Lordy, I’m sick with the strep again and I guess its something I’ll have to deal with every time I get horrifically stressed-out.
My weekend was all about laying down low and trying to beat this thing and I didn’t do or see anything interesting at all. God Bless antibiotics and TV dinners. And television….
While convalescing I did catch Out of Time with Denzel Washington – which I quite enjoyed. And last night the finale of the L Word, which I used to find quite compelling - this has been such a lame second season. The late Ossie Davis appearances were just wrong and the show never managed to make it a fitting final performance in his career. Stop with the Betty stuff, please, L Word producers – they are annoying! The ladies are better-dressed, but, man, hokey season, yawn.
I find the whole Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes business arrangement quite disturbing but oddly expected and natural; and I wouldn’t have commented on it except for the recent developments that the Dawson’s ingénue might probably be cast as Edie Sedgwick in the upcoming biopic, Factory Girl.
I have my own theories about the Cruise-Holmes relationship based on insider information but I don’t want the L. Rons after me.
Umm…
(KH’s ambition + recent sores on KH’s lips = TC’s inability to sire children + Philippine brothels + public image + ambition). I’m really bad at algebra….
I honestly like Holmes but she is soooo wrong for the part. Sienna Miller, who has pulled out due to NYC theater obligations, would have been more appropriate… and blonder and classically trained and she would have been a dynamo-choice to embody the free-spirited but troubled nature of Edie more effectively.
I mean, she channeled Julie Christie in that messed-up Alfie remake so well. Saving grace of that mess.
Holmes is a bizarro choice but lets see how this plays out.
Maybe that she’s just sold her soul (and career) to the devil…might give her take on the role a particular weight. Maybe not.
WOW Report commentary on casting here.
NY Daily News dish after the jump.

Katie moves awayfrom girl next door

Katie Holmes wants to be bad - and boyfriend Tom Cruise wants to help her. The sweet-faced "Dawson's Creek" actress is in talks to play Andy Warhol's drug-addicted muse Edie Sedgwick in "Factory Girl." Jude Law's fiancée, Sienna Miller, was due to play the It girl, who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971. While some claim the producers decided to go for a bigger star, Miller's reps say she bowed out after landing the role of Celia in a prestigious West End production of "As You Like It." Attorney Aaron Richard Golub, who is producing "Factory Girl" with Holly Wiersma and Bob Yari, tells us, "It was a scheduling conflict. We love Sienna." But they really love Holmes. Director George Hickenlooper, who had lunch with her in L.A. yesterday, sees the 26-year-old clean-scrubbed actress as perfect to star as the tragic heiress, who died at 28 after several stays in mental hospitals. "Katie is not too different from Edie, who arrived in New York as young, innocent, looking for excitement," says the "Man From Elysian Fields" director. Holmes' new guy, Cruise, who picked her up after a recent "Factory Girl" meeting, is said to agree that the role will help take her beyond the girl next door. "Tom loves getting into his roles, and he's already helping Katie research Edie," an insider tells us. "I've heard they're even going to the cemetery where Edie is buried." As for the rest of the cast, "L.A. Confidential" star Guy Pearce will play Warhol. Gwen Stefani is due to play fellow Factory girl Richie Berlin. Stefani's husband, Gavin Rossdale, will play Warhol star Gerard Malanga. P.S. Hickenlooper says he's steering clear of the controversy over whether Sedgwick had an affair with Bob Dylan. "Edie definitely knew Dylan, Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger and others," says the filmmaker. "We've decided to create a character who is kind of hybrid of all of them." Shooting starts this summer in New York.

Comments

[shesbitter]

i agree that holmes is a weird choice, and that sienna would have been perfect-- at least physically, with the blonde hair and her boho image and all. but do you really think she pulled out because of "west end" commitments? i admit i haven't seen any of her work (in alfie or otherwise) so i don't know how good of an actress she is, but maybe she just didn't have the chops? or i have no idea. i certainly think sienna WILL become a bigger name though, than katie.

think gwenyth's i'm going to get engaged to brad pitt trajectory, in 10 years. but then again, as i said, i haven't actually seen her act. and then again, katie's kind of pulling the same thing.

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