,” this summer.

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Michael Stipe, Alex Kingston, Mya, Daniel Lalonde, Antoine Arnault

Guys, how many polls of sexiest woman do we have in order to satisfy you? It seems to me this is never-ending.
Okay, okay, so now that FHM, a soft-porn magazine for men of course, has unveiled its full list, unless you buy the issue, Scarlett ranks No. 4. Her rumoured rival, Jessica Biel, lands on No. 24.
The males voted another Jessica, that’s Jessica Alba, to be the magazine’s sexiest woman for this year. Reason: For “Making The Bikini Seem That Bit More Magical.”
If you are curious, here’s the full list without pictures.

FHML List of Sexiest Women, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel

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

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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Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund

April 16, 2007, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in the history of the Virginia Tech community and the world beyond.

To remember and honor the victims of those tragic events, the university has established the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund to aid in the healing process and generate financial support.

The fund will be used to cover expenses including but not limited to:

• Grief counseling
• Memorials
• Communication expenses
• Comfort expenses
• Incidental needs

If you plan to give, please click the link below:

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

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

Scarlett is happy with her current situation. That is, she’s not bothered having no boyfriend for the moment. She says she is happy as a single girl–for now.
“When I’m single, I don’t focus. I focus on a guy if he’s a boyfriend, but I don’t focus on finding a boyfriend. They’re never around when you need them,” Scarlett explained on why men are unnecessary this time.
Scarlett dated a bevy of hunks including Josh Hartnett and Jared Leto. Early this year there were talks she and singer Justin Timberlake were even a pair.
In the interview in US magazine Seventeen, she said: “We live in a world today where if two people are single–and one’s a girl and one’s a guy and they’re both famous–you’re going to be linked with somebody.”
She admitted previously that her ideal man was “Dirty Dancing” actor Patrick Swayze and professed admiration to director Woody Allen.
When asked about relationship: “I can’t stand mind games. But I think you should be mysterious and flirtatious. You should always have some mystery in a relationship. You don’t wanna know what the person’s thinking all the time. And you don’t want him to know what you’re thinking all the time.”
And when she is with a boyfriend: “If someone is straightforward with me, I’m very confident. But if he’s playing a weird mind game, I get very self-conscious.”

Now there isn’t enough evidence on this one but a murky talk by one US gossip rag, Star Magazine, assuming that just because Scarlett and Ryan Philippe were seen together in the same movie premiere and dining in the same restaurant. The two are a couple.

A source says that The Nanny Diaries star has been quieting dating Ryan Phillipe, 32, a divorcing father of two. Still, the blonde cuties have been trying to keep their romance hugh-hush, sources tell Star.
On March 16, both attended an L.A. movie premiere but “didn’t show any affection toward each other, perhaps for fear that someone would notice,” says a source. The next evening, the couple hung out together at a new L.A. restaurant Parc. When it came time for Scarlett to leave, she exited with a girlfriend and “went to great lengths to conceal her face with a red coat,” says an eyewitness.

If this were true then go ahead for them and hook up. The newly separated Ryan cannot convince former wife Reese Witherspoon to come back as the latter is making beautiful music with “Rendition” costar Jake Gyllenhaal.
Meanwhile, there is another list popping out about the sexiest female celebrities. “Seventh Heaven” star Jessica Biel ranked first over, allegedly, love rival Scarlett, who landed second. I tried searching for the official site that defined the “official list.” But it seems to be concocted.
Anyway, for all of you who cannot believe that she isn’t keen on showing her bare body just because, Egotastic collected these images for you to see.
Scarlett as a Dominatrix or the lost member of the Pussycat Dolls? Thoughts?

Ryan Philippe, Scarlett Johansson, Scarlet Johansson and Ryan Philippe, dating

The Fellini film “La Dolce Vita” is a classic. It also spawned the word “paparazzo” from one of its characters, which became the standard term for photographers eager to get a glimpse and earn money from the celebrities.
Scarlett Johansson, who keeps her private life very private isn’t at all comfortable with the roving and enterprising paparazzi.
TMZ reported unlike Giselle Bündchen who isn’t afraid of flashes coming her way, Scarlett attempted to hide herself wrapping her face in a scarf–on a 70-degree day in New York– and blocking her face with a fedora. Or, in this video using a large black umbrella.
TMZ said “ScarJo (referring to Scarlett , of course) tried to sneak out the back door of West Hollywood eatery Il Sole, flanked by an army of bodyguards, all the while hiding behind the umbrella. Johansson then opened her bumbershoot inside the SUV, and remained hidden until the car pulled away. In Scarlett’s defense … it was drizzling.”

Scarlett Johansson, Giselle Bündchen, paparazzi

We might not believe it but Scarlett and Justin Timberlake are never a pair.
In the April issue of Vogue, she declared her fondness to loopy yet talented director Woody Allen. Wood, who divorced Mia Farrow to be with their adopted daughter Soon Yi. He found Scarlett “criminally sexy.”
Scarlett even revealed that she would sew the hem of his pants if the director would ask him to. Though everything is strictly professional.
When it comes to Justin: “We had fun together, but it’s not like the first time I’ve ever hung out with him. I think this happens because we’re both single and in the spotlight, and obviously Justin’s a very high-profile person.”

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When asked about the reported romance with Justin Timberlake in Miami last week, Scarlett was quick to deny anything further than a business relationship.

“We did a music video together and we have a lot of friends in common,” she said to Ryan Seacrest. “The last thing I want to think about is what people think about my personal life.”

Although, that isn’t actually much of a denial.

She says they did a video together, true.
They have friends in common, sure.
And she doesn’t want to think about what people think about her personal life.

Wait, there’s no denial at all! Scarlett just danced around that one! And we ALL know what a non-committal response like that means… it’s true!

I don’t think there is any doubt at all now, that this did happen.