• Kirsten-Dunst.org Online since 1998. I *think* I visited the site mostly during the time 2000 – 2003. Already then I noticed the staff’s true love for Kirsten – and seeing the site still online and maintained at such a high level is further proof of that. Truly inspirational.

• AboutJulia.com Online since 1999. I’ve been visiting this site on and off throughout the years. From the start I’ve been impressed with the amount of informational content. Again, a site where the owner really admires Julia – and made her keep the site going for all these years.

• Glamour Reese Witherspoon Online since 2001. I used to visit many Reese sites when Legally Blonde was released. I remember this site standing out from the beginning. I’ve been visiting the site ever since. Love that it’s back on track with regular updates!

• Lovely Liv Tyler Online since 2000. The first fansite I ever visited in 1999 was one for Liv Tyler. I can’t remember the address. I was obsessed with Liv for a while and visited all sites out there. I remember the launch of ‘Lovely Liv Tyler’ – though the memory of the site seems somewhat better than what the site looks like now. Either my memory is deceiving or my perception of sites has changed – or the site has changed since LOL

• The Unofficial Anna Paquin Homepage Online since 1996. Probably the second fansite I visited in my life! Loved the simple approach. And it used to be very up to date. Getting really nostalgic now hehe

• NataliePortman.com Don’t want to bet on it, but this is probably the 3rd fansite I ever visited LOL It’s always been the place to go for updates about Natalie. I often rolled my eyes at their comments but somehow – as other Natalie sites (in a more likeable format) came and went – I always kept going back to NP.com, even nowadays.

• Discover Kate Online since 1999. In the Kate Winslet-frenzy following the immediate years after Titanic there was a ton of Kate sites to sift through. I even started one on Geocities – and kept it for about 3 months LOL. Discover Kate was one of my first stops on my search for a source of Kate infos & pics. I stuck with it for many years. From the start I’ve been impressed with Ruth’s genuine interest in Kate and her progress in learning the technical aspects of the Website business. I really looked to her for inspiration on how to build my own sites. She’s been a tremendous source of help at the beginning of my Scarlett & Sophia sites. Somehow we lost touch and I am now also visiting mostly Kate Winslet Fan.

• Riikka This is not a link as it’s mostly her name that I remember from my online infant years LOL I remember her running a site for somebody I had never heard of, but doing it fantastically and with style. I remember the colour as being off-pink. From what she told me it must have been her Rose McGowan tribute. And of course after watching Swept from the Sea I was a very frequent visitor of Rachel Weisz Paradise – which she was maintaining at that point. Seeing her name somewhere online immediately brought to mind the picture of the ultimate cool fansite owner. Running websites for actors she genuinely loved, doing it with style and professionalism as well as being, as I perceived it, part of an elite cool online clique was truly inspirational. I was beyond honoured when she wanted to take over my Scarlett site. First try ended rather disastrously (what did Lisa call the fans? Demanding? So true…) but after a while it worked out.

• Mariana I also remember her from the start. Especially because she chose to help me so much. I was so surprised and felt like the luckiest girl A lot of what I’ve just posted about Riikka also applies to her! To this day I’m in awe of how dedicated she is in running her sites. The first site I remember is the one for Asia. While I’ve still never seen a movie of hers I can’t keep from visiting the site just to see what Mariana’s been up to. And I’m a regular visitor at her sites for Eva Green and Gemma Arterton. I’m still so happy to be running Claire Foy Source with her.

There are more great webmasters and great fansites that have been inspirational and helpful to me throughout the years – but these are the ones that have made an impression at the very beginning of my “online life” (1999-2001).

Actors
1. Johnny Depp or John Travolta
Johnny Depp

2. Kate Hudson or Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet

3. Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks

4. Orlando Bloom or Orlando Brown
Orlando Bloom

5. Will Ferrell or Will Smith
Will Smith

6. Jennifer Garner or Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Garner

7. Sophia Myles or Sophia Bush
Sophia Myles

8. James Franco or James McAvoy
James McAvoy

9. Matt Damon or Matt LeBlanc
Matt Damon

10. Amy Adams or Amy Poehler
Amy Adams

11. Rachel McAdams or Rachel Bilson
Rachel McAdams

12. Ryan Reynolds or Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling

13. Patrick Swayze or Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Swayze

14. Naomi Campbell or Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts

15. Eric McCormack or Eric Bana
Eric Bana

16. Ben Affleck or Ben Stiller
Ben Affleck

17. Brad Pitt or Brad Garrett
Brad Pitt

18. Chris Tucker or Chris Rock
Chris Rock

19. Ellen Pompeo or Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres

20. Eva Mendes or Eva Longoria
Eva Mendes

21. David Schwimmmer or David Hasselhoff
David Schwimmer

22. Robert De Niro or Robert Pattinson
Robert DeNiro

23. Josh Hartnett or Josh Lucas
Josh Hartnett

24. Zac Efron or Zach Braff
Zach Efron

25. Julia Stiles or Julia Roberts
Julia Stiles

26. Ashley Tisdale or Ashley Greene
Ashley Green

27. Vanessa Williams or Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens

28. Kristen Davis or Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart

29. Matthew MacFadyen or Matthew McConaughey
Matthew Macfadyen

30. Sean Connery or Sean Penn
Sean Penn

31. Jena Malone or Jenna Elfman
Jena Malone

32. Heidi Klum or Heidi Montag
Heidi Klum

33. Jim Carey or Jim Belushi
Jim Carey

34. Emma Thompson or Emma Watson
Emma Thompson

35. Kelly Ripa or Kelly Preston
Kelly Preston

36. Amanda Pete or Amanda Bynes
Amanda Bynes

37. Nicole Kidman or Nicolle Tom
Nicole Kidman

38. Bruce Willis or Bruce Lee
Bruce Willis

39. Demi Lovato or Demi Moore
Demi Lovato

40. Billy Zane or Billy Burk
Bill Zane

41. Alan Rickman or Alan Alda
Alan Rickman

42. Colin Firth or Colin Farrell
Colin Firth

43. Denzel Washington or Forest Whitaker
Denzel Washington

44. Anne Hathaway or Anne Heche
Anne Hathawy

45. Jane Seymour or Jane Sibbett
Jane Seymour

46. Anna Paquin or Anna Farris
Anna Paquin

47. Brittany Murphy or Brittany Snow
Brittany Murphy

48. Jessica Biel or Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba

49. Keira Knightley or Kyra Sedgwick
Keira Knightley

50. Sarah Michelle Geller or Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Michelle Geller

According to the Press Release also Max Brown (Mistresses, The Tudors), Iain Glen (The Blue Room, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), Simon Russell Beale (Much Ado About Nothing, Uncle Vanya) and Laila Rouass (Primeval, Footballers’ Wives) join Spooks as regulars. Not sure who of them are all on the grid, though.

Some people have complained about too many young actors joining! Well, Max Brown is the youngest of these and he’s 29. Sophia’s 30 and Laila is turning 39 in June. Not exactly young when it comes to actors on TV! And in Spooks‘ first seasons – which some consider the best – Matthew Macfadyen played Section Chief and was “only” 27, the other leading characters played by Keeley Hawes and David Oyelowo turned 26 shortly before/while the show premiered.

I’m really happy for Sophia because apart from the fact that I’m biased when it comes to Spooks I really think this will give Sophia the opportunity to play a well-rounded character and not just a love interest or something. Someone who is competent and to be taken seriously. It’ll be about more than just looking sexy, which will give her the ability to stretch her acting legs. And us to discover more of Sophia’s talent.

Listening to Amy Macdonald’s new CD is great, though. Again it’s a fabulous record. I’m loving each and every song on it!

My brother came back home after a 5 month absence. I’m quite enjoying his presence in our flat. Maybe it’ll help me pull my act together as well! In any case I got to see my family more over the weekend. Because of his return we did all kinds of things together On Friday we had dinner at my parents’ place, on Saturday we went to see the bears in their new park in the city (we actually even spotted the 2 new baby bears) and had dinner at my sister’s place and on Sunday we went swimming with my parents.

Site-wise I’m only sure about SophiaMyles.org and Marion-Cotillard.org – and of course Claire-Foy.org. I’ll definitely be keeping them and still love not only the actresses but also running the sites. What about Emily & Catalina? I still really like the actresses, though keeping the sites feels more like a chore than something I really want to.

If I’m going to keep Emily it’s mostly because I’ve already spent so much money on my extensive magazine collection about her and feel like I owe it to myself to at least put that to good use, meaning scanning & uploading them. Additionally, I also have a ton of HQ public appearance pictures and of course it took a long time to cap almost all of her movies. It’d be a shame to waste that and I still bought her recent DVDs which I wouldn’t have were it not for the site. Finally, there’s no other resource about her.

Catalina, I really like tremendously as an actress and person. She’s shamefully underrated and has been stellar in everything I’ve seen her in. As with Emily, there’s no other resource about her and I feel like I owe it to Catalina or at least Riikka who originally set the site up so nicely not to abandon it. And of course as with all of my websites I’ve invested a lot, money & time, for magazines and DVDs as well as capping etc.

In both cases the websites would need new layouts as I’m so sick of  the current ones. They’ve been up for so long and just seeing them takes my motivation away. In any case, running Marion and Sophia takes up a lot of time already and I do have a very busy life apart from internet so I’m not sure if it’s even wise to contemplate keeping additional sites.

As for Fragment of Light, well, as it’s not specific about one movie, or actor etc I would definitely like to keep it as a pleasant pastime. However, as long as I have pressure of the outdated Emily & Catalina sites I don’t think running it feels pleasant. Which is in fact, why I’ve neglected it all year long.

So, if anyone is interested in buying any of the following including content, please get in touch:

EmilyMortimer.org: Domain, incl. whole content. Untagged versions of Scans & Public Event Appearance pictures available. Screencaptures of projects are mostly available as untagged versions, a few though only with tags. Additionally, a TON of magazines and unsorted HQ Public Appearance pics. If you want you can even buy Transsiberian, Redbelt, Chaos Theory and a few older projects of hers on DVD at a good price.

Introducing-Catalina.com: Domain, incl. whole content (all the pictures in the gallery available without tags)

Stellar-Matthew.org: Domain, incl. whole content (no untagged pictures available)

Mariana created the lovely header and I adapted my recent Marion WP theme.

So far, I’ve never really been lucky when it came to being part of a team on a website. Well, AnnaPaquinFan was really good, but I really only came onboard late and only to help out Angie. And it seems it only lasted a second. But apart from that… First of all, I’ve always liked to work alone on my precious websites about Sophia and Marion (also Scarlett, back when I still had it). And then there were a few occasions when one or both of us lost interest etc, so things just went their natural course. Really, I’ve no hard feelings at all about those instances. It just wasn’t meant to happen & I myself am partly responsible. But then there were times when everything I heard about someone’s commitment to a project sounded so fabulous and honest and serious, I stopped whatever I was doing and made it all happen. After everything was set up (or a very short while later) there was complete silence on the other end. Matthew and Emily were the sites in question. Anyway, not sure why I’m talking about all that now, but I’m sure I’ll have a great time on Claire Foy Source with Anna!

Not sure if I’ll be keeping my Fragment of Light site, but I’d really love to use it for all those screencaps etc I intended it for when I opened it. If only I had some more time & motivation to updated it! Let’s hope that’ll soon come!

Other than that I’ve read the first Sookie Stackhouse novel and kind of liked it. I mean it’s nothing deep but it’s good fun. I don’t see however, how fans of the book would condemn True Blood for its kinky scenes. Sure, the book only has those that involve Sookie, but she’s intended to be the innocent character, at the beginning at least. So what exactly did you guys think was going on in other people’s lives??!! Nothing?! Some people never cease to amaze me. The scenes might not be to their liking but to say they have nothing to do with the book is such a self-deceiving lie. Whatever makes them happy I guess.

As for True Blood, I’ve only seen the first episode of the new season yet. I’m not as enthusiastic about it as others are, but then I’ve always kind of felt ambiguous about the show. Also, I would never have said I’m into vamire stories. Go figure why I enjoyed Moonlight and why I keep watching True Blood. Well, there’s something about it that intrigues me. Not least Anna’s involvement. Though I have to say she looks too thin this season, also something about the shade of her hair is slightly off. It all gives her a “hard” look, and she looks kind of old. Well, I seem to be picky, what do you want?! I’m still in love with Erik played by Alexander Skarsgard (don’t care about the spelling right now) and if nothing else he’ll keep me watching lol

About actresses being too thin… Scarlett Johansson has come under quite some scrutiny lately. My opinion on the matter. Had she not lost some weight for the role, she’d be equally critizised, at least when the film comes out. Besides, she’s never really been curvy. Well, she’s got cleavage yes, but that’s just genes. No one who just happens to have large breasts but is otherwise very slim deserves to be commended for being “healthy” and “non-Hollywood” when others are more flat-chested but really more naturally curvy. Scarlett’s always had great legs and slim arms, people just never noticed because she always wore those tight and revealing dresses. It seemed to me she couldn’t press her cleavage enough, couldn’t make people notice it enough. It always looked as if everything would pop out any second. Now, apart from the weight loss the more significant change is her style of dress. The outfits aren’t as lowcut, as tight, as revealing. On pictures, black fabric makes it very hard to figure out what someone looks like in reality. So when people show me a pic of her dressed in some white skin-hugging fabric and a low-cut bodice next to one of her dressed in some black almost old-fashioned dress to “prove” that she lost more than she said I can just shake my head. Get over it people, she’s always been slimmer than most people I know in real life!

Then “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. Isla Fisher is great and Hugh Dancy (with what little he got to do) too. The whole film is just overly pink though IMO. For a movie marketed at women rather than girls (at least I think so) a bit less would have been ok. Whenever Rebecca was overly fascinated with shops etc I kept thinking how I couldn’t relate to that at all. Only later I realized I am just about the same when it comes to rare pictures & magazines of my favourite actresses – or just pics I don’t have yet. I HAVE to have them lol For the time being I want to focus on adding all the exciting stuff I own on the sites before heading off gathering more and more – so much for my self-set goal at the moment.

Oh, and I did buy 4 DVDs (at reduced price though) over lunch – any relation to my annoyance with my current car troubles?!

Watched Cranford earlier this week. I really enjoyed it, just a shame Mr. Holbrook died as suddenly. Now, that was a storyline I would simply have loved to see more developed.

Also updated the Radio Blog in the sidebar. Don’t know why I added those Il Divo tracks in the first place… Deleted those and a few others but added 4 new songs