Posted on 01/25/2008 9:26:44 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Johansson: I'm in love with Obama!
By ERIN CARLSON, The Associated Press Fri Jan 25, 7:29 PM ET
NEW YORK - Scarlett Johansson returned from the Persian Gulf with a whole lot of soldiers' trinkets and a delusion of her own engagement — to Barack Obama.
"I am engaged ... to Barack Obama," Johansson joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes."
Johansson, who showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate at the Iowa caucus earlier this month, was really just deflecting a question about rumors she might be engaged (to actor-beau Ryan Reynolds).
The 23-year-old actress talked about the warm welcome she received while visiting troops stationed in the Persian Gulf last week. Johansson dropped by U.S. bases in Kuwait on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 as part of a USO tour in which she met about 3,500 men and women in uniform.
"Everybody that I met there was so incredibly friendly and polite and genuine and generous," she said. "They were so, so sweet. I mean, I was just amazed."
Johansson said some people ripped patches off their jackets as gifts and handed her challenge coins from their military units. One Marine offered up his St. Christopher medal. Another starstruck guy gushed: "You made my whole deployment!"
Johansson has a full plate for 2008, with the release of films including "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "He's Just Not That Into You," as well as the arrival of her debut album on May 20.
The disc, called "Anywhere I Lay My Head," features Tom Waits cover songs and one original track. "It was a really, really sort of inspired process to make this CD, and it was something I'd never done before," said Johansson, who said the album has a dreamy, ethereal quality.
On a far more serious note: Johansson was still speechless Thursday over the death of fellow actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead Tuesday in his Manhattan apartment.
"I'm really just so very shocked," she said. "He was an incredibly sweet, kindhearted and enthusiastic person. And, you know, he loved his daughter — I mean, that was like the light of his life. It's just a terrible loss."
Pretty girl, great rack, none too bright though. She did visit the troops in Kuwait, so that puts her ahead of many of her fellow hollywoodcritters.
I really can’t see a problem with that.
Justin Timberlake turned her down... good choice.
Considering that she’s wearing the same dress, earrings, hairdo, and lip sick in both photos, I suspect that the pics were taken on the same night. Just saying...
OUCH!
Her brain is so small she no doubt needs a sub-ganglia in her ass to drive her legs.
But great tits.
“If you’re not outraged, people probably like having you around.”
Great tagline!
LOL! IF you looked through her ears you could see daylight on the other side.
BUMP that!
Mmmmm. Nice.
I don’t care what she says.
i don’t care who she’s in love with today. if the troops enjoyed seeing her -cool. i don’t even know who she is, but she’s hot!! (hubba hubba) ;)
Oh, you mean that saying went out of fashion? I first heard it in a Deep Purple song in the early 80's, and I'm still using it. (Showing my age!) I know nothing about this actress, though, so I don't know if the saying applies or not.
Nice of her to go on the USO trip. She’s pretty, too.
I vaguely remember Ann-Margaret and Raquel Welch entertaining Bob Hope. And the troops.
Those women were beautiful.
Hopefully she will stay home when Hitlery steals the nomination.
That was my first thought as well.
So what if she's in love with Obama. Can't blame her for not being in love with any of the clowns the Republicans have running for president. Nobody else is.
Johansson, who showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate Obama?
Shows you a lot about her character now, doesn’t it?
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