zooey deschanel - damn, damn, damn does this woman look good

All those years of hard work and struggling and doing right for his wife and children ended when James Evans had a heart attack -- where else? -- on the job. He was a good man, Bill.

Thanks, nabisco

The guy who plays James still pops up on tv and looks exactly the same as he did on Good Times. Good for him.

Don't thank me, Bill. Thank James Evans for everything he did to make this world a better place for his family, and the good-humored grace with which he did it all. Find the James Evans inside yourself and let that light shine on the world. Ask yourself: what would James Evans do? And then, if the answer isn't "beat the child with a belt," you should probably do it.

Yeah, John Amos ages better than, I dunno, Zooey Deschanel.

and that Gibbard guy.

James Evans had a heart car accident attack

Oh shit right!

car accident attacks are the worst

I had an accident attack in a car once, had to have the upholstery replaced...

what is all this about someone drowning ?

Someone posted a pic of Natalie Wood on the vintage ws thread.

was she whiney's first poll??

zooey was drowned the other day, pinefox, by ben gibbard and an unknown animal collection record listener

she was drowned in katy perrys eyes

;_;

maybe he is a sparkling conversationalist -- you ever think of that, you shallow bastards?

― nabisco, Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:38 AM (2 hours ago)

hope he's not as creepy and woman- and self-hating irl as he is in his songs at least

Someone posted a pic of Natalie Wood on the vintage ws thread.

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:53 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was she whiney's first poll??

― s1ocki, Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:55 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

vs. pia zadora

gibbard sings like every. word. is. very. importatn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILCB_f0IIyI

seeing this in 1.5 weeks! :D :D :D

uuuuuuuugh

well, at least that trailer's better than this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM

HEY SHUT THE HELL UP ASSHOLE
DON'T YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN ENORMOUS ASSHOLE FROM BITCHVILLE
YOU DUMB PIECE OF BUTT
EAT SHIT AND DIE COCK SCOOPER
ARREST *THIS* SQUIRREL POLICE COPPERS
― ath (ath)

^^^^ quality post

This could be the Citizen Kane of corny indie fuxxor cinema but shit, I couldn't stop hating it after that cutesy Smiths conversation in the elevator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFutyUrllo

zooey: it's a lifestyle

this looks dumb but I admit I lol'd at the anal joke. also I can't believe that the kid from 10 things I hate about you/3rd rock from the sun is now a "leading man." also i love you zooey

She did that other movie with Will Ferrell that was too long n' slow but it could've been real good.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:54 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Squirrel, you are an asshole.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:24 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ cosigned

― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so what was going on here, were people vehemently defending that shitty Winter Passing movie?

i think people were responding to many earlier instances where S_P was perving on ally and generally being a pain

Totally thought she was hot after randomly seeing that Katie Holmes vehicle Abandon (The Ring was sold out) and All The Real Girls. But after The Happening she just seems too Small Wonder to handle. Actually liked her and Joey Gordo in that Don Cheadle crazy-kids-in-an-asylum movie (called manic? i think?) too bad they were reunited in such obvious indie skeet skeet skeet.

i bet i would have eaten this shit up in college though. My first conversation with my future best friend involved "there is a light" too, ugh HIGH SCHOOL WADDYA WANT.

It's been THREE YEARS since S_P was here?!

Why everyone’s infatuated with Zooey Deschanel

By SARA STEWART

Posted: 12:44 AM, July 4, 2010

In the late ’90s, there was “Something About Mary.” These days, there’s something about Zooey.

“She’s adorable and quirky, but also seems to possess an endearing intelligence and approachability,” says fan Adam S., 33, who didn’t want his full name printed. “She (Zooey Deschanel) really encapsulates what the ideal girlfriend would be.”

Plus, says the New York-based entertainment lawyer, “She’s got that Billie Holiday chanteuse thing going on.”

The 30-year-old actress and singer has become the standard-bearer for glamorous, old-timey, don’t-try-too-hard stardom. Her style, which the actress has described as “whimsical and feminine,” regularly includes vintage pieces and unique pairings — “I’ve always enjoyed wearing old-fashioned clothes,” the actress told The Guardian newspaper, and “I try to stick to classic pieces. I don’t go to fashion shows or pay attention to what other people are wearing.”

In an era in which the red carpet can seem as if it’s been styled by a single person (One-shoulder dresses are in! Everyone wear red!), Deschanel’s independent sartorial spirit makes her a Hollywood anomaly.

Deschanel, an actress whose film career was launched with a breakout role in 2000’s “Almost Famous,” is also a celebrated singer-songwriter. After a 2001 gig singing with a cabaret outfit, she paired up with indie guitarist M. Ward in 2008 to form the band She and Him. Their two albums — succinctly titled Volume One and Volume Two — are throwbacks to sunny ’60s and ’70s pop, and have attracted a sizeable following largely thanks to Deschanel’s jazz-singer vocals. She’s also married to a musician: Ben Gibbard, lead singer of the band Death Cab for Cutie.

Today, when She and Him plays a free show on Governors Island, Zooey’s devoted fans will be there in droves — many of the female members styled in the manner of the chic Deschanel herself.

When the band played Bowery Ballroom last year, the crowd was dotted with girls in bangs or wearing cute retro-style outfits.

“People were really into the show. They were singing along to all the songs, super-enthusiastic,” says Cheryl Abramson, an ad-agency employee, who was there.

Deschanel’s fans seem equally distributed between genders, but she certainly seems to evoke ardent crushes in men. When She and Him played the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee earlier this month, Deschanel’s closing-number rendition of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” “prompted several indie boys to loudly proclaim their love for the indie songstress,” Rolling Stone magazine wrote.

“I would give anything just to get a glimpse of her,” says 19-year-old Texan Tyler Busby, who recently created a Deschanel fan page on Facebook that instantly generated heat. “I just made it for a couple of my friends,” Busby says, “and then I saw that 700 people had added it!”

Even her “(500) Days of Summer” co-star and longtime friend Joseph Gordon-Levitt sounded a little infatuated when he did interviews about their romantic comedy last year. “Every morning on my way to work I (would) listen to She and Him to hear her singing; her voice and her songs and her beautiful melodies. It made it very easy to play smitten, to have those songs in your head,” he told Film.com.

She’s even inspired a Web page devoted to artistic renderings of her: at the Zooey Deschanel DeviantArt page, you can find her image depicted in every style from pencil-drawn portrait to impressionist to . . . cat. Yes, someone drew Deschanel as a house cat.

Inevitably, there are also Deschanel detractors. Her film roles often fall into the category of the “MPDG” (manic pixie dreamgirl), a cinematic trope defined by the Onion AV Club as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”

This certainly applies to many recent Deschanel roles: the mysterious Summer in “(500) Days of Summer”; the quirky singer Jovie in “Elf”; Jim Carrey’s free-spirited girlfriend in “Yes Man.” But somehow Deschanel makes it work; even at her quirkiest, she’s way less annoying than, say, the Natalie Portman character in “Garden State” (the most widely reviled of the MPDGs).

Off-screen, Deschanel is indisputably influencing the fashion choices of a generation of hipster girls. “She’s definitely got a downtown vibe,” says a salesperson at Daha Vintage on Orchard Street. “She’s very, very cool. Whenever I see her in a magazine or at a premiere, she always looks really great.”

American Apparel employee Eve Chien agrees. “I definitely see girls coming in here who look like that sort of quirky style.”

Even Deschanel’s ad for cotton last spring was a big hit. Yes, cotton. As in “the fabric of our lives.” She wrote and sang the song in the commercial, and it stuck in people’s heads. “Excuse me, but I’m going to go buy something made out of cotton now,” wrote Lindsay, a blogger for Videogum.com. “Downloading a song about cotton might be pushing it . . . but just a tad. She’s Zooey Deschanel, darling. She can do anything.”

definitely the kind of story that needed an anonymous source

http://i48.tinypic.com/tvnq.jpg

She and Him
by ~bd5000

On a stage
lit like the gloaming
crowded with instruments
players
ghosts
vibing on an earlier time
songs sung
sweetly She keys
electric piano
black guitar for Him
melodiously puts forth
emotion
to feed
the gathered

“She’s adorable and quirky, but also seems to possess an endearing intelligence and approachability,” says fan Adam S., 33, [who didn’t want his full name printed.

who didn’t want his full name printed.

who didn’t want his full name printed.

zooey is fit but seems like an awful person

or 'has an awful persona', w/e

yeah i guess it's kinda irksome but i've nothing against her really. plus, you know, she fine.

i will admit that she & him is sonic diarrhea

I thought we already decided that Lizzy Zaplan was the newer, better Zooey.

well, yeah

but i don't want her to be the new zooey

in 'hot tub time machine' she plays basically the exact same role as zooey in 'yes man': the hott young alt girl who teaches the older, sadsack dude how to live. actually think zooey pulled it off in that film whereas 'hot tub time machine' is a p.o.s not worthy of lizzy caplan. but the point sort of stands. an indie pin-up is no thing to be.

zaplan

woops.

Saw She & Him in Chicago, and I kept quizzing people to see if they can name three movies she's been in. Most knew "Elf" (seven years ago!) and many knew "500 Days," but few got a third. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why she was suddenly very famous*. Very weird.

*One person remembered she was in "Almost Famous!"

from facebook:

T***** ***** got his fill of hipster bangs and folk music at the She and Him concert last night. Now it's off to GaGa!
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Her film roles often fall into the category of the “MPDG” (manic pixie dreamgirl), a cinematic trope defined by the Onion AV Club as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”

that listicle was some real OTM stuff (ie, Bringing Up Baby) and a bunch of other movies they kind of wrote around when they couldn't find enough to fill a list (ie, Annie Hall)

greenberg sends this whole phenomenon up imo