Actress Blake Lively graces the cover of the September issue of Lucky Magazine. In her interview the actress discusses husband Ryan Reynolds, her sense of style, her role as the face of Gucci Première perfume, the number of clothes she wore in six seasons on Gossip Girl, decorating her New York home, and her love of cooking. You can find the pics, and a behind-the-scenes video, for her cover shoot inside.
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Here’s the thing, I’ve been waiting for a Green Lantern movie since 1980. That’s a long time (and a big stack of comic books). On hearing Green Lantern was finally getting his own live-action franchise I was cautiously optimistic. And then every still, trailer, and commercial I saw made me increasingly less so. Was this really what I waited so long to see?
Director Martin Campbell unleashes a CGI extravangza which certainly isn’t the Green Lantern of my childhood. However, the script by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg gets enough of the character right and does a fair job of combining various story threads, told over several decades, into a single cohesive narrative that by the time the credits rolled, I’ll admit, I had a slight grin on my face.
Of course it’s also possible that my longtime love for the character and my growing unease at something during its marketing began to look all too similar to Marvel’s botched Fantastic Four franchise may have caused a psychotic break.
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