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Monday, November 10th, 2008

Love And Natalie Portman On Set

When Jennifer Lopez bailed on a film adaptation of Love And Other Impossible Pursuits, Natalie Portman jumped in as both producer and star, which is very admirable. Love, a Don Roos-directed adaptation of an Ayelet Waldman novel, is currently filming in New York City, which means it’s nearly impossible to keep photographers off set, it’s just possible to make them limit their pictures to the celebrities.

Wikipedia is quick to summarize the book’s plot:

Emilia Greenleaf is an attorney living in New York city with her husband, John Wolf. Emilia is stepmother to John’s 4-year-old son, William, who is a remarkably intelligent child. William lives primarily with his mother, the medical doctor Carolyn Soule. It is Emilia’s job, however, to pick up William from his nursery school every Wednesday afternoon. When she picks him up, Emilia is often subjected to snide glances and whispers from the other mothers because, it transpires, her relationship with her husband began when he was still with his wife. They had an office affair, and eventually the marriage dissolved. The reader also learns early on that Emilia and John recently lost their own child together, a girl they named Isabel. They had the baby home for only one day, as she died overnight of SIDS in Emilia’s arms after being fed.

We left off the ending, because if you read that paragraph, chances are you care as much as we do at this point, which is near nil. Portman will be playing Emilia Greenleaf, and we would totally leave our wife for her new look in this film, so that’s - like - half the tension gone already.

Remember when she went bald for V for Vendetta? Yeah. Her hair is 100x better. And we don’t even know sh*t about hair. We just know what we like, and we like Natalie Portman.

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