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Carey Mulligan Nabs ‘Great Gatsby’ Role

The adorable spokesperson for Best Western sweet potato fries has won the role that Abbie Cornish, Keira Knightley, Michelle Williams, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively, Natalie Portman and Amanda Seyfried were all fighting over like it was the last cheeseburger on Earth. (Damn, now I am hankering for a double double. Stickers and 10 points to anyone who brings me one.) Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan in the remake of ‘The Great Gatsby.’

Via Deadline:

Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has found his Daisy Buchanan. He has officially given the starring role in The Great Gatsby to Carey Mulligan, the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Never Let Me Go star who’ll play the manipulative heroine when Luhrmann starts production on his adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald literary classic.

He called her on her cell phone to deliver the news that she will share the silver screen with Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby) and Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway). Carey was at the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund Awards Dinner with Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour. She reportedly broke down in tears after finding out she was going to get to movie hump Leo. I am guessing Karl and Anna looked at her, rolled their eyes and gave a half-assed clap with a forced smile.

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New Music Friday – Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol is an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland and Scotland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994, the band is now based in Glasgow. The band’s first three records, the EP “Starfighter Pilot,” and the studio albums “Songs for Polarbears” and “When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up,” were commercially unsuccessful. When the band moved to a major record label Polydor Records, they released their 2003 album “Final Straw” which surpassed 4x platinum sales in the UK. This was the first time the band achieved significant commercial sales, following it up with international success in 2006 when their album “Eyes Open” sold 4.7 million copies worldwide. The songs “Run“, “Chasing Cars” and “Signal Fire” are among the band’s biggest hits. Snow Patrol have been nominated for three BRIT Awards and have won five Meteor Ireland Music Awards. In 2008, the band released their fifth studio album “A Hundred Million Suns,” and released their first compilation album, “Up to Now” in 2009. Worldwide, the band have sold over ten million albums.

“Set the Fire to the Third Bar” is a song from Snow Patrol’s album, Eyes Open, featuring Martha Wainwright on vocals. The song was first released as a single in 2006. It is about a long distance relationship and its lyrics talk of a couple involved in one: (“I’m miles from where you are”) and their longing to be together again (“I pray that something picks me up/ And sets me down in your warm arms”). After their long journey to meet each (“After I have travelled so far”) they would settle down in front of an electric bar fire (“We’d set the fire to the third bar”) and enjoy being together and warm. “Set the Fire to the Third Bar” is featured in the movie trailers for the forthcoming film, “Dear John” with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, due in theaters next Friday. You can listen to the song above.