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Receiving an Academy Award nomination is an honor most actors dream of. For several of this year’s Oscar nominees, it still feels like a dream.

“It’s completely surreal, and it hasn’t really sunk in yet,” said Amy Adams, one of the stars of “Doubt.” “There are moments when it seems like reality, but it’s far too good to be true.”

Adams, who was first nominated for her supporting role in 2005′s “Junebug,” said she is enjoying her nomination even more the second time.

“I think, oddly enough, I’m more grateful this time around. Not that I wasn’t grateful, but I was just so nervous and so shot out of a cannon,” said Adams, who is up for best supporting actress. “It was such a whirlwind that I didn’t necessarily absorb it. So I made a deal with myself to enjoy it this time and have fun.”

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“Sure, I’m upbeat. I’m a Tigger. But lightness doesn’t exist without darkness. And I do believe you can have an artistic life without suffering.”

Amy Adams is looking out of her hotel window at a grey, wet, foul London afternoon. Down below, the huddled masses are braving the lashings of wind and rain. “What a beautiful day!” she declares. Adams isn’t being ironic; she is just being herself. With her all-American smile and that upbeat bounce in her voice, she sounds just like Giselle, the unworldly fairy-tale princess who finds her true prince in current-day Manhattan, in Walt Disney’s hit comedy Enchanted. When I groan and grumble about the weather, she turns on me and says, “Oh, you’re such an Eeyore!”

“And who are you?” I grunt, “Tigger?”

“But of course!” she says, and right on cue she breaks into song: “The wonderful things ’bout Tiggers is, that Tiggers are wonderful things!”

You can see why Adams has gained a reputation for being Hollywood’s goody-goody golden girl. She has cornered the market in cheerful, wholesome American innocents who would rather look on the bright side than walk on the wild side. But maybe we have her all wrong? Maybe, beneath her Tigger persona, there’s a tiger waiting to pounce. Might she be one of those good girls — like Britney and Whitney — just waiting to break free and go bad?

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I went a little cap happy with this one lol.  Amy just looked so cute and it was a fairly lengthy interview.  Thank you to my good friend (and co-web at another site) Colleen for the file.

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I know, I know.  The site hasn’t even been open for two weeks yet.  The new photoshoot just totally inspired me and I had to use it.  I hope you all like it.  Comments are <3 btw!

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Spyglass has set Matthew Goode to star opposite Amy Adams in “Leap Year,” the romantic comedy Anand Tucker will direct from a script by Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan.

Adams plays a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day. When weather forces her to veer off course, she enlists a cynical Irish innkeeper (Goode) to join her on a cross-country trip.

Shooting begins in March in Ireland.

Goode will next be seen in the Zack Snyder-directed “Watchmen,” and he recently completed the Tom Ford-directed “A Single Man.” Goode starred in “Brideshead Revisited” and “The Lookout.”

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“There are people who go after your humanity, Sister James. Who tell you the light in your heart is a weakness. That your soft feelings betray you. Don’t believe them.”

Those words are spoken to a meek nun who is uncomfortably wedged between two very potent personalities with agendas in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt. The film version is nominated for five Oscars, including one for Sister James herself, Amy Adams. If the movie star in this nun’s cowl has ever had any similar doubts about her own “soft feelings” it isn’t showing. She knows they’re no weakness but a strength. She’s been spreading joy in movie theaters like there’s an endless supply of it. If there’s a current movie star who embodies “the light in your heart” isn’t it Amy Adams? She seems content and grateful for this particular persona. As she told me in our conversation, she doesn’t feel the need to step away from the cheery innocents just yet. “I’m not really interested in doing something just so I can prove I can do it. I really enjoying the roles I’m doing.” In short, she has no immediate plans to dim the light.

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I’ve added some LQ screencapures of two clips from Sunshine Cleaning.  I will try to find better quality versions of the files.

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With Oscar weekend quickly approaching, AMC debuts its new primetime special, “Storymakers.”

Premiering at 7 p.m. Friday, the special, hosted by entertainment industry veterans Peter Bart and Peter Guber, features an intimate gathering of A-list actors in a round-table discussion about entertainment headlines. Topics range from Oscars, summer movies and holiday films to the actor’s craft, guests’ current projects and the general state of the entertainment industry.

Oscar nominees taking part in the discussion include Penelope Cruz (best supporting actress, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), Danny Boyle (best director, “Slumdog Millionaire”), Amy Adams (best supporting actress, “Doubt”), Frank Langella (best actor, “Frost/Nixon”) and Melissa Leo (best actress, “Frozen River”).

A whole bunch of Sunshine Cleaning stills and behind the scenes photos were released and I’ve added them all to the gallery.  Don’t forget – Sunshine Cleaning opens in select theaters on March 13th.

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I about died when I saw these photos. Amy looks STUNNING.

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