Natalie Portman Got Those Letters You Sent

"I was figuring out my own sexual identity, likes and dislikes and all that stuff, and it's weird to be doing stuff on film as you're figuring it out. Also being a sexual object when you're a kid is really uncomfortable. After The Professional, I was already getting creepy letters." —Natalie Portman [V via Contact Music]
"Wes Anderson, the director, wanted the cast to really be together interacting. So he could capture coughing, wheezing, laughing, giggling — anything that would happen between us. He also took us to this farm on a field trip where we ran around and played in the dirt and did all sorts of crazy things. I was like, 'I can't believe my life has come to this moment where I'm on the ground digging with George Clooney.' It was so bizarre and amazing." —Jason Schwartzman on making The Fantastic Mr. Fox [Parade]
"People always think that I’m going to be this little airhead blonde, when I’m actually quite pragmatic and serious. I’m also really funny, or at least I think I’m really funny." —Stevie Nicks [V]
“Starting the SNL process I kinda feel like I might have a heart attack or pass out in the pitch meeting. I’m that excited." —Taylor Swift on hosting this weekend's SNL [Twitter via Showbiz Spy]
"In Alias, I wasn't the action guy. I got the shit beat out of me, got tortured a lot, lost teeth, became a heroin addict, and left after the second season. I was never on the giving end of it. But in The A-Team, I get that chance." —Bradley Cooper [Prestige HK]
"What's important to me is the long haul. It's a strange thing, but sometimes I think that God is somehow fashioning my life so that I stay interested and stay hungry. I played at the Comedy Store for 12 years and got standing ovations every night, but I couldn't find my picture on the wall anywhere. Every comedian but me had their picture up, and yet I was the one they were coming back to see. After having some success, I went back and there's a giant neon picture of my face." —Jim Carrey [Parade]

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Gazab comedy, this one. Really, Ranbir is a revelation, Katrina is full of beans and the newly formented Ranbir-Katrina chemistry sets the screen
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
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on fire in this mad hatter's tea party that takes you on a roller-coaster ride as Raj Kumar Santoshi tries to retrack his way to his Andaz Apna Apna days.
The Salman-Aamir comic caper may not have stormed the box office in the 1990s but today, it has devoted fans who don't miss it on its umpteen TV re-runs. Ajab Prem... might not suffer the same fate and may kick up some fun moments in the here and now, rather than the future.
And why not! For not only Ranbir and Katrina, the rest of the cast is in crackling form too. Of course, leading the brat pack is Ranbir's ninth-drop out Prem, the president of the Happy club, who hangs out with all the losers in town, calls a Ferrari a Fawwari and abducts young girls to send them packing to their boyfriends, for a living. He falls in love with Jenny (Katrina Kaif), the prettiest newbie in town, who's smart, sassy, orphaned and in need of a friend. And yes, she's also a vegan, with a penchant for pudine ki chutney with moong dal pakodas. But that's a home truth our hero takes time to learn, along with another fact of life that makes it difficult for him to cross the thin line between best buddy and boy friend. But the Ranbir-Katrina dosti draws its flavour from the other characters too. Like, Ranbir's adorable mum-dad (Smita Jaykar-Darshan Zariwala) who love him any which way and the local don Sajid (Zakir Husain) who has neither a functional cell phone nor a loaded gun. All he has is hot air. The plot progresses like a jolly ride into cuckoo land as Ranbir tries to bring Katrina's love story to a logical end. Of course, he does manage to succeed, despite his bumbling ways and ends up stealing the show with his crazy antics, his witty one-liners and his comic sense of timing. Katrina matches him step by step, creating the perfect tango that has just a few moments of tedium: a tardy middle and a clumsy climax where most of the gags have a been there done that feel.
But that's just a minor irritant. For some of the scenes give you all your paisa-vasool entertainment. Watch Ranbir chaperone Katrina to a dance party, with a permanent waltz in his step and a goofy grin on his lips or see him don her girlie pink top to save her skin and carry on a monologue with Jesus: it's fun unlimited. Add to this Pritam's peppy music score with Neeraj Shridhar, Atif Aslam, Hard Kaur, Sunidhi Chauhan and Mika raising a toast to high-spirited song and dance and Raj Kumar Santoshi penning some of the funniest dialogues in recent times and you have a great escape awaiting you at your favourite audi this weekend. Go, have a ball.