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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Bob Dylan

Emma Stone
Actress
Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan?
- Bob Dylan
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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’.
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Crazysexycool

Emma Stone
Actress
What was the first album I bought... TLC "Crazysexycool".
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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.