Mimixxx Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I hope she doesn't take them to the same place Chris took his, they've had those things for months ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lara____ Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApproximatelyInfinite Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 hahaha, good point about the ring resizing :P. chris was wearing that black bit of tape or whatever, presumably to keep it on before it disappeared all together. and i loved that iron man premiere outfit she wore in that photo :nice:. ok, the dress is a bit too short for my liking (and even if she does have a nice ass or whatever, i don't think she should really be showing it to the entire world :lol:), but i thought she looked great there, especially her hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kackie Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I also loved that look! Actually, I loved pretty much all of her "Iron Man" looks... I remember when the pictures started pouring in and I was impressed with each one... and her shoes! No, i could never wear them, but some of them were DARN cute! And her hair... gah, I love her hair :D I have only good things to say about all of those looks, even the pantsuit/necklace one she did. I thought that was pretty cool, actually, and very different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lara____ Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 isn't Two Lovers going to be released in the US on Feb13? I guess then we'll be seeing Gwyneth doing the rounds at Letterman etc the week before .... Oh and how convenient, that means she'll be over there right after the Grammys. So she doesn't really have an excuse not to go :wink2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApproximatelyInfinite Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 wow, i actually forgot she had a movie coming out! i can't wait to see it--besides the fact that gwyneth is in it, it also seems like it has a potentially interesting story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Two Lovers looks great! Although of course, all the papers are going on about is her flashing in it. :dozey: But it looks really interesting :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApproximatelyInfinite Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 oyy, it figures. but she had some boob-shots in shakespeare in love too, so it's not like this is anything that new. and no way in HELL would any american newspaper or news site be allowed to have an uncensored picture up like that! i was surpised, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Really? We have Page 3 girls in most of our tabloids, which is basically a semi naked girl on page three of the paper :sick: And people aspire to be one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notlost92 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I know I'm a bit late on this, but don't you guys think they'd do something as public as removing rings only after a divorce was announced? :thinking: I mean, if it really meant something, wouldn't they wait to do it until after a statement? I don't know... *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 If they were getting divorced I don't think they'd announce it at all and just wait for the legal documents to be uncovered. *shrug* But is ONE picture of her without rings. We could speculate until the cows come home but at the end of the day only time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notlost92 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 ^ Very true. Besides, I just think they've both lost a lot of weight and need to get their rings resized! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 :P Suuuuuuuure :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notlost92 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Yeah, and Chris obviously chose a shitty jeweler who's taking 6-ish months to finish the resizing! Men... :rolleyes: :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApproximatelyInfinite Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Really? We have Page 3 girls in most of our tabloids, which is basically a semi naked girl on page three of the paper :sick: And people aspire to be one! we just have more strict censorship laws about how much skin can be shown in public places without warning. the first time i was in england, i was 12 and had just landed at heathrow. one of the FIRST things i saw was on the bus on the road to london, there was a huge billboard for a razor or something, and it was basically a naked woman with a few bubbles over her waist. that's just not something that's legal to show over here :lol:. my friends and i were pretty shocked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branshi_baby Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 ^ Very true. Besides, I just think they've both lost a lot of weight and need to get their rings resized! :P For people with so much money, the Martin-Paltrow house needs more food! :rolleyes: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Seriously, though. One of these days they're going to turn sideways, and we wont be able to see them if they BOTH keep losing any weight. Can you imagine a paper-thin Chris? :laugh3: Well, on the plus side...he'd be even more flexible than what he is now :sneaky: Hahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airieslady Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 For people with so much money, the Martin-Paltrow house needs more food! :rolleyes: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Seriously, though. One of these days they're going to turn sideways, and we wont be able to see them if they BOTH keep losing any weight. Can you imagine a paper-thin Chris? :laugh3: Well, on the plus side...he'd be even more flexible than what he is now :sneaky: Hahah Lookin like this? :stunned: :laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
branshi_baby Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 :laugh3: Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 we just have more strict censorship laws about how much skin can be shown in public places without warning. the first time i was in england, i was 12 and had just landed at heathrow. one of the FIRST things i saw was on the bus on the road to london, there was a huge billboard for a razor or something, and it was basically a naked woman with a few bubbles over her waist. that's just not something that's legal to show over here :lol:. my friends and i were pretty shocked! Yeah, when I went to London and Poland when I was 16, I noticed that bare breasts in magazines and such were not that big a deal over there as they are in North America. I remember buying some teen magazine (English or Polish I dont remember) and when I flipped to the embarrassing questions sections there was a question like "is there something wrong with my breasts" and on that page there was also a picture of a woman checking out her boobs in the mirror with a worried look on her face. I also picked up some women's magazine that they sell over here too, and noticed that there were boobs in the European version when there'd never be boobs in the American one. We're all just a bit prudy over here I guess. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirhc Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Gwyn goes topless in her new movie... http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/944/Celebrities/article/detail/633509/2009/01/22/Gwyneth-Paltrow-ontbloot-borst-in-nieuwe-film.dhtml Ugh, feels weird to see the breasts Chris likes :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-chan Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 we just have more strict censorship laws about how much skin can be shown in public places without warning. the first time i was in england, i was 12 and had just landed at heathrow. one of the FIRST things i saw was on the bus on the road to london, there was a huge billboard for a razor or something, and it was basically a naked woman with a few bubbles over her waist. that's just not something that's legal to show over here :lol:. my friends and i were pretty shocked! The cultural shocks XD I speak as a european (and a french) and for us, what is more shocking is how americans can be so prude about nudity on some occasion (like how it's could become a scandal in US to see a woman breast feeding on a cover of a magazine...Oo come on, it's 'nature') and how it doesn't bother you anymore when your stars like Britney and co are pratically naked and acted like porno stars in their music video...>.> It's not shocking for us to see nudity when it's for illustrate some health issue or a commercial for a soap... I saw Paul Rudd the other day on TV, he was promoting his new movie 'role models' and they broadcast the trailer 'uncensored'....There was some nudity and 'bad words' but nothing shocking or out of the 'ordinary'...Paul Rudd said that in the US, this trailer was censored and he felt like the audience could be more shocked if they're going to the theater to see the movie with their kids, cause by seeing the 'censured trailer', they could think it was a family movie and in fact, it's not...! So in the end: it's just some skin!!! Chill out! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I feel a bit swallowed up in January, the days are so short, the sky is so close and gray. The best way to escape (not to mention the least expensive, most hassle-free way) is to curl up by the fire with an amazing, transportive novel. This week I have asked a couple of my best and most literary-minded girlfriends to share their top picks. These are the women who read voraciously and with passion. No TV for them before bed (I need a little something, even 10 minutes of "The X Factor" or a forensic pathology documentary, just something, for Lord's sake!). I always like knowing the literary preferences of people. I think it gives a better understanding of their inner life. I have also included some of the books that have affected me the most. Happy reading! Love, Abby’s Favorites: (Abby Kane is one of my best childhood friends who is a mother of two and lives in Georgia) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This is the first line of the novel. Tolstoy’s incredible mind amazes me. Overwhelmingly beautiful and tragic, this is an epic novel. If you persevere through the arduous length, you will be in for a treat. Full of timeless romance and tragedy!! Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel García Márquez truly transports you with his descriptions and characters. You feel like you are with these incredibly unique and spicy characters (Latin, of course) in this coastal Colombian town. It’s a beautiful and moving love story, which was a much easier read for me than another of Márquez’s books, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston I love this book because of the incredible female protagonist, who is a brave and beautiful romantic. She overcomes adversity and is finally redeemed. The book is written in an African-American vernacular and exudes an intense depth of emotion. The side story about the author, Zora Neale Hurston, is amazing as well. She only got the recognition she deserved posthumously; she died working as a domestic with no money to her name. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski I just finished this book, which was absolutely incredible. I loved it and was so splendidly depressed when it ended, that I started reading it again. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel My mom is reading this book right now, which reminded me of how provocative and exciting it is. One of my favorites, The Life of Pi is a fantastic discussion igniter about religion and other important stuff. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole This book was published 10 years after the death of its author. He never got recognition while he was alive, which is very sad. The main character, Ignatius J. Reilly, is a misfit genius who lives in New Orleans and is trying to survive. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver I have read most of Barbara Kingsolver’s books and have enjoyed them. I love this heart-wrenching story about a family who goes to Africa on a mission and how they try to survive in another culture. Christy’s Favorites: (Christy Turlington is an amazing friend, mother, and an activist who is pursuing her masters in Public Health at Columbia University) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner This novel was completely ahead of its time and Faulkner is surely one of the greatest American writers. What I love about it is the way he tells a family story from each person’s perspective within a historical context. The prose throughout is poetic yet unstructured. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway This novel transports me each time I read it, to a time and a place that is so much simpler than my own. I fell in love with Hemingway’s idea of Spain through these characters’ experiences, especially Brett’s, the book’s heroine, who is such an autonomous spirit. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Coming from a family of sisters and the second-born, I always identified with Elizabeth Bennet. The plight of women and our historically limited freedoms make Austen’s spirited characters all the more intriguing and inspiring. Madonna’s Favorites: (Madonna Ciccone rules the world, is a loyal friend and a terrific mother) The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Aunt Louise’s Favorites: (Stella’s Aunt Louise Weed is a wife and mother cum Obama activist in Boston, MA) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy There is a recent, fabulous translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I read this version (after reading it in college oh-so-many years ago) this summer. It is beautifully written and captures so many essential truths. The first go-round, I mostly cared about the love story of Natasha. This second reading, I read every word about war. Very tongue-in-cheek much of the time. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy It doesn’t get better than this. Middlemarch by George Eliot Dorothea Brooke has so much to teach us all. I have read this twice and will probably read it again. George Eliot was so ahead of her time in terms of both her use of language and the story she sketched. This book really influenced me. I read it for the first time in my junior year in college. For short stories I love Alice Munro. She is a Canadian writer with a spare style. She is marvelous. I also loved Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies. I just read a fantastic book when I was in Puerto Rico called Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert by Georgina Howell. It is about a woman of great independence during the Victorian era, who traveled many times across the desert (she also climbed many difficult mountains in Switzerland). She is responsible, in part, for the current configuration of Iraq. Of course, I love all of Jane Austen. Probably Pride and Prejudice is my favorite, for all the obvious reasons. Gwyneth’s Favorites: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë This was the first novel I ever read. Actually, it was read to me by my mother. We started it when I was 10 years old. The novel starts out with a young Jane, about the age I was at the time, so I was drawn in, in such a visceral way. It was the moment I really started to understand, from my little bed in a room with strawberry wallpaper, that there was a scope to the world, a past and future, that would be there for the learning and for the taking. It was a powerful and deep experience, being read those words, that story with all of its heavy imagery and emotion. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky I first read this in high school and have returned to it numerous times. I think there was something about the complexity of the protagonist’s psychology that made me feel like I wasn’t the most misunderstood person in the world (which is what happens with hormonal teenagers). Besides the fact that it is incredibly written, the unsure morality was somehow reassuring. It was okay to be figuring out one’s own sense of right and wrong. In fact, it was one of life’s great endeavors. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles I was doing a film with Ethan Hawke in 1995 and feeling a bit in shock about what was happening with my life. I hadn’t found grace yet with the big changes that were afoot. Ethan correctly intuited that I needed some perspective, some grounding, a sort of literary bringing down to size. He gave me a few of his favorite novels and this masterpiece was one of them. It completely swept me up. It is, in essence, about what happens when one changes landscapes, physical or metaphorical, without intellectual and emotional openness. It also teaches that the unfamiliar must be approached with humility and respect, slowly and without force. It very much set me straight at a very pivotal moment in my life. NEXT WEEK Next Week we make a yummy meal for the whole family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marie/pims Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 They are EXCELLENT books.I love Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Jane Austen. The Confederacy of Dunces is fantastic as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimixxx Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I love how the one that 'Rules The World' couldn't be bothered writing any sort of description :dozey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melanieau Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I love how the one that 'Rules The World' couldn't be bothered writing any sort of description :dozey: You would think her assistant who picked out the books in the first place could have written a little blurb:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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