Ellen Page will produce and write an HBO comedy called Stitch N' Bitch with Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillman. "The show follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists — of any kind."
@FizzyGood: Hmmm. I am such a nerd that the first thing I thought of was the knitting book series of the same name, whether there would be a tie-in, and whether there was copyright infringement. Sigh.
Also added: I don't care for his movies, but damn do I love Guy Ritchie. A man who seems totally unthreatened by his ex-wife's success? Who speaks so well of her in the press, even though he's been replaced with a pretty boy half his age? All class with this man.
It's almost like he respects the mother of his children, JON GOSSELIN.
Cannot wait for Ellen Page's show -- she and Alia were so great as besties in WHIP IT. Also, the two coolest young women in tv & film right now doing a show together -- can the awesome be contained by the four walls of my TV screen? Can't wait to find out!
Hm, I think the only thing that could sound less appealing than "painfully cool hipster girls" is maybe "socialite teen vampire". So, Page and Shawkat: 1.
I don't get the Carla Bruni love so many commenters on this site have. She just comes across as so shallow, and her quote above just reinforces that for me.
@lovecake: I'm with you. Writing on her own website about how her looks and clothers are compared to those of other First Ladies? Recounting how Vanity Fair calls her the New Jackie O? How she tops best-dressed lists around the world? Sounds like Carla still needs to be the prettiest girl in the room.
@heykoukla: Weird, I read that completely differently, like she was fed up with being compared to other first ladies based on looks alone. Which is a stance I totally support.
@piccola: If you don't want to be judged on your looks or the clothes you wear, you don't get the writer on your site (the entries are not written by Carla Bruni) to write about how you top best-dressed lists, or that you wear Louboutin shoes and Alaia dresses, or how you dressed in white to greet Michelle Obama. You don't write about wearing "a red sheath dress on the roof of the Elysee Palace" or "riding boots and jodhpurs in front of the Elysee Palace tapestries" for a Vanity Fair photo spread. That whole section, which is in a sort of diary form, is just silly and makes her seem shallow, IMHO.
@heykoukla: Full disclosure: I didn't check out her site. I was going on the quote in the post alone. But I'll play devil's advocate: as a former model, she probably genuinely loves fashion. That doesn't mean the beauty pageant-like comparisons are justified. Yes, there are several attractive, stylish first ladies; can we please talk about their other traits once in a while?
Am I the only one who thinks that Russell Brand probably texts love poems to his publicist and Katy Perry sends topless photos to everyone on her contact list? This does not seem like proof of relationship, given these two.
I'm going to try to believe Ritchie meant "retarded" in the way that doesn't mean mentally disabled. Many people who focus on one thing have retarded growth in other areas where they might have had potential.
@sybann: I didn't take the "retarded" comment as politically incorrect. His quote seems oddly sweet and it's like he's a kid and pulls his sweet heart's hair, only in this case he called her retarded.
@goodcheapfun: Yes. I know people hate the use of "retarded," but he did just finish giving her some amazing compliments. And if after a bitter divorce like theirs, retarded is the worst he is saying, then I think he's doing OK, myself.
@sybann: Well she called him "emotionally retarded" during one of her concerts a few days before filing for divorce, so I think this is mostly a reaction to that.
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Also added: I don't care for his movies, but damn do I love Guy Ritchie. A man who seems totally unthreatened by his ex-wife's success? Who speaks so well of her in the press, even though he's been replaced with a pretty boy half his age? All class with this man.
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Also, I miss the old Radar.
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Or he could just be being retarded.
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