Last night was the premiere of Our Idiot Brother, which… I don’t really want to see, although I do enjoy some Paul Rudd, and he does look kind of funny in it. The film paired Rudd with a group of talented ladies, and so the premiere was heavy on the fashion. Unfortunately for nearly all of the talented ladies, they all looked like hell. Let’s start with Zooey Deschanel, shall we? The Moschino dress was, like, circus-level bad. I think highly of the Deschanel sisters – I find both of them beautiful and interesting – but this dress is unflattering and just flat-out ugly. What’s with all of the bulges and dust ruffles on her neck and biscuits? Gross. I’m totally over Zooey’s hair too – she needs to ditch the hipster-girl bangs. She’s well into her 30s, it’s time for a more adult look. But the absolute worst part was how her makeup looked – like a Kardashian got a hold of her:
Ridiculous. Are those falsies on her bottom lids?!?
Next up… Rashida Jones. She’s another one that needs to stop with the bangs, in my opinion, but at least her makeup job is better than Zooey’s. The dress, however, is just as bad. How unflattering is this? Rashida has a cute figure, but you would never be able to tell. I hate her shoes too.
So, I’m kind of demoralized by the bad fashion, so here’s a photo with the other two girls in the cast, Elizabeth Banks and Kathryn Hahn. Why does everyone look so bad?!?
“500 Days of Summer” star Zooey Deschanel and alternative hitmaker Ben Gibbard, the front man of Death Cab for Cutie, are now husband and wife. The couple exchanged vows in a private ceremony outside Seattle over the weekend. They dated for a year before getting engaged last December. There are almost no details about the wedding.
We interrupt the Emmy news to bring you this: Zooey Deschanel got hitched.
The Elf star swapped vows Saturday with Death Cab for Cutie driver Ben Gibbard near Seattle, E! News has learned.
Deschanel, 29, and Gibbard, 33, dated for almost a year before he popped the question last December.
Death Cab’s latest single, “Meet Me on the Equinox,” will be featured on the New Moon soundtrack.
Deschanel, who kicked off her own musical career last year as part of the duo She & Him, recently got a custom meal made for her on Top Chef Masters and is currently starring in (500) Days of Summer—as a woman who believes true love doesn’t exist.
Congrats to this adorable couple. I wonder if their new union will also include some music collaboration? Zooey is one of those multi-talented folks who also has a music career in addition to hit films. Her band, “She and Him,” is a critically acclaimed indie project. They seem like a low-key duo, but I do hope we get to see at least one wedding photo, because I love Zooey’s fashion style and I’m curious to see what she wore.
Header image is from the 500 Days of Summer premiere on 6/24/09. Credit: WENN.com. Image below credit: PRPhotos
At Sundance promoting her new film 500 days of Summer, Zooey Deschanel took time to talk to MTV about her music. Zooey and M. Ward (together, She & Him) released their first album Volume I in March of last year to rave reviews. Now she has revealed that she’s been working on new music and will be releasing a new album (I’m guessing it will be called Volume II), though she won’t say when.
“We’re working on it. I can’t say exactly when it will be finished. … Give me some time! I need a break!” she laughed. “I’ve been writing a lot, and we’ve been recording some, so, hopefully, I don’t know. I don’t want to put a number on it, but it’s going well and, I mean, it’s fun, as always.”
Deschanel stopped short of revealing any additional details about the new S&H album — after all, when MTV News spoke to her, it was at Sundance, where she was on hand to promote her upcoming role in the karaoke-fueled romantic comedy “500 Days of Summer” — but she was more than willing to admit that making the film was easy. And not just because she’s musically inclined.
“Yeah, I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me,” Deschanel said. “Whatever happens to me — you could quantify it as good or bad — I romanticize it. I think along the lines of ‘When that thing happened, it made me who I am.’ That kind of thing. It’s a different way of being romantic.”
And will that sense of romance carry over to the new She & Him album? Will there be a cameo or three from her newly minted fiancé?
“That’s none of your beeswax,” she laughed. “Time will tell.”
Zooey’s fiance is Death Cab for Cutie’s frontman Ben Gibbard, and the collaboration of his, Zooey’s, and M. Ward’s musical stylings is sure to be good. It’s rare that an actress who ventures into music is successful and generally well-liked in both venues. And unlike many other cross-over artists, her album was marketed on its own merits rather than being advertised as a Zooey Deschanel project. You have to give her credit for taking a risk.
On another note, her latest film project, 500 Days of Summer looks pretty good. It includes a lot of music (as the interview says, “karaoke-filled), and as can be see by the big song and dance scene in the trailer. Maybe this is a sign that she’ll try to establish herself further into the musical world.
Zooey Deschanel is shown out at Sundance on 1/18/09. Credit: WENN
Cute quirky actress Zooey Deschanel, 28, has a debut album out with her band She & Him in which she sings folksy music in a kind of sweet country throwback twang. The music is lovely, it’s soft, quaint, wholesome and real. Their sound has an authenticity and purity to it and I was surprised at how both how well and how simply Deschanel can sing.
The NY Times profiled Deschanel’s new band and her move from movies to part-time musician, and journalist Melana Ryzik is as impressed as I was when I heard her sing. Ryzik says that Deschanel seems sincere, unaffected and without the ego that characterizes a lot of actor-musicians. She has indie cred and it’s well deserved:
And unlike the work of other actors-cum-musicians — Russell Crowe’s various pub-rock acts for example — the album doesn’t come across as a vanity project; in person Ms. Deschanel is exactly as indie darling as her fans would hope.
Though she was raised and lives amid celebrity in Los Angeles and has appeared in both hugely popular films (“Elf,” in which she briefly sang) and critical and cult favorites (“Almost Famous,” “All the Real Girls”), it’s easy to imagine her puttering around a cozily decorated Williamsburg loft. She takes home doggie bags, prefers tights to spray-tans and uses David Bowie’s “Changes” as her ring tone. She knits and crochets and makes brownies and gingerbread because, she said, “I like the way people react when you bake, which is, like, just pure childlike joy.”
She has some of that too — an almost hand-clapping glee — when she talks about She & Him. The music has drawn comparisons to 1970s AM radio staples like Carly Simon and Linda Ronstadt. It is unironically, unapologetically pleasant; feel-good nostalgia in the best sense. “It sort of defied some of the preconceptions and prejudices I would’ve had about an actor rock album,” said Amrit Singh, the executive editor of the music blog stereogum.com. He compared it favorably to another buzzy actress-and-indie collaboration, Scarlett Johansson’s forthcoming album of Tom Waits covers, produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Mr. Ward and Ms. Deschanel “seemed like a good stylistic fit,” he said.
Deschanel met her guitarist and producer Matt Ward in 2006 when they worked on a cover of a song together for a small film called “The Go-Getter.” Ward said that he loved her voice and persuaded her to send him some demos she had recorded of original songs. He said Deschanel’s songs “knocked [his] socks off” and their collaboration was born.
Deschanel picked the name for the band, and said she “wanted a name that was very humble, modest and anonymous.”
Here are some videos of the band playing live at SXSW 2008 on March 14. You can hear more of their music on their myspace. If you’re listening and are skeptical at first, give it a chance, it will probably grow on you.
Cutie Zooey Deshanel has bested Pink, Lohan, Britney Spears and Scarlet Johansson to land the role of Janis Joplin in an upcoming movie about the singer’s ill-fated life, “The Gospel According to Janis”:
ZOOEY DESCHANEL has beaten LINDSAY LOHAN, BRITNEY SPEARS and SCARLETT JOHANSSON to the coveted role of JANIS JOPLIN in the forthcoming movie biopic of the tragic singer. Pop punk PINK was originally director PENELOPE SPHEERIS’ first choice to play the late rocker, but pulled out, blaming the movie’s producers for turning the casting process into “some circus pop contest – who’s the ‘it’ girl who wants to play Janis”. However, ALMOST FAMOUS beauty Deschanel, 26, has signed to play Joplin in THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JANIS, which starts filming in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November (06). PIECE OF MY HEART hitmaker Joplin died of an heroin and alcohol overdose in a Hollywood hotel room in October 1970 at the age of 27.
Deshanel is known for supporting roles in “Almost Famous” in 2000 and “Failure to Launch” in 2006. She bears more than a passing resemblance to Janis and it will be interesting to see how good the film is and how well she pulls off the role.
That’s great news and it should be a big boost to her career. According to IMDB, she has four movies in the can that come out next year, is filming another, and is announced to be in three more. We’re going to see a lot more of her in the near future.
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