The actress and fiancé Ryan Reynolds hit the Lower East Side spot National Underground the other night “wearing matching bowler hats,” our spy said. Even though Johansson was “dressed down in a black blazer and jeans,” the doorman recognized her. Our spy said that “the doorman asked to take a photo with Scarlett” but that she snapped, “I’m not the Statue of Liberty,” before heading inside.
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BEING Woody Allen’s muse has really inflated Scarlett Johansson’s ego. One well-placed source told Page Six that producers on “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” Johansson’s latest Allen flick, have been grumbling that “Scarlett isn’t the same . . . She’s turned into the biggest prima donna.” The source added that the same producers raved about working with her on “Match Point,” when “everyone said she was a sweetheart . . . now they say, ‘Scarlett’s let it get to her head.’ ” A rep for Johansson told Page Six, “Scarlett loves the movie and enjoyed working with everyone on it.”
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Kanye West is a proud fan of Scarlett Johansson.
The rapper posted a blog on his official site entitled “MY FAVORITE WHITE GIRL!!!!!!!” that consists of her name and dozens of photos of her.
Most of the photos show the 23-year-old Vicky Cristina Barcelona star scantily-clad.
One thing the two have in common?
They both support Barack Obama.
Johansson – whose album came out in May – is engaged to actor Ryan Reynolds. West split from fiancee Alexis Phifer in April.
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SCARLETT Johansson has regular e-mail contact with presidential hopeful Barack Obama, but it may be because her twin brother, Hunter, works for him. Johansson said last week she offers Obama advice by e-mail and is “amazed” he finds the time to reply to her. “Someone like the senator, who is constantly traveling and constantly ‘on,’ how can he return these personal e-mails?” she gushed to Politico. Hunter, who was working as a community liaison for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer for over a year, left that job a few weeks ago. It’s not clear what his position is within the Obama campaign. “He was one of the nicest, most unpretentious employees ever,” said one Stringer staffer. “Nobody cared he was Scarlett’s brother; we all forgot the last name. He wants to go change the world, and I guess the US president is greater than the Manhattan one,” the insider laughed.
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Bottoms up! Thought you’d be interested in checking out the (really rather) awesome Artist on Artist with Scarlet Johansson and BLONDIE! Very interesting conversation! Check out this pair as they sip the champagne!
Scarlett Johansson was left at home in New York after a film studio refused to pay for the star’s bloated demands to attend the Cannes Film Festival to launch Woody Allen’s latest movie.
Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall, her co-stars in the film ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’, soaked up all the glory from crowds as they ascended the fabled red carpet of Cannes.
It must have been pretty galling for Johansson, 23, when reports trickled back to the U.S. about the ten minute standing ovation the film received Saturday night after the black-tie audience saw the film.
t also stars Oscar-winner Javier Bardem, who couldn’t make the film’s gala for personal family reasons.
However, no one burst into tears because Johansson was absent.
“Nobody cared she wasn’t there”, snapped a prominent New York socialite as she noted, approvingly, that Cruz looked stunning in a low-cut gown designed by Marquesa while Hall, daughter of theatre legend Sir Peter Hall, was sparkling in a tumbling silk creation by Alberto Ferretti.
“The movie belonged to Penelope and Rebecca anyway with great help from Javier,” the socialite added.
The French branch of Warner Brothers Films, distributers of Vicky Cristina Barcelona in France, had spent weeks negotiating with Johansson’s representatives about flying her to Cannes.
They were willing, and happy, to pay for flights, hotel, provide a limousine, arrange for designers to show her gowns and for her to share hair and make-up designers with Cruz and Hall.
However, Johansson demanded her own exclusive make-up consultant at a cost of 5,000 Euros a day, which was felt a tad too much for a four day trip where looking after the star’s tresses and powdering her nose would cost a total of 20,000 Euros.
Then there was the problem over an hotel.
The film’s director and his leading ladies were delighted to be staying in the centre of Cannes to make it easier for them to attend screenings, public events and to do interviews for TV and press.
Johansson wanted to be at an hotel way out in the sticks, some 25 to 30 miles away.
“It was crazy. Penelope and Rebecca were going to be working very hard and it wasn’t acceptable that Scarlett would be having to come in from that distance every day, most likely turning up late and it would have thrown schedules into a lot of confusion.
“Also, I think, while Woody’s terribly fond of Scarlett, he was a little upset that she wasn’t being a team player”, an executive connected to the film told the Daily Mail.
Scarlett Johansson recently described her singing voice as tinkerbell on cough syrup.
Judge for yourself.
Fans of the actress-turned-singer can take an online listen to five songs from her new album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, due to be released May 20 on Rhino Records.
With tousled hair pulled back, the un-glammed actress (jeans, sleeveless summer pinafore), 23, croons covers of the Tom Waits tunes “Falling Down,” “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” “Green Grass,” “Who Are You” and “Yesterday Is Here” with video taken from studio sessions in Louisiana with her equally un-glam band.
The surprise? That Jonhasson – so blonde and ethereal-looking – sings in a very monotone, alto, throaty chant.
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Scarlett Johansson has become engaged to her actor boyfriend Ryan Reynolds after a one year courtship.
The Lost In Translation actress looked delighted as she showed off her new diamond ring for the first time as she attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York City last night.
The 23-year-old and Canadian beau Reynolds, 31, started dating in March 2007 – a month after the Just Friends actor ended his three-year engagement to singer Alanis Morissette.
Johansson’s representative Marcel Pariseau confirmed the couple’s engagement to People magazine on Monday.
She said: “They’re both thrilled.”
Pariseau declined to say exactly when the couple got engaged, but admitted it was recently. They are yet to set a wedding date.
Johansson initially denied reports in February that the couple were getting married after she was spotted looking at wedding gowns at the Monique Lhuillier boutique in LA.
Before she starting dating Reynolds last year, Johansson was in a two-year relationship with her Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett and previously dated actor/singer Jared Leto.
Friends of the couple believe they may delay the wedding until after this year because they are so busy.
Johansson’s debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head is released on May 20 and she has two movies Vicky Cristina Barcelona and He’s Just Not That Into You coming out this summer.
She is currently filming New York, I Love You in her hometown of NYC, while Reynolds is currently making romantic comedy The Proposal with Sandra Bullock four hours away in Boston.
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