[andrew r]

A Christina one? I have his great interview from the Telegraph website. Thanks to Frank for this one:

The vamp is a lady

An aura of calm sophistication now surrounds Christina Ricci, the one-time poster girl for adolescent misfits whose on-screen troubles were nothing compared with her real-life distress. Interview by Murphy Williams

It is a curious case of co-dependency: if it hadn't been for Hollywood's film industry, Christina Ricci, 27-year-old veteran of 39 movies, would have been, she claims, 'one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard'. Instead her delicate, fascinating features have been adorning its billboards since she was nine, when her performances as Cher's daughter in Mermaids and then as the fantastically morbid, Edward Gorey-esque Wednesday in the Addams Family films set her off on a brilliant career that peaked in 1998 when she played a succession of alienated Lolitas in The Ice Storm, Buffalo 66 and The Opposite of Sex. The Face magazine celebrated this insolent new poster girl for independent films as 'The Most Evil Woman in Hollywood'. John Waters, who directed her in Pecker, predicted the female Johnny Depp would be 'the big, big star of a lot of strange movies'.

Her latest role, as the messed-up nymphomaniac hellcat Rae in Black Snake Moan, is seeing Ricci enjoy a new peak: her petite 5ft frame, intelligent 'gravedigger's forehead', as she has called it, Cupid's-bow mouth and expressive hazel eyes are everywhere in America - on Jay Leno's guest seat, on fashion magazine covers, on countless fansites. Black Snake Moan is a stylised Southern-gothic tale of sin, redemption and love that borders on the absurd, with Samuel L Jackson's Lazarus belting out some mean blues while saving Rae from her demons by chaining her to a radiator, Justin Timberlake as her adoring, equally traumatised soldier boyfriend, and a humid Deep South aesthetic that feels like a William Eggleston photograph brought to life....

There's three pages in all.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...xml&page=1

Also there's the official Penelope website which is now up...

http://www.penelopethemovie.com/