I want to wish all of you a merry christmas, great holidays and a happy new year! I decided to put this site on a little winter break. Don’t worry, we’re back in January 2009 with the latest on our favourite girl!

Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter are to take a trip to a magical world in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, it has been confirmed. Princess Diaries star Hathaway is likely to play the White Queen while Bonham Carter - the director’s fiancee - will don the Red Queen’s crown, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Using a blend of live-action and animation similar to that seen in Beowulf, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland update is set for release in March 2010 and sees newcomer Mia Wasikowska in the title role. Burton’s long-time collaborator Johnny Depp was confirmed as the Mad Hatter at a Disney showcase last month and Little Britain star Matt Lucas is to play both Tweedledum and Tweedledee in the Lewis Carroll adaptation. Hathaway, however, will work for Burton for the first time in playing the “benevolent monarch” deposed by her evil sister (Bonham Carter).

Anne Hathaway is featured in the October 2008 issue of W Magazine. Here are some snippets:
On showing up for the W mag interview at all: “Right now I don’t have the wherewithal to be anything except professional. As soon as I found out about the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press tour for Get Smart. And then I spent a week in shock at a friend’s house. And then I had to go back and do more press, and I haven’t stopped since. At different stages of my life, I’ve felt I’ve been two ages simultaneously. I’d be a professional working adult and also a typical 13-year-old. Right now I have the distinct feeling that I’m two ages again, and the older part of me that I relied on many times in the past in difficult moments, that’s the part that got me here today. That’s the part that says, ‘You do your job, you keep your head up.’” Read on…
Thanks to JustJared for the head-up!

Actress Anne Hathaway has been forced to address her attitude on film sets after director Jonathan Demme gave her a dressing down when she went on the attack over a script change. The revered moviemaker made The Devil Wears Prada star stop and think when he took her to task for comments she made on the set of their new movie together, Rachel Getting Married. His remarks made Hathaway realise she’s not always the mild-mannered good girl her reputation suggests. She tells W magazine, “Jonathan altered something in the script, and I said, ‘Jonathan! Why did you change this?! It was better the other way and here’s A, B, C, D, E, F, G why!’ “He smiled at me and said, ‘Hey, Annie? Maybe instead of telling me why I’m wrong, you could ask me why I made the choice I made.’ I instantly felt so ashamed. “I didn’t mean to be disrespectful to people, but that’s exactly what I had done for years.”

Emotional actress Anne Hathaway is taking a little time away from showbusiness in an effort to address the personal hell she has been through this year. The Brokeback Mountain star split from boyfriend Raffaello Follieri in June shortly before he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering in an alleged scam allowing him to purchase unwanted U.S. properties owned by the Catholic Church. Hathaway threw herself into work in an effort to keep a distance from the scandal and her ex, but her feelings came to a head recently during a visit to director pal Jonathan Demme’s home in upstate New York. She tells W magazine, “They (Demmes) all had so much going on. And I just started to cry because I thought, ‘I don’t have a life right now. And I haven’t for some time, and I just haven’t noticed.’” So Hathaway is taking a little time to focus on herself before jumping back into work: “In the fall I’ll start focusing again. But right now I need to be me for a little bit. “(Musician) Robyn Hitchcock… has this great line in one of his songs: ‘I’m not an integrated person.’ That’s the way I feel most of the time. I feel like I have to apologise for myself in front of most people.”