July 6, 08 Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore find their sisters in skates

What could make a film about women’s roller derby that stars Ellen Page and is directed by Drew Barrymore even cooler? Think hard. I’ll give you a second.

OK, time’s up. Have you guessed? The answer is, of course, a really cool supporting cast of actresses. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ellen and Drew will be joined in their upcoming film Whip It! by Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig, Marcia Gay Harden and Zoe Bell.

The film follows Ellen’s character, Bliss Cavendar, a small-town Texas girl who runs away from her ex-pageant queen mom played by Marcia. While her mother wants her to follow in her tiara-wearing ways, Bliss would rather strap on some skates. So instead she joins a roller derby league in Austin.

Mentoring her is Saturday Night Live’s Kristen as Malice in Wonderland. Juliette plays one of the league’s stars, Dinah Might, and stuntwoman-turned-actress Zoe is a medical technician who moonlights as Bloody Holly. (God, you have got to love roller derby names.) Drew will also star in her directorial debut.

I also love the dynamics in the cast. Kristen will surely bring the funny. Juliette has a raw energy. Marcia has an Oscar, so insane pageant mom should be no problem. And with Zoe, well, hello awesome roller stunts. Also of the newly announced cast Juliette already has the rocker girl attitude down pat thanks to her band Juliette and the Licks and Kristen clearly already has the skates.

I unexpectedly became a fan of roller derby thanks to the now defunct A&E series Rollergirls. While I’d never want to try it myself (I prefer my bones unbroken, thank you very much), it’s fascinating to watch. So the thought of seeing such a talented group of women become hell on wheels is just awesome.

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July 2, 08 Ellen Page signs with Endeavor

Ellen Page has signed with Endeavor.

The actress had been repped by WMA, which guided her into her Oscar-nominated role in “Juno.”

She continues to be managed by Kelly Bush through Vie Entertainment. Bush shifted from being Page’s publicist to her manager several months ago. Page’s press is now handled by other publicists at ID, with Bush overseeing. Her attorney is Kevin Yorn.

Page made the move as she’s prepping to star in the roller derby pic “Whip It,” which Drew Barrymore will direct in July for Mandate. The 21-year-old actresses just wrapped the Michael Lander-directed “Peacock,” also for Mandate.

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June 24, 08 More Juno Items @ Hot Topic!

There is alot of stuff at hot topic for Juno if anybody is interested in looking the items range from $24.99(USD) to $1.99(USD) for Pins, Key Chains and Tee Shirts even the Juno dvd! Click here to see all of the items available.

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June 21, 08 What is the world coming to?

An apparent pregnancy pact in a United States fishing town has been linked with Oscar-winning comedy Juno, after 17 teenage girls fell pregnant.

Former blogger Diablo Cody won a best original screenplay Oscar for the independent film last year, telling of a wise-cracking teenage girl (Ellen Page) who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and decides to give her child up for adoption.

And as the summer holidays begin at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, some 17 students are expecting a baby - four times as many as in 2007 - which bemused staff believe could be due to the popularity of Juno.

But while the pregnancies might have seemed an intriguing coincidence, an investigation by Time magazine found that the girls had made a pact, with some of them reportedly celebrating the news of their impending motherhood with high fives.

School principal Joseph Sullivan explained that teachers had grown suspicious as early as October when a number of girls began requesting pregnancy tests and by May, certain girls had requested multiple checks.

“Some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were,” he told the magazine.

And after questioning the students, nearly half of the girls - none of whom are older than 16 - admitted to having made a pact to fall pregnant at the same time, so as to raise their babies as a group.

“We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” the principal added.

Films such as Juno and Knocked Up - which feature young unwed mothers - have been linked with the pregnancy pact while some school officials believe the collapse of the local fisheries industry, which has left many families poverty-stricken, has left youngsters bored and choosing pregnancy as a distraction.

But according to Amanda Ireland, a recent graduate from Gloucester High who gave birth while a student, the 17 girls involved in the pact are desperate for attention.

“They’re so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally,” she commented.

“I try to explain it’s hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3am.”

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June 17, 08 Freebie Section Back Up

I think I need to stay away from databases from now on. I deleted the freebie’s database from the server like a moron on accident, but now It’s back up and running again I had to re-install it and add everything back.

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