Movies
Les Misérables
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Emma Stone
Actress
Yah! I just saw a screening of Les Mis—oh my god—it is mind-blowing. It's so good that it's kind of stupid. It was the first musical that I ever saw when I was eight or nine, so I always had a connection to it. The movie holds up like you can't believe. It's amazing.
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3 Old Movies Emma Stone Loves
I love comedies. I grew up watching those kinds of films as a kid. My dad also loves them. The first movies I ever remember watching were ‘Animal House’, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’.
Emma Stone
Actress
I love comedies. I grew up watching those kinds of films as a kid. My dad also loves them. The first movies I ever remember watching were ‘Animal House’, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Emma Stone
Actress
What's your dream role? - Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ."
On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
Emma Stone
Actress
Who do you want to shoot a love scene with? - Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront."
It's Complicated
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life—just when she thought she had it all figured out.
Emma Stone
Actress
What's the one movie that guilty-pleasure when it's on TV you can't turn it off? - "It's Complicated."
Dogtooth
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Emma Stone
Actress
Have you seen Dogtooth? - No, I haven't.
You gotta watch it, it's bananas!
Titanic
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Emma Stone
Actress
My cinematic crush growing up was Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic which I saw seven and a half times in theaters.
The Apartment
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Emma Stone
Actress
I didn’t want to watch the movie more than once because I didn’t want to fall into doing an impression, but the moment that really defined Fran for me was that one where he [C.C. Baxter, played by Jack Lemmon in the film] says, “The mirror . . . it’s broken,” and Fran says, “I know. I like it this way. Makes me look the way I feel.” That was the moment that stuck with me. I was like, Okay, that is where she’s functioning at any given time. It’s such a major element in life—of just getting through the day.
Bringing Up Baby
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Emma Stone
Actress
I recently watched Bringing Up Baby [1938] for the first time, and Cary Grant riffs in that film. So does Katharine Hepburn—she doesn’t stop for the entire movie.
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom.
Emma Stone
Actress
I also hadn’t really seen any of Judd’s other movies at the time, besides The 40-Year-Old Virgin [2005], so I didn’t really know how Judd’s films worked, with people riffing and going off the cuff. That’s a newer form of comedy, isn’t it?
Books
The Year of Magical Thinking
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”
Emma Stone
Actress
If you're a Joan Didion fan and have read The Year of Magical Thinking then you need to read her new book because it's about Quintana dying. It's pretty awful, but it's so beautiful.
Blue Nights
This enhanced eBook edition of Blue Nights includes three short films directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Joan Didion. Each film blends Didion's incisive prose with images and mementos from her daughter's life. From one of our most powerful writers, Blue Nights is a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.
Emma Stone
Actress
If you're a Joan Didion fan and have read The Year of Magical Thinking then you need to read her new book because it's about Quintana dying. It's pretty awful, but it's so beautiful.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker, and professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought and why it has become such a landmark book for the history of ideas.Not available in hardcover for decades, this beautifully rendered anniversary edition will be a welcome addition to readers' shelves
Emma Stone
Actress
Emma joins all day reading of Civilization and Its Discontents
Pygmalion
When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes.Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs helps bring the play to life.
Emma Stone
Actress
Some people have an issue with the age gap between you and Colin Firth in the new Woody Allen film Magic in the Moonlight. How do you feel about that?
Honestly, it reminds me of My Fair Lady or Pygmalion. It's like Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. There's a professorial relationship there and that's how we viewed it all along.
Franny and Zooey
'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.'First published in the New Yorker as two sequential stories, 'Franny' and 'Zooey' offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family.'Salinger's masterpiece' Guardian
Emma Stone
Actress
Favorite book?
"Franny and Zoe" by J.D. Salinger.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour
Two long short stories first published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters' and 'Seymour, An Introduction' are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of the author himself.
Emma Stone
Actress
What is your favorite book of all time?
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J. D. Salinger
TV Shows
Made in Chelsea
Reality series following the lives, loves and awks of SW3's bright young things.
Emma Stone
Actress
And then another one is Made in Chelsea that reminds me of The Hills. The guy on the show in a clip that I watched says "Darling, you must commit to a restorative glass of champagne." I'm definitely watching this show.
The Only Way Is Essex
Part soap opera, part reality show, TOWIE follows the lives, loves and scandals of a group of real-life Essex guys and girls. Cameras capture the happenings at all kinds of glamorous locations as the cast meet up in nail bars, nightclubs and salons. Each episode features action filmed just a few days previously.
Emma Stone
Actress
So, The Only Way Is Essex is basically like the Jersey Shore (sort of). I say basically and sort of just to compare it to American show,
30 Rock
Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
Emma Stone
Actress
I started 30 Rock, and that’s been a pretty good one.
Huff
Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a family man and a successful psychiatrist, gets a wake-up call after a tragedy occurs with one of his patients.
Emma Stone
Actress
What's your favorite television show of all time? - Huff with Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt.
Music
She's so High
Emma Stone
Actress
I'm now the person that's planning karaoke events. I wanted to sang the song She's so High by Tal Bachman.
Bob Dylan
Emma Stone
Actress
Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan?
- Bob Dylan
Torn
Emma Stone
Actress
“I went to sleep at 4am,” she confesses, eyes bugging as I return from the bar with some drinks. “We were doing karaoke until so late, me and Collie [Olivia Colman].
FYI, I would have done ‘Torn’ by Natalie Imbruglia if I didn’t have to talk to you today…
These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
Emma Stone
Actress
“I went to sleep at 4am,” she confesses, eyes bugging as I return from the bar with some drinks. “We were doing karaoke until so late, me and Collie [Olivia Colman]. I sang ‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.
Waterfalls
Emma Stone
Actress
What is your favorite TLC song? Obviously, Waterfalls.
Crazysexycool
Emma Stone
Actress
What was the first album I bought... TLC "Crazysexycool".
Tom's Diner
Emma Stone
Actress
What is your go to karaoke song? - Tom's Diner seems like it would be a good karaoke song
Don't Panic
Emma Stone
Actress
If your life was a song, what would the title be? I just steal from Coldplay and say Don't Panic.
Goods
Recording King RK-U25-BR Madison Banjo Ukulele
Emma Stone
Actress
Somebody got me a banjo-ukulele and I just started fooling around on it. It's been pretty great. I've never played an instrument before in my life, except for the flute in fourth grade, but it's small enough for my hands so I've been screwing around with it and I learned "What a Wonderful World" which is really fun on a ukulele. You can get the tabs online—it's pretty easy.
Vitamix 5300 Blender, Professional-Grade, 64 oz.
Variable Speed Control: Easily adjust speed to achieve a variety of textures. The dial can be rotated at any point during the blend, so you're in complete control.. Pulse Feature: Layer coarse chops over smooth purées for heartier recipes, such as chunky salsas or thick vegetable soups.. Low-Profile 64-ounce Container: Perfect for family meals and entertaining, while fitting comfortably under most kitchen cabinets.. Hardened Stainless-Steel Blades: Our aircraft-grade stainless steel blades are designed to handle the toughest ingredients, so from the first blend to the last, you get the same quality results.. Self-Cleaning: With a drop of dish soap and warm water, your Vitamix machine can clean itself in 30 to 60 seconds.2.2 HP motor. 5-Year Full Warranty: We stand behind the quality of our machines with full warranties, covering all parts, performance, labor, and two-way shipping at no cost to you.. What's in the Box: motor base, low-profile 64 oz. container, getting started guide, low-profile classic tamper
Emma Stone
Actress
I've been making smoothies lately. I have a Vitamix; it's a game changer. I put in this vitamin-y green powder with bananas, frozen berries, and coconut water. I really like the at-home smoothie situation.
People
Mara Roszak
(@mararoszak)
Emma Stone
Actress
My ultimate red-carpet stylist: Mara Roszak. If I look at my hair, it wilts, so I need her help.
Nancy Meyers
(@nmeyers)
Emma Stone
Actress
What’s your sad and lonely movie?
Anything Nancy Meyers.
Jesse Eisenberg
(@jesseeisenbergofficial)
Emma Stone
Actress
Jessie Eisenberg is one of the funniest people in the world.
Games
Call of Duty
Emma Stone
Actress
Halo or Call of Duty?
Ooh . . . Call of Duty.
Farmville
FarmVille lets players cultivate their farms by plowing, planting and harvesting crops and trees. Players also care for their farm animals.
Emma Stone
Actress
I had to delete my Facebook why because I got too addicted to Farmville.
Mobile Apps
Dubsmash - Musical Videos
Emma Stone
Actress
What's your favorite app? Dubsmash, obviously.
Places
Griffith Park
Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. It is the second-largest city park in California, after Mission Trails Preserve in San Diego, and the 11th largest municipally-owned park in the United States. It has also been referred to as the Central Park of Los Angeles but is much larger, more untamed, and rugged than its New York City counterpart.
Emma Stone
Actress
There's Griffith Park near the Observatory that I loved.
Cafes
Johnny Rockets
The Johnny Rockets Group Inc. is an American restaurant franchise whose themed decor is based upon 1950s diner-style restaurants. Decor includes Coca-Cola advertising, featuring nearly life-size cardboard illustrations of women in World War II armed services uniforms (see WASP- Women Airforce Service Pilots), individual jukebox stations, chrome accents and red vinyl seats. The menu, presentation, counter seating and grilling area are based on an original restaurant from 1947 (still operating today), The Apple Pan in West Los Angeles. Hamburgers are grilled-to-order in full view of the customers and are served wrapped in paper in metal baskets. One location in Hawaii is called "Rock 'n Fun" and also has an arcade.
Emma Stone
Actress
I'm a sucker for Johnny Rockets. I could go to Johnny Rockets and get grilled cheese with cheddar on white bread and french fries and vanilla-peanut butter malt. I love cheddar cheese—not American cheese, which tastes like a credit card. I use extra-sharp cheddar and then my secret is to put some garlic salt on one side when you're making it and then I butter on both sides to really do it up.
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger is an American regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations primarily in the Southwest and the Pacific coast. It was founded in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948 by Harry Snyder and Esther Snyder. The chain is currently headquartered in Irvine, California and has expanded outside Southern California into the rest of California, as well as into Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Oregon. The current owner is Lynsi Snyder, the Snyders' only grandchild. As the chain has expanded, it has opened several distribution centers in addition to its original Baldwin Park location. The new facilities, located in Lathrop, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Draper, Utah; Dallas, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colorado will provide for potential future expansion into other parts of the country. In-N-Out Burger has chosen not to franchise its operations or go public; one reason is the prospect of quality or customer consistency being compromised by excessively rapid business growth. The company's business practices have been noted for employee-centered personnel policies. For example, In-N-Out is one of the few fast food chains in the United States to pay its employees more than state and federally mandated minimum wage guidelines – starting at 14 USD per hour in California, as of July, 2019. The In-N-Out restaurant chain has developed a highly loyal customer base and has been rated as one of the top fast food restaurants in several customer satisfaction surveys.
Emma Stone
Actress
In-N-Out or Shake Shack? In-N-Out.
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