Amy Adams

Julie & Julia (opens August 7), starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, is partly about pioneer blogger Julie Powell (played by Amy) who records her attempts at mastering the recipes of Julia Child (played by Meryl). So naturally, the talented actresses discuss blogging with USA Today:

It’s what every child dreams of: night falls, the lights are out and suddenly the inanimate objects that innocuously surround us during the day come to life. In the sequel to the its mightily successful, if faultily executed, 2006 predecessor, a film which raked in $250 million, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian maintains all the franchise’s previous conceits but ratchets up the creativity and execution level.

Amy Adams went for pure Hollywood glam as she arrived at the world premiere of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, held at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Washington DC on Thursday.

Rita Hayworth is smiling down on Amy right now and giving her golf claps.

All hail the new reigning redhead of Hollywood. (Sorry, Isla Fisher.)

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Spidey may need to snare a new leading lady in his web.

Kirsten Dunst is playing hard to get.

The fourth installment of the Spider-Man franchise is gearing up and Tobey Maguire has already signed on for a fourth and fifth film, but The Fang isn’t sure she wants to reprise the role of Mary Jane Watson.

Director Sam Raimi says, “I’m hoping that she is going to come on board and I’ve got a meeting coming up with her. I think she would like to but I don’t want to speak on her behalf.”

Or should we call it “Little Miss Sunshine Cleaning”?

Produced by Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, the team behind 2006’s wonderful and winning indie phenom Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning shares a great deal of that film’s DNA: an off-beat sensibility, a commitment to quirkiness and Alan Arkin as a crotchy patriarch. But what made Miss Sunshine so compelling was its ability to bring levity to life’s traumas.

Sunshine Cleaning wallows in them instead.

The Oscars are all about looking fabulous for Hollywood’s biggest night.

So who deserves accolades and who should’ve stayed home and watched the show in their sweatpants?

The Best:

Last night, the red carpet belonged to Miley Cyrus. That’s right, we said it. Miley Cyrus is en fuego! We are obsessed with her Zuhair Murad dress! It had elements of Marion Cotillard’s fish scaley Gaultier dress from last year mixed with the fabulous petal ballgowns from the 1940s and 50s. Best dress of the night!

Isla Fisher arrives at the premiere of her new film Confessions of a Shopaholic at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City last night in a Matthew Williamson beaded minidress looking absolutely gorgeous.

She’s an amazing blend of Amy Adams and Debra Messing.

We love it.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Amy Adams arrives at the 2008 National Board of Review awards gala at Cipriani on 42nd Street in Manhattan on Wednesday looking classy and sassy.

We are loving her peek-a-boo one shouldered dress.

It’s racier than what we usually see Miss Adams in and we likey!

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