Posts Tagged ‘jodie foster’
Where Do Stars Keep Their Oscars?
February 27th, 2009
Spotted!
August 6th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
• Mary-Kate Olsen celebrating Paul Wilmot’s birthday at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont in style wearing Slane & Slane jewelry and carrying a Nancy Gonzalez clutch.
• Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony dining at STK in L.A.
• Kourtney Kardashian, in a Celia Birtwell Express shirt, spotted out for a night on the town in Hollywood with her sister Khloe.
• James Blunt dancing at Dune Nightclub in Southhampton, NY.
• Antonio Sabato Jr getting a trim from celebrity stylist Christo in NYC.
• Jodie Foster eating pasta at Almoncello in the Hamptons.
• Jesse McCartney at the Kiehl’s store in Santa Monica, Calif., trying out the Crème de Corps lotion.
• A pregnant Jennifer Garner and daughter Violet browsing the toy store at the Brentwood Country Mart on Aug. 5. As the store clerk wrapped up a small toy that her mom was buying for her, 2-year-old Violet kept smiling and saying "Thank you! Thank you!"
Jodie Foster: Abigail Breslin’s “Born to Be an Actress”
March 31st, 2008
Since she’s a former child star, it’s easy to assume Jodie Foster would share some words of wisdom with a current young starlet, Abigail Breslin, her co-star in Nim’s Island. However, the double Oscar winner tells OK! there was absolutely no need to lend Abigail a helping hand.
“She’s different in that in some ways I think that she’s a deeper actress than I was at that age,” Jodie tells OK! at film’s premiere. “She has an access to a well of emotions that I wasn’t aware of at that age. She was born to be an actress. I learned as time went on.”
Abigail, who plans on celebrating her 12th birthday on April 14 in Disneyland, confirms Jodie didn’t give her any direct advice, but that doesn’t mean Little Miss Sunshine herself didn’t learn a thing or two from Jodie.
“Just watching her, you’re learning from her,” Abigail tells OK!. “It was just really cool.”
Nim’s Island, which opens Friday, is an adventure-fantasy film about a young girl (Abigail) who lives on an island with her father and communicates with the author of the novel she’s reading. It’s Jodie’s first children-friendly film in a while, which she is happy about as her children, Charles, 9, and Kit, 6, can see it.
“I really wanted to show a lighter side of myself," she says. "I’d been looking for 15 years, searching for a movie that had a lighter hand. My kids have never seen a movie of mine. This will be the first time. It’s their first premiere too!”
By David Lasky
Celeb Smarties!
March 27th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
Hot Shots 3/17/08-3/23/08
March 17th, 2008
Jodie Foster: Boys Are Easy to Raise
March 12th, 2008 / Author: cwillett
Motherhood has produced a lot of black-and-blues for Jodie Foster, but it’s getting much easier these days with her sons Charles and Kit.
"Boys are easy," she tells Parade.com in a new interview. "I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store."
But those are the days of the past. Now that Charles, 9, and 6-year-old Kit are older, those incidences are few and far in between as their days are usually preoccupied with other activities.
"They go to school all day, and then one wants to do T-ball and the other wants to do karate, so they’re actually gone until four-thirty," Jodie says. "I want them to have curiosity about things they don’t know, and a desire to see places bigger than where they grew up."
Charles and Kit’s relatively normal upbringing is a stark contrast to that of their mother’s. A double Oscar winner, Jodie grew up in the spotlight, having worked 42 of her 45 years. But, she says, she never saw acting as a lifelong gig.
"To me, acting didn’t seem like much of a profession," she admits. "My mom always said, ‘By the time you’re 16, your career will be over. So what do you want to do then?’ She was correct. Most child actors’ careers end early. They’re lost."
Jodie was certainly not one of them. But she did put her acting on pause to attend Yale University, a decision she thought would change the course of her professional career.
"I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life," she says. "I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path. I could’ve gone to New York, but I went back to Los Angeles because it was where I was from."
And having grown up in Hollywood, how did she manage to avoid the pitfalls of fame that trap the Britney Spearses and Lindsay Lohans of today?
"I had my little rebellions, but they were minimal. So I ask, ‘Why didn’t I rebel more?’ Then I remember — because I was responsible for someone else (acting role). That’s why I couldn’t rebel. That’s why I couldn’t get lost for days on end. I always had to work."
For more on Jodie, check out the new issue of Parade.
Hot Shots! 3/10/08-3/16/08
March 10th, 2008
Reese: The $20 Million Woman
November 30th, 2007 / Author: cwillett
Reese Witherspoon may not have lived up to her reputation with her flop Rendition (co-starring rumored boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal), but she is still the highest-paid actress in LaLa Land.
Just how much does this Oscar-winner get? A reported $15 to $20 million dollars a film — Wowza!
Angelina Jolie comes in at number two on the list, followed closely by Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman, who each make in the $10 to $15 million dollar a picture range.
Also making the list were Renée Zellweger, Sandra Bullock, Drew Barrymore and Jodie Foster. Mom-to-be Halle Berry rounded out the top ten with a respectable $10 million a picture.
For more on Tinseltown’s biggest box-office babes, check out The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment: Power 100 issue.
The Brave One?
September 12th, 2007
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard
Erica (Foster) hunts down the savage killers who murdered her fiancé. Revenge is a powerful thing, but can it ever really be justified? (Preview)
