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  Sometimes It's just funny watching people yawn and It's even more funny when these people are celebrities. Similar to previous post on "Celebrities Caught Eating in Public" but this time "..Caught Yawning..". Some very funny to unrecognizable faces . Enjoy the yawn pictures Avril Lavigne Britney Brooke Shields Cameron Diaz

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Audrey Tautou has also been an avid Leica shooter since a producer handed her a Leica a few years back. Here she is in 2009 with her Leica M8 in a Chanel No 5 film (See the movie on YouTube) .

I’m not sure when it started exactly, but I think it was around 9 years ago when I fell in love with the iconic brand that is known simply as “Chanel“.  It’s interesting, really, why people fall in love with the brands they do — there is no rhyme or reason for it.  To me, Chanel is classy, timeless, and stylish all in one – an almost impossible combination and one that I hope to emulate daily — even without a designer label.  Chanel appeals to the eternal feminist in me, subscribing to my idea that clothes and accessories should accentuate a woman’s best features and not detract from them. Around the same time, I discovered French actress Audrey Tautou while watching what is now one of my all-time-favorite movies, Amélie .  Tautou quickly became my style icon, I love the way she can wear even the most simple ensembles and make them look like a million bucks.  Remniscent of another famous Audrey, she carries herself with incredible a...

Following France's big Oscar triumph, a more commercial new wave aims at American theaters   Audrey Tautou in "Delicacy" Topics:Movies, France, The Artist Are French films the new black in Hollywood? In the wake of the thoroughly implausible pile of Oscars won by “The Artist,” is there another oddity of Gallic cinema out there ready to capture America’s heart?

(Above: A scene from the new biopic, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky) Since the Coco Chanel biopic thing has already been milked to death in the past year (Audrey Tautou in "Coco Before Chanel", Shirley MacLaine in the made-for-TV "Coco Chanel"), why not dissect another aspect of the French fashion icon's life? In steps film director Jan Kounen, whose previous films (1997's Doberman and 2004's Blueberry ) are filled with gun-toting bank robbers and Wild West violence. He's toned down the angst for his newest film called, "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky", where the two legends share a brief love affair in 1920s Paris.    Paris 1913. [...] Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. [...] Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign.

  30    Bowling For Columbine (2002) Dir. Michael Moore In the decade’s best documentary feature, Michael Moore attempts to examine the complex problems of America’s culture of violence and gun ownership, centred around the 1999 Columbine high school shootings. The causes and solutions are many and complicated, but Bowling For Columbine definitely teaches us to be wary of the media, huge corporations and Charlton Heston. Presented with a darkly comic tone throughout, the film also has moments of unbearable sadness in its description of tragic incidents. As a dramatic polemic, Bowling For Columbine is far more convincing than Moore’s follow up feature, Fahrenheit 9/11 , which may have raised the profile and popularity of the documentary genre but did so by stating it’s case with amplified bias. Bowling For Columbine certainly has an agenda, but presents itself with sincerity and understanding of the broad range of issues involved. 29    The...

Dir. Alexander Payne A perfect tragicomedy from Alexander Payne, About Schmidt ‘s measured pace and delicate wit make it a refined joy to watch. After the death of his wife and subsequent discovery of her affair, retired insurance actuary Warren Schmidt takes a road trip across America to regain some control over his life. Jack Nicholson acts with surprising restraint throughout in one of his subtlest performances since Five Easy Pieces , a film directly referenced here with a roadside café scene in which Schmidt dutifully accepts the waitress’ ordering policy, in contrast to the confrontational encounter from 1970. This scene neatly sums up the overall tone of About Schmidt – the grudging realisation that life is just a series of flawed relationships and quiet disappointments. Painfully funny in every sense. 19    WALL•E (2008) Dir. Andrew Stanton The world has become uninhabitable through pollution and

Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet A picturesque postcard of Paris from the imagination of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amélie is a romantic comedy in which the word whimsical could almost have been invented. But that’s not to say it isn’t also extremely clever, witty, poignant and absolutley gorgeous to look at. Audrey Tatou plays the waitress Amélie Poulain, who goes to great lengths to surreptitiously alter the lives of those around her for the better, the role of guardian angel giving her lonely existence a purpose. The film is filled with the most wonderful comic touches (and conversely, touching comedy) such as when Amélie is mistakenly assumed to have a heart defect since the only time her heartbeat raced was during her medical inspections – the only physical contact with her father. The whole film has a glorious and unique colour scheme of glowing greens and yellows, giving it the quality of an eccentric fairytale. Endlessly inventive and engaging, Amélie is a total delight from s...

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