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JUNE 2010 VOLUME 11 NUMBER 6

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34  INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE Playing lovelorn vamp Edward Cullen in the Twilight series has taken a toll SUMMER FLING 28 on 24-year-old British actor Robert Pattinson. He knows he’s adored by fans — who’ll line up to see the Knight and Day’s Cameron Diaz third film, Eclipse, this month — but as he tells us, people also think he’s aloof, he can’t drop by clubs to says making an action-packed play music or, God forbid, even think of buying a house • By Bob Strauss summer popcorn movie with sure was fun • By Glenn Whipp

WEIRD SCIENCE30 Sarah Polley tells us why playing a scientist who creates a creepy creature in the sci-fi Splice will be one of her last acting roles for a while 30 24 28 20 • By Marni Weisz

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DAKOTA FANNING Gal pals Eva Mendes (left) LIEV SCHREIBER 1 and Liv Tyler hold hands while crossing the street on LIV TYLER “Strappy Sandal Big Sunglasses CAUGHT Maxi Dress Day” in New York City. EVA MENDES  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS JAKE GYLLENHAAL On this day she’s not movie KATE WINSLET 2 star Dakota Fanning, she’s just high school student ON FILM Dakota Fanning — waiting for her lift to arrive after class.  PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS

Kate Winslet has always 3 seemed like she belongs to another decade. The 1940s suit her well on the Upstate New York set of HBO’s Mildred Pierce. The 1945 Joan Crawford drama is being redone as a miniseries.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

If Norman Rockwell were 4 still alive, and he painted a portrait of a young boy and his dad playing with a Dalmatian at a New York fire station, we’d want Liev Schreiber and his son Alexander to be his models.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

“What? I have something on 5 my face?” Jake Gyllenhaal’s lack of concern about those ugly flesh wounds leads us to believe they’re not real. That, plus the fact that the shot was taken on 2 3 the Montreal set of Gyllenhaal’s upcoming sci-fi Source Code. 4  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

8 FAMOUS1JUNE 2010 5 JUNE 2010 FAMOUS 9 SHORTS ENTERTAINMENT Artifact THIS MONTH’S OBJET DE FILM MARILYN MONROE’S PSYCHIATRIST’S COUCH IN If this couch could talk… BRIEF it would contravene not GREEK’S NEW PHILOSOPHY only the laws of nature but also doctor-patient confidentiality. The wooden-frame, mid-century day bed belonged to psychiatrist Ralph Greenson, who was Q uietly, we’ve all shrink to Marilyn Monroe. been wondering what It was on that wedge- resource Hollywood shaped, upholstered would mine next. When headrest that Monroe laid we’ve tired of comic book her pretty noggin during characters, and toy appointments that spanned franchises, and book from 1960 to her death series featuring from a drug overdose on supernatural teens, Jonah Hill (left) August 5, 1962. Dr. Greenson where will the new ideas and Russell Brand in was also the inspiration for come from? Fear not, Leo Rosten’s 1963 novel there’s still some time Inset: The same pair Captain Newman, M.D., which before we have to turn to in Forgetting Sarah was turned into a movie wholly original concepts. Marshall starring Gregory Peck. Take this month’s Dr. Greenson died in 1979 Get Him to the Greek. and the day bed, along with The film features British scenery-chewing all the other furniture from Russell Brand corporate bigwig from his office, has been in the as Aldous Snow, the Avatar in a Merchant- possession of his estate ever same screwy rock star Snow from the U.K. to L.A. from one film is given Ivory inspired since. But on June 26th and he played in 2008’s in time for a concert. (In their own movie. It intergalactic costume 27th, it will be auctioned off surprise hit Forgetting Gene Roddenberry-esque reminds us of TV in drama; Dug, the amiable at Planet Hollywood Resort Sarah Marshall. But the fashion, Jason Segel, the 1970s and ’80s, dog from Up in a gritty and Casino in Las Vegas by similarities between the who wrote the first when beloved — Clint Eastwood-directed Julien’s Auctions. two movies end there. movie, gets a writing but supporting — character piece that While the estimate Well, almost. Both credit only for characters were given takes place on a single has been set at $800 to films were directed by “characters.”) spinoffs. Think of day in South Central L.A.; $1200 (U.S.), auction house Nicholas Stoller and So what is this movie? All in the Family’s or Christopher Plummer’s president Darren Julien produced by Judd It’s not a sequel, it’s not a George Jefferson moving Leo Tolstoy from The Last says it could go for as much Apatow, and both films reimagining, and it’s not on up to The Jeffersons, Station in a Bruce Willis as $10,000. Bids can be co-star Jonah Hill — even being positioned as Happy Days giving birth buddy-cop comedy set in placed online in real time at although in completely part of a franchise. In to Joanie Loves Chachi, 1890s Saint Petersburg. www.juliensauctionslive.com. different roles. Hill fact, the filmmakers Rhoda springing from You’re welcome, —MW played Matthew, a genial have been almost Mary Tyler Moore and Hollywood. —MW waiter at a Hawaiian surreptitious about the M*A*S*H spawning resort in Sarah Marshall, connection between the Trapper John, M.D. but in Get Him to the two movies. Maybe we If the charaquel Greek he’s Aaron Green, a should call it a charaquel catches on, here are harried music-industry — a movie where a a few we’d like to intern ordered to get successful character see: Giovanni Ribisi’s

10 FAMOUS JUNE 2010 SHORTS FACEOFF: B.A.BARACUS Thought there was only one Mr. T? Not so fast. The producers of the big-screen version of TV’s The A-Team took mixed martial arts master Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, gave him a mohawk and created a reasonable facsimile of the 1980s pop icon who first played B.A. Baracus. But who, we wonder, would win if the real Mr. T faced off against his MR. T modern-day doppelganger? —MW QUINTON “RAMPAGE” JACKSON

MR. T QUINTON “RAMPAGE” JACKSON

SIZE 5’11”, 237 pounds (fighting weight) 6’1”, 205 pounds (fighting weight) ADVANTAGE: DRAW

FIGHTING Wrestled and studied martial arts at Wrestled at high school, rose to fame ADVANTAGE: JACKSON PEDIGREE high school. Joined the WWF in 1985, in Japan’s PRIDE organization for (ALL OF HIS FIGHTS where he was Hulk Hogan’s tag-team mixed martial arts, former UFC WERE REAL) partner light heavyweight champion

ACTING First big-screen role was as boxer First big-screen role was in the direct- ADVANTAGE: MR. T PEDIGREE Clubber Lang in Rocky III. Played to-DVD action pic Confessions of a Pit (THE ORIGINAL A-TEAM IS Ricky Stratton’s bodyguard on TV’s Fighter. Appeared on TV’s The King of WHY YOU’RE READING THIS) Silver Spoons before cementing his Queens, Jackass and Pimp My Ride fame as B.A. Baracus on The A-Team

JEWELLERY He started wearing his trademark gold Wears an eight-pound “rumble chain” ADVANTAGE: MR. T chains, rings and bracelets when, as a around his neck. His little brother gave (SINGLE-HANDEDLY MADE bouncer, he would wear jewellery left it to him as a good-luck charm before a GOLD CHAINS MASCULINE) behind by clubbers ejected for fighting, high school wrestling match so when they came back for it they wouldn’t have to go inside

NICKNAMES Born Laurence Tureaud, he’s been His cousin gave him the name ADVANTAGE: JACKSON known simply as Mr. T since his days Rampage when he was eight because (PASSING A NAME LIKE as a bouncer of his temper. He passed it on to all of RAMPAGE ON TO ALL his kids — his three boys have the YOUR CHILDREN IS LIKE middle name Rampage, while his GEORGE FOREMAN NAMING daughter’s middle name is simply Page HIS FIVE SONS GEORGE)

COMMERCIAL Has done ads for Snickers, the Has his name on a signature series of ADVANTAGE: MR. T ENDORSEMENTS Oregon Lottery, Hitachi, and the VIP rims, an Affliction T-shirt collection (FLAVORWAVE PROMISES World of Warcraft videogame, and has and Osiris sneakers, and appeared in a “TWICE THE FLAVOUR IN an infomercial for “Mr. T’s Flavorwave Nike commercial HALF THE TIME WITH NO Oven Turbo” ADDED FAT!”)

SCANDAL In 1987 he caused an uproar in his In 2008 he was arrested for felony ADVANTAGE: NEITHER genteel Chicago neighbourhood of reckless driving and hit and run after Lake Forest when he cut down about leading police on a car chase, driving 100 oak trees. He later claimed they on the wrong side of the road and were bothering his allergies hitting several vehicles. He later claimed he was mentally ill from lack of sleep and dehydration

RELIGION Born-again Christian Born-again Christian ADVANTAGE: GOD ONLY KNOWS

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This Movie is Broken hits theatres June 25th

GREG CALDERONE’S BIG BREAK IS BROKEN ast summer, on his 22nd birthday, The concert day was harried with McKellar and McDonald Toronto-born improv actor Greg Calderone found ostensibly splitting directing duties. “Bruce was in the booth MIX LESS. MISS LESS. MIX LESS. Never a moment miss VEXTINI, with himself sitting in a room with Don McKellar and shooting and directing everything that was happening on stage and the new ready-to-pour vodka martini. Bruce McDonald — who are respectively the then Don was with us in the crowd,” says Calderone. “They had a Lwriter and director behind This Movie is Broken. Calderone wasn’t so really great system of knowing how much time we had to shoot and much auditioning for the film’s lead role as he was chatting about knowing where we had to be, so we were just sort of running around it, he says. Fortunately, the filmmakers liked the newbie enough all over the place throughout the concert, through the crowd with to give him the part on the spot. Fortunate for them, that is, since just a single camera, trying to get everything we needed.” This Movie is Broken started its two-day guerrilla-style shoot the Already a huge fan, Calderone was planning very next day at an outdoor Broken Social Scene concert that to attend the concert anyway. So when he found himself couldn’t be rescheduled. backstage, he lost it for a moment. “I remember just standing in “It was a great birthday present,” says Calderone on the phone the wings looking out at the band and the crowd and seeing things from Toronto. from their perspective as they were in the middle of this huge The film takes a love story involving long-time friends Bruno number and everyone on stage just seemed to be wailing and (Calderone) and Caroline (Georgina Reilly), who’ve just slept with smashing on something, and I just froze, it was one of the most each other for the first time, and sets it against a real concert incredible things I’d ever seen or experienced…. Don had to come the popular Canadian music collective performed at Toronto’s and smack me and remind me that we had stuff to do and we had Harbourfront Centre last summer. Since there was no time for the to get working.” F co-stars to bond, it was a good thing Calderone and Reilly had met //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PHOTO BY ZACHARY KOSKI ZACHARY BY PHOTO

in an acting class years before and been friends ever since. —Marni Weisz 

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members of a special ops team — Hannibal (Liam Neeson), B.A. 11 (Quinton Jackson), Murdock june (Sharlto Copley) and Faceman INTHEATRES (Bradley Cooper) — are YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES  BY INGRID RANDOJA wrongly sent to jail by the U.S. government, break out of the big house and then seek revenge using their vast array of military skills. june4 The Karate Kid The movie that made headbands cool and cemented young Ralph Macchio’s status as an ’80s stone-cold fox is remade The A-Team hatches a plan with Jaden Smith playing American kid Dre Parker, who moves to China with his mom The A-Team van with the red strip, Hannibal’s (Taraji P. Henson) where he’s Fans of the ’80s TV show can cigars and B.A.’s mohawk. (If you bullied by local kids. Maintenance rest assured, this remake have no idea what that means man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) looks to keep important you must have been watching takes Dre under his wing touchstones from the original The Golden Girls instead.) What and teaches him the art of The Karate Kid’s Jaden Smith show intact — the black GMC you need to know is that the kung fu fighting. 18 JACK JOHNSON TO THE SEA june The New Studio Album. Marmaduke can’t be contained by a measly car! Includes the hit single “YOU AND Marmaduke Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Now a photo of a mouse with a human different animals to form a Woody and the gang are on the move in Toy Story 3 Owen Wilson is the voice of the Brand gets to really let loose, ear growing out of its back. new species. What emerges is YOUR HEART” mammoth Great Dane in this playing Snow once again in this Natali’s film centres around two a strange female creature who live-action adaptation of the comedy that finds an L.A. music geneticists — Adrien Brodyand forms an unhealthy bond with Toy Story 3 Jonah Hex JUNE 1st, 2010 long-lived comic strip — you company intern (Jonah Hill) Sarah Polley— who combine her “parents.” See Sarah Polley The third installment of the This supernatural Old West tale remember comic strips, you flying to London to fetch the human DNA with the DNA of interview, page 30. Toy Story series was, at one sees Confederate-soldier- read them in a newspaper while unreliable musician and deliver point, going to be a straight- turned-bounty-hunter talking on your rotary phone. The him to a gig stateside. to-DVD movie without the Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) return big hound and his human family original cast or filmmakers from the dead physically and adjust to a faster pace of life Killers involved. Thankfully, that emotionally scarred, and it’s after moving from the Midwest An assassin () never happened. The new only his relationship with a to California. Listen for Kiefer meets the woman of his dreams film has Buzz (Tim Allen), prostitute (Megan Fox) that Sutherland, Fergie, Christopher () and settles Woody (Tom Hanks) and the makes him feel alive. But now he Mintz-Plasse and Steve Coogan down in suburbia with his other toys being dumped at a has out-of-this-world tracking as the voices of some of the unsuspecting wife. Three years daycare centre after Andy skills, which are put to the test film’s other animals. later his secret is exposed when a heads to college. Being when a union officer (Will Arnett) hit is put on him. pawed by toddlers gives the forces him to find baddie Get Him to the Greek toys a purpose, but it sure is Quentin Turnbull (John British comedic actor Russell Splice hard on the old plastic. Listen Malkovich), who is planning to Brand shot onto Hollywood’s Canadian director Vincenzo Natali for Timothy Dalton as unleash Hell’s army on humanity. radar after playing loony rock came up with the idea for this Killers’ Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl Mr. Pricklepants, a theatrical See Will Arnett interview, star Aldous Snow in the rom-com horror 12 years ago when he saw toy hedgehog. page 20. continued 

16 FAMOUS JUNE 2010 ON SCREEN SPECIAL EVENTS CRUSADING FOR A Coco Chanel & on the Big  Igor Stravinsky Screen 25 Coco Chanel continues to entice june filmmakers. While last year’s UFC 115 Coco avant Chanel took a longer LIDDELL VS. FRANKLIN CHUNK-FILLED view of the French designer’s life, Sat., June 12 this film centres on Chanel’s (Anna Mouglalis) passionate WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW affair with the volatile Russian FATAL FOUR WAY 2010 composer Igor Stravinsky Sun., June 20 (Mads Mikkelsen). Present day Chanel creative director NT LIVE Karl Lagerfeld allowed Mouglalis THE NATIONAL THEATRE CANADA! — who is herself a Chanel PRESENTS model and spokeswoman — to LONDON ASSURANCE wear original Chanel garments Mon., June 28 in the film, and let director Jan Kounen tour Chanel’s GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR apartment in Paris, which has PARTICIPATING THEATRES Grown Ups’ funny cast remained untouched since her AND TO BUY TICKETS. death in 1971.

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NEW FRONTIER Who knew Canadian comic actor Will Arnett had it in him to play a serious role? Well, he did for one, having studied at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute. The funnyman shares details about the supernatural Western Jonah Hex, his love affair with the Leafs and the Arrested Development movie  BY JIM SLOTEK

ill Arnett misses his hometown of Toronto in the worst way. That is to say, his main connection these days has been Maple Leafs games. “It’s the closest I get to coming home,” Arnett says over the phone from his L.A. home. “My folks still live there and I have a couple of sisters there as well. It’s much more difficult to get back there with babies and everything going on in our lives. “So I’ve spoiled myself. I’ve got the big cable hockey package in New York and L.A. so I never miss a game.” He and his wife, former star , are bi-coastal. “I am TiVo’ed to the hilt. Every time my dad calls me, I say, ‘Don’t tell me the score!’ And then it’s ‘How are you?’ Of continued  20 FAMOUS JUNE 2010 W INTERVIEW WILL ARNETT

 course, it’s been pretty brutal. I think on the basis of last season, the scar, in no small measure because of the critically Leafs should be eliminated from next year’s playoffs too.” acclaimed series Arrested Development, the movie of which was He’s had extra opportunity to witness the on-ice brutality in the heading ever closer to production as we spoke. past year, as a work-at-home dad writing a TV pilot with his friend, “Right before I did Arrested Development I considered not acting at Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, and caring for toddler all anymore, things were that slow and I was that disillusioned,” he son Archie while Poehler is off working on her TV series Parks and says. “And then that show happened and it changed everything Famous Recreation. (The couple is expecting another child later this year). for me.” “It’s been a fun year for me because I’ve sort of been able to focus,” As mentioned, he’s been working with Hurwitz on their as-yet- Arnett says over the phone from his L.A. home. “I’d spent a few years untitled sitcom pilot “about a guy who’s the ultimate narcissist, a being kind of scattered, doing a few movies and a lot of cameos and Beverly Hills type who’s been able to buy everything his entire life Get your movie info, celebrity scoops, in-depth interviews, fashion spreads and columns every month!

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ON SET J.LOWITH EMILY MORTIMER GOES MAD FOR SHUTTER ISLAND JAMES MCAVOY Will Arnett in Jonah Hex’s Old West RESURFACES IN RUSSIA DON MCKELLAR’S JOURNEY TO INDIA VIKING BRETHREN CHRISTOPHER REMEMBER ME’S & MINTZ-PLASSE’S things. And then I started slowing down, spending a lot of time at and he meets the one person he can’t buy.” This project has also EMILIE CRAIG FERGUSON KICK-ASS ROLE DE RAVIN EWAN home and working on this TV show. given him the closest access of any cast member to the status of CHLOE’S McGREGOR AMANDA SEYFRIED HAS A GAY OLD TIME “And the only movie I did in all that time was something a little the Arrested Development movie. The entire original cast is on BARES ALL PAUL GROSS different for me. It’s a drama, Jonah Hex, which is this post-Civil War board (including Michael Cera, and Jeffrey Tambor) TALKS GUNLESS PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 story, based on a fairly obscure comic book from the ’70s.” and Arnett confirms there is indeed a working script. SNAPS: ROBERT DOWNEY JR., PENÉLOPE CRUZ, JAVIER BARDEM, MILEY CYRUS, KIEFER SUTHERLAND SNAPS: TOM CRUISE, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, JASON BATEMAN, EWAN MCGREGOR, BRUCE WILLIS SNAPS: KATIE HOLMES, DAVID ARQUETTE, GERARD BUTLER, JARED LETO, JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT It’s a change of pace for the guy we know as Arrested Development’s The Arrested Development movie, he says, “is absolutely hap- ¡ Gob Bluth and as a scene-stealer in feature comedies like Will Ferrell’s pening, and our intention is to shoot it this year. And,” he adds, Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro. hedging his bets dryly, “we’re going to take that intention and use Based on the DC comic, Jonah Hex is the tale of a lone-wolf bounty it to pave the road to Hell. DON’T MISS AN ISSUE! hunter (Josh Brolin) with a telltale tomahawk-shaped scar on his “Honestly, we are intending to shoot it this year, and I know face, a souvenir of being sold to the Apaches as a slave when he was that everybody from our side is eager to get going.” a child. An evil-genius terrorist (John Malkovich) is bent on avenging Fans of the Arnett/Poehlers know Arnett guested on his wife’s the outcome of the Civil War, so the government asks Hex to hunt sitcom this past season, playing a “blind date from Hell,” an MRI ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: him down. Arnett, in his straightest role in years, plays the officer technician who gives Leslie (Poehler) an MRI to impress her on their charged with “convincing” him. And Megan Fox co-stars as Leila, the first night out. Are there more collaborations to come? They did, Canada...... $31.50 ($30 + GST) CHEQUE VISA pistol-packing prostitute who is Hex’s love interest. after all, play an evil brother-sister skating team in Blades of Glory...... $45.00 ...... $55.00 “It’s kind of dark and moody, and has tons of action,” says Arnett. “Amy and I had such a great time making Blades of Glory that I U.S Other Countries “I got to work with these awesome actors. I mean, John Malkovich, know if something were to come up that made a lot of sense, we card# expiry date Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Michael Shannon, just would do it. We don’t actively rule anything out,” he says. “The incredible people to work with. So for me, it was a real experience good thing about it is we’d get to spend time with each other and name and the best way to return to a dramatic, serious role. not apart. We’re just like everybody else. Having kids changes “I mean, I’ve done pure drama, but it’s been a long time,” says your priorities, for sure. address city Arnett, an alumnus of New York’s Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film “But in the meantime, Amy’s happy doing Parks and Rec, and I’m province postal code Institute. “If I were a smarter person, I would have had a career plan, happy being home a lot.” F phone number and drama would have been a bigger part of it.” /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Instead, comedy has been branded onto Arnett like Jonah Hex’s Jim Slotek writes for the Toronto Sun. Please send subscription orders to 22 FAMOUS JUNE 2010 Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1X9 FEATURE CATCHING UP.... When the first Toy Story film was released in 1995, it was just icing on the cake for its already popular stars Tom Hanks (Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz). Hanks had won his second Oscar for Forrest Gump the year before, while Allen was starring in the hit TV show Home Improvement and had just cleaned up at the box office headlining the first Santa Clause flick. But how have Hanks’ and Allen’s careers TOY fared in the years since appearing in Toy Story? TOM HANKS: • Two Best Actor Oscar RECALL nominations: Saving Toy Story 3 1 At the beginning turned it down — a creatures. Which 11 Which Private Ryan (1998) hits theatres this month, a long of Toy Story we’re decision he says one of these mutant renowned film and Cast Away (2000)  11 years after the release of introduced to pull- he regrets to this toys did not appear composer has • Became Hollywood’s highest paid . In this new 3D film, string cowboy doll day? in the film? written the songs actor after collecting a $25-million the toys in Andy’s room worry Woody, Andy’s A) John Travolta A) Legs: a toy for all three paycheque for The Da Vinci Code (2006) they’ll be relegated to the attic favourite toy. As B) Bruce Willis fishing rod with Toy Story movies? THREE’S THE CHARM? and a rumoured $30- to $50-million (plus Andy’s fave, he C) Billy Crystal Barbie doll legs profits) for Angels & Demons (2009) after Andy heads to college. But Toy Story was terrific, Toy Story 2 was even warrants a special B) Spider Baby: a 12 In Toy Story 2 better, so what does that mean for Toy Story 3? • Directed That Thing You Do! (1996) and they get a second lease on life place in his room. 6 Laurie Metcalf baby doll head Woody is kidnapped  Pirates of the Caribbean: the upcoming Larry Crowne (2011) Take a look at other beloved trilogies, and see when they’re shipped to a Where does Andy voices Andy’s mom atop an erector by toy collector At World’s End: we’re so • Produced such hits as My Big Fat Greek day care centre full of toddlers. keep Woody? in all the Toy Story set body Al McWhiggin, who which ones delivered with the third installment: over pirates Wedding (2002), The Polar Express Paradise turns out to be a A) on the windowsill films. In which C) Mookie: a plans to ship Woody, (2004) and the TV series Band of    painful prison, though, as not B) on his bed popular ’90s plastic cow along with the other The Godfather : amazing Star Wars: Episode IV - The Bourne Identity: Brothers, Big Love and The Pacific C) on his desk sitcom did she play with a baseball original Woody’s  The Godfather 2: instant A New Hope: bow down Matt Damon kicks • Endorsed and campaigned for Barack Obama only do the toddlers play rough, beside the lamp Jackie Harris? glove udder Roundup toys, to a classic to the almighty you-know-what! during the U.S. Presidential campaign some of the toys at the centre toy museum in  The Godfather 3: what George Lucas  The Bourne Supremacy: • Combined box-office total for his films turn out to be shifty types who 2 Which 84-year- 7 Toy Story 2’s 9 Which film which country? we’re you think  Star Wars: Episode V - Matt Damon kicks more since Toy Story: $1.97-billion are up to no good. old comedian voices Oscar-nominated earned more at the A) Japan Mr. Coppola? The Empire Strikes Back: you-know-what in As it’s been so long since we Mr. Potato Head? song “When She box office —Toy Story B) Russia Yoda + “Luke, I am more cities! TIM ALLEN:   last stepped into the Toy Story Loved Me” is or Toy Story 2? C) Australia Lord of the Rings: your father” = happy The Bourne Ultimatum: • One Razzie nomination: 3 Woody has a performed by which The Fellowship of the Ring: fans Matt Damon nicely ties Worst Actor for The Santa

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BULLSEYE REX Bullseye is known as Poor Rex. His long tail, “the sharpest horse in the West” massive feet, weak knees because of his keen senses of and tiny arms make him clumsy. smell and sight. Unlike most He loves to play Buzz Lightyear’s horses, his hide is made of soft, “Attack on Zurg” videogame, but sturdy, double-stitched but always loses brown corduroy. to Zurg. BRING THE TOYS HOME MEET WITH MATTEL'S LINE OF THETOYS! TOY STORY 3 PRODUCTS Learn all about your favourite SLINKY® Toy Story 3 DOG characters from Since he can “speak dog,” and collect them, too, Slinky® acts as a translator between Woody and Andy’s through the new JESSIE dog, Buster. (Andy is the toys’ Mattel toy line One of Woody’s co-stars on ® human “owner.”) Slinky “Woody’s Roundup,” Jessie was gives straightforward first owned by a little girl named advice, so the other Emily. She likes to yodel and toys turn to him ALIEN play with her critters. Buzz for guidance. Alien and his other alien pals has a crush on her. live in the claw machine at Pizza Planet, which they think is a distant celestial body, but is really the pizza joint where the claw HAMM machine resides. Here piggy. Show us the WOODY money. Hamm is a piggy bank, but he lost his original FOR MORE OF MATTEL'S TOYTOY STORYSTORY 33 PRODUCTS, Woody, a stopper, so the hole in his pull-string toy belly is now plugged CHECK OUT A RETAILER NEAR YOU from the 1950s, was the with a cork. star of his own TV show, “Woody’s Roundup.” His co-stars included Jessie, Bullseye and the Prospector. INTERVIEW CAMERON DIAZ KNIGHT AND DAY HITS THEATRES JUNE 25th “We’re flirting, but then he kills everyone on the plane,” Diaz says. “So she’s not really sure she wants to take the relationship to the next level”

draw you in. You want to be them and go on the ride they’re on.” The movie’s most memorable ride has Diaz and Cruise driving a red Ducati motorcycle through the streets of Seville, . Near the end of the high-speed chase, Cruise lifts Diaz and flips her around onto his lap so she can have a clear shot at their pursuers. “That was totally Tom’s idea,” Diaz insists. “AndTom is really funny when he gives you the Opposite page: Star power meets fire power as pitch: ‘A guy and a girl on a bike, which is hot to Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise star in Knight and Day. begin with! And then he spins her around and This page: Diaz in flirty mode on the plane has her fire her guns!’ He had this whole spiel about how sexy the whole sequence could be. FLIRTING WITH And, you know what? I think he was right.” action took place. Writer Patrick O’Neill had originally designed the film Diaz will be the first to tell you that stunt drivers handled “98 to 99 as an R-rated caper comedy that paired an eccentric old-timer with a percent” of the Ducati riding and that she and Cruise did their bit of troubled kid. O’Neill’s concept soon changed to a male-female coupling heavy lifting while their bike was attached to a rig. “Jimmy and Kim that, at one time, had and Eva Mendes playing the leads. actually did the wheelies and the flip while going 50 mph,” Diaz After they dropped out, Diaz committed and pitched the idea to says of stunt doubles Jimmy Ford and Kim Shannon Murphy. “So it Cruise, her co-star on director Cameron Crowe’s . Cruise can be done. I’m just not going to do it myself any time soon.” Or even didn’t much like the script, but dug the core idea. After he worked with Cruise, who’s known for being a pretty fair bike rider. Diaz with newly hired director () and a few learned that bit of trivia, and a few other things, about her co-star, hired guns on a rewrite, the movie settled into its present incarnation. with whom she worked just briefly on Vanilla Sky since her deranged In the revamped Knight and Day, Diaz plays June, an ordinary girl character met an early demise. TomDISASTER Cruise seems so adorable when When Cameron Diaz came aboard who finds herself dropped into a world of espionage intrigue after “Being together every single day for six months is a totally differ- Cameron Diaz first meets him in the big-budget action-comedy Knight and Day two years ago, there meeting Cruise’s secret agent man at an airport. “We’re flirting, but ent thing than three weeks we did together 10 years ago,” Diaz says. was no Tom Cruise, no far-flung locales and not a whole lot for her then he kills everyone on the plane,” Diaz says. “So she’s not really “Tom is just on board from the minute he says ‘yes,’ always working Knight and Day. Turns out, he’s crazy. character to do other than act helpless and react to the things going sure she wants to take the relationship to the next level.” to make the film better. We had a blast every single day, laughing our And a killer.  BY GLENN WHIPP boom around her. Turns out she doesn’t have much choice in the matter. Cruise’s spy asses off basically.” So why did she commit? may indeed be on a “full-blown break from reality,” but Diaz’s char- The difference in tone between their two movie collaborations is “It was just such a good idea, this fun partner movie between a acter follows him anyway, hop-scotching across the globe from Spain (forgive us) night and day. man and a woman that combined adventure and comedy with some to to an undisclosed hideaway island retreat. (The filmmakers “Yeah, this time I’m not trying to kill him,” Diaz says, laughing. romance, too,” Diaz says over the phone from New York where she’s needed some excuse to put Diaz in a red bikini, right?) In between But that begs another question: Is he trying to kill her? Diaz pauses attending the Tribeca Film Festival. “But, yeah, it has evolved a lot. It dodging bullets and bad guys, the characters fall hard for each other. for effect. “That’s up in the air.” F has changed completely from the script that I read.” “The film has a unique tone. It’s not your typical summer action /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// That script was titled Wichita, as in Kansas, where all the movie’s movie,” Diaz says. “There are some crazy situations, but the characters Glenn Whipp is an L.A.-based freelance writer.

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Sarah Polley seems like such a nice gal, so what’s with her attraction to horror pics? We talk about her fading interest in acting, Pioneer Village and creating a human/animal hybrid in the monster movie Splice  BY MARNI WEISZ GENETIC MATERIAL arah Polley is sitting in the lounge of the National Film Board been pushed before and create a creature that’s a hybrid of animal in Toronto taking a break. She’s been a hard woman to track and human DNA. They raise it as their child, and in a very short down, working on a documentary and in “pre-prep” on her time experience all of the stages of parenthood through this crea- second feature as a director, Take This Waltz, which explores ture that they’ve made. I think what’s interesting in this film is the the addictive nature of the beginnings of relationships. humans, in many ways, the human mess of emotions and qualities It’s been more than three years since the 31-year-old former that they have, are more monstrous than the creature itself.” Schild star had the Canadian film industry in a tizzy over her directorial debut, Away From Her. The film won all the important Genies, and Q: When the creature is first born, she’s hideous, but with Polley was nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for con- those big baby eyes that make your maternal instincts kick in. verting Alice Munro’s short story. Since then, Polley has appeared on A: “There was definitely debate among the crew. I found it incredi- a few TV shows and in a couple of movies that have yet to hit theatres. bly cute but that’s because I was playing its mother. But a lot of The most anticipated is Canadian director Vincenzo Natali’s Splice, a people thought I was completely insane for finding it really sweet.” Frankenstein-esque horror about two genetic scientists (Polley and Adrien Brody) who create a human/animal hybrid in their lab then Q: Your character, Elsa, is reluctant to have kids, and it seems watch as things go horribly wrong. It comes out this month. Another, common for women who don’t want kids to have a pet they Mr. Nobody, co-starring Jared Leto, is expected out later this summer. love deeply. Was there some of that going on? After that, don’t expect to see Polley on screen anytime soon as she A: “I think Elsa is very much into control and nothing in your life focuses on work behind the camera. “I feel like people will live,” says can make you feel as out of control as having a child, at least that’s Polley, “I know I will.” what I’ve noticed with friends of mine [laughs].”

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HE’S A LOVER AND A FIGHTER The love stuff comes easy to Robert Pattinson by now. What the actor’s most worried about is how his fight scenes with bigger, brawnier Taylor Lautner will look in the third Twilight movie, Eclipse  BY BOB STRAUSS

Grisly deaths plague Seattle. say, okay, so maybe every choice isn’t completely impulsive,” explains be intimidating to Taylor is just physically humiliating. In one would be made into one or two films. Either way, production should Vampires fight werewolves. Vampires and werewolves unite to battle, Stewart in a separate L.A. interview. “Maybe there are different levels scene, I tried to grab him and his shoulder was too big! That was start in Vancouver (where New Moon and Eclipse were shot) this fall. um, badder vampires. of love, and maybe my ideological views of what I think you are to me embarrassing.” “British Columbia is great,” says Pattinson. “Everybody always Apparently, the filmmakers are doing all they can to make Eclipse, are wrong, and maybe I could look at somebody else.” While physical strength may not be Pattinson’s, well, strength, he talks about how easy it is to make movies in Vancouver because no the third movie in the Twilight saga, appealing to boys. But we all know That said, it still seems Eclipse offers more for the guys than just a does have an uncanny ability to brood and smoulder in a way that one cares if anyone’s around. And it really was like that with New Moon. this series is really about the relationship between dreamy vampire good bet the movie will put their dates in a romantic mood. The film drives the ladies nuts. But while it works well on-screen, that low- It was so easy, there was never any hassle about going out or any- Edward Cullen and his human love, Bella. And the core female audi- was directed by David Slade, who last time out made the gory vampire key nature can also come off as aloof, even falsely self-deprecating, thing. But it changed a little bit on the third one. ence should have plenty to moon over when the second sequel hits action thriller 30 Days of Night. Slade is, perhaps, a bit more attuned off-screen. And Pattinson’s the first one to admit it. “But,” he adds, “there are a bunch of nice restaurants in Vancouver, screens this month, just seven months after the last entry, New Moon. to what men want than Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke “The problem is, mainly, that I’m really finicky about looking pre- and it’s a really cool city.” “In New Moon, Edward tries to deal with the relationship and, sort (The Nativity Story) and Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Golden Compass), tentious for some reason,” he says. “I think, because I haven’t done The pair views the impending end of the film series with mixed of, fails,” Robert Pattinson, who plays Cullen, says in an L.A. interview. who helmed New Moon. too much work and I’ve become so, kind of, big, people have a hyper- feelings. On the plus side, it will likely put the brakes on the intrusive “In Eclipse, it really is the everyday rigmarole of having a relationship, “Different worlds collide in this one,” says Stewart. “We make it judgement of you. I always thought the best way to deal with that is tabloid scrutiny they’ve endured. So far, at least, Twihard fans have and dealing with jealousy and pettiness.” more dangerous every time.” just to kind of play down everything. But I never saw the result of that expressed little interest in Stewart and Pattinson’s non-saga movies Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella, says it’s not that simple. After This time out, the lissome, ethereal-looking Pattinson has to get being people saying, ‘Why can’t you just shut up? We’re so sick of the (like The Runaways and Remember Me, respectively), and the paparazzi all, her character is still torn between Edward and the feelings she more physical with the pumped-up Lautner, and he just hopes humble act. When’s he going to stop pretending to be humble?’” will likely thin out once they have nothing left to obsess over, such as has for her lifelong friend, Native American lycanthrope Jacob Black audiences buy their fight scenes. “There is a bunch of fighting,” As of this article’s writing, it had yet to be decided whether those still unproven rumours of a real-life romance between the (Taylor Lautner). “Bella now has to actually be able to stand up and says the 24-year-old Brit. “In the most simplistic of ways, trying to Stephenie Meyer’s fourth and final Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn, handsome pair. continued 

34 FAMOUS JUNE 2010 JUNE 2010 FAMOUS 35 COVER STORY ROBERT PATTINSON SEE THE NIGHT IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT

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Metroid: Other M WII here’s never been an interstellar bounty hunter — or a videogame hero — quite like the enigmatic Samus Aran. Tough, smart and heavily armed, she has starred in 10 Tacclaimed Metroid games, battling aliens across dark and lonely worlds since 1986. Samus is, of course, beautiful, but unlike most of the purring, pixilated bimbos that followed her, she’s built for action rather than ogling. A bruising six-foot-three and 198 pounds in her futuristic armour (complete with a gender-concealing helmet), she’s cool and professional in a firefight, yet distinctly feminine under all that hardware. Although it’s been 25 years — spanning seven Nintendo systems — we still don’t know what motivates Samus. That’s about to change. Beginning right after the events of 1994’s Super Metroid, Other M Metal Gear Solid: R.U.S.E. finally tells her story, explaining how a young orphan and decorated Peace Walker PSP PC, PS3, XBOX 360 soldier became a solitary bounty hunter. It’s gritty stealth-action in Relive the most dramatic The game also returns (mostly) to the classic Metroid style of 1970s Central America as battles of World War IIusing third-person action-platforming. Holding the Wii-mote sideways like an legendary commando deception and bluffs rather old-school NES controller, you can make Samus run, jump and blast her “Naked Snake” (revealed as a than brute force. Real-time arm cannon. But pointing the remote toward the screen switches to a villain in later Metal Gear military strategy games are first-person perspective (similar to the recent Metroid Prime games) games) battles a mysterious notoriously complex, but for precise shooting or up-close exploration. And, as always, that nifty military force trying to heat up R.U.S.E.’s fluid, streamlined Power Suit lets her curl into an armoured ball and roll into tight places the Cold War. There’s also a new interface keeps the action to solve puzzles or plant bombs. emphasis on co-op play, as you manageable as you challenge Whether battling a giant purple-tentacled monster or locking horns face enemies armed with the computer or online with her old commanding officer, Samus proves that a hero doesn’t impressively high-tech opponents. After all, war is need a Y chromosome to be tough, or a leather bustier to be sexy. weaponry (at least for 1974). supposed to be fun! RELEASE DATE: JUNE 27 RELEASE DATE: JUNE 8 RELEASE DATE: JUNE 8

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FROM LEFT: STEVE HAMELIN, MITCH DEROSIER, LUKE LALONDE, ANDY LLOYD YOU GOTTA The Born Ruffians is Ruffians were around summer for me. I would HEAR THIS doing its best to before Vampire), turned hang out with my friends Laid-back singer- avoid the sophomore jinx. heads with their 2008 and family, and my songwriter Jack Johnson The band, originally debut Red Yellow & Blue. parents and their friends has a knack for writing from Midland, Ontario, But a strong first record would always throw on deep songs using drops its second album, can sap a band's entire Van Morrison. It was the unnervingly simple lyrics and soul- Say It, on June 1st, and this repertoire of songs, leaving soundtrack of nights pleasing melodies. He does it again on his collection of catchy, eclectic dregs for the follow-up. playing hide-and-seek or fifth CD, To the Sea (available June 1st). pop songs takes the band Yet Say It finds the Ruffians swimming in pools, so Listening to soothing tunes such as to another level. writing even better songs whenever I listen to him it “You and Your Heart,” “Only the Ocean” “Say It is us having as that play catch with brings back these nostal- and “From the Clouds” makes the world much fun as we could groove and melody. It gic, happy memories.” seem a much less stressful place. playing our songs,” says makes for an excellent lead singer Luke Lalonde summer soundtrack. 8 on the phone from his “We’d love to evoke that OUT THIS MONTH home in Montreal, “and summer feeling,” says JUNE 1 Hawthorne Heights - Skeletons Clay Aiken - Tried and True trying to find the best part Lalonde, “when you JUNE 8 The Roots - How I Got Over Hanson - Shout it Out of each song, and the best haven’t started working JUNE 15 Drake - Thank Me Later Sarah McLachlan - The Laws of Illusion part of a pop song.” yet and you don’t have JUNE 22  Eminem - Recovery American Hi-Fi - Fight the Frequency The band, which has school, and it's this com- been compared to Vampire plete hedonistic lifestyle. Go to HMV.ca for more information Weekend (although the “Van Morrison embodies

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Michael Bublé dazzles and entertains his crowds better than any other “musician today. He would be a natural at acting! He’s definitely got the ‘it’ factor. If Old Blue Eyes could win golden statues, Bublé could too. —P.J. Mercanti, Hamilton, Ont. ” ?

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