Winona was seen yesterday, smiling and ageless, with a friend shopping at Barney’s, before hitting the Grove Shopping Center in West Hollywood on Thursday. She looks stunning, and yay, with normal glasses!

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• Candids: April 16, at Barney’s

In her latest GOOP newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow talks about why the media spins stories negatively and mentions a “frenemy,” most likely referring to her former best friend, actress Winona Ryder. (Their friendship ended when Gwyn reportedly stole the part of Shakespeare in Love from Winona. Industry insiders have denied this rumor.)

“Back in the day, I had a ‘frenemy’ who, as it turned out, was pretty hell-bent on taking me down. This person really did what they could to hurt me. I was deeply upset, I was angry, I was all of those things you feel when you find out that someone you thought you liked was venomous and dangerous. I restrained myself from fighting back. I tried to take the high road. But one day I heard that something unfortunate and humiliating had happened to this person. And my reaction was deep relief and…happiness. There went the high road. So, why does it feel so good to hear something bad about someone you don’t like? Or someone you DO like? Or someone you don’t KNOW? I once asked the editor of a tabloid newspaper why all of the stories about a famous British couple had a negative bent. He said that when the headline was positive, the paper didn’t sell. Why is that? What’s wrong with us? I asked the sages to shed a little light. Here’s to washing our mouths out with soap… Love, Gwyneth.”

The “unfortunate and humiliating” incident Gwyn mentioned is likely referring to Winona’s 2001 shoplifting incident, where she stole $5K worth of designer clothes and accessories at a Saks Fifth Avenue department store.

Finally I was able to cap “The Last Word”. The movie was released in Blu-Ray last April 7th (sadly I couldn’t find it here in Brazil yet).

Plot: A reclusive writer played by Bentley makes his living composing other people’s suicide notes. His life gets turned upside down after he embarks on a tumultuous romance with Ryder, the sister of a recently deceased client.

If you didn’t saw the movie yet, DO IT! Winona is incredible beauty, and with a strong performance in the movie.

See the previous caps below:

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• The Last Word (2008) – Screencaptures

The official website for “The Informers” is up!

You can see a full scene with Winona, nothing different than official trailer, also she has her own part on the cast biography.
The movie opens in April 24th!

Also, there’s a short in MTV Movies blog with the Informers’ autor talking about the final result of the movie. Here’s an excerpt:

Ask acclaimed novelist Bret Easton Ellis what “The Informers” is about, and you get nearly a minute of silences, false starts, and heavy exhaling.

“Um…A week in the lives of a group of people in Los Angeles in 1983, focusing mainly on…I guess, a trio of guys…” he eventually attempts, before scampering for a copy of the 1994 novel that serves as the basis for the new film. “Um…I’ve got a paperback of the book here. What does this say? No, that’s not a good synopsis either.”

What Not
By Mark Harris and Jason Gordon

Crash” meets “History of Violence” – at first glance a gangster film… but one that unfolds to explore important social issue of race, identity, and belonging. A groundbreaking, musically driven urban drama/thriller.

This is the true story of two brothers…connected by fate but divided by race. By night, Emanuel Jones works within the Italian mob who assume he’s one of their own. By day he is forced to be the caretaker for his black foster brother, Carlo, a musical savant that no one knows exists. When these two disparate worlds come crashing together for the first time, Emanuel finds a way to seemingly rid himself of each once and for all…

But he will soon learn that leaving his life behind and starting over with a woman with an equally tormented past won’t be as easy as it seems…

Producers: Henry Boger, James Gibb
Director: Mark Harris and Jason Gordon
(in talks) Actors: Winona Ryder, John Leguizamo
Location: Tennessee
Start: May ‘09

Source | Thanks ChrisB for the heads up!

The world tour to promoting Star Trek has just beginning in Australia latest April 07 (Auckland and Kwait was already visited). I don’t expect to see Winona in any premiere than Los Angeles (maybe), but we’ll stay tuned.

Cities to be visited include:
– London, England
– Berlin, Germany
– Paris, France
– Madrid, Spain
– New York, New York
– Los Angeles, California
– Tokyo, Japan

Of course, if you want to follow any no-Winona updates regarding Star Trek, you can take a visit to my other site, Zach-Quinto.com.

An update regarding our gallery. The domain winonamedia.com has expired, and I decided not renew it since it’s not necessary. To visit our gallery, please go to GALLERY.WINONA-RYDER.ORG. All pictures are still there, just the url has changed. Thanks and my apologies for any inconvenience.

I found and added 180 pictures of Winona on set of movies “The Informers”, “Mr Deeds”, and “The Ten”. Unfortunally, they’re not HQ. But it’s better than nothing.

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• The Informers: On Set – October 17, 2007
• The Ten: On Set – July 31, 2006
• The Ten: On Set – August 07, 2006
• Mr. Deeds: On Set – May 21, 2001
• Mr. Deeds: On Set – May 20, 2001
• Mr. Deeds: On Set – May 18, 2001

Water Pills, Blake Soper’s short film made last year with Winona Ryder starring, has won a grand jury best performance award for Jasmine Jessica Anthony at the 18th annual Florida Film Festival.

The film was screened at the festival on April 1 and the awards were presented on Saturday. [Source]

Congratulations to Winona, Blake and all cast and crew!

TheMovieBox has a new TV Spot online. You can watch it here. There’s no new scene on Winona, but you can check the baby Spock (probably in Amanda’s arms). Cute ears!

Valladolid will present “VOOM Portraits,” an exhibition of video portraits by the celebrated theater director and artist Robert Wilson, on view from April 2 through May 31. The exhibition is in cooperation with “VOOM Portraits – Robert Wilson”.

Wilson collaborates with his human subjects to develop costumes and settings that hark back to past works of art, history or popular culture. The exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery will include a large portrait of Winona Ryder as Winnie, the main female character in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Buried up to her neck in a mound of sand, Winona/Winnie gazes in the distance. As the sun rises and sets above her, some of Winnie’s accessories in the play (a toothbrush, a handbag and a gun) progressively become visible and invisible again. The gallery will also present an installation of snow owl portraits, which Wilson filmed in front of a vibrant polka-dotted background. [Read more...]