The Film Experience as a website is ...um... older than that but we'll pretend we're only turning three. Say nice things about it on the internets. There are still unfortunate souls out there who remain unfamiliar (a hitlist for new eyeballs)
You can also buy the blog birthday prezzies by hitting the donate button whenever you feel like it. *Ahem* Since we're only 3 we won't be needing the facelift Joan Allen is contemplating in the left portion of this triptych...
This will be a couple of weeks old to some of you but if you rarely read print magazines anymore (everything's online) you might have missed this fun Joan Allen feature in Vanity Fair. They gave her three instant character sketches and asked her to pose as them. It's like America's Next Top Model only she's 30 years older and 300,000 times more talented.
Give Joan three Oscars. She makes my heart beat faster.
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she looks stunning in those pictures
Yes yes yes yes, give her an Oscar already!
She was doing a reading once at Barnes & Noble in Union Square and I skipped out on work to go and see her. Afterwards I went up to shake her hand and this photographer took a picture (there wasn't a large crowd there, which was unfortunate). The next day in one of the paper's the picture appeared - I was so busted. But I'd get busted for Joan Allen any day!
Congrats on your three-dom! Film Experience Blog is one of my all-time daily favorites. You're a great writer, Nathaniel, and a whole mess of fun to read. Keep up the great work.
i am sorry to report this but ms allen has had some surgery after 2001 she looks different from her golden days of 95 - 2000 she is too smooth looking a bit sharon stonish i was surprised an actress of her caliber would do this but i watched the ice storm the other night followed by upside of anger - where was joans oscar in 05 oh yes they gave it to a suporting role,i noticed her face seems smoother and tighter,her eyes look fresher,silly joan!!
Film Experience Blog:
Happy 3rd Birthday!!!
I really really hope you turn a lot lot lot more...
Love ya tons!!!
"In character" is one of my favorite things to read in Vanity Fair. The results are almost always highly amusing :)
Happy anniversary there, Nathaniel.
I truly dig The Film Experience, Nathaniel, and hope you can do what so few bloggers manage to do, hang in there and keep producing consistently good content.
Joan Allen wishing you a happy birthday. It doesn't get any better than that, man.
Allen has what so many British actors seem to possess and their American counterparts don't: dignity. Even early in her film career she was not trying to pass herself off as hot, cast as moms in Tucker or Searching For Bobby Fischer. She ended up being far more enduring than starlets who were flaunting themselves.
Here's hoping your best post of the last three years pales beside even the worst post of the next three years!
Congrats!
Thom is jinxing me!
Nah, we know you can do it...:)
U did a very nice job for your blog there! And it's much more than movie news or reviews, it shows your point of view and lifestyle!
Cheers!
I don't think Joan is "comtemplating" a facelift as much as she is remembering her facelift. Check out the hairline in The Upside of Anger. The way-back hairline is a dead give away. It's a GREAT facelift, but it's a facelift nonetheless. No woman in her fifties looks like that. Sorry.
For comparison, check out actresses older and younger that haven't been lifted: Laura Dern (about 10 years younger than Joan) or Katherine Ross (about 10 years older) and you'll see what un-lifted faces really look like.
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