Or Does Natalie Portman Love 40ish Photographer Brad Pitt?
Sorry for the silent morning. Con Edison decided to dig some trenches and knock out the power for most of the day, disabling all my electricity-based devices. I'm probably upgraded to some sort of super electricity now though, so a fair trade all in all.
Anyway, let's do movie news. Natalie Portman and Brad Pitt have signed on to star in an adaptation of the Leanne Shapton lengthy-titled book Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry. Romantic comedy just got incredibly pretentious:
The book takes the form of Sotheby's-like estate auction catalog, with 325 entries and photographs depicting items that reveal the private moments and the rise and fall of a four-year relationship between the fictitious couple Hal Morris (a 40ish photographer) and Lenore Doolan, (a New York Times food columnist in her late 20s).The project will be developed as a romantic comedy, with Pitt to play Morris, and Portman to play Doolan.
Shapton, an illustrator and art director of the NYT's Op-Ed page, uses items that range from clothes to notes, e-mails and heirlooms to convey the excitement, the hopes and dreams, and ultimately the heartache of a love affair that runs its course.
I can't wait for the scene when the Sotheby's-like auction house is about to sell off all of Natalie Portman's emails, but then Brad Pitt, camera dangling from his neck to show he's a photographer, steps in and silently raises his number paddle--because he still loves Natalie Portman, and he doesn't want her to auction away her emails.
My bet for the title: Auction. No, wait... Bidding on the Heart.
Pitt, Portman to star in 'Artifacts' [Variety]