Divergent

SHAILENE WOODLEY BECAME A HOUSEHOLD NAME FOR NO REASON

SHAILENE WOODLEY and THEO JAMES star in DIVERGENT

Is anybody else out there sick to death of hearing about and seeing Shailene Woodley everywhere you turn? For weeks before Divergent was released, Shailene (whom at first we assumed was some country singer) appeared on every talk show, morning, noon, and night, and she was introduced with Angelina Jolie fanfare before anyone knew who she was. Of course she was also plastered all over magazines, newspapers, and websites. And she was literally unknown. We wondered why she was being shoved down our throats so relentlessly. To make us aware of Divergent, of course. The movie opened to a healthy 56 million box-office, but it was far behind The Hunger Games’ 152.5 million. Shailene seems like a nice girl, but she’s no Jennifer Lawrence. It wasn’t HER fault, but people were turned off by Shailene’s over-exposure – hopefully it won’t dent her career.

NO MORE POLITICS! ASHLEY JUDD’S HOLLYWOOD COMEBACK

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Ashley Judd is enjoying a career boost thanks to her new movie “Divergent.“ She arrived at the LA premier looking glamorous but apparently without her race car driver husband Dario Franchitti. They announced that they were splitting up in January 2013, but the following October his car crashed at the Grand Prix and she nursed him back to health. They SEEMED to be back together but not quite. Now Ashley is wistfully saying “He’ll always be my loved one ” and it sounds like they’re not as romantic as they used to be. She toyed with the idea of politics but thought the better of it, and came back to acting.

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