January 31, 2006
'Come Early Morning' star Ashley Judd and director Joey Lauren Adams interview each other for UnScripted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. >> @ AOL.com

January 25, 2006
Judd for the Defence: Actress puts career on hold to help world's poor

No good deed performed by a celebrity goes unpunished.

Bono gets laughed at. Angelina Jolie gets vilified no matter how many orphans she adopts. Even the UN boss chuckles about Brad Pitt becoming a goodwill ambassador.

So whenever an actor talks about causes and charitable work, we're hardwired, even if we don't like to admit it, to roll our eyes. And maybe sometimes, at some people, we should.

Ashley Judd is not one of those people...
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January 22, 2006
Come Early Morning... the directorial debut of actress Joey Lauren Adams, with her eloquent and intelligent Come Early Morning, part of the festival's dramatic competition. In what must be her finest performance to date, Ashley Judd plays a contractor in Arkansaws who spends her off time drinking too much beer and sleeping with men she meets in her neighborhood bar. Refusing to 'kiss a man when sober' things change when she meets Cal and perhaps this time she can raise her emotional wall and find true love. Adams proves herself a true arrist with her quietly melancholy portait of southern small town USA. Hers is a script that is emotionally resonant and honest in its study of parental and human relationships. As her camera focuses on Judd we see a character full of emotional scars as Judd gives a remarkable and finely nuanced performance. A hauntingly rich and elegant work by Adams, her future as a director is assured with this beautiful and gentle human drama.
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On the dramatic competition front, women's issues have taken front row here at Sundance with a slew of strong films focusing on female protagonists and their struggles to correct lives derailed by wayward judgment. Best of these is "Come Early Morning," actress Joey Lauren Adams' writing-directing debut which features a radiant, penetrating performance by Ashley Judd as a loose woman too insecure for an honest relationship. Preferring beer-fueled one-night stands with strangers to the naked honesty of a real lover, Judd's bittersweet character still aches helplessly for that personal connection - despite an emotional hesitation hard-wired by permanent scars from parental divorce and estrangement. Her tortured anxiety when confronted with a good man is heartbreaking in its modest, subtle candor.
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January 21, 2006
New layout today!! Love is in the air and Ashley is everywhere, well, not exactly, but there is a lot of great stuff to be found on the net right now about Ashley and her new movie. I added some pics to the gallery. The 2006 Sundance Film Festival kicked off on January 16 and runs through January 29. As we all know by Ashley's film Come Early Morning is one of this year's entires :)

January 17, 2006
Added scans from ForMe Magazine to the gallery... yes I found a copy!

Besides being one of the best Indy-style racecar drivers in the world, Dario Franchitti is married to actress Ashley Judd. He plans to be in Minnesota on Wednesday to visit Camp Heartland, a year-round facility in Willow River, Minn., for children affected by HIV and AIDS... Continue reading Questions w/ Bob

January 12, 2006
Ashley is featured in the current issue of ForMe Magazine. Gotta admit, I had never heard of this magazine and I haven't been able to find a copy yet, but I will be on the look-out this weekend! That is an old pic on the cover, so I am wondering what could be inside?

>> Visit the website to test your Ashley awareness: How well do you know Ashley Judd?

And if you like that, try this out: SPiN's Hottest Significant Other Tournament, let's see if Ashley makes it to the Savory 16! So far Ashley is ahead 61% to 39% against Alicia Rickter... by the way, who the hell is Alicia Rickter?

January 7, 2006
Come Early Morning is a beautifully rendered film about a southern woman in a small-town, rural community, a subject director Joey Lauren Adams obviously knows intimately. Delicately told, and rather efficiently related, it is the story of Lucy, a 30-something woman who keeps waking up with a stiff hangover and a guy she doesn't even want to look at. If coming to grips with why she keeps repeating this pattern isn't enough, Lucy also begins to realize that she needs to get in touch with her familial past and, more importantly, with the person she has become. Fueled by a perfectly nuanced performance from the gifted Ashley Judd, Come Early Morning is about life transitions, the search for love, and the burdens we carry with us. A portrait of simple truths that isn't archetypal melodrama, it steadfastly avoids wallowing in the depths of sentimentality or self-destruction. You can't help but appreciate this kind of storytelling for its directness, honesty, and qualities of toughness and heart that leave you wanting to know more as it plays itself out, following you into that part of your filmic memory reserved for distinction.— Geoffrey Gilmore

Visit the 2006 Sundance Film Festival site to learn more about the event and view all entries in this year's competition which will be running from January 16 through January 29.

January 5, 2006
Sundance will have its stars in 2006, but it's no Hollywood
Drugs and disease, love and life, cancer and crosswords -- all that and more are covered in the competition films set to play at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Festival organizers have released the titles of the 64 films that will compete in the dramatic, documentary, World Cinema and World Cinema Documentary categories _ a collection that festival director Geoffrey Gilmore said is "as independent as we could be."

"There's nothing in that competition that will ever be mistaken by anybody as having emerged from a Hollywood company," Gilmore said.

Still, the competition will have its share of star names: Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Ashley Judd, Ryan Gosling, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Tom Waits, Ruby Dee and Patrick Fugit.

One major alumna is Ashley Judd, whose career took off after the 1993 award winner "Ruby In Paradise" will be appearing in her new film, "Come Early Morning." Judd plays a Southern woman dealing with addiction and self-destructive behavior. "I really admire someone who's willing to take on the kind of role she's willing to take on," Gilmore said.

"Come Early Morning" also marks the writing and directing debut of another actress who made her name at Sundance: Joey Lauren Adams, the squeaky-voiced object of desire of Kevin Smith's 1997 romance "Chasing Amy."