I have a lot of goodies to bring you again today. First of all, Scarlett is in two new commercials for Japan’s Mt. Rainier. It appears that the other commercial is the one we see her shoot in the Falling Down music video (lookie). She sure looks pretty but I find it so hilarious that she’s doing these commercials. Lost in Translation, much? :biggrin: Anyway, I’ve added the two new commercials in the video archive and made caps of them. Massive thanks to Sayuri for these!

I have also added stills of the Pepsi Smash On Location and MySpace Artist on Artist sessions (caps of both coming asap) and some preview scans of Scarlett’s new Nylon cover. Credit goes out to the original scanner for these. I will replace these with original HQ scans once the issue is available to my regular scanning helpers.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazines: Nylon (US) – June/July 2008
- Interviews: MySpace Artist on Artist
- Pepsi Smash On Location: Stills
- Mt. Rainier: Commercial #02
- Mt. Rainier: Commercial #03

I have scanned Scarlett’s brand new NME spread and you can now find the pics in the gallery. I personally adore this shoot. It is fun and quirky but still natural… And I personally prefer the fresh and natural looking Scarlett! Sorry about the scan quality but it is an over sized mag and printed on newspaper. I did the best I could.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazines: NME (UK) – May 24, 2008

Yahoo! and Pepsi Smash On Location have a new live video of “Falling Down” as well as an interview with Scarlett. See them under the cut or click here for the direct link. MySpace’s Artist on Artist will also feature an interview with Scarlett and Debbie Harry tomorrow, isn’t that exciting?!

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Elizabeth Snead has blogged about Scarlett’s Cannes absence over at the LA Times blog, which perhaps sheds some light to what exactly happened. But I do hope this will be the last we’ll hear regarding this incident. It’s not like missing a premiere is the end of the world, even though it was unfortunate and all.

Why didn’t Scarlett Johansson show up for the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Woody Allen’s erotic adventure, Vicky Cristina Barcelona last week?

As I reported on April 27, Scarlett was scheduled to appear with co-star Penelope Cruz to support the film, which features a menage a trois with Cruz and Javier Bardem. “Scarlett’s definitely going,” her camp confirmed. “It’s all been confirmed and arranged.”

But at the film’s news conference on May 17, the day of the premiere, Allen explained away Scarlett and Bardem’s absence by blaming it on her “schedule conflicts” and his “family issues.”

Then a British tabloid, the Daily Mail, quoting a source at Warner Bros Studio, the movie’s French-based distributor, reported that the real reason was Scarlett’s excessive demands, which forced the studio to balk at covering the costs.

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