Actress Olivia Hussey has turned 60 today. It’s unbelievable! When you hear, Olivia Hussey, this name – you imidetely recoll her charming Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Franco Zeffirelli’s film produced in far 1968. She was just 15 when she won a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of “Juliet”.
Olivia was born in Argentina in Argentinean-British family.
She is one of my favorite actresses. She was born February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California, USA and became famous for her role as Gertie in ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ (1982). She is really one of the mopst beautiful weman but not only. She is very clever and talanted one.
Drew Barrymore’s quotations:
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t.
I don’t know anybody’s road who’s been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don’t know what life has in store for you.
I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
I never act my characters – I am them.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don’t expect.
I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.
I’m so in control of my life, you shouldn’t dislike anything I do-because I’m not only in the best place I’ve ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.
“Sexual love is secondary to me right now,” Drew Barrymore says in a new Parade magazine interview. “I’ve spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. But for the last few years, my life just hasn’t been about that for me.”
The twice-married star, 34, adds that she’s “stopped believing in happy endings.”
“I’ve started believing in good days,” she says. “At the end of my movie, there’s honesty. There’s truth. There’s peace. What tomorrow will bring is still in question. There is a joy that’s earned by failure or triumph. All those things add up to teach us, if we are open to it.”
Une femme douce / A Gentle Creature / 1969 / is the first color Robert Bresson’s film sees a marked change in the director’s style from the cold austerity and intensity of his earlier works, such as Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and Mouchette (1967). Although the film deals with familiar Bresson themes of suicide and domestic repression, his approach in this film is far more accessible, making the film attractive to a mainstream cinema audience (for perhaps for the last time in Bresson’s film-making career). Bresson cast a successful model Dominique Sanda in the role of the ill-fated heroine of the film, allegedly for the sound of her voice rather than her more obvious attributes. Sanda’s celebrity may have been another important factor which contributed to the film’s popularity.
Director: Robert Bresson
Script: Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
Photo: Ghislain Cloquet
Music: Jean Wiener
Cast: Dominique Sanda (Elle), Guy Frangin (Luc, son mari), Jeanne Lobre (Anna, la bonne), Claude Ollier (Le médecin), Jacques Kébadian (Le dragueur), Gilles Sandier (Le maire), Dorothée Blank (L’infirmière)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 88 min
Aka: A Gentle Creature; A Gentle Woman
Summary
When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Sofia Coppola was burn in May 14, 1971 in the family of legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola. No wonder that she has chosen the way of cinematograph like her father. So she made her film debut playing baby Michael Francis Rizzi in her father’s film The Godfather (1972). At two years of age, she made an appearance in The Godfather Part II (1974) as a child on a steamship. Over the next few years she appeared in four more of her father’s films, including The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She landed a role in a short directed by Tim Burton and a small part in the feature film Anna (1987) directed by Yurek Bogayevicz, before replacing Winona Ryder in The Godfather Part III (1990). Unfortunately, she was awarded with two Razzie awards for her trouble: Worst New Star and Worst Supporting Actress. She made one more film appearance, in Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992), before realizing that rather than acting, she wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. She enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts to study Fine Arts.
Her first film was a short that she wrote and directed, called Lick the Star (1998). She made her feature film directing debut with her own screenplay, The Virgin Suicides (1999), starring Hayden Christensen (pre-Star Wars Episode II), Josh Hartnett and Kirsten Dunst. Directing seemed to be the right choice for Sofia, as she won a Young Hollywood Award for Best Director, as well as an MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker.
Coppola, whose cousin is Nicolas Cage, married fellow director Spike Jonze in 1999, then wrote, produced and directed her next feature film, Lost in Translation (2003), a romantic comedy starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. Coppola won a Golden Globe for her screenplay, as well the Lina Mangiacapre Award at the Venice Film Festival for the film. She also received Best Director and Best Original Screenplay nods at the 2004 Academy Awards, winning the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
In 2003, Coppola and Jonze divorced. She went on to write and direct Marie Antoinette (2006), starring Kirsten Dunst, which won the Cinema Prize of the French National Education System at the Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography (director):
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Lost in Translation (2003)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Filmography ? Oscars™ Nominations And Awards
Director Marie Antoinette (2006)
Producer Marie Antoinette (2006)
Director Lost in Translation (2003) Best Director Nominee
Producer Lost in Translation (2003) Best Director Nominee
Director The Virgin Suicides (2000)