NATALIE PORTMAN
IF I HAD ONE WISH
"Sitting
across from Natalie Portman can be a disconcerting experience.
How often do you meet perfection? And Portman's 16-year old face
is perfect. She's already been hailed as "the next Audrey
Hepburn" and "the new Elizabeth Taylor." In
reality she's the only Natalie Portman... Jack Kroll, Newsweek, Dec.
15, 1997, Back in the Secret Annex.
"She
obviously pulled some rank. She has a lot of power for a young
kid." Jan
DeBarge spokesperson for The Roxy.
Quoted in The Boston Herald.
"...nobody's
perfect--not even Natalie."Maria Neuman Maria Neuman, Jump, Dec,
Jan, Feb 2000, Naturally Natalie
"...she's
one of the smartest people I know, and I'm really fortunate to
have her in my life." Moby Quoted
in Sky Magazine
"We
said to each other, 'Hey, it's Natalie, We'll make it
work.'" Director
Wayne Wang of Anywhere but Here
commenting on their rewrite of a scene Natalie found
objectionable. Quoted in Entertainment
Weekly Fall Movie Preview.
Entertainment
Tonight Online: Okay, what do you think makes a great summer
movie?
Cartman:
Popcorn.
Kyle: NATALIE
PORTMAN!
Cartman:
Yeah, popcorn and Natalie Portman.
ET Spotlight Interview, Entertainment
Tonight Online, June 29,1999. If, for some odd reason,
your want to see the entire "interview", it is at Entertainment
Tonight Online
Welcome to my Natalie Portman page.
This will bring together what I enjoy the most in pages about
Natalie. There are some things others can do much better than me,
I will let them and cover those by links. But I trust myself
better on a few things as well. In short, this will hopefully
bring the best of Natalie to you, whether it's my own work or a
link to someone else's...
WATCHING NATALIE
- TELEVISION: The Professional
will be shown on May 3, 12, and 20 on Cinemax at
various times. Check local listings. **ADDED May 1, 2002**
- TELEVISION: Star Wars: Episode 1
will be shown on Fox on May 9 at 8 PM
Eastern. Check local listings. **ADDED
May 1, 2001**
- TELEVISION: Where the Heart Is
will be shown on Cinemax #2 on May 5,
16, 21, 24 and 27 at various times. Check local listings.***ADDED May 1, 2002**
- TELEVISION: Heat
will be shown on HBO Plus on May 18, 23,
and 28 at various times. (check local listings). ***ADDED May 1, 2002**
- TELEVISION: Vote for a rerun of Natalie on
Letterman here
- Check The
Late Night TV Page to scan for late night TV
appearances.
- THEATER: The Seagull
begins in Central Park in New York on July 24th. See Nichols
nails HBO deal (4th paragraph down). **ADDED March 26, 2001**
- 2002 CALENDAR: Same creator as 2001, it is at The
unofficial Natalie Portman-calendar 2002 **ADDED December 28, 2001**
- 2001 CALENDAR: Created by a fan. Weekly with large
pictures. You can see it and/or download it here.
Commentary in English is on the right side of the page at
the top.
- MOVIE: Where
The Heart Is is now out on video and is available
from stores and online. Natalie no longer has any current
movies out in the theaters. See the entire ranking list
of (usually) abt 100 current run movies at Yahoo!
Movies - Top Box Office.
- MAGAZINES: Jump, Dec, Jan, Feb
2001, "Naturally Natalie" by Maria Neuman. America's
Queen has scans of the cover,
artilce
page 1 and article
page 2 (actually a picture).
- MAGAZINES: Teen Celebrity,
December , 2000, p.62-63 is reported to have an artlicle
about Natalie: "Leaps from Feature Films to
College", with a picture on page 54. 100 Percent
Natalie Portman (Queen Amidala) has transcribed the
article.
- MAGAZINES: Movieline, September,
2000, p.21 is reported to have an artlicle about Natalie.
- MAGAZINES: Jump, September, 2000.
Natalie is reported to be mentioned on page 40 about
actors going to college and in another article about
"smart people" where Susan Sarandon speaks
about her.
- ONLINE ARTICLE: The
Sunday Times, The Shrinking Star, David
Eimer, November 12, 2000. Click on the upper left corner
where it says "Search the Sunday Times", enter
"Natalie Portman" and choose "The
shrinking star" dated Nov 12, 2000. Also see related
IMDB article "Portman wants no University
Stalkers" from 11/14/2000 here
(article is below the middle of the page).
- ONLINE ARTICLE: Natalie Portman
2000 in the Sept. 20th News section has links to an
interview in Sain Unlimited Magazine.
They also have up a brief article from Woman's Day.
See here.
- ONLINE ARTICLE: Recent article on The Age, Melbourne,
Australia -- The
Age: Natalie the battler by Phillip McCarthy, Sept.
1, 2000.
- Articles dated before September, 2000 have been moved to
the ARTICLES
section.
- POLLS: Vote for Natalie in a CosmoGIRL!:
celebs poll here.
- POLLS: Natalie won rounds 1, 2 and 3 in IGNForMen's
"Battle of the Babes", but was eliminated in
round 4 by Sarah Michelle Gellar. See the results
page (hmmm, interest seemed to vanish when Natalie
was eliminated). They are now in their final showdown
between the modern winner and the classic winner. You can
link from the above results page if you still want ot
play.
- POLLS: Natalie finished 2nd in the Movie Actress
category of Entertainment Weekly's Greatest
Entertainers of the Future poll.
NEWS
- Natalie chat on French site in Oct. See the transcipt --
link is in the ONLINE ARTICLE section above.
- By all reports, Nat is back in school.
- Natalie nominated for another award. See Yahoo
- Nominees Announced for The Hollywood Reporter's Fifth
Annual YoungStar Awards. Sept. 6, 2000
- Episode II filming has begun. See here.
June 27, 2000
- Natalie is 19 as of June 9, 2000!!!
- Nat in early talks about Dirty Dancing sequel (or
remake). See here.
May 12, 2000, Variety wire.
- Ask questions about Natalie at Harvard, get arrested. See
here,
for May 3 at 6:43 PM.
- Anakin cast. See here,
May 6, 12:49 PM Eastern.
- The Phantom Menace is now out (video
only, no DVD).
Also check the following (often if you want to avoid missing
anything)--though news in all of them has been pretty sparse
lately:
NATALIE'S BIOGRAPHY
NATALIE'S WORK
ARTICLES
-- I am gathering links to as many different articles as I can. I
am working forward from the beginning, but will also start
backwards to add the most current...
FAQ -- to come
PICTURES -- most sites have them --
some very few, some a lot. Probably the most comprehensive I've
seen is at NataliePortman.com
. Another example of what is out there is the pictures section at
Natalie Portman Stardust
I may add some of my favorites later, but will have to determine
what I can legally/ethically do first. Meanwhile, there's a lot
out there...enjoy...
MULTI MEDIA -- Takes time to download,
megabytes of space, etc., but there is some good stuff out there,
especially for recent natalie fans who want to see what she was
before. The above linked sites each have something. If I find
something particularly interesting or easy to use, I will put a
link here.
POSTCARDS -- There are postcards at
the official site of Anywhere But
Here with pictures from the movie.
STAR WARS -- Info
about this recent (and so far brief) portion of her career is at:
Also, read an interview Natalie did for Entertainment Tonight
at Entertainment Tonight
Online (type Natalie's name into the search function at the
top of the page)
NATALIE MERCHANDISE --
There is a page where this is available at America's Queen : Merchandise
QUOTES
LINKS -- The above
should keep you busy for awhile. However, if you are in major
"can't get enough of her" mode, hit the banner below
for 60 + links to Nat sites of every description [most more
evolved than this--but that will change in time]. It's much
easier than stalking her (and safer, for if you stalk her, you
will be hunted down and destroyed...)
Also check out:
AllNataliePortman.com
- Natalie Portman - Pictures and information about the Star Wars
Queen!
There is also an "official site" at CelebSites:
Natalie Portman-Portrait of a Young Actress (Official Web Site).
We'll see if it ever springs to life...
DISCLAIMER
If you have suggestions, complaints, etc., contact me at jsreed54@juno.com
