AnnaSophia Robb, Denver’s poised 17-year-old movie star, walked the red carpet Thursday night at the Women + Voice Film Festival for the Denver premiere of her upcoming movie “Soul Surfer.”
She plays real-life surfer Bethany Hamilton, who was also at the screening. She’s the young woman who lost her left arm to a shark attack in Hawaii in 2003.
“I am always very critical of my performance,” Robb said Thursday. “But Bethany said she was happy with it, and that’s all that really matters.”
So, how did Robb make her arm disappear?
“They made a cast of ‘Stumpy’ and I wore that while my arm was wrapped in green, making it a green screen, which I held up above my head or put behind my back,” Robb explained.
Stumpy? “Yes, that’s what Bethany calls her arm. Stumpy,” Robb said.
On Thursday, after making the rounds to local TV and radio stations, Robb called me from a car on her way to school. “I’m going to feel so awkward in school today, all dressed up and my hair done and in heels. I usually wear sweats.”
The movie opens wide April 8. And what’s her next project?
“The SATs,” she deadpans. You gotta take them when Natalie Portman is your role model.
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Jazzy.
Jazz Aspen Snowmass is out with its June and Labor Day Festival skeds — and some nice notes are headed this way.
Sheryl Crow comes in June 25, Jennifer Hudson June 26. Also look for Raul Midon, Richard Bona, the 12-piece Cuban band Maraca and Hot Club of Detroit.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis plays on July 2.
The Labor Day fest, Sept. 2-4, showcases DJ Girl Talk, Steely Dan, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ryan Bingham, Zac Brown Band, Lenny Kravitz and Fitz & the Tantrums.
Tix and info at .
Counting sheep.
Restaurants are all about farm-to-table these days, and, boy, is that tiresome.
I say try the Museum of Contemporary Art on March 26 for a day-long Sheep-To-Shawl presentation.
They start shearing a sheep outside the museum at 10 a.m. Over the next six hours, two teams of fiber artists will card, spin and weave the raw fleeces into wearable shawls.
City spirit.
Forget Santa Claus pix with your crying child sitting on his lap. The Easter Bunny is available for pictures with junior April 2-23 at Colorado Mills . . . Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were spotted skiing in Silverton last weekend. According to the Silverton Standard, Biel checked into the hotel using the name Mary Camden, the character she played on TV in “Seventh Heaven” . . . Sez who: “Sometimes in the morning, when it’s a good surf, I go out there, and I don’t feel like it’s a bad world.” Kary Mullis
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