Lindsay, you sneaky minx

Lindsay Lohan poised for Tennessee Williams screenplay
Tuesday Nov 7 09:11 AEDT
Lindsay Lohan will star in a movie adaptation of an obscure Tennessee Williams screenplay that was discovered after the playwright's death, reports say.

Teen idol Lohan, the star of "Herbie Fully Loaded" and upcoming "Bobby", will play the debutante daughter of a 1920s plantation owner in Memphis with a penchant for shocking her peers, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn and Oscar-nominated David Strathairn have also been lined up for the picture, which is based on the screenplay "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond".

The screenplay is believed to have been written by Williams in the 1950s but was never made into a film. It was discovered after his death in 1983.

Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1948 and "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" in 1955.

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THIS is why I still love ya Linds. (I don't wanna hear anything bad 'bout her round these here parts of the eenternet. Y'all hearens me? Only I'm aloud to make negative comments. Having said that, I really do long for the days when she looked like the picture up there. She was smokin' hot.)

Ellen is a Classy Gal

No, not Ellen DeGeneres - the actress. Ellen Burstyn. She has come out about her Emmy Nomination. Ya know, the one for which she was nomianted for a 14-second performance in the Annette Bening-starring Mrs Harris (here's a ponderer? Would Bening's Oscar chances be better if Harris received a theatrical release instead of only having Running With Scissors to rely on?).

In an interview with AP Radio, the 73-year-old Academy Award winner spoke publicly for the first time about her Emmy nod: "When they told me I was nominated for that I went, 'What, are you kidding?'"

Burstyn's cameo in Mrs. Harris lasted 14 seconds, with her speaking a total of 38 words.

"I thought it was fabulous," she said. "My next ambition is to get nominated for seven seconds, and, ultimately, I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don't even appear."

Ellen is so awesome. I can't wait to see her on the big screen again in Darron Aronofski's The Fountain out here in January. THat movie has gone through a lot so it'll be good to see anything on the big screen, let alone Burstyn, who was one of the original cast members who also managed to be cast in the remodeled version. If you remember The Fountain was originally to star Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Now in a slightly ironic twist, Brad and Cate co-star in Babel, out now a mere couple of weeks before The Fountain arrives in US cinemas, a full two or three years after it was originally meant to. Also, let us remember, Brad had that hilarious gross beard for the movie. That was also when he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. My, how the times change.