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TANK GIRL star LORI PETTY has turned her tough Iowa upbringing into a new movie, and cast SELMA BLAIR as her mother.

Petty wrote and directed The Poker House, staging a lengthy casting call to find the newcomer who would play her as a child, Jennifer Lawrence - and called on the Hellboy star to play her mum.

Perry’s autobiographical directorial debut, about her poverty-stricken teenage years, will premiere at the upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival.

A film insider says, “It’s a ravishing portrait of poor, small town life in Iowa, circa 1976 - Marvin Gaye, seedy bars, and the ever present allure of illicit activities and substances.”

Blair plays a mum of three daughters in the film. Her eldest, Agnes, is inspired by Lori herself.

The film includes Petty’s “pimp father figure, and a memorable assortment of dangerous yet colourful gamblers, thieves and johns.”

Petty says, “This is a movie that had to be made, so it showed up uninvited as my adolescence. The movie is the eldest daughter, me, realising between a heartbeat, that things may happen to you, but they don’t happen to you forever unless you let them.”

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Makeup, however, is an entirely different matter for the self-declared “poor applier,” who sticks with basics like nude lipstick and pink blush, and ducks whenever she sees a liquid liner. “I avoid anything difficult,” she says.

Blair’s signature look: “A rosy cheek, a smudgy eye, a lot of mascara–I look like a doll that has too much makeup on, and I love it!”

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Selma is featured in the “Beauty Talk” section of Instyle Magazine (USA edition) for June 2008. I have picked up my copy of the magazine and will add scans to the site a.s.a.p.

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While Universal Studios was battling its own inferno, at Paramount those smokin’ sirens from surburbia, Kath & Kim, settled in for the first read-through of the US version of their hit show.
Executive producers and stars Jane Turner and Gina Riley were to take their US alter egos Molly Shannon and Selma Blair through the world of Fountain Lakes.

TV giant NBC is backing the show, slating it to take on the second half-hour of Grey’s Anatomy, CSI and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

Stiff competition, guys.

Selma was in attendance at the 2008 Spike TV “Guys Choice Awards” this past Friday, May 30th. There are both HQ and MQ images now in the media archive. Click on the thumbnails below to see all the images from the event.

The awards show airs on June 22, 2008 at 10PM ET/PT on the Spike TV network.