In Case Mandy Moore Is Reading

[Ash Wednesday]

Goes to show celebs especially need prayers because they're around a lot of crapola. I have to admit that Miss Lohan probably isn't too much wilder than I was at 17 (I was really an idiot at that age ), so I guess I cut her a little slack (I really can only dish out so much criticism, considering the spazzmonkey I was...) -- I still think she seems pretty down to earth and cool. Though so does Mandy Moore. Hilary Duff seems too sugar-coated to me, and Scarlett Johanssen seems really aloof. But that's just me, I don't know these people!

[lilac_angel]

Here's a review that just randomly came to my email box from the Christian Film and Television Commission. Hmm.

[quote][b]New Movie Mocks Christian Faith[/b]

Hollywood, Calif. - Ted Baehr, world-renowned media scholar and founder of the Christian Film & Television CommissionTM ministry, says the new Hollywood movie, SAVED!, to be released May 28 by MGM, is a sad, bigoted, anti-Christian movie that mocks the Christian faith.

He urged other religious leaders, including Jewish and Moslem leaders, to warn their constituents about the "bigoted" movie, which stars Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin in a story about self-righteous Christian youths, set in an uptight Christian school.

"SAVED! is a hateful, politically correct movie," Dr. Baehr declared. "The movie is being heavily marketed to the community it mocks to lead Christian youth astray and make them hate their faith."

"The one character who tries to preach the Gospel in the movie," he noted, "is actually the villain in the movie. The heroine, Mary, played by Jena Malone, is told in a vision by Jesus to fornicate with the school hunk in order to save him from homosexuality."

"At the end, Mary learns that her true friends are a rebellious Jewish girl who claims to have been a stripper and the villain's brother, who denies being a Christian and lusts after the so-called stripper."

Dr. Baehr asks, "Imagine if this movie were set in a Jewish school with the faithful Jewish children cast as the villains and the Christian as the heroine who exposes their legalism. Or, what if it were set in an Islamic school, with the faithful Muslims cast as the villains and a Jewish girl as the heroine?"

"The outcry in the press would be tremendous!"

"Just as it would be wrong to mock Jews and Muslims, so it is wrong to mock Christians and God."[/quote]

Edited May 31, 2004 by lilac_angel

[CreepyCrawler]

this is my 900th post

i just listened to a mandy moore cd last night for the first time. she has a nice voice, but she doesn't sound any different from other pop artists.

[VeraMaria]

hmm

Anyone see "Chasing Liberty"?

[ilovechrist]

Lindsay and Hilary are good friends. Lindsay does party a bit, but the pictures online have been proven false about her smoking or anything. Hilary's music is better than all of the above mentioned, for most of the lyrics she and her sister wrote themselves, and the songs are quite nice--Metamorphosis is the best cd!! we need to pray for all of these girls, as they have more attention around them that they don't cave in under pressure to sin.

[traichuoi]

i think Mandy is at most a passive Christian...which by it's very nature is worse than being totally against Christianity. she has the ability to really make a strong statement about her beliefs but in every interview i've seen her in when the interviewer asks her about her beliefs in saving her virginity she always says something like, "It's for me, but i'm not going to tell other people they're wrong if they don't believe in it. It's just something i want to do for myself."

what kind of answer is that....passivity...lukewarmness is what i'd label it...

[traichuoi]

no objections???? good...

[crusader1234]

id object but that paragraph is too long for this time at night

[musturde]

If no one's posted this yet, she didnt do the new movie for any religious reason, just to challenge her or something.

[musturde]

Entertainment News Wire: Hilary Faye is kind of a mean girl, don't you think?

Mandy Moore: No. She's just a little misguided.

ENW: Did you have cliques at your high school?

Moore: Oh, absolutely. There are cliques in Hollywood. There are cliques in every aspect of life.

ENW: Did you draw from personal experience for this character?

Moore: Not really. A lot of it comes down to the writing. I felt like with Hilary Faye, I had to walk a fine line where she wasn't just a completely mean person, that she did have a heart. There had to be something that grounded her, because she could've easily been over the top and just a complete caricature. But then how would she have been the most popular girl in school? So there had to be something about her that was really likable to people and that people were able to sort of write off that she's a little crazy sometimes.

ENW: She has a lot of inner rage?

Moore: Yeah.

ENW: How do you deal with anger?

Moore: Through acting. Why not? It's using a little bit of that. I'm not a very angry person. I do tend to lose my temper about stupid things, like traffic here in L.A. It makes me crazy. Crazy. I guess that acting is a great outlet for expressing myself in a way -- being sad about something or being angry. The other day we were filming a scene where someone had died and we just found out the news and I was so scared about the scene for the whole shoot. I was like, "How am I going to be able to burst out into tears?" Then, on the day I had to shoot the scene, I don't know where I went and what I thought about, I just started sobbing uncontrollably. It happened with "Saved!" too. You're just like, "Where did that come from?"

ENW: You wear a fat suit in a flashback. Was that fun?

Moore: Yeah. I had ice cream and cotton candy smeared all over my face. My hair was all ratted and I had pimples. It was great. I mean, I loved the idea of really just being able to transform myself like that for a role.

ENW: Where do you see yourself going?

Moore: I don't know. I think that I'm still trying to figure that out. I'm trying to take it day by day and project by project. I've just been so lucky with "Saved!" and the film that I just finished, John Turturro's "Romance & Cigarettes." It's just about doing stuff that feels right.




ENW: Was "Saved!" a conscious choice to break out of the good girl image?

Moore: I don't think by doing this film I'm going to alienate the Christian fan base that liked me from "A Walk To Remember." You can't really base your decisions on people's preconceived notions of who you are. I'm just trying to continue to do stuff that satisfies me and challenges me. It's not about making those decisions for other people. In "Romance & Cigarettes," I have this sort of crazy make-out scene with this actor. And we were laughing because we're just really going at it. I said to John (Turturro), "maybe people will finally see that I'm not this sort of wholesome goody-goody."

ENW: It was scary how well you tackled the role of Hilary Faye.




Moore: Maybe there's a lot of Hilary Faye in me and I just don't know it. Maybe I got that sort of aggression and anger out playing her.

ENW: Were there personal things you could relate to?




Moore: I went to Catholic high school for, like, half a year. And religion was almost, like, not necessarily taboo to talk about, but it wasn't the cool thing to talk about. We had theology class and we went to Mass every Friday, but it wasn't the sort of thing that you talk about with your friends. When we were in Canada making this, we went to this Christian youth rock concert and they had someone kind of doing a sermon there and this rock group performed. I was looking around at people my age and going, "This is their life. This is what grounds them and is important to them." I didn't realize that there is this sort of underground youth Christian movement. It's pretty incredible.





ENW: Did you do anything special for your 20th birthday?

Moore: No. I was in New York filming. A bunch of my friends came up. A bunch? Like two or three of my friends came to New York, and my parents were there, and they sort of had a bit of a surprise party for me. I thought that I was just going to go to dinner with four or five people and it ended up being like 15, and it was really fun.

ENW: Do you feel grown up now?

Moore: Kind of. But I've kind of felt this way for a while. I guess my age is just kind of catching up with me. I've felt like an adult for quite some time. I guess that it's just the responsibility that comes along with everything. It's weird, because most of my friends are quite a bit older than me. I'll hang out with some of my girlfriends who are in college and I feel like I don't understand completely everything that they're going through because I'm not in college. I just sort of have led a different life than they have. It's weird because lately I've found myself going, "I can't really relate in that sense." I wish that I could, but I just don't understand. I don't go to school and stay up late working on research papers and waking up to go to class and being tired.

ENW: Would you like to attend college at some point?

Moore: It's not necessarily on my radar right now. That's not to say that I don't want to get some extended studies in some sort of curriculum just to keep my mind occupied. I feel like sometimes even with all of the reading that I do and all the interesting people I meet, my brain can start to go to mush. I just need my mind to be a little bit sharper sometimes.

ENW: How would you have time with your busy acting and music career?

Moore: If you want to do something you can always find time for it. I want to take cooking classes. I want to take flying lessons. I can't keep procrastinating. I need to be a little more proactive about stuff.

ENW: Are you getting over your breakup with Andy?

Moore: Yeah. Life is good.

ENW: Your relationship was well-publicized. What did you learn from that experience?

Moore: I learned that I'm not going to talk about my personal life anymore.

ENW: You've admitted you're a bit of a shopaholic. What do you buy?

Moore: Clothes, but not just for me. I love shopping for friends and family and stuff. I'd much rather buy stuff for other people than for myself. It's so much more fun to see people get stuff. Besides, I don't go out and spend $10,000 a day on stuff. I'm not frivolous. I love jeans and T-shirts. I'm eternally shopping for those. I have a hundred pairs of jeans. I don't buy jewelry, cars or houses.

ENW: Are you going to join the ranks of other celebrities and start your own clothing line?

Moore: Yeah. It's sort of in the works. It's a line of T-shirts that have to do with music. There are some quotes from my favorite songs. I'm involved with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, so I wanted to make the shirts and have some of the proceeds go to the society.

ENW: Are you working on another album or movie?

Moore: I'll work on an album this summer and maybe a film will sort of come about. They're always sort of lying about. It's kind of nice not knowing exactly what I'm going to do.

ENW: Are you proud of the music you've done?

Moore: I'm proud of the last record, "Coverage," and some of the songs on the album before that, but anything earlier than that, uh-uh. No.

ENW: Did you outgrow it?

Moore: No. I didn't even necessarily like it at the time, but being a young artist and not necessarily having my voice heard -- just because maybe I was a young person -- I ended up having to sing a lot of music that I'm not really proud of or passionate about. That's not a fun feeling. So I'm really glad to be at the age and with a group of people and a new label that really allows me to be creative and collaborative, but with my own opinion being heard. There's nothing worse than schlepping out on the road and singing and dancing when it wasn't me at all in the beginning. I just want to make the coolest pop record I can. I feel like I'm in a completely different place now. I actually have something to say and something to write about. And I haven't in the past.

ENW: Did you get feedback from any of the artists you covered on the last album?

Moore: Elton John told me he loved it. He gave me a hug and a kiss. I've seen him a couple of times, actually. He's so wonderful. He's a great, generous, lovely man. I've been so flattered that he even took the time to listen to it. Carole King really liked my version and so did Carly Simon. Those are three people that I heard from. I was like, "Oh my God, these people have heard my voice. They know that I'm a singer and they know that I've sung their songs." That's just way too much for me to process.

mighta already been posted... oh well

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[Oik]

another movie that was a "comedy"...Dogma (actually made by a Catholic).

[Guest]

dope post musturde
i like reading interviews
i thought mandy was more into God