Scarlett Johansson Engaged to Romain Dauriac—Check Out Her Ring!

News flash: Scarlett Johansson is engaged to her journalist beau!

The Oscar-nominated actress is planning to tie the knot with Romain Dauriac, E! News confirmed Wednesday, noting that the proposal occurred about a month ago, he offered up a vintage Art Deco ring and they are both "very happy." Johansson's rep added, "They haven't chosen a date for the wedding."

 What a couple of under-the-radar types!

Back in July, right around the time her rep said that she was "not engaged or close to being engaged," a source close to Johansson insisted that a diamond and ruby ring she was wearing was "simply a piece of jewelry."

Meanwhile, Dauriac was on the red carpet with his Versace-clad, ring-flashing fiancée at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, where they attended the premiere of Johansson's latest movie, Under the Skin.

The betrothed couple went public in November 2012, not long after Johansson ended a roughly year-long relationship with Nate Naylor.

She and Ryan Reynolds divorced in July 2011 after almost three years of marriage. He tied the knot with Blake Lively last September.

Johansson also let go of her one-bedroom bachelorette pad in Hollywood in July for $470,000 after owning it for nearly a decade, perhaps an indicator that she was going to be in need of more space on a more permanent basis.

It's all making sense now...

But which came first, the ring or the real estate transaction?

Johansson told Elle UK in December that she "never" thought about marriage.

"It's really not important to me," she said. "The only time I ever think about it is when people ask me, 'Would I get married again?'  

"I'm not having kids anytime soon," she added. "I'm in a nice relationship, I'm working a lot and, like I said, it's not important to me."

Well, it's important to someone. Congratulations to the happy couple!

Source: E online

"Harry Potter" fans stampede for Radcliffe in Venice

The Venice film festival descended briefly into chaos Sunday as screaming "Harry Potter" fans stampeded across the seafront after British star Daniel Radcliffe, in town to present his new film.

Radcliffe, who rose to fame playing the child wizard, was surrounded by bodyguards and police, but that did not stop some admirers pushing their way into the bathroom with him during a press conference break.

The 24-year-old shrugged off suggestions that the clamour of hyperventilating teenagers on Venice's picturesque Lido island was intimidating.

"Thankfully, it's not always like this," he told the press conference, as a crowd outside thumped on the walls and rattled the windows trying to get in.

"I've been dealing with it in various ways since I was 11. I don't take it seriously, actually I think it's funny," said a smiling Radcliffe, sporting a blue polo shirt, rainbow-coloured socks and pastel pink sneakers.

The actor -- with his parents in tow -- may be an A-lister, but he still has a schoolboy air, and rather than the usual cocktail soiree held to honour Venice stars, he has requested a Karaoke party.

Radcliffe was in Venice to present "Kill Your Darlings", a Beat Generation film by John Chokidars, in which he plays a young Allen Ginsberg.

He said he thought fans would enjoy the flick, which explores themes from drug use to homosexuality.

"I'm incredibly grateful for the swirl of support behind me. My fans seem excited by the unconventional path I am taking," he said.

"I love poetry and it was fantastic to get the part and have the opportunity to dive into Ginsberg's life. The diaries he made when he was young gave me an amazing insight into his character," he said.

For fans of "A Young Doctor's Notebook", a television series starring Radcliffe as a doctor forced take up a post in a small, remote hospital in Russia, the actor promised "series two is funnier and even darker."

Source: Yahoo

Parkland: Venice 2013 - first look review

Zac Efron is the doctor on whom a nation's hopes rest in this half-neat, half-botched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern take on the deaths of John F Kennedy and Lee Oswald Harvey

3 out of 5 stars

Scrubs up … Zac Efron as the unlucky doctor in Parkland

In the moment of dying it seems that we all become equal, whether you're a gilded commander in chief or an angry loner who can't afford shoes for your kids. John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were linked by the path of a bullet on a road across Dallas. But they were also conected by the Parkland hospital, which toiled to save the life of the president on November 22nd 1963 and then did the same for his killer just two days later. Both men, poles apart, were eventually bound for the exact same spot.

Parkland, which competes for the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, is a sombre, involving account of the chaotic aftermath of the Kennedy slaying, a film that takes the Warren commission as read and focuses instead on the immediate ripples. Debut director Peter Landesman sets his stall right away by showing the crucial moment of impact only insofar as it registers on the face of nearby Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the hapless director of the world's most notorious home movie. That's because Landesman's interest is not so much in anguished Jackie Kennedy or loitering Lyndon Johnson as it is in the medics and the bodyguards, the bystanders and bit-players. Parkland gives us a neat Texas spin on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. And if the film finally doesn't tell us anything we did not already know, the approach makes a worn-out old tragedy feel supple and urgent.

In the immediate wake of the shooting, Parkland marshalls its ensemble cast with aplomb. Billy Bob Thornton plays the grizzled secret service agent who boasts that he has never lost his man, while Jackie Weaver portrays Oswald's mother as a deluded harpy who sees her son as a hero. More alarming even than Weaver, though, is the sight of boyishZac Efron playing the panicked doctor who's brought in to treat Kennedy ("It's just you," the nurse helpfully informs him). One look at Efron's vapid smile and we know, as sure as night follows day, that the president's doomed.

If there is a tragic hero among this unhappy bunch, it may well be found in the unlikely form of Robert Oswald (James Badge Dale), the brother of Lee. Robert is smart and dignified; a cool head in the crisis; a moral compass for the film. But when the public want a scapegoat, it seems that he might fit the bill.

Parkland is a spry little tale from the sidelines of history, shot in a gliding, docu-realist manner and spiriting us from the blood-soaked operating theatre to the interior of Air Force One, where the seats must be unscrewed to make room for the coffin. At the end of the film a trio of gravediggers trudge onto the screen and start shovelling dirt. And yet it struck me that all of these characters (the medics and the cops, the agents and the hacks) are gravediggers of a sort. They come to clean up the mess so that the world can move on.

Source: The Guardian