It took us a second to figure out who Lindsay Lohan reminded us of in these shots of her shopping in West Hollywood yesterday — and then it hit us… Drew Barrymore in Grey Gardens!
Perhaps LiLo is trying to bring back the much-maligned head-scarf look, or maybe she’s just prepping for a future life of seclusion with her kooky mom in a remote mansion in the Hamptons?
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Big Edie vs Little Edie
April 24th, 2009
There’s nothing like a little cast competition to add to all the buzz surrounding the success of HBO’s Grey Gardens – Page Six reports that movie executives were angling to set Drew Barrymore, who plays "Little Edie," forward for the Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries Emmy nomination, and have Jessica Lange ("Big Edie") go for Best Supporting Actress, so as to avoid vote-splitting.
Not gonna happen, says a source, who explains that Jessica wasn’t about to play games with her award chances.
"Her immediate reaction was that she’s won two Oscars, and that she has equal screen time to Barrymore," and insider tells the column. "She felt she wasn’t a supporting character in the film, and that it’d be dishonest and a manipulation of votes. She didn’t want a part of it."
It has now come down to both the actresses going for the big prize, which HBO is on board with after much discussion. Noms won’t be announced until July 16.
"Now we have a scenario where either Lange will go home empty-handed, or neither will win," says the source. "It’s unfortunate."
A spokeswoman for HBO tells Page Six, "Both performances have been widely praised and critically acclaimed. We are thrilled with the reception that Grey Gardens has received. HBO would never presume to dictate which category an actor chooses for award submissions. We do engage in a dialogue with actors and filmmakers to facilitate the process, but the actor’s decision is always final."
Jessica’s rep adds, "Prior to the decision being made, there was lots of discussion between Drew, the studio and Jessica. Obviously people wanted a scenario where everyone was happy. At the end of the day, HBO was the one who looked at the screentime and made the call."
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What Did Drew Do to Her Hair?
April 17th, 2009
Drew, Justin Make ‘Grey Gardens’
April 15th, 2009
Justin Long waves off questions with a smile before on/off girlfriend Drew Barrymore vamps it up for her Grey Gardens premiere held Tuesday at NYC’s Ziegfeld Theater.
“I think right now in the world of ?fashion things are safe,” the Alberta Ferretti-clad star, 34, says. “What people wear on the red carpet? as opposed to the runway at a fashion designer show – there’s just a? massive discrepancy there. And the sad part is that people get people get annihilated if people don’t like what they’re wearing, so then they dress so that people do not get annihilated and then that’s boring.”
She adds, “I don’t care what people say. I want to have fun with fashion.”
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Darling Drew plays Little Edie in the HBO biopic about the eccentric aunt (Jessica Lange) and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. They withdrew from NYC society by taking shelter at their Long Island home.
What would Little Edie say of her portrayal?
“I only care about if she thinks that I did right by her,” Drew says. “I went away for three months, and I cut off myself from the rest of the world to literally understand what really being isolated is like. To not be in the world of technology, to not have friends and family surrounding me, and I just kept thinking ‘I just want to honor you, I just want to honor you.’”
She adds, “I think one of my favorite things about her is her lack of sensoring – and maybe it’s a character flaw – but I find it wonderful that she’s not afraid to show her emotions. She’s not afraid to be childlike, she’s not afraid to be angry, she’s not afraid to be vulnerable and quiet and calm and sad, and to have that level of range was interesting.”
Why did she lock herself away?
“I have love all around me,” Drew explains. “It was important for me to understand what it’s like to be lonely and not have love, but luckily I had one person … I had the love of my life [kisses Jessica Lange].
Drew admits “I’ve never been so terrified in my life” about pulling off the prosthetic face she wears in the film.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn portrays Jackie O. “I locked myself away and watched movies and looked at images and documentaries and tried to marinate in her,” she says of her research.
SNL’s Kristen Wiig and Ashleigh Banfield move through.
Oh look, it’s Michelle Obama’s dress designer Jason Wu. Will he design a frock for First Puppy Bo? “I’m always up for a challenge,” he tells me. What would he do? “I can’t say I’m the most experienced, so we would have to see about that,” he says.
Here comes twice-divorced former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Any thoughts on Mel Gibson’s impending split?
“My only advice is that we pray for him and his wife and his family, and hope it all comes out all right,” he says. “God bless him.”
Grey Gardens debuts on HBO April 18.
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Drew Barrymore: The Recluse?
April 7th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
Are we about to see a very different side of Drew Barrymore?
The legendary party girl says that she has stopped talking to her friends, quit going out and generally "shut out the world."
The He’s Just Not That Into You star told Elle magazine that she’s tired of the "optimisic love stories" she’s been doing for the last 10 years, and that she’s reinventing herself as an intense method actor.
And the first movie to get the new Drew treatment is the upcoming HBO drama Grey Gardens, in which she does a drastic reinterpretation of the character Little Edie.
She told the May issue that when she met with an exec before the project began, they were stunned by what that blond from the Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates brought to the table.
"He started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanor change, actually noticing all the hard work I had put into it. So I just put it out there.
"I said, ‘Look – I have all of this inside of me, and I promise you that I will change my face to be her. I will learn how to stop talking out of the side of my mouth. I will go to school to relearn body language. I will shut out the world. I will not talk to my friends. I will give up my life for this, because I don’t think you can play this character and have a social life and balance the two mentalities. I won’t act. I’ll become this person.’”
Drew also said that she split with long-term boyfriend, Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, in 2007 because one day she felt: "I have to be on my own".
But isn’t this taking things a little far, Drew?
And does this whole hermit thing explain why things weren’t going so smoothly with Justin Long a few months back.
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