Olivia Thirlby

David Gordon Green's dream of becoming the next Terrence Malick may have stalled a bit after the lukewarm reception of 2004's Undertow, a heavy family drama starring Jamie Bell, Dermot Mulroney, and Josh Lucas. But he's back with—you guessed it!—another heavy family drama, entitled Snow Angels, based on the Stewart O'Nan novel of the same name. And he wants to tell you all about it. He'll be at the Apple Store in Soho, Wednesday, March 5, chatting up fans and shoppers alike and showing clips from the movie.  read more »

“My brain hasn’t really processed it. I actually can’t believe it,” said Olivia Thirlby, via phone, early in the morning of Oscar Sunday. The 21-year-old actress, in Los Angeles, was eating breakfast (“I’m sorry for the crunching”) and about to embark upon the daylong process of readying herself for the red carpet to end all red carpets at the Kodak Theatre for Hollywood’s glitziest, puffed-up night. Ms. Thirlby portrayed Leah, Ellen Page’s braid-wearing best friend in this year’s little-movie-that-could, Juno—a film that not only surpassed expectations at the box office, but was the one bright spot in a lineup of Best Picture nominees that skewed dark and heavy.

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