SUBMITTED BY Timbo

December 11, 2003 — Scarlett Johansson is dealing with fame just fine, thank you very much.

The style-savvy hipster can proudly sing Will Smith's entire version of Just the Two of Us. She's madly in love with her new BMW Z4 Roadster, waiting for her at home in Los Angeles. She's a huge Prada fan who can cover entire city blocks in soaring heels. And her Oscar night plan of attack?

"I'll be eating pizza at home and watching everyone on television," she says. "I would go if I was nominated, but I won't just show up. But I'll go to the after-parties, because they're just hysterical."

Chances are, though, that Johansson, 19, won't be a mere bystander at this year's Academy Awards, thanks to dual performances that have struck a chord with critics. First, she played a frustrated, lonely wife stuck abroad in Japan in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. And on Friday, she's hesitant, humble Griet, the Dutch maid who goes to work in the house of Johannes Vermeer and becomes the subject of one of his most famous paintings in Girl With a Pearl Earring.

Johansson utters few words in the film and has to convey delight or desire with a toss of her head and a downward glance  no easy task for a woman who's "noisy, irreverent, witty, opinionated, just an amazing force of nature, really," director Peter Webber says.

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