The New York Observer » Reese Witherspoon http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:18:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Single Person’s Movie: Cruel Intentions It's 2 AM and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/movies/single-persons-movie-cruel-intentions New Payne Pairs Witherspoon and . . . Giamatti? It looks like

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/movies/new-payne-pairs-witherspoon-and-giamatti Opening this Thanksgiving: Vince & Reese Deck the Halls, Milk and Baz’s Own Heaven’s Gate If you think roughly three-quarters of Hollywood's output arrives between now and Christmas day, that's probably because it does. Or at least it seems like it does. Thanksgiving marks the official kick-off of the holiday season, and there's something at the box office for everyone in your family. Here's a handy guide to the Thanksgiving Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/opening-thanksgiving-vince-reese-deck-halls-sean-penn-i-milk-i-and-bazs-i-heavens-gate-i Hell for the Holidays Four Christmases Running time 82 minutes Written by Matt Allen, Caleb Wilson, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Directed by Seth Gordon Starring Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Voight

O.K., go ahead and make fun of Christmas. Every year, somebody does. Like the people in Beverly Hills in the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/hell-holidays Morning Memo: Paris Hilton’s McCain Video; Gossip Girl Conflicts With Chace Crawford’s Morals; Tommy Hilfiger’s Breakup Paris Hilton has filmed a mock campaign ad responding to John McCain's references to her in his latest campaign ad. In it, she calls the Republican candidate "the oldest celebrity in the world. [

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/morning-memo-paris-hiltons-mccain-video-gossip-girl-conflicts-chace-crawfords-mora Gossip Roundup: Vincent Gallo and Terry Richardson Wish You an Annoying Thanksgiving; Nicole Richie’s Turkey-Day Good Deed! Yawn. What? Right. Here's the gossip round-up for Nov. 23, 2008, Thanksgiving Friday and possibly the slowest news day ever.

An eight-months-pregnant Nicole Richie and her friend, the society disc jockeyess Samantha Ronson, volunteered at a Hollywood soup kitchen yesterday.

Jennifer Aniston recently attended her 20th high school reunion at Rudolf Steiner on the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/gossip-roundup-vincent-gallo-and-terry-richardson-wish-you-annoying-thanksgiving-nicole-richies Duvall Gets Festive With Four Christmases Robert Duvall will join Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn in the holiday romp, Four Christmases, set to start production in December. Mr. Vaughn is trying extra hard to get on Santa's good list this year (Fred Claus, now Four Christmases?)

Variety reports:

Vaughn and Witherspoon also are producing the pic, in which a couple struggles Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/duvall-gets-festive-four-christmases That Old Trick: Jake and Reese Can’t Evade Cameras, Even in Costume Fresh-out-of-the-package lovebirds Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal ran into a little paparazzi action last night while celebrating boo-day with Ms. Witherspoon’s wee tots. Hard as he may have tried, Mr. Gyllenhaal didn’t fool the camera-toting celeb-stalkers with his full-body gorilla suit. The Rendition star’s decidedly less-hairy girlfriend was much easier to spot, however, in a Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/gyllenhaal-and-witherspoon-spooky-stroll Reese Witherspoon Escapes the Perky Curse RENDITIONRunning Time 120 minutes Written by Kelley Sane Directed by Gavin Hood Starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Alan Arkin

Powerful, shocking and mandatory, Rendition is a disturbing film that should be required viewing for every school and civic group in America, and then the world. They could start at the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/reese-witherspoon-escapes-perky-curse Toronto Film Festival: Checking In A missive has just arrived from Sara Vilkomerson, our envoy to the Toronto Film Festival. 1. Air Canada section of La Guardia was overrun by douchebags talking about "projects." 2. The Suri Cruise Vanity Fair was sold out at all the newstands. (See above.) 3. I talked to a charming girl named Tracy, age 24. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2006/09/toronto-film-festival-checking-in/ Who and What I Liked in 2005: Viggo, Violence, Reese, 2046 While I was trying to decide how I would introduce my customary list of the past year’s achievements and non-achievements, I consulted what I wrote last year—and I was struck by how applicable it was to this year. So simply by changing a few numerals, I can repeat last year’s introduction, secure in the knowledge Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2006/01/who-and-what-i-liked-in-2005-viggo-iviolencei-reese-i2046i/ Beauties, Beasts, Biz At the New York Film Critics Circle awards at Cipriani on Sunday night, an evening considered to be the official kickoff to full-on Oscar fever, the red carpet was decidedly low-key. Apparently, it was all about serious awards for serious actors. Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee and Capote’s Philip Seymour Hoffman gamely made their way Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2006/01/beauties-beasts-biz/ Oscar Predictions: The Night All Gyllenhaals Will Be Ignored, Or, In Praise of Trannies The Transom has seen a whole hell of a lot of movies this year and is a know-it-all and a total busy-body and sometimes pretends to be psychic at parties. So, why not jump in the Oscar pool? Best Actress Felicity Huffman beats out Judi Dench and Reese Witherspoon and Naomi, improbably, Watts. Maybe, maybe Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2005/12/oscar-predictions-the-night-all-gyllenhaals-will-be-ignored-or-in-praise-of-trannies/ Stunning History: Are We Numb to Film Violence? David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, from a screenplay by Jack Olson, based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, may go down in movie history as the suspenseful thriller in which the bedeviled-by-his past, virtually schizophrenic hero, Tom Stall/Joey Cusack (played magnificently by Viggo Mortensen), makes Batman, Spider-Man and Superman look Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2005/10/stunning-history-are-we-numb-to-film-iviolencei/ Mira Nair’s Can-Do Golddigger Reese Witherspoon is as modishly contemporary as a Palm Pilot with a Duracell battery. Watching her play scheming, flirtatious 19th-century golddigger Becky Sharp in the latest of a long line of movie adaptations (four that I know about) of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel Vanity Fair is so disconcerting that I kept staring at the Read More

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