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20 CALLING THE SHOTS 06 EDITORIAL 42 NAME OF THE GAME She’s gone from child star to feature Get the dish on Wii’s new cooking sim, filmmaker. Actor Sarah Polley talks 08 SNAPS Cooking Mama: Cook Off about making the transition to Ben, Jen and Violet in Vancouver 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 directing with her critically 44 VIDEO AND DVD acclaimed drama, Away from Her 10 SHORTS Take a peek at Notes on a Scandal or I BY CHRISTOPHER DIRADDO Alexandre Despatie dives into acting spend a Night at the Museum without ever leaving home 24 TRICKY DICKY 12 SPOTLIGHT In The Hoax, Richard Gere plays Pathfinder’s Nathaniel Arcand on his 50 FAMOUS LAST WORDS Clifford Irving, the writer who path to the movies Celebs tell us how they’re saving the conned the world into believing he environment knew recluse Howard Hughes and 14 THE BIG PICTURE was ghostwriting his autobiography. See The Invisible COVER STORY No wonder the Buddhist actor found

this tale of bad karma impossible to 36 COMING SOON 32 WEB MASTERS 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 resist I BY EARL DITTMAN Arrrr matey, prepare yerself for Spider-Man 3’s leading man Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Tobey Maguire, co-stars Kirsten Dunst 28 SURFING DANGEROUS WATERS and James Franco, and director Halle Berry enters the risky world of 38 TRIVIA Sam Raimi on why the series’ darkest internet dating for the thriller Which movie that was directed by film may be the best yet. And could Perfect Stranger. Here the Oscar- Robert Rodriguez had Quentin Tarantino it be that some of them are suffering winner reveals that, surprisingly, this in a starring role? from arachnophobia when it comes murder mystery turned out to be one to committing to a fourth flick? of the greatest acting challenges of 40 STYLE I BY EARL DITTMAN her career I BY EARL DITTMAN Neutrals come on strong 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR 3/C EDITOR MARNI WEISZ HOLLYWOOD B DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET G PRODUCTION DIRECTOR SHEILA GREGORY R TRINITY PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA elcome to the “Summer of Three.” CONTRIBUTORS CHRISTOPHER DIRADDO No less than six threequels (the EARL DITTMAN SCOTT GARDNER third film of a franchise) will hit SUSAN GRANGER april 2007 | volume 8 | number 4 W theatres between now and the beginning LIZA HERZ of September — Spider-Man 3, Shrek the DAN LIEBMAN Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s ERIN PHELAN End, Ocean’s Thirteen, Rush Hour 3 and ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS The Bourne Ultimatum. IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. So what’s going on? It almost feels as if we’re returning to HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the era of serials, those film chapters of NATIONAL SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) MANAGING DIRECTOR, SALES CINDY FROST (ext. 254) PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 the 1930s and ’40s that kept audiences PLUS: GEORGE CLOONEY, CAMERON DIAZ AND OTHER STARS TRY TO SAVE THE PLANET coming back time after time by ending ACCOUNT MANAGERS ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) with the hero facing certain peril. JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) The cliff-hanger (a term actually invented to describe the final BILL LAMMERS (ext. 257) scenes of serials) that ended last year’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) Man’s Chest (Captain Jack is swallowed up by a giant sea beast) seems CO-ORDINATOR to support that idea. Had audiences gone into Dead Man’s Chest BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 thinking of it as a serial, that open ending may not have been as vexing. WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH Consider this, at least one of these franchises is already working on a fourth installment — Shrek 4 is due out in 2010. ALBERTA 403.266.4412 WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS Spider-Man 3 kicks off the “Summer of Three” on May 4th, and on 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 page 32 you’ll find “The Spin on Spidey,” our interview with director QUEBEC 514.868.0005 Sam Raimi and actors Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco about DIRECTOR OF SALES SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) this astonishingly successful series and how they all feel about the ACCOUNT MANAGER CHARLES DUMAS (ext. 224) SALES CO-ORDINATOR PATRICIA CARPENTIER (ext. 223) possibility of coming back for a Spider-Man 4. At the other end of the spectrum is a film like Away from Her, SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS Canadian actor Sarah Polley’s first feature film as a director. ANTHONY CUSHING A small-scale, intimate account of an elderly couple’s struggle with JOAN GRANT ELLIS JACOB Alzheimer’s, the drama has already screened at a handful of festivals JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ and has received almost universally rave reviews. On page 20 you can PAT MARSHALL read “Polley’s Unforgettable Debut,” in which she explains why she’s DAN MCGRATH more comfortable talking about this film than any other. CATHY PROWSE SUSAN REGINELLI

Hollywood’s fascination with billionaire hermit Howard Hughes 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 continues this month with The Hoax, a retelling of the real-life case of Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. Clifford Irving, a writer/grifter who tried to publish a supposedly Subscriptions are $32.10 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. authorized biography of Hughes. It wasn’t. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should In “Faking It,” page 24, Irving portrayer be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] Richard Gere gives his take on why the infamous conman thought he could get away with it. Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019 And on page 28 we have “Caught in the Web,” Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ont., M6K 1X9 our interview with Halle Berry. She plays a jour- nalist who goes undercover to investigate a 650,000 copies of Famous magazine are distributed through Cineplex and Alliance Atlantis cinemas, HMV and other outlets. Famous magazine is not friend’s murder in Perfect Stranger, and says the responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. thriller is not your typical Halle Berry film, even No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written going so far as to call it a risky role. Really? We let consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2006. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 her explain why. —MARNI WEISZ

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CAUGHTONFILM 2 Finally, proof that Jamie Foxx’s real G life looks like a music video. The buff JAMIE FOXX, GEORGE CLOONEY, BEN AFFLECK, JENNIFER GARNER, DREW BARRYMORE, UMA THURMAN R actor-singer-comedian attracts the attention of buff hangers-on at a beach in Fort Lauderdale.

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rom time to time we here at Famous Freceive promotional items created by the studios to keep their films front and centre in the minds of journalists, and Will Ferrell seems to inspire some of the Made in Quebec: best items. We’re still finding fun things to do with the Ron Burgundy bobblehead Alexandre Despatie in À vos marques… Party! doll that was sent to promote Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 And now comes this box of Flakies, À vos marques… Party! Famous Québec editor “The Breakfast of Winners,” to hype Mathieu Chantelois reports The Mean Girls-esque comedy opened in Ferrell and Jon Heder’s Blades of Glory, on the Quebec film scene Québec March 30th with Despatie playing about a couple of disqualified Men’s — you guessed it — an Olympic diver. figure skaters who team up to compete anada’s hottest Even Despatie admits he’s perfectly in the Pairs competition instead. Cname in diving has cast. “It doesn’t make me shy to play a Much like with a box of Wheaties, been making waves boy toy and to appear bare-chested on “The Breakfast of Champions,” Ferrell since he was a boy. In camera. I’ve lived my life in a Speedo and Heder are featured in a triumphant 1998, at just 13 years since I was five years old.” pose on the front of the box, while the old, Alexandre Despatie As an actor, Despatie uses many of the side panel features schematic drawings made an international techniques that have served him as an of the pair’s trademark move, the Iron Lotus, including such stages as the splash when he took athlete, like ignoring his surroundings in 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 home the gold in the 10-Metre Platform order to focus. “I had two months of [acting] the Crotch Lift and the Straddle. —MW competition at the Kuala Lumpur coaching before we started shooting, and Commonwealth Games. He rode the I’m used to just doing what I’m told,” says winning wave all the way to the 2004 the 21-year-old. “I find a lot of similarities Athens Olympics, where he won silver in between my sport and acting.” SOUPED UP the Men’s Three-Metre Springboard event. His next challenge? The 2008 Beijing CINEPLEX.COM Throughout the years, Despatie has Olympics. “After that I’ll take some time Look for a new and improved Cineplex.com professed his passion for cinema. Simply off to think about my future.” website launching later this month. put, the guy wants to be in pictures. Whether Despatie surfaces in the water The redesigned site will feature more entertainment and celebrity news, a film Considering his celebrity and pin-up good or on the silver screen remains to be seen, ranking system driven by your votes, looks, it was only a matter of time before but regardless, he has no shortage of increased ease of navigation and a new producers came knocking. Quebec confidence. “Whatever I throw myself into,

site search function. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 filmmaker Frédérik D’Amours was first at the sky’s the limit,” he says. “I’d love to Oh yeah, and then there’s our favourite his door, offering the diving hero a act in the U.S., in France. I refuse to put addition — Famous magazine online! role in the French-language feature barriers on myself.” What do you think? Tell us at theC30.ca ALEXANDRE DESPATIE PHOTO BY JOCELYN MICHEL PHOTO BY JOCELYN ALEXANDRE DESPATIE

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NATHANIEL 3/C B Don’t just talk. ARCAND G can dance R athaniel Arcand plays a native warrior in this month's historical SPARK. action pic Pathfinder, but his own personal path into acting included Na few rocky detours. The 36-year-old Plains Cree native was born and raised in Edmonton, and was barely out of diapers when he knew he wanted to act. "I was five when I watched Bruce Lee on the big screen at a drive-in theatre," he says on the line from his home in Edmonton. "I started mocking him and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor, but she just dismissed it. "Then you get caught up in the teenage world and it feels like you lose your dream for 10 or 15 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 years before you reach your adulthood and go, 'Hey, I thought I had a dream there once.'" So how did he grab hold of that dream once more? "Well, I had to do it the hard way. I went to jail," he says frankly. "I started hanging around with the wrong crowd at a young age and I found myself in youth detentions, and when I turned 18 I went to real jail and I realized at that point it was not for me. I really felt like I hit rock bottom at that point and I felt there was no place to go but up. I thought, 'Let's get my education back,' so I got my

GED — that took a while — and in the meantime 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 I was building myself back up, I was working, looking for whatever jobs I could." It was while he was waiting for his friend, actor Dakota House, to have his headshots taken at a photography studio that a talent agent saw him and asked if he was interested in acting. "I said, 'Yeah, sure!' So right there and then I signed up with my agent, Darryl Mork. The first three years of my career I did a few things here and there, a movie with Graham Greene, but it was so slow and I was on the verge of quitting. But Darryl said, 'Don't do it man, hang in there, we'll find you something.'" That "something" was the TV series North of 60, on which Arcand played the show's troublemaker, William MacNeil. He's been working 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 steadily ever since, landing gigs on such TV shows as Smallville and Da Vinci's City Hall, and in films like American Outlaws, Elektra and Pathfinder. Pathfinder, set sometime around 900 A.D. in the wilds of North America, casts Arcand as Wind in Tree, a warrior facing a Viking invasion that's being repelled by Ghost (Karl Urban), a Viking child who was raised by natives. The role didn't allow Arcand the chance to showcase his

extensive martial arts skills (remember he's a Bruce Lee fanatic), TM but he did demonstrate another type of athletic ability. "Mostly, you'll see me dancing. I got to show off my traditional dancing skills," he says proudly. "You had four different types of natives in our tribe in the movie — Salish, Lakota, Plains Cree ® and some natives from the U.S. — so it was, 'Okay, what dance

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100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 * WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Movie aficionados THAN A MANUAL BRUSH Tarantino and Rodriguez join forces to pay tribute to ’70s horror/sexploitation APRIL 1 ARE WE DONE YET? flicks with this “twofer” — two films for WHO’S IN IT? Ice Cube, Nia Long the price of one — a format that was WWE PAY-PER-VIEW WHO DIRECTED? Steve Carr (Rebound) popular in the era’s down and dirty WRESTLEMANIA 23 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In this sequel to theatres called “grindhouses.” Check www.cineplex.com for a list of Are We There Yet?, Nick (Ice Cube), Tarantino’s contribution, Death Proof, theatres where you can watch it live, Suzanne (Long) and their two kids move stars Russell as a stuntman who offs and to buy tickets. into a rundown house in the country where women with his car, while Rodriquez’s they discover Nick is no handyman and the effort, Planet Terror, pits a woman APRIL 4 contractor (John C. McGinley) they hire to (McGowan) — sporting a rapid-fire gun in place of her missing leg — against a complete the work is even less skilled. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PUSH FIREHOUSE DOG horde of zombies. WHO’S IN IT? Josh Hutcherson, APRIL 6 § HITS THEATRES APRIL 6 Bruce Greenwood HERE. WHO DIRECTED? Todd Holland THE HOAX believing the reclusive Hughes will never Flexible MircoPulseTM (Kippendorf’s Tribe) WHO’S IN IT? Richard Gere, Alfred Molina appear in public to dispute the book. They The Oral-B Pulsar is just like a regular bristles gently pulse to WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Canine action star WHO DIRECTED? Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) even manage to get McGraw-Hill to pay lift up food and plaque Rexxx’s latest big-screen stunt backfires, WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It’s 1970 and novelist them almost $1-million in advance for the Recognized by the Canadian manual brush, but and stimulate gums. leaving the pooch stranded in a small town Clifford Irving (Gere) and his pal writer tome. But there’s only so long this hoax Dental Association with moving bristles Oral-B is the #1 Dentist Recommended where he finds a home with the local Richard Suskind (Molina) concoct a plan can go undiscovered. See Richard Gere *vs. the leading manual brush. for a powerful clean. Toothbrush Brand firefighting squad. to write Howard Hughes’ autobiography interview, page 24. www.oralbpulsar.ca M M

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YOUNG TRIFFIE WHO’S IN IT? Fred Ewanuick, Mary Walsh WHO DIRECTED? Mary Walsh (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Set in Newfoundland, circa 1948, this comic murder-mystery stars Ewanuick as a gullible ranger sent to the remote outpost of Swyer’s Harbour to investigate a case of sheep mutilation. But it’s humans, not sheep, that are being 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 killed and the town’s wacky inhabitants are all suspects.

APRIL 13 THE NANNY DIARIES DISTURBIA WHO’S IN IT? Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer WHO’S IN IT? Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney WHO DIRECTED? D.J. Caruso WHO DIRECTED? Shari Springer Berman, (Two for the Money) Robert Pulcini (American Splendor) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Kale (LaBeouf) is WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Chick-lit fiction adores sentenced to three months house arrest, “the spy in the house of...” tales, in which an unspoiled gal gets a job working which means the inquisitive teen has a he plays a married ad executive who picks 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 whole lot of time to spy on his neighbours. up women online. When Ro’s (Berry) friend at a fashion magazine (The Devil Wears And wouldn’t ya know it, he begins to is murdered, she goes to work undercover Prada) or a publishing house (Because suspect the man living across the street in his company to find out if the cheater is She Can) or, in this case, as a nanny to (David Morse) is a killer. Carrie-Anne Moss also a killer. See Halle Berry interview, the child of a wealthy, but deeply pops up as Kale’s mom, sending the page 28. unhappy, New York couple. In this president of The Matrix’s “Trinity Rocks My adaptation of the bestseller, Johansson World” fan club into a severe depression. SLOW BURN stars as Annie the nanny, Linney reigns WHO’S IN IT? Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock as the icy, controlling Mrs. X and YEAR OF THE DOG WHO DIRECTED? Wayne Beach (debut) Paul Giamatti plays the remote Mr. X. WHO’S IN IT? Molly Shannon, WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This twist-filled § HITS THEATRES APRIL 20 Peter Sarsgaard thriller/drama stars Liotta as district attorney WHO DIRECTED? Mike White (debut) Ford Cole, who must decide if his assistant saviour when the marauding Norsemen 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Screenwriter White DA (Blalock) killed a man, or if she’s being return 15 years later. See Nathaniel Arcand NEW GARNIER FRUCTIS (Orange County, School of Rock, set up by gang members who want her to interview, page 12. CURLS & SHINE Nacho Libre) makes his directorial debut stay out of their business. with this comedy about a secretary APRIL 20 FORTIFYING FACTS (Shannon) whose life is turned upside PATHFINDER Fructose + Glucose Energize the root down when her dog, Pencil, suddenly dies. WHO’S IN IT? Karl Urban, Nathaniel Arcand FRACTURE WHO DIRECTED? Marcus Nispel WHO’S IN IT? Ryan Gosling, Anthony Hopkins Vitamins B3 + B6 Give brilliant shine PERFECT STRANGER (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) WHO DIRECTED? Gregory Hoblit (Hart’s War) Fruit AHAs Strengthen the hair fibre WHO’S IN IT? Halle Berry, Bruce Willis WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Sometime around WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Prosecutor Willy Beachum Active Fruit Concentrate WHO DIRECTED? James Foley (Confidence) 1000 A.D., a shipload of Vikings set (Gosling) boasts a 97% conviction rate. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Every so often foot on North American soil, massacre the However, that number takes a hit when a FOR HAIR THAT SHINES WITH ALL ITS STRENGTH Bruce Willis says yes to a smirky villain role helpless natives living there and leave man (Hopkins) who tried to kill his wife is (Mortal Thoughts, The Jackal) and delivers behind a small boy. He is adopted by the freed on a technicality. So disgruntled 100 2>www.garnier.ca 5 25 50 75 95 98 Take care. a devilishly delightful performance. Here, surviving natives and proves to be their Willy sets out to right that wrong. M M

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dumped by his girlfriend and flees sunny R California for chilly Michigan, where he APRIL 29 cares for his ailing grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) and becomes caught up in the WWE PAY-PER VIEW daily drama of the family across the street. BACKLASH Check www.cineplex.com for a list of VACANCY APRIL 27 theatres where you can watch it live, WHO’S IN IT? Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson and to buy tickets. WHO DIRECTED? Nimród Antal (Kontroll) THE INVISIBLE WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Beckinsale and Wilson WHO’S IN IT? Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva MAY 4 play a couple that rents a room in a WHO DIRECTED? Dave S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity) dingy, out-of-the-way motel. They get WHAT’S IT ABOUT? After a teenager AWAY FROM HER hooked on the slasher flicks shown on TV (Chatwin) is attacked and left for dead he WHO’S IN IT? Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 only to realize all of them were shot in finds himself in limbo, invisible to the WHO DIRECTED? Sarah Polley (debut) their room, meaning they better check living and racing against time to find his WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Awww, our little girl out before they’re done in. body before he truly perishes. is all grown up. Sarah Polly, the child-star- § HITS THEATRES APRIL 20 turned-actor makes her feature film NEXT directorial debut with this sensitive WHO’S IN IT? Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore study of aging couple Fiona and Grant

M M HOT FUZZ WHO DIRECTED? Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) (Christie, Pinsent), who must come to WHO’S IN IT? Simon Pegg, Nick Frost WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Cris Johnson terms with Fiona’s advancing Alzheimer’s. WHO DIRECTED? Edgar Wright (Cage) was born with the ability to See Sarah Polley and Julie Christie (Shaun of the Dead) see two minutes into the future, which is interviews, page 20. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? From the team behind something FBI agent Callie Ferris (Moore) Shaun of the Dead comes this comedy about thinks could be useful when a terrorist SPIDER-MAN 3

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directing effort one to remember 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 I BY CHRISTOPHER DIRADDO

arah Polley walks into the Café Mélies dressed in black from head to toe, except for a bright pink scarf. The Syoung filmmaker is in Montreal doing interviews for her big-screen directorial debut, Away from Her, and is happy to finally be asked questions she feels she can capably answer. “[Doing interviews] used to be a really agonizing part of the process for me, and it isn’t any more,” she confides, smiling. “It’s liberating to really know what you’re talking about and have a lot to say…. It’s so much more comfortable.” At 28 years old, Polley is one of Canada’s best-known talents. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 With two Genies and two Geminis under her belt, she has already had a long and varied career as an actor and has worked with some of the country’s greatest directors, including Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) and David Cronenberg (eXistenZ). Director Sarah Polley on Now she can officially count herself among their ranks. the set of Away from Her Based on the short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Inset: Julie Christie and famed Canadian writer Alice Munro, Away from Her tells of one Gordon Pinsent man’s love for his fading wife and the lengths he’s willing to go to for her happiness. Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) are a childless couple in their golden years. Their bliss, however,

erodes as Fiona begins to misplace things. The couple nervously 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 jokes about her absent-mindedness, but it’s soon apparent that Fiona is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s. Or, as Fiona puts it, “I think I may be beginning to disappear.” The couple reluctantly places Fiona in a retirement home, an action that will ultimately take her further and further from her husband. The film is beautifully shot, faithful to the original work, and features powerful performances by Pinsent and Christie. Polley says she first had the idea to adapt the short story after reading it on a flight back from shooting the 2001 film No Such Luck in Iceland with actor Julie Christie. “I was so unbelievably moved by the story. I had just finished working with Julie Christie, and as I read I kept seeing Julie’s face in the character of Fiona.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Polley began to cast the rest of the film in her head, but took two

years before she actually committed herself to the project. M M

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M M “I was definitely nervous because [Alice Munro] is authors (Michael Ondaatje and Alistair MacLeod), and somebody who I am quite reverential of myself and I know that big-name Canadian recording artists (k.d. lang and Neil Young) whenever anyone else has adapted her work, I’ve been overly appear on the soundtrack. It would seem, at its heart,

critical of it. So it wasn’t something I took lightly.” Away from Her is an inherently Canadian picture. 3/C This isn’t the first time that Polley has brought one of “In a strange way I think we go so out of our way to disguise B Canada’s great storytellers to the screen. In 2004, she adapted, our identity when we’re making films,” says Polley, adding that

and directed, a Carol Shields story for TV’s The Shields Stories. she thought the film would be much more interesting if it was G “I think it is important, culturally, to be telling indigenous specific to the place in which it was set. “It comes across as a bit R stories wherever you happen to be from,” she says, quite proudly. of a political statement but, in fact, I think there’s just no will on “I’m from Ontario and I feel that it’s good to adapt an Ontario my part to disguise the film or make it too universal…. I just writer. It’s what I know.” didn’t try to hide where we were.” Polley doesn’t see her filmmaking choices as political, but Having enjoyed successful screenings at such prestigious film even so, her big-screen directing debut does speak to her festivals as Sundance, the Berlin International Film Festival and personal politics. Throughout her career Polley has been very the Toronto International Film Festival, Away from Her is set to critical of the Hollywood machine. She has turned down many open across Canada on May 4th. plum roles in order to appear in independent and locally pro- “I feel like everything that could have possibly happened to duced work. Away from Her seems to be an extension of that. the film has happened and way more,” says Polley, “so at this In addition to being based on a Canadian short story, the film point I’m thrilled.” was shot in Ontario with a cast that includes many Canadians. The film also features excerpted work by other Canadian Christopher DiRaddo is a Montreal-based freelance writer. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 THE WOOING OF JULIE CHRISTIE ulie Christie is a reluctant other person who would be Jactress. “I don’t like making having that closeness to Sarah, films very much,” she says wryly, having that experience of one of during an interview at the 2006 the most important things in your Toronto International Film Festival. friend’s life,” she says. “It interrupts my life. I have a lack When Christie chooses a role, of desire to create except what I there is a long list of criteria that 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 want to create, be it a garden or a need to be met. “I look at the script piece of writing.” and think: Is the writing good? In fact, over the course of her Does it make sense? Has it got career Christie has built a integrity? Is it intelligent?” reputation for turning down roles, According to Christie, Away and turning her back on Hollywood. from Her received ticks in all the The actress lit up the screens in boxes. “It is a terribly, terribly good the 1960s, most famously as Lara script. But I didn’t realize that until in Dr. Zhivago, and has spent the I saw the film. The first time I saw better part of three decades the film I thought, ‘My God, this eschewing fame, and choosing her woman’s a filmmaker.’ And I don’t roles carefully. So how did think that about many filmmakers.

Sarah Polley convince her to play But Sarah has it in her gut.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Fiona in Away from Her? It helped Christie says doing Away from that the two are friends having Her was “absolutely the right made two films together, 2001’s decision,” adding that, though she No Such Thing and 2005’s might not enjoy celebrity, film is a The Secret Life of Words. different matter. “Sarah was embarrassed to “Film is a wonderful media, and ask me because she knows me, I’m flabbergasted by good actors. and she knows my lack of Gordon [Pinsent], Michael ambition. But she persisted and [Murphy], Olympia [Dukakis]…are persisted, and I resisted and all wonderful actors doing this resisted. Eventually I thought, ‘If I magic. You are given enormous

don’t do this, someone else is pleasure with acting, as you are 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 going to have the experience of with painting or music. I would Sarah’s first film,’” Christie says. never underestimate the arts. They “I was becoming jealous of that feed the soul.” —Erin Phelan

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interview | RICHARD GERE 3/C 3/C B B G G R R 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 FAKINGThe Hoax star Richard Gere gets a perm and dons a false nose to playIT one of the biggest scammers in publishing history I BY EARL DITTMAN

n December 1971, publishing house (During negotiations, Irving also asked McGraw-Hill announced that the that his journalist friend Dick Suskind be Iautobiography of Howard Hughes hired on as a fact checker.) would snake through its massive printing While McGraw-Hill initially balked at presses sometime the following year. the steep price, handwriting experts The tome about the once-great aviation proved the skeptics wrong by authenti- genius, Hollywood mogul and billionaire cating Hughes’ signatures on the letters 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 playboy who turned into an obsessive- and contracts, and the publishers agreed, compulsive recluse was expected to be figuring they would make a mint on what one of the literary landmarks of the should be the best-selling autobiography 20th century. of the century. “Howard Hughes was still a big deal in But there was one tiny secret that those days, and his whereabouts was a Irving had kept to himself. favourite with the tabloids and even the “It was completely bogus, probably the mainstream press,” explains Richard Gere biggest scam anyone has ever tried to pull during a recent interview in New York. off, and no one wanted to or had the Gere, now 57, was in his early 20s when brains to figure it out,” explains Gere, that press release was sent out. “Even a who plays Irving in The Hoax, director

lot of younger people knew who he was. Lasse Hallström’s take on the incident. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 No one could escape all the constant “You can call it my Buddhist beliefs or headlines of him supposedly in hiding, The real whatever you want, but whatever goes becoming a hermit and travelling incog- Clifford Irving around, comes around. And that’s just nito all the time. People wanted to know what happened. The more I found out what was up with the guy.” about him, I learned he was a very complex and confident man, That’s exactly what the folks at McGraw-Hill were banking on. and he was pretty sure he was going to pull it off. He just wasn’t A writer named Clifford Irving had handed them a trio of counting on the one most unlikely thing to happen to prove it letters in which Hughes claimed he wanted to write his memoir false. Fate came calling.” to clear up any misconceptions about of his life. It was also Actually, it was Hughes. expected that the book would be a kiss-and-tell about his affairs After remaining out of sight for more than 14 years, not just with iconic actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. to the media, but to employees, family members and what few Hughes had only one stipulation. Irving — who said he was friends he still had, Howard Hughes set up a telephone in contact with the recluse because Hughes was a fan of one of conference call with seven handpicked journalists. He told 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 his books — would have to ghostwrite the autobiography. them he knew nothing about the book and had absolutely no Hughes agreed that, through a series of taped, in-person idea who Clifford Irving was. The entire interview was televised. Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) interviews with Irving, he would recall his entire life in return Yet, even as Hughes proclaimed the book and Irving a hoax, beams while a photo CLIFFORD IRVING PHOTO BY FRED MOTT/GETTY CLIFFORD IRVING CLIFFORD IRVING PHOTO BY FRED MOTT/GETTY CLIFFORD IRVING of Howard Hughes looks on for $750,000 (U.S.), $100,000 of which would go to Irving. the writer stood his ground, even going on 60 Minutes to M M

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M M insist that the project was genuine. But when McGraw-Hill refused to publish the book, Irving, his wife Edith Irving (who had cashed the $750,000 worth of cheques that had been made

out to H.R. Hughes) and Suskind confessed to the fraud. 3/C The trio was charged with a total of 14 criminal offenses, HUGHES B including grand larceny, perjury and conspiracy, possession of

forged documents, intent to defraud and mail fraud. Their trials G made front-page news in major dailies across North America. AND HOLLYWOOD Unintentionally, Clifford Irving had become a media star. made to date, Leonardo DiCaprio R “Usually, I just try to create a character from within,” plays a charismatic Hughes explains Gere, grabbing a bottle of mineral water from a from his arrival in Hollywood in table in his Big Apple hotel. “Some prosthetics and too the 1920s to the improbable much makeup can be a distraction, but since Clifford Irving flight of his Spruce Goose has continued to be a media figure since the Howard airplane in 1947. Hughes fiasco, I felt like I should at least try to look a little like him.” So Gere permed his hair, shaved back his § MELVIN AND HOWARD hairline and wore a prosthetic nose. (1980): Director Jonathan Edith Irving (played here by Marcia Gay Harden) Demme’s acclaimed film would do two months in jail, and Suskind (Alfred Molina) A rare photo of recounts the alleged 1967 did five months. But Irving ended up with considerably Howard Hughes, meeting between gas-station circa 1976

more time in the slammer, 17 months to be exact. The owner Melvin Dummar 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 upside was that he was finally able write his book about (Paul Le Mat) and a disheveled Howard Hughes, The Hoax, which chronicles the events of the No wonder Howard Hughes Hughes (Jason Robards), who scam and was the basis for this film’s screenplay. continues to fascinate Dummar found lying alongside “Expect a lot of action,” says Gere. “I would guess we improvised filmmakers. He’s remembered a Nevada highway. a third of the movie, maybe more, but we also had a very good most famously for his later script to start from. Lasse would just say, ‘Okay, let’s now shake it years as a drug-addicted, § THE ROCKETEER (1991): up and just improvise a whole different thing and make it rock.’” germ-phobic, billionaire This homage to 1930s serial After a week spent filming in Puerto Rico (a stand-in for recluse, but he also spent films focuses on a rocket pack the Bahamas), the better part of The Hoax was filmed in 25 years in Hollywood as a prototype invented by Hughes New York City and Upstate New York, another reason Gere was dashing producer, director and, (Terry O’Quinn), who wants enticed to make the film. With wife Carey Lowell (a Law & Order eventually, studio owner (RKO). heroic young pilot Cliff Secord alumnus), their seven-year-old son, Homer, and Lowell’s Here’s a recap of his real-life (Billy Campbell) to keep it 17-year-old daughter, Hannah, from a previous marriage, Gere movie achievements and a look safe from Nazi spies. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 is a full-fledged family man who tries to work as close to at how Hollywood has portrayed home as possible. the man who had everything. § TUCKER: A MAN AND HIS “I’ve gotten to the point where I’ll make a decision to do a DREAMS (1988): This story movie based on how long we will be apart, so, certainly, the PRODUCER: of maverick car designer location is an influence,” he says. “It doesn’t always matter when Hughes produced 17 films, his Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) you film in places like Toronto or New York, but if I have to go finest being Two Arabian includes a small appearance by to Europe for a long time, I probably will turn down the project.” Knights (1927), The Front Page Hughes (Dean Stockwell) inside Unlike most parents, Gere hopes his children don’t follow in (1931) and Scarface (1932). the hangar housing his beloved his footsteps. “I don’t know anyone who’s an actor that would Spruce Goose. —IR ever want their kids to act,” he says with a heavy sigh. “That’s DIRECTOR: HUGHES PHOTO BY KEYSTONE HOWARD because there’s one, maybe half-a-percent of actors that Hell’s Angels (1930),

actually work. There’s such an enormous amount of rejection The Outlaw (1943) and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 from the beginning, but it doesn’t stop. There’s an enormous Vendetta (1950). Hughes’ amount of focus on external factors, and none of these things notable contribution as a are particularly healthy for anyone.” director is the invention of the “I think that there are healthier ways for people to live,” he push-up bra worn by The Outlaw’s continues. “The cliché is true. If there’s anything else that you can Jane Russell. The film was do besides acting, do that. If this is all you can do and you’re banned in Maryland where a totally focused on it, then great. Fine. My stepdaughter, for judge ruled Russell’s large instance, is totally focused on this. There’s no way of dissuading breasts dominated the film “like her from this. There is no way. This is where she’s going, and a thunderstorm spread over a that’s fine. She does the school plays, does her voice lessons…and landscape.” that’s that. That came from her even with all the dissuading, with all of the ‘Please don’t do this. Don’t you want to be something PORTRAYED ON CELLULOID: 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 else?’ ‘No, this is it.’ So that, you can’t argue with.” § THE AVIATOR (2005): Leonardo DiCaprio as In the only Hughes bio-pic Hughes in The Aviator Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas.

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hen producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas prefaced her When Grace is found dead, Rowena suspects Harrison, pitch for Perfect Stranger to Halle Berry by warning her who’s married and known for going to great lengths to cover up W it was not a typical “Halle Berry vehicle,” Berry’s interest his affairs. So she goes undercover as a temp at his ad agency to was immediately piqued. investigate, where she both flirts with him in person and creates “I knew it was one of those risky parts a lot of actors would an alter ego to flirt with him online. Ribisi plays an IT tech who be scared to take,” says Berry, who turned 40 last summer. “It helps Rowena track Harrison through cyberspace. seemed so unlikely for me to even consider.” Exciting, perhaps. But is it really that risky a choice for the Directed by James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross), Perfect Stranger Oscar-winning actor? In a recent Beverly Hills interview, stars Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi in a twisted tale Berry explained. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 about internet hookups and murder. Berry plays journalist Rowena Price, whose friend Grace (Nicki Aycox) meets one of Why do you consider Perfect Stranger a risky film? “Because it’s all the biggest advertising executives in New York, Harrison Hill about the acting. Actually, it was one of the most formidable (Willis), online, has an affair with him, and then goes missing. acting jobs I’ve ever had. Myself, Bruce and Giovanni had to make our characters seem real or the story would have fallen apart and been a disaster. I had to lose myself in the character, and that’s not always easy. From the moment you see my face on the screen you have to believe that I’m a journalist and not Halle Berry playing one. I have to make sure people don’t even notice Halle Berry for them to really get into this movie.”

And the internet is an important element in the story? “Well, in order 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 to find the reason her friend was murdered, she discovers that she has to go into the threatening and mysterious side of the internet — where no one really is who they say they are…. She ends up piddling around in this dark side and she realizes that the internet was really the cause of her friend’s death. But she’s sure that Bruce’s character, the ad agency owner, is the person who murdered her friend, and she tries to prove it. She sort of figures it all out bit by bit, but it gets pretty racy, dangerous and terrifying at times.”

So it’s not exactly a relaxing movie to watch. “It is the kind of film that is going to really shock people, because I was freaked 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Have we met? Bruce Willis and out doing it. You take a big chance by tackling a role like this, Halle Berry in Perfect Stranger but that’s what makes this job worth doing. I’m too old to be

doing movies that are considered safe for my career.” M M

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need to feel validated through marriage. I want kids, and as I’ve grown and evolved I now know that I’m okay by myself and it doesn’t affect my sense of self or value or self-worth. I once thought that I needed that to feel whole and good. I just don’t need that anymore.” 3/C B So you would be comfortable having a child without being married? “Yeah, and I hope that I can have a child of my own with a guy G

that could be the father and have a lovely committed relationship R with me. Someone who would be in my life without the legal piece of paper that says, ‘Okay, if you divorce you get this and you get that.’ And you fight, fight, fight and end up hating each other. I hope that I could just walk away and say, ‘Okay. This doesn’t work anymore. Let’s just say bye.’”

Why don’t you do more dramas like Monster’s Ball? “I hear that a lot, that people want me to do more drama, but it’s not that easy. I know that things have changed for women of colour, but it’s still a struggle.”

Do you think it’s a colour issue more than a female issue? “I think

that it’s hard for a woman. I mean, there are so many great 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 actresses and there should be a lot of great parts, but those parts are really few and far between, and then being a woman of colour kind of compounds the issue. I mean, sometimes when I think that there is a great part that I want to audition for I still hear, ‘Well, Halle is great, but we don’t want this character to be black. She’s married to a guy who is white.’ And it’s like, ‘What’s wrong with that? I have a white mother and a black father.’ ‘Well, then it makes the family look funny and we have these issues. We just don’t want to deal with that.’”

Did a lot of the perceptions about you change when you won the Oscar for Monster’s Ball? “Yeah, but what you also realize is that that was 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a moment in time, and that moment is long past…. Do you remember who won three or four years ago even? The heat of winning wanes because every year someone else wins. So it’s what you do with that and how you use that to further your career that’s really important.”

So what’s next? “I did a really great movie with Benicio Del Toro that’s a small feeling movie that’s about relationships and people — a little slice of life. It’s called Things We Lost in the Fire.

M M How do you feel about turning 40? “I feel good about it. I It’s a drama. It’s a little art-house type movie. It deals with some think that what doesn’t feel good about it is when everyone says, heavy issues. My character loses her husband, and she’s dealing ‘Oh my God!’ Then I don’t feel so good about it. But, left to my with life without him and two little kids. Benicio is a heroin own devices, I don’t even know what 40 is, and I don’t know addict and their lives intersect. It’s about how these two help 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 what it’s supposed to mean. I just feel great and happy right each other grow and become better. It’s not tied up in a pretty now with life.” bow. It’s kind of messy.”

In the past,you’ve said you might adopt a child,do you still feel that way? Does Catwoman still haunt you? “Since I’m no longer afraid to “Well, the funny thing is that you say something one time — you take risks with the roles I take, I thought Catwoman was a chance have a thought — and then it becomes like your mission. I said for a female heroine to helm her own movie, and hopefully that because I don’t know what’s going to happen. I can tell you become a franchise, and what great things that would do for a what I do know. I’m moving, as I move into my 40s, the desire woman. But it missed. So you just put on your big-girl panties to have something in my life that’s more meaningful than and deal with it. You say, ‘Okay, I’m moving on.’ But it’s about movies…is becoming really, really real.” taking the risk. That’s what my career is about for me and that’s what drives me and excites me. Sometimes it’ll work and

You’ve been married twice,would you get married again to have a baby? sometimes it won’t.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “Oh, God. No. It won’t come in the form of that…. I no longer have the need to be someone’s wife, and I no longer have the Earl Dittman in an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas.

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ou’ve heard of method acting — an actor goes through intense prepara- tion to virtually become the character Y 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 he or she portrays. But is it possible that there’s a form of method directing as well? If so, Sam Raimi may be a follower. Having helmed all three Spider-Man movies, as well as contributing to their stories, Raimi 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 is the one man who may be closer to Spidey than actor Tobey Maguire himself. “I know him like a good friend,” Raimi says of the Marvel Comics superhero during an interview in L.A., “or maybe closer than a good friend, since I’ve spent so much time getting into his head,

wondering how I might react here and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 there, pretending to be Peter Parker [Spidey’s photojournalist alter ego].” For a long time the 47-year-old director

was best known as the mind behind the 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 two Evil Dead movies, the 1981 cult-classic zombie flick and its 1987 sequel. But Director Sam Raimi since the 2002 release of Spider-Man, there’s been a new star of his filmography. That film broke a record by earning $114-million (U.S.) in its opening weekend, and its successor, 2004’s Spider-Man 2, kept pace by earning $115-million in its first few days. But never mind the money, not all films that break 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 box-office records are good. These two, however, earned critical acclaim to match their earnings. Raimi’s happy the third movie got the green light not only because of such crass incentives as money and acclaim, but 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 because that’s the only way he’d know the fate of his pal Peter.

“After finishing the second one,” says Raimi, “the question M M

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M M after Mary Jane dumps Jameson’s son to Spider-Man and not having a life of his another one without Sam because he’s that kept popping up in my mind Spidey unmasked • HIS BROTHER: Actor Ted Raimi is Sam’s was, ‘What will happen to Peter next?’” date him. Once Eddie’s infected he own,” says Maguire during an L.A. inter- the heart of the films. No way,” she says. younger brother, and he pops up in Yes, what will happen to Peter next? transforms into the supervillain Venom. view. Maguire’s own life now includes However, Maguire — the most impor- most of his movies. In the Spider-Man It seems Peter’s problems (and arch- And what of Peter’s old friend Harry being a dad to five-month-old Ruby, his tant piece of the puzzle — has said series he plays Hoffman, J. Jonah enemies) start popping up like weeds. Osborn (James Franco), son of the now- daughter with girlfriend Jennifer Meyer. One more thing we can assume about conflicting things in the media about Jameson’s beleaguered sidekick. After Flint Marko (Thomas Haden deceased Green Goblin? Having vowed “I always thought that it was peculiar this movie is that — one way or another whether or not he’ll be back. When we • HIS DRINK: There’s often a bottle of Church), who killed Peter’s Uncle Ben, to kill Spider-Man at the end of the first that he couldn’t see how he could just — Spidey will still be standing at the end. spoke, it sounded as if he hadn’t closed Maker’s Mark Whiskey lying about. gets out of prison, an industrial accident movie, it looks as if Harry may finally take have a little balance in his life and things After all, talk of a fourth installment has the door on Spider-Man 4 just yet. • HIS SHOT: Raimi loves to include a shot transforms him into Sandman, a shape- up his father’s mantle, adding another would be a little better for him, but there already begun. “I think that with this film we’ve done taken from the point of a view of a fast- shifting sand creature. But while at the complication to Parker’s muddled life. are complications for that which I can Since many of the principal players a pretty good job, or at least from my moving object. In Spider-Man the

site of that accident, Peter comes into That’s a lot of information — but it understand. But he now feels some bal- 100were 2 5only 25 50 75contracted 95 98 for three films, perspective, I felt like we’ve had really camera rides alongside whizzing 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 contact with a mysterious black substance took a long time to be revealed, especially ance in his life, but he also has these gifts several have doubts about whether they’ll interesting stories to tell, new and fresh projectiles fired by the Green Goblin that turns his suit black, enhancing for fans who’d been waiting for the new and wants to use them responsibly.” return for a fourth. stories while keeping the continuity of toward Spidey, and in Spider-Man 2 Spidey’s powers, but also bringing out a villains to be announced since Spider-Man 2 Which gets harder to do when a mys- “I’ve had a great time with Sam, and the characters,” Maguire says. “In this there’s a shot from the point of view of darker side of his personality. This drastic was in theatres. terious black entity puts you in a really there is part of me that would miss movie we will be tying up some storylines Doc Ock’s tentacles as they reach out mood change makes Peter ignore those Co-star Dunst even got in some trouble bad mood. Maguire says it was important working with him and Tobey, but I think that have been open for the first couple toward doctors operating on him. closest to him, a group that now includes for unintentionally jumping the gun last to keep that character-shift in check, and it’s time for me to move on,” Franco of movies. So there will be some conclu- Raimi dubbed the shot “Octovision.” Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), the year and confirming internet rumours not play it too over-the-top. admits during an interview at a tony hotel sions, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily • HIS PROP: Look for mirrors that capture police chief’s beautiful daughter who that Sandman and Venom would be “We had to keep the essence of who in L.A.’s Westwood neighbourhood. “You the end. I think that we’re going to leave the duality of a character, as seen in falls for Peter, understandably annoying Spidey’s new foes. “I never know what to Peter Parker is in the character, because know, it is funny, because when we both it open-ended and say that we’re not Spider-Man when Norman Osborn Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). say and what not to say when they ask me he’s still Peter,” Maguire explains. “How- signed on to do the first one, Tobey and quite sure what’s going to happen. If looks into a mirror and sees both Then the black substance transfers about a Spider-Man that I’m making,” the ever, we see him behave different and go I had done great projects but we were there are stories worth telling, then we himself and his alter ego, The Green itself from Spider-Man to Eddie Brock 25-year-old Dunst admits while doing an into different areas of himself, and it was both still kind of new to the stardom will tell them.” Goblin. Since Spider-Man 3 focuses on (Topher Grace), an investigative reporter interview for Marie Antoinette last year. “I something that we had to work out. Sam 100thing. 2 5 We’ve 25 50 75 gone 95 98 through a lot together, Peter Parker dealing with his dark side 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 hired by Peter’s editor, J. Jonah Jameson was in a room with a bunch of journalists, and I, in particular, were trying to find and I will miss him, but I think I’m ready Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer mirrors will surely be present. —IR (J.K. Simmons), to dig up dirt on Peter and they mentioned who was playing the right balance.” to try something different.” based in Houston, Texas.

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