8 Actresses Who Could Play Anastasia Steele

America is quickly becoming 50 Shades of Grey. The kinky bestseller is on the tip of everyone’s tongue and that’s no surprise. Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction, so it’s only natural that the novel has its own mania (and movie deal) now.

If you’ve some how missed all the Grey commotion here’s SOG101: Anastasia Steele is an innocent twenty-two year old virgin until she starts a S&M relationship with sexy billionaire Christian Grey. Things get kinky fast.

Last week, CC had fun figuring out who was fit to play the mysterious Christian Grey in the film adaptation. But, what about Ms. Steele? Her casting is a little more difficult. Hollywood needs to pick an actress who is young and innocent enough to be believable, but can also live a little too! She can’t be too sweet or too sexy. Rumor has it Ghost Whispering extraordinaire Jennifer Love Hewitt is dying to play Steele, but the thirty-three year old actress might be a bit too old to play a girl in her early twenties.

Here are the actresses we think would be a great fit! Read More »


Coming Soon: Your Bastardized Childhood Memories!

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Perhaps it’s just a matter of timing. Like it or not, I am now of an age where my cherished childhood memories have come up for recycling. Movie adaptations of books are nothing new, but what began as a trickle in my teens has risen to a flood in my 20s, and time has not softened the blow of seeing these stories re-vamped for the 21st Century. On the contrary, as I cling to these last vestiges of my rapidly receding childhood, these new ‘improved’ versions become that much more personal.

Here is the dilemma: I am torn between excitement for a chance to revisit an old favorite and terror that what I see will be a poor substitution for what I knew and loved. Worse still is the certainty that whatever image I see will replace what I imagined a child, and I will find myself unable to recall it as it once was. Read More »