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DP/30 – Two "Whip It" Interviews

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10 Responses to “DP/30 – Two "Whip It" Interviews”

  1. LexG says:

    Juliette Lewis rules, and lately I can’t explain it but I’m really digging Page.
    I’m sure that E-Page would be absolutely DELIGHTED by my MCN posts. She would be a cool girlfriend to have because you could sit around making fun of people together like in that Woody Allen movie.

  2. martin says:

    I find Ellen Page annoying and fake. Maybe it’s just me. Juliette Lewis has always been superhot in my book since Strange Days.

  3. martin says:

    Also I don’t know Alia Shawkat, but did anyone else see her pic and think she’s speak with a Russian accent? Hot.

  4. LexG says:

    PAGE POWER. LIKE HER. I HOPE SHE WEARS TUBE SOCKS IN THIS MOVIE OR PAINTS HER TOENAILS FOR 43 MINUTES. YEP YEP.

  5. LexG says:

    PAGE POWER.
    MORE LIKE WHIP IT OUT.
    How can I ask her out?
    SMART PEOPLE was good.

  6. LexG says:

    i wish i could make out with ellen page it would be so fun

  7. leahnz says:

    i like ‘smart people’, too (tho it turned to custard a bit at the end). page was good, she’s a sassy little firecracker. i must be a sucker for dysfunctional families because i’m like the only person i know who also digs ‘the family stone’

  8. LexG says:

    Leah…
    I didn’t really like the movie per se, but RACHEL MCADAMS GAVE ME MORE LIKE A FAMILY *BONE* if you know what I mean.
    McADAMS = THE BEST. Except for the four or five others I put ahead of her. But then McAdams.

  9. doug r says:

    Lex, if you go see Whip It at the Arclight, maybe they’ll assign you a set next to Paul Reubens.

  10. Rob says:

    Martin, Alia Shawkat played Maeby – Portia de Rossi and David Cross’ daughter, and Michael Cera’s possibly-incestuous teen love interest – on Arrested Development.
    Like everyone else on that show, you can hear a wooden bat crack when she delivers a one-liner.

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