She may have been the biggest surprise at February’s Oscars when she took the stage in a duet with Hugh Jackman. Who knew Anne Hathaway could sing? Harvey Weinstein did. Movie kingpin Harvey Weinstein said he had signed the Oscar-nominated actress to portray singer Judy Garland in both film and stage adaptations of the biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. In a statement, Weinstein called Hathaway “brilliantly talented” and said “she will be a true class act in this challenging role.” Details of the project were scant. No writer or director is yet on board. Garland, of course, is the legendary movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who portrayed Dorothy in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, starred opposite Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy films and was twice Oscar-nominated for roles in A Star is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She also enjoyed a long singing career and scored a No. 1 Grammy-winning album with Judy at Carnegie Hall from her 1961 concert at the famous Manhattan venue. View the rest of this entry…

Hathaway laughs off drenching by fashion icon Valentino. Actress Anne Hathaway once again proved she can handle anything anyone can throw at her. Literally. The 27-year-old actress, who elegantly managed the fallout from the scandal that erupted when her boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was revealed to be a conman, showed extraordinary aplomb last week when the Italian designer Valentino spilt a glass of red wine all over the white dress she was wearing. Hathaway, who like other celebrities at the party (Madonna and Gwyneth who both, wisely it turns out, wore black) had borrowed the one-shoulder short sheath dress for the event, said the upside to the accident was the she gets to keep the dress. “The first thing I told him was, ‘ You’re not getting it back’,’’ laughed the actress. “I thought about the best fashion advice my grandmother ever gave me, which was ‘Start a trend’. So I’ve decided I’m starting the trend of getting red wine spilled all over you by an international fashion icon.”

Actress Anne Hathaway is in talks to play her movie idol Judy Garland in an upcoming film based on Gerald Clarke’s biography, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The 26-year-old actress is said to be so keen to appear in the movie that she may have to sacrifice other projects, which include a lead role in a comedy called The Fiance, the Daily Mail reported in it’s online edition. The movie charts Judy’s rise to fame and her struggle with drink and drugs. “Anne dearly wants to do a musical and this could be her chance. The big attraction is that it really will be her singing, not recordings of Judy. She is determined to do it justice,” a source said. “If she nails the part, she will be a shoo-in for some big awards,” source added. The Weinstein Company has optioned the film and stage rights to the Garland story. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland published in 2000, details how the actress and singer was plagued by personal problems and mistreated by employers, family and lovers. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema. Garland died in 1969 at the age of 47 due to accidental drug overdose.

Anne Hathaway begged Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani to autograph her dress – after he accidentally spilt red wine all over the gown. The Devil Wears Prada star was at a private dinner for the 76-year-old in New York on Tuesday (March 17) night, which saw Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna turn out for the style mogul. Valentino was greeting his guests at the party when he knocked his glass of wine over Hathaway’s frock. But instead of getting worked up about the incident, Hathaway laughed off the spillage – and even asked the fashionista to sign the stained garment. An eyewitness tells the New York Daily News, “Anne was covered in wine, but she laughed about it. She told him, ‘I want you to autograph this dress and sign it right now.’”

According to this site, Anne Hathaway gave herself some time off and was spotted relaxing in Liberia, Costa Rica. Hathaway went on a boat ride and, later on, posed for pictures with some fans who happened to be lucky enough to be vacationing there at the same time.