Hey guys, my name is Carmel and i’m the proud new owner of Acting Naturally. I’ve been a huge Julia fan for years and I can’t wait to get started on this site! Thanks to Gertie for this great opportunity. For now I just wanted to introduce myself but I will come back with tons of updates, since the site is a little behind!

Tickets for the first-ever Broadway production of David Mamet’s Oleanna, starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, areon sale to the general public.

Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt) directs the “gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students.”

Produced by Jeffrey Finn, the Broadway production will begin previews Sept. 29 toward an Oct. 11 opening at The Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th Street.

For tickets visit www.telecharge.com or call (212) 239-6200. Tickets range from $116.50 to $76.50.

Tickets will also be available for purchase in person at The Golden Theatre box office at a future date to be announced.

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The late 1990s saw a glut of mostly forgettable teen movies come and go at the multiplex, but 1999’s “10 Things I Hate About You” managed to stand out. Transplanting Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” to a modern-day high school setting, it launched the careers of Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. And while those other teen flicks gather dust, “10 Things” has been granted new life as a TV series, with the chance to grab a new generation of fans.

The plot of the half-hour comedy, premiering at 7 p.m. Tuesday on ABC Family, is essentially unchanged: Sisters Kat and Bianca adjust to life at Padua High while living under the microscope of their loving but intrusive dad, played by Larry Miller, the lone holdover from the film. Lindsey Shaw stars as Kat, a rebel determined to show people she doesn’t care what they think, while Meaghan Martin is Bianca, who never met a popular person whose rump she didn’t kiss. The two would be content to just stay out of each other’s way, but their father has imposed the Shakespearean rule that Bianca cannot start dating until her older sister does.

This seems like a bad turn for Bianca until Kat finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner named Patrick Verona (Ethan Peck), who seems equally taken with her. Shaw (“Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”) says that as Kat discovers new emotions within herself, she’s forced to re-examine her outlook on life.

“She runs into situations and people — especially with this boy — where she finds herself exposed more than she ever has been, and she realizes that those feelings that she never thought were there (are) surfacing,” Shaw says.

Calling herself a fan of the film, Shaw says she could always relate to Kat’s guardedness and the belief that she needed to put on a brave front. Slowly, she says, she has realized that revealing her vulnerability isn’t such a bad thing. On the flip side, she says co-star Martin (“Camp Rock”) is “an open book,” which makes her perfectly cast as Bianca.

Holding them together is Miller, who plays Walter Stratford much the same way he did in the film, as a single dad trying to come to grips with his daughters becoming young women.

“He’s a guy who just doesn’t understand why his life is changing,” Miller says. “He’s someone who cares deeply about his daughters, and he’s going to hold onto his life as rigidly as he can.”

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Please check out the gallery, I will be updating the gallery without making an update on the frontpage. Updates will be slow for a while as I am reading for several exams at the moment.

Check out the Wall Street Journal, Julia wrote about The New York Mets for their weekend section! It’s great to see her talent on paper as well as on the screen. She definitely knows how to get my attention.

Yes, it’s true! Julia Stiles has her own blog! I just found out!

Stiles’ agent, Toni Howard, just confirmed for me that the blog; YOU KNOW MY STEEZ, is in fact the actress’s own. So far, the star of “Save the Last Dance” and “The Bourne Ultimatum” has written three posts, one a link to a short film she directed and two about the city schools, which she attended until middle school.

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On the blog she is particularly taking a stand for charter schools, and she states her case well. She is also blogging about Oleanna. The blog is fairly new. If you only know Julia from her movies, then her blog will positively surprise you. She is an intellectual concerned young woman. And educated. Some of us already knew this, but it’s amazing to be able to visit the actress’ own blog and find out what is on her mind.

YOU KNOW MY STEEZ

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- 02/18: NY Fashion Week : Milly Fall 2009

View the album to see more pictures from the event. More pictures coming up shortly!

Julia spoke about Fashion Week:

“Um, it’s really funny to me,” she said, spinning to face us. “Because it’s like, I’m sort of relieved that I don’t work in fashion! Everybody seems stressed out all the time.”

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There’s actually a fair amount of news today, but I want to make sure that this doesn’t slip through the cracks: New York Magazine reported yesterday on a new friendship between Joel Klein, the chancellor, and the actress Julia Stiles.

Apparently Stiles met Klein by interrupting him at a recent party where he was reacting to an Obama speech. Stiles stopped him in order to describe her own issues with the city’s public schools. Then she got embarrassed for getting so excited about the education issue:

Afterward, Stiles, mortified (“I have a lot to say and I was wildly inarticulate”), apologized and awkwardly asked for Klein’s e-mail. He took hers instead, saying “I’ll be in touch.” “I’d seen a couple of her movies, but I couldn’t remember her name,” Klein admitted, but he e-mailed her to follow up. “We’re now e-mail pals. She likes what we’re doing on charters.”

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I’ve finished converting the FKA Projects to wordpress, and the new section is up now and can be viewed under Career.

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The Website and Julia sections are also done

Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles are set to star in David Mamet’s Oleanna at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The show replaces the previously announced Uncle Vanya as the third production in the Taper’s 2009 season at the Los Angeles Music Center, due to casting complications. Previews for Oleanna start May 28, with opening night set for June 5. The production, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, will play through July 12.

Pullman is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Independence Day, Lost Highway, Sleepless in Seattle, Ruthless People, While You Were Sleeping, The Grudge, Spaceballs, Scary Movie 4 and the recent Bottle Shock and Noble Son. He has appeared on Broadway opposite Mercedes Ruehl in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination. In 2007, he earned a second Drama Desk nomination for his appearance in Albee’s Peter and Jerry in 2007 at Second Stage. Pullman was also nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for the 2006 Kennedy Center production of The Subject Was Roses.

Stiles starred in Oleanna in London’s West End in 2004. Her additional stage credits include the 2002 Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, James Lapine’s Fran’s Bed at Playwrights Horizons and The Vagina Monologues off-Broadway. Her film credits include I Love You, I Love You Not, 10 Things I Hate About You, Save the Last Dance, Mona Lisa Smiles, two David Mamet films (State and Main, Edmond), as well as The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Oleanna is a gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students. Premiering in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992, it has since been produced in London and New York and was made into a movie in 1994, starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt.
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