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All Things Ava Gardner
Before Angelina Jolie, the sultriest good looks in Hollywood belonged to this 1953 Best Actress nominee. Today, her legacy includes a museum, a film festival and, maybe, a USPS stamp.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM
By FilmStew Staff
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Once upon a time, a young girl named Ava Gardner settled into Smithfield, North Carolina’s Howell Theatre to watch Red Dust, a rollicking 1932 adventure film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Little did she realize that three decades later, she would garner a Best Actress nomination for her portrayal of Honey Bear Kelley opposite Gable in Mogambo, a remake of the Victor Fleming Pre-Code film.
It seems only fitting then that locations for the second annual edition of the Ava Gardner Film Festival, set to run September 24th through the 27th, will once again include the historic Howell Theatre location. The event, in celebration of the actress’ love of the arts, showcases various independent films, arts and crafts, and more.
Perhaps this year, attendees can also debate what still photo or iconic headshot should be the basis for a possible 2010 USPS stamp of her that is now being considered. “Ava Gardner was a big-time star who never forgot her small-town North Carolina roots," Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge, the North Carolina Representative who instigated the idea, recently told the News and Observer. “In addition to being a world-famous actress, she was a patriot who performed for our troops, and she worked tirelessly in the fight against cancer."
Finally, at Smithfield’s Ava Gardner Museum, located just a few miles from where the actress is buried, they need to do a better job with the Internet blogging; the one and only entry on the institution’s website dates back to January and appears to be a gibberish web page sample. From the airings of her films on cable TV to the mentions of her in more recent movie star biographies, there is much that could be used year-round as fabulous Ava fodder.
All Things Ava Gardner
Before Angelina Jolie, the sultriest good looks in Hollywood belonged to this 1953 Best Actress nominee. Today, her legacy includes a museum, a film festival and, maybe, a USPS stamp.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM
By FilmStew Staff
It seems only fitting then that locations for the second annual edition of the Ava Gardner Film Festival, set to run September 24th through the 27th, will once again include the historic Howell Theatre location. The event, in celebration of the actress’ love of the arts, showcases various independent films, arts and crafts, and more.
Perhaps this year, attendees can also debate what still photo or iconic headshot should be the basis for a possible 2010 USPS stamp of her that is now being considered. “Ava Gardner was a big-time star who never forgot her small-town North Carolina roots," Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge, the North Carolina Representative who instigated the idea, recently told the News and Observer. “In addition to being a world-famous actress, she was a patriot who performed for our troops, and she worked tirelessly in the fight against cancer."
Finally, at Smithfield’s Ava Gardner Museum, located just a few miles from where the actress is buried, they need to do a better job with the Internet blogging; the one and only entry on the institution’s website dates back to January and appears to be a gibberish web page sample. From the airings of her films on cable TV to the mentions of her in more recent movie star biographies, there is much that could be used year-round as fabulous Ava fodder.
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U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge announced Thursday that a U.S. Postal Service committee is considering an Ava Gardner commemorative postage stamp.
"Ava Gardner was a big-time star who never forgot her small-town North Carolina roots," he said. "In addition to being a world-famous actress, she was a patriot who performed for our troops, and she worked tirelessly in the fight against cancer."
Gardner, who died in 1990, was a native of Johnston County.
If approved by the committee, the stamp would not be available until 2010 at the earliest.
Etheridge earlier introduced legislation to name the Smithfield post office after Gardner, at the request of the Smithfield Town Council. The legislation became law in March 2006. Gardner was born in Smithfield.
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U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge announced Thursday that a U.S. Postal Service committee is considering an Ava Gardner commemorative postage stamp.
"Ava Gardner was a big-time star who never forgot her small-town North Carolina roots," he said. "In addition to being a world-famous actress, she was a patriot who performed for our troops, and she worked tirelessly in the fight against cancer."
Gardner, who died in 1990, was a native of Johnston County.
If approved by the committee, the stamp would not be available until 2010 at the earliest.
Etheridge earlier introduced legislation to name the Smithfield post office after Gardner, at the request of the Smithfield Town Council. The legislation became law in March 2006. Gardner was born in Smithfield.
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News about Ava's distant cousin, also an actress
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead puts her ballet days to good use in her new film but tells Evan Fanning she's glad they're over
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By Evan Fanning
Sunday August 10 2008
MARY Elizabeth Winstead may sound like the name of someone who stepped off the Mayflower, but in fact she is known for being something of a 'scream-queen'. This title attached itself to the 24-year-old actress after she appeared in Final Destination 3, the type of guilty-pleasure slasher movie where pretty girls stand around screaming while being pursued by a maniac.
It wasn't only in FD3 where Winstead got a chance to play a screaming beauty queen like this. She's also starred in Black Christmas and had a small role in The Ring Two, both of which are the kind of gory horror films that have helped her gain this nickname.
Not that Winstead is complaining. She may not want to appear in anymore movies that fuel this reputation, but the cult following that comes with films like these has turned the girl from North Carolina, via Salt Lake City, into one of LA's hottest young properties.
This reputation was also enhanced when she appeared in a yellow cheerleader's outfit in Death Proof, the Quentin Tarantino-directed segment of his Grindhouse double-bill with Robert Rodriguez. Appearing in any Tarantino movie will gain a young actress cult following, but do it in a cheerleader's outfit and the levels of attention are bound to magnify.
It proved that way for Winstead, who suddenly found herself thrust into photo- shoots for men's magazines like Maxim and GQ. "I never pictured myself to be that type of actress," she says. "I never thought I was the type of person that people would want to see in Maxim. So the first time was really strange.
"It was awkward for me to get into it because I didn't know how you're meant to pose for those kinds of magazines, and I didn't want to look like I was trying too hard. Maxim was the first one I did and I was a bit worried. I didn't know what my parents would think. My mum saw it and she was, like, 'Oh. Ok'. That kind of broke the ice for me with that kind of thing."
In person, Winstead doesn't exactly come across as prime material for magazines like Maxim. Tall, elegant and sexy, she looks every bit the ballet dancer she once was, as opposed to the glamour model-type often seen in those magazines.
Her latest film, Make it Happen, is as far removed from that image as you can get. It's from the same stable that brought us Step Up and Save the Last Dance (and each of their respective sequels) so there are no prizes for guessing its subject matter.
Winstead plays Lauryn, a dancer who wants get out of her family business in a small town in Indiana to go to Chicago to enrol at its prestigious School of Music and Dance. But after a disastrous audition she is unable to face the mockery and 'I told you so' that would await her should she return home.
Instead she finds a job in a nightclub, which specialises in a sort of modern re-working of burlesque. Soon, she is the star of the club, performing every night to adoring fans. While the film is a hotchpotch of various films (part-Step-Up, part-Coyote Ugly and part-Chicago) it has enough music, dance and romance to make it a hit with teenage girls. Winstead is also infinitely watchable. She's in practically every scene, yet the camera never tires of her.
Her days as a ballet dancer meant she was ideal for the role, though not having danced for five years brought its own problems. "After the first day of rehearsals I couldn't walk," she recalls.
"I couldn't sit up and down because my legs were so shaky. I was waddling around thinking 'what have I let myself in for?'
"It was a gruelling, exhausting shoot. I hate being any sort of diva ... having people get things for me ... but this was the one film I allowed myself that. I needed people to help me out and get me lunch. I think it was the one time that I'll allow myself to indulge in that stuff."
Winstead certainly doesn't portray any signs of pretension, and even if she did it's likely that the month-long period rehearsing for 10 hours a day would have beat it out of her. During this period, she found out that her years of ballet training were more of a hindrance rather than a help.
"The hip-hop stuff is almost the opposite of ballet so it would probably have been easier for someone with no dance training to learn it than it was for me. I had to completely deconstruct all the ballet things I'd ever learned."
Winstead is more than familiar with the ruthless audition process that her character is forced to undergo in order to win her place at her dream dance school in Make it Happen.
"I used to audition all the time for summer programmes," she says of her days on the ballet circuit. "You have no name; you're a number; you're a body and nothing else. There are some companies who just look at you and cut you based on how you look, or how your feet look or some other completely arbitrary reason. It's pretty brutal.
"I had a few where I totally screwed up the audition and blanked on the choreography and embarrassed myself. When you're young and dance is everything that completely crushes you. You just go home and cry."
Having decided to act full-time, Winstead won't miss the ballet auditions. "They are definitely more ruthless than Hollywood auditions," she says. "In Hollywood everyone is nice, whether they're fake or not, they're nice to you. In the ballet world they don't care about being nice. They'll just tell you if you suck."
Aside from her 'scream-queen' flicks, she's appeared in the Disney movie Sky High, had a small role in Bobby, the story of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and played the daughter of Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4.0.
Despite being on the brink of mainstream stardom, Winstead claims that she has no desire to chase fame. She has a long-term boyfriend with whom she lives in LA. Her only real nod to the celebrity world is that Hollywood legend Ava Gardner is her cousin, although she is a "somewhat distant" relation. More Scarlett Johannsson than Lindsay Lohan, Winstead struggles to understand the attraction when she sees her peer group plastered all over newspapers and magazines.
"I think the people that are in the spotlight sought it out, and maybe now they regret it and don't want it anymore. I think at some point you have to put yourself out there in order to get it, because I would never go shopping in those areas where the paparazzi are, or eat in those restaurants because you know what you're getting if you do.
"I understand why they do it initially. Because they want to get their face out there and maybe get better roles and get ahead, so it's understandable to a certain degree but you had to think long-term and think how horrible it will be."
She may soon find it harder to escape the lenses of the paparazzi, as her stock continues to rise. Whatever happens, her biggest fan remains the same. "My Mum keeps copies of everything," she says. "Even the copies of Maxim."
'Make it Happen' is showing in cinemas nationwide
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Irish Independent
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By Evan Fanning
Sunday August 10 2008
MARY Elizabeth Winstead may sound like the name of someone who stepped off the Mayflower, but in fact she is known for being something of a 'scream-queen'. This title attached itself to the 24-year-old actress after she appeared in Final Destination 3, the type of guilty-pleasure slasher movie where pretty girls stand around screaming while being pursued by a maniac.
It wasn't only in FD3 where Winstead got a chance to play a screaming beauty queen like this. She's also starred in Black Christmas and had a small role in The Ring Two, both of which are the kind of gory horror films that have helped her gain this nickname.
Not that Winstead is complaining. She may not want to appear in anymore movies that fuel this reputation, but the cult following that comes with films like these has turned the girl from North Carolina, via Salt Lake City, into one of LA's hottest young properties.
This reputation was also enhanced when she appeared in a yellow cheerleader's outfit in Death Proof, the Quentin Tarantino-directed segment of his Grindhouse double-bill with Robert Rodriguez. Appearing in any Tarantino movie will gain a young actress cult following, but do it in a cheerleader's outfit and the levels of attention are bound to magnify.
It proved that way for Winstead, who suddenly found herself thrust into photo- shoots for men's magazines like Maxim and GQ. "I never pictured myself to be that type of actress," she says. "I never thought I was the type of person that people would want to see in Maxim. So the first time was really strange.
"It was awkward for me to get into it because I didn't know how you're meant to pose for those kinds of magazines, and I didn't want to look like I was trying too hard. Maxim was the first one I did and I was a bit worried. I didn't know what my parents would think. My mum saw it and she was, like, 'Oh. Ok'. That kind of broke the ice for me with that kind of thing."
In person, Winstead doesn't exactly come across as prime material for magazines like Maxim. Tall, elegant and sexy, she looks every bit the ballet dancer she once was, as opposed to the glamour model-type often seen in those magazines.
Her latest film, Make it Happen, is as far removed from that image as you can get. It's from the same stable that brought us Step Up and Save the Last Dance (and each of their respective sequels) so there are no prizes for guessing its subject matter.
Winstead plays Lauryn, a dancer who wants get out of her family business in a small town in Indiana to go to Chicago to enrol at its prestigious School of Music and Dance. But after a disastrous audition she is unable to face the mockery and 'I told you so' that would await her should she return home.
Instead she finds a job in a nightclub, which specialises in a sort of modern re-working of burlesque. Soon, she is the star of the club, performing every night to adoring fans. While the film is a hotchpotch of various films (part-Step-Up, part-Coyote Ugly and part-Chicago) it has enough music, dance and romance to make it a hit with teenage girls. Winstead is also infinitely watchable. She's in practically every scene, yet the camera never tires of her.
Her days as a ballet dancer meant she was ideal for the role, though not having danced for five years brought its own problems. "After the first day of rehearsals I couldn't walk," she recalls.
"I couldn't sit up and down because my legs were so shaky. I was waddling around thinking 'what have I let myself in for?'
"It was a gruelling, exhausting shoot. I hate being any sort of diva ... having people get things for me ... but this was the one film I allowed myself that. I needed people to help me out and get me lunch. I think it was the one time that I'll allow myself to indulge in that stuff."
Winstead certainly doesn't portray any signs of pretension, and even if she did it's likely that the month-long period rehearsing for 10 hours a day would have beat it out of her. During this period, she found out that her years of ballet training were more of a hindrance rather than a help.
"The hip-hop stuff is almost the opposite of ballet so it would probably have been easier for someone with no dance training to learn it than it was for me. I had to completely deconstruct all the ballet things I'd ever learned."
Winstead is more than familiar with the ruthless audition process that her character is forced to undergo in order to win her place at her dream dance school in Make it Happen.
"I used to audition all the time for summer programmes," she says of her days on the ballet circuit. "You have no name; you're a number; you're a body and nothing else. There are some companies who just look at you and cut you based on how you look, or how your feet look or some other completely arbitrary reason. It's pretty brutal.
"I had a few where I totally screwed up the audition and blanked on the choreography and embarrassed myself. When you're young and dance is everything that completely crushes you. You just go home and cry."
Having decided to act full-time, Winstead won't miss the ballet auditions. "They are definitely more ruthless than Hollywood auditions," she says. "In Hollywood everyone is nice, whether they're fake or not, they're nice to you. In the ballet world they don't care about being nice. They'll just tell you if you suck."
Aside from her 'scream-queen' flicks, she's appeared in the Disney movie Sky High, had a small role in Bobby, the story of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and played the daughter of Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4.0.
Despite being on the brink of mainstream stardom, Winstead claims that she has no desire to chase fame. She has a long-term boyfriend with whom she lives in LA. Her only real nod to the celebrity world is that Hollywood legend Ava Gardner is her cousin, although she is a "somewhat distant" relation. More Scarlett Johannsson than Lindsay Lohan, Winstead struggles to understand the attraction when she sees her peer group plastered all over newspapers and magazines.
"I think the people that are in the spotlight sought it out, and maybe now they regret it and don't want it anymore. I think at some point you have to put yourself out there in order to get it, because I would never go shopping in those areas where the paparazzi are, or eat in those restaurants because you know what you're getting if you do.
"I understand why they do it initially. Because they want to get their face out there and maybe get better roles and get ahead, so it's understandable to a certain degree but you had to think long-term and think how horrible it will be."
She may soon find it harder to escape the lenses of the paparazzi, as her stock continues to rise. Whatever happens, her biggest fan remains the same. "My Mum keeps copies of everything," she says. "Even the copies of Maxim."
'Make it Happen' is showing in cinemas nationwide
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IT shouldn’t come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world.
What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it. It has a modern slant, too. The current-day Hollywood is populated by bigger hypocrites than ever.
Legends from Ava Gardner to Richard Burton would routinely get drunk with the journalists sent to write about them, and in the process casually pour contempt on their talent, the industry and, most deliciously of all, the whole myth of acting as an art. Richard Burton once claimed that all actors were gay and only went into showbiz so they could wear make-up every day without being beaten up.
Current star ... George Clooney
IT shouldn’t come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world.
What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it. It has a modern slant, too. The current-day Hollywood is populated by bigger hypocrites than ever.
Legends from Ava Gardner to Richard Burton would routinely get drunk with the journalists sent to write about them, and in the process casually pour contempt on their talent, the industry and, most deliciously of all, the whole myth of acting as an art. Richard Burton once claimed that all actors were gay and only went into showbiz so they could wear make-up every day without being beaten up.
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