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In ‘No Hard Feelings,’ 1st Comedy Made For Jennifer Lawrence
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Jennifer Lawrence has long desired to star in a major comedy. In her television appearances, she has always been witty and bright. And, while she has brought humor and physical comedy to many of her performances for David O. Russell and others, she hasn’t received the huge, broad “Dumb and Dumber” or “Anchorman” experience, to name a few of her favorites (or at least the ones she knows).
This summer, that changes with ‘No Hard Feelings’ (in theatres on 23 June), a classic, raucous R-rated comedy tailor-made for her.
“I’ve always wanted to do a comedy,” she says. And I’ve read many of them,” Lawrence said last week in Las Vegas. “I just didn’t read anything funny enough.”
A real Craigslist ad by parents looking for a woman to “date” their son over the summer before he went to college served as the inspiration for the song “No Hard Feelings.” There are disagreements over how genuine the “real ad” was, but the idea of a woman answering such an ad was amusing enough to pique the interest of numerous producers and writer-director Gene Stupnitsky.
Stupnitsky, an Emmy-nominated “The Office” alum who also helmed and co-wrote the 2019 smash “Good Boys,” knew exactly who to take it to. He informed Lawrence about the concept over dinner with pals one night after they had had “eight or nine martinis between us.”
They met almost a decade ago at Mediaeval Times, thanks to a mutual friend. Lawrence, he remembered, was dressed like a full-fledged wizard. They quickly become real friends. He even introduced her spouse to Lawrence.
“I owed him one,” remarked Lawrence. “That’s why I did this film.”
Stupnitsky, seated next to Lawrence, remarked, “There’s probably some truth to that.”
With Lawrence set to appear in and produce the film, it quickly became a hot commodity, with streaming providers and studios bidding for its rights. They ultimately chose Sony and a regular theatrical release.
“I wrote this movie for her because I knew she was funny and wanted everyone else to know it.” People knew she was witty, but they wanted her in a comedy. Yes, I thought, I know how to accomplish this. “I know how to write her voice,” said Stupnitsky. “I remember telling her, ‘I want you to experience the feeling of sitting in a theatre with hundreds of people laughing.'” She’s had many cinematic experiences, but none quite like this.”
Maddie, Lawrence’s character in “No Hard Feelings,” is going through a financially difficult patch. She’s in a bind as an Uber driver without a car. So when she comes across this ad promising a Buick Regal as payment, she bites. Maddie meets 19-year-old Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) for the first time in a clip shown to theatre owners at the CinemaCon event last week, dressed in a slim, hot pink little dress and high heels and behaving openly flirty and accessible.
“She’s dressed as if imagining a 19-year-old’s sex fantasy.” “And she’s incorrect,” Stupnitsky replied. “He’s like the one kid who she can’t seduce.”
The scenario worsens when she tries to give him a ride home. He believes he is being kidnapped, and as anyone who has seen the red-band trailer knows, it concludes with her being pepper-sprayed. But the picture also has a lovely center.
“He is longing for a connection, which she also needs but isn’t aware of,” Stupnitsky explained. “She simply wants to get the car and get on with her life.” But he’s forcing her to take things slowly and get to know him and be intimate with him in a spiritual way.”
Lawrence described the event as “fun,” which was aided by her bond with her younger co-star.
“We just laughed all day long,” she explained. “Sometimes after work, I’d get in bed and just, like, giggle before going to sleep, just thinking about the day.” I was also sad about making it because I thought, “God, I’m just not going to have one of these again.” This is unusual.”
As a producer on the picture, Lawrence has already seen it with an audience and experienced the great, communal laughter that Stupnitsky promised.
“I went to a screening test and sat in the back,” she explained. “It was pretty extraordinary.”
Every project, she realizes, is a risk, but she’s optimistic about “No Hard Feelings.”
“You just never know. You may believe that audiences desire this, but they do not. “And I’ve certainly had my share of experiences with that,” she admitted. “It’s a combination of instinct and analyzing the information.” I had no doubts that what we had was the funniest movie anyone had ever seen, and I knew Gene was the one who could pull it off.”
Lawrence’s first major cinema release in a few years, following the 2019 X-Men film “Dark Phoenix.” Her most recent films have been streaming releases, such as Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” and Apple’s “Causeway,” which she also produced.
“I think audiences will remember why they love her,” said Stupnitsky.
“I look much better, 12 feet tall,” Lawrence joked.
SOURCE – (AP)
Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.
In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.
As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.
Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.
“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”
“Kelce how does it feel that your brother is a f****t for dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason Kelce proceeded to slam this kids phone on the ground.
Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason. Wild scene in State College pic.twitter.com/3PEdZXWhSg
— Chives (@jarrett_daveler) November 2, 2024
Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.
Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.
“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.
The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.
The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.
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Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.
On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.
“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.
However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.
Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.
Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”
He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.
Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.
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Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.
According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.
“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.
The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.
SOURCE | CNN
Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.
Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”
Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.
Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.
She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.
In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.
Teri Garr, a comedian
Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”
She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”
Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.
“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.
The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”
Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.
A gift for spontaneous humor
Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.
She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.
Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.
During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.
Source: AP
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