Dianna writes about her five favorite Beatles songs!

MY 5 FAVORITE BEATLES SONGS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

I SAW HER STANDING THERE (Please Please Me, 1963)
I picture myself in a fabulous 70′s outfit, shaking my hair in the middle of a dance floor. Suddenly, a feeling creeps over me and I turn to look over my shoulder, only to lock eyes with a boy that’s staring at me. It’s our very first time for such an experience, nothing like this has ever happened before. We proceed to have the MOST epic dance-off which happens to make me feel like the sun AND the moon AND the stars. THAT is what this song makes me feel like.

ELENOR RIGBY (Revolver, 1966)
Love the strings, love the visuals, love it all. It’s dramatic, and full of insight. Where DO all the LONELY people come from?

I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY) (Abbey Road, 1969)
One day I will grab a partner and we will kiss and be with each other SO VERY PASSIONATELY alongside this song. This person HEAVY because of how overwhelming our feelings are. This song is more than sexy to me.

LET IT BE (Let It Be, 1970)
This song makes me cry. The lyrics hit me to the core. It also reminds me of Kevin McHale, who auditioned for the show with this song. Don’t know what I would do without him, our ‘B’ as we call him.

IMAGINE (Imagine, 1971)
I know this is a John song, but I think I can cheat a little? To me, this is our earth song. It is something I wish more people could embrace, understand and practice in our life. John Lennon, you are my HERO. I often feel like a dreamer, and I KNOW I’m not the only one.

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As you all know Dianna is the January cover of Nylon magazine, and they have released gorgeous outtakes from their photoshoot. The magazine hits newsstands next week, so be sure to pick up a copy.

For the millions of fans who watch Glee every week, Dianna Agron is the amusingly cruel and jaggedly sweet recovering cheerleader Quinn Fabray. But as we learned during our days with Agron in California, the actress behind TV’s most complex Queen Bee is thoughtful, mature, and more into photography than playing mind games. As her new website, You, Me, and Charlie, gears up for launch next week, we asked Agron to describe her online venture, and what else happens after the Glee Live! tour…

On her new website, You and Me and Charlie: “It’s mainly arts-based, but it’s also a forum for people to love and support each other. I realized that just by posting something, I can really influence someone’s day.”

On her Glee alter ego: “Especially in the beginning, [reporters] really wanted us to be like our characters, to simplify things… I was playing a well put-together popular character, and they were trying to push me into it, like that had been my entire life. And the whole time, my teenage self was crying at that.”

On her actual high school persona: “We watched Practical Magic and all of those movies, like The Craft. My friend’s mom had all these Stevie Nicks outfits, and we’d gypsy dance in her living room and have seances. We’d mix all these things from the refrigerator together and we’d look at it and be like, ‘This means you’re going to find true love when you’r 18 years old’.”

On her Glee audition: “They were going to scrap the character but Robert [Ulrich, the casting director] asked for one more chance. I went in and read, and they called me bak two days later, and he told me to come back and straighten my hair, and wear something sexy. I was like, ‘First of all, what is…”sexy”?’…I went to like, a CVS, and bought a straightener and straightened it at Starbucks.”

On Quinn Fabray’s future: “Essentially, I’m a senior, so, I’ll probably graduate this year.”

“When Glee started, I had no idea who Marc Jacobs was. In no way was I a fashion person!” confesses Chris Colfer, who won a Golden Globe Award in 2011 for his depiction of the out-­and-­proud high school chorister Kurt. “I did all my shopping at my small-­town Target. Maybe if I dressed better I wouldn’t have had such a hard time in school,” he says, laughing a little ruefully. “Now, as Kurt, I get to wear all these amazing things, by people whose names I can’t even pronounce.” Those “amazing things”—­the singular looks that the cast sports both on-­ and, increasingly, offscreen—­have led, to the thrilled amazement of Colfer and his costars, to the cast’s current role as spokespeople for this year’s Fashion’s Night Out, the annual fall ritual that celebrates style and shopping, the joys of inventing your own look and having a ball while doing so.

Admirers of the show (Gleeks, in current parlance) know that their beloved characters express themselves not only through music—­there is also the matter of their deliciously quirky relationship to fashion, which makes them the perfect collective headliners for FNO. “From the beginning, I asked the costume designer to give each of these kids an archetypal identity,” recalls Ryan Murphy, creator and executive producer. “We didn’t want them to look like generic mall kids. Now their looks are being copied! On the show, they don’t get to wear designer clothes, except for Chris. In fact, people ask me all the time, ‘Where does he get those clothes in Ohio?’ ” (Answer: He orders them online.)

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When you talk to Colfer or Lea Michele or the other cast members, you find yourself curiously inhabiting two worlds—­one populated by successful young actors who are building their careers with purpose and sophistication, and the other a universe of incredibly compelling fictional characters who attend a surreal high school somewhere in an imaginary Ohio, struggling to find their place and defining themselves through the poetry of popular song, the way so many of us define ourselves, especially while we are growing up. At a sold-­out Glee Live Tour performance at the Meadowlands in New Jersey early this summer, the audience was bursting with Gleeks proudly exhibiting the nerd-­cool (and frankly, sometimes just nerd) signifiers of the show—­thick glasses, suspenders, and T-­shirts that say things like “Bad Attitude.” Many of these fans seemed—­how shall we put it?—­far more like struggling New Directions recruits than lithe, blithe Cheerios. (But then again, the two cliques mix and match on the show with abandon, which is part of what makes Glee so delectable.)

Don’t expect to see off-­duty cast members looking like their fictional doppelgängers. “I would never wear a sweater with an animal face!” laughs Lea Michele, who plays driven baby-­diva Rachel, and who confesses that she has lately developed a serious crush on Oscar de la Renta. But Murphy puts Michele’s current sartorial confidence in clearer perspective. “When I met Lea, she was only sort of interested in clothes—­but in the last two years she’s become a red-­carpet star. I think what happened is Lea went to an event, and someone said, ‘Oh, you look pretty.’ It was an interesting moment for her.”

Murphy, who admits that for him Fashion’s Night Out is “all about grooviness and fabulousness and excitement!,” says that it is empowering for kids all over the country to see the cast donning gorgeous ensembles and having the time of their lives in the FNO public-­service announcement because “aspiration and integration are so important.” Kurt may be the show’s avowed clotheshorse, but Colfer says you won’t find the see-­through ankle-­length Dolce & Gabbana trench that he flaunts during one broadcast anywhere near his closet. Actually, he says, chuckling, it is Kevin McHale—­who plays the wheelchair-­bound Artie, a character who favors grandpa sweaters and pleated mom jeans—­who is the standout style aficionado off camera. “Whenever Kevin sees me in an outfit, he feels the fabric and looks at the label, then goes and buys it!” Colfer says.

Sometimes those shrieking Gleeks who throng the stage door after a performance, desperate to spy their favorites in the flesh, are taken aback by the difference between art (or in this case, Artie) and life. When McHale became obsessed with what he describes as a Marc by Marc Jacobs “half-­kilt thing,” he searched boutiques until he turned one up. “I wore the hell out of it last year, and I had it on after our show at Radio City. When I came out, the crowd went from ‘Ooooh!’ to ‘What are you wearing?’ ”

Source: Vogue.com

I’ve added to the gallery the magazine scans of Dianna in the latest issue of Flaunt Magazine looking gorgeous. Below you can read the article featured in the magazine:

NIGHTSTALKING
Rare Prey and the Impenetrable Force of Glee

It’s ballbusting work being part of tv’s biggest phenomenon. For Dianna Agron, the actress who plays alpha cheerleader Quinn Fabray on the FOX musical series Glee, it takes five time zones, four days, and one delayed flight to the UK (with a daytrip to Paris along the way), before she even has a moment to pop on the phone to chat quickly about her blossoming career. When she does, it’s 1:30 a.m. after a performance in Manchester, England—the first UK stop on the Glee Live! stadium tour—and she’s not even close to sleepy. “I’m a night owl,” Agron explains, “and you get such adrenaline from the show—it’s really hard to pass out straight away.”
It sounds like typical performer hype—the energy of the audience, blah, blah, blah—but to really grasp what she’s getting at you pretty much have to remember, this is Glee we’re talking about. The Gleeks, as the show’s rainbow coalition of dedicated fans call themselves, take Glee very. Very. Seriously. Internet forums are filled with fan fiction about co-star couplings and debates rage about which of the show’s female stars is the hottest. (For the record, Agron ranks as the show’s number one “classic beauty.”) Millions upon millions of people tune in every week to learn life lessons to a pop-music soundtrack as the show dishes out morals on unprotected sex (Agron’s character gives a baby up for adoption), inner beauty (her mean-girl Quinn hides an obese past), and sexuality (she loses the prom queen vote to a gay male character).

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When Glee Live! arrives to Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum to shoot two performances for the upcoming film Glee Live! In 3D!, gaggles of tweens and middle-aged ladies froth at the mouth. There is chaos when America’s favorite high school pep squad goes through their greatest hits. Twenty-something girls in silk shirts gyrate to G-rated covers of Britney and Beyoncé while their bored boyfriends smoke cigarettes outside. (At one show in Philadelphia, a group of grown women tailgated with thermoses full of Pinot Grigio.) The roar of the crowd reaches a fever pitch as Agron skips across the stage in jeans and a T-shirt, her newly bobbed hair bouncing behind her. And when her on-screen, on-again-off-again boyfriend Cory Monteith hits the stage, a girl falls to her knees shrieking, ”He’s so beautiful!” A ghoulish siren call from the tween abyss.
It gets intense. Like a Gathering of the Juggalos for the purity ring set.
The concert tour has given Agron a chance to cure some wanderlust, and to connect with fans, but most of the time, from the stage, she just sees a sea of BlackBerries and camera flashes. She recalls a show where, right next to the real filming crew, was a guy with an iPad recording the show. “I think it’s so hard,” Agron says of accepting the new ways fans interact with the show, “because people are so joyous in the moment, and want to be able to look back on it or share it with their friends, but you’ll see that more often than not, they’re watching the concert through the recording device. To me, that’s putting yourself back in front of the TV. You are part of it; you feel the energy. You’ll never see or feel that from a video, ever.”
It took a last-minute casting call for the 25-year-old actress to land the life-changing role just a few weeks before filming started three years ago. It wasn’t her first brush with Hollywood—Agron had already sold a screenplay and had bit parts on CSI: New York and Heroes—but it was one of those star-making moments. Since then, she’s sat on Oprah’s couch, been a guest at the White House, and had her first tabloid relationship flameout. She’s also taken her movie-star good looks to the big screen with the mega-budgeted I Am Number 4 and directed a music video for San Francisco indie rockers Thao with the Get Down Stay Down in conjunction with Oxfam. For now, though, it’s all about Glee, and this season may be her last, as the current set of characters are set to graduate high school. So she’s enjoying it while it lasts.
While she’s open to possibilities for the future—after Glee, Agron plans to continue telling stories, one way or another, as an actor, writer, director, or producer—she’s also open to possibilities about the past. Not one, but two, psychics have asked her about a mysterious Charlie that she may have been in a past life. This curiosity about bygone times is a concept that assists her creatively. Sometimes, to find inspiration, she’ll clear her mind and let it wander: “If this was six years ago, what would I be doing in the exact same place or situation? It’s something that, when I write, it could be a situation or a person that is similar to something that I know, but I go in a completely different direction with it, based off of one small change.”
Agron recently celebrated her 25th birthday with another small change—cutting her blonde hair short, something she’d wanted to do for a while. She announced the move by posting a video called “Seven Year Itch” to her Tumblr, sending minor shockwaves through the celebrity blogosphere. “It’s almost like putting on the glasses and all of a sudden you’re smarter. It’s a very interesting and lovely observation that I keep having of how people treat me now that my hair’s different,” she said of the change. The suggestion that it must be strange, though, to be under the constant scrutiny of legions of fans is batted away without even a slight hesitation. “I’m the happiest that I’ve ever been,” Agron says. “Ever. High school, middle school—I’ve loved every part of getting older and growing, but I definitely think that this is the most I’ve ever felt like myself and that I’m being treated like who I feel I am.”
It’s difficult work being part of something so widespread and global, for sure. The constant flights, the dizzying two shows-a-day schedule, the autographs, the interviews. But at the end of the day, when the reward is changing people’s perspective of what’s normal, and giving a voice to a part of America that still needs one, you almost never want to go to sleep.

So, we’ve been at Hard Rock Calling this evening in London’s Hyde Park and it’s from there that we bring you this HUGE news. Prince Harry (along with his cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie) is currently doing a round of tequila shots with the cast of Glee and Gossip Girl. Together! All of them! Doing tequila! AMAZING.

We spotted the Glee cast arrive earlier on in the evening, when they headed straight to the Hard Rock bar at the festival. Chris Colfer (Kurt), Matthew Morrison (Mr Schu’) and Dianna Agron (Quinn) were among the crowd and they were all having a great time. And they all headed off as soon as the countdown to the Killers (who were headlining the show) began at 8.30pm….

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Dianna Agron’s Mistake Requires A Costume Change
“For one scene, Dianna was trying to run through an aisle where we’d removed some of the chair to make it bigger, and of course the one screw sticking up found Dianna’s foot and she goes tumbling like 3 or 4 feet and rips up the front of her knee. We had to put her in long dresses for a bit.”

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Dianna ranked #8 on 2011 AfterEllen.com Hot 100 this year:

This year, Dianna Agron made her big-screen debut in the sci-fi thriller I Am Number Four, but it is the small-screen role of Quinn Fabray that keeps nudging her up our Hot 100 list. The soft-spoken Agron has a shockingly powerful voice, which she has proven over and over again during Glee’s second season. Most recently, her “I Feel Pretty/Unpretty” mash-up with best buddy Lea Michele had our iPods stuck on repeat. Agron is a vegetarian and a vocal animal rights supporter, and if there’s anything we love more than a gorgeous gal, it’s a gorgeous gal holding a puppy.

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Lionsgate snatched up North American rights for “The Hunters,” a French psychological thriller toplining Steven Waddington (“Largo Winch”) and Dianna Agron (“Glee”).

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20th Century Fox TV and film divisions have partnered to produce GLEE LIVE! 3D!, a feature film based on the Glee Live! In Concert! North American tour. The studio plans to release the film for a two-week engagement starting August 12. Gleeks who were unable to get tickets will be able to catch the concert in 3D. The tour starred 14 members of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning TV show, and the film will also feature behind the scenes moments. The feature will be directed by Fame helmer Kevin Tancharoen.

Given the rabid following that Ryan Murphy’s show has, this seems like as good as a cash machine for the studio. It worked for Sony on the Michael Jackson documentary This Is It! (whose limited run was extended, something that always seems to happen), and Paramount cleaned up with the Justin Bieber documentary Never Say Never.

The film features performances by series regulars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Mark Salling, Dianna Agron, Naya Rivera, Heather Morris, Harry Shum Jr, Chord Overstreet, Darren Criss, Ashley Fink. The concert tour finishes June 18 in Uniondale, New York before moving on to the United Kingdom.

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THE STARLET: DIANNA ARGON
Age: 24;
Hometown: San Francisco, CA;
Character Name: Quinn Fabray

 
Was high school heaven or hell?
I loved and hated it. I was in the dork classes, like honors English. I also did drama and was a yearbook photographer. But there were definitely embarrassing moments: My first week, my two best friends and I convinced our parents to let us go to a party for an hour. So people are drinking, and the three of us are standing in this terrified triangle. All of a sudden, this senior gets into an argument with a guy next to us, and as I’m turning to see what’s going on, she goes to punch him and I get clocked in the nose instead. Blood is everywhere. Meanwhile, somebody caught it all on video, and the football team was like, “We’ve been watching it in the locker room. You should’ve seen your face!” I was Bloody-Nose Girl for a while. I have a deviated septum from that night — it’s why my voice is so nasally.

My pre-Glee gig was …
In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

Walking into my Glee audition …
I’d gotten a callback that said, “Please come back, wear something sexy” — not my forte — “and have straight hair.” I had an hour to get there from another audition, and I was wearing the same vintage dress — my go-to audition outfit that week — but I bought a straightener that I used in a Starbucks bathroom. For the next callback, I got to the studio early to warm up with vocal exercises in the parking lot. I went into the office, but no one was around. Later, I found out they saw that I checked in an hour before at the gate, so they’re calling my agent: “Is she lost?” and my agent is calling me, but my phone was locked in the car. Finally, someone finds me, has me sign a form, and says, “You start in two days.” I thought I was being punk’d.

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Who have you learned the most from?
Lea taught me how to stand up for myself more, like realizing that I can’t be in 10 places at the same time. She’s also very protective. Once, we were flying from Sydney to Melbourne when a crazy guy grabbed my face and kissed me. Lea yelled and pushed him off of me. A mean stewardess who hadn’t seen it turned around and said, “You two be quiet!” And Lea yelled, “No, that man just kissed my friend!”

How many tattoos are you sporting?
One. It says “Mary had a little lamb”; my mom’s name is Mary. I don’t know if I’d get more, even though around Jenna and Lea, I’m like, “Yeah, I want another!”

Tabloid terror: What’s been the most absurd rumor you’ve heard?
Everybody is convinced that Lea and I are in a relationship. There are supposedly forums with photos of us hugging at work or events. It’s funny, but flattering — Lea is beautiful. Since when can’t you hug your friends?

You’ve been campaigning heavily for Christopher Walken to be a guest star — why him? People always expect us to say Justin Timberlake. But I always go back to Walken’s Fatboy Slim video. A rivalry between him and Jane Lynch would be fabulous.

Where do you want to be in five years? I sold my first screenplay six months before
Glee, but they had the option for a year and now it’s back with me. So I’d like to get that made. I wrote it during the writers strike when there weren’t any auditions — I now know every coffee shop in L.A.

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