The Trevor Project – the nonprofit endeavor established to promote acceptance of gay and questioning teenagers and aid in suicide prevention – is to hold an evening of irreverent comedy, performances, and awards next month. The 11th annual Cracked Xmas – A Not So Silent Night will be presented by Anne Hathaway and will honor Sigourney Weaver with a Life Award for her support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Previous recipients include Ellen DeGeneres, Debra Messing, and Rosie O’Donnell. “I feel grateful and humbled to be honored with the Trevor Life Award, and to be recognized as an ally to the LGBTQ community,” said Weaver. “I hope that films such as ‘Prayers for Bobby’ will send messages of compassion and acceptance to all people, and compel them to create safer, all-encompassing environments for our young people.” Lifetime Networks, a leader in women’s television that produces and distributes diverse programming for its audiences, will receive The Trevor Hope Award. View the rest of this entry…

James McAvoy has named Anne Hathaway as his pick to win this year’s best actress Oscar for her role in Rachel Getting Married. Writing as part of Variety’s ‘Contenders’ feature, the Wanted star said Hathaway’s performance left him “compelled to watch – sometimes through my fingers”. Jonathan Demme’s film sees the Princess Diaries actress as Kym, a habitual substance abuser on weekend release from rehab to attend her sister’s titular nuptials. And with the family already fractured through Kym’s past, her return sets the stage for deep-seated tensions to mar the wedding. For McAvoy, Hathaway’s success in allowing the audience to identify with her character – despite her frequently “repellent” behaviour – is the key to her being tipped for an Academy award nomination. “Anne Hathaway has that indefinable quality of making an audience identify with the character she is playing,” he explained. View the rest of this entry…

Here’s the first batch of pictures from Annie portaying Andy Sachs in the high praised movie The Devil Wears Prada:

It looks like Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway can’t get enough of opportunists. After splitting from fraud Raffaello Follieri, who is now behind bars, the actress has reportedly moved on to another social climber. The Devil Wears Prada star was spotted vacationing with Adam Shulman. An insider said that Shulman is not much of an improvement from Follieri. “Adam is known as an opportunist,” the New York Post quoted an insider, as saying. “When he was at Brown (University), he went after all the heiresses. It’s like Anne is addicted to losers,” the insider added. However, Shulman’s representative made no comments on the issue.

Anne Hathaway only owns three pairs of shoes. The Devil Wears Prada actress finds it amusing that she is classed as a fashion icon – because she wears the same old footwear time-after-time. She says, “I actually only have three pairs of shoes which I wear to all the premieres and award shows. “I have a pair of black Pradas, Manolo Blahniks and a pair of Marc Jacobs which I’ve worn for five years now but nobody’s ever noticed. “I guess the secret is out now, but I won’t stop.”