Amber Heard looked beyond stunning as she attended the premiere of The Rum Diary, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California last night. She wore a striking red Elie Saab designed floor length number with gathered detail on the bodice and a high slit to the thigh. Amber paired the strapless dress with nude Christian Louboutin peep-toes and had her hair pulled back into an elegant chignon. 160+ high quality photos from the event have now been added to the gallery. Many thanks to Mariana for her contributions!

Check out the Hollywood Reporter’s review of The Rum Diary, which praises Amber Heard’s performance as Chenault.

Conceptually, Chenault is a stock fantasy character, a teasingly unavailable object of desire designed to mesmerize. Many a pretty young actress could have filled this requirement, but Heard charges the standard-issue role with moments of something extra, a fleeting sense of abandon, unscripted wildness, inchoate yearning that couldn’t have been planned but emerged in a fortuitous fusion of glance, turn of the head, youthful glow, lighting and camera angle. Stunningly beautiful, Heard creates tiny heartbreaks for this girl who is both free and trapped, one of nature’s elite and yet possibly doomed.

It probably shouldn’t have been surprising that last month’s Television Critics Association press tour panel for NBC’s The Playboy Club became an ongoing debate as to whether the period drama was empowering or exploitative.

While all of the show’s stars and producers were closely on-message about the idea that employment at the Playboy Club in the early ’60s was a progressive choice, leading lady Amber Heard was particularly passionate on the subject.

At the NBC party that evening, I caught up with Heard (Hidden Palms, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane), who plays Maureen, the newest Bunny at Chicago’s Playboy Club, for a few follow-up questions regarding her take on the show’s message.

HitFix: You guys came out prepared for a little controversy today. It’s almost like you knew to expect it…

Amber Heard: Oh yeah? I thought they were just gonna ask me about my cute shoes.

First of all, we’d like to take a moment to apologise for the lack in the updates. These past few weeks have been incredibly hectic for us so site updates have been slow. But things seem to be calming down so we will be working on catching up with everything, little by little. Thanks for your patience!

The trailer for The Rum Diary was released a couple of weeks back and it features plenty of Amber Heard as the character of Chenault. It looks pretty good! Be sure to view the trailer in high definition below. I’ve uploaded the screencaps as well as a poster for the movie for your viewing pleasure.

Need an alibi? Join the club. The Playboy Club. Monday Sep 19 10/9c on NBC.

The September 19 premiere of NBC’s 1960s-set The Playboy Club will reveal that one of the bunnies is a closeted lesbian married to a gay man. Openly gay series star Amber Heard, who plays the straight Maureen, was surprised to see the original depiction of the lesbian bunny as butch.

“She was originally written to be different from the other girls in the way that she dressed and carried herself — with less feminine grace,” says Amber, who convinced executive producer Chad Hodge to rewrite the character. “I really pushed to challenge that stereotype, because I know firsthand that some stereotypes don’t always hold true. Who you have a propensity to fall in love with by no means determines how you carry yourself!”

Source: TV Guide

Of the new TV series announced for fall, none has caught the audience’s eye (while raising eyebrows) like The Playboy Club.

Set in the early 1960s, this NBC drama stands out as a rare TV period piece that is all the more notable for being joined on the fall schedule by another early ’60s melodrama, ABC’s Pan Am, which focuses on frisky stewardesses in the dawning jet age.

Both shows will be roughly contemporaneous with AMC’s Mad Men, which reigns as one of a bare handful of successful period dramas (other than Westerns) in the annals of network TV, and without whose success neither Pam Am nor The Playboy Club is imaginable.

But while Mad Men unfolds in New York, The Playboy Club takes place in Chicago at the just-opened nightspot meant to build on the seductive appeal of Playboy magazine, then less than a decade old. In the vision of Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, the club would be a swinging hideaway for Playboy fans, bringing the magazine to life.

To judge from the first episode (which airs Sept. 19), The Playboy Club is a zesty cocktail. There’s glamour, music, mystery and sin, a dash of cultural history, and, of course, the aura of sex.

But according to Chad Hodge, who created the series, The Playboy Club is mostly about the bunnies — the buxom cotton-tailed, satin-corseted, look-but-don’t-touch waitresses who gave the club its mythical allure.