Alba: Sweatsuits yes, nudity no
Even though Jessica Alba played a stripper in "Sin City," she's not about to bare it all for anyone in public.
In an Elle magazine interview, the 25-year-old says that the film's directors offered her the option to do nudity in the film, but she refused.
"I don't do nudity. I just don't," says Alba. "Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety."
The actress isn't into baring much skin in real life either.
"I never dress for men --- I dress more for women," she explains. "I'm not the mini-skirt-and-cleavage girl, ever ... I'm guilty, in an LA way, of wearing too many sweatsuits, but it's because of work. I have such long hours that I want to be in my pajamas."
But she does like to dress attractively on occasion, even though it caused so much pressure at the born-again Christian church she attended, she decided to leave when the religious leaders accused her of being too sexy.
"Older men would hit on me and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, and it wasn't," she says. "It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex, that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and of being a woman."
Her church's condemnation of premarital sex and homosexuality was also at odds with her own views.
"I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn't how I was going to live my life."
Alba is currently shooting the comedy "Good Luck Chuck" with Dan Cook, about a man who women seek because once they break up with him, the next man they meet will be their future husband.
Nirvana concert video expanded for DVD
The Nirvana (music) concert video "Live! Tonight! Sold Out"--which was first issued on VHS in 1994--will be released for the first time on DVD on Nov. 7.
According to a Universal Music Enterprises press release, the DVD version of the video has been color-corrected and remastered in 5.1 surround sound. It's also been expanded to include some previously unreleased performances from 1991, which were recorded at the Paradiso club in Amsterdam: "School," "About A Girl," "Been a Son," "On a Plain" and "Blew."
"Live! Tonight! Sold Out"--which includes 15 complete songs, as well as interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and excerpts from the group's home-video archives--chronicles Nirvana's 1991-92 world tour, and continues as the band's popularity exploded through 1993.
The songs included on the video are:
"Aneurysm"
"About a Girl"
"Dive"
"Love Buzz"
"Breed"
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
"Negative Creep"
"Come As You Are"
"Territorial Pissings"
"Something In The Way"
"Lithium"
"Drain You"
"Polly"
"Sliver"
"On a Plain"
"Endless Nameless"
EXTRAS - Live In Amsterdam:
"School"
"About a Girl"
"Been a Son"
"On a Plain"
"Blew"
Ebert hopes to be back for Oscars
CHICAGO - Roger Ebert hopes to be fully recovered in time for the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival. In a letter published Thursday in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and co-host of the "Ebert & Roeper" TV show says he's looking forward to getting back to work full time early next year.
"One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!" he wrote.
Ebert had surgery June 16 to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. He also had emergency surgery July 1 after a blood vessel burst.
He had undergone cancer surgery three times before the June operation — once in 2002 to remove a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland and twice on his salivary gland the next year.
He announced in the letter that his first movie review in months will run Friday. He decided to review "The Queen" after an "Ebert & Roeper" producer brought him a copy of the movie on DVD. He plans to continuing doing occasional reviews until he's fully recovered.
The 64-year-old Ebert, who's now at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, thanked fans and colleagues for their support.
He has been a film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, the same year he teamed up with Gene Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune to launch their TV show. Siskel died in 1999. Ebert has co-hosted the show with fellow Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper since 2000.