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Post by Haley on Aug 27, 2007 17:46:38 GMT -5
$7.8 mill for the Nanny Diairies. Yikes :(
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Post by vinyl on Aug 28, 2007 9:23:11 GMT -5
$7.8 mill for the Nanny Diairies. Yikes :( It wasn't very promoted though was it? I'm not surprised.
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Post by vinyl on Sept 30, 2007 21:30:16 GMT -5
Well the album is recorded! & collaborations!
Scarlett spent 33 days in Maurice in May-June 2007 recording her debut CD at Dockside Studio. Owned by Steve and Wish Nails, Dockside is a 12-acre recording complex hidden along the Vermilion River. Scarlett worked from 6 PM to 6 AM daily in the studio with producer Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration also performed on the recordings, which Steve Nails describes as cinematic rock. "It's like theater, big screen," said Nails, who sat in on all the sessions. "Lots of heavy bass tones in it. Without a bass guitar, we used all kind of different instruments to create these sounds. It was a great experiment. Very avant garde."
"She sounds like Marilyn Monroe," added Nails.
Scarlett says that musician friends in high school brought Tom Waits' music to her attention, and she remains an avid fan. She had originally planned to record an album of standards, then changed her mind after adding I Never Talk to Strangers to her repertoire. "I've always considered Tom Waits to be kind of a composer of modern standards; he has a lot of beautiful ballads and really heartbreaking songs."
Woah that sounds pretty much awesome.
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Post by reception on Oct 16, 2007 15:33:34 GMT -5
Scarlett Johansson exudes glamour in her strapless Louis Vuitton dress at Elle's 14th Annual Women in Hollywood event Monday at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. "I really liked the dress," the actress said after receiving the Icon award, "so you experiment with it and play with your hair and see what looks good."
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Post by reception on Nov 20, 2007 16:19:57 GMT -5
A distressed-looking Kevin Connolly and Scarlett Johansson are just getting into character Monday on the Alexandria, Va., set of He's Just Not That Into You.
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Post by reception on Jan 17, 2008 14:53:48 GMT -5
Scarlett Johansson to Visit Troops in Gulf THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 2008 12:25 PM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman People Magazine
Woody Allen's muse is about to act like Woody Allen's mentor, Bob Hope – Scarlett Johansson is going to entertain the troops in the Persian Gulf, the USO has announced.
The Match Point actress and director-to-be, 23, plans to tour the region for five days as part of a USO/Army Morale Welfare Recreation entertainment tour, says the organization. While there, she will visit numerous military installations, greet fans, sign autographs and interact with members of the U.S. armed forces.
"This USO tour to the Gulf region truly means a lot. I've wanted to go over and visit for some time, and now my moment has arrived," says Johansson – who gets a large supply of fan letters from the military and wanted to do more than just answer them on paper.
"It's one thing to reply to a letter or extend your thanks to service members in a speech, but it's another thing to visit them and spend time with those that do so much for us back home," she adds in a statement released by the USO.
The USO, which began boosting U.S. troop morale during World War II, has, in 66 years, produced 58 tours and staged 328 special events for men and women in uniform, including performances, autograph sessions, hospital visits and movie screenings, the group says in a press release announcing Johansson's involvement.
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Post by vinyl on Jan 17, 2008 19:55:01 GMT -5
Scarlett Johansson will release an album on May 6 called “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” andPOP has learned.
The actress-turned-singer revealed in 2006 that she would be recording a Tom Waits cover album. Her album’s title, “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” is the title of a Waits track from his classic 1985 album “Rain Dogs.”
Source: andPOP
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 17, 2008 21:39:15 GMT -5
Somebody take the "In" out the thread title, please.
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Post by vinyl on Jan 17, 2008 21:54:28 GMT -5
Somebody take the "In" out the thread title, please. Oh my I have no idea why I put it there
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Post by vinyl on Jan 20, 2008 17:56:04 GMT -5
It used to be a night for greasy-haired blokes with guitars, but this year’s Brit Awards is all about lipstick, stilettos and posh frocks.
There’s a growing list of girls attending - and now I can reveal Scarlett Johansson will be adding some A-list glamour. The Lost In Translation actress has been confirmed to present an award and - more importantly - she has also been invited to perform at the bash on February 20.
Scarlett is recording an album of Tom Waits cover songs - (imaginatively) titled “Scarlett sings Tom Waits” - with Rhino Records in the US. So Brit Awards organisers are pulling out all the stops to persuade her to sing one of the tracks at London’s Earls Court. A ceremony insider said: “Scarlett has tentatively agreed to sing and is definitely presenting a Brit. It would be a real treat.”
For years The Brits struggled to find talented women. It’s not so long ago that Annie Lennox won year after year - seven times in total. Now we are blessed with loads of fantastic females. Leona Lewis, Kate Nash and KT Tunstall are competing in Best British Female category. Kylie is also up against Rihanna and Alicia Keyes for Best International Singer.
And Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse will be there alongside rising stars Adele and Duffy. The Spice Girls may not have been nominated for anything despite reforming for their big tour. But Girl Power is definitely back…
Source: Sunday Mirror
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Post by MyLastView on Jan 20, 2008 19:50:14 GMT -5
She has a great voice..this should be interesting to listen to.
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Post by reception on Jan 26, 2008 6:36:03 GMT -5
Jan 25, 7:29 PM EST Johansson: I'm in Love With Obama!
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scarlett Johansson returned from the Persian Gulf with a whole lot of soldiers' trinkets and a delusion of her own engagement - to Barack Obama.
"I am engaged ... to Barack Obama," Johansson joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes."
Johansson, who showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate at the Iowa caucus earlier this month, was really just deflecting a question about rumors she might be engaged (to actor-beau Ryan Reynolds).
The 23-year-old actress talked about the warm welcome she received while visiting troops stationed in the Persian Gulf last week. Johansson dropped by U.S. bases in Kuwait on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 as part of a USO tour in which she met about 3,500 men and women in uniform.
"Everybody that I met there was so incredibly friendly and polite and genuine and generous," she said. "They were so, so sweet. I mean, I was just amazed."
Johansson said some people ripped patches off their jackets as gifts and handed her challenge coins from their military units. One Marine offered up his St. Christopher medal. Another starstruck guy gushed: "You made my whole deployment!"
Johansson has a full plate for 2008, with the release of films including "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "He's Just Not That Into You," as well as the arrival of her debut album on May 20.
The disc, called "Anywhere I Lay My Head," features Tom Waits cover songs and one original track. "It was a really, really sort of inspired process to make this CD, and it was something I'd never done before," said Johansson, who said the album has a dreamy, ethereal quality.
On a far more serious note: Johansson was still speechless Thursday over the death of fellow actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead Tuesday in his Manhattan apartment.
"I'm really just so very shocked," she said. "He was an incredibly sweet, kindhearted and enthusiastic person. And, you know, he loved his daughter - I mean, that was like the light of his life. It's just a terrible loss."
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Post by vinyl on Jan 26, 2008 9:16:14 GMT -5
Nevermind, it's May 20th via Billboard.
Johansson Sets Date For Waits Covers Disc
One of the more unusual albums to be conceived in recent years, actress Scarlett Johansson’s interpretations of Tom Waits songs, will hit stores this spring.
“Anywhere I Lay My Head” will be released May 20 via Rhino Entertainment’s Atco imprint. Johansson collaborated on the album with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Celebration’s Sean Antanaitis and TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, who produced.
The track list sports 10 Waits covers and one original track, but full details have yet to be announced.
Johansson recorded the album over five weeks last spring at Dockside Studios in Maurice, La. Her prior music dalliances include singing the track “Summertime” for “Unexpected Dreams,” a 2006 charity album featuring film stars, and a surprise appearance with the Jesus & Mary Chain at last year’s Coachella festival.
Source: Billboard
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Post by eljefro on Feb 2, 2008 10:42:21 GMT -5
I look forward to hearing this...I've heard her sing...very smoky voice obviously...LOL
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Post by busyboy on Feb 12, 2008 19:07:39 GMT -5
Johansson Unveils Waits Covers Album In NYC Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Scarlett Johansson unveiled her debut album, "Anywhere I Lay My Head," for journalists today (Feb. 12) at New York's Joe's Pub. As previously reported, the album includes 10 Tom Waits covers and one original ("Song for Jo"), and will be released May 20 via Atco/Rhino. "Anywhere" was produced by TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek, who told the crowd he was going for a "cough medicine/Tinker Bell" vibe, sound-wise. David Bowie, whom Johansson met a party just prior to beginning work on the album, lends his distinctive vocals to the tracks "Falling Down" and "Fannin' Street," while Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner and members of the band Celebration contributed throughout. Johansson said she initially considered making an album of standards, but that the project slowly morphed into a Waits-dominated affair. "His melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct," she said. The result, according to Johansson, has met with the notoriously persnickety Waits' approval. "I sent him some of the early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead,'" she said. "I've heard he's very pleased." While the majority of the album lives up to Sitek's prior description, there are some up-tempo departures, particularly on "I Don't Want To Grow Up," which boasts drum machine beats straight out of a New Order song. There are no plans for Johansson to perform live in support of the project, but she says she'd be intrigued by "getting everybody together," perhaps at a festival, at some point in the future. "It would be a missed opportunity not to." Here is the track list for "Anywhere I Lay My Head": "Fawn" "Town With No Cheer" "Falling Down" "Anywhere I Lay My Head" "Fannin' Street" "Song for Jo" "Green Grass" "I Wish I Was in New Orleans" "I Don't Want To Grow Up" "No One Knows I'm Gone" "Who Are You?" www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003710050
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Post by vinyl on Feb 12, 2008 19:46:02 GMT -5
Can't wait to read reviews and things of that nature :)
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Post by SHOOTER on Feb 13, 2008 22:03:42 GMT -5
How can she not perform live?
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Post by reception on Feb 15, 2008 14:40:04 GMT -5
Wearing some serious winter weather gear – and a button in support of her "fiancé," Barack Obama, – a smiling Scarlett Johansson arrives in Germany Thursday to premiere her new film, The Other Boleyn Girl, at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Post by vinyl on Feb 16, 2008 9:55:48 GMT -5
She looks amazing, as usual
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Post by vinyl on Feb 25, 2008 19:37:22 GMT -5
David Bowie: Johansson’s Performances are Mystical
David Bowie has spoken about his work on Scarlett Johansson’s debut album, a collection of covers of Tom Waits songs.
The rock legend added backing vocals to two tracks on “Anywhere I Lay My Head” - ‘Falling Down’ and ‘Fannin’ Street’.
Posting on his official site BowieNet, the singer said: “The songs are great, really good Tom Waits stuff, and Scarlett’s performances are mystical and twice cool. She creates a mood that could have been summoned by someone like Margery Latimer or Jeanette Winterson.”
However, the veteran artist played down his contributions to the record, saying: “I’ve seen the press on this and I suppose the record company wanted to spin my involvement a little more than it actually warrants. All I contribute are these oo’s and ah’s on a couple of tracks.
“[TV On The Radio’s] David Sitek, the producer, originally asked me to do three songs, but for one of them, ‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up’, I didn’t feel I could contribute much to it, so I left it alone.”
Source: NME
Wow. I'm sure she is overjoyed lol... Having someone like Bowie say that about you must be great. She's got herself some really good collaborators on this album. I bet it'll be great. :)
Btw The Other Boleyn Girl - released on Friday. :)
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Post by vinyl on Mar 19, 2008 7:34:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2008 7:51:38 GMT -5
I'm def going to buy this album. I love Tom Waits, let's see if she did a good job.
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Post by itsaboutart on Mar 22, 2008 2:07:20 GMT -5
does anyone have a link to her singing or anything...tom waits is certainly...ummm ambitious for anyone so i hope she has the chops. Esp as ryans ex alanis is dropping an album soon and we all know that gurll can SING...not to mention songwrite and play instrument and produce and act.
So goodluck scarJo.
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Post by vinyl on Mar 22, 2008 8:46:07 GMT -5
does anyone have a link to her singing or anything...tom waits is certainly...ummm ambitious for anyone so i hope she has the chops. Esp as ryans ex alanis is dropping an album soon and we all know that gurll can SING...not to mention songwrite and play instrument and produce and act. So goodluck scarJo. www.maplanete.ch/carnet/?p=1372If you click on the little player thing, you can hear her singing Summertime.
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Post by Retro-Physical on Mar 22, 2008 9:05:22 GMT -5
She's so beautiful. I can't wait for this.
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Post by vinyl on Mar 29, 2008 8:57:33 GMT -5
As a rule, we’re as suspicious of actors making records as we are of, well, rock stars appearing in movies. But Scarlett Johansson’s previous, if brief, forays into music have at least demonstrated both flashes of talent and an unnerring grasp of cool. There’s an abiding memory of her in a pink wig singing karaoke to The Pretenders’ “Bass In Pocket” in Lost In Translation, or seen in fuzzy Youtube clips providing backing vocals for “Just Like Honey” at the Jesus & Mary Chain’s comeback show at last year’s Coachella festival. She also recorded the Geshwin standard “Summertime” for a US compilation and even starred in a Bob Dylan video, “When The Deal Goes Down…”, to support his Modern Times album.
Now she’s recorded her debut, an album of Tom Waits’ covers (and one self-penned track), produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek and featuring guest spots by Yeah Yeah Yeah’s guitarist Nick Zinner and, on two songs, David Bowie, with whom she co-starred in Christopher Nolan’s movie, The Prestige. Although the songs here run as far back as 1976, most of them actually come from the later part of Waits’ career; only one song pre-dating 1983’s Swordfishtrombones.
Here, then, is our track by track preview at what you can expect…
TRACK BY TRACK: Scarlett Johansson: Anywhere I Lay My Head
1. “Fawn”
(Taken from Tom Waits’ 2002 album, Alice)
A bit of a cheat, this, as it’s an instrumental track. But, it does efficiently set out the album’s sonic template – loosely, late period Cocteau Twins, with touches of Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs and Marianne Faithfull. A gentle organ intro before a wave of brass comes crashing in, then straight into…
2. “Town With No Cheer”
(Swordfishtrombones, 1983)
Scarlett privileges the storytelling aspect of Waits’ original, recalling here Marianne Faithfull as she half-sings, half-speaks the lyrics. Waits’ version is pretty sparse – just his voice recounting the lyrics accompanied by keyboard and accordion. Initially, this version doesn’t stray too much from that: the backing is organ, and keyboards with the occasional burst of guitar, but gradually Sitek layers on sax and drums and pushes the organ further up in the mix.
3. “Falling Down”
(Big Time, 1988)
This was the only studio cut on Waits’ ’88 live album. Here, Scarlett sounds very like Liz Frazer, which is effectively the vocal setting she operates in for much of the album. Her voice is perhaps deeper and less sharp than Frazer, but it works convincingly in the musical context, which Sitek describes as a “cough medicine tinker bell vibe.” And, yes, her voice sits surprisingly well with Bowie’s harmonies. There’s sleigh bells and a xylophone, while a haunting guitar motif towards the end recalls Mercury Rev’s “Endlessly”.
4. “Anywhere I Lay My Head”
(Rain Dogs, 1985)
Instead of the opening drunken trumpet reverie of Waits’ original, we get a soft, drum pattern intro and the swish of a keyboard and accordion. Scarlett sings defiantly “I don’t need anybody because I learned to be alone” against a stunning church organ crescendo.
5. “Fannin’ Street”
(Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards, 2006)
The drum intro is worryingly reminiscent of “Feed The World”, but let’s accentuate the positive. Scarlett’s take on one of the “blues” tracks from Waits’ triple album is suitably downbeat, again half speaking the lyrics by way of privileging the song’s narrative, Bowie adding rather mournful backing vocals, gently cautioning her against visiting that titular address.
6. “Song For Jo”
The only original composition on the album, written by Johannson and Sitek. “Do you remember how we fell asleep on the bathroom floor/It wasn’t always pretty/On the white tiles…” Scarlett half-sings, half-whispers over soft acoustic guitar loops and soporific drums that reminds of the blurry folk of Sebadoh’s Weed Forestin’ album. The vibe is woozy, approximately a bottle of Benylin’s worth.
7. “Green Grass”
(Real Gone, 2004)
Against the soft whir of cicadas, a loping xylophone melody and occasional bursts of surf-style guitar, this sounds like it should be on the soundtrack to a mid-period David Lynch film.
8. “I Wish I Was In New Orleans”
(Small Change, 1976)
One of the most atmospheric tracks on the album, and the earliest Waits’ song included here. Sitek replicates the piano line of the original on a music box, which provides pretty much the only backing here, aside from layers of swooshing ambient sound. There’s something quite funny, too, about hearing Scarlett announce “I’ll drink you under the table”, in the same breathy, “Happy birthday, Mr President” style as Marilyn Monroe.
9. “I Don’t Want To Grow Up”
(Bone Machine, 1992)
Also covered by the Ramones, on their last album 1995’s Adios Amigos!. With Eighties’ pop keyboards and drum machine patterns (reminiscent, variously, of New Order and Pet Shop Boys), this is most uptempo song in the collection; Bowie was also meant to contribute but declined - he couldn’t think, apparently, of anything to add. “How the hell did I get here so soon?” marvels Scarlett, aged 24.
10. “No One Knows I’m Gone”
(Alice, 2002)
This could sit on The Cure’s Disintegration album; it has the lush atmospherics of “Prayers For Rain” or “Same Deep Water As You”. A stately accompaniment of keyboards, Velvets-y guitar, sleigh bells (there’s a lot of sleigh bells on this record) and weirdly distorted drums.
11. “Who Are You?”
(Bone Machine, 1992)
Features drum beats half-inched from Roxy Music’s “Angel Eyes”. There’s something about the sepulchral keyboards here and slow bass riffs at the end that inevitably brings to mind Joy Division. Elegiac, which is always a good way to end a record.
Anywhere I Lay My Head is released by Rhino on May 20
Source: Uncut.co.uk
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Post by vinyl on Mar 29, 2008 9:01:25 GMT -5
It sounds pretty amazing I do wonder what the single will be
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2008 9:05:25 GMT -5
They will release some of the songs as singles, won't they?
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Post by K. on Mar 29, 2008 11:40:45 GMT -5
I'm really excited to hear this. I hope it's good!
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Post by vinyl on Mar 29, 2008 11:42:38 GMT -5
They will release some of the songs as singles, won't they? I would hope so... but nothing has been confirmed. I haven't heard anything about a single.
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