Natalie Portman

After getting all fiesty with Scarlett Johansson as a jealous mistress in The Other Boleyn Sister, Natalie Portman plans on getting involved in another Tale of Love and Darkness, only this time she'll be behind the camera. Ms. Portman plans to direct a film adaptation of Amos Oz's memoir about growing up in the 1940s and 50's in Jerusalem. She also plans to stay true to the book and shoot the film in Hebrew. Azoi? Really! Ms. Portman told W magazine: "I've been reading Oz since high school, and when I read his biography I just sort of saw it," she said.

More from The Jerusalem Post after the jump.

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Natalie Portman has found a stylish way to save the environment. The 26-year-old actress, whose diet has remained strictly meat-free for the last 17 years, has joined forces with New York-based fashion label Té Casan to design a line of “vegan-friendly” shoes called—what else?—the Natalie Portman Collection.

Actual designs for Ms. Portman’s forthcoming footwear have not yet been publicly released, according to E!. But the actress—who has a starring role in director Justin Chadwick’s forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl—does sport one pair, red faux-patent-leather pumps, on the company’s Web site.

To be priced at about $200, the shoes are not only animal-free, but they’re charitable too—5% of the profits will go a good cause. They are expected to hit stores in February, but eager shoppers can reportedly nab a pair of Portman kicks from the Té Casan site as early as January, 15.

Natalie Portman is insecure at times, the 26-year-old actress said in an interview with MTV, where she also talks about the consequences of her poor professional choices. “I might think I won't be able to do something, but I'll do it anyway, because I've sort of known that failing isn't that bad. Especially with my job, no one gets hurt. If I mess up, it's like, ‘OK, somebody loses a little money,’ which I know is a big deal to some people, but no one dies,” offered the 26-year-old star of director Zach Helm’s fantasy feature, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, which opens tomorrow. In the interview, Ms. Portman also talked about taking off her clothes for Wes Anderson’s short, Hotel Chevalier, referring to the fleshy episode as “really silly.” Though she purports to not “really have regrets,” she did say that she doesn’t “like the misappropriation of stuff, like when you create something as part of a story and then a piece of it ends up on a porn site.” In her next film, director Jim Sheridan’s drama Brothers, a remake of Susanne Bier’s 2004 Brødre, Ms. Portman will act alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, who plays her husband in the flick.

Last weekend proved that the box office is still pretty sweet on kiddie films, as Bee Movie overtook American Gangster for the No. 1 spot. (Fred Claus came in third. Sigh.)  read more »

• Natalie Portman pretends she’s important and makes fantastically obvious picks for a charity CD. A Shins remix? No way!
• Nice guy/every-mid-20s-to-30s-something girl’s dreamboat Ron Livingston will break out of Office Space’s shadow and into more dramatic roles in his movies opening this weekend. Damn it feels good to be… Richard Pimentel?
• An interview with Owen Wilson conducted by his bud Wes Anderson will be posted on MySpace at midnight tonight. Synchronize your watches.
• Right afterward, you can see 80-year-old playwright Edward Albee discuss his new works on Channel 13 at 12:30 a.m. and get your culture fix for the weekend. Make sure you watch some dumb VH1 shows and drink a bottle of whiskey right afterward. Good night!