Hello from the good ole rainy Scotland! Still no flat but I just had to come by to post this fabulous find!

One of my favorite websites, The Film Experience has been having a Scarlett Johansson week with lots of goss and chatter about our girl. Check out results of their poll here; the readers have voted Lost in Translation as Scarlett’s best performance with 51% – Match Point and Girl with a Pearl Earring follow. The blog also has awesome musings on Scarlett and her career. They even voted Scarlett-Fan.com as the best Scarlett Johansson website!

These photos are all of Scarlett celebrating Lost in Translation at various bashes, premieres, festivals. For thousands more (you heard me right) —or if Scarlett week had you all hot and bothered, visit Scarlett Fan. It’s a huge spiffy website. If all movie actors had websites this comprehensive the world would be a better, prettier, happier, more satisfying place.

I am blushing. Literally.

Welcome to the new version of Scarlett-Fan.com! Thanks to the very talented Jess, we have a new, summer-y look to celebrate the July release of Scoop, which sees Scarlett Johansson in the role of Sondra Pransky in the Woody Allen film. We also have a whole bunch of new features, including the Calendar, where you can find Scarlett’s past and upcoming happenings and the Style Pages, which focus on Scarlett’s unique sense of fashion. I want to say thanks to Maria, Sana and Lisa for their help with these new sections! And if this is not enough to impress, there’s lots more suprises coming very soon so be sure to keep your eyes peeled on this site! Also, the affiliate applications are open again and we’re also looking for new top affiliates. If you run a high quality site, do not hesitate to apply!

People.Com reported on the wrap party Scarlett Johansson threw for the cast and crew of The Nanny Diaries at a private home she rented in Bridgehampton, N.Y. “They were all dancing up a storm until 2 a.m.,” a source tells us. The actress catered the event from local eatery Alison and the partygoers feasted on lobster, chicken and potato salad.

Reminder: (Riikka’s previous post) A media alert for Scarlett’s American fans: Biography Channel will be airing a 30-minute Famous special on Ms. Johansson’s life and career this week.

Please contact Mariana or me if you’re able to help out in creating a video clip to publish on the site.

I have an announcement to make. After nearly three years of running the site, Mel has decided to leave the staff of Scarlett Johansson Fan because of other commitments. I want to take this opportunity to thank Mel for her amazing work on the site. She will be missed. But fear not, the site will continue with daily updates on Scarlett and her work and nothing else will change. And be sure to visit Mel’s brand new Elisabeth Harnois site, E-Harnois.com!

MAXIM Magazine, the #1 best-selling men’s lifestyle magazine in the country and the world, unveiled their highly anticipated 7th annual Hot 100 list – and Scarlett made it to #6! (She’s after Eva Longoria, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie and Stacy Keibler.) That’s fantastic, so congratulations Scarlett!

We have now successfully moved to our new domain address, scarlett-fan.com. Please update your bookmarks if you have not already. I want to say thanks to each one of you who left nice comments and emailed me. The site is not going anywhere and will continue with daily updates on our favorite actress and her career.

According to Evening Standard, Woody Allen is set to make his third film in London after scrapping a Paris-based project because of spiralling costs. The article names Scarlett and Kate Winslet as thought to be in the running for the leading role.

Apparently Napoleon and Betsy has stirred up some controversy in the press because of the fact that the movie is about a relationship between a 14-year old girl and Napoleon Bonaparte, her senior of 32 years. Bonaparte was befriended by English teen Betsy Balcombe, to be played by Johansson, when he was exiled to the South Atlantic island St. Helena in 1815. Although he was supposedly a kindly uncle figure to Balcombe, who lived there with her merchant father and siblings, director Benjamin Ross is keen to give their story a saucier slant. Historian Peter Hicks fumes, “It was a platonic relationship. It would be ridiculous to suggest anything else.”

But Ross has hit back, saying, “The facts are very interpretable. I’d be delighted to get historians jumping and down.” ( source )

Andrew Lloyd Webber recently revealed that he had decided to pull out of negotiations to get Scarlett Johansson to play Maria in the new West End stage production of The Sound of Music, because although she had been keen, her “people” were against the plan. ( source )

Contact Music reports that Scarlett will be recording the jazz classic Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin) for an album of adult-themed lullabies. She is among celebrities who have recorded standards, with the backing of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, for a new album, Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars. Other participating celebrities include Ewan McGregor, Nia Vardalos and Jennifer Garner.

The album will be released on 28th March 2006. All proceeds from the project will benefit Music Matters, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s fund for music education.