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Actress Drew Barrymore seems to have a pretty good attitude towards dog ownership. Here, for instance, is the speech that she gives to all her dogs, upon acquiring a new canine: “Good afternoon. I’m not neurotic, nor will you be.” Interesting! And a little crazy, but still kind of a good speech.
Drew loves dogs, and has recently gotten a new one. Unfortunately, not everyone is as good with animals as she is. For instance, David Letterman kind of sucks with them, apparently. Which is what is revealed on ‘Late Show’ (weeknights, 11:35PM ET on CBS).
Ms. Barrymore is very excited about her new pet, who is named “Douglas,” and who has the same birthday as she does. (That date would be February 22nd, for the record.) But she also reveals that she recently lost a dog named “Flossie.” This particular dog lived until she was sixteen years old, then sadly passed away. Still, that’s a ripe old age for a dog. Drew reveals that she honored Flossie by taking some of her ashes to India — she put Flossie’s ashes in the Ganges river, considered to be one of the most sacred spots in the world. How sweet!
After Drew is finished telling this story, Dave reveals just how bad he is at the whole pet ownership thing. He rolls up his sleeve and shows the multiple nasty bites that he has gotten from his dog. Ouch! “Oh my God!” Drew says. Yeah. It seems that Dave isn’t quite as skilled with dealing with animals. But not everyone can be Drew Barrymore, and not everyone can give cute yet bizarre speeches to their pets.
Last night,Drew hit the Los Angeles premiere of “Going The Distance”. She looked stunning in a dress by Catherine Malandrino and Jewelery by Samantha Willis. I’ve added 160 HQ and MQ pics in the gallery.Check those out and enjoy!
Drew will be appearing on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart on Wednesday August 25th 2010 at 11pm. Be sure to watch if you can! and we will hopefully have captures up soon after
And Drew says that her real-life relationship with Justin (which ended in 2008) helped the pair make their on-screen relationship seem that much more real, not to mention how easy it was to film a movie about long distance relationships with a former long distance lover.
Drew told Britain’s Daily Mirror:
“I thought it would be a unique experience to go work with someone I had a history with and who I had emotional times with and who genuinely makes me laugh and who I’m genuinely attracted to. I knew the chemistry between us would be honest so we would be able to bring a truth to the fact that a relationship can be very difficult and I thought that would be a real benefit. I think we balanced the line really well and I think we were willing to bare that chemistry and the pain and joy we’d felt in life.”
Drew Barrymore’s romance with co-star Justin Long adds another dimension to her latest romcom. I knew the chemistry would be there, she tells John Hiscock.
The first thing that strikes you about Drew Barrymore is how – there’s no other word for it – normal she now seems, for a woman who inherited both a famous name and a tragic legacy from her legendary acting family. Her scandal-filled childhood was followed by a deeply troubled adolescence that included drug and alcohol addiction, a suicide attempt and several spells in rehab.
But she turned her life around and during the past decade has matured into a multi-talented actress, producer and, more recently, director, who has shaken off the shadow of her family name to establish herself as a major force in her own right in Hollywood.
“Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act,” she says. “It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.”
We have met in Beverly Hills to talk about her latest film, Going the Distance, yet another romcom, a genre in which she specialises. But this one is not really for the young girls who have been her faithful core audience: it’s the most raunchy, edgy and daring of the films she has made so far.
She and Justin Long, her real-life on-again, off-again boyfriend, play a couple who meet in New York, enjoy a summer fling, then try to keep the romance burning when she returns home to San Francisco.
“It was so great to be able to talk the way I do in real life with my friends,” she says. “I think a film about real love and life and what we go through in relationships and with our friends would be impossible to do authentically if it didn’t have sex and [bad] language, because it wouldn’t be realistic.”
The Long factor just adds to the realism. They met three years ago when they were both cast in He’s Just Not Into You and dated for a year before splitting up and then reuniting early last year. Neither will say if they are still together.
“I thought it would be a unique experience to go to work with someone I did have a history with and I have had emotional times with and who genuinely makes me laugh and who I’m genuinely attracted to,” she says. “I knew the chemistry between us would be honest, so we would be able to bring a truth to the fact that relationships can be very difficult, and I thought that would be a real benefit.”
She talks confidently, with the air of someone who knows exactly what she wants to say and it is easy to imagine her as both producer and director, taking complete command of a movie set.
Now 35, Drew Barrymore comes from a five-generation strong acting dynasty that included her grandfather, Shakespearean actor John Barrymore, an alcoholic who died at 60 of cirrhosis of the liver; silent film star grandmother Dolores Costello; great-uncle and Oscar winner Lionel Barrymore; and Oscar-winning great-aunt Ethel, who once turned down a marriage proposal from Winston Churchill. Drew’s father, John Barrymore Jr, split from her mother, model Jaid, soon after Drew was born, and died in 2004 after years of homelessness and drug addiction.
She has bizarre memories of him. “I liked when my dad would walk around in bare feet, stoned, and talk about how the blades of grass felt on his feet, and how he could tell which ones were hurting and didn’t want to be stepped on, and I thought, ‘Wow that’s my dad; he’s really trippy and cool,’ ” she recalls. She pauses and then laughs: “Not a very wholesome movie moment, but that’s what my dad was.”
It was her family connections that won Barrymore her first big break when her godfather, Steven Spielberg, cast her as the dimpled, precocious seven-year-old in E.T. But things turned sour when her mother, an inveterate partygoer, began taking her on a round of all-night parties. By the time Drew was 12 she was drinking alcohol and using cocaine; at 13 she was in rehab; and at 15 the little girl who had shown so much promise was working in a Hollywood coffee shop.
There were two more trips to rehab before she moved in with musician David Crosby, himself a survivor of drug and alcohol abuse, and his wife, who helped her straighten her life out. She applied in court to become legally emancipated from her parents.
As she matured, her professional life has soared. She has appeared in some 50 movies and her production company, Flower Films, has produced a dozen, including the two Charlie’s Angels adventures, and a string of successful romcoms. She was executive producer on the cult classic Donnie Darko and recently made her directing debut with the well-received roller-derby movie Whip It!, in which she starred alongside Ellen Page.
“I feel really excited about the last few years of my life,” she says. “I pride myself on them and I didn’t know I had that much discipline. I’ve worked really hard and got to do things I’ve always wanted to do and now I feel things are going really well. I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.”
It is true that her personal life has been complicated. Her two marriages, to Welsh-born bar owner Jeremy Thomas in March 1994 and comedian Tom Green in July 2001, lasted less than six months combined, and her boyfriends have included actors Val Kilmer and Luke Wilson, as well as the Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti.
Looking back on her topsy-turvy past, she is philosophical. “You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you,” she says. “You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
“The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.”
Drew Barrymore thinks people should only use twitter if they are funny and insists she will never join.
Drew Barrymore won’t join twitter.
The ‘Going the Distance’ actress has no interest in the micro-blogging site and admits she is an “old fashioned girl” when it comes to technology.
She said: “I know I’m an anomaly, I know everyone else is in love with it, but it’s not for me. I like people who use it for comedy to make people laugh.
“If people are making other people laugh and making jokes then that’s awesome.”
When pressed to try out the site by Absolute Radio DJ Geoff Lloyd, she refused, saying: “I’m an old fashioned girl.”
Drew’s ‘Going the Distance’ co-star and on/off boyfriend Justin Long believes the 35-year-old actress will stick to her self-imposed twitter ban.
He said: “She won’t join, I promise you she won’t.”
In a joint interview, he added to Drew: “Like as disparate as it is from your nature, I still feel like you would tweet some really funny things, you’d have some good entertainment.”
Drew – who refuses to confirm if she is in a relationship with Justin – previously claimed she thinks technology is killing romance.
She said: “I just don’t like this compulsive, instantaneous, over- information, lack-of-privacy, weirdo aspect of the world. If you meet someone, they already know everything.
“What about showing up on the date and saying, ‘What do you do for a living? Who are your friends?’ Yes, you can avoid maybe a serial killer, but who f***ing knows? I am a romantic and it scares me.”
DREW BARRYMORE insists men don’t need to splash the cash to impress her.
The 35-year-old, who has recently been in an on-off relationship with actor Justin Long, says she prefers her dates to be quirky and original rather than lavish.
The twice-married actress says: “I don’t need fancy, I just need clever.
“I love someone who is interested in art and film and going to movies and picking out a nice little restaurant. Someone who takes you out for tacos that you eat on the sidewalk.”
Drew appears alongside Long, 32, in her latest film Going The Distance. Having both been in the UK for the film’s premiere they were together at the V Festival in Chelmsford over the weekend.
The 35-year-old, who has recently been in an on-off relationship with actor Justin Long, says she prefers her dates to be quirky and original rather than lavish.
The twice-married actress says: “I don’t need fancy, I just need clever.
“I love someone who is interested in art and film and going to movies and picking out a nice little restaurant. Someone who takes you out for tacos that you eat on the sidewalk.”
Drew appears alongside Long, 32, in her latest film Going The Distance. Having both been in the UK for the film’s premiere they were together at the V Festival in Chelmsford over the weekend.
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