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more about #abigailbreslin more comments → MariposaHikari: As someone who is visually and physically impaired, but not restricted to a wheelchair or to use of a cane, I'll bring up somehting I don't think has ... more » adairfaust: I am another of Helen Keller's great-nieces and I agree with my cousin's comments below. The goal of putting on a play is to put on the best play poss... more » fairygoddesse: Oregon Shakspear Festival cast a deaf man in one of the leads for The Music Man. It worked perfectly. Maybe they should be casting disabled people i... more » misanthropologist: Wow, I'm usually a lurker, but I have to comment on this. I think the responses to this article, in general, show how far the disability rights movem... more » Margot Keller: As Helen Keller's great-niece, I've got to weigh in here. I think many valid points have been aired here, but I stand behind Abigail Breslin's castin... more » missmacro: As a disabled woman, I NEVER see anyone on tv or in film who looks like me. If I do happen to see someone who looks like me, it's almost always an abl... more » justjeking: With respect to deaf roles, I’m appalled when a hearing actor who has no command of American Sign Language is cast because it takes YEARS to master ... more » dc89: The issue of an actor with a visual or auditory impairment "negotiating" a stage is interesting to me -- I'm a college-level actress and dancer and ha... more » staryberry: On the show Breaking Bad, the main character's son has Cerebral Palsy. The actor who plays the role, RJ Mitt, has a mild form of Cerebral Palsy. Whi... more » twileen: If we are going to say that able-bodied actors shouldn't play disabled roles, isn't the next step to say that disabled actors shouldn't play able-bodi... more » -
#painandable
Should Able-Bodied Actors Play Disabled Characters?
An advocacy group is protesting the casting of Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller in a Broadway's upcoming revival of The Miracle Worker, arguing that a deaf or blind actress should have gotten the chance to play the part. More » -
#dirtbagafterdark
Hailey's Sick Of Jon's "Mantrums"; Megan Fox's T-Shirts Stolen
- In an interview with The Insider that airs tomorrow, Hailey Glassman says her boyfriend Jon Gosselin will "take his anger out on me... He has 'mantrums.' I shouldn't have to put up with being emotionally abused."
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#goodbadugly
OMG! Teen Choice Awards Were Out Of Control!
The 2009 Teen Choice Awards, held at Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, was the place to be last night. Let's just put it this way: everyone was there. And most of them looked deliciously awful. More »
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#dirtbagafterdark
Michael's Mother Files For Custody Of Kids; Diane Keaton Treated For Head Injury
- Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson's mother, has filed a petition in court seeking legal guardianship of Jackson's three children, but the Jackson family thinks Debbie Rowe may try to get custody of her two children.
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#goodbadugly
My Sister's Keeper Red Carpet Less Depressing, More Glam Than Drama Itself
I get "tear-jerker," but My Sister's Keeper, a story of childhood cancer, forced donations, legal battles, etc. takes it to another level. But! Cameron, Abigail, and Rachels Roy and Zoe, all seemed so... happy at NYC's AMC Lincoln Square. More »
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#dirtbag
Jon & Kate Custody Questions; Evan Rachel Makes Marilyn Feel Violent
- Though Kate Gosselin filed for divorce from Jon on Monday, the filing does not contain custody information at this time. Will Kate ask for primary custody? How much time will Jon get? [Star Magazine]
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#amywinehouse
Loose Lips
Amy Winehouse is allegedly addicted to a new substance that makes your teeth fall out. No, it's not meth! It's candy. "The troubled singer has bought a pink candy floss maker, a £1,000 Slush Puppy machine and an old-fashioned sweet counter with jars of boiled sweets to decorate her Camden home," the Daily Mail reports. • Thank Jebus that Abigail Breslin still sounds like a normal, sweet girl. She says her acting idol is Meryl Streep, her favorite movie is the Devil Wears Prada, working with Cameron Diaz was "really nice" and her biggest influences are "My brothers, my parents, my whole family." • An ex-Scientologist in Florida is suing Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology for $265 million. According to Fishbowl LA Peter Letterese "claimed that Cruise and Scientology bribed and improperly influenced a federal judge, a Florida state judge and a federal bankruptcy trustee to tie up his original law suit [also against the religion] in bankruptcy court." More » -
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#abigailbreslin
Always-adorable Abigail Breslin has given a video interview to Premiere to promote her new movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Apparently the preteen actress had her pick of the movie's wardrobe department but what did she choose to take home? The overalls. Young Hollywood: Keeping it real. [Premiere] -
#abigailbreslin
Kit Kittredge: American Girl Or Capitalist Pawn? Is There A Difference?
It's hard out there for a living, breathing American girl. It's a morass of mixed messages, A.O. Scott points out in a Times think piece about Kit Kittredge, the Abigail Breslin-helmed American Girl doll-based movie coming out this week. "Who are you supposed to be, or to avoid becoming? A nerd? A ditz? A flirt? A tomboy?" Scott wonders. "What kind of role models are those make-believe princesses, those Bratz and Barbies, to say nothing of the real-life Britneys, Lindsays and Mileys? Mean Girls, Gossip Girls, Girls Gone Wild, Girl Power, You go, girl! What's a girl to do?" And considering the pervasive skankiness of Bratz and their ilk, the American Girls franchise seems like a bastion of true childhood in an increasingly sexualized marketplace. But, as Scott painstakingly notes, it's still part of the marketplace. Jeannette Catsoulis, reviewing Kit for the IHT perfectly summarizes the intrinsic hypocrisy in this Depression-era film. "When you consider that a Kit doll, complete with book and accessories, will currently run you $105, the movie's insistence on the nobility of the indigent might be a tad more difficult to stomach." More » -
#thegoodthebadtheugly
Some Fashions At The Kids' Choice Awards Were Surprisingly Childish
Saturday night brought one of the events that, in my youth, I anticipated as anxiously as the winter holidays: The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Lots of celebs! Lots of slime! Jack Black hosted the frenetically-paced activities and lots of celebrities brought the pretty. See: America Ferrera, left. Does she ever look bad? I also like how she played the pretty dress all casual with the wooden wedges, but that's neither here nor there. Also in attendance: Abigail Breslin, Cameron Diaz, Jordin Sparks, Jodie Foster, Amy Poehler, Ashlee Simpson, Hayden Panettiere, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus, who is looking less like a tween of late and more and more like a 50-something who's spent too much time in the tanning booth. Miley, and the other Good, Bad and Ugly, after the jump. More » -
#thegoodthebadtheugly
The ShoWest Awards Had Some Tickety-Tacky Hot Tranny Messes
ShoWest is the trade show for the movie theatre industry. And because movie stars can't be movie stars unless they star in movies that get played in movie theatres, well, they need to show the ShoWest distributors a little love. In attendance at the trade show's awards ceremony last night? A series of big and small screen celebrities, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Anne Hathaway, Kate Bosworth, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Christina Ricci, America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel (left). After the jump, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the ShoWest Awards. More » -
#dirtbag
Will Heath Ledger Win A Posthumous Oscar?
- Will Heath Ledger earn an Academy Award for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight? That's the buzz coming out of his native Australia. [News.com.au]
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#inbrief
Reader Roundup
Best Comment of the Day, in response to Photoshop Of Horrors: "The pants just don't add up to her waist...I'm so confused. It makes it seem like she's got a vagina that goes to the left to the left." We say: put everything you own in Hayden's box to the left. • Worst, in response to Dear Abigail Breslin: Don't Ever Change: "Abigail is a slut." We say: we can't even believe we're dignifying this with a response. She's eleven. More » -
#inbrief
Loose Lips
Has Lohan fallen off the wagon? She's been spotted out clubbing again, though she's pictured sporting the ubiquitous water bottle. • Dakota Fanning dropped out of the Nick Cassavetes movie she had been slated to star in. The film, My Sister's Keeper, is about a girl who sues for emancipation from her parents after she learns that they only had her to give her sister a kidney or whatever. Dakota has been replaced by Abigail Breslin. • Despite rumors to the contrary, Fergie's mom says she's not at all pregnant. Her mama told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, "Did you see her on the Grammys? Skinny, skinny, skinny!" All this pregnancy speculation has got to stop! Bitch probably just ate a burger or something! Leave 'er alone. [TMZ, Dlisted, Us] -
#abigailbreslin
Abigail Breslin may be the only human being alive who could pull off this season's scary old lady Prada lab coat. Little Miss Sunshine, indeed. [NY Times] -
#wickedwitchoftheeast
Martha Stewart Hates 'Fat' Girls
Martha Stewart had Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin on her show today for a segment in which the pair baked cookies and made ice cream floats. And we're hearing that, in the midst of all this caloric fun, Martha had the balls to tell the 11-year-old actress that she's "pleasantly plump" and then later asked her if she'd eaten too many "cheeseburgers on the road." This poor fucking little girl! I mean, I know that she's gonna have to deal with these issues as a woman, even more so as a female in Hollywood, but seriously, she's only eleven! Let's refrain from giving her an eating disorder at least until she gets her period! More » -
#snapjudgment
[MTV Movie Awards, Los Angeles, CA; June 3. Images via FilmMagic]
