Esquire declares Johansson the sexiest woman
Published 9:00 pm Friday, September 29, 2006
Scarlett Johansson’s hourglass figure and plum movie roles have brought her many fans. Among them, clearly, the editors at Esquire. The magazine has just crowned her “Sexiest Woman Alive.”
The 21-year-old actress poses in come-hither garb on the cover and inside pages of the magazine’s November issue, on newsstands Oct. 18.
On the cover, she wears a bra and a white Calvin Klein mini-dress; In a series of photos inside (showing her as an “enigmatic trailer-park temptress,” the magazine says), she wears cleavage-baring black lingerie paired with an open white robe, among other get-ups.
Johansson, whose screen credits include “The Black Dahlia,” “Lost in Translation” and “Match Point,” says she would rather be admired for attributes other than sex appeal.
“What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?” she asks, addressing all the hoopla about her curves in an interview in the magazine.
She is no stranger to the paparazzi’s cameras, and once flashed a sign proclaiming, “the person taking this picture is harrassing me.”
“Apparently I spelled ‘harass’ wrong,” she recalls. “It was horrible. I couldn’t remember whether it was one ‘r’ or two, and I asked like four people, and they said two.”
Spokane names arts center for Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby is getting a theater named after him in the city where he first took up music.
Mitch Silver, owner of Spokane’s Metropolitan Performing Arts Center, has announced that it will be renamed the Bing Crosby Theater on the suggestion of Eastern Washington University journalism professor Bill Stimson.
Silver told The Spokesman-Review newspaper the late crooner’s widow, Kathryn Crosby, has offered to come to Spokane for a benefit Dec. 8 to raise money for sign changes and a lobby display.
Built in 1914, the theater was refurbished in the 1980s. Silver bought the theater in early 2004.
Crosby was born in Tacoma but grew up in Spokane, where he acquired his nickname and got interested in music while studying at what is now Gonzaga University. He died in 1977 at 74 after recording more than 1,700 songs, including the famous version of “White Christmas.”
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