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When Brooklyn-born Anne Hathaway was cast in the very British female leading role of Lone Sherfig’s adaptation of the bestselling novel One Day, howls of objection were heard on both sides of the Atlantic. How dare they cast a Yank as Emma Morley? Then again, similar cries were sounded when Renee Zellweger was cast as Bridget Jones, and she ended up being, um, spot on (Brits say that, right?). But when One Day’s trailer hit a couple of months back, skepticism returned; Hathaway’s a good actress, but (to most ears, anyway) that is not a terribly good British accent. That said, the Bad Accent Hall of Fame is a very crowded place, and hers is nowhere near the top. Join us after the jump for our list of the ten spottiest dialects in cinema history, and feel free to add your own (and there are plenty more) in the comments.
Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of their favorite looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!
1. Perhaps in an effort to top last year’s strange decision to let James Franco and Anne Hathaway co-host the show, Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand) has been chosen to co-produce this year’s Academy Awards. “This wasn’t even in my dreams, it’s so far out,” he said. “This is something I never could have imagined.” [via THR]
2. Speaking of Anne Hathaway, here’s your first official photo of her as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises — and she’s riding a really enormous motorcycle. Any thoughts on how she stacks up compared to Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry?
3. According to Life & Style, famed fashion designer/sassy Project Runway judge Michael Kors and his longtime boyfriend Lance LePere are getting hitched. Kors’ official statement: “Lance and I are very excited to finally be able to have the opportunity to marry in our home state after many years together. We have no plans for a major party, but we will be getting married privately.” [via The Huffington Post]
4. In other fashion-related news, here’s an extremely rare photo of designer Karl Lagerfeld without his trademark sunglasses on. Spoiler alert: He has beady eyes.
5. Jesse Eisenberg has been cast as the lead in Richard Ayoade’s adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella The Double, which Vulture describes as “Fight Club for bureaucrats.” Based on how much we loved the former IT Crowd star’s debut feature, Submarine, we think this is really exciting news!
We’re not going to join the chorus of amateur psychopharmacologists who’ve decided James Franco hosted the Oscars high last night — mostly because we know he’s always got something much weirder than recreational drugs up his sleeve. But whatever possessed him to be so absent at the ceremony was contagious: the award winners, performances, and speeches were all fairly boring, too. (Those of you still longing for an enjoyable film awards show should try and catch a rerun of Saturday’s Independent Spirits on IFC. Host Joel McHale blew Franco out of the water.)
In fact, there is so little about last night’s show that’s worth commenting on this morning that we’ve put together a post on what we found most interesting: not any individual presenter or upset or joke, but Anne Hathaway’s dresses, all eight of them. Some were wonderful, a few were awful, and (thankfully) none were yawn-worthy. We rank them from best to worst after the jump.
Oh, Ricky Gervais, you scamp. Last month, you insulted all of Hollywood — and entertained all of America — with your scathing jokes at the Golden Globes. But, now that the Academy Awards are only a few days away, are you content to cede the spotlight? No, you are not. And we are thanking our lucky stars for that. Seriously, guys, Gervais has written an intro for James Franco and Anne Hathaway to deliver on Oscar night. It is pretty hilarious… and mostly about its author. Check out a few of our favorite excerpts after the jump, then visit Gervais’s blog to read the whole thing.
And Franco? Yeah, the ball is now in your court. Please, please come up with some sort of insane response, preferably in the form of an avant-garde art project where you re-shoot every single episode of the British Office, with you in the role of David Brent.
This year, the Academy Awards need to go big or go gently into that good night, lest they be upstaged by the Golden Globes — which earned stellar ratings last month, probably due Ricky Gervais’s “Who will he offend next?” hosting style. But the Oscars have plenty of opportunities to maintain their relevance, with Hollywood’s biggest wild card, James Franco, on emcee duties and a decent chance at some mischief from Banksy. After the jump, we predict what might be in store on Sunday night’s telecast.
We have good news and bad news about Vanity Fair‘s 2011 Hollywood Issue. First, the positive: Unlike last year’s wildly controversial model, the new cover actually includes a more diverse group of actors. (Also, for some reason, VF decided to go with a co-ed bunch this time around.) It’s great to see Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker star who has a slew of movies lined up this year, get some recognition. And we can never, ever get enough of Rashida Jones. We’re also pretty thrilled the magazine dropped its “Young Hollywood” focus and stuck the legendary Robert Duvall in the mix, even if he does have to tend bar.
But there are still a few things we find unsettling about the cover. Read all about them — and see how last year’s compares to this year’s — after the jump.
Hosting the Academy Awards is pretty hard work. And that’s why, in this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Oscars promo, co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway are already preparing. This, of course, calls for a Rocky-style training montage. Except in this one, Franco keeps causing Hathaway bodily harm. Not too smooth, guy. But hey, at least they look pretty together. That’s all that matters, right?
