Kat was featured in the Fall 2008 issue of Nylon Guys. You can now view the full article in the gallery. I’m in love with the shot of her from it, too.

She also posted today promising a new blog layout. While I’m fond of the current one, I’m curious to see what she’ll do with it next. Keep your eyes peeled, guys.

Anyway, I acquired The House Bunny on DVD over the weekend, so once the holidays roll to a halt I’ll get started on bringing you guys HQ screen captures!

Hope all of you have wonderful holidays and an awesome New Year. ♥

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The New Regime: Kat Dennings

The New Ingenue: Tired of guest stints on the small screen, actress Kat Dennings risks one of her nine lives while on the prowl for Hollywood notoriety.
By Tony Horkins
December 07, 2008

According to her acting coach, Kat Dennings should just “forget about the whole acting thing.” According to her mother, going into the profession was “a terrible idea.” According to casting agents, “her teeth are too weird, she’s funny looking, not pretty enough and too fat.” Luckily, Michael Cera’s love interest in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, who also stole scenes in The House Bunny and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is made of stern stuff. “Yeah, I’m not easily swayed,” says the 22-year-old with a lazy drawl. “I’m a pretty strong-willed person and the criticism doesn’t really bother me.” Instead, Dennings stayed focused, abandoned acting classes altogether and served her apprenticeship on small-screen staples like ER, CSI (both Crime Scene Investigation and NY) and Sex and the City before graduating to Hollywood.

But don’t expect to see her pictured, crotch on display, outside of an L.A. nightclub anytime soon. “Ugh, you can’t even talk in those places,” says Dennings, who stars in four films this year, including the Robert Rodriguez project Shorts, and The Dream of the Romans opposite Jeff Daniels. “Plus, I don’t drink and I don’t smoke and I don’t like being around people who do. Oh no, I sound really boring!” We’ll beg to differ.

Photo: Beth Herzhaft

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The Satellite Award nominations are in and Meryl Streep is leading the pack. Streep was nominated for her roles in both Doubt and Mama Mia!. Competing with Streep in the category of Actress in a Drama is heavyweight Angelina Jolie for Changeling and unexpectedly Melissa Leo for Frozen River. The International Press Academy must have had a soft spot for Frozen River because it was nominated for Best Motion Picture in the drama category as well.

Another name you’re going to hear a number of times at this show is Slumdog Millionaire. This independent film nabbed five nominations including Best Motion Picture in the drama category, Best Director for the work of Danny Boyle, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song for “Jaiho” by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar, Best Film Editing and was named one of the top ten films of the year.

In the comedy category, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a main contender. Kat Dennings was nominated for Best Actress In a Comedy or Musical and Michael Cera for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. The film is also up for Best Motion picture in the comedy and musical category.

The big night will take place on December 14th at Century City’s InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. My fingers will be kept crossed for Best Motion Picture in the animated or mixed media category nominee WALL-E.

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Actress (Comedy/Musical)

As strong as the dramatic and supporting races are, this category is weak, which means the HFPA will likely round out two or three strong nominations with others from movies that would not normally be considered awards-worthy.

On the comedy/musical side, awards magnet Streep is back in contention with Universal’s big-screen adaptation of the ABBA-loving stage hit “Mamma Mia.”

Two other Oscar winners are in contention in this category — McDormand, who plays a gym worker hungry for plastic surgery in Focus Features’ “Burn After Reading,” and Emma Thompson, as a London airport employee who finds unlikely romance with an American jingle writer (Dustin Hoffman) in Overture Films’ “Last Chance Harvey.”

Scanning the year for standout female performances in comedies, it’s hard to get past the film adaptation of the HBO series “Sex and the City” (New Line), which boasts juicy turns from its core quartet — Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker. As leader of the pack Carrie Bradshaw, Parker must be seen as the favorite.

There might also be room in the category for fresh faces Elizabeth Banks, who plays a regular gal who makes an adult film in the Weinstein Co.’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and Kat Dennings, who plays Norah in Sony’s “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”

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Hot New Winona Ryders
Before Johnny Depp famously had a tattoo artist delete the “na” from his biceps, he had it right: “Winona Forever.” Everywhere we look these days, there’s another young brunette playing an ultrasarcastic, liberal-minded, sensitive slacker — the type of grunge Hepburn that Winona Ryder once made famous. Just watch Olivia Thirlby in The Wackness, Emma Stone in The Rocker, Hannah Bailey in American Teen, Ellen Page in Juno, Kat Dennings in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist — if you squint through Nick and Norah, you might mistake Dennings for Ryder herself. Both are five-foot-four-inch Jewish girls whose curvy top halves upend their bottom halves, and both, curiously, were home-schooled. Why the Winona-vitalization? Maybe it’s because America is starting to resemble the place it was when Winona schlepped a greasy Dave Pirner to the Oscars: The economy blows, grads can’t find jobs, even flannel is back. Meanwhile Ryder, after a brief detour through shoplifting ignominy, is sticking to the future. She’ll be in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek prequel, playing Spock’s mom. Shit, we’re old.

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We just got a little heads up in our inbox that Kat made it to the Teen Vogue’s October list of the Ten Best Dressed! She’s made number 10 with her floral Dolce and Gabbana dress on the October 2nd Nick and Norah premiere, and is on the list with actresses like Camilla Belle, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez and Dakota Fanning, among others. It seems to have been a great month for Disney actresses, but then again with the premiere of HSM3, who’s surprised?

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