Adele Tells New Bestie Jennifer Lawrence To MOVE To Her Notting Hill Neighborhood! (PEREZ HILTON)

It only makes sense that EGOT-pursuer Adele and the World's current crush Jennifer Lawrence have united in their awesomeness…

They are both supreme beings who obviously excel at their crafts, AND they both happen to be sweeter than buttercream frosting!

In fact, Adele is SO taken with Jennifer that she's encouraging the actress to MOVE to a house near her home in Notting Hill when the X-Men sequel starts filming in London later this year!

One supposed source reveals:

"Adele’s been hanging around with Jennifer Lawrence since the Oscars. Jennifer’s set to come to London later this year to film an X-Men movie and Adele’s recommending she move to Notting Hill, where she has a house."

SO excited to witness this intimidating friendship blossom into the most beautiful of flowers!

Perhaps they can even team up on an (inevitably) award-winning movie!

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Colin Firth: Hollywood star Colin Firth hits town (QUEENSFERRY GAZETTE)

HOLLYWOOD magic has been sprinkled on Bo’ness this week with acting royalty Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in town to film The Railway Man.

The Oscar winners were at Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway on Wednesday, along with renowned Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fame.

It was the start of a three-day date at the popular tourist venue, which sees Bo’ness join filming locations in Thailand and Australia.

Schoolgirl Leigh Bloomfield (13) will be the envy of many a female, after ‘Mr Darcy’ himself got out of his chauffered Mercedes to pose for a picture with her and other locals. Leigh declared on Wednesday night on Facebook ‘so happy I met Colin Firth, must be the happiest girl in Bo’ness’.

After barely getting a wink of sleep Leigh was back to S2 Academy studies yesterday (Thursday).

Mum Audrey, of Leigh’s Sandwich Bar, told the Journal and Gazette the family had spent an hour trying to catch glimpses of the stars at filming.

It was just as Firth was about to get whisked away from the set at 7.30pm that Leigh, of Thirlestane, had her unforgettable encounter with the heart-throb.

“He seemed like a gentleman,” said Audrey. “She knew him right away from St Trinian’s and Pride and Prejudice.

“She was really shocked. She’s going back tonight to try and see Nicole!”

“The Railway Man” is the epic true bestselling story about Scottish war hero Eric Lomax (Firth), haunted by brutal memories from being forced to construct the Thai/Burma railway during World War II.

Years later, he meets the beautiful Patti (Kidman) on a train, who is determined to rid Eric of his demons.

The movie also stars Jeremy Irvine and Hiroyuki Sanada. Production insiders were tightlipped this week over which scenes were being shot at Bo’ness railway.


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Stage Version of ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Moving Ahead

October 21, 2011, 1:09 pm

New York Times

By PATRICK HEALY

“Shakespeare in Love,” the 1998 romantic comedy that won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and acting honors for Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench, is the latest film being eyed for adaptation to the stage. Two leading producers, Disney Theatrical Productions and the British impresario Sonia Friedman, have been holding meetings with the playwright Tom Stoppard – who shared an original screenplay Oscar for “Shakespeare in Love” with Marc Norman – and the director Jack O’Brien about the project, according to theater executives familiar with the creative discussions.
The new version would be a straight play, an exception to the movie-to-stage trend; most films these days are turned into musicals, most recently “Catch Me If You Can,” “Ghost,” “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” and “Sister Act.” Mr. Stoppard and Mr. O’Brien are long-time collaborators on plays: They won Tony Awards — for best play and best director — in 2007 for Mr. Stoppard’s Russian-history drama “The Coast of Utopia,” and they were both Tony nominees in 2001 for “The Invention of Love.”

No deals have been signed by the two men, but the producers want to collaborate with them as well as with the designer Bob Crowley on the project, according to the executives. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the project is meant to be confidential at this stage.

The plot centers on a young Shakespeare (played in the film by Joseph Fiennes), lovelorn and suffering from writer’s block. In a fit he destroys his latest play, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter,” and decides to rewrite it as “Romeo and Juliet,” while falling into a romance with a young would-be actress (Ms. Paltrow) who has disguised herself as a man to star in the new play. Ms. Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress, while Ms. Dench won a supporting actress Oscar for a few brief scenes as Queen Elizabeth I.

Thomas Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatrical, was scheduled to fly from Madrid – where a new production of “The Lion King” opened on Thursday night – to London for business meetings next week. It was not clear if he would be meeting with Mr. Stoppard, though executives described their talks about “Shakespeare in Love” as ongoing. Disney holds the rights to develop “Shakespeare in Love,” which was produced by Miramax Films, which at the time was a part of the Walt Disney Company.

A spokesman for Disney Theatrical on Friday declined to comment on the project. Ms. Friedman is one of the busiest producers in London and New York; she is currently represented on Broadway with “The Mountaintop” and “The Book of Mormon,” and last season was a producer of the Broadway revival of Mr. Stoppard’s “Arcadia” (as was Disney Theatrical) as well as “Jerusalem,” The House of Blue Leaves,” and “La Bete.”