Defamer
Our appetites whetted with the release of the upcoming Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue cover featuring ten of today's most desirable starlets in a variety of glamorously uncomfortable poses (sooo much better than last year's shoot featuring four overexposed comedians and some hotly buzzed penguins whose careers quickly nosedived), we delved deeper into VanityFair.com's stash of preview goodies. It was there that we discovered Renée Zellweger starring in the most amazing piece of video that we've seen in at least the last twelve hours.
Our appetites whetted with the release of First, some context. The clip comes from a behind-the-scenes video documenting the making of a portfolio of famous Hitchcock tableaus, set to what we strongly suspect is "Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House". The silent result is something akin to one of those UnitedHollywood.com protest videos, just with a Hollywood budget. It features everyone from Jodie Foster paying birdpoop-encrusted homage to Tippi Hedren, to Renée Zellweger, featured in the snippet above, channeling Kim Novak in the Vertigo bell tower scene—despite their end credits incorrectly listing it as a scene from Rear Window. Some homage! Still, we advise any aspiring thespians among you to study the footage well, as Zellweger's emotive performance is nothing less than a Cindy Sherman-caliber masterclass in Acting for the Cinematic-Still Recreating Camera.
- The Making of the Hitchcock Portfolio [VanityFair.com]
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They filmed the moment she realized she'd once married Kenny Chesney.
renée zellweger = elle geezr wren
Note for Renee. Your dinner called. It misses you.
I was guessing that they filmed after Jack White asked her for a donkey punch.
well... that was a little awkward.
that's one reason (besides the obvious) I could never be a model/ actress/ whatever. I would be in a constant state of embarassment having to do all that shit
@anagramsam: i like you. i like you a lot.
She was just trying to get her eyes to look actually open for the shot.
mainstream media sucks. retro sucks. vaniety fair; you suck. old hollywood has been done to death.
Anagram Sam, you're my main man. You're a natural born poet, you're just outta sight.
@alice: God, you're so real.
"See the door? See how it seems to be breathing?"*
Oh I'm sorry, that's just Rene Zellweger acting.
*huge fan of the Disney Haunted House record!
She looks like Sandra Dee after all the booze.
So from watching that video, I learned that Renée Zellweger has never seen even one episode of America's Next Top Model. She obviously doesn't know how to bring the fierce.
Well at least her eyes and lips didn't look like she had just eaten a Warhead.
That Ellen Pompeo is good at tearing up on cue.
That "wind whistling" noise was actually the air evacuating through her mouth.
Best Nicole Kidman impersonation ever! Cold Mountain wasn't a complete waste, eh, Renee...
Oh sweet bedazzled Hezoos, someone managed to make her look normal. She always looked like she was smelling a big pile of turd. And who can forget the chipmunk cheeks and tranny Shenaynay pout?
She looks surprisingly less sweaty-puffy-faced-coke-whore than usual.
Very Doris Day. Nice.
oh for fuck sakes......give renee the skinny double latte
no foam now!!!!! give her the drink, damn it!!!!!! (delivered/emoted a la shirley in terms of endearment as she pleaded for debra winger's character to get the pain meds for the terminal cancer)
@LBJeffries: I just have a huge hangup about retro. It's as if no one is capable of an original thought in mainstream art anymore, even fashion. The cover of vanity fair the last few months has been worse than usual from Nicole Kidman in that goofy sailor outfit to Katherine Heigel trying out the old hollywood glam. now this.
it's 2008, the future is friendly. George Clooney was bitching about how they don't make movies like they used to. His movies The Good German and the last two Ocean's movies suck and stuck in retro glut. I hate it. I'm also tired of old movie, comic book, tv franchises etc being brought back from the dead.
Fashion designers are either bringing back mod, or disco or to my disdain, high-waisted pants of the 70's and 80's. Everything just sucks about pop-culture and art.
you had me at hello.
That camera must have shoot at 6000 fps, like what they use to shoot rocket burns, 'cause it's obvious that Zellweger's acting cannot be recorded by ordinary video cameras.
That makeup artist should get an Oscar because who he is he made Renee's eyes look almost big.
Brilliant widening of her sour-lemon smile to suit its true purpose: horror.
Tyra and Nigel would be so thrilled by how fiercely Renee is working it!
@Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: Well, she DID start out in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.
Um. I am an acting student. And this just made me puke my dinner up.
Which on the bright size puts me one step closer to that size zero that is necessary for me to have a career!
So she DOES have a neck. How about that.
despite the snarky cynicism found here, i for one think she pulled it off. she looks great and like a spitting image of what shes supposed to be honoring.
Both Renee and Jennifer Garner attended the "no matter what I'm doing, I STILL look like I'm pouting" school of acting...
@billybastion:
she only honors her manager, right?
@MartyPants: All Ms. Pompeo has to do to bring the teary is contemplate her career post-'Grey's Anatomy'...
nauseating.
Smile with your eyes, Renee! Has Tyra taught you nothing?
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