Showing posts with label prom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prom. Show all posts

Monday, May 23, 2011

Ricci's Oscars Dress Goes to Michigan Prom

                                                                        Christina Ricci/Kayla Staskiewicz

Lots of teenage girls go all out for their prom, but few get to wear a $25,000 Versace Couture dress designed for actress Christina Ricci.

Ricci wore the sparkling, pale gray, floor-length dress to this year's Oscars.

Kayla Staskiewicz wore it to Waterford Mott High School's prom, which was held May 13 in suburban Detroit.
Her father, Mike Staskiewicz, entered her name in a WDIV-TV contest to win a chance to wear the size 0 dress, The Oakland Press of Pontiac reported Sunday.

"He thought our daughter would look beautiful in that dress and with the size being only a zero, he knew she would have a good chance to fit into it because she is very small," said her mother, Gayle Staskiewicz.

The day before the prom, Kayla Staskiewicz stepped into the dress and found it fit perfectly.

"I was just excited and ready to go to the prom right then and there," she said.

Staskiewicz said she felt "really pretty" and her mom kept calling her Cinderella. She said she, prom date Connor Durham and their friends had a great night.

"I loved every minute of it," she said.

Friday, May 20, 2011

“Carrie” reboot recruits “Spider-Man” scribe


Get your dress ready for prom and fill up those buckets with pig blood, because Hollywood’s moving forward with a remake of “Carrie.”

Brian DePalma’s 1976 thriller about a bullied girl (Sissy Spacek) cursed with telekinetic powers was, in itself, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name. Now MGM and Screen Gems say they are moving ahead with a new take on the “Carrie” tale, and they have hired “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to write a script, THR says.

That’s a great hire. Aguirre-Sacasa was the one hired to fix the troubled book for the “Spider-ManBroadway show. A playwright, he also writes comics for Marvel, and no doubt respects the idea of canon, which is vital to adapting a novelist like King.

No word on when the studios want their “Carrie” in theaters. Stay tuned for more information.
By Sean O’Connell