audrey hepburn Daily Telegraph Daniel Craig keira knightley My Fair Lady Scarlett Johansson Telegraph (UK) The misanthrope

October 26th, 2009

“By George, she’s got it!” reads the headline of an article that reported, “Keira Knightley beats Scarlett Johansson to be My Fair Lady.”

According to a story in the Telegraph, which was picked up by numerous outlets, Keira Knightley has been tapped — over Scarlett Johansson — to play the part of Eliza Doolittle in a re-make of the 1964 film “My Fair Lady,” which had starred Audrey Hepburn. How big a surprise is this?

Elizabeth Hurley Hugh Grant Telegraph (UK)

August 18th, 2009

“Accustomed to having the pick of Hollywood’s finest romantic comedies, Hugh Grant has suffered the embarrassment of being turned down by a young British director making her debut film,” begins an article that’s beginning to get picked up.