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Trashy is Paris or Lindsay. Thandie looks great and is the epitome of class.
shes definitely doesnt compare to paris or lindsay, just in my opinion that outfit is not the epitome of class. The dress doesnt fit her right, her hair is a little too wild, and the makeup is bad. thats just my opinion.
she usually does look classy, just not this time
she usually does look classy, just not this time
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I love the whole look. I think it's perfect. I would love to get my hair like that.
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Other than that she looks great! Thanks everyone for the new pics!
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Here is a link to the lavendar party invite-that is the party Thandie attended last night
http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/content.php?page_id=7465
http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/content.php?page_id=7465
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There's no stopping a girl in search of a good time. And if these pictures are anything to go by, Emma Thompson certainly found it.
Dressed as a rather excitable flapper girl, she was in high spirits as she arrived at a fundraiser for breast cancer charity The Lavender Trust.
Once inside, she really let her hair down, performing an enthusiastic solo dance routine. She didn't need a partner. In fact anyone going too close could have been in danger of a stiletto in the shin as the 47-year-old actress kicked up her heels.
But the fun was far from finished as she stepped off the dancefloor. She then took to the stage as the lead singer in a rather unlikely girl group.
With Nigella Lawson, Sophie Dahl, Zadie Smith and Thandie Newton, Miss Thompson belted out the Beatles classic Let It Be.
"The girls were having a fantastic time," said a guest. "There really was a sense of 'girls in it together'. Fuelled by a few vodka martinis, they got up on stage and really went for it."
The evening, called The Lavender Trust Speakeasy, included performances from Zadie Smith, accompanied on the piano by David Baddiel, singing "I Could Write A Book", and two songs by Sophie Dahl accompanied by Jamie Cullum.
Nigella Lawson and Thandie Newton were also all on fine singing and dancing form last night at Claridge's Hotel in Mayfair.
A charity auction raised £50,000 - the highest lot was a Chanel clover pendant in 18 carat gold with amethyst which went for £9,000, with a visit to Coco Chanel's Paris apartment thrown in.
Other guests included Tom Parker Bowles and wife Sara Buys, who was wearing an eye-wateringly high pair of heels.
"Those look very uncomfortable," commented a party-goer.
"Needs must," said Buys.
Another lot was a Matthew Williamson Lavender Georgette dress presented by Thompson. "I would model it for you but I can't fit into it," she said. "I have tried." Ms Thompson took her role as mistress of ceremonies very seriously, but managed to find time to let her hair down with her fellow celebrity fundraisers.
By the end of a barnstorming evening which raised thousands for the charity, she had to be escorted to a waiting car. That's what they call 'doing your bit' for charity.
How's the head Emma?
More than £200,000 was raised for the charity.
There's no stopping a girl in search of a good time. And if these pictures are anything to go by, Emma Thompson certainly found it.
Dressed as a rather excitable flapper girl, she was in high spirits as she arrived at a fundraiser for breast cancer charity The Lavender Trust.
Once inside, she really let her hair down, performing an enthusiastic solo dance routine. She didn't need a partner. In fact anyone going too close could have been in danger of a stiletto in the shin as the 47-year-old actress kicked up her heels.
But the fun was far from finished as she stepped off the dancefloor. She then took to the stage as the lead singer in a rather unlikely girl group.
With Nigella Lawson, Sophie Dahl, Zadie Smith and Thandie Newton, Miss Thompson belted out the Beatles classic Let It Be.
"The girls were having a fantastic time," said a guest. "There really was a sense of 'girls in it together'. Fuelled by a few vodka martinis, they got up on stage and really went for it."
The evening, called The Lavender Trust Speakeasy, included performances from Zadie Smith, accompanied on the piano by David Baddiel, singing "I Could Write A Book", and two songs by Sophie Dahl accompanied by Jamie Cullum.
Nigella Lawson and Thandie Newton were also all on fine singing and dancing form last night at Claridge's Hotel in Mayfair.
A charity auction raised £50,000 - the highest lot was a Chanel clover pendant in 18 carat gold with amethyst which went for £9,000, with a visit to Coco Chanel's Paris apartment thrown in.
Other guests included Tom Parker Bowles and wife Sara Buys, who was wearing an eye-wateringly high pair of heels.
"Those look very uncomfortable," commented a party-goer.
"Needs must," said Buys.
Another lot was a Matthew Williamson Lavender Georgette dress presented by Thompson. "I would model it for you but I can't fit into it," she said. "I have tried." Ms Thompson took her role as mistress of ceremonies very seriously, but managed to find time to let her hair down with her fellow celebrity fundraisers.
By the end of a barnstorming evening which raised thousands for the charity, she had to be escorted to a waiting car. That's what they call 'doing your bit' for charity.
How's the head Emma?
More than £200,000 was raised for the charity.
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From Best Life Magazine-issue on newstands now
Thandie Newton
By: Lloyd Bradley, Photographs by: Nino Munoz
Feb 21, 2007 - 4:22:47 PM
Actress Thandie Newton sits close and spills the secrets of marital chemistry, saving the planet, and her sweet life flying beneath Hollywood's radar
Thandie Newton strolls into the Electric, a private members club on London's trendy Portobello Road, on a gray December morning. There is no mistaking her. We've watched her onscreen as the outrageous sexpot straddling Tom Cruise in a bathtub in M:I-2 and as the icy, beautiful wife in Crash, but in real life she is wholly another matter: As she makes her entrance, dressed in black and with her hair pulled back from her face, her presence is something close to luminous.
She sits down and says she is attracted to writers. That could be the best news this correspondent has heard all year. But just as it's sinking in, she follows it up with, "Of course, I'm married to one."
While wondering if this fellow realizes how lucky he is, it dawns on me that Newton would naturally be drawn to a man with an intellectual bent. She is a gifted actress and obviously bright, and you would expect no less from a woman who put her successful film career on the back burner so that she could get a degree (with honors) in social anthropology from Cambridge University. She sits conspiratorially close, opts to share my bottle of mineral water, and touches my arm and leg occasionally for emphasis. Very quickly, I realize lucky isn't nearly a strong enough word to describe that man.
She insists she'll talk about anything, and she does. Newton is articulate in a relaxed but proper way, not only about the movie industry but also about racial politics on both sides of the Atlantic--or even both at the same time: "Had I been an African-American woman, I would have played Christine Thayer in Crash differently, but I'm from England, which has a different handle on being black. It's a lower-key approach, so without considering her American-ness, I could get that much closer to the bone, the human bone rather than the national bone."
She'll talk about the environment with the genuine concern of somebody who recently traded her gas-guzzling BMW SUV for a Toyota Prius hybrid and then wrote letters to people such as Mel Gibson, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, and Charlize Theron in a bid to persuade them to do the same thing. "I did what anybody who thinks about the planet would do. I don't know how much effect it will have, but I hope it made a few people think."
But what really animates Thandie Newton at this stage in her life is her family. They are, she readily admits, what she works for and why the projects she accepts from now on "have to have some meaning."
Newton met her husband, Oliver Parker, in 1997, at a read-through for a film he'd written for the BBC. Even now, 10 years later, she finds it difficult to quantify exactly what transpired at that moment. "I was smitten, totally and utterly besotted," she says. "And love at first sight wasn't something I ever believed was possible." She not only met her mate that day, but she also got the part, in a movie called, somewhat appropriately, In Your Dreams.
The couple married a year later, after a court-ship during which Parker demonstrated all the qualities Newton was looking for in a man. The actress discovered him to be "kind, sympathetic, supportive, reliable, and full of surprises. It seemed like every time we went out, I found out something else about him--all good."
As she talks about the chemistry of her relationship, her brow furrows with the effort to make sure she describes it with precision. "We complement each other perfectly," she says. She takes a sip of my water and looks almost dreamy as she goes on. "It's as if we morph in and out of each other, yet we're very different. He is quite reserved and self-conscious, while I'm uninhibited, but we're completely on the same wavelength. He helps me figure things out, and as a result, I'm much more accepting of myself now. A few years ago, I was like, What am I doing? Why am I doing it? What do I think? Between us, we'd always figure it out, so none of that doubt would ever get past the front door. He taught me not to care about things that aren't worth spending time on. Sometimes I get quite scared at the thought it would have been so easy for us never to have met."
Newton and Parker have two young daughters--Ripley, 6, and Nico, 2--who are her absolute priority, she says. "Ol's a hugely available dad, and we both bring different things to the girls' lives. It's vital that girls grow up having a good relationship with their father, because it can affect how they deal with the other men that come into their lives."
Growing up in rural southwest England, Newton had an idyllic relationship with her parents, and she remains close with them today. Nick and Nyasha Newton are retired and live very near to her, she says, and when she talks about their life journey, an enormous affection and pride are tangible in her voice and on her face. Her mother, Zimbabwean by birth, met her English father while they were working in a hospital in Zambia. They married and, to escape political unrest, moved to his hometown in Cornwall, England, which is where Thandie and her brother, Jamie, were born and raised.
Nyasha was the local midwife, and later the district nurse, and she knew everybody. Newton remembers seeing her mother "riding round on her bike, knowing everybody and everybody knowing her. She was so giving. She had cared for every family in the local community, either bringing the young ones into the world or looking after the elderly. She was also the only African in the area, and she completely changed people's preconceptions of what an African woman should be. I like to think I'm carrying on from her."
Although work can often take Newton away from her family, she is now successful enough to be able to pick and choose projects, in order to spend as much time as possible in the huge, rambling London house she insists will never be swapped for a Hollywood mansion. "Where we are, we'll be there forever," she says, cutting the air with one hand for emphasis. "I love the idea that my daughters will only really know one place, with the kind of roots only a community can give you."
Doesn't it put her at a disadvantage, being that far removed from the center of the industry?
"If I were younger and needed to play that whole game, then it probably would, but I'm an actress, not a celebrity," she says. "I've worked my way up through the ranks, so I'm perfectly secure in my career, and when I'm not working, I'm perfectly secure in the rest of my life. I'm in the enviable position of having earned the respect of Hollywood and being under the radar in this whole celebrity culture...and how cool is that?"
See Thandie Newton in Norbit with Eddy Murphy in theatres now.
Thandie Newton
By: Lloyd Bradley, Photographs by: Nino Munoz
Feb 21, 2007 - 4:22:47 PM
Actress Thandie Newton sits close and spills the secrets of marital chemistry, saving the planet, and her sweet life flying beneath Hollywood's radar
Thandie Newton strolls into the Electric, a private members club on London's trendy Portobello Road, on a gray December morning. There is no mistaking her. We've watched her onscreen as the outrageous sexpot straddling Tom Cruise in a bathtub in M:I-2 and as the icy, beautiful wife in Crash, but in real life she is wholly another matter: As she makes her entrance, dressed in black and with her hair pulled back from her face, her presence is something close to luminous.
She sits down and says she is attracted to writers. That could be the best news this correspondent has heard all year. But just as it's sinking in, she follows it up with, "Of course, I'm married to one."
While wondering if this fellow realizes how lucky he is, it dawns on me that Newton would naturally be drawn to a man with an intellectual bent. She is a gifted actress and obviously bright, and you would expect no less from a woman who put her successful film career on the back burner so that she could get a degree (with honors) in social anthropology from Cambridge University. She sits conspiratorially close, opts to share my bottle of mineral water, and touches my arm and leg occasionally for emphasis. Very quickly, I realize lucky isn't nearly a strong enough word to describe that man.
She insists she'll talk about anything, and she does. Newton is articulate in a relaxed but proper way, not only about the movie industry but also about racial politics on both sides of the Atlantic--or even both at the same time: "Had I been an African-American woman, I would have played Christine Thayer in Crash differently, but I'm from England, which has a different handle on being black. It's a lower-key approach, so without considering her American-ness, I could get that much closer to the bone, the human bone rather than the national bone."
She'll talk about the environment with the genuine concern of somebody who recently traded her gas-guzzling BMW SUV for a Toyota Prius hybrid and then wrote letters to people such as Mel Gibson, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, and Charlize Theron in a bid to persuade them to do the same thing. "I did what anybody who thinks about the planet would do. I don't know how much effect it will have, but I hope it made a few people think."
But what really animates Thandie Newton at this stage in her life is her family. They are, she readily admits, what she works for and why the projects she accepts from now on "have to have some meaning."
Newton met her husband, Oliver Parker, in 1997, at a read-through for a film he'd written for the BBC. Even now, 10 years later, she finds it difficult to quantify exactly what transpired at that moment. "I was smitten, totally and utterly besotted," she says. "And love at first sight wasn't something I ever believed was possible." She not only met her mate that day, but she also got the part, in a movie called, somewhat appropriately, In Your Dreams.
The couple married a year later, after a court-ship during which Parker demonstrated all the qualities Newton was looking for in a man. The actress discovered him to be "kind, sympathetic, supportive, reliable, and full of surprises. It seemed like every time we went out, I found out something else about him--all good."
As she talks about the chemistry of her relationship, her brow furrows with the effort to make sure she describes it with precision. "We complement each other perfectly," she says. She takes a sip of my water and looks almost dreamy as she goes on. "It's as if we morph in and out of each other, yet we're very different. He is quite reserved and self-conscious, while I'm uninhibited, but we're completely on the same wavelength. He helps me figure things out, and as a result, I'm much more accepting of myself now. A few years ago, I was like, What am I doing? Why am I doing it? What do I think? Between us, we'd always figure it out, so none of that doubt would ever get past the front door. He taught me not to care about things that aren't worth spending time on. Sometimes I get quite scared at the thought it would have been so easy for us never to have met."
Newton and Parker have two young daughters--Ripley, 6, and Nico, 2--who are her absolute priority, she says. "Ol's a hugely available dad, and we both bring different things to the girls' lives. It's vital that girls grow up having a good relationship with their father, because it can affect how they deal with the other men that come into their lives."
Growing up in rural southwest England, Newton had an idyllic relationship with her parents, and she remains close with them today. Nick and Nyasha Newton are retired and live very near to her, she says, and when she talks about their life journey, an enormous affection and pride are tangible in her voice and on her face. Her mother, Zimbabwean by birth, met her English father while they were working in a hospital in Zambia. They married and, to escape political unrest, moved to his hometown in Cornwall, England, which is where Thandie and her brother, Jamie, were born and raised.
Nyasha was the local midwife, and later the district nurse, and she knew everybody. Newton remembers seeing her mother "riding round on her bike, knowing everybody and everybody knowing her. She was so giving. She had cared for every family in the local community, either bringing the young ones into the world or looking after the elderly. She was also the only African in the area, and she completely changed people's preconceptions of what an African woman should be. I like to think I'm carrying on from her."
Although work can often take Newton away from her family, she is now successful enough to be able to pick and choose projects, in order to spend as much time as possible in the huge, rambling London house she insists will never be swapped for a Hollywood mansion. "Where we are, we'll be there forever," she says, cutting the air with one hand for emphasis. "I love the idea that my daughters will only really know one place, with the kind of roots only a community can give you."
Doesn't it put her at a disadvantage, being that far removed from the center of the industry?
"If I were younger and needed to play that whole game, then it probably would, but I'm an actress, not a celebrity," she says. "I've worked my way up through the ranks, so I'm perfectly secure in my career, and when I'm not working, I'm perfectly secure in the rest of my life. I'm in the enviable position of having earned the respect of Hollywood and being under the radar in this whole celebrity culture...and how cool is that?"
See Thandie Newton in Norbit with Eddy Murphy in theatres now.
