I’ve updated the gallery with lots of high quality photos from the Los Angeles Premiere of Fox Searchlight’s “Whip It” held on September 29th. Enjoy~

I’ve updated the gallery with high quality photos of  Drew at the ‘Whip It’ LA Derby press event held on Sept 28th! Click on the images to view in the gallery!

I’ve updated the gallery with good quality outtakes from the October issue of Instyle Magazine.. enjoy!

Whip It director/star Drew Barrymore opens up about the “true Drew” in the latest issue of Parade. Check out what the 34-year-old actress had to say:

On her seemingly carefree spirit: “I don’t know if I’m completely comfortable ever. Sometimes I can totally let go with complete abandon–sing and dance and run around and not care what people think about me. Still, there seems to be this ball of stress inside me that I can’t get rid of.”

On her own complicated mother/daughter story: “I believe she will see the film [Whip It]. I believe she does feel pride in me. I used to pull a lot emotionally from all the stuff with my family, but I did not do this movie to cleanse myself of the mother/daughter debacle that happened in my life. I have been much more objective about my childhood and my relationship with my mother in these last few years. I used to be more attached to all that. I won’t deny that the baggage was there at one point.”

On battling long-term sobriety: “No, I’m not [completely sober]. And I don’t claim to be — quite the opposite. I’ve tried to find the balance. I hope it’s balanced.”

On not being in a rush to find a mate: “Sexual love is secondary to me right now. I’ve spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. But for the last few years, my life just hasn’t been about that for me. It’s just not about the mother baggage. It’s not about the boy. It’s about something completely different, and it’s very refreshing. I’m trying to understand it and relish it.”

Drew and Ellen Page’s upcoming roller derby film Whip It opens on Friday, October 2.

Source: Just Jared

I’ve looked high and low for a photo of Drew’s memorable appearance on David Letterman in 1993, and I finally found one.  Not to mention, the photo is high quality!!  Click the image to view it in the gallery!

Drew is featured in this month’s issue of Instyle Magazine.. I’ll have the scans as soon as I can get the magazine!

Drew Barrymore knows there is a first time for everything. As she makes her big-time directing debut (with Whip It, out October 2nd), she dished to InStyle on more of her firsts, from broken hearts to fashion regrets! While Barrymoore’s looks have changed through the years, we think her style is pretty flawless. Try on her cover girl hair style now and for more exclusives, check out the October issue of InStyle, on newsstands this week.

Source: Instyle.com

Drew dazzled on the red carpet at the 61st 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept 20th, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Click on the below images to get a sneak peek of Drew. I’ll be adding the high quality photos shortly!

EDIT:  I’VE ADDED 13 ADDITIONAL PHOTOS IN HIGH QUALITY! ENJOY!

Drew is featured in the September, 2009 South Africa Edition of Elle Magazine. Click the below image to view in the gallery!

Drew Barrymore, the longtime Hollywood actress known for her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and more recently for such projects as Beverly Hills Chihuahua, will be the first celebrity to race the electric Ford Focus as part of her visit with Jay Leno on Friday during the first week of his new NBC show.

Ford spokesman Mark Schirmer confirmed on Wednesday that Barrymore landed the gig with the electric Ford Focus, a precursor of the production version that is due out in 2011. When asked by Inside Line if Ford — a show sponsor — had hand-picked the celebrity, Schirmer said no. “We don’t choose the driver,” he said in a text message. “That is Leno.” Barrymore is a bit of a surprise pick, given that she is not known as a car enthusiast.

The electric Ford Focus will be used as a regular feature on the new Leno program. Celebrities will compete for the best lap times in the car, in a setup similar to one on the British car show Top Gear.

Ford appears to have landed a winner with the setup. Leno’s new show premiered to 18.4 million viewers and a 20-percent share on Monday, drawing the biggest prime-time TV audience since Fox’s American Idol finale, according to media reports.

Source:  Edmunds.com

Some people seem to have all the luck. Include in that group actress, producer and now director, Drew Barrymore.

But having luck and doing something with it are two different things, and as early reviews trickle in for Barrymore’s directorial debut, girl power flick “Whip It,” it seems the offspring of a Hollywood legend has found a new career.

“Whip It,” a tale of one young woman defying her mother’s wish of beauty pageant stardom for the rough-and-tumble sport of roller derby, debuted Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, and by Monday was being called a “remarkable debut” by show business newspaper The Hollywood Reporter.

Variety said the movie was “a gas” and Screen International weighed in with “Drew Barrymore seems less concerned with crafting a riveting cinematic experience as she is in creating a good time. On that criterion, she has succeeded.”

A girl — or boy — could do a lot worse.

“I was so impressed with her as a director because she knew what she wanted to see. She really had a strong visual sense of the movie,” said Juliette Lewis, who portrays the hard-charging Iron Maven skater on the Holy Rollers team in “Whip It.”

“I really feel like I was making the first movie of a young filmmaker,” said Lewis.

Barrymore, of course, is the daughter of John Drew Barrymore, who was the son of acting legend John Barrymore — the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.

The 34-year-old got her show business start as a child in movies like “Altered States,” and made her mark with audiences with Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” as the young girl who made friends with an alien.

By her 20s, she was producing films such as the “Charlie’s Angels” box office hits, and even little independent sensation, “Donnie Darko.”

This Sunday, she is in the running to win an Emmy, U.S. TV’s top honor, for her portrayal of eccentric socialite Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale in HBO drama “Grey Gardens.” And while she was ill and unable to talk to Reuters in Toronto, back in April ahead of the “Grey Gardens” TV debut, Barrymore told Reuters that directing was one of her main goals in life.

“She was awesome,” said “Juno” actress and Oscar nominee Ellen Page, who plays Bliss Cavendar, a.k.a. Babe Ruthless of the team Hurl Scouts in “Whip It.” “She worked tirelessly. She gave energy to everybody, which was mind-blowing.”

By day, Bliss is a high school girl in a small Texas town who likes rock music and loathes the teen beauty queens that her mom (Marcia Gay Harden) wants her to be like. When Bliss discovers the freewheeling derby girls on a trip to Austin, she changes her job schedule and rolls with the team at night.

Soon, Bliss’ alter ego Babe Ruthless becomes a top draw on the roller derby circuit, but that only brings trouble at home, and problems in her blossoming love life.

While most movies aimed at young women offer only longing, heartbreak and unrequited love (think “Twilight”), “Whip It” serves up sharp elbows, hip blocks, punk rock and beer bongs.

Whether the positive momentum from early reviews and Toronto audiences continues as “Whip It” rolls into U.S. theaters on October 2 remains to be seen. But one thing is for sure, it appears to be off to a good start. Lucky Drew.

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