Zooey Deschanel

[papa_levante]

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25TH JAN 2004 - SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: CLOSING NIGHT COCKTAIL PARTY

23RD FEB 2004 - UCLA SCREENING OF FOX'S 'ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT' AND 'CRACKING UP'

Such a Diet Coke fiend!

26TH FEB 2004 - IFP NOMINEE RECEPTION

 

[papa_levante]

Finally! I found the page with the song 'Earth' that She & Him sang.

They sang it to sponsor 826LA which is an organization that supports writing for young children. The song 'Earth' was written by two girls, Josephine and Lena.

Enjoy.

And here they are actually singing it. Not She & Him but the writers of the song! Precious!

 

[YoninahAliza]

^Awww.... that is so dang cute!

 

[Jenna-maria]

i was watching 500 days of summer. yet again.
my dog was running around and being wild but then zooey came on the tv screen and he just stopped and did stare her.
i think he fell in love and do not care about me anymore

Originally posted by STYLEOCIDE

HAHAHAHAH omg...the pug.

I KNOW, hilarious!

Oh and those pictures with Jake Gyllenhaal are adorable.

 

[North]

This might sound a bit silly or inappropriate but did Zooey have a nose job? It looks considerably smaller now.

 

[Bella_Lass334]

^I noticed it too, but I'm wondering if maybe it's just the bangs? Someone mentioned earlier that the bangs thin her nose out a bit.

LOL at that skirt with the dog on it.

 

[papa_levante]

Someone mentioned earlier that the bangs thin her nose out a bit.

Is that possible?!

 

[LolaSvelt]

What did they do to her nose in the Rimmel campaign? She looks like Cindy Lou Who!

 

[papa_levante]

datetimesign.com

She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel prefers music to movies, humans to robots
August 26, 2010.

In probably the most memorable scene in last year’s 500 Days of Summer, a luminous Summer (Zooey Deschanel) steps into an elevator with Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), nonchalantly compliments his iPod selection (The Smiths), and in so doing, wraps him around her finger for the duration of the film. Had director Marc Webb wanted an equally effective but slightly more metaphysical take on this sequence, he could have simply swapped out The Smiths for She & Him — the folk-pop band in which the real-life Deschanel helps to mend the same hearts that women like Summer are always breaking.

“Actually, I think Summer was pretty upfront with Tom,” says Deschanel, speaking via phone from her native L.A. “That movie was very much from Tom’s point of view, and because of that, you never really get to know the real Summer. I mean, I can certainly understand sympathizing with Tom. He’s adorable. It’s just that you can’t make someone fall in love with you.”

It sort of makes sense that the “she” of She & Him would see eye-to-eye with a character like Summer Finn. The latter’s philosophy on dating — “I don’t feel comfortable being anyone’s anything” — is strikingly similar to the former’s view on her foray into music: “I would feel remiss if I were always working in the expectation of what some other people are going to think.”

Two years ago, when Deschanel first joined forces with the indie-credentialed M. Ward, their seemingly oddball retro-pop partnership as She & Him was met with predictable skepticism. At the time, Ward was a respected but relatively anonymous singer-songwriter plugging away on Merge Records, while Deschanel was sort of his Bizarro Hollywood equivalent — an underutilized young actress noted more for her laser blue eyes and perpetually deadpan delivery than for any specific performance. But when the duo’s debut Volume One arrived, the doubters quickly turned to devotees. Beneath Deschanel’s deadpan, it turned out, was a charming warble fit for a vintage jukebox. And within the liner notes, another surprise: It was the actress, not the musician, who had penned most of the songs.

“I mean, we were just interested in making the best record we could and having fun making it,” Deschanel says. “I think we both approached the first record in terms of trying to appeal to our own sensibilities. And it was the exact same thing with Volume Two. We mostly just try to entertain ourselves and make a record we like, and then worry about the rest later.”

The aforementioned Volume Two, which hit shelves earlier this year, officially freed She & Him from any lingering novelty status. The 13-track affair — another lush, breezy ’60s rewind written primarily by Deschanel and produced by Ward — peaked at No. 6 on the U.S. charts.

Ward himself has compared Deschanel’s songwriting to Sam Cooke’s, for its almost inherent ability to lift the spirits of the listener, and the effect is similar for the songwriter herself.

“Finishing a song gives me a sense of completion that I just don’t get anywhere else,” Deschanel says, “and it’s very satisfying. It almost feels miraculous to me that you can start out in a room alone with an instrument and at the end of that, come out with a song. … But at the same time, while you might like your song in its little box, I think it’s up to the producer to take it out of that box. And that’s what Matt [Ward] does — he can always add something special.”

That said, Ward is hardly navigating without a compass. During the songwriting process, Deschanel will often hear a song’s eventual bells and whistles (and strings) in her mind — a side effect of her lifelong passion for the big pop productions of the ’60s, namely Motown, The Beach Boys and Phil Spector.

“Backing vocals are, like, my thing,” she says with a laugh. “So I always record a ton of them on my home demos, usually in the bathroom so they sound super echo-y and cool.”

When the process moves to the studio, she and Ward remain champions of analog recording, and Auto-Tuning is strictly forbidden — as Deschanel puts it, “I’m kind of tired of hearing robots sing, personally.”

As for the future, some have wondered whether the success of She & Him, and Deschanel’s recent marriage to Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard, mean she’s headed for a Summer-and-Tom-style breakup with the movies.

“I would say I feel more connected to music than acting,” she says, “but I still enjoy both.”

 

[papa_levante]

zooeydeschanel.net

28TH FEB 2004 - THE 19TH INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS: RED CARPET

She looks really happy here! But her body language, the way she's all over Jason, speaks insecurities to me.

 

[papa_levante]

zooeydeschanel.net

28TH FEB 2004 - THE 19TH INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS: ON STAGE

 

[papa_levante]

zooeydeschanel.net

We made it to 2005!

27TH FEB 2005 - THE 77TH ACADEMY AWARDS

 

[papa_levante]

^ +4 from the Vanity Fair After Party.

 

[paz2992]

as always thanks for all the pictures papa!

i just finish watching Winter Passing, omg what a touching film, it made cry

 

[North]

^I noticed it too, but I'm wondering if maybe it's just the bangs? Someone mentioned earlier that the bangs thin her nose out a bit.

I can see what you're saying because it does that for my big schnoz, but I can't see it with Zooey! The size of her nose is considerably smaller now. Especially after watching Almost Famous, I definitely noticed the changes in her face.

 

[Bella_Lass334]

Is that possible?!

Never underestimate the power of a good haircut! For example, parting your hair to the side minimizes the size of your nose. I don't know. Just a theory. But I wouldn't doubt that she got a nose job. Her face definitely looks different in 500 days than in Almost Famous or All the real girls, and it doesn't look like she lost any weight so a dramatic change in your features doesn't leave much room for other possibilities...

I don't know when I turned into the expert on Zooey's nose?

 

[Bella_Lass334]

I'm watching Gigantic right now. She is so lovely in this movie

 

[papa_levante]

I prefer Winter Passing over Gigantic.

 

[papa_levante]

zooeydeschanel.net

9TH MAR 2005 - BARNEYS NEW YORK HOSTS A LUNCHEON FOR DESIGNER DEREK LAM

 

[papa_levante]

zooeydeschanel.net

16TH APR 2005 - 'THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY' PRESS CONFERENCE

The MOTHER LOAD of the most beautiful Zooey photos ever taken. Swooooooon.