OlderJennifer Aniston Buys Tracie Martyn
Tomorrow is shaping up as a pivotal day in Jennifer Aniston’s movie career. If you don’t already know, she’s opening in "The Break-Up" with unofficial real-life boyfriend Vince Vaughn. The reviews are scathing; the movie is said to be terrible. If Aniston’s built-in audience doesn’t show up tomorrow night, there’s going to be trouble.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Aniston has a couple more comedies and a thriller on the horizon. Unfortunately, the material doesn’t look terrific and except for George Hickenlooper, the directors attached to the projects aren’t very promising.
It’s hard to say what’s gone wrong here: in person Aniston is a friendly, generous soul who so far has not played the diva card. She’s accessible and amiable.
If "The Break-Up" is really as shrill and annoying as the advance notices indicate, Aniston may really have trouble attracting audiences in the future. She really should take a page from the playbooks of Goldie Hawn and other actresses who needed custom-made material to get out of ruts. And fast!
Aniston fans gotta band together this weekend! After the jump is Jennifer Aniston leaving the Tracie Martyn Salon earlier today, which is located at 59 5th Avenue (bet 12th and 13th St.) British import Tracie Martyn is known as the go-to girl for age-defying facials — "The Facialist to the Stars". More pictures in the gallery!
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Will these nut cases every stop coming out of the walls? Will everything Brangelina does bring the hatred towards Jen?
There are pics of Angelina at the Oscars with Jon Voight as a kid, and she looks the same. Maybe she is skinnier now, but she has the same nose, lips, and eye shape. She also has the same bone structure. Sorry, not everyone is unattractive as Jennifer. Angelina looks like Jon Voight, when he was younger Jon was handsome, check out Midnight Cowboy!
Angelina’s face lift: http://tinyurl.com/qush9
Nightowl, I’m sorry to say if you come to Jared’s there are lots of big talking blow hard Brangelina fans who are NASTY! You should really go elsewhere cause it aint pretty.
# 100 | Cathy Lets see Cathy you wouldn’t be a Brangelina fan would you? hmmmmmmmm… yep you are.
If you want to compare reviews for TBU and MAMS, Rotten Tomatoes lists 60% positive reviews for MAMS with 80% positive from viewers. TBU currently shows 23% positive from critics and 37% positive from viewers.
jen is UGLY, Vince is FAT, and their movie sucks.The End
#96Gee, I’ve never heard of plastic surgery that could move a person’s eyes further apart. Do tell!
#108 Did that make you feel better child?
Kinda funny… Majority of Aniston fans boycotted Mr & Mrs Smith Smith. Who cares. Now Brad & Angie fans are not watchingThe Break Up. I will save my hard earned money not to see it. Halle so what if Cathy is an Brangelina fans. I love Brad & Angie too. If you like the Aniston so be it. I won’t bow for her antics!
"Break-Up" team kept true romance in mindJune 2, 2006 04:19:22By Borys KitLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When is a romantic comedy not a romantic comedy? Universal Pictures’ "The Break-Up," opening Friday, stars Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, two big names that naturally fit the romantic comedy mold.Directed by Peyton Reed, it has a colorful supporting cast of scene-stealers, a "rom-com" musical number in which the cast sings a once-popular song and a muscular marketing campaign that makes it look like a successor to Vaughn’s "Wedding Crashers," which grossed more than $200 million domestically last year.But according to the filmmakers, it’s not a romantic comedy. It’s not even an anti-romantic comedy. Rather, they designed the movie to explore, in comedic and dramatic tones, one couple’s breakup, when neither wants to move out of the condo they share. It’s akin to Woody Allen or even Neil LaBute territory, except that in this case it was Vaughn himself who mapped out the terrain.From the start, he wanted to keep the focus on the characters and make a realistic movie. "When you are doing a character-driven movie, it’s not like you have a Death Star to blow up, and the good people win and the bad guys lose. Real life is more complicated than that," Vaughn says.Adds executive producer Peter Billingsley, "If you explore a breakup between people, a lot of funny stuff happens, and you can home in on the comedy, but there is a painful side to it. And it’s unfair not to show that. It’s a delicate act, I think. We spent a long time writing it."Way before 2003’s "Old School" launched Vaughn on his current comedy trajectory, Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender wrote a script called "The Golden Tux" with Vaughn in mind. It sold to Dimension in June 2002, and the two got a meeting with their prospective leading man. At the meeting, Vaughn said he had an idea for another movie about a couple that breaks up, and he wanted the duo to write it.That project was set up as a pitch at Sony-based producer Revolution but then fell apart. Garelick and Lavender, with Vaughn’s blessing, wrote it as a spec. The first draft took 2-1/2 months to write. After that, with New York-based Garelick living in Vaughn’s home in Los Angeles and the Hollywood-based Lavender showing up every day, to be continued…..
. "We did improv with Vince. We’d act out every character to come up with the funniest and (most) meaningful stuff. And we’d talk story ad nauseam."Studio execs liked the results: The script sold in a bidding war to Universal, netting the writers more than $2 million and a $10 million payday for Vaughn.The result is a relationship comedy-drama that has more in common with such movies as "Annie Hall," "Paper Moon" or "Big Night," which the writers cite as their primary influences. Scenes turn from funny to serious, from dire to hilarious, striking every emotional note in between."You have to very carefully work out those beats," Billingsley says. "There are even dramatic scenes where you have jokes in the middle of them. And so you’re walking a very difficult tonal line."Comedy was taken out of the second half of the script, and the ending was redone and redone again — a traditional Hollywood ending was created, then scrapped — all with the goal of keeping it real."It was never intended to be a romantic comedy but rather something that captures the duality of life," Lavender says. "Sometimes the hard times are funny, sometimes they are painful. Vince said to us, ‘Sadly, the person you learn the most from isn’t always the one you get to end up with.’ And I think we’ve all got those relationships."Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
From a review of TBU:Aniston is even less interesting. After umpteen tries at movie stardom (none of which has clicked), it’s becoming painfully clear that she’s a sitcom phenomenon, and the particular magic that made her America’s sweetheart all but disappears when it’s blown up on the big screen.Ouch.
Aniston keeps trying to be the traditional romantic "sweetheart" lead actress when she clearly doesn’t have the face for it. She’s no Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan. If she had any talent, she could try for character roles like the ones Toni Collette, Kathy Bates, and Emma Thompson play (can’t you just see Aniston as Nanny McPhee? no need for prosthetic nose). Unfortunately, she doesn’t have any talent or brains. All she knows is how to tan, fix her hair, exercise, and not eat. Get lost, Jen. Go back to obscurity where you belong.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/02/ew.mov.breakup/index.htmlPoor X
# 16 | Miss Realistic |Always blaming someone for her mistakes. Maybe if people just let her fall she could grow up. insteading of protecting her like some wounded pupppy dog. She has no class or backbone of her own and that is why she comes off so bad in her films. She isn’t strong and has such a "poor me" persona which btw way SHE is always advocating!!! Boring. Not even Nicole Richie comes off that pathetic. She needs to own up to herself and then maybe her acting skill will improve. rachel green on the BIG screen doesn’t sound wworth 10 dollars to me.
I plan to see The Break Up. It’s my money so shut the F up. # 84 | sick of braglina =======================You won’t have any trouble finding a seat.. lol, The movie flopped before it opened..
# 51 | Truer words Before BRad , how many guy did Ansiton sleep with ? after Brad , she immediately hook up with Vince, Vince is know to be a one night stand guy. then probably Maniston and herpes too. rumor they are splitting soon, well, Aniston is rivh as her fnas said, she could have any man she want. what a ****!
# 51 | Truer words Before Brad , how many guys did Aniston sleep with ? after Brad , she immediately hook up with Vince, Vince is known to be a one night stand guy. then probably Maniston had herpes too. rumor they are splitting soon, well, Aniston is rich as her fans said, she could have any man she want. what a ****!
# 88 | GetOverIt Great post !! I’m Clapping!!!
what a nonsense talk about greeks and their tanns.go to greece and have a look around dears, there are redheads too.sorry to spoil your day, but shouldnt ange be darker than jen.she has an inidan background and is so not american.my god, i have put down your saint angelina by comparing her to natgives of america.jen is tanning, wait till ange gets 40. that girl is not going to be hot with hangig tatoos from her bidy with defined strechtmarks.
VINCE is known to be a one-night stand guy? Oh, sheesh. Were YOU in the stadium at the Chicago game–dating or not, it’s obvioius Vince cares about Jen Aniston.Looking forward seeing The Break Up this w/e.
Vince is great, Jennifer, not so muchFriday, June 2, 2006By ROGER MOOREKNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICEVince Vaughn we love. Vince is fast. Vince is furious. Vince is flip.Vince is, say it with me, "Money."But Mr. Wedding Crasher gets very little support from his rumored off-screen love Jennifer Aniston in "The Break-Up," the movie where they reportedly fell in love.Vince carries the load. Vince makes the script more than it was. Vince is, as ever, money.Jen just looks wounded, ready for her next "Oprah" moment. She doesn’t have that gift that Meg Ryan has, for making us laugh at her pain.She’s little better than a dead weight in this romantic comedy about a not-that-compatible couple who meet, court and buy a condo together in the very clever opening credits, and have their first big uncomfortable "You don’t appreciate me" blow-up 20 minutes in.In short, "The Break-Up" is too accurate to be light-hearted, too light and flippant to be really romantic. It’s as if the stars were, like their characters, in two incompatible movies.He plays a motor-mouthed Chicago tour bus guide — he owns the company with brothers Vincent D’Onofrio (very good) and Cole Hauser (still a poor-man’s Josh Lucas).She’s a salesperson in a pretentious art gallery run by pretentious artist Marilyn Dean (Judy Davis, wonderful).He charms her at a Cubs game. He’s hip and cute. She’s gorgeous.He gets the girl. Then, she gets to know the real Gary, the boorish, never-help-around-the-house, never-do-the-things-she-wants-to-do Gary. They explode, and the rest of the movie is about her efforts to trick him into being Mr. Perfect.Except we don’t for one moment buy into the character or her motivations.Joey Lauren Adams of "Chasing Amy" is the gal pal she confesses to. Jon Favreau ("Swingers") is his bartender-confessor. Vaughn and Favreau have years of chemistry. Aniston and Vaughn don’t. Aniston and Adams don’t.Aniston doesn’t fill out a thin script with an outsized personality the way Vaughn does. She is, as she was on "Friends," the pretty one, and once again she’s only the third funniest woman on the screen.So cute bits about her possibly gay chorus member brother (John Michael Higgins, a stitch); the real estate agent friend (Jason Bateman) to both, who becomes their de facto therapist (working on commission, of course); her strange receptionist friend at work (Justin Long, cute) — all fall flat.Ann-Margret plays her mom in a bit of stunt casting that is wasted. Peter Billingsley — Ralphie of "A Christmas Story" — got a producing credit, and a small role in this (he must’ve owned the rights).All of this, the not-that-funny script, which Vaughn juices up with jive, the obvious re-shoots (check out Vaughn’s hair in the later scenes, compared with the earlier ones), the incompetent ending, circle around the morose, perfectly coifed, overly-tanned heart of the picture — Aniston.So kids, best of luck with that real romance. Your movie’s not totally unlikable, and certainly not "Gigli."But what should have been a comic trial separation feels like "bring in the lawyers" from the start. The writers never get past "What on Earth did she ever see in him?" And the viewer never gets past "What on Earth did he ever see in her?"Ouch.
‘The Break-Up’ Plays Like a Tired TV SitcomPhil Villarreal - Arizona Daily Star"The Break-Up" plays like a 106-minute highlight reel of three seasons of a sitcom that jumped the shark midway through the sophomore year.None of the scenes particularly relates to the next to form a coherent story. Each just starts up with the same familiar odd-couple premise, shoots for a few easy laughs, then retracts back to where it started.An oddly plump Vince Vaughn teams with an aging Jennifer Aniston for a likable ro-com romp that shows you just enough promising material to break your heart with the realization that it won’t deliver more.Director Peyton Reed takes off with a simplistic, yet juicy premise - a shacked-up Chicago couple calls it quits, but remain bitter roommates - and pounds it into the sticky theater floor for all it’s worth.A quirky and capable supporting cast, including Vaughn’s usual wingman Jon Favreau, squeaky-voiced goddess Joey Lauren Adams and slippery Jason Bateman, fades into the background in favor of maximum screentime for the leads.Vaughn plays Gary, a blue-collar tour guide who tries to grow his business in hopes of saving up for a place big enough for a pool table. Aniston is Brooke, an art gallery assistant who longs to see the world.They’re a perfect mismatch. Brooke wants to go to the opera, but Gary would rather spend his downtime playing video games. Brooke is all about hosting dinner parties, while Gary is so scatterbrained he can’t remember to bring home enough lemons from the store to make a centerpiece.Brooke nags, Gary sandbags. One of their tiffs turns into a full-on argument, and they break up, but are stuck together in their condo because neither can afford the mortgage on their own.They make plans to sell the place while making life as tough as possible on each other. For Gary, that means claiming the living room as his personal domain, leaving his clothes lying around everywhere and refusing to let Brooke watch TV. Brooke’s tactics include blasting Alanis Morissette music and rubbing Gary’s nose in her string of new dates.The humor is so broad and canned you’re surprised the jokes aren’t followed by prerecorded laughter from a live studio audience and divided by commercial breaks.The film is front-loaded with the best stuff. Vaughn’s sexist, motormouthed riffs early on are right up there with his best stuff in "Swingers" and "Wedding Crashers," but in the second half the focus shifts to the threadbare story, striving for raw honesty mixed with lukewarm jokes that seem to come from balled-up first drafts of the script that found their way to the garbage can.The movie’s tagline is "pick a side," but that’s tough to do since both parties are so petty, cruel and self-centered. You half root for them to stay together just because neither one deserves any better.At least Vaughn makes you laugh, while Aniston’s character has almost no personality. If the tabloids are correct that the stars are a genuine item offscreen, Vaughn owes Aniston foot rubs for at least a month for the way he shamelessly upstages her at every turn.It makes sense that the Gary-Brooke relationship is based on false hope dashed by reality. They once saw something in each other that made them commit, only to be disappointed once they really got to know what they got themselves into. You may feel the same way about the film.
she just needs to go back to indys and/or supporting roles, she no lead type. the end.
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