February 15th, 2010
Sweet times for Emma Roberts
The young ‘Valentine’s Day’ actress has life—and love—at her fingertips.
Just turned 19, tiny, pale-skinned actress Emma Roberts is in amused agreement with her “Valentine’s Day” director Garry Marshall when she’s told that he said her age group “makes love with its thumbs.”
“Our generation is definitely all about the texting and the e-mailing and the BBM-ing and the IM-ing; it’s endless. I think a lot of things get misconstrued, because tone of voice is so important,” she says, by turns claiming she doesn’t text as much as she used to, then declaring she still loves it. “There should be a sarcasm font . . . because I’ll make a sarcastic comment and the other person thinks I’m being rude when I’m not.”
She pulls on her coat as the temperature creeps down on the patio restaurant of a West Hollywood hotel. An avid reader, she says she enjoys the works of Joan Didion and Molly Jong-Fast — as well as Chuck Palahniuk and Nicholas Sparks, two authors whose books it’s hard to imagine peacefully coexisting on the same shelf. Roberts dabbles in painting, assembling collages, writing and music, but says she’s doing less of that these days. Despite her handful of releases (including an album featuring offbeat singer-songwriter Jill Sobule), she’s uncomfortable performing in front of crowds. Read More
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