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Anne Hathaway: 'i'm Still A Good Girl'
Jan 21, 2009

Anne Hathaway has insisted she didn't play a junkie in a bid to shed her good girl image.

The actress said she signed up to play a recovering drug addict in Rachel Getting Married because it was a great part, not to help her escape her most famous role in Disney's Princess Diaries.

"I know everybody wants me to relish it, because I get that question in every single interview," she admitted.

"Not to sound arrogant or cocky, I've never defined myself by the way other people did. It's always been 'be yourself, be yourself, be yourself'. Well, the person I am is an actress, and I'm really excited that I feel, with this movie, I've earned that title.

"I've certainly been striving to earn it since The Princess Diaries, so I just feel happy now that I don't have to have this weight on my shoulders in regards to my attitude towards myself about being a performer, that I actually did something I'm proud of, where all the intentions I have for the character made it onto the screen."

Anne, 26, added she "never made any choices or really thought about the way I was perceived because I just don't see the point".

But she admitted it was "cool" to do something different, adding: "It wasn't cool because I had done the Princess Diaries, it was cool because Jonathan Demme is a f****** great director and Kym's an amazing character. It was cool on its own merit."

» Source:  Metro.co.uk
Hathaway, Hudson Can’t Sell ‘bridewars’
Jan 21, 2009

Two best friends plus getting married on the same day equals disaster. Well, at least that’s the case in the horrible movie “Bride Wars.”

The flick, which stars Anne Hathaway as Emma and Kate Hudson as Liv, is nothing short of ridiculous. The movie opens with the two as children, dreaming hopelessly about their perfect weddings at The Plaza, then transitions to them trying to destroy each other and ends with them as best friends again. This all happens with a whole lot of over-the-top drama between. They hate each other, but secretly inside they’re miserable because they’re not BFF’s anymore. Meanwhile, their poor fianc้s, friends and family have to deal with their monstrous behavior and selfish antics.

While the movie has its fair share of hilarity, it’s overshadowed by the fact that it’s pathetic and depressing. The idea that two life-long friends can so suddenly want to kill each another is absurd. From DJ-stealing to spray tan and hair dye-ruining, who would really put up with that much revenge? Isn’t it just easier to pick another day than losing the most important person in your life? Also, as grown women, why wouldn’t they just talk it out and solve the problem like adults? It was just one thing after another, all because their weddings were accidentally scheduled for the same day and neither bride would settle to pick another date.
Nothing in the film was even remotely believable, and while the actresses played their roles well, the movie did nothing to further them in their careers. Maybe this is Hudson’s kind of comedy movie, but Hathaway could do so much better.

The entire movie gives weddings (and brides) a bad name. It’s just someone’s bad idea of capitalizing on the success of “bridezilla” reality TV shows and turning it into a movie. It’s sad enough real women actually act like this. If you want to see real bride wars, then turn on WE or Oxygen.
The worst thing about this movie is the idea that helpless boyfriends, fianc้s and husbands across the country were dragged to theaters to see this movie with their ladies. The poor men suffered a fate worse than “Twilight.” A note for any girls considering seeing this movie: wait for it to come out on DVD, rent it and have a girl’s night while your guy is away. He’ll love you more for it.

» Source:  The Argonaut
Anne Hathaway Gets Starstruck Over 'slumdog' Star
Jan 21, 2009

Anne Hathaway is a fan of "Slumdog Millionaire" — and the young star of the film, Dev Patel. A starstruck Hathaway expressed her love for the actor's performance in "Slumdog" on the red carpet at the National Board of Review Awards gala in Manhattan.

Meeting Patel for the first time, Hathaway declared: "I love you in your movie so much! ... You're so beautiful in it. You broke my heart. It was gorgeous."

Patel, pleasantly surprised by Hathaway's praise, asked her for a hug.

He said: "That means so much to me. You don't understand. ... Thank you Mrs. Hathaway!"

The 26-year-old actress and ex-girlfriend of Raffaello Follieri — who's now serving a 4 1/2-year prison sentence for fraud — corrected Patel, saying: "Mrs.? Oh no. Miss, miss!"

Patel, 18, was clearly worried he'd offended Hathaway, to which she playfully responded: "No, you're not offending me — I'm just letting you know that it's 'Miss!'"

The "Slumdog" star, who portrays an orphan boy's rise to win India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," accepted his award Wednesday night for breakthrough performance by an actor. Hathaway was honored as best actress for her role in "Rachel Getting Married."

"Slumdog," set among the slums of Mumbai, topped Sunday's Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, winning four awards, including best drama and best director for Danny Boyle.

» Source:  The Associated Press
Anne Hathaway Against Rick Warren, But Won't Turn Back On Him At Inauguration
Jan 12, 2009

The big gasp came from a tie in the Best Actress category—Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” and Meryl Streep in “Doubt.” The latter was one of two stars who couldn’t make the show from New York, and I’ll be she was sorry in retrospect. Streep’s “Doubt’ co-star Viola Davis had to accept her award, and did so with disarming grace and a bit of comedy. “I know if she were here Meryl would be thanking me,” Davis said.

And then Hathaway, who at 26 has become the most interesting new player in the Oscar mix in some time. In the last year she’s survived and overcome the scandal of a con man ex-boyfriend now in jail and surpassed her image as a lightweight star of romantic comedies with this heavy, spectacular performance in Jonathan Demme’s almost cinema verite tour de force.

Hathaway is also proving to be incredibly articulate, and, as the year passed, politicized in a way that puts her in the legacy of Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon. She speaks her mind about issues she feels passionately about.

One of them is Barack Obama—whom she backed—and his choice of Rick Warren as the Obama Inauguration’s clergy of choice.

“I am against it,” Hathaway told me at the after party last night amid champagne toasts to her, to Streep, and to her “Rachel” co-star Rosemarie Dewitt. “My older brother is gay, and so its a family issue for me. My father is coming with me to the Inauguration. At first we discussed not going, and then we thought we’d just turn our backs when he [Warren] speaks. But we didn’t want to be disrespectful. So we’re going to wear ribbons protesting his appearance.”

So she’s outspoken, and polite. That’s a combination you can’t beat.

Hathaway is currently in a—yes—romantic comedy called “Bride Wars” which is more like her “Princess Diaries” and less like “Rachel.” But that was intentional. She said she asked her agent—the great Susan Bymel—to look for something light after living as a recovering addict in “Rachel.”

Full story at FOXNews.com

» Source:  Foxnews.com
Anne Hathaway's Happy Wedding Memories
Jan 04, 2009

Anne Hathaway fears she'll never be able to top her brother's wedding when she eventually exchanges vows--because his same-sex nuptials was a blinding success. Hathaway's brother Mike and his boyfriend Josh wed in New York two years ago (06), and she still can't get the happy occasion out of her mind.

She tells the new issue of Modern Bride magazine, "When Mike and Josh booked the place, it was before daylight saving time, and the sun was pretty high up in the sky. Now it was at eye level, and it was blinding! Burn-your-retina bright! We sent my cousin's boyfriend down to Canal Street with $250 to buy as many sunglasses as he could, and we put them on every other seat. Everybody just put on their sunglasses, and we have some great pictures of that!"

And there was another magical moment: "At one point... my mom got up to sing. She was just beaming straight love into them, and everyone felt it, and it was just this really beautiful moment."

Hathaway, who stars in new movie "Bride Wars," is now on the lookout for a Mr. Right to marry after dumping conman boyfriend Raffaello Follieri in 2008.

» Source:  Actressarchives.com
Why Is Sony Burying Its Glossy New Anne Hathaway Thriller?
Dec 20, 2008

Did you know Anne Hathaway's new movie Passengers opens today? You might if you follow Defamer Attractions, but the paranormal thriller is a no-show in virtually every other corner of media except for 165 ill-publicized screens around the country. The trailer online won't dazzle anyone, either, but still: Isn't Anne Hathaway (not to mention her co-star Patrick Wilson) kind of... big right now? What are its backers at Sony thinking?

If or when they ever respond to our requests for comment, we'll let you know. Meanwhile, the obvious speculation that Passengers — about a grief counselor (Hathaway) whose plane-crash-surviving patient (Wilson) develops extra-sensory powers — was never intended as anything more than a DVD-ready, straight-to-Flopz™ enterprise doesn't quite explain treating a Hathaway vehicle this way. However aromatic, could it really be any worse than the Lindsay Lohan stillbirth I Know Who Killed Me, which Sony unloaded last year on a relatively extravagant 1,300 screens? Hathaway's profile alone could open at least that many — maybe not this weekend, opposite Saw V, and maybe not even this month, but surely some time this fall, and at a much better per-screen average that IKWKM's pathetic $2,656.

In fairness to Sony, though, Passengers from the start was not an especially promotable film. And not just because it looks terrible: Neither Hathaway (who went straight from publicizing Get Smart to handling Rachel Getting Married in July and August, dragging her FollieriGate baggage all the way) nor Wilson (finishing Watchmen and jumping to Broadway) would have been around to promote it, and it doesn't look like something generally non-hacky director Rodrigo Garcia would be especially proud of on his own.

And while we're hypothesizing, why not lob a conspiracy theory: What if the Sony Pictures Classics gang, which has an Oscar nod all but cinched for Hathaway for Rachel, made an appeal to the mothership to keep Passengers buried where Academy voters couldn't find it? Call it "Operation Norbit," named after Paramount's botched Eddie Murphy supporting-actor campaign in '06 — highly unlikely, but certainly no weirder than not knowing Anne Hathaway's new movie opened today.

» Source:  Defamer.com
Anne Hathaway: Nice To Be 'singled Out' At Globes
Dec 15, 2008

Anne Hathaway's best actress Golden Globe nomination for the drama Rachel Getting Married could not have come at a better time.

After a rocky year – marked by her breakup with ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri and his subsequent guilty plea on money laundering and fraud charges – Hathaway says the recognition is not just validation of her acting ability, it's helped her take stock of what's important in her life.

"This is the year that I realized how profoundly I am loved and supported," Hathaway, 26, tells PEOPLE. "And [I] realized that in order for a human being to be a successful human being, they must have deep profound wonderful committed relationships in their lives with their friends, with their family, with a lot of different people."

In fact, the actress's mother called to deliver the news about her Golden Globe nod – but didn't reach her in time.

"I was asleep and my mother actually called at the same moment as my publicist, and I answered my house phone because I don't get great cell reception at my house, and so he told me," she says.

"I got off the phone with him and called my parents. They were hopping around so happy, just so effusive and lovely. And I felt so bad, they were giving such great advice for how to handle it and I was half-asleep."

» Source:  People
Anne Hathaway: The New "it-girl"
Dec 15, 2008

That's how English romance novelist Elinor Glyn defined the term "it-girl," a phrase that entered the public imagination with the 1927 film "It," based on one of her novels and starring the original it-girl, Clara Bow.

Hollywood is perpetually on the hunt for this elusive quality, this blend of sexuality and innocence, of materialistic chutzpah and good values, of swagger and sincerity, that tends to sell tickets. As the Cameron Diazes, Drew Barrymores and Gwyneth Paltrows age out of the ingenue role, a new crop of young actresses has emerged - a group that includes Amy Adams, Michelle Williams, Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley, contenders to the crown that for years belonged to Julia Roberts, perhaps the last female movie star who everyone agrees actually guaranteed attendance in the theaters.

At the moment much of Hollywood is chattering about pretty Anne Hathaway, another dark-eyed, dark-haired beauty, who was plucked out of relative obscurity by Roberts' own star-maker, "Pretty Woman" director Garry Marshall. Disney was explicitly looking for the next Audrey Hepburn when Marshall cast this New Jersey-raised actress, with one short-lived TV series to her credit, as the lead in the 2001 hit franchise, "The Princess Diaries." Seven years later, the 26-year-old Hathaway has finally been transformed into the it-girl of the moment, with a string of commercial hits to her name, and heat fueled by her unexpected but thoroughly wrenching performance as an addict on furlough from rehab for her sister's wedding in "Rachel Getting Married." Already, Hathaway is getting Oscar buzz.

Real full article at Reading Eagle Company.

» Source:  Reading Eagle Company