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Scarlett Johansson is no longer content just being a movie star: she wants to sing too. Although she kind of bombed out last year while attempting to warble with Jesus & Mary Chain onstage at Coachella, Scarlett decided to to take on an ambitious project: she’s actually attempting to do a Tom Waits tribute album.
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Known for being mature beyond her years, Scarlett Johansson is really a kid at heart. She celebrated her 20th birthday at Disneyland, and her favorite movie is Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
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This month's W magazine features actresses Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman on the cover, looking eerily similar. The magazine declares that they're Hollywood's "New Hot Duo", which is convenient given that their new movie, The Other Boleyn Girl in which they play the Boleyn sisters, is coming to theaters this month. How did they achieve such similarity? Photoshop? Make-up? Plastic surgery?
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Johansson has signed on for three new projects. She was cast to the femme fatale Silk N Floss opposite Gabriel Macht in Frank Miller’s noir comedy adaptation of Will Eisner's comic The Spirit. The movie is scheduled to go into production October 2007.[14] She will ... portray Mary, Queen of Scots in a film scheduled to begin production in March 2008[15][16] and appear as a pilates instructor in
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"I'm definitely spent," Johansson said, explaining that after finishing The Other Boleyn Girl, she was taking her first long break in five years. "It's important for an actor to have a life you can draw from," she said. "But I'll be working; it's just that not filming is a break for me." Her non-filming schedule included publicity for the film, recording a CD, and going with Oxfam on a fact-finding trip to India and Sri Lanka to report on tsunami-relief efforts. She became interested in Oxfam while living in London. When Bono and Bobby Shriver organized the RED campaign with Gap U.K., she was the first celebrity to sign up, wearing Product RED clothes on the covers of two U.K. magazines. (Johansson takes an interest in local crusades in places she has worked: She filmed the 2004 movie A Love Story for Bobby Long in New Orleans and recently took a trip there with Stan Curtis, the founder of U.S.A. Harvest.
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Due to begin filming in June of 2005, Scarlett will rub elbows with super star Tom Cruise in the much awaited action sequel Mission Impossible III. The movie is due for release sometime in 2006.
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