Rosario is ranked as #77 on AskMen.com’s Top 99 Women of 2007! You can view the special at Askmen.Com.

Actor BRIAN O’HALLORAN has lavished praise on his CLERKS II co-star ROSARIO DAWSON, insisting other actresses muted for the part wouldn’t have fitted in with the film’s lewd humour. The 41-year-old grew nervous when executive producer HARVEY WEINSTEIN gave director KEVIN SMITH a surprising list of actresses to be considered for the main female role, but his fears resided when Dawson arrived on set and joined in with the film series’ running gag about a sex act performed on a donkey. He recalls, “We were kind of nervous in the beginning, because Harvey Weinstein had given Kevin a list of women. Kevin wanted to do the film with the four guys from the original and unknowns for the other roles, but Harvey was like, ‘Absolutely not. You’ve got to give me a name actress at least.’ “But some of the names were really weird – like RACHEL WEISZ. I can just imagine what she would have been like: ‘Are you serious? A donkey show? Am I being Punk’d?’ “When we were on set, (co-star) JEFF (ANDERSON) asked her, ‘Rosario, seriously, how much are they paying you? Why did you say yes?’ And she said, ‘I wanted to see the donkey show.’ We were like, ‘That’s our chick.’” Contact Music

Columnist, Denis Hamill, has written an article where he talks about his favorite celebrities that he has interviewed. He mentions this lovely piece about Rosario:”ROSARIO DAWSON didn’t make it all about her when I interviewed her this year on the set of “Descent,” an indie flick directed by her longtime pal Talia Lugacy. She made sure her director and producer, Jeff Mazzola, were in on the conversation about this little revenge thriller revolving around a date rape.”It’s not like the role of the pretty girl who gets the guy at the end,” Dawson said. “This is dark. This is tough.”Traffic-stopping beautiful, with cheekbones like the Jersey Palisades, you have to admire this lady, who was discovered on a lower East Side stoop by a casting agent and cast in 1995′s “Kids.” Since then she has appeared in big-budget flicks like “Men in Black II,” “Alexander,” “Sin City” and “Rent,” and still lends time and star power to a little indie film with a friend.”Excerpt from the Belleview News-Democrat

The first still from Grindhouse has been released. You can check it out in the gallery. I also updated the why we love her section. Thanks for submitting! I love reading why everyone loves Rosario. This Revolution is being released this Tuesday, so I’m planning on getting that capped ASAP. Happy New Year to everyone and I hope you all have an excellent 2007!

Some good news for the Trybe Films produced Descent and some interesting “casting” news for Grindhouse have been released recently. “City Lights Pictures Picks Up Rosario Dawson’s Descent” and “Lindsay Lohan In Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse?”. Click on read more to check out both articles.

Rosario has been cast in another new film titled Grind House. The film is written and directed by both Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and has a release date for April 6, 2007. Rosario will play the role of Kim and the film is summarized as “Two 75 minute horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez put together as a two film features. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies”. You can view more details about the film at the Internet Movie Database.

Rosario is included in a new charity in association with the famous jeweler Cartier. Her and 7 other celebrities have chosen their favorite charities and a color of bracelet. Rosario’s charity is Youth AIDS and her color is red. To learn more about this new endevour, please visit the Cartier website.