In “Serenity,” Oscar winner Anne Hathaway has long blond hair.
Speaking of long and blond, I only know this new movie has glimpses of Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey’s dingle.
“No, no, not,” he said. “I didn’t show it.”
How about his scenes of Doing It with Diane Lane’s character, plus repeat scenes of his naked bones swimming, walking, cavorting and perspiring.
“Looks like I’m nude, but there’s flesh covered material. Listen, the movie business has tricks. It was hidden. Covered.”
OK, but tour j’eté-ing about with his bobble bubbling might be one of the best parts of this film.
After handshaking, embracing friends, and walking among them on his brown and tan two-tone shoes, he answered how, playing a fishing boat captain, he knew how to catch a huge gigantic tuna.
“I know about fishing. Secondly, it’s the movies. How difficult can it be? They put it on your hook, and you only have to play at reeling it in.”
Hathaway’s bleached blond hair, now back to natural brunette, said: “The part required my character obey whatever my husband in this film demanded. He issued orders. He wanted this . . . wanted that . . . it was do as you’re told, or else.” The plot called for McConaughey, who plays her ex-husband, to somehow make her newer louse of a husband into another ex-husband.
Anne: “I couldn’t have made this film without the help of my real husband. We adjusted our little son, Jonathan , bit by bit so he’d grow used to seeing me with light hair. Being blond was sort of fun. It somehow made you feel kind of easier and freer.”
So might a little peroxide spur Mr. & Mrs. Adam Shulman onto yet another baby?
Both Shulmans laughed gaily then walked away from me quickly.
Between Hathaway’s blond bob and McConaughey’s dangling doodle, it’s difficult to maintain serenity while watching “Serenity.”
This story’s nuts
The Berkshire Eagle reports a Canyon Ranch (in Lenox, Mass.) lawsuit. A veggie burger containing cashews triggered anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that hospitalized an NYC guest.
Jan. 16, Springfield’s US District Court federal lawsuit says Kristin Chu Smart filed her allergy information before arrival, informed staffers including her server and was assured there were no problems.
The condition worsened. A Berkshire Medical Center ambulance was called. Says attorney Laurel J. Francoeur, “She thought she’d die.” Kitchen staff has stated cashews were “always” used in veggie burgers. Per a Canyon Ranch spokesperson: “We do not comment on matters in litigation.”
Legacy of women’s rights
#Me Too readers should note that Mary Baker Eddy’s 1875 textbook “Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures” says:
“Civil law establishes very unfair differences between the rights of the two sexes.
“Christian Science furnishes no precedent for such injustice, and civilization mitigates it in some measure. Still, it is a marvel why usage should accord women less rights than does either Christian Science or civilization.”
Personal Oscar buzz
Just my view, but why wasn’t John C. Reilly, brilliant as Oliver Hardy in “Stan & Ollie,” not Oscar-nominated? And besides Emily Blunt’s excellence, why any drumbeats for that Mary Floppins remake?
Fred: “Coming up is the Super Bowl.”
Ed: “Better is the Heidi Fleiss Bowl.”
Fred: “What’s the Heidi Fleiss Bowl?”
Ed: “Every man on the field scores.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.