Dakota Fanning

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Dakota Fanning Is Now Oficially An American Girl Scout Two of today's brightest young stars joined the ranks of 2.8 million girls By: Mihaela Stroia, Entertainment Editor Actress Dakota Fanning and her sister Elle became members of Girl Scouts of the USA. The girls were inducted into the Girl Scouts of the San Fernando Valley council. To celebrate the occasion, Dakota hosted a special screening of her latest film project, DreamWorks Pictures' "DREAMER: Inspired by a True Story," for her sisters Girl Scouts from the San Fernando Valley.Although Elle could not be present for the ceremony and the screening, she was made a Brownie, while Dakota became a Girl Scout, following in the footsteps of their mother, who was a Girl Scout for many years."It is our great pleasure to welcome Dakota and Elle to our Girl Scout family," stated Gerry Keshka, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the San Fernando Valley. "All our girls look forward to getting to know both Dakota and Elle and share with them the fun, friendship and adventure that comes with being a Girl Scout."According to an official website, Kurt Russell (Ben Crane), Dakota Fanning (Cale Crane) and Kris Kristofferson (Pop) star in "DREAMER: Inspired by a True Story," a drama about a father who, for the love of his daughter, sacrifices almost everything to save the life of an injured racehorse and bring the promising filly back to her former glory.

Edited October 5, 2005 by Rebelgirl

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Man these are funny....a lot of these at Perezhilton.com in case they do not show up....

 

 

 

 

 

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Did nobody think these were funny????????????????????

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Just saw them and yeah they are funny.. i like the knife/tom cruise one!

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Yeah...there was a big one of her w/ Xenu....Ya know...Tom Cruises pal.....at Perez Hilton...

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I laughed

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Dakota Fanning Backstage at the ShoWest awards

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Another shot.

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The chimp is cute.

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I thought they were hysterical.

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dakota fanning in teen vogue oct 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dakota Fanning's Otherworldly Qualities Captured by Lagerfeld

 

I would have said "creepy" qualities because Dakota Fanning and her ponies and her incisors scare the shit out of me. But then I was like, dude, she's a kid. Don't bag on her until she's legal. So I used "otherworldly" instead. Plus, she probably has enough money to hire someone to kill me and then have enough left over to buy France.

 

Anyway - eccentric, one glove-wearing, prone to fainting, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld caught her on film. The theme was fairy tale characters. I'm already getting the chills and locking my doors. Happy Halloween.

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Dakota Fanning by Karl Lagerfeld - Vanity Fair - January 2006

 

 

 

 

 

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TRAUMA AVERTED

Page Six

 

December 29, 2006 -- DAKOTA Fanning, 12, who survived a Martian invasion in "War of the Worlds," has endured a rape scene in "Hounddog." Director Deborah Kampmeier, who had to hire an assistant to handle all her hate mail, tells Premiere magazine that Fanning's "mother, her agent, and her teacher/child welfare worker were all present for the filming of the scene, which was carried out exactly as we discussed it."

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Film hounded for child rape scene

Forum created to discuss 'Hounddog' issues

By DANA HARRIS, Variety.com

 

The furor over "Hounddog" was poised to peak Monday night with the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere at the Racquet Club Theater.

 

Instead of the usual post-screening Q&A, the producers scheduled a panel that included stars Dakota Fanning and Robin Wright Penn, director Deborah Kempmeier and a representative from RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. The idea was to create a forum to discuss the film's child rape issues and combat what's become, as one person close to the film said, "a circus."

 

Something stronger than a panel may be necessary.

 

Although "Hounddog" had its first public forum Monday at 8 p.m., the film already had inspired a saber-rattling press release from the Catholic League -- a civil rights group known for its strident attacks on the media's handling of morality issues -- calling for a federal investigation of its potential as child pornography and a flurry of newspaper articles and television reports debating its ethics, morality and legality.

 

The point of contention is a scene in which 12-year-old Fanning, portraying a 12-year-old girl named Lewellen, is raped by an older boy.

 

"It's a bad idea on so many levels," said actress Alison Arngrim, who cited "Hounddog" as one reason she chose to leave the commercial division of the Osbrink Agency last year; Fanning's agent is Cindy Osbrink.

 

"Cindy Osbrink has been quoted cautioning parents to be extremely careful about doing a scandalous project," says Arngrim, best known as Nellie on "Little House on the Prairie." She is involved with groups such as A Minor Consideration and Protect: the National Assn. to Protect Children. "I was really looking for an explanation."

 

Arngrim said she didn't get one, but she has one of her own: "There's a panic that comes as a child actor grows up. How do they get over the adolescent hump?"

 

In an interview that Fanning gave last week to the New York Times, the actress dismissed the controversy: "The bottom line was, I couldn't not do it. It's all I could think about. I knew I was at the perfect age ... I think that I should be able to do what I feel is at the right time for me."

 

But is a 12-year-old capable of making that decision?

 

"A 12-year-old girl can't consent to any damn thing," said Andrew Vachss, a child protection consultant and attorney who exclusively represents kids. "The process by which the child actor or actress gets to do this ... it's not like a kid wants a minibike or karate lessons. A lot of weight is being put on this child."

 

A Variety editor who screened the film before Sundance said the rape scene, while disturbing, isn't graphic, with close-ups of Fanning's face, shoulder and part of a leg. To Vachss' mind, however, that scenario only begs further questions.

 

"Who's looking out for this kid? My question would be, 'What do you need my client in this scene for? You can't find an arm or a leg in Hollywood?' "

 

The film's most vocal critic has been Catholic League president William Donohue, who put out a press release Friday asking the Dept. of Justice to investigate. He also wrote "to first lady Laura Bush requesting her assistance in this endeavor."

 

Since then, Donohue hasn't heard from Andrew Oosterbaan, the DoJ's chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, or from the first lady.

 

Donahue said he knows he could watch a DVD copy of the film ("they're making it available to social conservatives"), but he said he's not interested: "If someone tells me that there's a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection receiving oral sex, I don't need to see it."

 

Donohue also admitted it's unlikely that the film or its production falls within statutes of child pornography, but "I'm trying to create a national discussion about the propriety of using children in simulated rape acts."

 

Vachss called that argument "nonsense."

 

"Are you serious? Investigating a public film as possible child porn? It's the red herring of all time to talk about child porn," he said. "There's so much actual child porn, and he's not calling for increased congressional funding or more investigative tools, but a scene needs to be investigated?"

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Dakota Fanning: 'It's called acting'

 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- At a festival that features several films with sexual content, including full male nudity and a documentary about bestiality, a Southern Gothic tale that includes the rape of a young girl is causing the biggest stir.

 

"Hounddog" is the story of Lewellen, a girl played by 12-year-old Dakota Fanning, who is growing up in the 1960s South. She is a free-spirit obsessed with Elvis Presley and has little supervision by her abusive father and alcoholic grandmother.

 

Even before the first screening of "Hounddog" at the Sundance Film Festival this week, a Christian film critic, citing Fanning's age, decried the movie as child abuse, and Roman Catholic activist Bill Donohue called for a federal investigation.

 

Fanning is defending her work as well as the movie, and so is the head of Sundance, who said it was courageous for director Deborah Kampmeier to tackle "challenging material." "Hounddog" is entered in the festival's dramatic category. (Blog: Read the reaction of CNN's Brooke Anderson.)

 

"It's not a rape movie," Fanning said Tuesday. "That's not even the point of the film." (Watch Fanning's dance with a lamp pole 'microphone' and her take on the role )

 

The disturbing scene lasts a few minutes but is not graphic. There is no nudity, the scene is very darkly lit and only Fanning's face and hand are shown.

 

Kampmeier said it took her a decade to get the film made, largely because of the rape scene, but cutting it was a compromise she was unwilling to make.

 

"This issue is so silenced in our society. There are a lot of women who are alone with this story," she said.

 

"When you're shooting a film, it's the images you line up next to each other that create a story," Kampmeier said. "If you have a hand hitting the ground, Dakota screaming 'stop' and you see a zipper unzip -- that creates a rape."

 

Ted Baehr, chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission and publisher of the Web site movieguide.org, claims "Hounddog" breaks federal child-pornography law. He said the law covers material that "appears" to show minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

 

"Even if they're not actually performing the explicit act, we are dealing with a legal issue here," he said.

 

Baehr said Fanning is being exploited in the film, and that it should be considered an outrage.

 

"Children at 12 do not have the ability to make the types of decisions that we're talking about here," he said. "If we're offended by some comedian's racial slur, why aren't we offended by somebody taking advantage of a 12-year-old child?"

 

Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said he has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether anti-pornography laws have been broken.

 

Two other children perform in the film. Cody Hanford plays Buddy, and Isabelle Fuhrman plays a girl nicknamed "Grasshopper."

 

Kampmeier said she talked with the children and their parents but didn't go into great detail with the young actors about the content.

 

"I didn't have to articulate to Cody and Isabelle the psychological elements that were going on in this film," she said. "I used images to tell the story. I didn't manipulate these children or explain to these children what was going on."

 

Fanning said she and Kampmeier talked for months before the film was shot and spent a day painting pottery together and discussing the story.

 

"It's not really happening," Fanning said of a rape. "It's a movie, and it's called acting. I'm not going through anything. Cody and Isabelle aren't going through anything, their characters are.

 

"And for me, when it's done it's done," she said. "I don't even think about it anymore."

 

Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore said independent filmmakers should pursue sensitive subject matter. (EW: Sundance 2007)

 

"I feel the mission and very nature of what Sundance is about is to provide a platform for that," he said.

 

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Dakota Rape Movie: No Buyers

 

"Hounddog," the simply awful movie in which 12-year-old Dakota Fanning’s character is raped, has no buyers.

 

"No one wants it after the terrible reviews," one distributor told me, just as we were sitting down to see another disaster, J.P. Schaefer’s "Chapter 27."

 

Indeed, the people associated with The Weinstein Company, IFC Films and First Look were among those who instantly agreed that they had no interest in "Hounddog."

 

At this rate, this exercise in bad taste may wind up being a DVD collector’s item. Same thing for "Chapter 27," from which many fled before it ended in the two audiences that have seen it.

 

Meanwhile, the producers of "Hounddog" trotted out Fanning yesterday to defend the film in places like USA Today and at another press conference.

 

It’s come to that, apparently. The people who should be answering questions, however, are Fanning’s parents, and the parents of the other children in the film.

 

Indeed, 12-year-old Cody Hanford, who plays Fanning’s boyfriend in the provocative and poorly written outing, may actually become more of the focus than even the star.

 

In the film, his character lures Fanning’s into a barn and then watches as she’s raped. Hanford and Fanning also have numerous kissing scenes, some in which they’re half-dressed.

 

Yesterday, Variety’s Todd McCarthy was one of several reviewers who echoed my complaints about the hoary plot, terrible dialogue and clichés marking every scene.

 

With the above-mentioned distributors out, it’s unlikely now that any major buyer will take "Hounddog." And that’s just as well, considering that its release is sure to spark more outrage, protests and calls for investigations.

 

The strange part is that, in the long run, the movie itself is only offensive because it’s so bad. The real culprits aren’t the filmmakers, but the parents of the young actors.

 

Yesterday I spoke to Joy Pervis, the Atlanta agent who discovered Dakota and her sister, Elle. She’s since signed Cody and Isabelle Fuhrmann, the other child in the film.

 

Pervis told me she’s basically in favor of the film and trusts the Fannings’ judgment. "They’re a good Christian family," she said.

 

But plenty of publicists who’ve worked on movies with either Fanning girl have stories about their mother, Joy.

 

"She’s a real stage mother," one of them said at the screening. "The negotiations just go on and on."

 

But back to "Hounddog." Since I am one of the few who’ve actually seen it, let me explain something important. There is no point that I can find to the child’s rape.

 

Once it happens, it’s never discussed. The culprit is never accused or apprehended. The child never tells her story to anyone. There’s no great moment of revelation that could possibly help someone who’s watching the film. It’s simply there for shock value.

 

The fact that Kampmeier and the producers have somehow conned rape-assistance groups into using the movie as a public-service announcement is bizarre to me. But I guess it’s no more bizarre than using Dakota Fanning as the public defender of the indefensible.

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A Socialite's Life

 

Dakota Fanning's Parents Once Made An Attempt To Keep Their Daughter From Growing Up Too Fast

 

 

When Dakota Fanning was given a present of a cell phone from her "War of the Worlds" co-star, Tom Cruise, her parents were initially wary of allowing their young daughter to keep the gift.

 

"My mom and dad really don't approve of mobile phones and they really didn't want me to have one. But then on my birthday this parcel arrived from Tom and it was a phone. In the end they let me keep it."

Did the child really say "parcel"? I don't believe she's really a twelve-year old girl at all--unless she's got a time-machine and has traveled from the past of hoop-skirts and the Pony Express. Because the idea that she's got a more sophisticated and old-timey vocabulary than me is well...totally plausible, actually.

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^But we'll let her get raped on camera!

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Tripplehorn, Davidtz tackle "Creatures"

 

Jeanne Tripplehorn and Embeth Davidtz have joined Kate Beckinsale and the all-star cast of the indie drama "Winged Creatures."

 

The story follows the witnesses to a brutal murder suicide in a fast food restaurant as they cope with the aftermath of the incident and how they affect the people who help them along the way.

 

Forest Whitaker, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Jackie Earle Haley already have been cast.

 

Tripplehorn (HBO's "Big Love") is playing Fanning's mother, trying to help her daughter recover from the incident. Davidtz ("Junebug") is a wife suffering from migraines who places her husband's needs above hers. Rowan Woods is directing.

 

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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Fanning Girls Activate for 'Sister's Keeper'

Cameron Diaz will star with Dakota and Elle

October 25, 2007

 

 

New Line Cinema has programmed Dakota and Elle Fanning to star opposite Cameron Diaz in the studio's adaptation of Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper."

 

Tearjerker veteran Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook") will direct from the script by Jeremy Leven.

 

Picoult's best-seller focused on a teenaged girl who sues to be emancipated from her parents, saying that she was basically conceived to provide organs to her cancer-stricken older sister.

 

Fans of the book will note that with Elle Fanning ("Babel") playing the younger sister and Dakota ("Taken") playing the eldest, the characters are now dramatically younger. According to Variety the change was made to keep the characters age-appropriate for Diaz, as their mother.

 

The trade paper is calling this the first on-screen pairing of the Fanning sisters (they didn't share scenes in "I Am Sam"), though it's unclear what happened to the drama "Hurricane Mary," on which they were supposed to team.

 

Upcoming credits for Dakota Fanning, last seen in "Charlotte's Web," include "Winged Creatures" and "Push."

 

Elle Fanning, now appearing in "Reservation Road," will be seen in "Benjamin Button," "Phoebe in Wonderland" and "Nutcracker: The Untold Story."

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Dakota Better Watch It

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Dakota Fanning and her little sister, Elle Fanning, will star as Cameron Diaz's daughters in the film adaptation of the novel "My Sister's Keeper." Nick Cassavates will direct the movie this March in Los Angeles.

 

Elle will play a girl that sues her parents for emancipation when she finds out that they only had her to be a genetic match for her sister who is dying from cancer. The girls in the book are older, but the decision to cast younger actresses was made, because Cammy was playing the mother.

 

An Oscar for Elle and you know Dakota is pissed! I always knew Elle was the star of the family. Ugh and why do people keep casting Cameron in serious roles? Bitch can't act!

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The girls in the book are older, but the decision to cast younger actresses was made, because Cammy was playing the mother.

You have to be fucking kidding me -- someone's ego must be in overdrive. Didn't it occur that if you play older and ugly yourself up you are Oscar material.

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The girls in the book are older, but the decision to cast younger actresses was made, because Cammy was playing the mother.

You have to be fucking kidding me -- someone's ego must be in overdrive. Didn't it occur that if you play older and ugly yourself up you are Oscar material.

 

It sorta kills the storyline too. As if children that age are really going to sue for emancipation and understand the whole "having another baby just for a genetic match" thing.

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Dakota Fanning Is Not Ready To Pull A Demi Moore

 

 

Dakota Fanning should not call herself a true thespian! Dakota and her little sister, Elle, were going to star alongside Cameron Diaz in "My Sister's Keeper." Nick Cassavetes will direct the story about a young girl who sues for emancipation from her parents after she learns she was only conceived as a genetic match for her sister who is dying of some illness.

 

Elle was set to play the young girl and Dakota was set to play her sick sister. The film also stars Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack. Production begins this March.

 

Well, Dakota has pulled out of the movie and has taken her sister with her. Dakota refused to shave her head for the role. She reportedly "baulked" when producers told her it was required. What the hell kind of actress is she?! I thought she was serious about her craft. The two will be replaced by Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva.

 

Dakota better watch it! She needs to step it up if she wants to be the next Meryl Streep. If she doesn't she'll be forced to act with CGI pigs! Oh, she's done that. OK, with broken legged race horsies! Oh she's done that too. Her career is over.

 

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