July
29th- Nikki Blonsky will star along side Cuba Gooding jr. and Spencer Breslin in the new movie Harold which will be shot in
her home town of Great Neck.
July
20th= GO SEE HAIRSPRAY IN THEATRES ITS AMAZING!!
April
22nd- Nikki Blonsky won the award for SUPERSTAR OF TOMORROW at the Movieline’s Hollywood Life 9th Annual Young Hollywood
Awards April 22nd 2007!
April 21st- This is the whole clip from E!, 1 min 39 sec.
I dont know if im alowed to post this, if not sorry, I wont post links to videos again.
April 20th- Tonight (April 20) E! News goes ‘behind
the scenes of the support hose and heavy makeup’ of Hairspray’s John Travolta.
The segment includes new cast member interviews and sound
bytes. No word if the Daily 10 (which follows E! News) will offer a similar segment.
April 19th- Nikki Blonsky and Adam Shankman were
recently
at the 2007 ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards and were asked by Wireimage.com about Hairspray.
WI: I’m just curious. In the movie, what were your favorite
songs or favorite scenes in Hairspray?
Adam: Favorite songs or scenes in Hairspray… It’s
weird because I had to reinvent the staging of everything and I repurposed placement and stuff like that, so even today it
keeps changing and shifting. Everyday I have a new kind of favorite moment. Right now I am deeply in love with “Without
Love.” (To Nikki) You haven’t seen “Without Love” yet?
Nikki: I have not seen it yet.
Adam: Yeah, “Without Love” is pretty hot and heavy
with me right now. But ya know, “You Can’t Stop The Beat,” and Marc (Shamain) has written some new songs
that I am falling even more in love with. But “Without Love” is pretty great.
Nikki: I think the one closest to my heart is “Good
Morning Baltimore,” because I have been audtioning with it for like two and a half years of my life. So to be able to
sit down and listen to my version of it…
Adam: Ohhhh! That looong show-biz career of yours, two and
a half years!
(They Laugh.)
April 17th- Marissa Jaret Winokur and Nikki Blonsky both attended
the 2007 ASCAP Film & Television Awards. Photos of Nikki are in her album!
April 17th- This Wednesday (4/18) Entertainmet Tonight is
giving us an exclusive first look at Hairspray, with a special guest appearance. Tune in! (Nikki Blonsky)
April 14th- Nikki Blonsky at the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
- Los Angeles. Pictures are in her photo album!
In stores soon: Hairspray’s Amber von Tussel (played
by Brittany Snow), left, Link Larkin (Zac Efron),Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky), Mom Edna (John Travolta), Seaweed J. Stubbs
(Elijah Kelley) and Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes).
USA TODAY by William Keck
Step aside, Barbie.
A couple of extra-hip dollies with their extra-size hips are
shaking their bon-bons on the toy scene. Meet Baltimore’s own Tracy Turnblad and her mother, Edna.
The plus-size plastic dolls are modeled after the characters
portrayed by Nicole Blonsky and John Travolta in the musical comedy remake of Hairspray. It opens July 20.
Getting a look at her doll for the very first time, Blonsky’s
heart melts.
“I’m a doll!” Blonsky coos by phone from
her New York home. “Oh, my goodness, it’s me. It’s adorable. The first thing I’m noticing are the
chubby hands and short fingers. That may sound weird, but I have very small hands, and those are my hands.”
Blonsky, 18, also praises the doll’s spot-on striped
wig and outfit, a look Tracy sports in the Run and Tell That dance sequence that precedes her first encounter with Motormouth
Maybelle (Queen Latifah) in a record store in the 1960s-era movie.
“I’m so glad they picked that look,” Blonsky
says. “When I was dancing in this, I felt a lot of energy. This is Tracy in her element.”
Travolta, who has been made into a doll before as his character
Vinnie Barbarino in the 1970s Welcome Back, Kotter, is particularly taken with this new likeness.
“It is very cute,” he says by e-mail after getting
a glimpse. The outfit is “perfect,” and he can’t wait to show it to his wife, Kelly Preston, and their daughter,
Ella, 7, who “will really like it.”
Zac Efron, who shot to stardom in last year’s High School
Musical, plays Link Larkin, the beau of Tracy’s rival.
“Having a doll of yourself is completely surreal,”
he says. But he praises this diverse collection as a reflection of a movie that is loaded with “amazing, uplifting messages.”
Blonsky also praises the doll diversity.
Having grown up in Great Neck, N.Y., Blonsky remembers dragging
her mother to Toys ‘R Us on weekends to go shopping for new dolls — only to be disappointed by the limited selection.
“None of the dolls looked different than any of the
other ones,” she recalls. “I think the Tracy and Edna dolls will open a lot of kids’ eyes out there —
especially when they are on shelves next to Barbie and the Hilary Duff and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen dolls.
“Now girls will have an opportunity to pick a different
doll. Because let’s face it, most of us don’t look like the Size 2 shapes we see on TV. You can have just as much
fun with Tracy and Edna — if not even more.”
The dolls hit stores in July and range in height from 10½
to 12 inches. Suggested retail: $15. Singing versions of Tracy and Link (in different costumes and hairstyles) will sell for
$20-$25.
And you might want to hurry to beat Blonsky to the shelves.
Says the young star: “I told my mother, ‘Guess
what everybody’s Christmas present is going to be?’ There is not going to be one friend or family member in my
life that does not have one of these.”
Apr 4th- Watch Entertainment Tonight April 4th. They showing
new footage of Hairspray, plus old stuff... Check your local listings!
Apr 3rd- New Nikki Blonsky interview. she talks about John
Travolta when she was at the premiere of Reign over me. E-Asylum!
