Archive for February, 2008
Check out the complete list below of Christina’s upcoming talk show appearances – if you can provide any clips from these shows (or past talk show appearances), please consider donating them to the site.
February 2008
– 02/28/2008: Martha (sydicated, check local listings)
– 02/29/2008: Conan O’Brien (airs on NBC, at 12:30am)
March 2008
– 03/04/2008: Craig Ferguson (airs on CBS, at 12:00am midnight)
The Tao of Christina Ricci
For the just-turned-28 actress, life has always come in seven-year installments.
By Logan Hill | Published Feb 21, 2008
Christina Ricci is a fervent believer in seven-year cycles. “My mom told me, ‘Every seven years, everything changes: your physical being, your emotional being, the way other people look at you. Everything’ … Oh, God,” she moans, mocking herself. “This is the kind of shit—if I go into the bookstore and ask for the astrology section, they’re always like, ‘Oh, a.k.a. the crazy-lady section?’ That’s where you’ll find me. Yep, the crazy-lady section.”
The thing is, if you look back at Ricci’s life, her loony theory holds up: She’s not so much a star as a Hollywood comet locked into a semi-leisurely orbit. And having just turned 28 on February 12, she sees this spring as “the end of a seven-year cycle and the beginning of a new one.”
After a very quiet seven-year hiatus, Ricci’s wild-child, unhinged turn in Black Snake Moan has set up what could be a noisy 2008. This week, she debuts a newly sincere side of herself in the tweener-friendly, Edward Scissorhands–ish fable Penelope, as a young woman who has been sequestered from the world because she has a pig nose. (“The first nose was hideous and had lots of wrinkles and looked more like a boar nose,” she says. “I was like, ‘Can I have the keys to the Miss Piggy nose?’ And we met somewhere in the middle.”) In May, she’ll headline the Wachowskis’ anime-inspired spectacle Speed Racer, playing a kung fu–fighting, hot-pink-wearing Hello Kitty vamp (no pig nose, but lots and lots of wigs).
“It all comes back around,” says Ricci, who swears that in her newest cycle, she’s not going to hide behind her notorious sarcasm. “I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like—ugh, you might as well kill yourself,” she says. “It’s fun to be sarcastic, but now I’m able to express myself in a way that’s much more sincere.
“For whatever reason,” she adds, “I’m ready to refocus, and I’ve got my drive back. It’s a new seven-year cycle. But then again, my mother told me a lot of crazy things.
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Thanks to Latcher and Jared for the information on more talk show appearances that Christina will be making! Check out the complete list below – if you can provide any clips from these shows, please consider donating them to the site.
February 2008
– 02/27/2008: TRL (airs on MTV, at 3:30pm)
– 02/28/2008: Good Morning, America (airs on ABC, check local listings)
– 02/28/2008: Martha (sydicated, check local listings)
– 02/29/2008: Conan O’Brien (airs on NBC, at 12:30am)
March 2008
– 03/04/2008: Craig Ferguson (airs on CBS, at 12:00am midnight)
List updated Feb. 26, 2008
Christina is set to appear on two talk shows to promote Penelope this coming week!
She will appear on the following dates and shows:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – February 20, 2008 airs on NBC
Late Night with Conan O’Brien – February 29, 2008 airs on NBC
Also, on February 20th the premiere of Penelope is going to be held in Los Angeles!
If you can supply video clips from the above talk show appearances, I would be forever grateful as I cannot record the shows myself.
PENELOPE IS A MODERN-DAY FAIRYTALE LIKE NO OTHER
LAKESHORE RECORDS RELEASES THE SOUNDTRACK FOR
PENELOPE, COMPOSED BY JOBY TALBOT
WITH ORIGINAL SONGS BY DEVOTCHKA AND MEIKO
(February 18, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore Records will release the original motion picture soundtrack for PENELOPE on February 19th. The album features original music by Joby Talbot (THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY) and features songs by Devotchka, Meiko, and The Secret 6. The film was a surprise hit on the film festival circuit last year.
Composer Joby Talbot began writing and performing in the 90s as part of the UK pop group The Divine Comedy (with Neil Hannon). He produced 7 albums for The Divine Comedy, including Ute Lemper’s acclaimed album “Punishing Kiss”. Talbot’s work has also appealed to Europe’s top choreographers including Wayne McGregor with whom Talbot collaborated on “Chroma” for the Royal Ballet and “Genus” for the Paris Opera Ballet.
Penelope (Christina Ricci) is a lovely young woman cursed with a pig’s snout for a nose. Her parents (Catherine O’Hara and Richard E. Grant) have kept her practically a prisoner in her house because of this. Potential suitors would often take the shortest route out of her house after seeing her nose, which often means through the second story window. Max (James McAvoy) has been hired by a paparazzi style journalist to pose as a suitor and sniff out the story. The film also stars Academy Award™ winner Reese Witherspoon who is also one of the producers of the film.
Track listing:
01. The Story Of The Curse – Part 1 – Joby Talbot
02. The Story Of The Curse – Part 2 – Joby Talbot
03. Waking Life – Schuyler Fisk and Dave Bassett
04. The Piano Song – Meiko
05. Penelope Breaks Free – Joby Talbot
06. Fairground – Joby Talbot
07. Give In – The Secret 6
08. Queen of Surface Streets – Devotchka
09. String of Blinking Lights – Paper Moon
10. The Wedding – Joby Talbot
11. Ageless Beauty – Stars
12. The Kiss – Joby Talbot
13. Hoppipolla – Wenzel Templeton & Robert Pegg
14. Your Disguise – James Greenspun
PENELOPE will be in theaters on February 29. The Lakeshore Records recording will be available on February 19, 2008. You can check out the soundtrack at Myspace.