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Post by vinyl on Aug 5, 2008 18:33:34 GMT -5
They look gorgeous. Was the film well-received?! I'm really curious about this one.
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Post by reception on Aug 6, 2008 5:57:46 GMT -5
Aug 5, 9:10 PM EDT Johansson embarrassed by hoopla over Obama e-mails
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scarlett Johansson can laugh about it now, but the actress says she was embarrassed by the media coverage of her so-called "e-mail relationship" with Barack Obama.
"It seemed to me to be like a product of extreme sexism, and I kept thinking to myself, 'God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney or any of the other (Obama) surrogates or supporters ... there wouldn't be (any) question about it. Nobody would even talk about it," she said.
Johansson, a vocal supporter of Obama, told the Web site Politico.com in June that she and the Democratic presidential hopeful had been trading e-mails. Obama later told reporters that Johansson doesn't have his personal e-mail address, and that his assistant forwarded one message from Johansson to which he replied.
"I was merely trying to express my delight at Obama's commitment to his campaign in every aspect and his interest and his support (in) his surrogates and his staff and his fellows, and how wonderful and refreshing that is. And it was manipulated into such an unfortunate media frenzy of kind of a nonstory," the 23-year-old actress said Tuesday in an interview from Los Angeles, where she was promoting her new Woody Allen film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
The romantic comedy set against the bohemian backdrop of Barcelona, Spain, has its share of buzz over Johansson's much-hyped kiss with Penelope Cruz.
"It's just silly because ... the way people are talking about it you'd think it was ... a Bertolucci movie or something," Johansson said, laughing. "People are saying, `It's Woody Allen's steamiest movie.' I'm thinking, 'Woody Allen's steamiest WHAT?'"
It was the actress' third time working with Allen, who directed her in "Match Point" and "Scoop." She and actor-beau Ryan Reynolds had been snapped by paparazzi on the set of the movie last summer; she confirmed the couple's engagement in early May.
Have they set a date?
"We're just enjoying our time," she said. "We're just recently - very recently - engaged. So, you know, we're just taking it easy. And no big plan yet. But it's a good time and we're just ... enjoying our time to be young and engaged.
"I mean, I'm 23. There's no reason to rush into it. Everything feels very natural and relaxed."
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Post by George on Oct 16, 2008 23:14:27 GMT -5
2009 GRAMMY SUBMISSIONS:
Album of the Year "Anywhere I Lay My Head"
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance "Falling Down"
Record of the Year "Falling Down"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2008 1:47:48 GMT -5
YEAH
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Post by vinyl on Jan 31, 2009 10:18:02 GMT -5
I really like it. It's definitely no Jeff, but it's quite pretty.
I hope she makes an album on which she sings this way, though... I'm quite a fan of this little husky tone of hers.
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Post by busyboy on May 23, 2009 6:05:40 GMT -5
Scarlett Johansson Records Gainsbourg-Inspired Album With Pete YornScarlett Johansson has a type, it seems-- at least when it comes to recording music. Johansson's first album, the better-than-anyone-realized 2008 drug-pop swooner Anywhere I Lay My Head, consisted almost entirely of Tom Waits covers. And later this year, Johansson and singer/songwriter Pete Yorn will release a collaborative album reportedly inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot, according to USA Today. So if you're a legendary songwriter with a craggy seen-it-all voice and a permanently unimpressed hangdog facial expression, you might eventually inspire a Scarlett Johansson album. Leonard Cohen-- call your manager! USA Today reports that Johansson and Yorn teamed up with producer Sunny Levine to record Break Up, which the newspaper describes as "a song cycle that chronicles a tempestuous affair." Yorn wrote eight of the album's nine songs, the other being a cover of "I Am the Cosmos" by Big Star's Chris Bell. The album was actually recorded in 2006, so it pre-dates Anywhere I Lay My Head. The first single, the amiable rockabilly chug "Relator", is currently streaming on the album's website. Judging by that, Johansson does a better job channeling Bardot than Pete Yorn does playing Gainsbourg, but that shouldn't exactly come as a shock. Break Up is due September 8 from Atco/Rhino. Yorn will also release a solo album, Back and Forth, on June 23. pitchfork.com/news/35414-scarlett-johansson-records-gainsbourg-inspired-album-with-pete-yorn/
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Post by vinyl on May 23, 2009 6:56:57 GMT -5
Ooh, exciting! I was actually thinking about having another record after coming across one of her tracks on shuffle yestrday.
Annnnnnnd I love Gainsbourg. 'Relator' is the cutest thing, also.
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Post by George on Dec 7, 2012 15:39:06 GMT -5
She has a new song for the documentary Chasing the Ice:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2012 0:51:54 GMT -5
I really love the texture of her voice.
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Post by George on Mar 25, 2015 14:46:23 GMT -5
Scarlett Johansson Recruits Este Haim for Girl Group the Singles, Shares "I love Grimes. And I love the Bangles. And I love the Go-Go's. I wanted it to be like those bands." By Corban Goble on February 20, 2015 at 2:29 p.m. EST https%3A//soundcloud.com/federalprismrecs/candyOn occassion, actress Scarlett Johansson has dabbled in the music world, putting out albums like 2009's Pete Yorn collaboration Break Up and the 2008 Tom Waits tribute Anywhere I Lay My Head. Now she is going "super-pop"—her words—with a girl group called the Singles that also features Este Haim of Haim, Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris, and Julia Haltigan. Listen to first single "Candy", above, via Rolling Stone. "Candy" was produced by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, who has worked with Johansson in the past. He also designed the artwork (above) and is putting out the single on his Federal Prism label. "The idea was to write super-pop dance music written and performed by girls," Johansson said in a press release. "I love Grimes. And I love the Bangles. And I love the Go-Go's. I wanted it to be like those bands: ultra pop but also a little ironic, a little in on the joke."
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 25, 2015 18:35:51 GMT -5
I really like Candy and I would love a full EP or album from them but I'm not sure what the end result will be now. Scarlett Johansson's New Band Hit With Cease-and-Desist OrderScarlett Johansson's newest music venture is not getting off to an auspicious start. The actress' band The Singles, which debuted its first song last week, has been hit with a cease-and-desist order, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The cease-and-desist was filed by a previously existing band with the same name, fronted by singer Vincent Frederick. Johansson's group, which also includes musicians Este Haim, Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris and Julia Haltigan, released the tune "Candy" last week on SoundCloud. The band is signed to Federal Prism, a label run by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek. Rabeh Soofi, an attorney who represents Frederick's band, told THR that her clients "issued a cease-and-desist demand to representatives of Scarlett Johansson, Este Haim, Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris and Dave Sitek, demanding that they discontinue using 'The Singles' as a band name and mark, given its continuous use by my clients The Singles for more than 15 years." "Since 1999, The Singles have produced an extensive repertoire of albums, LPs, EPs, singles, and have performed their music countless times, nationally and internationally, including European tours in 2004, 2005, 2008, and a Japanese tour in 2004, all using their band name 'The Singles,' " Soofi continued. In response to the legal action, Federal Prism founding partner Jeff Bowers told THR, "I'd like to take the vinyl and t shirts marked as 'The Singles' and sell them all and donate all of the money to the Los Angeles Children's hospital." This is not Johansson's first time dabbling in music. She has released a solo studio album in 2008, along with a 2009 album Break Up that featured collaborations with Pete Yorn.
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