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...they do. Vincent doesn't look especially masculine, although she is on the tall side--5 ft. 10 in. and lanky--and her voice is somewhat south of the alto range. (And there's the feet.) So she created an alter ego whom she named Ned...
...Ned looked a lot like Norah but with accessories: a sports bra to keep her breasts under wraps, a manly new flat-top haircut, a weight-lifting routine to bulk out Norah's girly shoulders, and a prosthetic penis to fill out his/her crotch. And Vincent hired a voice coach to teach her to talk like a guy--slowly, with as little expression as humanly possible, keeping those emotions under wraps and the hand gestures to a minimum...
Postmodernism comes to kid lit! But to children it will seem more like good subversive fun. The conceit is that the book's illustrator, Ned--who is often depicted hard at work--can't paint fast enough to stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced...
...arrived in Los Angeles seven years ago, pursuing a woman, he had done some Australian TV and a few small movies and was completely broke. "We were going to dinner one night," says Gregor Jordan, a friend and the director of two of his films (Two Hands and Ned Kelly). "He put his credit card in the ATM, and it swallowed it because he was so overdrawn. But then later at the bar, I found a margarita in my hand, and someone said Heath had bought everyone a round of drinks...
...noted that Ledger had developed a reputation for dating his co-stars. He had an on-off relationship with Naomi Watts, whom he met on Ned Kelly. But this one seems to be sticking, as evidenced by Matilda Rose, Williams and Ledger's 3-week-old daughter...