Archive for September, 2005

“Actress Rosario Dawson (Sin City, Rent) has signed to star in Kevin Smith’s The Passion of the Clerks and the Quentin Tarantino produced Killshot, both for the Weinstein Co., according to today’s Variety.Passion of the Clerks, written and directed by Smith, is a sequel to his cult indie flick Clerks that centers around the characters from the original film. It is set 10 years after the events of the first film. It’s unknown what role Dawson will play.Killshot, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, tells the story of a couple who enter the witness protection program and are pursued by a gangster. Dawson reportedly plays the girlfriend of the gangster’s right-hand man (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Johnny Knoxville is signed to start as an FBI agent trying to protect the couple.The trade adds that Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke and Thomas Jane are also in talks to join the project.”[ SOURCE ]So after Rent, it looks like with the addition of these two, we have 10 projects to look forward to from Rosario in the next year

“ROSARIO Dawson bid a tearful goodbye to the Lower East Side on Thursday. The actress (“Rosa” to her friends) sat on the stoop of the tenement where she grew up as a squatter, eating dinner and drinking Cristal with her dad and brother, “Rent” co-star Tracy Thoms and punk-rock poet Tony Lombardi (who’s working on a screenplay based on his years managing Scores). Chaunce Hayden reports in Steppin’ Out magazine that Rosario’s limo driver patiently waited across the street for the starlet to say her goodbyes before taking her to a private jet bound for her new home in California. There were lots of hugs, tears and memories … We’ll miss ya, Rosa!”[ SOURCE ]

“Revolution Studios partner Tom Sherak and his wife Madeleine were honored at the 31st annual Dinner of Champions “Concert at the Kodak.” The gala event took place on Friday, September 16th, 2005 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. The event raised $2.7 million that will aid in the research, programs and services that the National MS Society supports throughout the year. In addition, the Skirball Center gave a grant of $1 million to be used to fund a chair at UCLA for MS research. Special guests attending included Rosario Dawson, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms, Marlon Wayans, Kevin James, Henry Winkler, D.B. Sweeney, Bill Pullman, David Lander, Marc Singer, Alan Rosenberg, Jamie Vanderbilt, Jason Lewis, Don Diamont, Daniel McVicar, Chris Columbus, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve Carr, Jon Turtletaub, Jan de Bont, Joe Roth, Amy Pascal, Jeff Blake, Alan Horn, Dick Cook, Rob Moore, Bill Mechanic, Laura Ziskin, Bob Teitel, Peter Bart and Bob Dowling.”[ SOURCE ]

Screw my design and color project, I obviously found better things to do with my time. Massive gallery update including Rosario’s appearance at not one, but two runway shows on the 12th. Check out pictures from the BCBG Max Azria show and the Oscar de la Renta show.Major update with magazine scans including, 2000 issue of Seventeen, 2000 issue of Urban Latino, 2001 issue of Allure, 2001 issue of Movieline, 2001 issue of Teen People, 2001 issue of YM, the premier issue of Complex magazine, 2003 issue of Allure, a Breast Cancer Awarness advertisement, and finally the June 2005 issue of the French magazine Score.Enjoy you guys, and cross your fingers I don’t fail my class. Oops.

” Abby Z., premier designer to Hollywood

“….This summer she is at work on a book about the way the mainstream marketing machine has presented its Latino and Latina stars, starting with Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s, up to such actors as Benicio del Toro and Rosario Dawson in 2005.Dawson is, of course, not strictly Hispanic but of mixed Latina, African American and other heritages. The ethnically ambiguous and their growing prevalence in mainstream films is another of Beltra(n’s research interests. She is beginning to explore the meaning of mixed-race actors in Hollywood and the increasing emphasis on multicultural heritage in contemporary publicity. While her research at this point does not extend to studying audiences, she has noted that the idea of “mixed” heritage often does not compute with most audiences.”Focus groups show that audiences tend to see actors like Dawson, Vin Diesel and Halle Berry as belonging either to one race or another, but not to both,” says Beltran. Her article on multicultural actors appears in the spring 2005 issue of Cinema Journal….”[ SOURCE

“As New Yorkers cheered him on, Andre Agassi smacked down a much younger player yesterday and advanced to the finals of theU.S. Open.A-list stars Nicole Kidman, Rosario Dawson, former inmateMartha Stewart, Robin Williams, and Courtney Cox and hubby David Arquette enjoyed Agassi’s five-set victory over Robby Ginepri, 2″[ SOURCE ]