Cate Blanchett has gone postal...philatelic, too! Now she's unavailable [her maxicard, that is] from Australia Post

I am re-posting above images from saphilatelist at stampboards.com.

"This card is not a maximum card but a prepaid postcard. It differs from the maximum card as the 'stamps' are actually images printed as part of the card design. On the maximum cards the 'stamps' are real stamps affixed to the card and postmarked. "

"And here is the address side showing the postage prepaid imprint."

http://www.stamps.com.au/shop/stamps/2009-australian-legends/sku/1595671

I like all these 4 Australian-born(/raised?) actors, and I salute this initiative of Australia Post.
Another very innovative and open-minded post is Austria Post - I'll post soon about their stamp with meteorite particles incorporated, etc. :)

Cate Blanchett is very versatile - an actress with the proven capability of playing pretty much any type of roles. Plus atypical roles.
Also, I saw a glimpse of her deliciously sharp wit when she outwitted Jay Leno (anagram: JAY LENO = LEAN JOY) on his show.
Instead of telling Jay explicitly that he is "crazy" [she was joking in a light-hearted manner], she smiled and told him slowly, in an apparently innocent tone: "Jay, you could see somebody about this..." [for professional help].

Cate, I really appreciate you and your artistic work in movies, theater, etc.
But I guess that many bimbomaniac spectators don't fully notice and comprehend your unique magnitude of artistic personality.

Best wishes to you and yours! :)

Nicole Kidman is not STOCKy [the maxicard about her is out-of-STOCK with Australia Post]

http://www.stamps.com.au/shop/stamps/2009-australian-legends/sku/1595661

However, some copies of her maxicards are available on FeeBay, maybe Delcampe, maybe others.

Nicole Kidman...she played so many memorable roles (because SHE MADE THEM memorable) in a lot of movies.
Once she was off Cruise-control, she chose to adjust, in a Nic of time, the speed of her acting career, making good decisions about good roles, in general.
[That was just a joking reference to Tom Cruise; I appreciate Tom very much. :) ]

Rumor has it that Nicole has "a frozen forehead", thru Botox injections.
Is that true? How the hell should I know? She certainly looks very good, forefront too.
Eventually, she's due to get "A Wrinkle", "In Time". No?
Even if she used Botox, is there anything wrong about that? Joan (Gossip Me A) River[s] swears, I mean swears-by the usefulness of it for herself.

Maybe other blondes have used Clorox ->bleached blonde.
Maybe other Sillywood actors have used Detox (facilities).
Not even Iron Mike [Tyson] proved to be INOX[idable].

Maybe Botox is a reasonable thing in The Year Of The -OX", even if you also do it in any other year, as needed. What do I know? :)

Somebody said that we should see the beauty, beyond the wrinkles.
Others prefer [face] uplifting experiences.

Nicole Kidman has also played roles for which she accepted to be uglified by makeup artists.
Who's afraid of the big, bad Virginia Woolf's nose? Not Nicole.
Joking aside, Virginia Woolf, played by Nicole, is a very tragic figure of the real life, not a Tinseltown concoction.

Nicole, you know you are a superstar on your own, not somebody's trophy wife.
Yes, nobody can build an artistic career without occasional help (maybe even mentoring).
But you are a bright example of how it's possible to advance your career even in the aftermath of divorcing from a superstar.
Other ex-wives would have been content to just pocket the money and retire from any hard work.
What was that movie line? "He is a sugar-daddy, and she is a whore with a wedding ring".
You certainly are not in that category, whatsoever.
True actors work "for the love of the game" - acting, entertaining the masses and the not-so-snotty critics.

Best wishes to you and yours, Nicole!

Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe on stamps, maximum cards, etc. by Australia Post

http://www.stamps.com.au/shop/stamps/2009-australian-legends/sku/15950671

I cannot afford to buy all the maximum cards / maxicards that I'd like, so I missed these.
I don't have them, so I'll just comment on them.
:)

Geoffrey Rush non-FIP maximum card, by Australia Post

Geoffrey Rush, originally uploaded by enokilover.

Two stamps, not one!...."sacrilege against FIP!"...:)

....and the actor is alive!
The USPS wouldn't issue a stamp about a living person. Gotta wait 5 years after death, or 1 year after a US President's death.
But Australia Post, and a few other more open-minded postal administrations, see no problem with that. Just opportunities.

That's how USPS has lost, over time, many millions of dollars in potential revenue: "no living persons featured on [USPS] stamps!".
One of the worst postal/philatelic decisions ever made.

I like Geoffrey -  I think he his a non-flamboyantly clever man, who knows how to be a very convincing actor with as little as eye/gaze/smile play. He doesn't need to gesticulate a lot, to stretch his face, to shout and other idiotic/buffoonish things.
Even if he could perhaps do all of the above, if required by the role, he can surely act in a subtler way.
Hunks and studs are gorgeous and useful, but occasionally you may enjoy watching or interacting with a clever, in a non-annoying way, man.

Best wishes to you and yours, Geoffrey! :)

Russell Crowe non-FIP maximum card, by Australia Post

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28601488@N05/3833819305/in/set-72157618016223702/

Two stamps instead of one...OMG! blasphemy!...:)
See Australia Post for details.
Something to Crowe about...

I like Russell Crowe. "Ruggedly handsome", as someone said.
:)
I watched him evolve, as an actor, from a "supporting actor" in a movie with great studs/stallions/brumbies, to movies where HE was, maybe, the great stud/leading man/Macho Camacho, or he was The Irish-American Stallion (so-to-speak à la Rocky) in "Cinderella Man".
I like that he does his best, ranging from intellectual roles and very physical roles, to assimilate that character and play it very truthfully.
He doesn't walk away from hard work/hard training/grueling experiences/unflattering scenes for his civilian ego. If he goes thru smoking fire, he'll show you his mucus activated, as in real life.

To his role, he gives all his resources, and I generally like very much the results.

As a "civilian", he's also true to his emotions, smashing sometimes a thing or two.
Russell Crowe doesn't go gaga over cocky "papa-papa-paparazzi", so he may jump to prove that A Beautiful Mind can coexist with a Gladiator body.

Best wishes to you and yours, Russell! :)

Whether a maximum card is FIP-compliant or not, I still call it a Dorincard. This one is NOT.

I invite you to tell me WHY this is not FIP-compliant.
In a related story, I could tell you WHY I don't care, in this case.
Should you jump on me for calling this "a maximum card", I could instantly tell you "it's a Dorincard", a term that includes all the FIP-compliant maximum cards, and then some.
:)
BTW, this is just a temporary juxtaposition of those elements; I didn't affix/apply them yet.
Just a demo/comp/project/study/idea.
2010, the Year of the Tiger.