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Title: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on December 09, 2006, 08:12:57 am
http://www.nylonmag.com/
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on December 09, 2006, 09:02:06 am
28 November 2006: Michelle Williams gets Indie Spirit Award Nomination for Best Female Lead for Land of Plenty.

Hunh, I hadn't heard about this movie.  Thanks goadra.

If anyone wants to find short threads about Michelle that would fit in well here, post the url for them here and I will merge them so we can find them all in this thread.

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: opinionista on December 09, 2006, 02:28:35 pm
Oh good thing Clarissa opened a thread dedicated to Michelle. A few pics are in order!

Michelle and Heath expecting

(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/nataligv_2006/20051007ledger.jpg)

Michelle and Heat during the 2006 Oscar's night
(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/nataligv_2006/Heath20Ledger20and20Michelle20Willi.jpg)

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: opinionista on December 09, 2006, 02:29:53 pm
Michelle looking sexy

(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/nataligv_2006/michelle_williams.jpg)

(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/nataligv_2006/Michelle-Williams-8.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: opinionista on December 09, 2006, 02:31:12 pm
Nice a sweet Michelle

(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/nataligv_2006/MichelleWil67315_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Front-Ranger on February 19, 2007, 10:52:45 am
cute pix--Michelle and Matilda are going out to send you a happy birthday postcard!!

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: newyearsday on February 20, 2007, 11:50:45 am
Thanks for starting this thread, Elle! Congrats to Michelle for the nomination; I had no idea about that movie -- was it shot before, during, or after the pregnancy?

I think it's cool that she cut her hair -- it's not so often we see that in Hollywood, it seems (Jamie Lee Curtis and Winona Ryder notwithstanding).
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: saucycobblers on February 24, 2007, 10:20:37 pm
Mia Farrow anyone? Especially in that dress!

(http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/Photos/Mia_Farrow.gif)

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on February 25, 2007, 12:35:02 pm
Yes, definitely Mia Farrow.

That flower thingy hanging off the lace is a bit of overkill, if you ask me. I think the dress would have looked much better without it. But I love the haircut and happy smile.

What on earth are the white things hanging out of Heath's jacket???

L
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on February 25, 2007, 12:40:47 pm
Mia Farrow anyone? Especially in that dress!

My thoughts exactly!

(P.S. Another one to add to the shor-hair list: Natalie Portman)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Cameron on February 25, 2007, 12:43:55 pm
Wow, I agee,

Michelle must be metamorphasizing into Mia Farrow.

But Heath sure is a whole lot cuter than Woody Allen :D


Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on February 25, 2007, 12:49:42 pm
Wow, I agee,

Michelle must be metamorphasizing into Mia Farrow.

But Heath sure is a whole lot cuter than Woody Allen :D


Ain't that the truth! Taller, too.

And I suspect that in the future, we will see Heath directing movies. I don't think his talent is confined to acting.

L
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Penthesilea on February 25, 2007, 02:06:41 pm
Yes, definitely Mia Farrow.

That flower thingy hanging off the lace is a bit of overkill, if you ask me. I think the dress would have looked much better without it. But I love the haircut and happy smile.

What on earth are the white things hanging out of Heath's jacket???

L

Leslie, are you reading my mind lately? You took the words right out of my keyboard  ;)

I agree, Michelle looks like Mia Farrow with that haircut. I also thought the flowery thing was too much. And self-evident I noticed the white things hanging out of his jacket. But I didn't mention it, because I stopped wondering about his wardrobe a while ago... ::)  I think it was when he appeard in the pink smurf-cap  :laugh:.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: saucycobblers on February 25, 2007, 02:55:19 pm
What on earth are the white things hanging out of Heath's jacket???

Are they pocket flaps?? If they are then it really doesn't work. Would've needed a white handkerchief sticking out of the top pocket to balance it, and even then v. dodgy...

But Heath sure is a whole lot cuter than Woody Allen :D

Oh, do you think so? ;) ;D

I gotta say I prefer Michelle with long hair, but she's so damn purty she'd even look great with a buzz cut  :P. And I guess it's one less thing to have to faff with in the mornings when you're a busy mum. Heath definitely needs a haircut if you ask me...
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on February 25, 2007, 03:20:17 pm
Leslie, are you reading my mind lately? You took the words right out of my keyboard  ;)

I agree, Michelle looks like Mia Farrow with that haircut. I also thought the flowery thing was too much. And self-evident I noticed the white things hanging out of his jacket. But I didn't mention it, because I stopped wondering about his wardrobe a while ago... ::)  I think it was when he appeard in the pink smurf-cap  :laugh:.

The smurf cap, or how about the get up at the Berlin Film Festival?

At least here he looks like he is trying to dress up...

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Cameron on February 25, 2007, 03:31:12 pm
It doesn't matter to me what Heath dresses like, but gosh is Michelle lucky!!!

She does seem to have everything, she is so beautiful, a great career, and now Heath and Matilda.  I wish we had a little thing here to show a great big sigh.

BTW did you see her in "The Station Agent".  That was such a nice, sweet movie, and of course Michelle was wonderful in it even though it was just a smallish part too.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: opinionista on February 25, 2007, 06:22:23 pm
The smurf cap, or how about the get up at the Berlin Film Festival?

At least here he looks like he is trying to dress up...



I don't think he tries. It seems like Heath doesn't give a damn about fashion. Either that or he tries to get people talking by dressing badly.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mikaela on January 20, 2008, 05:54:41 am
Reference to previous post  :):

Now they're evidently finished filming. Here's a nice post, images from a cast press conference including one of a very happy and relaxed looking Michelle:

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19522935.html#cutid1

Lukas Moodysson is a good director. His films "Fucking Åmål" and "Lilya 4-ever" have made quite an impact on us Scandinavians at least. So I hope this will be good - at least he's got a great cast!

And I hope it will be positively received and create positive WOM for Michelle's sake. She must have had a tough year, must be time for some good times.



(A small pathetic personal squee, the kind you get from the province, us Brokies truly living in the middle of nowhere and far from all the big events: I've actually been to that cinema, quite a lot of times!  ;D )
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on January 20, 2008, 09:43:26 am
Interesting, thanks for posting that, Mikaela.

Where is the Saga theater?

L
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mikaela on January 20, 2008, 06:20:01 pm
In Stockholm. It's a common enough Cinema name over here. There's one in Oslo too.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mikaela on March 07, 2008, 10:01:38 am
Come on you guys, we want to follow Michelle don't we?

Here's a number of pictures that she did for a photoshoot (dont know when) that will appear in US Elle in April, apparently. I think these are great images, shows her as a mature, reflected and good-looking (rather than just cute or pretty) woman.

All the best to you, Michelle!

http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f50/michelle-williams-28653-83.html
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: forsythia12 on March 08, 2008, 01:39:33 am
hey i didn't even know this thread existed!
i should've known from the 'heath heath heath, and jake jake jake', but here i am now.
i'll be checking and posting if i find anything.
i love michelle, and she's one bbm actor i wish i could meet.
thanks
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on March 10, 2008, 06:45:31 am
Along with the pictures, there's a portion of an interview. You need to buy Elle magazine to read the whole thing.

http://www.elle.com/featurefullstory/13724/michelle-williams-elle-april-2008.html
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Brown Eyes on March 18, 2008, 10:48:40 pm
LOL, so I have a question.  Are the rest of you seeing the banner ad for "Michelle Williams Ringtones" a lot of the time to the right of the screen on BetterMost near the scrolling bar? 
 ???

I'm so curious about that.  What could a Michelle Williams ring tone possibly be?  Is this ad really in reference to BBM-Michelle Williams?  I've not been brave enough yet to click on that ad.

I see it all the time as I flip through lots of different forums here at BetterMost.  The background for the ad is white and the lettering is orange and blue with an image of a cell phone.  The design of the ad is sort of minimal.


???
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on March 19, 2008, 06:52:56 am
Well, let's see, some Michelle Williams ringtones...

"Who's Sorry Now?"

"And Then He Kissed Me"

"Sleigh Ride"

"Sea of Love"

That's just off the top of my head...

L
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Brown Eyes on March 19, 2008, 10:06:09 am
 :laugh:

I was thinking more along the lines of some of Alma's big moments in BBM.  It would be funny to have a phone that said "Jack Nasty" whenever a call was coming in.

Sorry... I'm just being silly.

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: forsythia12 on March 19, 2008, 12:08:27 pm
:laugh:

I was thinking more along the lines of some of Alma's big moments in BBM.  It would be funny to have a phone that said "Jack Nasty" whenever a call was coming in.

Sorry... I'm just being silly.



how 'bout michelle screening your calls?  like this:

"hey, do you know someone by the name of jack?  'cause you're getting a call from him come general delivery"

sorry....i'm just being silly too.........but to answer your question, i have not seen it anywhere on my screen.  if i do, i'll check it out.

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on March 19, 2008, 05:57:24 pm
LOL, so I have a question.  Are the rest of you seeing the banner ad for "Michelle Williams Ringtones" a lot of the time to the right of the screen on BetterMost near the scrolling bar? 
 ???

I'm so curious about that.  What could a Michelle Williams ring tone possibly be?  Is this ad really in reference to BBM-Michelle Williams?  I've not been brave enough yet to click on that ad.

There's another Michelle Williams:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/michelle-1.jpg)

From Wikipedia:

Michelle Williams (born Tenitra Michelle Williams on July 23, 1980) is an American R&B and gospel singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer, who rose to fame as one of the late members of the successful R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the best-selling female group of all time, according to the World Music Awards and SonyBMG.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: mvansand76 on March 19, 2008, 06:41:11 pm
Michelle was awesome in I'm not there! Sorry, just came back from seeing the movie....  :D
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on March 19, 2008, 06:43:17 pm
Thanks for clearing up that mystery, Fran! LOL

L
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on March 20, 2008, 06:16:03 pm
"hey, do you know someone by the name of jack?  'cause you're getting a call from him come general delivery"

I love that idea! My brother's caller ID announces the callers' names out loud. But it's in a tinny robotic voice: "Call from ... Joe ... Smith."

I'd much rather hear the announcement via Alma saying, "Hey, do you know someone by the name of Joe Smith?"

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: BelAir on May 22, 2008, 04:26:21 pm
LOL, so I have a question.  Are the rest of you seeing the banner ad for "Michelle Williams Ringtones" a lot of the time to the right of the screen on BetterMost near the scrolling bar? 
 ???

I'm so curious about that.  What could a Michelle Williams ring tone possibly be?  Is this ad really in reference to BBM-Michelle Williams?  I've not been brave enough yet to click on that ad.

I see it all the time as I flip through lots of different forums here at BetterMost.  The background for the ad is white and the lettering is orange and blue with an image of a cell phone.  The design of the ad is sort of minimal.


???


Hey, did you ever get brave enough to click?

(i never thought of clicking, figuring it was just a gimmick, as I think I noticed it offering various other ringtones related to the main stars of the movie)

On another topic (and I haven't read the whole thread yet), I am curious what people think in terms of Michelle's staying power as an actress?  I honestly know nothing about her other than related to Heath and Matilda.  Does she want to 'act' forever or does she have other things she has expressed interest in doing?

ps - whoops! i missed the later clarfication regardin Michelle Williams R&B artist...
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: BelAir on May 22, 2008, 11:44:40 pm
small pic but she looks lovely.

imdb says this about the martin scorcese movie plot: "Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island."

Leo DC, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley are all listed as being in the movie (all of whom I love).

Anyone think it's time for Michelle to do a light romantic comedy?
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on May 23, 2008, 06:23:27 am
Hey, did you ever get brave enough to click?

(i never thought of clicking, figuring it was just a gimmick, as I think I noticed it offering various other ringtones related to the main stars of the movie)

On another topic (and I haven't read the whole thread yet), I am curious what people think in terms of Michelle's staying power as an actress?  I honestly know nothing about her other than related to Heath and Matilda.  Does she want to 'act' forever or does she have other things she has expressed interest in doing?


I think she is very serious about her acting. She set out on her own when she was 15, became an emancipated minor so that she could work longer hours and have different opportunities for roles. I mentioned over on the HHH thread that I saw her in a little indie film called The Baxter right before I saw BBM and she was very good in that. I am also one of 8 people in this country who saw Deception and even though the movie was pretty bad, she did a good job.

L
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: BelAir on May 23, 2008, 01:11:10 pm
I think she is very serious about her acting. She set out on her own when she was 15, became an emancipated minor so that she could work longer hours and have different opportunities for roles. I mentioned over on the HHH thread that I saw her in a little indie film called The Baxter right before I saw BBM and she was very good in that. I am also one of 8 people in this country who saw Deception and even though the movie was pretty bad, she did a good job.

L

1/8?  Really?

Now how exactly did you figure that out?

 ;)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on May 23, 2008, 07:01:28 pm
1/8?  Really?

Now how exactly did you figure that out?

 ;)

I did the math.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on May 23, 2008, 11:20:53 pm
I didn't realize she is in The Baxter! It's been on TV alot lately and I just by-passed it. I better go find it.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on May 24, 2008, 07:25:02 am
At the Cannes Film Festival:

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h243/lnicoll/Maine/article-1021341-015B521800000578-99.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on May 24, 2008, 09:45:57 pm
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h257/Ellemeno_2006/cannes372x192.jpg)
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h257/Ellemeno_2006/michelle_williams_c.jpg)
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h257/Ellemeno_2006/293williamsmichelle052208.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: BelAir on May 24, 2008, 11:02:35 pm
i just think Michelle looks so absolutely lovely in that dress.  It is good to see her smiling... rather than grimacing like in the pap pics.

Does that mean katherine keener is in the new movie?  i like her too.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: mvansand76 on May 25, 2008, 11:00:09 am
She's so beautiful! I bet Heath is looking down at her, so proud of her....
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on May 25, 2008, 11:28:03 am
She's a classy lady! She had 2 films to promote in Cannes and that's wonderful.
I always admired her fashion sense, but now i admire the person too, she handled the situation after Heath's death so classy. They weren't even together anymore and he supposedly had another girlfriend, still Michelle payed tribute to the father of her child and acted classy during this whole difficult time.
I wish her and Matilda the very best!
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Kerry on May 26, 2008, 09:04:15 am

From the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, 25 May 2008:

(http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/Album%201/Michelle250508.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: BelAir on June 25, 2008, 08:55:38 pm
I stumbled across these today.

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/BelAirChoice/Heath/michelle-williams-matilda-051208_00.jpg)

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/BelAirChoice/Heath/feb5cute.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: southendmd on June 25, 2008, 09:45:59 pm
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/BelAirChoice/Heath/feb5cute.jpg)

Wow, that one's a heartbreaker.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Artiste on June 26, 2008, 09:22:42 am
We love you Michelle !
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on June 26, 2008, 04:44:27 pm
Michelle, Matilda and Heath's friend out for a stroll:

http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/06/michelle-will-2.html#comments (http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/06/michelle-will-2.html#comments)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: optom3 on June 26, 2008, 11:34:11 pm
I stumbled across these today.

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/BelAirChoice/Heath/michelle-williams-matilda-051208_00.jpg)

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/BelAirChoice/Heath/feb5cute.jpg)

Matilda not only looks so like her dad,she has the same smile and even that scrunched up,quizzical look he used to do.My younger son looks so like his dad,I t looks like I have has nothing to do with him.
I see that same uncanny resemblance in Matilda.I cannot imagine how it must be for mom to tuck her up each night and see the face of her ex staring right back.I always felt that she never stopped loving Heath, maybe just could not live with him.I wish her all the happiness she so deserves.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on June 30, 2008, 10:30:46 am
From People.com (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208529,00.html):

Michelle Williams: No Rift With Heath's Family

By Julie Jordan
Originally posted Tuesday June 24, 2008 02:05 PM EDT

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/abcmovies/Picture4-8.png)

Michelle Williams is denying a report she's missing the premiere of The Dark Knight because of tension with Heath Ledger's family.

"The presumption that Michelle ever intended to attend The Dark Knight premiere is unfounded, but to say she is 'boycotting' due to a rift with Heath's family is absurd," Williams's rep Mara Buxbaum said in a statement.

She added: "It is time to allow this family to go about their lives without this continued scrutiny and speculation."

Ledger's family confirmed that they would be flying from Perth, Western Australia to New York City to attend his premiere on July 14, just days before the six-month anniversary of the actor's death. Ledger died on Jan. 22 of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 28.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Artiste on June 30, 2008, 10:39:04 am
Good news !
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mikaela on June 30, 2008, 06:56:44 pm
I think it's sad and so uncalled for that poor Michelle actually has to have her rep issue statements like this based on vicious rumours. Not for the first time, either. Hopefully, after TDK premiere and when the hullaballoo dies down, the gossip mags will move on to new pastures  :-\ and she'll be allowed to go about living her life and caring for Matilda without all this rumourmongering concerning in-law infighting, battles over wills, etc.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Artiste on June 30, 2008, 07:10:09 pm
Must be the price for stardom ?
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on June 30, 2008, 07:16:15 pm
I think it's sad and so uncalled for that poor Michelle actually has to have her rep issue statements like this based on vicious rumours. Not for the first time, either. Hopefully, after TDK premiere and when the hullaballoo dies down, the gossip mags will move on to new pastures  :-\ and she'll be allowed to go about living her life and caring for Matilda without all this rumourmongering concerning in-law infighting, battles over wills, etc.

Hopefully, you'll be right about the gossip mags moving on to new pastures.

It seems Heath and Michelle had the same publicist, Mara Buxbaum.  I know it's her job, but it must be doubly difficult for her to have to issue those statements as she's probably still close to Heath's family, too.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on June 30, 2008, 07:38:27 pm
Michelle, Matilda and Heath's friend out for a stroll:

http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/06/michelle-will-2.html#comments (http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/06/michelle-will-2.html#comments)


I think that caption is wrong.  I think that the man in the picture is actually Heath's sister Kate's husband, Nathan Buckey.  At least that's how he was identified in photos taken at Heath's Perth memorial.


Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mikaela on June 30, 2008, 07:56:56 pm
I blush to admit that I've previously read the comments to that link so I know they changed the identity of the man in the pic 3 times.... they believe the current name is the right one - it's stated somewhere down there that he was incorrectly identified as Kate's husband at the time of the memorial.

Who knows... it's certainly confusing. But at any rate there seems to be no dispute over him having some sort of connection to Heath. Which might perhaps be interpreted as further giving the lie to the conflict rumours.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Artiste on June 30, 2008, 08:11:02 pm
We love you Michelle !
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on July 24, 2008, 04:04:31 am
Who knows what's true, but I've read this in a couple of places:

Heath Ledger's ex-fiancee Michelle Williams 'dating Hollywood director Spike Jonze'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:21 AM on 24th July 2008


Seven months after the sudden death of her ex-fiancé Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams appears to have found happiness again.

A U.S. magazine reports the former Dawson's Creek actress, 27, has started dating film director Spike Jonze, ex-husband of Lost In Translation director Sofia Coppola.

Williams and Jonze, 38, have been spotted together several times near the film-maker's £1.5million New York apartment in recent weeks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038091/Heath-Ledgers-ex-fiancee-Michelle-Williams-dating-Hollywood-director-Spike-Jonze.html
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on July 24, 2008, 04:06:15 am
http://www.chickipedia.com/michelle-williams/

"At an early age, Williams took interest in acting. With her parents' disapproval, at age fifteen Williams emancipated herself from her parents and graduated from high school, in order to pursue her acting career. Apparently running away from home is no good these days.

Williams' father is a noted stock and commodities trader and had taught her about trading. In 1997 at age 16 she won the Robbins World Cup Trading Championship, the same as her father won in 198 [sic], when it was known as “Gordon Gekko’s Lil’ Sharks.” She turned $10,000 into $110,000 over the course of a year and that gain (as of 2006) is the fourth highest in the competition (her father's being the highest). And now we begin to understand why emancipation became an option."
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on July 24, 2008, 01:09:17 pm
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/267801/is-michelle-williams-dating-spike-jonze.html

MICHELLE WILLIAMS DATING DIRECTOR?

Following the devastating loss of her ex-fiancé Heath Ledger in January, it is rumoured that Michelle Williams has finally found love again, and is dating Spike Jonze.

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/abcmovies/Picture4-28.png)

The actress and director worked together last year, when Williams won a role in Jonze's film, Syecdoche, and they quickly became friends.

Now US magazine Star is reporting that the Brokeback Mountain star has been spotted visiting the director's New York apartment on a number of occasions recently, and that an eye-witness spotted them kissing outside.

The source revealed, 'Michelle kissed Spike with a closed mouth on the corner of his lips. There was definitely a bit of caressing going on. She was clutching his arm.'

Williams was left devastated by the death of Ledger from an accidental overdose in January. The couple split in October 2007, two years after the birth of their daughter Matilda.

Jonze is the ex-husband of Lost In Translation director Sofia Coppola, and has previously been linked to Drew Barrymore.
Thursday 24 July 2008

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on July 31, 2008, 10:11:44 am
New picture of Michelle, her new boyfriend Spike Jonze and Matilda:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/31/no-joke-heaths-ex-spotted-with-new-man/ (http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/31/no-joke-heaths-ex-spotted-with-new-man/)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on July 31, 2008, 02:16:00 pm
New picture of Michelle, her new boyfriend Spike Jonze and Matilda:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/31/no-joke-heaths-ex-spotted-with-new-man/ (http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/31/no-joke-heaths-ex-spotted-with-new-man/)

Thanks for finding this, MilAn.  I love, love, love the "Someone's got big shoes to fill"!!!!!!!  How true!

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Picture5-1.png)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on July 31, 2008, 02:26:45 pm
I wonder if there will be a day when we start a Spike Spike Spike thread.

Some of the commenters said Michelle looked pregnant.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on July 31, 2008, 03:33:35 pm
I wonder if there will be a day when we start a Spike Spike Spike thread.

Some of the commenters said Michelle looked pregnant.

Some of the comments were especially nasty. :(

Anyway, how can someone guess that someone is pregnant based on one photo?  LOL  Those loose-fitting tops are "in" now.  Everyone looks pregnant....
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MaineWriter on July 31, 2008, 07:15:22 pm
Those commenters were nasty. Someone said Matilda was an ugly child. Huh? She is barely in the picture and besides, we all know she is the spitting image of her dad.

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Post by: optom3 on July 31, 2008, 09:31:18 pm
Some of the comments were downright vicious,vindictive and frankly disgusting. How can humans, actually the word humans is probably a complement, amoebas, that's more like it, write such evil things about someone they do not know.
It reminds me of an insult that most of the posters would be too dense to get.
You only have 2 neurones and one of those is inhibitory.
How can they comment on ,Matilda either, he can only be sen from the side, and she is such a cutie when you see her face on.Sometimes I get very tire of this world we live in!!!
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Post by: MilAn on August 02, 2008, 11:09:50 am
I agree that some comments were unfair. People are different, some people need a longer period of time to "move on" others a shorter. I hope she's happy with him for as long as it lasts. What's most important, i hope she makes sure Matilda is well. Honestly, my heart breaks for this little girl, her father should be with her. This all is not right at all.
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Post by: Gabreya on August 02, 2008, 10:02:36 pm
I agree, MilAn. That girl DOES need to be with her father. It's NOT fair! :(
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Post by: MilAn on August 06, 2008, 03:50:14 am
Michelle and Spike making out in L.A.:

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Michelle Williams and director Spike Jonze, who were recently spotted getting cozy together in Brooklyn, have taken their relationship bicoastal.

The twosome shared an intimate dinner at Little Dom's in Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood on Aug. 2. According to a fellow diner, Williams, 27, and Jonze, 38, started off their late-night meal sitting across from each other. "During dinner they would lean in and kiss each other over the table," the diner says.

By the end of the meal, Williams had hopped into Jonze's lap and the pair were smooching, according to onlooker.

Jonze, the ex-husband of Sofia Coppola, produced the actress' upcoming film Synecdoche, New York. At the Brooklyn deli, the director "had his arm around [Williams] and kissed her on the cheeks, then on the lips," PEOPLE reported recently.[/url]

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20217087,00.html (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20217087,00.html)

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Post by: Kelda on August 06, 2008, 05:09:07 pm
DO you know what I hope it workls out for her - shes had enught tragedy in her life and Matilda needs her Mummy to be happy.
Michelle, Matilda and Heath's friend out for a stroll:

http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/06/michelle-will-2.html#comments (http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/06/michelle-will-2.html#comments)

In this one Matilda looks SOOOOO like her dad - I've never noticed itthis STRIKING before... right across the eyes.....
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Post by: MilAn on August 20, 2008, 12:37:26 pm
New (very cute) pictures of Michelle and Matilda:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/08/20/matilda-ledger-stroller-spunky/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/08/20/matilda-ledger-stroller-spunky/)
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Post by: optom3 on August 20, 2008, 01:10:59 pm
New (very cute) pictures of Michelle and Matilda:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/08/20/matilda-ledger-stroller-spunky/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/08/20/matilda-ledger-stroller-spunky/)

Too cute and so like her dad, I don't know whether to smile or cry.
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Post by: Gabreya on August 20, 2008, 06:38:21 pm
God, she looks exactly like him. :)
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Post by: Meryl on August 22, 2008, 11:20:31 am
Michelle Williams' Date Night, Diary Horror?

http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip/8-18-08_4/?GT1=28101
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Post by: Fran on August 22, 2008, 08:09:38 pm
Michelle Williams' Date Night, Diary Horror?

http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip/8-18-08_4/?GT1=28101

I'm wondering how they found out she was keeping a diary in the first place.
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Post by: optom3 on August 22, 2008, 11:23:44 pm
I'm wondering how they found out she was keeping a diary in the first place.


That exact thought crossed my mind.I had heard she was either thinking of or already making a film of Heath for Matilda.I wonder if a "good friend" blew the whistle.
I hope with all my heart she is keeping it very very safe.I cannot imagine anything more horrifying than their private life, splashed all over some terrible tabloid.
It would be Heaths' worst nightmare.
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Post by: Gabreya on August 22, 2008, 11:34:24 pm
That exact thought crossed my mind.I had heard she was either thinking of or already making a film of Heath for Matilda.I wonder if a "good friend" blew the whistle.
I hope with all my heart she is keeping it very very safe.I cannot imagine anything more horrifying than their private life, splashed all over some terrible tabloid.
It would be Heaths' worst nightmare.

Ain't that the truth. Let's hope that it doesn't happen for his and Matilda's sakes.
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Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 07, 2008, 09:08:50 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07lim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/movies/moviesspecial/07lim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

The New Season Film
For Michelle Williams, It’s All Personal


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By DENNIS LIM
Published: September 4, 2008

MICHELLE WILLIAMS has an Academy Award nomination, the open adulation of major filmmakers and a résumé that is striking in its worldliness and creative ambition. But if her career has seemed to progress almost inconspicuously, it is partly because of its introspective bent — small movies, subtle performances — and partly because it has lately existed in the shadow of her personal life.

Ms. Williams’s maturity and capacity for quietly wrenching pathos were apparent even on the teenage soap “Dawson’s Creek,” on which she played the troubled Jen Lindley. In her film roles she has revealed a gift both for screwball comedy (“Dick,” “The Baxter”) and bruising emotional drama (most memorably in her Oscar-nominated performance as the spurned wife Alma in Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain”). She has repeatedly taken chances on under-the-radar indies (“The Station Agent,” “The Hawk Is Dying”) while catching the attention of auteurs like Wim Wenders (“Land of Plenty”), Todd Haynes (“I’m Not There”) and Martin Scorsese (the forthcoming “Shutter Island”).

But Ms. Williams, who turns 28 on Tuesday, has become a very public figure for reasons that have little to do with her work. While shooting “Brokeback Mountain” in 2004 she fell into a much-chronicled romance with her co-star Heath Ledger. Stalked by paparazzi, their every move monitored in the gossip pages, the couple set up house in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda. They separated last summer, but the tabloid scrutiny did not let up and if anything has intensified since Mr. Ledger suffered a fatal drug overdose in January.

It has been a difficult year, to say the least, and Ms. Williams acknowledged in a recent interview — her first in eight months, since Mr. Ledger’s death — that she has coped to some extent by throwing herself into her work. She has shot four films in quick succession since last summer, two of which had their premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in May and are due to open this fall.

In the anguished, comic head trip “Synecdoche, New York,” the directorial debut of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (“Adaptation”), she is part of a vivid ensemble cast orbiting around Philip Seymour Hoffman’s harried theater director. In “Wendy and Lucy,” the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s follow-up to the acclaimed “Old Joy,” she’s in every scene as a young woman living hand to mouth on the road when her car breaks down and her dog goes missing in a blue-collar Oregon nowheresville.

“I thought a lot about what you look like when you think nobody’s looking at you, when you feel completely invisible,” Ms. Williams said of her character Wendy. “Your entire life happens inside because you don’t think anyone notices you. Which is very different from me. Not that I don’t have any inside life, but I feel watched, all the time.”

As she spoke over a long lunch at a restaurant near her home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, Ms. Williams occasionally paused and smiled wryly as if to acknowledge the unspoken connections with her off-screen life. “It’s all so personal, isn’t it?” she said. “It’s hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don’t want to talk about my personal life, but it’s on my mind, and it’s in my work.”

Confessing to being apprehensive and out of practice, she thought long and hard before answering questions, searching for the right words — “I want to actually represent how I feel,” she said at one point — but also taking care to avoid unintended disclosures. “It’s a fine line between wanting to be known and understood but also knowing what’s sacred,” she said.

One subject on which she willingly opened up was “Wendy and Lucy” — “probably the smallest film I’ve made,” she said, “and I’ve made some pretty small films.” (It is set to open Dec. 10, and will be shown Sept. 27 and 28 at the New York Film Festival.) Ms. Reichardt was worried that Ms. Williams would have trouble adapting to the microbudget conditions and to her plain-Jane role. “I feared that she was too pretty for the part sometimes, and I was concerned about asking her to go without makeup and not wash her hair for two weeks,” Ms. Reichardt said. “But I think she found that completely liberating.”

Ms. Williams said she relished the intimate scale. Shooting a tiny film on the outskirts of Portland at a time when she “felt particularly adrift” — she and Mr. Ledger had just broken up — she was grateful to find her character’s anonymity rubbing off on her. “I didn’t stand out in that community,” she said. “It was this perfect safe haven.”

“Making something out of nothing,” she added. “I’ve always liked that phrase, and I feel that way about this movie. We were working with so little in every way.” That minimalism extends to her tamped-down performance. Wendy is allowed one outburst but otherwise endures her downward spiral with stoic resilience.

To convey the character’s stubborn sense of purpose Ms. Reichardt showed Ms. Williams films like Max Ophüls’s “Reckless Moment,” with Joan Bennett as a suburban supermom driven to protect her family at all costs, and “Mouchette,” Robert Bresson’s single-minded portrait of a teenage outcast. “Kelly called me her Mouchelle,” she said.

Ms. Williams related to the self-sufficiency of her character: Wendy, heading north to find a job in the Alaskan fisheries, is something like a pioneer heroine for these depressed and exhausted times. “Maybe I read too much Emerson and Whitman at an impressionable age,” Ms. Williams said, referring to her tendency “to do everything” by herself. Her independent streak dates to her teenage years. After a childhood in rural Montana, she completed a high school correspondence course and moved to Los Angeles at 15, declaring herself legally emancipated from her parents.

Ms. Reichardt spoke admiringly of Ms. Williams’s expressive stillness on screen, her ability to tap into wells of emotion while appearing to do very little. “She can make an adjustment that is so subtle and so small it’s like she’s dialing in a station,” Ms. Reichardt said.

That kind of praise comes freely from filmmakers who have directed her. Mr. Kaufman cast her in “Synecdoche” (Oct. 24) partly because he had fond memories of her oddball turn in “Dick” as a nerdy teenager who lives at the Watergate and develops an improbable crush on Richard M. Nixon. “She can be really funny in really surprising ways,” he said. “I love watching her face change.”

Mr. Wenders, who wrote “Land of Plenty” with her in mind, spoke of her honesty, which “transcends any beauty and turns it into goodness, for lack of any other expression.”

There has been no shortage of fulfilling work, especially since her widely praised performance in “Brokeback Mountain.” Mr. Scorsese’s “Shutter Island,” an adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel that also stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, is due to open next year, and two other films are awaiting United States distribution: “Mammoth,” directed by the Swedish provocateur Lukas Moodysson, and Sharon Maguire’s drama “Incendiary,” which had its premiere at Sundance.

Ms. Williams would seem to be entering her professional prime, but she is reluctant to capitalize on her recent successes. “I’m going to take a year off,” she said. “I think I stopped feeling creative a while ago, and I’m just realizing it now.”

She admitted to feeling the strain of being a working single mom. She reads bedtime stories to Matilda, now nearly 3, in whatever accent she’s practicing — East London for “Incendiary,” Boston for “Shutter Island” — but has had a hard time balancing the immersive demands of acting and the consuming duties of motherhood. “I used to have all the time in the world to daydream and even just to dream and let your unconscious do some of the work for you,” she said. “Now I’m up at 5 in the morning, and I don’t remember what I dreamed about.”

The bleakness of some of the roles has also taken a toll. In “Incendiary” she plays a wife and mother who loses her family in a terrorist attack; while preparing for “Shutter Island” she read case studies on infanticide. “When I work again maybe it should be a comedy,” she said. “I’ve always had a tendency for darker, more lifelike material. I think I had this sense that important things are heavy things. I don’t know if that’s true any more.”

In person Ms. Williams seems like nothing so much as your average 20-something Brooklyn hipster, which should perhaps be no surprise since she has been a New Yorker all her adult life. While making “Dawson’s Creek” she split her time between Wilmington, N.C., where the series was shot, and New York, where she found “wonderful friends who were all orphans in some way, not just actors but writers and musicians and painters.”

She is a little resentful but mostly rueful that she can no longer experience the city the way she used to. “I feel like that’s been taken away from me,” she said. “I’m worried what people are saying or thinking, or if they’re going to follow me, or if someone is going to pop out of a bush with a camera. I’ve started to shut down, but I also know I can’t let it dictate my life.”

She still finds herself reacting to the tabloid intrusions with bewilderment. (In recent months the talk has turned to a rumored relationship with the filmmaker Spike Jonze.) “It feels so surreal,” she said. “How is this my life? When did it get so out of control?”

To be a celebrity is to negotiate a gulf between private self and public image. “It’s a bit of an isolating problem to have,” Ms. Williams said, and so she was gratified to find that this was among the themes of Milan Kundera’s novel “Immortality,” which she read on the plane to Cannes, though she said she wasn’t sure she agreed with the book’s conclusion, “that the self people perceive is just as real because it exists.”

She is an avid reader who favors poetry over novels while filming so she’s not distracted by competing narratives. Looking ahead to her year off she said that she wanted to pick up a skill, some kind of handicraft. “I want to humble myself in front of a task like embroidery,” she said. “I like how physical work can really free your mind.” At a low point last year she signed up for night classes in bookbinding and calligraphy. “I was prouder of my little foldout book than of some movies that I’ve made,” she said.

Despite her claims of burnout, she still talks about acting with a kind of reverential awe. “I’m a Virgo, and I want everything to be fair and equal and clear, and acting just isn’t,” she said. “It’s kind of an incantation or a rain dance.” She loves the research process but is less thrilled about watching the end results (and often doesn’t). “If only the damned things never came out,” she said. “I get far too self-critical when I watch myself.”

In an e-mail message a couple of weeks later, Ms. Williams said she had been mulling over the questions that came up in the interview. “I’ve started thinking more clearly, my head hasn’t been so switched on recently,” she wrote. “I’ve always identified with loners and outcasts, I don’t know why. I guess this is why I found a home in independent film.” She added: “I wanted to work outside the system, which is why all this fame is a real brain teaser. What am I supposed to do with it? Can you work the system without it working you?

“Acting sometimes reminds me of therapy in that the more you talk about a traumatic or profound event, the more it loses its emotional tension. Switch on a bright light and find there is no boogeyman in the closet. So it is the same with a scene. Never tell the other actor or the director what you are ‘doing.’ ” The trick, she added, was to allow herself “to live in so much mystery, to rely on a feeling, an instinct, on faith, really, that everything I need is already inside me, and best I just don’t block the exit.”
 
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Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 07, 2008, 09:27:24 am

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/09/07/movies/0907-WILLIAMS_index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/09/07/movies/0907-WILLIAMS_index.html)

Roles Large and Small

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From left, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, James Van der Beek and Michelle Williams on the television show "Dawson's Creek."


Dennis Lim writes:

Michelle Williams has an Academy Award nomination, the open adulation of major filmmakers and a résumé that is striking in its worldliness and creative ambition.

Ms. Williams's maturity and capacity for quietly wrenching pathos were apparent even on the teenage soap "Dawson's Creek."



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Ms. Williams, right, with Kirsten Dunst in the comedy "Dick,"" where she plays a teenager who lives at the Watergate and develops a crush on Richard M. Nixon. In her film roles she has revealed a gift for screwball comedy and bruising emotional drama.



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With Peter Dinklage in "The Station Agent."

She has repeatedly taken chances on under-the-radar indies while catching the attention of auteurs.



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With Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."

But Ms. Williams has become a very public figure for reasons that have little to do with her work. While shooting "Brokeback Mountain" in 2004 she fell into a much-chronicled romance with her co-star Heath Ledger. They separated last summer, but the tabloid scrutiny did not let up and if anything has intensified since Mr. Ledger suffered a fatal drug overdose in January.



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In "Wendy and Lucy," the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt's follow-up to the acclaimed "Old Joy," she's in every scene as a young woman living hand to mouth on the road when her car breaks down and her dog goes missing in a blue-collar Oregon nowheresville.



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With Gael Garcia Bernal in "Mammoth."

There has been no shortage of fulfilling work, especially since her widely praised performance in "Brokeback Mountain." "Mammoth," directed by the Swedish provocateur Lukas Moodysson, is awaiting United States distribution.



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In the anguished, comic head trip "Synecdoche, New York," the directorial debut of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Adaptation"), she is part of a vivid ensemble cast orbiting around Philip Seymour Hoffman's harried theater director.

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Post by: Kelda on September 07, 2008, 10:45:59 am
interesting that she's just done a film with mr Hoffman.. I wonder if the Oscar came up?
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Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 07, 2008, 10:56:37 am

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http://cafeawards.blogspot.com/ (http://cafeawards.blogspot.com/)
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Post by: Artiste on September 07, 2008, 11:43:03 am
Interesting image!


More please...

au revoir,
hugs!
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Post by: Fran on September 14, 2008, 11:00:58 am
Oops!  We missed Michelle Williams' birthday on September 9th.

Would someone please add it to the BetterMost calendar.  Thanks.



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Post by: Fran on September 14, 2008, 11:02:55 am
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Happy Birthday, Michelle!
With best wishes for a day of celebration and fun
and a year filled with more happiness than your heart can hold
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Post by: MilAn on September 16, 2008, 05:27:21 pm
Matilda walking a dog and Michelle:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/09/16/matilda-ledger-dog/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/09/16/matilda-ledger-dog/#comments)
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Post by: Gabreya on September 16, 2008, 11:15:18 pm
Matilda walking a dog and Michelle:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/09/16/matilda-ledger-dog/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/09/16/matilda-ledger-dog/#comments)

So cute! God, she looks like her father in that picture. :( :)
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inedit image  :)
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Post by: louisev on October 16, 2008, 02:41:08 pm
Michelle Williams on PDA Alert at "People"

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20233539,00.html (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20233539,00.html)

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After months of low-key dating, it seems Michelle Williams and Spike Jonze are finally ready to take their romance public.

After attending a Cinema Society screening of their new film, Synecdoche, New York in Manhattan Wednesday night, the couple walked out of the auditorium with Jonze caressing Williams' back and wrapping his arm around her waist.

The pair held hands as they walked through the lobby, where they met up with Synecdoche costar Catherine Keener. While the two women chatted and munched on popcorn, Jonze snaked his arm around Williams' waist again.

"He couldn't seem to keep his hands off her," said an onlooker. "It was very cute."

But the sparks really started to fly later that night, when they headed to the Gramercy Hotel's rooftop club for the Mulberry-sponsored afterparty.

While the two – who have been romantically linked since this summer – talked with friends, they stood so close they were "practically spooning," said one fellow guest.

And later, when they decided to leave the bash at around 1 a.m., Williams and Jonze shared a mini makeout session – on their way to the elevator.

Williams, 28 – who has an almost-three-year old daughter, Matilda, with the late Heath Ledger – met the director in 2006, when she audtioned for his film, Where the Wild Things Are. They reconnected last year, when she signed on to star in Synecdoche, which he produced.
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Post by: MilAn on October 17, 2008, 07:54:31 pm
Michelle and Matilda out for a stroll:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/10/17/matilda-ledger-chilly-brooklyn/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/10/17/matilda-ledger-chilly-brooklyn/#comments)
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Post by: MaineWriter on October 17, 2008, 08:24:59 pm
Looking at pictures of Matilda just break my heart...not that I will stop looking at them. Thanks for posting.

L
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Post by: Ellemeno on October 18, 2008, 03:22:35 am
Michelle and Matilda out for a stroll:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/10/17/matilda-ledger-chilly-brooklyn/#comments (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/10/17/matilda-ledger-chilly-brooklyn/#comments)


That jacket and the hat both remind me of Heath.
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Post by: Penthesilea on October 18, 2008, 04:59:10 am

That jacket and the hat both remind me of Heath.


You can say that twice and mean it.
Oh my, there's still that sting when looking at pics of Matilda. :(
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Post by: BelAir on November 11, 2008, 12:46:39 am
I was thinking the pink dress and white sweater looked like a "Michelle" outfit, and I agree with everyone else, the tights, jacket, hat outfit very much "Heath".  Matilda looks happy in the pics (and not worried about the photogs...) - and so much in love with her mom, and vice versa.  I am glad it seems (at least outwardly) that Michelle is raising her, vs. a nanny.  I always worry/wonder about that with celebrity's children...

(ps - when do kids start dressing on purpose?  i.e. I wonder if it's coincidental or intentional, the various styles, on either her part, or her mom's.)

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Post by: Penthesilea on November 11, 2008, 02:19:39 am
(ps - when do kids start dressing on purpose?  i.e. I wonder if it's coincidental or intentional, the various styles, on either her part, or her mom's.)


Oh, Matilda definitifely has that age of having a mind of her own regarding clothes (or just about anything for that matter). It's the wonderful age of throwing tantrums in front of the closet first thing in the morning (but not only there).
You have no idea how my kids sometimes were dressed when they had that age ::); my youngest one still is sometimes. Pick your fights is my motto :laugh:.

Anyway, I think Matilda is definitively old enough to want to choose herself.
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Post by: louisev on November 11, 2008, 01:04:34 pm
Michelle Williams' Father Being Extradited to US

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/michelle-williams-father_n_142895.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/michelle-williams-father_n_142895.html)

SYDNEY, Australia — Michelle Williams' father, a prominent stock market trader, agreed Tuesday to return to the United States to face tax evasion charges.

Larry Williams has been fighting extradition since he was arrested by Australian police in 2006 after flying to Sydney for a speaking tour in Australia and New Zealand. He has been free on bail.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service wants to question the 65-year-old Virgin Islands resident about a possible $1.5 million in unpaid taxes from book royalties and earnings related to international seminars he conducted between 1990 and 2001.

Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that Williams will leave for Los Angeles on Wednesday.

"I will fight this and win," Williams said before sheriffs escorted him from court. "I will be back _ I have a lot of friends here in Australia."

Michelle Williams received an Oscar nomination as best supporting actress for her performance in the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain," playing the wife of Heath Ledger's character. Ledger, who died from an accidental prescription drug overdose in January, is the father of her 3-year-old daughter Matilda Rose, Larry Williams' granddaughter.
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Post by: MilAn on November 21, 2008, 08:19:50 pm
An Actress Moves On, Or Tries To
You can almost touch the sadness in Michelle Williams's movie 'Wendy and Lucy.


She talks about Heath too:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170184/page/1 (http://www.newsweek.com/id/170184/page/1)



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Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on November 23, 2008, 11:03:39 am


Sad and tragic and awful.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/22/michelle-williams-in-tear_n_145767.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/22/michelle-williams-in-tear_n_145767.html)

Michelle Williams In Tears Over Heath Ledger, Angry At Paparazzi

Huffington Post
November 22, 2008 06:56 PM


Michelle Williams has started doing publicity for her upcoming independent film "Wendy and Lucy"  and broke into tears during a Newsweek interview when the subject of her ex-fiance Heath Ledger, dad to daughter Matilda, came up:

Williams is jovial and chatty, until the conversation turns to Heath. You can see it's still difficult for her to talk about him, and she hasn't done so publicly until now. The first time Ledger's name comes up, she bursts into tears. "It's so sad," Williams says. When she's asked about how she's been doing in the past year, she's silent for a very long time. "I guess it's always changing," she says. There's another pause. "What else can I say?" Her voice is breathy and fragile, and she takes a few gulps of air. "I just wake up each day in a slightly different place--grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by 'it's always changing'." She stops again. "It's a strange thing to say"--her words unravel slowly, her eyes tear up--"because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. In some ways it gets worse. That's what I would say."

As she walks back to her car, Williams spots an SUV parked on the side of the road. Is it the paparazzi? No, but her heart still sinks at the thought. The paparazzi are one topic that gets her so riled up, she spits out curse words. "It burns a fire inside of me, the s--- that I've seen people do to get at me or my daughter," she says. "I won't forget it, and I won't support it. I don't want my daughter growing up feeling spied on or threatened."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170184/page/1 (http://www.newsweek.com/id/170184/page/1)
An Actress Moves On, Or Tries To
You can almost touch the sadness in Michelle Williams's movie 'Wendy and Lucy.'
By Ramin Setoodeh
NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 21, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Dec 1, 2008
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Post by: Love on November 23, 2008, 07:08:34 pm
(http://nsa03.casimages.com/img/2008/11/24/081124121225395276.jpg) (http://www.casimages.com)
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Post by: optom3 on November 23, 2008, 11:14:34 pm
What a very sad article. Particularly the part where she mentions, the more time passes in some ways the more you miss someone.

I suspect Heath may not have been the perfect husband but I have no doubt they loved each other enormously.You can see it in all the photos of them together. I just do not know how you ever get over someone as complex as Heath obviously was.

It seems to be, that great artists of any genre, music, writing, acting, art et al, all appear to be tortured souls to some extent.I guess that is what produces the great works.

There must therefore be, by virtue of their complexities, a huge gap left when they go. I was one of those, who thought they might just get back together again.
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Post by: MilAn on November 24, 2008, 06:40:46 pm
The article is sad indeed. Even if they weren't together anymore, she knew Heath'll be there for their child. Now she's alone with her. I know she has family and friends, but no one will love or care for Matilda like her father would have, except for Michelle of course.  :(
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Post by: Love on November 29, 2008, 07:33:21 pm
Trailer for Michelles New film 'Mammoth' this was the film she was in the middle of shooting when she heard of heaths death and she returned to complete it after the wake

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/has-moodysson-been-bitten-by-the-babel-bug-first-mammut-mammoth-trailer-arr/   :'(
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Post by: Fran on November 29, 2008, 11:16:02 pm
Trailer for Michelles New film 'Mammoth' this was the film she was in the middle of shooting when she heard of heaths death and she returned to complete it after the wake

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/has-moodysson-been-bitten-by-the-babel-bug-first-mammut-mammoth-trailer-arr/   :'(

Thanks for posting this.
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Post by: jstephens9 on November 30, 2008, 01:37:46 am
Definitely, thanks for posting this.
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Post by: ifyoucantfixit on December 04, 2008, 10:15:38 pm



      Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway are both nominated for best actress, by the
      Independant Spirit Awards.

      Michelle for Wendy and Lucy, and Anne for Rachel getting Married.



        http://www.spiritawards.com/
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Post by: Love on December 05, 2008, 02:42:41 pm
(http://nsa03.casimages.com/img/2008/12/05/081205073945123058.jpg) (http://www.casimages.com)
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Post by: southendmd on December 05, 2008, 02:45:56 pm
Wow, that's a great photo, Love. 

I like the brooch; very Eva Peron.
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Post by: Ellemeno on December 06, 2008, 05:21:47 am
That's an incredible photo. 

Thanks for posting the link to the Independent Spirit Awards, Janice.  It looks like Michelle will also be receiving (with others) the Robert Altman award for Synecdoche, NY.  I didn't look it up, but am guessing it's an ensemble award, seeing as how an ensemble is receiving it, and it's named for a master of ensemble films.


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Post by: Ellemeno on December 09, 2008, 05:25:39 am
Michelle Williams' Paparazzi Problem

by Parade.com
Monday December 08, 2008, 12:00 AM


Michelle Williams, who rose to fame on the TV hit Dawson's Creek, is still coping with the death of ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger, the father ofher young daughter, Matilda Rose. 

But in the midst of her grief, she's found new challenges. In Wendy and Lucy, Williams plays Wendy, a young woman trying to start a new life with herdog Lucy after bad breaks leave them penniless and alone. She also co-stars in Charlie Kaufman'soff-beat dramedy Synecdoche, New York opposite Oscar winner Philip Seymour Kaufman. 

The star, who recently scored a lead actress nod for the Indie Spirit Awards for Wendy and Lucy, talks about her struggle with celebrity status.

Q: How did you feel about playing someone whose life is hitting bottom?
 
A: I kind of grew up with the idea that, 'You're an American. Pull yourself up by yourbootstraps. Put your nose to the grindstone. With a little hard work, you're going to come out ontop, kid.'  That was definitely passed on in my family. But as I got out into the world, I sawthe inequality, I saw that it wasn't true at all, especially when you hit a string of bad luck likeWendy does. And there are a lot of people like her in these tough times we're facing.
 
Q: Can you imagine being as alone and without friends as she is?
 
A: I do sometimes wish that I could live with less attention but not being totally ignored bythe world. It's very wearing to be a celebrity. I wonder if people are going to follow me or ifsomeone is going to pop out of nowhere with a camera. I get very angry but I'm trying not to let itstop me from living. You're sort of straddling that fine line between being kind and courteous andeverything that your mother raised you to be to strangers that come up and refuse to respect yourprivacy.
 
Q: Is acting getting easier for you?       
 
A: I still have to put up a fight to get the environment right on the set when I'm acting,and, as a woman, it's hard to do. You're taught to be polite and quiet so that nobody will thinkthat you're difficult. When I worked with [Philip Seymour] Hoffman on Synecdoche, I saw him get really militant about keeping people out of his eye line. Ithought, 'Gosh, I've always felt like that, but I've been too shy to really say anything.' And sowhen you see somebody else do it and still be respected, it makes you go, 'Well, I'm going to tryit too.'
 
Q: Any regrets about leaving your parents behind and heading for L.A. when you were just15?
 
A: I got so much flack for that. But I don't think that there's really any use in lookingback. Because what's done is done for good or for bad. I am thankful for all of it because it's putme in a place in my life that I am happy. 
 
Q: Do you ever wish you'd finished high school?
 
A: I went to my first year and I was like the really oddball new girl. I spent a lot oflunches in a bathroom stall kind of hiding out. I can't even imagine what kind of a person I'd beor how happy I would be had I done the normal four years and had a boyfriend and was a cheerleaderor something.
 
Q: Weren't you ever afraid of being alone in Hollywood as a teenager?
 
A: Hindsight. Isn't it great? The risks of going into L.A. at such an early age are huge. Atthe time, I was invincible. I thought I was on top of the world. I didn't realize what I was doing.But I wouldn't trade any of those experiences for anything in the world. I am who I am because ofthem. I had a lot of growing up to do and it was slammed into a couple of short years. I didstupid, crazy things. But those stupid crazy things prepared me to deal with future.
 
Q: What's guiding you now?
 
A: I think that, above all, it would be perseverance. I can't really be objective, but theone thing that I've always had is an incredible amount of determination. And I guess it's innate within everybody. It's just a survival skill.

http://www.cleveland.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2008/12/michelle_williams_paparazzi_pr.html
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Post by: Meryl on December 10, 2008, 06:21:12 pm
http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/features/Wendy_and_Lucy_Go_Cross-Country.html

Wednesday December 10, 2008

Natural Woman: Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy

By Kristin McCracken

In the quietly moving Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt goes cross-country with "fine-tuned instrument" Michelle Williams, and casts her dog Lucy in the co-starring role.

Opening this week in New York and LA, director Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy is the melancholic, vérité story of a girl and her dog, traveling through the northwest in search of a new life in Alaska. In a small town in Oregon, a series of unfortunate mishaps causes them to lose their footing, derailing their plans and bringing into sharp focus both the fragility of their personal existence and the universal precariousness of life on the fringes of American society. It’s a sad story, one that is—given the current economic climate—likely playing out across the country in myriad scenarios. With a barebones script (written by Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, from his short story “Train Choir”) that relies heavily on the naturalness of glamour-free actors, Reichardt continues what she started in earlier films, including River of Grass, Ode, and indie favorite Old Joy.

A small, quiet film, Wendy and Lucy has the power of a luminous star: Michelle Williams, Oscar-nominated for her turn as Heath Ledger’s long-suffering wife in Brokeback Mountain. Williams first made a name for herself as new-girl-with-a-damaged-soul Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek [see sidebar], and has—in the decade since—carved out a niche as a fine actress in smart, independent films (Dick, The Station Agent, I'm Not There, Synecdoche, New York, to name a few). Her relationship with Ledger continued off screen, and the two had a daughter, Matilda Rose, in 2005. Since Ledger's untimely death early this year, Williams has remained intensely private.
 
As I sit down to interview Reichardt, her dog Lucy (canine co-star of Wendy and Lucy, and featured performer in Old Joy) has just finished a gnawable dog treat, and is tuckered out. Such is the life of a superstar diva. Reichardt cajoles her to curl up next to me on a blanket on the couch in the Oscilloscope offices. (Oscilloscope Pictures is the film distribution company owned by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Wendy and Lucy is their first narrative film.)

Tribeca Film: How much were your actors—particularly Michelle—involved in creating the characters we see on screen?
Kelly Reichardt: We have so little time. [Wendy and Lucy was shot in 18 days.] With Old Joy, people were asking, “Was it improvised?” Are you kidding?! We didn’t have time to improvise!

With Wendy, what I knew was that she was emotionally buttoned-down. She does not have a bird’s-eye view on her life. And she’s the kind of person who would look at everything that’s in front of her and say, “What’s the next thing on the to-do list?” Everything is a list. Don’t look far ahead. [As for] finding her voice, we don’t have rehearsal time, so [Michelle and I] are finding her voice as we are going along, and we are in constant conversation about it.

Tribeca Film: So much of it wasn’t voice at all—it was all in Michelle's expressions.
KR: Yeah, there’s not a lot of dialogue. Michelle has so much room for other stuff. No one tells her, like, walk away and put the pillow on your head. Or stop and tie your shoe in the middle of this conversation. [In the film,] I give her as much space as I can. She has the freedom to fall out of frame. She has lot of room to make decisions about who the character is, all the time, and I think that’s what drew her to the role. She is a physical actress, which I didn’t even really realize before we started working together. She has great body language.

Tribeca Film: So her instincts were right on for you?
KR: Yeah, and she really listens to what you want. When I first talked to her about the part, she described herself as a "fine-tuned instrument." [When we started filming,] she had been going from one film to another, and she had been acting for a long time. So when I was filming her, I was like, "Oh, this is what she meant." You can make the smallest adjustment—sometimes you are afraid to give an actor a note because you are afraid they will go too far in the other direction—but she can really dial into what you are trying to get at, and make really nuanced changes.

Tribeca Film: Her face was so expressive and economical—
KR: Completely!It all comes down to the fact that she can be completely still—and she’s like that in person—and something always comes through.

Tribeca Film: When did you first become aware of Michelle?
KR: I’m so in the zeitgest [she says sarcastically]… I wish I could say I was ahead of the curve, but like everyone else, I went to see Brokeback Mountain, and I was like, Who the fuck is she? She was amazing. And I went to lunch with Todd Haynes (who Reichardt had worked with on Poison), and he was like, “I want her for I’m Not There.” Everyone wants her now. Somehow we both got her—that was pretty lucky. Then you go back and watch everything she’s done, and you realize, wow, there are no false moments with her. Even in Dawson’s Creek, I recognized that she was good.

Tribeca Film: How is Adam Yauch to work with? How has your experience been with Oscilloscope Pictures?
KR: I can bring my dog, she can sleep on the couch, what more do you want? No, David Fenkel [Yauch’s partner] is the hardest-working man in show business. And it’s great working with Adam, because he knows what it’s like to want to be protective of everything as artists. So, you know, they offer their two cents and leave you a huge amount of room to say no to whatever they offer… It’s a real bonus to have someone in the mix who would be on your side of a conversation in another area.

Tribeca Film: I hear ticket sales are brisk for the run at Film Forum.
KR: I really cared about the theatrical run. Mike Maggiore at Film Forum was one of the first people to see the movie. Old Joy had a really good life there. So I was interested in that happening again.

Tribeca Film: Don't you also teach at Bard College [upstate in the Hudson Valley, about two hours from NYC]?
KR: I’m on a three-year visiting assistant professorship. Lucy and I spend one night a week up there. The Film/Electronic Arts division is so amazing—I’ve been wanting to get into that school for a long time, to teach there. With the DVD [of Wendy and Lucy]—this is so cool—there is going to be a collection of some of my colleagues’ work! Like Peter Hutton, and Peggy Ahwesh, Les LeVeque, and Jackie Goss, all the people I teach with. I think they are amazing filmmakers, which is why I wanted to teach up there. It’s all avant-garde. And Ed Halter teaches theory class, so he’s going to do the liner notes. So it’s really sweet. I’m really excited about it. It’s a big lovefest up there at Bard! It’s ridiculous!

Tribeca Film: So how did you cast Lucy? She’s a superstar, without the attitude!
KR: Yeah, she auditioned. It was a tough call. Actually, I’ve been getting a bunch of emails saying, “I’ve never seen your movies, but here’s a picture of my dog.” And I’m like, “Oh, no, that can’t start to happen.”
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Post by: KristinDaBomb on December 18, 2008, 10:01:53 pm
She is soo beautiful.
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Post by: MilAn on December 30, 2008, 08:24:47 pm
Interesting tidbit: Jake and Michelle were dating:

Quote
This photo was taken with Jake at an off BWAY play called Killer Joe some years ago. Jake at the time was dating Michelle Williams and would periodically pick her up at the play. The two of them were very fan friendly. signing and posing for photos. Today I hear both aren't that cool...

http://meetthefamous.com/photos-videos/details.php?story=3391 (http://meetthefamous.com/photos-videos/details.php?story=3391)
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Post by: MilAn on January 01, 2009, 08:06:02 am
The play was 1999:

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"Dawson's Creek" television star Michelle Williams is making her stage debut in the hit off-Broadway play "Killer Joe."
"Joe," which premiered in October at the Soho Playhouse, centers on a dysfunctional family in a Texas trailer park. Williams will play Dottie, role originally played by Sarah Paulson and then taken over by role originally played by Sarah Paulson and then taken over by Lori Petty ("Tank Girl") and Seth Ullian ("Stomp") are also taking roles. The new cast makes its debut April 20.

"Joe" is written by Tracy Letts and directed by Wilson Milam. Darren Lee Cole and Scott Morfee produce.

Williams, repped by Endeavor and manager Jason Weinberg of Untitled Entertainment, stars next in Sony Pictures' "Dick" and indie film "But I Am a Cheerleader." Other credits include "Halloween: H20," "A Thousand Acres" and "Species."


http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4794272-1.html (http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4794272-1.html)

Happy new year! :)

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Post by: MilAn on January 03, 2009, 02:54:49 pm
Photos of Michelle from the play "Killer Joe".

http://michelleparadize.free.fr/galerie/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=71&pos=0 (http://michelleparadize.free.fr/galerie/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=71&pos=0)

I really find it interesting that Jake and Michelle had a connection before Brokeback. I never would have thought.
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Post by: Mikaela on January 03, 2009, 03:22:44 pm
I looked at the pictures from the play but I don't seen Jake anywhere.  ???

I thought he'd only been onstage once - in London in 2003 (???) with Anna Paquin and uhm, uh, you know.... Anakin Skywalker?  :laugh:
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Post by: MilAn on January 03, 2009, 03:59:02 pm
No, only Michelle was in the play. Jake, according to this fan, used to pick her up periodically.
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Post by: BelAir on January 03, 2009, 08:18:23 pm
I love Michelle.

 :)

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Post by: Monika on January 23, 2009, 07:22:14 pm
I just came home after having seen "Mammut" with Michelle. It´s directed by Swedish director Lukas Moodyson and is the movie Michelle was working on back in January last year. I enjoyed it and Michelle was very, very good. Í was impressed.
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Post by: BelAir on January 25, 2009, 12:41:11 pm
I just came home after having seen "Mammut" with Michelle. It´s directed by Swedish director Lukas Moodyson and is the movie Michelle was working on back in January last year. I enjoyed it and Michelle was very, very good. Í was impressed.


Thanks for the rec...

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Post by: BelAir on January 25, 2009, 12:43:12 pm
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee304/BelAirChoice/Heath/MichelleHat.jpg)
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Post by: Brown Eyes on February 24, 2009, 02:28:28 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29353458/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29353458/)
Williams won’t raise Matilda in Hollywood
Actress says she wants her daughter with Heath Ledger ‘to have options’


Access Hollywood
updated 2:56 p.m. ET, Mon., Feb. 23, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Michelle Williams has said she will not raise her and the late Heath Ledger’s daughter, Matilda, in Hollywood.

“I wouldn’t raise [Matilda] there. For all the obvious reasons — being the daughter of … Being an actor’s daughter. It’s a town that’s about one thing and I want her to have options,” Williams told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.

The actress, who is currently promoting the UK release of her indie film, “Wendy and Lucy,” told the publication she hopes Matilda will grow up to be a doctor. The 3-and-a-half-year-old is hoping to grow up to be a cowgirl, however, the paper reported.

Though she is currently promoting her film, Williams admitted she hasn’t taken a job in quite some time as Ledger’s death was something she “couldn’t work through.

“I felt burnt out, I still feel that, but I’m coming back to my wits, little by little,” she said. “Ultimately I am not yet ready to work. I’ve actually really been enjoying not working … I guess everybody enjoys that.”

Instead, in addition to taking care of Matilda, Williams said she has been “cooking, cleaning and sewing.”

And, Williams said, she doesn’t feel the pressure to return immediately despite the wishes of Hollywood.

“Everybody says ‘The time is now.’ But I can be 28 and take a year off. Hopefully there’ll still be something there to go back to,” she said.   
 
Williams also explained she is happy to stick to independent films.
 
“I’ll be happy making movies for $300,000 for the rest of my life, if the roles are interesting. On that level, there’ll always be something to go back to,” she said.

One thing Williams isn’t interested in though, is her romance with director, Spike Jonze.

“I don’t really want to talk about that,” she said. “In terms of trying to convey how you feel, you can never really say it right … I do worry too much about getting it just right.”

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Post by: Fran on February 24, 2009, 04:24:24 pm
The 3-and-a-half-year-old is hoping to grow up to be a cowgirl, however, the paper reported.

:)

One thing Williams isn’t interested in though, is her romance with director, Spike Jonze.

“I don’t really want to talk about that,” she said. “In terms of trying to convey how you feel, you can never really say it right … I do worry too much about getting it just right.”


This part in I highlighted seems oddly worded.  Shouldn't it be something like:  "One thing Williams isn't interested in discussing, though, is her romance with director, Spike Jonze."  Maybe Access Hollywood got it wrong.

Thanks for the article, Amanda.
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Post by: Brown Eyes on February 24, 2009, 04:35:31 pm

:)  I liked the thing about being a cowgirl too!  I suppose it's in Matilda's blood (so to speak) since in many ways she's such a product of BBM. 

This part in I highlighted seems oddly worded.  Shouldn't it be something like:  "One thing Williams isn't interested in discussing, though, is her romance with director, Spike Jonze."  Maybe Access Hollywood got it wrong.

Thanks for the article, Amanda.

And, LOL, you're right about the wording concerning Michelle's interest in her romance.  :laugh:


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Post by: MilAn on March 19, 2009, 12:18:08 pm
Michelle, Matilda and Heath's pal Kane Manera:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/03/19/matilda-ledger-flower-girl/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/03/19/matilda-ledger-flower-girl/)
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Post by: Meryl on March 19, 2009, 12:25:10 pm
Michelle, Matilda and Heath's pal Kane Manera:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/03/19/matilda-ledger-flower-girl/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/03/19/matilda-ledger-flower-girl/)

So cute!  She looks more and more like Heath every time I see her.  I love the way her sweater is buttoned.  Very Heath-like!  ;D
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Post by: MilAn on March 28, 2009, 09:13:49 am
First poster of the new movie with Scorsese/DiCaprio and Michelle (Shutter Island):

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/27/early-teaser-poster-for-martin-scorseses-shutter-island/ (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/27/early-teaser-poster-for-martin-scorseses-shutter-island/)
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Post by: optom3 on March 28, 2009, 11:24:15 am
So cute!  She looks more and more like Heath every time I see her.  I love the way her sweater is buttoned.  Very Heath-like!  ;D

Oh God, how heart breaking is that.She certainly seems to have inherited her father's rather ecclectic fashion sense and as such just makes the whole thing even more heart rending. Also it is such a kid thing to do. I can remember mine insisting on doing their own buttons up, all wrong of course, but all the more endearing.
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Post by: j.U.d.E. on April 07, 2009, 06:44:07 pm
There is no 'Matilda Matilda Matilda' thread, so I post this here -

TOO CUTE!! She looks so grown up. Not at all like a 3 year old. Happy child, she seems to be.

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii229/_jUdE_W/matilda_ledger.jpg)
Recent picture of Matilda Ledger
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Post by: BelAir on April 10, 2009, 11:45:01 pm
There is no 'Matilda Matilda Matilda' thread, so I post this here -

TOO CUTE!! She looks so grown up. Not at all like a 3 year old. Happy child, she seems to be.

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii229/_jUdE_W/matilda_ledger.jpg)
Recent picture of Matilda Ledger

wow, she does seem grown up, and also absolutely Heath.
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Post by: MilAn on April 12, 2009, 09:57:00 am
Matilda waves to paparazzi:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2009&mon=04&evt=matilda-paparazzi&pic=matilda-ledger-waving-paparazzi-01.jpg (http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2009&mon=04&evt=matilda-paparazzi&pic=matilda-ledger-waving-paparazzi-01.jpg)
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Post by: BelAir on April 13, 2009, 10:04:52 pm
I looked.  I couldn't resist...

 ::)  :-X

There is a 100% heath grin/smile in there.  But you can also tell that she is completely her own little person.  (practicing for the miss america contest, or something much more illustrious, i'm sure...)
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Post by: southendmd on April 21, 2009, 12:35:50 pm
I just saw on my Netflix queue that Wendy and Lucy is due out on dvd May 5.  Yay!


(http://media.movieweb.com/img/7/n/t/PHl00spnC6K7nt_m.jpg)
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Post by: MilAn on May 18, 2009, 06:05:24 am
Michelle is chasing Matilda:

(http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1/2009/05/matilda-chasing/michelle-williams-chasting-matilda-ledger-06.jpg)

Source: Just Jared.
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Post by: min on May 18, 2009, 06:12:35 am
Michelle is chasing Matilda:


They look like they are having so much fun!  Michelle is beautiful, and Matilda is such a gorgeous little girl...
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Post by: southendmd on May 18, 2009, 08:45:55 am
I want a pair of striped sneakers like that!
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Post by: optom3 on May 18, 2009, 08:52:07 am
I want a pair of striped sneakers like that!

I was just thinking the same thing.They would sure cheer you up on a miserable day. Nice to see the leagcy of the stripes goes on ! Lovely to see Matilda looking so happy and at ease in all the pics even if I hate myself for looking at Pap. shots. There is no doubting who her father is, she is the image of him.
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Post by: KristinDaBomb on July 13, 2009, 09:02:08 pm
Matilda is such a cutie.
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Post by: MilAn on September 01, 2009, 03:40:52 pm
Michelle and Matilda out for breakfast:

(http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1//2009/08/matilda-hanging/matilda-ledger-michelle-williams-hanging-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on September 15, 2009, 03:54:23 pm
From Style.com (http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009_October_Michelle_Williams/?mbid=synd%20_aol_popeater):

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The brilliant and beguiling Michelle Williams talks to Sally Singer about keeping it together when one's world falls apart.
Photographed by Mario Testino.

Michelle Williams these days divides her time between her house in Brooklyn and a house in upstate New York. The location of the latter property is a secret, for understandable reasons: Since the death in 2008 of Heath Ledger, the father of her daughter, Matilda, the beautiful and shy actress has inevitably found herself at the center of a morbid cult and, most pertinent, the object of the tabloids' banal, destructive intrusiveness. She has been extremely reluctant, as a consequence, to give interviews of any sort, even to promote her film work—the most recent example of which is Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, in which she plays (not inappropriately) a ghost. Williams told me, "I didn't know what my boundaries were for a long time, which made interviews feel very unsafe. I can talk about grief, because that's mine; about single parenting; about trying to balance work and kids. But what I don't have to talk about is what happened between Heath and me in our relationship."

On a more concrete level, speaking with Williams involves meeting her at a variety of neutral locations, urban and rural. In my case, the process culminated in a visit to the upstate house, where she and her three-year-old daughter have spent a part of the last year trying to restore equilibrium to lives rocked by heartbreak and grief. "I have been severely accident-prone over the past twelve months. I fell downstairs, broke a toe, put my fingers in a blender—seriously distracted." While Matilda was in a play group, her mother would be faced with the stark existential question "How am I going to get through the day?" Often, what she did was "cry, nap, sit and stare, try to figure out what to make her for dinner, talk to friends on the phone." She says, "I was holding it together by a string and a paper clip in the fall and winter. I didn't know if I could keep it all together." There are photos in the house of Gurumayi. Williams is not a follower and has never been to the ashram, but one day, she reached out to friends, and they arrived with the photos, constructed a "little altar," and took her through a rite of mourning. ("I wish we had rituals about grief," she says. "I wish it were still the Victorian times, and we could go from black to gray to mauve to pink, and have rings with hair in them.") The photos are a memento of that caring moment—memento because Williams is now in a different place. "Friends never really left me alone when we came up here," she says. "Women and kids really got us through the winter. One got me gardening in the spring, and that's when it started to turn around. I think it's something about being in nature that made it more possible. I remember being on my hands and knees. The ground was cold and muddy. I pushed back the dead leaves and saw the bright green shoots of spring. Under all this decay something was growing. Caring for the garden reminded me to care for myself." The story of Michelle Williams, it turns out, is not a story of a young artist derailed by tragedy and public scrutiny.

A confession: My interest in Williams was not piqued by recent sad events or by the preceding happier events, when the papers were filled with snapshots of her and Ledger strolling with their baby daughter in sunlit brownstone Brooklyn. I fell for her when she cashed in her Dawson's Creek starletdom for an Off-Broadway play called Killer Joe and for Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty, a brilliant, grave, and indeed brave investigation of post-9/11 America in all of its xenophobia and pathos. (Just imagine one of the Gossip Girls doing likewise.) In her subsequent work, most notably Brokeback Mountain (for which she earned an Oscar nomination) and most movingly Wendy and Lucy (an unsentimental look at white American poverty, directed by Kelly Reichardt), the 29-year-old Williams has established herself as the least flashy and most emotionally riveting actress of her generation. Says Sir Ben Kingsley, who first worked with her in Species, when she was twelve, and is her costar in Shutter Island, "There's something elemental and crucial about her. Because she is so intelligent, she gets to the basic issue of her character. She's not blanket-bombing it with fussy acting or guessing. She's very in the moment, which I very much admire, both in acting and in life, I reckon."

Although she has been an actress since the age of ten (she was born in Montana and raised in San Diego, from which her parents would take her to Los Angeles for auditions), was legally emancipated at the age of fifteen from her middle-class family ("I didn't grow up in a house with a lot of cool music or paintings, but my dad had good books"), and never went to college, Williams is clearly intellectually resourceful and in possession of a rich personal hinterland. Ryan Gosling, who plays her husband in Derek Cianfrance's forthcoming Blue Valentine, says, "She's like Montana. If you want to get anywhere in Montana, you have to sit tight. You're on Montana time. It's very beautiful, but it's vast. If you want to get somewhere with Michelle, you really have to be patient. She's so vast. You really have to sit back and enjoy the view. There's so much going on internally, so much ground to cover."

She is bookish and cerebral. "In North Carolina [where Dawson's Creek was shot], I'd sit on the floor of Barnes & Noble and work my way through the shelves." She read, among others, Philip Roth: "I like American Pastoral the best, but Sabbath's Theater did my head in." (Says the artist Dan Estabrook, a dear old friend, "Her time on Dawson's Creek was marked by reading and reading and reading—she was always recommending books to bartenders.") Nowadays "I read poetry. I find a poet I like and then read the poets they like." Hence Galway Kinnell and Mary Oliver and Frank O'Hara. She is a huge fan, musically, of Leonard Cohen and of Antony and the Johnsons. Currently, in preparation for Reichardt's next movie, which is set on the Oregon Trail in pioneer times, she is plowing through a bedside stack of tomes about the American frontier. There is also an open volume of Doris Lessing in Matilda's playroom, and Williams warmly recommended to me (as she has to many of her friends) Rebecca Solnit's elegant meditation on loss and its possibilities, A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Not surprisingly, six months after Ledger's death, the grief-stricken Williams turned to Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. "I just don't see the upside to this," she says. "You console yourself by saying it's all a deepening process. But it's weird. After the first year, the pain is less intense; it's less immediate. But the magical thinking goes away, too. And that's a whole new reckoning. But every time I really miss him and wonder where he's gone, I just look at her."

Whether or not Williams wants to talk about it, it's clear that she loved Ledger and that her grieving has been twofold: There was death, but before that there was the loss of her partner and the dream of an intact family, a loss that Williams, it's pretty clear, did not want. "Brokeback Mountain was an unrepeatable moment in time, a very charmed time in my life. I was in love; I was in a movie I was proud to be a part of, and with a beautiful brand-new baby. Everything was good in that moment." After the split, she did everything to get away, including taking on a film in Sweden. "I just didn't want to be at home. Geography is a great solution for heartbreak."

Particularly if the paparazzi are recording your and your child's every move. Williams's need for privacy and emotional space only grew, of course, after Ledger's death. "Because he died—it's so hard to say it, now that it's a fact—it's because of this tragedy that there's more paparazzi. That is hard to be graceful and understanding about." Brooklyn was and remains difficult on a mundane level, too. At her local coffee shop, a little girl asked Williams, "What's her name?" "Matilda." The girl said to Matilda, entirely innocently, "What's it like being famous? Are you so sad that your daddy died like Michael Jackson?" "That girl was six," Williams says without rancor. Afterward, mother and child had a discussion about third-party attention. "It's because people really loved your daddy that they want to take your picture, to know you're all right" is what she tells Matilda. "My reaction to it is going to be her reaction to it," Williams says. "It's an OK model for her to see that her mom has boundaries. It's OK for me to be upset and to raise my voice. But it's an ongoing struggle. It's hard to be the man and the woman in that [paparazzi] situation. Heath always used to do that for us." When I ask Estabrook how his friend has changed over the past eighteen months, he replies, "There's been a necessary but unfortunate hardening. But she's snapped into a philosophy: She will do whatever it takes to give Matilda as normal a life as possible."

This is the perspective that being upstate offers. At home, Williams wears faded cutoffs, a checked shirt from Steven Alan, and a stripy men's cardigan from A.P.C. Whether she's in the sticks or in the boroughs, her style is consistently low-key, classic, and faintly nostalgic. She likes clothes that construct narratives. "My favorite things that I see her wear are when I think she's creating childhood memories for Matilda," says Daphne Javitch, a costumer who became Williams's great friend when they bonded over the same navy peacoat by Boy. "So much of her style has to do with the fact that she's a soulful, practical, beautiful kind of person. Can she garden in it? Can she get a bagel in it? Because she's such a lovely, smart person, she looks adorable."

For her part, Williams has a complex relationship with the business of appearances. On the one hand, she has a real interest in, and eye for, proportions and tweaks and ironic, downbeat, classic lines. She wears dresses and clogs from No. 6, owns one pair of high heels (Louboutins), buys her button-downs at Brooks Brothers, and really doesn't follow what designers are up to. "I've learned that I look better with less," she says. "Jewelry doesn't suit me." It all works: As Ryan Gosling puts it, "She makes a real impact. Clint Eastwood meets Brigitte Bardot." When Hugh Jackman watched the dailies of her long scene with Ewan McGregor in Deception, he was struck by "the beauty. She was stunning, like a painting. She has a beguiling quality."

On the other hand, Williams has a history of resisting expectations generated by her beguilingness. "I was sixteen when I started Dawson's Creek, and our identities—mine and my character's—got a bit confused. She was sexy and pretty, but there was something bad about it. I had some idea in my head that beauty was a minor quality, that beauty wasn't as worthwhile. So I never wanted to play those parts; I wanted to play the opposite."

The role that she now plays with extraordinary style and care is that of a young single parent. She is no longer with director Spike Jonze: "The timing was impossible. I thought falling in love again was the only thing that was going to save me from the pain. This erroneous idea: It just makes things more complicated." And dating with a kid? "I obviously don't know how to do it." But she's not complaining. "I'm falling more and more in love with her," she says of Matilda, "and I think she deserves the bulk of my attention. We're lucky. I can work. She can go to a good school. There's a lot there for her. And she can know her dad in so many ways, and so many of his friends who will be able to tell her so many stories. His friends, his family—they were a big part of his life, and they will be a big part of her life."

We are sitting on her porch watching sunflowers open to the sky. "I feel hopeful and grateful. For a while I thought we had lost everything. It makes you want to love better and live better and treat people better." And she adds, "There is a great Gloria Steinem quote—and I'm paraphrasing—'Become the man you want to marry.' I've taken that on. What qualities do I find attractive, and can I find them in myself? What am I missing? Can I be that for myself?" I'm betting she can.

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"A Field Guide to Getting Lost" has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the October 2009 issue of Vogue.


Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on September 15, 2009, 04:03:21 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture10-9.png)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on September 15, 2009, 04:49:02 pm
very moving, thanks for posting.




"Brokeback Mountain was an unrepeatable moment in time, a very charmed time in my life. I was in love; I was in a movie I was proud to be a part of, and with a beautiful brand-new baby. Everything was good in that moment."

there are places we can´t return
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on September 15, 2009, 11:01:26 pm
very moving, thanks for posting.

You're welcome.

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Post by: stonebiscuit on September 16, 2009, 05:45:34 pm
Great article thanks Fran
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Post by: Brown Eyes on September 16, 2009, 09:28:20 pm

E!News and the Daily 10 both did segments tonight about Michelle's interview and how she's been doing since Heath's passing.

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Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on September 25, 2009, 03:41:05 pm
Wow, she looks so different, like a young Mia Farrow.
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Post by: Ellemeno on September 27, 2009, 03:46:53 am
Thanks Fran.  That was good to read.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on October 30, 2009, 12:51:57 pm
(http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1//2009/10/matilda-scoot/matilda-williams-scooter-school-09.JPG)

Michelle and Matilda (and scooter) go for breakfast and then to school.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on October 30, 2009, 01:00:57 pm
Australia’s Sunday Times:

Heath Ledger’s parents will be spending the holidays with Matilda and Michelle. “We won’t be seeing her [for her birthday],” Heath’s father Kim said, “but we will be seeing her at Christmas.”

Matilda's birthday was on Oct. 28th.  :)

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on October 30, 2009, 03:45:38 pm
From Popeater.com:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture3-23.png)

Michelle Williams is spotted walking with daughter Matilda Rose Ledger after having breakfast at a local Brooklyn cafe on October 27th.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on October 31, 2009, 03:12:54 pm
Could that be a Catholic school uniform skirt?  I'm doubting that even if she is in preschool at a Catholic school that they would start uniforms that young, but maybe?
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2009, 03:24:15 pm
Could that be a Catholic school uniform skirt?  I'm doubting that even if she is in preschool at a Catholic school that they would start uniforms that young, but maybe?

I don't see a white collared shirt, so I'm guessing no.
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Post by: Ellemeno on December 06, 2009, 03:56:07 am
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/category?blogid=7&cat=475

Michelle Williams Tipped For Monroe Role



Actress Michelle Williams has been tipped to take on the role of Marilyn Monroe in a new movie about the screen icon.

The "Brokeback Mountain" star has reportedly been offered the lead in upcoming film "My Week With Marilyn," winning the title role ahead of other actresses including Scarlett Johansson and Amy Adams who are both said to have been considered for the part.

British newspaper the Daily Mail reports director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt picked Williams to play Monroe, but are still waiting for the Oscar-nominated star to agree.

The picture will document Monroe's time filming 1957 movie "The Prince and The Showgirl" with Laurence Olivier and is based on a diary kept by the film's assistant director Colin Clarke.

"My Week With Marilyn" is due to begin shooting in London in June, 2010.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/category?blogid=7&cat=475#ixzz0YtRSrSKW
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Post by: Meryl on December 06, 2009, 01:13:41 pm
Michelle Williams Tipped For Monroe Role

Love the Brokieish headline.  8)
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Post by: belbbmfan on December 06, 2009, 02:06:16 pm
Love the Brokieish headline.  8)

 :laugh:

Gives a whole new meaning to 'I'm gonna yell for Monroe'.  ;D

Seriously, this sounds very promissing.
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Post by: Fran on December 15, 2009, 06:40:07 pm
From PopSugar:

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Michelle Williams and Matilda Ledger were both in warm winter coats as they took one of their afternoon strolls through Brooklyn yesterday. The girls are laying low in their home borough as the holidays approach, though it looks like Michelle may soon add another project to her 2010 agenda — she's rumored to be in talks to star in the upcoming film My Week With Marilyn. First up for Michelle, though, will be promotion for Shutter Island and Blue Valentine.

More photos here (http://www.popsugar.com/6667236).
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Post by: southendmd on December 15, 2009, 07:32:53 pm
Whose head is that?
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Post by: Monika on December 15, 2009, 07:35:49 pm
Whose head is that?

maybe Michelle finally decided to do something about the paparazzis
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on December 15, 2009, 09:05:55 pm
Whose head is that?

LOL. 
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Picture12.png)

The earlier photo I posted reminds me of my girls when they were younger.  They'd insist on bringing along a doll or a stuffed animal, and then I'd be the one stuck carrying it.
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Post by: Ellemeno on December 16, 2009, 06:35:46 am
(http://dollgirl.com/wp-content/gallery/elizabeth-cole-american-girl/elizabeth_cole_0.jpg)(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Picture12.png)

I have, in the past year, become familiar with American Girl dolls.  I think we've got ourselves an Elizabeth Cole doll here, best friend of Felicity Merriman - despite the fact that Felicity's family members are patriots, and Elizabeth's family is made up of Loyalists.
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Post by: MilAn on December 16, 2009, 10:39:10 am
Heath's Ned Kelly co-star (who also became a friend after they did the movie) paid a visit to Matilda:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/joel-edgerton-suddenly-on-the-radar-for-michelle-williams/story-e6frf96o-1225811126476 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/joel-edgerton-suddenly-on-the-radar-for-michelle-williams/story-e6frf96o-1225811126476)
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Post by: Meryl on December 16, 2009, 10:46:35 am
Thanks, MilAn.  I was thinking that guy must be an actor friend.

That doll really looks like Matilda.
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Post by: Monika on December 16, 2009, 11:00:54 am
Anti-War Rally In Melbourne
MELBOURNE - MARCH 20: Actor Heath Ledger (R) is joined by actor Joel Edgerton as they march in an anti-war rally to protest against any military action against Iraq March 20, 2003 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Post by: MilAn on December 16, 2009, 11:11:17 am
You are welcome. It's nice to see that Heath's former co-stars and friends didn't forget about Matilda.

Heath and Joel became friends on the set of Ned Kelly. :)
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Post by: MilAn on January 11, 2010, 03:45:03 pm
Michelle and Matilda spent a couple of days in L.A. Here is a picture of them hanging out with Busy Phillips and her daughter Birdie. Busy is Matilda's godmother.

http://perezhilton.com/2010-01-11-michelle-and-busys-playdate (http://perezhilton.com/2010-01-11-michelle-and-busys-playdate)

.

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Post by: MilAn on January 25, 2010, 11:44:39 am
Michelle and Ryan Goslling at the Blue Valentine premiere in Sundance.

(http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1//2010/01/gosling-valentine/ryan-gosling-be-my-blue-valentine-23.jpg)
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Post by: MilAn on January 27, 2010, 08:45:54 am
"Blue Valentine" was very well received in Sundance. It got mostly good reviews so far.

Here's one from Owen Gleiberman from EW:

http://movie-critics.ew.com/2010/01/26/the-wrenching-blue-valentine/ (http://movie-critics.ew.com/2010/01/26/the-wrenching-blue-valentine/)
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Post by: Front-Ranger on January 27, 2010, 10:37:53 am
Are Michelle and Ryan an "item" now? I'm behind the times...

Also, Michelle looks a little pregnant in this picture...
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Post by: MilAn on January 27, 2010, 02:02:59 pm
Are Michelle and Ryan an "item" now? I'm behind the times...

Also, Michelle looks a little pregnant in this picture...

I can't tell if there is something going on between them in real life. They do seem close. But they play a married couple in their new film "Blue Valentine" which premiered in Sundance and was well received by critics and audiences alike.
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Post by: MilAn on February 14, 2010, 05:31:12 pm
Michelle at the premiere of Shutter Island in Berlin:

(http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1//2010/02/dicaprio-williams/michelle-williams-leonardo-dicaprio-shutter-island-premiere-berlin-08.jpg)

Anyone who wants to see more pictures:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/02/14/leonardo-dicaprio-michelle-williams-premiere-shutter-island/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/02/14/leonardo-dicaprio-michelle-williams-premiere-shutter-island/)

or

http://michellewilliams-fan.com/ (http://michellewilliams-fan.com/)

Btw: The movie was well received!
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Post by: Sophia on February 14, 2010, 05:57:33 pm
I wonder what Heath would have said if he saw these pictures?

I think he would have wanted to stand close to her even if  he hated the photographers.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on February 14, 2010, 06:09:18 pm
I wonder what Heath would have said if he saw these pictures?

I think he would have wanted to stand close to her even if  he hated the photographers.

I don't know if Heath would have wanted to stand next to her since they broke up before he sadly passed. But I think as the mother of his child he'd be proud of her doing so well professionally lately. :)
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Post by: Katie77 on February 14, 2010, 07:54:59 pm
I think she looks beautiful in that photo.

And I think Heath would be very proud of the way she has gone on with dignity and professionalism, and most importantly as a mother to Matilda.
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Post by: MilAn on February 20, 2010, 03:15:28 pm
Quote
Ryan Gosling is reportedly dating his co-star Michelle Williams.

The couple, who appear in Blue Valentine together, have allegedly been in a relationship for a while.

"They're dating," a source told OK!. "[They both] respect their private lives and don't want to go public. But they've been seeing each other for a few months."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a204356/ryan-gosling-dating-michelle-williams.html (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a204356/ryan-gosling-dating-michelle-williams.html)

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on February 22, 2010, 05:39:01 am
Michelle was recently on "Live with Regis and Kelly," an American daytime TV talk show.  She was chipper, and no one mentioned Heath.  I'm guessing that a) she's being urged to make appearances like this, because she used to say she hated them, and b) she agreed to go on only if they wouldn't bring up Heath.  Matilda was briefly mentioned though.

They mostly talked about making the movie Shutter Island.

I saw it because four years ago I programmed my TiVo to pick up anything about her and the rest of the BBM cast and crew.  I was surprised to see it this week.

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on July 17, 2010, 01:37:36 am

What's up with this, I wonder? Are they dating? Which would be interesting, because to me Seth Rogen has always been sort of Brokieish. I guess because his voice reminds me of Heath's, plus there's that funny Brokeback-related deleted scene from Knocked Up. But what happened to Ryan Gosling (who, though I have always admired him as an actor, does not seem the least bit Brokieish)?


(http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/07/500x_infphoto_1348780_seth.jpg)
(taken in Toronto, July 15)


Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on July 17, 2010, 02:57:33 pm
What's up with this, I wonder? Are they dating? Which would be interesting, because to me Seth Rogen has always been sort of Brokieish. I guess because his voice reminds me of Heath's, plus there's that funny Brokeback-related deleted scene from Knocked Up. But what happened to Ryan Gosling (who, though I have always admired him as an actor, does not seem the least bit Brokieish)?


(http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/07/500x_infphoto_1348780_seth.jpg)
(taken in Toronto, July 15)




What are the two of them doing in Toronto? Are they filming something together here?
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Meryl on July 17, 2010, 10:35:33 pm
I found this on IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592281/

She and Seth Rogen are filming "Take This Waltz," due out next year.

There was also this link to an article about the filming:

http://anhkhoi.blogspot.com/2010/07/sarah-polleys-take-this-waltz-begins.html
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on July 18, 2010, 11:29:49 am
Thanks for these, K and Meryl.  I wouldn't have ever expected that.  Did we create it with our minds?

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on August 25, 2010, 03:46:16 pm
Here are some more recent photographs of Michelle enjoying a day off from filming here in Toronto:

http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2010/08/15/michelle-willliams-spends-the-day-with-matilda-and-friends (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2010/08/15/michelle-willliams-spends-the-day-with-matilda-and-friends)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on September 11, 2010, 05:29:56 pm
Michelle and Ryan Gosling interview:

Quote
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling play lovers caught in a disintegrating marriage in the upcoming romantic drama “Blue Valentine,” but playing husband and wife came with an on-set price.

“We did the sex scenes, and it was toxic,” Michelle told W magazine, in an interview for the mag’s October 2010 issue. “Ryan and I stopped relating to each other as Ryan and Michelle. Those scenes took forever.”

“In real life sex is messy,” Ryan added. “We wanted to get under that wonderful messiness.”

Michelle told the mag that it’s ironic that she chooses films that require nudity, since the former “Brokeback Mountain” star isn’t completely comfortable with her body.

“I have the usual self-loathing and body issues, and yet I seem to be naked in a lot of movies,” she told W. “It would be really nice if the pictures did not get posted online. But then maybe that’s a reason to do it: Just get naked, and who cares if it ends up on the Internet.”

Michelle, who got her start on the hit show “Dawson’s Creek,” said the teen drama prepared her for life as a working actress.

“I was so lucky to get ‘Dawson’s.’ I was auditioning for pilots twice a day,” she said. “You get used to the rhythm of rejection. But auditioning for pilots taught me to change my clothes really fast. To this day I can get in and out of my bra and panties faster than anyone.”

Link (with Ryan and Michelle pictures in gallery): http://michellewilliams-fan.com/ (http://michellewilliams-fan.com/)

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Sophia on September 15, 2010, 04:38:06 pm
Michelle, an Oscar?? That's what the Swedish newspaper are saying about her performance in Meek´s cut. It's an female western movie about life on the road to the west.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Meryl on September 15, 2010, 04:51:29 pm
I saw on a TV show that Michelle and Ryan Gosling are featured on the cover and on the inside of "W" Magazine's September issue.  Very glam pics.  8)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on September 15, 2010, 05:58:25 pm
By now, the Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing. Michelle William's latest movie Blue Valentine is being shown today. Here is a preview:

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2010/bluevalentine (http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2010/bluevalentine)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on September 15, 2010, 06:18:10 pm
A second Michelle William's movie is also being shown at TIFF today and tomorrow. It's called Meek's Cutoff. It's new to me but here is what I've been able to find out about it:

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2010/meekscutoff (http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2010/meekscutoff)

I think Michelle is still in town filming Take This Waltz so she won't have far to go to attend these openings!
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on September 16, 2010, 10:46:04 am
wow, Michelle is one busy lady!
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: CellarDweller on October 08, 2010, 09:42:59 pm
Shot of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe.






(http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k463/dcfmod/williamsasmarilynmonroe-full560x.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on October 08, 2010, 09:50:31 pm
I recently saw Michelle in 2 movies: Incendiary and Me Without You which amazed me both times. Her range as an actor is tremendous.

Both these movies were in English, British that is, set in England. Her accent seemed flawless to me but what do I know.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on October 09, 2010, 04:21:50 am
Shot of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe.






(http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k463/dcfmod/williamsasmarilynmonroe-full560x.jpg)

wow


What a pair she and Heath must have made. Both so very, very interesting
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Meryl on November 06, 2010, 02:31:22 am
Michelle Williams: 'Blue Valentine's' NC-17 Rating 'Feels Like a Slap'

6:15 PM 11/5/2010 by Philiana Ng

Michelle Williams would rather have her upcoming film Blue Valentine hold onto its NC-17 rating than change the film.

"I'm happy for it to stay just like it is. Genuinely, I am," Williams told Entertainment Weekly when asked if she thought the film should be re-edited to receive an R rating. "Movies get to have long lives and it'll be judged and rejudged in 10 or 20 or 30 years, and I'll be curious to see how it stands."

"It seems like such a condemnation," noted Williams, who is in London filming My Week With Marilyn and will miss Saturday's Los Angeles premiere of Blue Valentine. "It feels like such a slap on the hand, like you've been a bad kid or something."

The Weinstein Co., who is distributing the film, is appealing the MPAA's NC-17 rating -- which translates to No Children under age 17 admitted. Harvey Weinstein told EW that he has already assembled a team of lawyers, including Alan Friedman, who was successful in getting the Seth Rogen-Elizabeth Banks film Zack & Miri Make a Porno an R rating.

“We’re going to have to overturn this,” Weinstein said. “This is serious stuff. This could really hurt the movie.”

“[Director] Derek [Cianfrance] doesn’t want to do it, I don’t think there’s any reason to do it, and of course I’m worried that if we don’t get the R it could jeopardize the business of the movie and more importantly my actors … because they are eminently nominatable," he said when asked about possibly editing down the film.

Added Weinstein: “If [Piranha 3D] got an NC-17, I’d be the first going, ‘All right, we gotta cut some of that stuff.’ It’s ridiculous -- a penis got coughed up in the movie by a piranha!" Piranha 3D received an R rating.

Blue Valentine, which has been on the festival circuit for nearly a year, centers on a young couple (Williams and Ryan Gosling) going through marital troubles.

Williams spoke of the deep bond she shared with Gosling during shooting.

"I haven't really talked to him about this, but that movie went so deep, that for a while when we would see each other, we were kind of where our characters left off for a few moments in time," she shared.

Williams mentioned that after filming finishes for My Week With Marilyn, she will be “taking some time off. I’m not working for another year.”

Blue Valentine hits theaters in the U.S. on Dec. 31.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michelle-williams-blue-valentines-nc-37351
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on November 06, 2010, 10:49:06 am
Of that whole article, the part that lingers with me is this next to last sentence.




Williams mentioned that after filming finishes for My Week With Marilyn, she will be “taking some time off. I’m not working for another year.”



Must be nice when "some time off" means a year.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on December 06, 2010, 04:43:54 am
There was a new screening of Blue Valentine. Just Jared has some new sweet pictures of Michelle, the ones with Ryan Gosling are particularly sweet.

 http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/2501259/ryan-gosling-michelle-williams-blue-valentine-screening-09/fullsize/ (http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/2501259/ryan-gosling-michelle-williams-blue-valentine-screening-09/fullsize/)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on December 06, 2010, 05:07:55 am
Thanks for the link

Looking forward to seeing this one
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle: the 'Blue Valentine' interview
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 18, 2010, 04:02:02 pm


http://www.popeater.com/2010/12/15/michelle-williams-blue-valentine-my-week-with-marilyn/


(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.popeater.com/media/pe-main-logo.gif)

Michelle Williams:
Doing 'Dawson's Creek' Was 'Like Being a Mobster'

(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.popeater.com/media/2010/12/1291840251430-1292430532.jpg)

Michelle Williams, the beautiful and ethereal Oscar-nominated actress, will soon be seen alongside fellow indie icon Ryan Gosling in 'Blue Valentine,' which had its controversial NC-17 rating overturned last week. In a new interview with PopEater, she reveals why she was initially indifferent about the quasi-censorship of the film. "I didn't understand the ramifications," she admits. The 'Brokeback Mountain' actress also opens up about playing tragic characters, including Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming 'My Week With Marilyn,' and lighter things like how her daughter prefers Ginger Rogers to 'iCarly' and why she felt like a "mobster" while shooting 'Dawson's Creek' for all those years.

"You set up a shop selling pizza but in the back you're laundering money. You're doing one thing in plain sight and secretly plotting something else," she says. "I was plotting my tastes, my interests, my beliefs and hopes for what I could be."

Hi Michelle, can you just wait a second while I check my tape recorder. Oh shivers.
Did you just say "shivers"? I love it.

I did. I have a three-year-old, so I'm trying very hard not to swear. There are a lot of "shivers" and "fudges."
You should try "mercy." That's what I use.

So, were you upset when 'Blue Valentine' first got that NC-17 rating?
I wasn't because I didn't understand the ramifications of getting an NC-17 rating. I thought it only dealt with whether or not children under the age of 17 should be allowed to go and I thought, I don't know, that should be their parents' decision. But what I came to understand is the issue of censorship and also living in a culture that devalues an honest portrayal of a relationship and a sexual relationship within a marriage but then promotes violent sex and torture. Once I realized those two things were at play, I became interested.

Do you think censors have a problem with depictions of honest female sexuality?
I think about how over time what has been banned and what has eventually seen the light of day and it's [in] good company, you know? In some ways, it's a weird backward compliment because it's real, it's new and it's an audacious approach.

Well, it must have been very hard to work opposite Ryan Gosling. He's just so unattractive.
(Laughs) Hardest part of my job.

You just finished playing Marilyn. Was it amazing?
Many things -- amazing being one of them. The movie takes place when she was making 'The Prince and the Showgirl' and married to Arthur Miller. I didn't stop shooting that long ago, so I've still got one foot in it.

Did you read 'Fragments,' the book of Marilyn's writings?
Oh, isn't that a beautiful book? You know that was an auspicious day on set. We were filming at Park Side House, which is where she stayed when she was in London, and it was our first day there and it was the day the book came out and there are notes in the book written on Park Side House stationary.

Ever come home from work depressed?
Um, look, there is residue, always, always for me. No matter what the role, there's some residue and rightly so, necessarily so. But my primary commitment in this world is my daughter and I cannot commit myself, not to say I haven't, but I can't stay there.

What's Matilda (her 5-year-old daughter with the late Heath Ledger) up to?
Well, she'd have to tell you.

Is she into 'iCarly'?
No. She's into Fred and Ginger right now.

Fred and Ginger?
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

That's so cool.
I know, we like it equally. Don't get me wrong, she has her pop culture references, but I try to make a balance is all.

'Blue Valentine' is so intense. Was it hard to switch on and off?
It is hard but in some ways it's good because I don't have a choice. One thing about making this movie is, I had between 45 minutes to an hour of driving from where I was staying to the set everyday and it was kind of a decompression chamber. I would use that time to try and shed one skin and put on another.

I hope you take this as a compliment, but watching 'Dawson's Creek' I never thought you'd have such an interesting career.
I do take it as a compliment.

You're sort of like the female Johnny Depp. He started off on a cheesy show too.
That's a damn fine compliment my friend, wow. I said to a friend [that] being on 'Dawson's Creek' was kind of like being a mobster. You set up a shop selling pizza but in the back you're laundering money. You're doing one thing in plain sight and secretly plotting something else. I was plotting my tastes, my interests, my beliefs and hopes for what I could be.

After the show ended you must have been offered a lot of crap.
Sure, but what's hard is the aim and that you're going to fall short a little. It was never an option to me to make a lot of money or do work I couldn't get behind. That's not my nature. What is hard is living up to your own expectations. Yes, it was hard getting jobs I wanted. I was a pop tart. It took patience and baby steps. I did a play in New York that wasn't about being blonde, which led to a role in an HBO thing to a role in a British drama. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "Gradually, then suddenly."

Did you have to economize? Like taking the subway instead of cabs?
I don't like to take taxis anyway. I hate the thought of being stuck. I've been stuck in midtown Manhattan.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on December 18, 2010, 04:30:11 pm
She sounds very intelligent when she speaks
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Ellemeno on December 18, 2010, 06:43:53 pm
(http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/10/41/1/192/1922398/15bbbd217a2ea85b_marilyn.jpg)
Title: Michelle Williams Interview on Nightline on Heath's Death; R. Gosling Joins Her
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 23, 2010, 12:32:44 am



http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/12/22/michelle-williams-nightline-video-heath-ledger/


Michelle Williams chats Heath Ledger,
rumored romance with Ryan Gosling on 'Nightline'

by Kate Ward
Dec 22 2010 05:40 PM ET


During last night’s Nightline interview with Cynthia McFadden to promote Dec. 29′s Blue Valentine,  Michelle Williams opened up about the death of ex-fiancé Heath Ledger, who passed away in New York nearly three years ago.

“In a strange way, I miss that year,” said Williams, who coped with her loss by reading Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking,  “because all those possibilities that existed then are gone. It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear from behind a bush. It was a sad year of very magical thinking. And in some ways, I’m sad to be moving further and further  away from that.”

The chat, however, didn’t completely center on the tragedy. Blue Valentine  co-star Ryan Gosling stopped by to discuss their project — and to dodge rumors that the duo were dating. “You are not an item?” McFadden asked. Answered Gosling: “Creatively, we are doing it.”



See Video, click:
(http://www.ivstatic.com/files/et/imagecache/636/files/blog_articles/michelle-williams-ryan-gosling.jpg) (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/12/22/michelle-williams-nightline-video-heath-ledger/)



Also:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/michelle_williams_nightline_in.html
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on December 24, 2010, 10:09:49 am
Michelle Williams still asks why Heath Ledger died
Yesterday, 06:57 pm

Actress Michelle Williams says she still can't find the meaning behind Heath Ledger's death three years ago, in a rare interview talking about the late father of her child who died of a prescription overdose.

Williams, who since the actor's death in New York in January 2008, has remained mostly quiet in interviews about her former partner, told ABC news show "Nightline" this week she could understand why the public was curious about her grief, but still could not understand why Ledger died.

"I've found meanings around the circumstance but the actual event itself still doesn't have a ... I can't find a meaning for it," she said with tears in her eyes.

The 30 year-old actress, whose romance with Ledger blossomed on the set of "Brokeback Mountain" in roles for which they both received Oscar nominations (he won supporting actor), said she had found "meaning in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened.

"I can find a lot of meaning in that, but not in why," she said.

Williams had split with Ledger when he died but was still sharing duties raising their daughter. To deal with her grief, she said she read "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, the Pulitzer-Prize winning account of Didion's year following the death of her husband.

"In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone," Williams told ABC. "It didn't seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear from behind a bush. It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I'm sad to be moving further and further away from it."

She said that for a time, she pondered the notion that one's life can change in an instant.

"I got kind of obsessed with that for a while, before and after," she said. "A lot of things died. There is a line from a book that gave me so much comfort and it said, "When you have truly lost everything, then at least you can become rich in loss'."

Williams, who is widely tipped to be nominated for a best actress Oscar this year for her new film, "Blue Valentine," said she aimed for a normal upbringing for Ledger's toddler daughter, Matilda.

"It is of more importance to me than anything else in my life," she said.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on January 06, 2011, 10:44:23 am


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/michelle-williams-upset-over-devastating-nightline-interview-about-heath-ledger_n_804751.html


Michelle Williams Upset
Over 'Devastating'
Heath Ledger
'Nightline' Interview

First Posted: 01- 5-11 12:32 PM
Updated: 01- 6-11 08:41 AM



(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/230897/thumbs/s-MICHELLE-WILLIAMS-HEATH-LEDGER-large300.jpg)


Talking about late ex-fiancee is still difficult for Michelle Williams -- especially when her words are manipulated.

Williams spoke about [Heath] Ledger in a highly publicized 'Nightline' interview last week, and she told The Daily Beast  that she isn't pleased about how they presented her words.

"I just had an experience with Nightline that got edited in such a way that seemed as if I did go too far," Williams said. "It was a three-hour interview that was edited in such a way that was devastating to me."

Among a number of other things, Williams said:

"In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone. It didn't seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush. It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I'm sad to be moving further and further away from it."

It was a totally misuse of what she said in the long interview, Williams insists.

"They used those few quotes and the way they edited the piece to sell the interview, and it appeared as if I were breaking some kind of silence and sitting down with the express purpose to discuss something that is very private to me."

Actually, Williams says that she suffered a lot of loss following Ledger's tragic death.

"I experienced a lot of loss after his death," she confided. "I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything. It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers."
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on February 28, 2011, 08:13:58 am
From the Oscars
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Monika on February 28, 2011, 08:17:28 am
On the red carpet
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on April 10, 2011, 02:58:01 pm
In the Culture section Of the April 3 issue of The Sunday Times (London), there's an interview with Michelle Williams, largely because Meek's Cutoff is opening in London on April 15. At one point the writer refers to an incident involving both Heath and Michelle with this description:

""When the paparazzi began stalking her during the salad days of her relationship with Ledger, the unsmiling couple famously stood together, middle fingers raised aloft, while Ledger held up a handwritten message in perfect Anglo-Saxon."

Does anybody have a shot of this or remember when and where it took place?
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: southendmd on April 10, 2011, 06:10:44 pm
In the Culture section Of the April 3 issue of The Sunday Times (London), there's an interview with Michelle Williams, largely because Meek's Cutoff is opening in London on April 15. At one point the writer refers to an incident involving both Heath and Michelle with this description:

""When the paparazzi began stalking her during the salad days of her relationship with Ledger, the unsmiling couple famously stood together, middle fingers raised aloft, while Ledger held up a handwritten message in perfect Anglo-Saxon."

Does anybody have a shot of this or remember when and where it took place?

Don't remember where or when, but here it is:

(http://flipthatbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/heath-ledger.jpg)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on April 11, 2011, 01:26:08 pm
Don't remember where or when, but here it is:

(http://flipthatbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/heath-ledger.jpg)

Thanks, southendmd, for the shot. Now I wonder where and when. Clearly, it's not NYC.  It looks as though they are trying to vacation quietly and privately together somewhere and the paps keep disturbing them.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on April 11, 2011, 10:15:55 pm
Thanks, southendmd, for the shot. Now I wonder where and when. Clearly, it's not NYC.  It looks as though they are trying to vacation quietly and privately together somewhere and the paps keep disturbing them.

Here you go:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/257861/FP_498327_Ledger_Heath_CLAS_28_081406/
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: chowhound on April 12, 2011, 01:24:22 pm
Here you go:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/257861/FP_498327_Ledger_Heath_CLAS_28_081406/

Thanks Fran for the extra information. I guess my last question is when did Heath and Michelle vacation in Mexico. Clearly at this point in time, Heath was sporting quite a substantial beard.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on May 03, 2011, 10:13:05 am


http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2011/05/see_all_the_looks_from_the_201.html#photo=66x87252

From the 2011 Costume Institute Gala Red Carpet
at the Metropolitan Museum, New York

May 2, 2011

(http://cache.nymag.com/daily/fashion/upload/2011/05/see_all_the_looks_from_the_201/02_metcostumegala_michellewilliams.jpg)

Michelle Williams wearing a dress by Miu Miu (Miuccia Prada).
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images


Looks a little bit like one of Heath's bird tattoos....

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Meryl on May 03, 2011, 11:19:19 am
Where bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring.... :D
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Fran on May 03, 2011, 10:07:56 pm
Thanks Fran for the extra information. I guess my last question is when did Heath and Michelle vacation in Mexico. Clearly at this point in time, Heath was sporting quite a substantial beard.

The photos made the rounds around August 15, 2006, so my guess would be early in August of 2006.

I do remember that Michelle's "little girl" bathing suit got some negative reviews in the comments section on at least one website.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on May 04, 2011, 08:33:41 am
Maybe it's just the lighting, but I'm digging the darker, more highlighted hair.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: MilAn on June 07, 2011, 05:14:31 am
Michelle with her new boyfriend, director Fukunaga:


http://www.popsugar.com/Michelle-Williams-Cary-Fukunaga-Pictures-17763979 (http://www.popsugar.com/Michelle-Williams-Cary-Fukunaga-Pictures-17763979)
Title: Michelle as MM to debut in New York
Post by: Marge_Innavera on August 05, 2011, 11:24:32 am
from Reuters, August 4th:

Michelle Williams in "Marilyn" film gets NY debut

(Reuters) - "My Week with Marilyn, starring Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams as 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, will see its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in October, organizers said on Thursday.

"Directed by Simon Curtis, the film is based on a week that writer Colin Clark worked as an assistant with Monroe while she was filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" in the United Kingdom in the early summer of 1956.

"That film featured Monroe working opposite Sir Laurence Oliver and was shot when Monroe was on a honeymoon with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller. When he left England, Clark was assigned to introduce Monroe to British life."

full story at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/04/us-marilynmonroe-idUSTRE77371J20110804

Title: Re: Michelle as MM to debut in New York
Post by: Monika on August 05, 2011, 01:10:22 pm
from Reuters, August 4th:

Michelle Williams in "Marilyn" film gets NY debut

(Reuters) - "My Week with Marilyn, starring Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams as 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, will see its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in October, organizers said on Thursday.

"Directed by Simon Curtis, the film is based on a week that writer Colin Clark worked as an assistant with Monroe while she was filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" in the United Kingdom in the early summer of 1956.

"That film featured Monroe working opposite Sir Laurence Oliver and was shot when Monroe was on a honeymoon with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller. When he left England, Clark was assigned to introduce Monroe to British life."

full story at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/04/us-marilynmonroe-idUSTRE77371J20110804



I think casting Michelle in this role was pure genius

Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier also sounds pretty spot on
Title: My Week With Marilyn
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on October 10, 2011, 05:07:10 pm
Starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn (I'm going to yell for) Monroe:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXDzqYu4mc8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Title: Re: My Week With Marilyn
Post by: Sason on October 10, 2011, 05:41:37 pm
Starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn (I'm going to yell for) Monroe:


LOL! Good one!!
Title: Michelle Michelle Michelle (the touching reason why she keeps her hair so short)
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on November 02, 2011, 10:53:12 am





'I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it.'




http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/columns/belinda-white/TMG8862758/Michelle-Williams-Straight-men-across-the-board-are-not-into-this-hair.html




Michelle Williams:
‘Straight men across the board
are not into this hair’

My Week With Marilyn  actress Michelle Williams on the
touching reason why she keeps her hair so short.


 BY Belinda White
01 November 2011


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Michelle Williams in Elle magazine's December issue.


Adorable actress Michelle Williams is Elle magazine's December cover star and the subject of a fashion spread and rare interview to promote her starring role in upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic 'My Week With Marilyn'.

In it, the two-time Oscar nominee speaks about her hopes and fears for the film, 'I've never been so hanging on a cliff waiting to hear what people think of a movie'; and the agonising responsibility of portraying such an idol. 'I think after the second day, I told them they had to take away my passport because I was a flight risk'.
 
But the most poignant part of the interview comes long after the movie talk when the fiercely private star - whose personal life was made so public following the sudden death of her ex-partner, and father of her six-year-old daughter Matilda, Heath Ledger in 2008 - talks about her signature cropped hairstyle:
 
'What Matilda would love is for her mum to grow out the cropped hair, though that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
 
'I've really grown into it - I feel like myself with short hair. And it's been a really long time since I had long hair, five years,' she explains.
 
'Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair!'
 
'I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it.'

Not just a great haircut, but hands down the best reason we've ever heard for one.
 
My Week With Marilyn hits cinemas on November 25. Read the full interview in the December issue of Elle, on sale Nov 2.
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Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on November 26, 2011, 05:06:55 pm



Interesting...the interview was in a restaurant on 49th and Lex, a corner I walk by every day...you certainly never know who you might meet...!


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/fashion/michelle-williams-in-an-unfamiliar-role-the-star.html?pagewanted=all


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Main Course
For Michelle Williams,
an Unfamiliar Role: The Star

By CATHY HORYN
Published: November 25, 2011


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HERE is 45 minutes in my life. Actually, 58 minutes 50 seconds, according to the counter on my tape recorder when I finish my conversation with the actress Michelle Williams in the bar of the Bull and Bear Steakhouse in the Waldorf-Astoria, and her publicist, a harried-looking woman named Cari, whisks her away. A bottle of red wine sits unfinished on the table. I pay the check for my $30 hamburger — she wanted only cocktail nuts — and for the glass of wine I ordered while I was waiting for her, and my thoughts skip a beat, releasing me from the scene. ...

She came across the bar toward the corner table and stuck out her hand: “Hi, I’m Michelle.” She’d come from a room upstairs, where she was doing interviews for “My Week With Marilyn,” a Weinstein production set in England in 1956 when Marilyn Monroe was making “The Prince and the Showgirl” with Laurence Olivier.

Ms. Williams, her hair restored to a pixie cut after Marilyn’s goddess curls, did not remove her tweed coat, and it gaped at the neck when she sat down, making her look even smaller than she is. She shook her head when a waiter asked if she wanted something.

“I would have a glass of wine but I’ll fall asleep,” she said with a light laugh. “I’m usually a partaker.”

She had arrived that morning from Detroit, where she has been filming “Oz: The Great and Powerful” and living in the suburbs with her 6-year-old daughter, Matilda, the child she had with the actor Heath Ledger. She got home from the set at 3 a.m.

“I don’t know when I’ve ever been busier than I am now,” she said. “It’s really taken me by surprise.”

“More than the publicity for “Brokeback Mountain”? I asked.

She nodded. “I’ve always had someone to do it with. When we did “Brokeback,” pretty much everything I did was with Heath.” For “Blue Valentine,” she was with Ryan Gosling. “So I haven’t had the experience of being the only person in the conversation.”

“You mean being the star?”

She pulled a face and laughed. “I don’t like to put it that way.”

I had two reasons for wanting to talk to Ms. Williams. First, it’s very clear in “Marilyn” that she gives a star performance. She does not so much portray Monroe as project the legend’s thrilling, and toxic, essence. At 31, Ms. Williams has played a string of misery types — Alma in “Brokeback,” Wendy in the enchanting “Wendy and Lucy,” Cindy in “Blue Valentine.” “Marilyn” breaks that pattern, maybe once and for all.

Second, I was interested in a remark she once made about her decision at 15 to be emancipated from her parents. She said, “I didn’t want anyone telling me what to do.” Although I wondered why she thought she was capable of making good decisions, it didn’t strike me as rash. On the contrary, she seemed to know what she wanted. And I suspected she knew that, as well, when she became involved with Mr. Ledger and had a child. (He died in 2008.) She can take care of herself.

Ms. Williams sets up home wherever she is working, enrolling her daughter in a local school and traveling with a sitter. It makes it easier, she said, than commuting to their home in upstate New York.

“It’s hello and goodbye in circles when you live that kind of life,” she said, adding in a false contralto, “ ‘Oh, no, we forgot bunny!’ And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.”

“Can you feel part of a community?” I ask.

“You know who makes that happen is my daughter,” she said. “She is remarkably outgoing, engaging, confident. Because of her we wind up making friends wherever we go. We just got a dog. We were at the park and Matilda went up to another family with a dog and started chatting away. Last Tuesday, we had dinner at their house. She’s the social glue.”

A waiter brought a bottle of wine, a gift to her from the producer Harvey Weinstein. Ms. Williams decided to have a glass. “Here I am drinking wine,” she said. “Surprise, surprise.”

I told her I was curious about the remark she had made about her freedom, and whether she believed she had lost anything in the bargain, like a proper education.

“Yes, I do,” she said. “One of the big delights of my life right now is working with James Franco, who hasn’t lost anything. He’s a perpetual student who is now becoming a teacher. I just kind of poke him all day and say, ‘What’s that mean?’ ‘How would you dissect that poem?’ Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn’t pass my friend’s sixth-grade class. Wow.”

I asked, “So was it teenage rebellion that made you feel that way or were you wise beyond your years?”

She shrugged. “It could have been both. Listen, I’ve always been very headstrong. I did find my direction at an early age. But mixed in there was — I mean, how much sense of the world can you really have at 15? Mixed in was some brashness and naïveté about real danger. I do consider myself lucky that whatever I brushed up against didn’t stick.”

Many years ago I interviewed a well-known actor who, though a year away from winning an Academy Award, was at the time in a trough of bad-guy roles. When I asked why he wasn’t making better pictures, he replied, “Because those are the roles I was offered.” I repeated the comment to Ms. Williams.

“I concur,” she said. “There isn’t something out there that I’ve — ” She paused. “It was this or dreck. This is what has come to me. It takes one person to say, “I see her a little differently.”

Certainly Simon Curtis, the director of “Marilyn,” saw her as no one else has. She said: “I read the script. I think it came as an offer — which, my God, it’s really good to live in that world. Immediately I knew I wanted the part.”

Given that it’s such a departure, I wondered what she thought about her performance.

“Well, I felt like I made a bet with myself and won,” she said in a soft voice that sounded like Marilyn’s.

“But it’s such a glamorous part.”

“It’s a jump.”

“And star making.”

“You said that dirty word again,” she said, and laughed.

After a moment she said, “I really surprised myself. You know that scene in ‘Star Wars’? Luke and Solo — I don’t even know their names — are about to be squashed in that thing.” She looked at my son, Jacob, who had joined us. “You know that thing?”

“A trash compactor,” he said drowsily.

She nodded. “That’s what I felt like every day on the set. Like I was being pressed up against the wall of my own abilities.”

Cari the publicist was hovering and I said to Ms. Williams, “One last question.”

“Uh-oh!”

I said I was curious about a “Dateline” interview in which she invoked Joan Didion’s line about a “year of magical thinking” to describe Mr. Ledger’s death. She said she was in a way sad to be moving further and further away from it. I wondered: is that age or did she lack the tools at the time to comprehend everything?

“I think it’s just time away from the event of the thing,” she said, catching herself. “No, event is the wrong word — from the impact of the thing. There’s sort of a ripple effect. Then when you get too far away you start to get really scared.”

“That you’ll forget.”

She said, no, that some things were impossible to forget.

“But you don’t seem to carry that dragline,” I said.

“No, I don’t,” she said and then smiled. “Why don’t I?”



Also posted in the Culture Tent thread: Michelle Williams with "My Week with Marilyn"
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Post by: Meryl on January 15, 2012, 11:35:50 pm
Congratulations to Michelle on winning the Golden Globe for "My Week with Marilyn"!  8)

The NY Times had this amazing picture of her from 2008 on the red carpet:

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Post by: Katie77 on January 15, 2012, 11:51:36 pm
What a beautiful lady......so proud of her...

And great that it was Jake who introduced the movie as a nominee for best picture...
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Post by: ifyoucantfixit on January 16, 2012, 02:18:12 am
      Congratulations to Michelle for winning, in a very difficult catagory with such a  talented group of ladies.
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Post by: Penthesilea on January 16, 2012, 02:46:02 pm
Congrats to Michelle for winning a Golden Globe! :)

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Her acceptance speech thanking Matilda was really cute.
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Post by: Fran on January 16, 2012, 07:50:13 pm
Her acceptance speech thanking Matilda was really cute.

I liked it, too. 

Here's the acceptance speech in case anyone missed it:

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Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on January 18, 2012, 07:30:02 am



She hasn't seen it since. But she does know what she thinks of it now. "I think it's a great film. And...it's probably obvious but..." She pauses for a long time, and when she picks up the thought her voice is quieter and higher: "...well, he's really quite astounding in it. Heath."




http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201202/michelle-williams-gq-february-2012-cover-story-article?currentPage=1


Some Like Her Hot
It seemed crazy at first. Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe?
Come on. We knew Williams could act—but could she make us
drool? America, we have our answer. Meet the winner of GQ's
(okay, yes, unofficial) award for best actress

 
by Chris Heath
Photographs by Michael Thompson
February 2012


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Here is what happens in this article: I meet with Michelle Williams on three days in two different cities over a bit more than a week. Much does not go as either of us expects. On the first day, we mainly talk about her youth, and I make her cry. On the second, we mainly talk about her becoming Marilyn Monroe. This is the only dry-eyed meeting. (Unless—quite possible—I was too insensitive to notice.) On the third, we mainly talk about her life with, and without, Heath Ledger. At the end of the third day, we walk around a park in the dark. At the end of the second day, we tidy up the leftovers of her daughter's birthday cupcakes. At the end of the first day, she leaves in tears, her parting words: "That was really awful."

That's about all. There's also a moment at the very end of the article that could be taken as an atmospheric, ambivalent allegory about the chasing of dreams, but is probably just a brief account of a long hike. The rest is taken up with all that kind of stuff that people sometimes say when they're asked enough questions. If any of it breaks your heart, it was probably already a little broken to begin with.
 


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On that first day, we meet at the Oakwood apartments in Los Angeles. This extensive residential compound is a legendary staging post for aspiring actors—indeed for anyone trying to get a foothold in the city. It is also where Michelle Williams used to stay in her early teens, long before Dawson's Creek,  let alone her subsequent stealthy rise through an interesting mess of movies, whose inevitable misfires never seemed to be hers, until she emerged as one of the great unshowy talents of her generation. Meeting here was my suggestion. No great reason. In everything I'd read about her, this was the only place in Los Angeles that seemed even slightly significant. (She's lived in Brooklyn for many years.) Though she phones me when she's on her way, wondering if we should change the plan because it's raining and she is wearing thin ballet-style shoes, I'm already there and can't think of an easy alternative. When she arrives—it's just after nine in the morning—she leaves her car (she has a driver), climbs into mine, and I slowly drive round the apartment's parking lot while we work out what to do.

"This is crazy," she says. "Why did I agree to this?"

She tells me that she hasn't been back here for fifteen years. When she first decided that she wanted to be an actress, at the age of 11 or 12, her parents would drive her up from their San Diego home to Los Angeles for auditions and, eventually, for jobs. By 15 she would become legally emancipated and have her own apartment in the Valley, but before that she'd stay here off and on, usually with her mother. "Such a strange place to revisit," she says.
 
I park and we take shelter from the rain in a covered outdoor stairway. Williams can't even quite recall which apartment was once hers, but some memories begin to trickle back. First, the decor. "I ­remember there was a lot of teal and pink," she says. Then the inhabitants. "I wonder if the people I remember still live here." She pulls a name from her memory. "Devin Oatway. I kind of want to go to the front desk and ask if his parents are still here." She won't, of course. "Oh, I had such a crush on him," she says. "He gave me Thus Spake Zarathustra. "
 
So, even then, she was the kind of girl whose pulse privately quickened for Nietzsche? It's sensible to be wary of such details, and wonder whether they're just a typical affectation of a young actor straining for seriousness, but for Williams it all seems to come from somewhere inside her that was established early and deeply. "My dad gave me Notes from the Underground  when I was 12," she explains, and here and now, sitting on a step of the building where she used to read such books, she quietly recites to me the opening of Dostoevsky's nihilistic landmark: "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man...."

Clearly, I observe, she was quite drawn toward the dark.
 
"I was, yeah. Aren't most teenagers?"
 
No, I say. Lots, but not most. Otherwise there'd be no sports.
 
She considers this, agrees that it might be true. "Maybe when I was in my early twenties and my late teens, I was more prone to sitting in it or lacerating myself with it," she says. "Now I want to move out of it. I have a daughter. I want a happy life."
 


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She is discussing her education, and how she ended up being home-schooled and doing correspondence courses—a better fit with her acting work, and a way to sidestep the unwanted bother she'd begun to face at school. "There's plenty of opportunities to tease someone who's been in a Lassie  movie." Her last formal school was Santa Fe Christian in San Diego; later its principal would denounce Williams after she appeared in Brokeback Mountain.  ("Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution," he said. "She made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn't approve.") "It didn't really bother me," she says, when I allude to this.
 
No twinge, I ask, when you suddenly found out that you'd been living a sinful, artistic career?
 
"It wasn't any surprise to me," she says. "I knew. I remember my mother saying to me at one point, 'Just don't make anything your grandmother couldn't see.' And at that point I knew I was living a sinful artistic career, because I had done, and I knew I would do."
 
So I ask her what the first thing was that really stepped over that line, and that's when she starts telling me about this New York play. It was called Killer Joe.  In it, there was copious violence and rough, raw emotion, within which, each night, she was required to take off all her clothes. She was 18 and on break from Dawson's Creek.  That summer she'd had two offers—to make a lot of money in a film about cheerleaders with guns, or to make next to nothing and face the discomforts of Killer Joe.  For a girl determined to prove which path she was on, it was an easy decision. "That play, I see it as a direct link from there to where I am now."

And that's when I ask the first question that seems to derail her. When I say it, I have no idea that it'll be a big deal. It's not even really a question—I just mention something she said in one of her early interviews: that after her parents came to see the play, she had to go and find a therapist.
 
But when I say this, she looks at me in the way you look when you're sort of shocked and hurt and feel invaded; when you're determined to show none of this but know it will be a losing battle.

"Oh God," she says. "Wow. I mean, I must have said that twelve years ago, before I learned to shut my mouth. Wow." Then, less to me than to herself: "All right, I can take it. I'm 31—I can take it."
 
Hesitantly, she agrees to fill in a few details. "They weren't fans of that play. It was like [an] alien invasion or something in our normal lives where there weren't artists—they hadn't seen anything like it." To make it worse, her parents didn't even tell her they were coming—she didn't know they were there until they surprised her afterward, backstage. "I think I was having a beer. I haven't asked them about that for a long time. We don't bring that one up."



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When Williams legally emancipated herself from her parents at 15, she didn't do so because of any family schism, but for the independence and the practical advantages—she says she no longer needed a tutor and could work adult hours. When I suggest that it was pretty ambitious and self-contained to think she could handle it, she agrees. "It was just stupid. I didn't know what I was taking on," she says. "I don't think things through very often—I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out. Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time. In my work it's a capacity that's served me well, but in my life it can be a problem."

She describes being "a 15-year-old making a house as best as she could. I had an egg crate for a mattress. It's hard to tuck your sheets under an egg crate." It was, she says, "very, very lonely." She also refers to "just being around not-great people"; there were clearly experiences difficult enough that she would prefer to keep the details to herself.

Do you feel angry about anything that happened then?
 
"Not as much anymore. There's a lot of distance now. Fifteen years of distance. Since I left this time period, living in Los Angeles, I haven't felt like anybody's prey."
 
Do you think whatever happened was your fault or other people's fault?
 
"My opinion of that has changed over the years. I don't know—do kids have culpability?"

When she talks about her life, Williams can make it sound as though, beneath a fragile veneer of confidence, she has spent a long time flailing to catch on to the kind of everyday knowledge that she felt everyone else just seemed to know. When I refer to something she once said about how, living in Wilmington, North Carolina, for Dawson's Creek,  she would sometimes just order two pizzas at once—one for dinner and one for breakfast—she nods. "I didn't know how to keep myself warm in the winter or cool in the summer. It felt like somebody was withholding all the secrets—how to take care of yourself and where to get the things that would help you take care of yourself. I just literally didn't know where to go. I was too shy to ask for help or to admit that I was cold or that I was uncomfortable or that I didn't know what I was doing. Look, I didn't know what I was doing at so many points in my life that I felt that if I had stopped and admitted that I didn't know what I was doing then I would be really lost, and the best thing to do was to just keep forging and to act like you were okay." When she was in New York for Killer Joe  she would carry a map with her, but when anyone else was around she kept it hidden away. She would rather walk block after block in the wrong direction than be seen consulting the map.
 
"I didn't want anybody to know," she says, "that I didn't know where I was going."
 


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After an hour or so in the stairwell, we get back into my car. Williams remembers that when she lived here she used to have her own car, a '65 Mustang that she would drive, as she puts it, "not totally legally." She was never caught. "I would take a lot of drives through the hills. I liked grocery shopping at night."

As we pull away from her old home, she says that she never could have come here a few years ago. When she told a friend about this plan last night, her friend told her she was crazy. "She has heard the stories," says Williams. "The ones I didn't tell." Williams is still wondering why she said yes. "I guess I must have been curious about it, too. I guess I really do just feel lucky that I got out. Everybody that was there, we were all trying to do the same thing."
 
Williams and I next go to the kind of place where the lucky few who check out in triumph from the Oakwood apartments end up, the Beverly Hills Hotel, and sit in the dining room for a quick final few minutes while she eats some tortilla soup to fortify herself before she appears on Ellen.  Figuring that there's no time to get into some of the more difficult and involved subjects I hope we'll discuss, I inquire about her early days growing up in Montana. Her father has clearly lived a colorful life—at various times an investment guru, an explorer (he claimed to have found the true site of Mount Sinai), and a failed Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Montana. He and Williams's mother divorced when Michelle was 24. With her mother she remains close. With her father, less so. "We're not in contact at the moment," she'll tell me, "but maybe that will change." When she was young, it was different. "He taught me how to fish. He taught me how to shoot clay pigeons. He bought me the lightest running shoes. He is certainly where I inherited my independent streak from. He put books in my hands."

Somehow, in the last few minutes, as she prepares to leave, all the awkwardnesses she has been feeling seem to coalesce. It seems partly to be a discomfort in talking about her parents, and partly that she feels ambushed by being reminded of things she said years ago and which otherwise seem to have been forgotten about, and partly the lingering effects of our earlier expedition to a reminder of a difficult adolescence. Whatever the exact cause, I first notice that she is chewing the tulip-motif scarf round her neck, and then I realize that she is crying. "Boy, I get to do Ellen  now..." she mutters. "I can't wait...I'm in a fantastic mood...oh, what did I get myself into?..." She talks through her tears: "I wasn't expecting this. I thought I'd gotten so good at this recently. I'm like, 'Ah, I can do this.' Goddammit, I thought I'd gotten better at it. I'm not leaving because I'm crying...there are people waiting. But it feels like a terrible ending." That's when she says, "That was really awful," and she is sort of laughing, too, though less the way you laugh at something you find funny and more the way you laugh at something whose awkwardness is so huge as to seem absurd. It would be a bad way for any interview to end. This one perhaps more so, because I'm pretty sure we're both thinking about how much remains that hasn't yet even been mentioned.
 


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On Ellen  she talks about her daughter Matilda's new dog, Lucky, and bashfully accepts compliments about what a wonderful actress she is. We meet again the following week in a suburb of Detroit. Williams has been based here for months, filming Disney's Wizard of Oz  prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful,  directed by Sam Raimi (a movie that will not be released until 2013). She says she took the part "to make a movie for Matilda, to make something she could see." She plays Glinda the Good Witch and for now Matilda truly believes that her mother can fly. Matilda turned 6 yesterday, and Williams arrives bearing leftover cupcakes from the party. (I bite into the whole cupcake; she cuts hers into quarters first. "That's what you do when you have a kid. That's a mommy move.") We sit in the corner of an empty hotel dining area, just us and the Muzak. (About half an hour after it's played, we discover that the song we've both noticed was a version of Patrick Swayze's "She's Like the Wind," which may betray something odd about both of us. "I wasn't going to say anything," she says.)
 
Cupcakes...Patrick Swayze...flying witches...it feels like, without acknowledging it, we're both trying to make sure that this conversation doesn't pick up where the last one ended. It seems a wise time to talk about My Week with Marilyn.

What is so impressive about Williams's performance as Marilyn Monroe is everything that it is not. Every legendary aspect of Monroe's that you'd expect is in there somewhere—the vulnerability, the flirtatiousness, the slapstick, the desperation, the oozing sexuality, the wounded fragility, the chronic insecurity—but rather than being overtly played, these are hidden away where they should be, inside a character who Williams manages the near impossible feat of convincing us might once have been an actual human being. The best advice she got before filming began, advice clearly taken, came after she had approached Philip Seymour Hoffmann (whom she had appeared with in Synecdoche, New York ) and told him, "I've committed to this awful thing of playing Marilyn Monroe." "His advice," she says, "was: 'If there's even a whiff of the icon, things get much less interesting.'"

Still, anyone who has followed Michelle Williams's career could have sensibly raised a quizzical eyebrow at the news that she had taken this role in the first place. In her first TV appearance, on Baywatch,  Williams was a bikini-clad teen jogging along the beach, an object of desire for the son of David Hasselhoff's character. It suggested a path that her subsequent career didn't follow. Inasmuch as the role that first made her famous—the Dawson's Creek  bad girl Jen—still somewhat played into regular sexy-girl stereotypes, that only made her swerve in the opposite direction with all the more resolve.
 
"I wouldn't say that that would be one of my first qualities as a human being—being sexy," Williams reasons. "And I think because my character on Dawson's Creek  was sexy...sexualized...sexual...I saw all the negative attention and connotations that can come along with that. And that those things can keep people from seeing you clearly."

It's notable that in the movie roles Williams took in the Dawson's Creek  era, she monopolized the dumpy-sister and dumpy-friend roles. "I really wanted to do that," she says. "When you play sexy you're kind of playing just for men. That is something you have to police and turn it on its head." A path, it seemed, was set. "I mean, sexuality has been a part of my work, obviously...Blue Valentine ...but it's never been sexy, it hasn't been beautiful."

Recently she realized that her evasive maneuvers might have been too successful. "It's funny spending your twenties running away from it, and then you hit your thirties...wait a second! Come back! I want that time back when I didn't appreciate what I had! That kind of ripe sexuality, when you hit your thirties you feel more in possession of it, you feel it's not something that can be sort of taken away from you and reassembled."
 
That is one reason why she threw herself into the challenge of playing Marilyn Monroe. It was only after she read the script for My Week with Marilyn  that she remembered the poster. In her teenage bedroom in San Diego she had an Edward Hopper print, and a collage of people's eyes cut out from magazines, and a board on which she'd pin up pages ripped from books and treasured quotations like Walt Whitman's "I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines." Her friends may have had pictures of the latest teen heartthrobs: "For me it was Montgomery Clift. Him and James Dean." But one day when she was about 12, shopping with her mother at the mall, Williams saw a photo in the poster shop. It wasn't the beginning of some kind of fixation: "In the years that passed, I didn't develop into a rabid Marilyn Monroe fan, I didn't see all her movies, I didn't read about her." But she had to have that picture.


"Something about it reminded me of Montana," she says, "spinning in the grass barefoot. Maybe because it made her feel so relatable. And made Marilyn seem like she was just a girl or something. She's spinning, and she's wearing a white dress and barefoot and her arms are out and she is spinning with her head back and she's smiling. And she looks so happy." Williams hung it next to her bed where she could see it as she lay there. "Maybe this felt like the real her or something," wonders Williams. "Because those ones where she is backed into a corner with a dress falling off, those ones feel like they're for men."

This has been a much calmer conversation. Today is Halloween, and she must leave to prepare Matilda and herself. Michelle is to be an owl—just some feathers stuck onto some round glasses and a construction-paper beak. Matilda will be Shirley Temple. "She really likes all that stuff. She likes Fred and Ginger, and Larry, Curly, and Moe." Michelle explains that when she sees her daughter interacting comfortably with other children and adults, she feels everything is okay. That she's done something right. "When she skips," says Michelle, "she leaves the earth."
 


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In her earliest memory, Michelle Williams is on a preschool field trip to the local park in Montana. She is wearing a brand-new yellow dress made by her grandmother, with a purple unicorn on its pocket. One moment she is feeding the ducks in the pond, the next she has gotten too close and has fallen in. She's not in danger—she is standing there in the shallow water—and so she just stays where she is, shocked at this unexpected turn of events. Shocked that at one moment you could be feeding ducks, the next you could be wet. Shocked that something so benign could change so quickly. And she is also thinking something like: I wonder if I just stand here nobody will notice. Maybe I could be a duck.
 
She has another memory, just a little later. She is at her great-grandparents' house, also the location of her earliest memory of delirious happiness (riding bareback, galloping through a field). But today there is a big storm, and she is outside playing in a puffy jacket, and when she tries to get back to the house the wind blows her around and she runs into the barbed-wire fence. And she realizes she is stuck. The harder she tries to escape, the more the barbs go into her jacket.
 
She told me these two stories—I'd asked her to think back as early as she could recall—in Los Angeles while waiting for her tortilla soup. And then she wondered aloud: "So why does my mind choose those two memories that can be used as metaphors for the rest of my life? Was I always who I am now?"
 


···


When Williams sits down for our third and final meeting, I ask her about Brokeback Mountain.  I do want to know about her memories of making the film, but we both also know where this is going. She tells me about being Ang Lee's first auditionee for the role, at eight o'clock in the morning, and how she tried to sell him on the notion that landscapes are inherent in your character and so her Montana upbringing made her the right choice. Maybe that's even what swayed him. Either way, he chose wisely. There are plenty of fine Michelle Williams performances from before then—her 2003 cameo in The Station Agent,  for instance—but this was something more. The stillness and broken love of her despair seemed to anchor the grander melodrama that surrounded. I ask whether it was a difficult role to play. She pauses for a moment, then answers, "Not compared to what everybody else had to do." When she and Heath Ledger saw the finished film together, they complimented each other, but beyond that they weren't sure. "I didn't know what to make of it," she says. "Maybe when you see something different for the first time, you don't know how to categorize it. It doesn't really fit with anything else. Like the first time you listen to Björk. The first time you eat sashimi."
 
She hasn't seen it since. But she does know what she thinks of it now. "I think it's a great film. And...it's probably obvious but..." She pauses for a long time, and when she picks up the thought her voice is quieter and higher: "...well, he's really quite astounding in it. Heath."
 
I ask her why she thinks they were so drawn to each other. (A long pause follows. All the pauses will be long from now on.)
 
"There's an answer that I know," she says, "but I don't want to say." She talks around this not-saying for a while, then says, "Our initial meeting, the circumstances of how we first met, were cosmic or something." They were together through the shoot, and soon she was pregnant. "Yeah, a lot of things happened at once," she says. "It's a bit like: We had a lot of things to do, because we didn't have a lot of time, or something."
 
The waiter brings her a chamomile tea—we are at the same hotel table as yesterday—and lights a candle. Michelle breaks off her flow and watches. "It feels like lighting a candle for somebody," she says. "I feel like..." She trails off. "Where was I?"
 
I begin to ask her how she heard what had happened to Ledger—she was in Sweden at the time, making a sad film called Mammoth —but she quickly, firmly shakes her head. After it happened, she had to do a final week's shooting in New York. "It was horrible." Following that, she was also committed to appearing in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.  "I don't remember most of it," she says. "I've got a lot of holes." Once the film was completed, she wondered whether she would ever want to work again. Or whether she would just stop.
 
"That seemed like a really smart idea," she says. "You just want to be able to walk out of your house and turn your face to the sun and stumble down a corner where you have some memory, and you're not really allowed any of that." The paparazzi compounded her torments in a way that was unbearable. She acknowledges that death is something that may intrude at any time into anyone's life. "But the other stuff, there's no handbook on that," she says. "It was making me crazy. I felt like I was going crazy. It was too much—trying to deal with what had happened and trying to deal with what was at our doorstep. I just felt trapped. And it's not just me—there's somebody else who I'm trying to protect, and I can't. I can't make it stop, I can't make it go away. Trying to find ways to explain it or shield her from it. It's like you're trying to go about your life, and make dinner...but the roof is off of your house, and the walls are falling down."
 
The things that would eventually help, just a little, would be very small things. "Moments that were strung like beads on a thread...and they were very far apart from each other. I mean, it sounds so silly, but a just-right cup of tea. I spent a lot of time taking baths. A lot of tea and baths—double warm."
 
And still no work. Before, she had always relied on work and loved the way that it would help her get through difficult times, but she knew it wouldn't help here. "That didn't apply anymore. There was no working through this. This is something that had to be gotten through on its own terms. On its own terms." In fact, the moment when she missed acting never came. Instead, her hand was deftly forced. She had read the script for Blue Valentine  many years before, when she was 21, and committed to make it once the director, Derek Cianfrance, had the money. Now he came to her. The money was in place. They were ready to begin.
 
At first she stuck firm. Told him no. The film was set, and was to be shot, in California. She wouldn't travel. Not now. She wouldn't further disrupt Matilda's life for a film.
 
Cianfrance returned with a new proposition. They would reset the film on the East Coast, and he promised that she would never be more than an hour away from either her Brooklyn or upstate New York homes. She was both grateful and infuriated. How could she say no? Her yearlong sabbatical was over. "I went back internally kicking and screaming," she says. "I am now very grateful."
 
Blue Valentine 's back-and-forth montage of a relationship in golden blossoming and toxic unwinding is a great modern portrait of how love in all its purity and might is sometimes simply not up to the job required of it. When Williams gave interviews about the film, she would talk about how she drew upon the difficult unacknowledged atmosphere in her family's home growing up. I'm sure this was important, but it seemed impossible to me that this memory was all she was thinking about. It felt as though there was something obvious that everyone was considerately tiptoeing around. A young couple, a very young daughter, a deep love, a parting of ways; she and Ledger had been apart for some time when he died. But today, when I nudge toward this, and how she must have drawn on other circumstances close to her, she quickly says, "Only the magic of falling in love" and firmly diverts the conversation to her parents. Maybe it's that she won't talk about it, but maybe it is that she couldn't even allow herself to consider the slightest parallels at the time she was filming, and so what she is saying is absolutely true.



···


Her Detroit home is a few minutes from here by foot, and I walk her back through the cold, misty night. When we reach the large park near the house she's renting, we slowly circle its pathways and keep talking. About reading, about writing. It turns out that Williams is also the kind of person who signs up for an e-mail service offered by the Oxford English Dictionary where they send you a new, interesting word and its definition each day. When she particularly likes them, she writes them down in her little notebook. (Today's word: arpeggio. ) For books, she is currently, she says, "going to the James Franco school." (Her Oz  co-star's most successful tip: the stories of Grace Paley. "He said, 'She is going to be your favorite—I can tell,' and she is, she absolutely is.") We also talk about a book that was important to her in the aftermath of Ledger's death, Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost.  Williams once quoted a line on Nightline  that helped her: " 'When you have truly lost everything then at least you can become rich in loss.' " The strange thing is that Williams misquoted, and for this purpose improved, Solnit's actual words: "And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss."

"I didn't know I had done that," she says, and explains why the thought was so useful to her. "The 'rich in loss' made me laugh. I would just think, 'Filthy stinking rich! Filthy stinking rich!' in a perverse-gallows-humor kind of way. It made me laugh, it made me feel drunk, it made me feel high with loss, in that tightrope kind of way of sadness and hysteria. And when you don't have ideas like that, it feels too messy to bear. It gave me great comfort. It was something I would repeat to myself, like a mantra. Because for some time it felt like we had lost everything. And those words, that idea, calmed me down."
 
We continue in circles—occasionally she points out where the swings are, somewhere in the dark foggy distance—and then walk the last few yards to her house. Out front is her sister Paige with the new dog, Lucky; somewhere safe inside, Matilda. That's where I leave her.
 
When I asked which recent daily word she had liked the best, the one she chose seemed to say plenty about what she now cherishes.
 
"Fastness," she said. " 'A protected place in between two rocks.' "
 


···


Before, when we are still at the hotel table, chamomile tea and flickering candle in front of her, she tells me this: "Nothing has turned out like I expected to. Some things have been better, and some things have been much, much, much worse."
 
I ask her whether everything she's been through has changed how she thinks about love.
 
"Like I said, there's not an area of my...there's not a cell, not a molecule. No corner is untouched. You know, it's like a reorganization of everything. Everything is different."
 
She explains that a year or two ago, she was putting herself under a lot of pressure to find someone new to spend her life with, for a particular reason. "Because I really wanted, and I really expected or imagined, that Matilda would have siblings that were close to her age. I wanted that for her. But I couldn't make that happen. And now that she's 6 that isn't even a possibility anymore. So something that was making me feel impatient, that's been removed. For whatever reason, that's not our luck, or our path."

A further thought. "You know, as hard as certain things have been for me, it's been harder thinking about how things will be for her. I have a lot of things that she doesn't, and some of what I have I can give to her—the memories that I have, the objects that I have, the physical reminders that I have, the stories. But she won't really have any that are solely..." And that is where that sentence ends.

There is a question I have been wanting to understand the answer to, but have been feeling that I simply can't ask. Eventually I just ask it anyway:
 
Do you think there was a part of you that imagined the two of you would somehow end up together?
 
Immediately, I wish that I hadn't. The look on her face—a kind of juddering visceral alarm at what has been said...I don't wish to see that look many more times in my life. "That would make me way too sad to answer," she says quickly, and I hurriedly begin another question, about something completely different, hoping that if I say it fast enough these new words will chase the old words away from where they are hanging in the air between us, and maybe she will let me pretend that it was something I never said.
 
"No, no," she says, and I can see the tears forming, and I think she means that she doesn't want to answer any more questions about anything. I mutter some kind of apology under my breath.

But, even now, I'm wrong about everything. Mostly she is just trying to stop my new question. She has something to tell me.
 
"No," she says. "I said it would make me too sad to answer but it's also..."—and she nods even as her voice breaks once more with tears—"...one of my favorite things to imagine." And through the tears, a beaming, almost beatific smile stretches room-wide across her face. "It's actually one of my favorite places to visit."
 


···


That morning at the Oakwood apartments, Michelle Williams looked up at the desolate scrubby hill rising to our right, and it reminded her of the time when she and two young male actors broke through the fence that was supposed to keep the coyotes out and the young actors in, and headed upward. She remembered that their hike was a lot farther than anticipated, and she remembered that they didn't take enough water, and she remembered that at times she was a little scared, but that eventually they reached their destination. The HOLLYWOOD sign. She remembered the ladders behind the letters. She remembered how there was underwear on each step. And she remembered how she climbed up anyway to the middle of the first "O" in "Hollywood," and sat there for a while.




Also posted in the Culture Tent's thread, Michelle Williams and “My Week With Marilyn”
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,49535.msg626212/topicseen.html#msg626212
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on January 18, 2012, 08:28:54 am



http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201202/michelle-williams-gq-february-2012-cover-story-photos#slide=1



(http://www.gq.com/images/women/2012/02/michelle-williams/michelle-williams-cover.jpg)
Cardigan, $525, by Alexander Wang. Bra, $130, and panties,
$60, by Stella McCartney.




(http://www.gq.com/images/women/2012/02/michelle-williams/michelle-williams-01.jpg)
Shirt by Stella McCartney. Bra by Eres. Ring by Me & Ro



(http://www.gq.com/images/women/2012/02/michelle-williams/michelle-williams-02.jpg)
Slip dress by La Perla. Bra and panties by Myla.



(http://www.gq.com/images/women/2012/02/michelle-williams/michelle-williams-03.jpg)
Sweater by Stella McCartney. Bra and panties by Agent Provocateur.



(http://www.gq.com/images/women/2012/02/michelle-williams/michelle-williams-outtake.jpg)



Also posted in the Culture Tent's thread, Michelle Williams and “My Week With Marilyn”
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,49535.msg626214/topicseen.html#msg626214
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Meryl on January 18, 2012, 01:07:51 pm
Whoa.  Alma, we hardly knew ye.  :P
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on January 18, 2012, 02:17:27 pm
Whoa.  Alma, we hardly knew ye.  :P

Ennis might not have been so inattentive. ...
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on January 19, 2012, 04:38:57 pm
Such a moving and insightful interview. Interesting how some elements of grief are universal...
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on January 20, 2012, 05:37:45 am


   A stunning layout.  And a courageously daring interview.  Both on Michelle's part, and the part of the writer. 
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on January 20, 2012, 09:43:27 am
The photos of Michelle in lingerie are lovely. But why don't male actors ever have to pose in their underwear (or less) for publicity shots? I bet even Michael Fassbender did the Shame publicity fully clothed.

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on January 22, 2012, 11:18:38 pm
The boys certainly have a long way to go but there are quite a few pics out there of pretty men in their boy panties or pants riding so low on their hips I just want to reach out and touch someone < insert devil smiley>
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on January 31, 2012, 10:47:38 pm

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/01/fug-girls-track-the-fashion-evolution-of-michelle-williams.html


New York Magazine 's The Fug Girls
Track the Fashion Evolution of Michelle Williams

From the Dawson's Creek  years to the Oscar red carpet years.


Ten years ago, the idea that Michelle Williams — then known primarily as the girl on Dawson's Creek  who wasn't Katie Holmes — would have three Oscar nominations under her belt seemed as inconceivable as Joey Potter marrying Tom Cruise. And yet here we are, gleefully anticipating what Williams will wear on February 26 when she attends the Academy Awards yet again as a nominee for Best Actress (all while we also wonder whether Mrs. Cruise is having any regrets or what-if tremors). Exactly how, or when, did the girl get from Capeside to Chanel couture? We won’t lie: The road was long, and often colorless. Join us as we stroll down a Michelle Williams memory lane. Bring a hanky; those Brokeback  days still wring us out.


Slideshow:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/01/fug-girls-track-the-fashion-evolution-of-michelle-williams.html#photo=1x00017





1
July 1998
The premiere of Halloween H20
(same year she debuted as
Dawson’s Creek ’s ill-fated
Jen Lindley)
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-1.jpg)




2
September 1999
The Emmys.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-2.jpg)




3
March 2000
Events for If These Walls Could Talk 2.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-3.jpg)




4
May 2000
The now-defunct Blockbuster awards.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-4.jpg)




5
September 2000
The Women in Film
Lucy Award ceremony.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-5.jpg)




6
February 2002
A celebration of
Dawson's Creek 's
100th episode
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-6.jpg)




7
January and February 2004
The National Board of Review
and the SAG Awards; Michelle  
attending as cast member of
The Station Agent.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-7.jpg)




8
February 2004
An Oscar-week party
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-8.jpg)




9
September 2004
The Venice Film Festival,
in support of Land of Plenty.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-9.jpg)



10
December 2005 and January 2006
Events for The Brothers Grimm
and Brokeback Mountain.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-10.jpg)




11
December 2005 and January 2006
Promotional events for
Brokeback Mountain.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-11.jpg)




12
January and March 2006
Michelle nominated for
Best Supporting Actress
at both the Golden Globes
and the Oscars for her role
in Brokeback Mountain.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-12.jpg)




13
January and February 2006
Brokeback  awards continue
at the SAGs and the BAFTAs.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-13.jpg)




14
October 2006
The Whitney Gala
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15
February 2007
The Independent Spirit Awards
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16
May 2008
Cannes, in support of
Synecdoche, New York.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-16.jpg)




17
May, September, October 2008
Cannes, and premieres for
Wendy and Lucy  and
Synecdoche, New York
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-17.jpg)




18
February  2009
Independent Spirit Awards
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-18.jpg)




19
May 2010
Cannes
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-19.jpg)




20
September 2010
The Venice Film Festival
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21
October 2010
London Film Fest
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22
January, February 2011
The Golden Globes and
the Academy Awards,
a nominee for Blue Valentine.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-22.jpg)




23
May 2011
The Met Ball
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-23.jpg)




24
October 2011
The New York Film Festival
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25
January 2012
The Critics’ Choice Awards and a
BAFTA pre-Golden Globes event.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-25.jpg)




26
January 2012
The Golden Globes
Best Actress for My Week With Marilyn.
(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/fugs-michellewilliams/20120130_fugs-michellewilliams-26.jpg)




27
January 2012
The SAG Awards
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Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on January 31, 2012, 11:44:37 pm
She is quirky for sure and frequently ends up on the red carpet worst look lists but on on the best dressed lists in her daily garb.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on February 03, 2012, 01:23:36 am


  Quirly is the perfect description.  She needs to have a stylest.  One that could tell her, when she has made bad choices.  She is so petite,
it is hard for her not to look like a little girl.  Specially in a short dress.  She is truly pretty, and a consumate actress.  But her legs are not her
best feature. 
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on February 03, 2012, 05:04:43 am
I think her legs are fine, she just has weird taste. Dowdy I think.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on February 13, 2012, 11:09:49 am
from Belfast Telegraph today:

 Monday, 13 February 2012

 Michelle Williams is "not over" Heath Ledger's tragic death.

The actress is said to be still grieving four years after the Hollywood star passed away following an accidental prescription drug overdose.

According to sources, the My Week with Marilyn beauty hasn't moved on after losing her "soulmate". She is believed to have struggled to celebrate her Golden Globe win as it coincided with the fourth anniversary of Heath's untimely death.

"Michelle still loves Heath, and there isn't a day that goes by that she doesn't think of him. She's not over it," an insider told OK! magazine.

The pair had met on the set of Brokeback Mountain in 2004.

In 2005, their daughter Matilda was born but Michelle and Heath separated two years later despite being engaged.

Heath was only 28-years-old when he was found dead in his hotel room in January 2008.

"Michelle and Heath hit a rough spot, and they decided to take some time apart," the source added. "It was really sad because they still loved each other and Matilda."

© Cover Media



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/michelle-williams-not-over-heath-16116964.html#ixzz1mBBd5xAq
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on March 16, 2012, 09:05:55 am
From Belfast Telegraph today.  I didn't know Michelle was dating Jason Segel.  I don't find him attractive AT ALL.  Perhaps he has a great personality...

~~~

Cameron Diaz reignites Jude romance?

16 March 2012

Cameron Diaz and Jude Law were spotted checking into a bungalow at a Los Angeles hotel, it has been reported.

Cameron was recently linked to P. Diddy, while Jude was thought to be dating British actress Ruth Wilson. However, it has now been reported that Cameron and Jude were seen kissing on the patio of Chateau Marmont on March 9.

After their very public display of affection, Jude is believed to have splashed out on a room so they could continue their evening together.

"An eyewitness reveals the public make-out session continued until Jude paid the $400 tab and they escaped to a nearby bungalow," a source told In Touch Weekly. "When someone said, 'Get a room,' they listened!"

Cameron and Jude met after starring in the 2006 romantic comedy The Holiday together. They were previously romantically linked in 2007 and 2009.

Cameron and Jude aren't the only stars enjoying a romantic rendezvous at Chateau Marmont - a renowned celebrity hotspot.

Michelle Williams and Jason Segel are also believed to have chosen the venue for a date recently.

The Osar-nominated actress was spotted laughing as comic star Jason cracked jokes all evening.

The pair spent around four hours drinking wine at the hangout on February 27.

"They were super giggly," an onlooker told Us Weekly.

Michelle's close friend, actress Busy Phillips, briefly joined the duo for a chat before leaving to let them enjoy each other's company.

© Cover Media



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/cameron-diaz-reignites-jude-romance-16132051.html#ixzz1pHh2oKo9
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on March 21, 2012, 11:48:56 am
I watched the movie Mammoth last night. It was good, it was looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong. I liked. Michelle is like Meryl Streep in that she can disappear into a roll.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MR59x2EA_E[/youtube]
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on March 21, 2012, 12:24:49 pm
I think her legs are fine, she just has weird taste. Dowdy I think.

All of those pictures make her look like she doesn't have much of a figure. In the pictures posted I think she looks best in something that's plain and simple and traditionally cut, like picture number 20.

In the right-hand picture of number 19, she looks like she's standing in a satin sack that's about to fall down.  :P
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on March 21, 2012, 02:52:25 pm


    I hate say it, but her choice in clothes is not always the best for her.  She has made a lot of mishits.  Her tiny figure needs to be fitted.  She looks to be always wearing things off the rack.  So to speak.  She has made a few great choices though.  That red Oscar dress was dynamite.  (They didn't even show it.  Too bad.)The gold was as well.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on March 21, 2012, 08:28:20 pm
She frequently wears high-necked gowns and, depending on their fit, can make it look like she is either swimming in her clothes or overly prim.

I think she has a few demons that she is hosting.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on June 20, 2012, 08:56:31 am

Michelle Williams 'lovey-dovey' with Segel

20 June 2012


Michelle Williams and Jason Segel were "lovey-dovey" on a recent date in New York.

The couple has been dating for three months and enjoyed a night out on Broadway.

The Hollywood star watched recent Tony Award winner James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors at the Music Box Theatre.

"They look very lovey-dovey. She looks so pretty in white, and he's in a suit," an audience member told the New York Post.

Michelle and Jason's romance seems to be going from strength to strength and the actor has already been introduced to Michelle's six-year-old daughter with the late Heath Ledger.

Jason is said to be working hard to bond with Matilda and is believed to be planning a future with the One Week with Marilyn star.

He was recently seen holding his cell phone that had pictures of Michelle taped on the back with the phrase "I love you" written around it.

The smitten couple has been friends for years but their relationship turned into something more after they were spotted enjoying a romantic meal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont at the end of February.

© Cover Media



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/michelle-williams-loveydovey-with-segel-16174770.html#ixzz1yKz8XGAs
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Post by: Mandy21 on June 22, 2012, 10:27:25 am
Different version of same story.
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Michelle Williams 'smitten with Segel'

Friday, 22 June 2012

Michelle Williams and Jason Segel are "totally in love".

The couple have only been dating for a few months, but it appears the relationship is getting serious already. They were recently seen watching a Broadway show together and sources close to the Hollywood stars insists Jason is smitten.

"[They are] are totally in love," an insider told Us Weekly. "Jason is obsessed with Michelle."

Jason has been spending increasing amounts of time with Michelle's six-year-old daughter Matilda.

The 32-year-old funnyman has formed a close bond with the little girl, much to Michelle's delight.

"He's been doing all sorts of 'dad stuff' with her, like drawing and playing music," the source added.

It has also been claimed that Jason is already "planning a future" with the 31-year-old actress.

Jason and Michelle were spotted at the Broadway production of award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors on June 19. The show stars British actor James Corden, who Jason worked with on the 2010 movie Gulliver's Travels.

Jason was eager to show his support for his former co-star, and thoroughly enjoyed the performance.

"Jason loved the play," a source added to the publication. "It was definitely his sense of humour."

© Cover Media



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/michelle-williams-smitten-with-segel-16175825.html#ixzz1yX3Io7Yy
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: mouk on August 20, 2012, 09:45:32 pm
Jason Segel makes a beautiful gesture towards Heath's parents:

http://www.aol.ca/video/jason-segels-touching-gesture-to-heath-ledgers-parents/517452085/?icid=maing-grid7|canada|video-module|sec1_lnk1|194795 (http://www.aol.ca/video/jason-segels-touching-gesture-to-heath-ledgers-parents/517452085/?icid=maing-grid7|canada|video-module|sec1_lnk1|194795)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on August 21, 2012, 12:16:31 am
Now I guess Jason Segel is officially Brokieish.

That is, if he wasn't already, having starred in movie that also starred Paul Rudd, who starred in movies that also starred Seth Rogen. Who is Brokieish because his voice sounds vaguely like Heath's, and because he has starred in a movie with Michelle, and because he has starred in movies with Jonah Hill. Who is Brokieish because of this scene:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MrczERAe4&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Sophia on August 21, 2012, 05:08:38 pm
Now I guess Jason Segel is officially Brokieish.

That is, if he wasn't already, having starred in movie that also starred Paul Rudd, who starred in movies that also starred Seth Rogen. Who is Brokieish because his voice sounds vaguely like Heath's, and because he has starred in a movie with Michelle, and because he has starred in movies with Jonah Hill. Who is Brokieish because of this scene:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MrczERAe4&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]






 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


I´m just saying Why so serious?  ;D
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on February 12, 2013, 12:29:50 pm
Here's a hyperlink of a Michelle Williams' fashion shoot article.  I don't know how to turn it into an article with pics that people can read on here.  Can someone help?  If not, just open hyperlink, and look at it manually.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/woman/fashion-beauty/michelle-williams-in-fantasy-fashion-shoot-29065877.html (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/woman/fashion-beauty/michelle-williams-in-fantasy-fashion-shoot-29065877.html)
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on February 22, 2013, 08:21:07 am

Michelle Williams is Finally Growing Her Hair Out

Feb. 21, 2013, 10:05 AM EST
Entertainment Tonight.

Though Michelle Williams has now long been associated with her beloved blonde pixie cut --which she once said was a tribute to the late Heath Ledger -- the Oz the Great and Powerful actress says she's now "ready" to sport long locks again.

"I think I'm ready," she tells E! News. "It's on its way, slowly but surely."


In a memorable quote, Michelle admitted to British Elle in 2011 that Heath loved the polarizing cut. "I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it," she said.

But perhaps another reason she's kept her hair short for so long?

That dreaded in-between stage.

"The mid-stage is insufferable," she admits. "It's really hard on your self-esteem."


But Michelle still has a sense of humor about her buzzed-about 'do, which she's said only gay men and her girlfriends appreciate.


"I'm really happy to not have anything looming -- except my hair," Williams jokes about taking a break from acting. "I'm really working on my hair growing out."
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Post by: CellarDweller on March 11, 2013, 07:38:03 am
Looks like Michelle Williams' latest movie is a big hit!

 ;D



'Oz' Has Magical Debut

by Ray Subers March 10, 2013

Oz The Great and Powerful was positioned as the first major blockbuster of 2013, and its opening weekend didn't disappoint.

The fantasy prequel scored an estimated $80.28 million, which is by-far the highest debut so far in 2013. Meanwhile, Dead Man Down became the latest violent R-rated movie to die a quick death.

The Top 12 earned an estimated $129.7 million, which is up seven percent from the same frame last year when John Carter was the top opener at just over $30 million.

Oz's $80.28 million from 3,912 locations is over twice as high as Identity Thief's $34.6 million, and is the strongest debut since The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey started off with $84.6 million in December. It's also the third-highest opening ever for March, and the fifth-highest ever during the pre-Summer months.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3647&p=.htm

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on March 11, 2013, 12:29:48 pm
I thought she was wonderful in OZ. That radiant smile, bot thin the Kansas scene and in Oz, she was just beautiful.

I could forget this was Alma for a bit, but then that smile, that one she showed Ennis when he was waiting for Jack in 1967, brung it all back.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Mandy21 on April 10, 2013, 10:45:29 am
On Huff Post this morn:
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Dr. Jane Greer
Marriage and Family Therapist, Author, Radio Host

Michelle Williams and Jason Segel: Can Love Conquer All?
Posted: 04/10/2013 9:36 am

Actors Michelle Williams and Jason Segel recently announced their official breakup after spending much of the last year trying to make their bi-coastal romance work. She lives in New York City with her seven-year-old daughter, Matilda, and he lives in Los Angeles. The couple cited busy schedules and irreconcilable distance as the reason for the end of their partnership. It raises the question, when is love not enough?
Many people would like to think that finding love is the answer to most problems, and -- in the name of it -- one or both people in a relationship should be willing to uproot their lives or let go of important aspects of their individual routines. Jason made numerous cross-country trips over the course of their connection. Michelle's waterfront loft in Brooklyn became his home away from home, and he could often be seen playing at a local playground with Matilda. But despite all of that, his life remained rooted in California, where his professional commitments run deep. If the reports are true, then in the end, the pull for each of them to hold onto their own lives won out over the desire to maintain their relationship. This may have surprised fans, and forces us to wonder, when is it time to make that hard call -- to call things off?
Two people can be drawn to each other and still have strong personal or professional ties that don't suit the other person. What if you're committed to a neighborhood and everything that goes along with that, wanting to give your children stability? Or what if one's person's job can be found in only one part of the country and he or she must live there, no questions asked? Or you are dealing with two different religions that initially didn't cause a problem, but as you begin to make a life together you are looking to your partner to convert to your religion and they don't want to.
When it becomes a matter of feeling that you are being asked to literally give up your identity, core values and beliefs so that the necessary change is equivalent to losing yourself, then that is the point when compromise can instead become too much of a sacrifice. And if one does give up their sense of self, then what is relinquished for love can really take a toll -- with the relationship crumbling under the pressure and resentment.
By Michelle and Jason's taking responsibility for their respective individual needs, they prevented this from happening. For them, dropping everything for love was not a viable option. And in the end, it seems that Michelle didn't expect, or even want, Jason to leave his career to further immerse himself into her family. For them, sadly, love did not conquer the obstacles they faced.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on April 11, 2013, 10:42:13 am
Wow, she reads a lot into what little she knows about their relationship.

 
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 11, 2013, 10:47:05 am
Wow, she reads a lot into what little she knows about their relationship.

That's true, but at the same time I found what she had to say about the difficulties of a long-distance, dual-career relationship to be very thought-provoking.

But I agree that she seems to be assuming an awful lot about Michelle and Jason.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: RouxB on May 01, 2013, 02:20:19 am
Jason, as we now know, has some substance abuse issues. I think she didn't want to go through that again, or expose Matilda to it. One totally t broken heart is enough for anyone.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Katie77 on December 30, 2014, 08:34:50 pm
http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/executivesuite/insight/471278/michelle-williams-sells-home-she-shared-with-heath-ledger.slideshow


US actress Michelle Williams has sold the New York home she shared with her former fiancé Heath Ledger for more than $1 million above the asking price.

Williams, 34, listed the Boerum Hill townhouse for $9.1 million ($US7.5 million) in September, six years after the Australian actor's untimely death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

The home was reportedly sold for $10.7 million (US$8.8 million), around $1.5 million (US$1.3 million) above the asking price, US real estate site 6sqft reports.

Listed as "the one and only", the South Brooklyn home features six bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a three-car garage.

The property was sold through Nadine Adamson and Kelsey Hall of real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens.

Click through this gallery to read more about the property.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Sophia on July 13, 2016, 07:49:01 am
Michelle are in talks to join Hugh Jackman in the greatest showman on earth playing Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Sounds very interesting. I would love to hear Michelle sing.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on July 13, 2016, 09:04:46 am
Michelle are in talks to join Hugh Jackman in the greatest showman on earth playing Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Sounds very interesting. I would love to hear Michelle sing.

Jenny Lind and I have the same birthday. It's just me, her, Les Moonves (CEO of the CBS TV network), a guy named Chris in 7th grade and a friend named Carrie on Facebook.

And that's it! The only five people ever born on October 6 (that I've heard of).

Anyway, back on topic, that does sound like it could be interesting!

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: Sophia on July 13, 2016, 12:50:50 pm
Jenny Lind and I have the same birthday. It's just me, her, Les Moonves (CEO of the CBS TV network), a guy named Chris in 7th grade and a friend named Carrie on Facebook.

And that's it! The only five people ever born on October 6 (that I've heard of).

Anyway, back on topic, that does sound like it could be interesting!



I have a lot of relatives who's birthday is in October ( even myself included) but so far no one on October 6, so you maybe right. October 6 could be your unic day!

Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: morrobay on July 14, 2016, 08:18:07 am
Michelle are in talks to join Hugh Jackman in the greatest showman on earth playing Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Sounds very interesting. I would love to hear Michelle sing.

She sings in My Week With Marilyn, and I think there might be a youtube clip of her when she was in Caberet, I'll check.

This was filmed by someone in the audience.  I know it's live, but she looks like she's lip-syncing to me.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyBi3IuANiE[/youtube]
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: serious crayons on July 14, 2016, 07:59:43 pm
I have a lot of relatives who's birthday is in October ( even myself included) but so far no one on October 6, so you maybe right. October 6 could be your unic day!



Yes, apparently whatever 9 months before Oct. 6 is (Jan. 6, I guess), is a day people don't often have sex.

They're probably exhausted after Christmas and New Year's.  ;D


Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michel
Post by: Sophia on July 15, 2016, 08:57:36 pm
Yes, apparently whatever 9 months before Oct. 6 is (Jan. 6, I guess), is a day people don't often have sex.

They're probably exhausted after Christmas and New Year's.  ;D





  :laugh: :laugh:

First weekend in January ( normally 4,5,6th of January) means mostly in Sweden, back to your basic needs. Then the cold and blizzard has hit our country. We are all trying to find a warm soft place/spot to warm our hands and feet.
Title: Re: Michelle Michelle Michelle
Post by: CellarDweller on July 15, 2016, 11:11:40 pm
First weekend in January ( normally 4,5,6th of January) means mostly in Sweden, back to your basic needs. Then the cold and blizzard has hit our country. We are all trying to find a warm soft place/spot to warm our hands and feet.

well, what better way to keep warm than cuddle and have sex?  :)