How ZOOEY DESCHANEL ‘Put a Spell On You…’ by Elizabeth Searle

There’s something about ZOOEY DESCHANEL: edgy sexy Girl Next Door for our Twilit times.  Actress/singer Zooey is the official It Girl of our blog.  She possesses my favorite artistic combo, one that was a mantra of mine when I was writing my  Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera: ‘Dark Yet Perky.’

In her recent hit performances as a singer, paired with M. Ward as ‘She & Him’, Zooey Deschanel demonstrates her blend of dark and perky, sweet and spooky.  Check out the YouTubes below for your Summer 2010 Zooey fix.

Singing Dream a Little Dream of You, Zooey manages to look both vampiric and innocently girlish, with Theda Bara eyes and Marlo Thomas hair.  As one YouTube comment from Zee1198 noted: “Zooey Deschanel doesn’t look like Katy Perry. Katy Perry looks like Zooey Deschanel.”

In her She & Him video, Zooey dances fetchingly in vintage clothes and keeps her head while cartoon blood and axes fly round her.

She dons a white baby-doll dress to tear into I Put a Spell On You with womanly passion.

Generation Twilight (to use our star writer Libby Cudmore‘s phrase) is way too cynical for girly girls.  But with her cutting edge performances and fifties-with-a-twist style, Zooey manages to have her Devil’s Food cupcakes and eat them too.  So let’s dream a little dream of Zooey…

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Barbie & Ken, Julia & Javier, Brand & Bunch (& Other Hot Cinema Couples of the Summer) by Elizabeth Searle

Breaking news on LINDSAY LOHAN, who turned herself in (Good Luck, LL)& lost another lawyer & MEL GIBSON (together, right); both contending for Disgraced Celebrity of the Summer, 2010.  And check out hot reviews for blog fave ZOOEY DESCHANEL as singer, paired with M. Ward as ‘She & Him’ this week in LA…

But who are the hot couples of this summer, onscreen? We hope to heat up your computer screen soon with our online PREVIEW to Celebrities in Disgrace, which premieres at the Woods Hole Film Festival at 5PM FRIDAY AUGUST 6th and which features steamy chemistry between our stars Patrice Bunch and Julian Brand (seen chilling out on our set, above, left).  Meanwhile, no one beats ToyStory3‘s scene-stealing Barbie & Ken.

Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward

What other movie couples are speeding pulsebeats this summer?  Fellow bloggers and kindred spirits at Hollywood Life concocted a delicious list including Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. sparring in Iron Man 2 plus Will Ferrell not believing his luck as onscreen hubby of stunning Eva Mendes (on right) in The Other Guys.  Real-life lovers Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (seen going at it in a limo below) are Going the Distance.

Will Julia Roberts re-ignite her Ooomph with Javier Barden? Does Cameron Diaz bring some Risky Business into Tom Cruise‘s cruise-control career?  Can any of them compete with Barbie & Ken?

Who do you see as the breakout couples of this summer? (And keep in mind our own up and coming Duo in Disgrace, the potent double punch of Brand plus Bunch…)

(photos: Jenny Martin, dailymail.co.uk, screenrant.com, cinemablend.com, disney.com, dailystab.com, gawker.com, blogs.sfweekly.com)

**For more photos of Julian Brand & Patrice Bunch see the StarLit Gallery and our film Facebook Page…

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