Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Hollywood! Specifically, the El Capitan Theater where the new Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds Touchstone Pictures romantic comedy, “The Proposal,” held its world premiere to an audience last night which included the stars of the movie, their co-stars from their other projects, as well as their significant others. The story focuses on Bullock’s character, Margaret, a high powered New York book editor who faces the prospect of being deported to her faraway native land-Canada! Grasping for anything, she quickly determines that the only way to stay in the good old U.S.A. is to marry her poor assistant, Andrew (played by Reynolds), whom she has tormented for years. Add to that mix Andrew’s quirky family, helmed be the one and only Ms. Betty White who plays Grandma Annie, and you have a recipe for smart comedy.
Star Sandra Bullock glowed in a beautiful dress by designer Alexander McQueen. She arrived with her real life co-star, hubby Jesse James former host of “Monster Garage” and most recently a contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice,” who snuck into the theater as his love spoke with reporters. If you don’t know, Sandra has very “exposed” run in with Ryan Reynolds in the movie. In fact, the actors were both totally naked and screenwriter Peter Chiarelli proclaimed to me that Sandra reassured him, “Go for every joke, go for it, lets make this thing funny!” And did they ever! Peter described the naked scene as “a lot of flipping and flopping.” And what does Jesse James think of Sandra’s infamous scene? She divulged to me, “I do it to him every morning, and he doesn’t find it funny-yet. I will keep doing it until he starts to find it funny.” I am sure he doesn’t mind!
Silver screen hottie, Ryan Reynolds, cruised down the Red Carpet amongst the screams of his adoring female fans cheering him on from across the street, and conversed about his uber cozy scene with Bullock, saying that “we knew each other for 9 years before this, it helped.” And is Sandra really as funny in real life as she is in front of the camera? Ryan ascertained, “She’s hilarious, even when she is sleeping or not in the room with me, she makes me laugh!” I can see that!
Comedy legend Betty White, who I just had the pleasure of interviewing a few weeks ago, looked adorable in a little blue number that she disclosed to me that she had, “in the back of the closet. There it was and I put it on. I like the color.” She was anxiously awaiting the start of the movie, “I am dying to see the movie, I haven’t seen it yet!” She also voiced her opinion on the older woman/younger man theme of the flick saying, “(Margaret) is only a few years older than (Andrew) in the film, but if you really want a contrast, let’s do it with me!” Any takers?
Red Carpet stunner in a Prada dress, Martin Katz jewels, and co-star of the film, Malin Akerman echoed Ryan’s description of Sandra, “She is hilarious! She is always on. There is never a serious moment. She has a great sense of humor.” The talk then turned to the cougar phenomenon and what Malin’s future holds when it comes to preying on younger males. She maintained, “It’s very much in my future, in my present. My mother likes younger men and she would be the first one to tell you. You can call her a cougar, definitely, so I see nothing wrong with it.” Game on, boys!
Prime time players also attended the premiere. “The Office” actress Kate Flannery came out in support of her fellow co-star Oscar Nunez, who plays a not so exotic, exotic dancer in the movie. Kate is thrilled to use her summer hiatus to go back east and hang with her family in Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore. “The Bachelor: London Calling” winner Shayne Lamas was happy to gab about her new reality show premiering on E! centering around her unconventional family, headed by her father, actor Lorenzo Lamas. She promised that her Dad will be seen as a “family man” and to watch out for the episode in which her mother, Michelle Smith, literally pushes her ex-stepmother Shauna Sand out of Shayne’s birthday party. Shayne summed it up as, “blond hair, boobs, everyone flying everywhere!” Holy catfight!
“The Proposal” opens in theaters on June 19th, 2009.
