Look who’s a softball stud! Reese Witherspoon is in hardcore softball training at UCLA — she’s learning the sport for an upcoming film with Owen Wilson.
I went to IMDB to try to find the title of the film, and it looks like it’s still untitled, but I did learn that Reese has also been cast as the lead female role in the upcoming film version of Tokyo Suckerpunch. I was really bummed out about that, for reasons I can’t even really verbalize. The Billy Chaka books were strangely life-changing for me, and I never saw someone like Reese in the Sarah role. Tobey Maguire will play the male lead, which also doesn’t thrill me. I don’t even really know who I want in those roles, but it’s definitely someone different. If you haven’t read the books, you totes should. They’re fantastic.
She looks like Jim Carey playing basketball in The Cable Guy.
i love reese witherspoon, but has anyone noticed that she has a funny shaped body?
I was looking at her and thinking the same thing. It’s like, she’s little, but not in a weird, bony kind of way. Then it struck me: THIS IS WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE LOOK LIKE! Refreshing.
Ugh, “totes”!!! Not again! I thought we broke you of that!
Thought it was Jessica Simpson :O
I think I heard that Paul Rudd is in the film as well! Three of my favorites.
I’ll watch it if Paul Rudd is in it. I have a massive crush on him. It kinda makes me feel like a tool sometimes.
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This pop romp through the Tokyo of martial arts, yakuza and legendary geishas has more sly smarts than a Hong Kong gangster shoot-’em-up. First-time novelist Adamson hooks the reader with fast action, clever dialogue and all-over atmosphere, while complicating the plot mightily and implausibly. Billy Chaka is a popular columnist for the Cleveland mag Youth in Asia. He’s come to Tokyo to cover the 19 and Under Handicapped International Martial Arts Championship. While Chaka is waiting in a bar for the arrival of his old friend filmmaker Sato Migusho, an apparently drunken woman enters and rushes for the ladies’ room. Immediately recognizing her as a geisha in disguise, on the lam from disgruntled clients, ChakaDwho has a weakness for geishasDhelps her escape and handles the tough guys with some dandy kickboxing moves. After Chaka learns that Sato has died in a seemingly accidental fire at his secret luxury hideout, the Garden of Earthly Delights, he ducks his reporterly duties and sets out to find the geisha. While on this quest, underwritten by a yakuza leader named Kwaidan and an unnamed religious cult, Chaka keeps stumbling over imponderables in the Sato case, including the news that Sato was about to film an unauthorized version of Chaka’s own life, entitled Tokyo Suckerpunch. This novel is all speed and no depth, but that’s forgivable in a narration that detours around such marvelous (and doubtful) Japanese pop esoterica as current fashions in Japanese motorcycle gangs and the tape-recorded politesse of Japanese vending machines. (Nov.)
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U’d think they’d role reverse the main characters and make Reese play the detective and Jakey-poo the geisha and have some fun with this movie.
i just ordered the book! i was looking for something since i was thoroughly disappointed in the shopaholic books. thanks for the recommendation!
LOVE HER!!!
I love Reese Witherspoon. How many Hollywoodites retain that much integrity and normality? Go Reese!