LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Starting early next year, Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, Kim Basinger and a host of other stars will be available to read you a bedtime story.

Audio-book company Audible.com announced Friday that it’s launching a new line of audio books read by some of Hollywood’s biggest talents, including the above names.

Also participating in the line: Jennifer Connolly (who’ll read Paul Bowles’ “The Sheltering Sky”), Dustin Hoffman (who’s tacking Jerzy Kosinski’s “Being There”) and Samuel L. Jackson (who shall recite Chester Himes’ “A Rage in Harlem” — to which he’ll hopefully bring the same panache as his reading of “Go the F— to Sleep.”)

Audible.com will announce further participants in the series later this year, while the company will begin to roll out titles from the line in early 2012.

Other celebrities confirmed include Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Meg Ryan, Susan Sarandon and Naomi Watts.

While we can’t ever imagine a cast more suited to the “Jersey Shore” than Snooki, the Situation and the rest of the gang, Conan O’Brien is doing his part should producers ever decide to recast the MTV reality hit.

In the “secret audition tapes,”, three aspiring “Jersey Shore” cast members audition. Paul Rudd, who you may remember from almost every Judd Apatow movie ever made, starts his tryout by deadpanning: “Paul Rudd. I want to marry a Guido.” And we believe him.

“Multiple growth hormones, that’s the type I’m attracted to,” says Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.

Lastly, actor of gravity Dennis Haysbert gets into full thesbian mode for this line: “The Situation wants me to jump on a grenade, but I’m not going to jump on a grenade for the Situation.”

Bravo!

source:poptoit

Just don’t expect to see her anytime soon. Ryan Murphy is sticking by his word and not even an Oscar-nominated actress is going to deter him.

Last awards season, the big Glee buzz at the Golden Globes, besides Chris Colfer winning, was Anne Hathaway getting the green light from Ryan Murphy to be on the show. She had previously expressed a fervent desire to join the cast as Kurt’s lesbian aunt and since Gleeks seemed genuinely excited about that, Ryan agreed to write her in.

But things happen. Time gets away from you. Shows pile up and as we all know, Anne never made it to Lima, OH. Then, when Ryan promised the press that there would be no guest stars for the first half of this third season, we were sure that would be the end of Anne’s chances.

That is, until Ryan said this:

“I’m meeting with Anne in the next couple weeks. We’re not going to do guest stars at all the first half of the season, but I would love to work with her and she supposedly has the whole thing mapped out. I’m curious as to what she wants to do. I love her. I think she’s great.”

She WILL be great! Listen, give her all the slack you want for the Oscars, but when she sang, she was impressive. No doubt. Plus, this would be a great time for an obscure relative to show up. Someone who will help Kurt get on the path for the rest of his life.

Get it down, Murphy! Put that writing team to work for her!!!

I’m incredibly sorry for the time I had off, but I needed some time to update the photos and layouts since the site has been kind of outdated lately. Anyway, we have a new theme by Rossi and a new gallery theme by me. I also updated the spotlight photo and spotlight site as well. I hope you like the new stuff!

With her long brown locks, svelte figure, megawatt smile, and — as we now know from her role in One Day — near perfect British accent, Anne Hathaway seems like the perfect fit to play Kate Middleton, the newly crowned Duchess of Cambridge. But would she?

“I haven’t really thought about it before, but yes, why not,” the actress tells Britian’s The Sun newspaper. “She’s great. It’s such a fairy tale.”

Celebrities Offer Advice to a Future Queen

Hathaway is, of course, no stranger to fairy tales, having played Princess Mia Thermopolis in the big-screen adaptation of Meg Cabot’s The Princess Diaries.

While currently there aren’t any plans for a big-screen adaptation of Middleton’s life, or even her romance with Prince William (at least none that we know of), Hathaway’s comment got us thinking: Which actress could best replicate Kate onscreen? We’ve got a few ideas…

Vote for one of our choices in our poll, or let us know about someone we may have missed in the comments below.
Which actress could play Kate Middleton?
Related Content from Parade.com

We have a new gallery layout online! It was designed by Krissy and Coded by me, and I just love it!
Ps. I’ve been slacking off with uploading pictures, but I will be sure to have them all in the gallery by the end of the weekend

It’s a surprise to have Anne Hathaway spilling out her insecurities. But it seems she’s a chronic worrier – an actress who fears that every new role will be her last.

This, from a star who landed the coveted role of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, which she’s currently filming for director Christopher Nolan. Who’s set to play Judy Garland in a screen biography. Who’s about to open in One Day, the film adaptation of British novelist David Nicholls’ international bestseller about a relationship that takes two decades to come to fruition.

Yet here she is this morning, telling us about her anxieties. It’s as if The Princess Bride, The Devil Wears Prada, Brokeback Mountain, Rachel Getting Married and Love and Other Drugs never happened.

“Every actor feels it,” she says – the difference here being that she’s not afraid of saying so. “We’re all a mixture of arrogance and insecurity. I’m actually not a very confident person – I’m just very professional.”

She laughs at what she has just admitted. But she leaves no doubt that she’s serious.

“Worry comes with the territory of being an actor. You don’t come into this profession for the job security. And there are a lot of things, at times, beyond your control.”

Furthermore, she suggests, success must not lead to complacency – because success actually makes you more vulnerable.

“I’m playing at a pretty high level now, so there are a LOT of things beyond my control. You can be doing fine work, and people just decide that they’re bored with you – and all of a sudden, you don’t get the opportunity to do things.”

Hathaway is talking with such calm, analytical assurance about the perils of her profession that you sense a contradiction here. How can someone so seemingly together really feel so vulnerable?

But she leaves no doubt that the vulnerability is there. For her, every good film opportunity – for example, the current One Day – comes as a gift.

“It makes you appreciate the things that you have, because it’s nice to have a script like this and a character like this. I think, ‘Oh my gosh, this is what I get to pour myself into!’ And the older I get, the more I appreciate these opportunities, because I assume they’re going to become increasingly rare. So you just try to live in the middle of every moment.”

She also makes clear that with One Day, which opens Aug. 19, she had to fight for the role of Emma Morley, the principled working-class girl from Northern England who wants to make the world a better place, but ends up learning some difficult truths about love and life.

The film begins on July 15, 1988 – St. Swithin’s Day – in Edinburgh. That date launches a friendship that will last a lifetime between Emma and Dexter Mayhew, a wealthy, self-absorbed, feckless charmer played by Jim Sturgess. It’s an often turbulent friendship, but one that ultimately survives wrong turns and emotional minefields to evolve into something more meaningful and profound.

David Nicholls, who wrote the screenplay from his own book, calls One Day a love story “about friendship and family, nostalgia and regret, and the way that our hopes and dreams don’t come true – at least not in the way we expect them to.” His script follows the structure of the novel, offering annual snapshots of the course of the Emma-Dexter relationship, each set on St. Swithin’s Day.

Hathaway first read the script in December 2009, and it came to her in the nick of time, because her dreaded insecurities were once more bubbling to the surface.

“I had wrapped Love and Other Drugs and had a two-week panic that I was never going to work again. Then I was sent One Day, and it became a full-frontal assault to get the part.

By Jan. 7, she was in London, with the aim of convincing director Lone Scherfig (An Education) that she was right for the part.

“I was sitting in a club somewhere in London, talking with Lone, trying to explain to her why I ought to play Emma Morley – and failing miserably. It was the worst meeting I’ve ever had.”

Hathaway’s personal selling job didn’t seem to be working – and it wasn’t just because she was an American wanting to play a quintessentially British character. But she persevered, and thinks now that one big factor in eventually winning Scherfig over was her decision to name a list of her favourite song titles and suggesting that Emma would approve of them.

“Emma was the most honest, complex, beautifully drawn character I’d found since Rachel Getting Married,” Hathaway says. She was also fascinated by the way the story examines the difference between friendship and love, and she rejects the notion that it’s difficult for a man and a woman to just stay friends without wanting to take a relationship further.

“The majority of my friends are gay men, and I’ve never had any sexual tension with them!” she laughs. But she also has straight male friends and – “yeah, I think it’s possible with a straight woman to be friends with a straight guy and vice versa.

“But I’m not the person to answer these questions. I’ve been in a very rock-solid relationship for three years (to actor Adam Shulman), and I’m a one-man woman and don’t really look at other men that way. I’m terribly boring and loyal and true-blue and all that.”

However, she’s come to some solid conclusions about what happens to Dexter and Emma in the course of 20 years in the film.

“I don’t think Emma and Dexter could have gotten together a day before they did. They both had so much life to live and so many realizations to come to. Before they could be together honestly and openly, I think he needed to learn to appreciate her, and she needed to learn to appreciate herself. I think that was the most serious impediment.”

Hathaway loved charting Emma’s journey over two decades.

“Emma’s not a girl who changes; she’s a girl who evolves,” she says.

Not surprisingly, Emma’s changing wardrobe – distinctly dowdy at the beginning – signals this.

“Odile Dicks-Mireaux, the costume designer, and I had all these fun conversations – like, ‘What was the year that Emma found the right bra?’”

Speaking for herself, Hathaway says this can be a crucial discovery for any woman.

“You have many, many years where you do not wear the right bra, and then one day you find it, and it’s like doors opening . . . a life-changing moment!”

One Day opens Aug. 19.

From chick flicks like The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada to the upcoming action movie The Dark Knight Rises, super-talented and super-stylish Anne Hathaway can do it all. Based on the bestselling novel with the same title, Anne’s latest movie One Day, in theaters August 19, follows the relationship between Emma Morley (played by Anne) and Dexter Mayhew (played by Across the Universe cutie Jim Sturgess) over 20 years on the same day they met. Seventeen caught up with Anne at the premiere of One Day where she gave us all the dish on this romantic movie, perfecting Emma’s English accent, and her favorite outfit from the film.

Seventeen: We’ve heard you say that Emma’s Yorkshire accent was one of your biggest challenges in making the movie. What was so hard about it?

Anne Hathaway: The thing about the accent that was really important for me to get was that it evolved over the course of the film because as you get older your voice changes, the way you speak can change. I’ve met a lot of people from Yorkshire, and when they left the area or moved to London, their accent changed. You can meet 10 different people from Yorkshire, and they have completely different accents.

17: How is One Day different from your typical romcom?

AH: In a lot of traditional romcoms or romances, people meet in really unbelievable ways, and then they fall in love in about three weeks, and then they fight, and then somebody chases somebody across Manhattan, and then they kiss, and that’s the end of the story. This movie allows these characters to get to know each other for a really long time, so when they say they love each other, when they finally admit to it, you believe them, because they’ve earned it. I think this is a movie where the characters earn your belief in their love.

17: Can you relate to your character? How are you like her?

AH: Emma’s a late bloomer. I am myself, and I think a lot of women out there are too. There’s a lot of pressure to feel like you have it all together in your early 20s, and I certainly did not feel that way nor did I have it all together. And there’s something very nice about getting older and realizing that getting it together is something you do over the course of your entire life. Once you start to relax, everything gets a lot more fun.

17: What was your favorite outfit from the movie?

AH: I loved the dress that I got to wear when I was in Paris. I loved it. Emma loves vintage. And I love the idea that she was in Paris, and she found that perfect vintage dress and wore it and had the guts to cut her hair off. For me, that dress symbolizes a lot of Emma’s dreams coming true.

FilmInk is an Australian Magazine who will be showing Anne (in her new move ‘One Day’) and if you live in Australia you should check it out! It will be on most news stands in Australia, but If you don’t live near that area  you can buy it online here, or check out the official site here.

Ps. I will be uploading scans of the magazine soon!

PopSugar is hosting a chance to meet Anne in New York City!* Info here:

Anne Hathaway is back on the big screen in one of the most romantic movies of the Summer, One Day! To celebrate the film and Anne’s amazing fans, we’re giving away an exciting trip. One lucky winner and a friend will fly to NYC, stay at a luxury hotel, and receive a full styling and beauty makeover before meeting — and interviewing — Anne in person as part of our I’m a Huge Fan series! There will be a few fun surprises and challenges along the way, too. We’re looking for one of Anne’s biggest fans, so prove you’re it by taking our trivia quiz about her career. We will then randomly select semifinalists for round two, and from there our lucky winner will be chosen for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Good luck! Check out the official rules here — it doesn’t matter how you score. If you’re not already a PopSugar member, register now for free. The sweepstakes ends July 27 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. One Day opens in theaters nationwide on Aug. 19!

The page is located here and the terms and conditions are here. Hope you enter soon!

_{*I am not affiliated with PopSugar or the contest, I just saw it and thought it would be good to spread the word.}