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6 CAUGHT ON FILM
8 ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF
10 SPOTLIGHT
12 IN THEATRES
14 STYLE
42 HOT PLAY
44 MUSIC MAKERS
45 DVD RELEASES
46 HOROSCOPE
48 FAMOUS LAST WORDS
50 features

REGULAR JOE
18 Dennis Quaid admits G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra is cartoonish, but who cares, he’s having fun • By Bob Strauss

WOODSTOCK REVIVAL
22 cover Taking Woodstock’s director story Ang Lee and stars Demetri Martin and Emile Hirsch discuss their pic • By Bruce Kirkland

SHE’S A BASTERD
26 Diane Krugeron scoring the 38 role of Inglourious Basterds’ RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Start with a compelling story about two female chefs, add a dash of German movie star/Nazi killer Amy Adams, a measure of Meryl Streep and you’ve got a mouthwatering cinematic treat. • By Karine Cohen-Dicker Julie & Julia reunites Doubt stars Adams and Streep — however, in this film, the stars don’t share a single scene. That doesn’t stop them from gushing over one another • By Bob Strauss RETURN OF THE ZOMBIE
30 Director Rob Zombie is back with his second Halloween flick, H2, and it’s nasty • By Chris Alexander

GUITAR HERO
34 In Theatres September 4 Vanessa Hudgens straps on a guitar and takes to the stage in the teen flick Bandslam WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MIKE JUDGE

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SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) While a lot of people are categorizing Julie & Julia as a chick flick, I propose it’s part of that much ACCOUNT MANAGER narrower — and far more interesting — genre, the food flick. The movie stars Meryl Streep as GENEVIÈVE ROSSIGNOL (ext. 224) SALES COORDINATOR cooking-show pioneer Julia Child and Amy Adams as Julie Powell, a woman who dedicated a full ANNIE DESJARDINS (ext. 223) year of her life to replicating every recipe in Child’s cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. ATLANTIC CANADA 902.576.3131 In “All the Right Ingredients,” page 38, Adams and Streep discuss their improbably entwined ATLANTIC SALES MANAGER JILL HEIGHWAY characters, filming on either side of the Atlantic and how butter makes everything taste good. And, if you do see the movie, make sure you have reservations for a good restaurant booked beforehand. SPECIAL THANKS VÉRONIQUE ALARIE, MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, JOAN GRANT, G.I.Joe:TheRiseofCobra is another film that relies largely on accessing memories — those ELLIS JACOB, PAT MARSHALL, belonging to a generation of (largely) men who spent their childhoods in basements playing with DAN MCGRATH, SUSAN REGINELLI camo-clad dolls. In “Being All That He Can Be,” page 18, Dennis Quaid discusses the big-bang flick. Famous™magazineispublished12timesayear Diane Kruger returned to her native Germany to play a Nazi killer in Quentin Tarantino’s bloody byCineplexEntertainment.Subscriptionsare $31.50($30+ GST)ayearinCanada,$45ayearin and brutal Inglourious Basterds. Read “Beauty and the Beasts,” page 26, for her take on the revisionist theU.S.and$55ayearoverseas.Singlecopiesare$3. AFTER 25 YEARS SOME THINGS ARE STILL FRESH. 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RUSSELLCROWE Gerard Butler and HILARYSWANK 1 Jennifer Aniston have a spirited conversation on the BRUCE WILLIS escalator ride down to the CAUGHT casino at the Trump Taj Mahal in REESEWITHERSPOON Atlantic City. They were there to GERARDBUTLER shoot Bounty Hunter, about a JENNIFER ANISTON bounty hunter hired to track downhisex-wife,andfilming had wrapped for the day. ON FILM
PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS Russell Crowe goes 2 after a paparazzi on the North Wales set of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood.Justkidding.The snapper’s on set in an official capacity. Still pretty brave, though.

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Hilary Swank shares some 3 love with a three-legged dog on the New York set of her upcoming thriller The Resident. As far as we can see the dog does not have a role in the film. Just hopping by.

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One stand-in is not enough 4 for Bruce Willis. There was actually a third BW look-alike on the New York set of the cop comedy A Couple of Dicks. He just didn’t fit in the frame. 3
PHOTO BY BOBBY BANK/WIREIMAGE 2 Believe it or not, before 5 those makeup artists started working their magic that was Joan Rivers. Nah... it’s just touch-up time for Reese Witherspoon on the Washington, D.C., set of How Do You Know?

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8 FAMOUS1AUGUST 2009 4 5 AUGUST 2009 FAMOUS 9 G & P& P 9 P& 0 2 SHORTS ©200©2©20 0 ENTERTAINMENT INBRIEF Robert Rodriguez happily takes advantage of child labour. Plus, Paper Heart’s puppet actors Artifact THISMONTH’SOBJETDE FILM PAPERHEART PUPPETS In this month’s half-fake documentary Paper Heart, actor-comedian Charlyne Yi travels across America to interview people about love (that’s the real part). Along the way,she meets actor Michael Cera (her long-time, Rebel Rodriguez (left) real-life boyfriend) and they with Shorts co-stars begin to date… awkwardly Trevor Gagnon (centre) (the fake part). and Leo Howard Quirky enough already. Inset: Robert Rodriguez Then add the fact that the very real love stories told by ALLINTHE Yi’s very real interviewees are recreated using naïve paper puppets built by Yi and her dad in their garage. It was Yi’s idea, she wanted to see her subjects’ love FAMILY stories unfold, instead of You’ll often hear filmmakers say they make movies for their kids, but Robert Rodriguez makes movies with his kids. just watching their faces as This month the Texas-born director and father of five — Rocket Valentino, they recalled their tales. Racer Maximilliano, Rebel Antonio, Rogue Joaquin and daughter Rhiannon Elizabeth — unveils Shorts, a The puppet sequences family flick about a group of children who come across a rainbow-coloured space rock that grants wishes. were blocked and rehearsed, Rodriguez’s 10-year-old son Rebel co-stars as Lug, one of the film’s kids, and it’s not the first time Rebel just like any live-action has appeared in one of his dad’s films. He had a cameo in the decidedly adult Planet Terror, and played the scene would be, before very young Sharkboy in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D. being shot in a Rebel’s older brother, Racer, actually inspired Sharkboy. Racer told his dad about a dream he had starring Burbank a superhero who was half-boy/half-shark, and Rodriguez then asked him to come up with a female co-hero, studio. a villain and the setting. The film’s credits include the line: “Based on the stories and dreams of Racer Max.” —MW And when Rodriguez was making the first Spy Kids film in 2001, his oldest son Rocket would accompanydadontothesetandsitalongsidehimashedirectedtooffersuggestionsandadvice. But Rodriguez’s most inspired use of his kids on screen had to be in 2002’s Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams. Worried about whether some of the fight scenes might be too dangerous for his child actors, Rodriguez cast the then six-year-old Rocket and five-year-old Racer as stunt doubles. Rodriguez cheerfully talks about his decision in a 2002 Newsweek article: “I said, ‘Who would let us use their six-year-old as a stunt double?’ And then I said, ‘I would!’” —IR

10 FAMOUS AUGUST 2009 SHORTS SPOTLIGHT JANE McLEAN’S NET WORTH

ane McLean admits she’s sensitive, so she knew how I was going to play the character.” For instance? “Was I going what she was doing was wrong. She did it to get plumped for it?” anyway. “I couldn’t stay away, I was so curious,” McLean, who was born in the Philippines but raised in Toronto, is the Toronto-raised actor admits over the phone from her L.A. home. a slight wisp of a woman. But Charisse, as she’s described in the JShe hit the internet to find out what people thought of her playing book, is a little round madonna, an earth mother. Rachel McAdams’ best friend Charisse in The Time Traveler’s Wife. “And then others would say, ‘Well, she looks kind of mean.’ Or Based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel, the romantic thriller ‘I remember seeing her as Ancient Mai in The Dresden Files, and she follows a man (Eric Bana) with a genetic disorder that causes him to was a really harsh character,’” continues McLean. “And I’m like, ‘I’m involuntarily travel through time, colliding with his lover (McAdams) an actor for goodness sakes!’” at different points in her life. The only other people who know about So, was McLean tempted to alter her performance based on what his condition are Charisse and her boyfriend Gomez (Ron Livingston). she’d read? “For a minute,” she concedes, but insists those few WHO’S PLAYING YOU? “It’s based on an international best-selling book and has a huge pounds she did gain before filming had nothing to do with the blogs. following, so before we even started shooting — I never do this, but “I used [the role] as a bit of an excuse; I love eating.” I did with this, and I’ll never do it again — there were a bunch of //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PHOTO BY JOHN BREGAR

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appetites, and they get one with writer/director Nora Ephron’s look at the lives of two chefs: the legendary INTHEATRES Julia Child (Meryl Streep) YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES  BYINGRIDRANDOJA and novice cook Julie Powell (Amy Adams).Thefilmcuts betweenthe eccentric Child, who follows her husband (Stanley Tucci) to France in 7 the 1950s where she breaks august ground studying to become a female chef, and modern-day Powell,awomanwhosesearch for meaning in life leads her to Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi flee from a camera crew in Paper Heart replicate each and every recipe from Child’s seminal tome Mastering the Art of PaperHeart doesn’t believe in love. She real-lifeboyfriend).Thetwohit it French Cooking. Bon appetite. Comedian Charlyne Yi co-wrote travels across America talking to off, and slowly a film about the See Meryl Streep and Amy this faux documentary starring people about the nature of love, fallacyofromancemorphs into Adams interview, page 38. herself as an avowed cynic who andmeetsactorMichaelCera(her a sweet love story.

Hawaiian island, and the psycho foursome is determined to 14 dispatch the newlyweds. (Well august at least they won’t have to pay off the wedding.) ItMightGetLoud Guitar aficionados will feel as if they’ve died and gone to heaven watching this doc that brings together guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White to jam and share stories about their love for the instrument that rules their lives. continued

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’s serious soldiers Channing Tatum (left) and Marlon Wayans Spread’s Anne Heche and Ashton Kutcher

G.I.Joe:TheRise includes Channing Tatum as apartment...but it does make team to infiltrate an off-limits TheTimeTraveler’sWife plays his heiress wife who has APerfectGetaway ofCobra Duke, Marlon Wayans as dating difficult. His romantic life Japanese cove where The adaptation of Audrey difficulties coping with her Ever been on vacation and met a The high-tech international Ripcord, Byung-hun Lee as finally heats up when Beth dolphins are slaughtered and Niffenegger’s bestseller husband’s strange condition. couple that seems kinda off. You military squad known as Global Storm Shadow and Ray Park as (Rose Byrne) moves into his their toxic meat is fed to local finally hits screens long after know, they keep eye contact for Integrated Joint Operating Entity Snake Eyes. See Dennis Quaid building and sparks fly. schoolchildren. Rolling Stone New Line acquired the rights Spread a split-second too long, reveal (G.I.J.O.E.), led by General Hawk interview, page 18. magazine referred to the doc to the book in 2003, and L.A.gigoloNikki(AshtonKutcher) way too much personal (Dennis Quaid), is called upon to TheCove as “a cross between Flipper wrapped shooting back in scoresbigwhenhemovesinwith information, or carry around stop the evil Cobra Organization Adam This documentary has been and The Bourne Identity.” 2007. Eric Bana stars as a richolderlawyerSamantha(Anne an axe and try to kill you? That from destroying the world. The Although Adam (Hugh Dancy) making waves ever since it librarian suffering from a Heche), but he risks his sweet describes the two couples that gung-ho squad is comprised of suffersfromAspergersyndrome, screened at this year’s Julie&Julia genetic disorder that causes set-up when he falls for waitress Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney characters who appeared on the it doesn’t deter him from holding Sundance Film Festival. Director Foodieshavebeenstarvingfor him to move back and forth Heather (Margarita Levieva), (Milla Jovovich) run into while Saturday morning cartoon, and down a job or having a nice Louie Psihoyos assembles a a movie to whet their throughtime.RachelMcAdams who’s playing hard to get. honeymooning on an isolated

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District9 “Be careful what you wish for...” on the Big In this South African sci-fi thriller, could be the motto for director Screen aliens have landed on Earth and Robert Rodriguez’(Spy Kids) been relegated to third-class fantasy flick about a bullied kid METROPOLITAN citizens living in the designated named Toby (Jimmy Bennett) OPERA SUMMER areaDistrict9.It’sonlyamatterof whose life is turned upside SERIES timeuntiltheydecidethey’vehad down when he finds a rainbow- Encore performances enoughandplananastyuprising. coloured space rock that grants of the most popular operas wishes. First Toby, then his from the 2008/2009 schoolmates, and then the season: adults get caught up in the IL BARBIERE wish-making madness. DI SIVIGLIA(ROSSINI) Sat.,Aug.8 12p.m.EST/CST,11a.m.MST Post Grad’s Alexis Bledel (second from right) and her peeps and10a.m.PST LA FILLE DU REGIMENT (DONIZETTI) chance to tread the boards (Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch) Sat.,Aug.22 when his former drama teacher, house. Now she hangs out 12p.m.EST/CST,11a.m.MST Mr. Gribble (Ben Stiller), returns mostly with her platonic pal and10a.m.PST to town to mount a production. Adam (Zach Gilford). And while Ryden’s mood brightens when WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW PostGrad she meets hunky next-door SUMMERSLAM Jeremy Piven (centre) leads the cast of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard After graduating from college neighbour David (Rodrigo Sun., Aug. 23, 8 p.m. EST Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) Santoro), Adam’s spirits sink couldn’t find a job, so had to knowing the girl he loves is GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR Ponyo TheGoods: team to a struggling Arizona car help a band, led by sexy senior move back into her parents’ slipping away. PARTICIPATING THEATRES
Legendary Japanese LiveHard,SellHard dealership, where they promise Charlotte (Aly Michalka), AND TO BUY TICKETS. animator Hayao Miyazaki Will Ferrell and his friend to sell all the cars on the lot over prepare for the local battle of (Princess Mononoke, Spirited and funnyordie.com cohort the July Fourth long weekend. the bands. But can he Away) returnswithanother Adam McKay produced this concentrate on the task at unleashes his demons in H2, imaginative tale involving a comedy starring Jeremy Piven Bandslam hand while carrying a torch the blood-soaked sequel. See boy and a goldfish princess as salesman extraordinaire Shy music geek Will Burton for the moody Sam (Vanessa 28 Rob Zombie interview, page 30. who dreams of one day Don Ready, who brings his (Gaelan Connell) transfers to a Hudgens)? See Vanessa august becoming human. ruthless and immoral sales new high school and agrees to Hudgens interview, page 34. TakingWoodstock Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s fascination with America is well known — he examined InglouriousBasterds originally set to open in swinging ’70s suburban society Call it a “strudel western,” 2006) that you wonder if they in The Ice Storm, cowboy love in 21 Quentin Tarantino’s guts-and- had to restore the print. Brokeback Mountain and the august glory WW II pic about a brigade Max Morrow stars as a boy Civil War in Ride With the Devil — of Jewish-American G.I.s, led who adopts a goose, which so it’s no surprise he tackles by Brad Pitt, who band together upsets his school’s principal one of the country’s most with resistance fighters, (Chevy Chase), a meanie cherished cultural touchstones, including a Teutonic movie star who plans to fatten up the Woodstock. Lee’s film, inspired (Diane Kruger), to carry out a beloved pet and cook it for by a true story, focuses on Elliot suicide mission against the Christmas dinner. The Final Destination’s Bobby Campo and Shantel VanSanten Teichberg (Demetri Martin), Nazis. Expect lots of Tarantino- whose desire to save his style dialogue — in multiple TheMarcPease family’s rundown resort leads languages — punctuated by Experience TheFinalDestination down one by one to finish what Rob Zombie reimagining a him to team up with Woodstock explosive violence. See Diane Even though it’s been 10 Death doesn’t take a holiday, he started — and in 3D no less. second film from the Halloween organizers to bring the music Kruger interview, page 26. years since Marc Pease especially when it comes to franchise. Zombie played nice festival to farmer Max Yasgur’s (Jason Schwartzman) was a teenagers who escape a freak H2 — for Rob Zombie that is — (Eugene Levy) field. See GooseontheLoose high school theatre star, he accident at a car race. The In the “breaking new ground” in 2007 when he gave us his interview with Ang Lee, Eli Roth (left) and Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds This family pic has been sitting still dreams of his past stage teens think they’ve avoided the department we have scary, but not over-the-top, Demetri Martin and on the shelf for so long (it was glories. He gets one final Grim Reaper, but he hunts them metalhead-turned-moviemaker version of Halloween, but he Emile Hirsch, page 22.

16 FAMOUS AUGUST 2009 AUGUST 2009 FAMOUS 17 INTERVIEW DENNIS QUAID BEING ALLTHATHE Dennis Quaid is at the point in his career where he has fun no matter what the role. So you can CANBE imagine what a blast it was to play f any actor has earned the right to just destructo-thon in which Quaid supplies whatever kick back and enjoy the fruits of his gravity there is to be found. General Hawk in labours, it’s Dennis Quaid. “It’ssetinthefutureandtheJoesaresortofthis G.I. Joe: The Rise A true Hollywood journeyman, the international Special Forces that mainly fight of Cobra 55-year-old Texan has survived an over- these terrorist groups that spring up,” he explains.  BYBOBSTRAUSS hyped early career in which he didn’t “The movie is really more like James Bond than it quitemakeittotheNextBigThinglevel, would be about an army squad. There’s this evil some attendant struggles with substance mastermind behind this group that’s like SPECTRE; abuse, the scandalous breakup of his he has his own private island and people wearing Imarriage to Meg Ryan and a harrowing hospital these magic coveralls.” snafu in which his twin babies were accidentally And if it succeeds at the box office, Quaid’s overdosed with a blood-thinning drug. contracted to come back for more. Twice. But in a recent chat at a Santa Monica, California, “It was planned to be a Transformers type hotel, Quaid was enormously relaxed and cheerful. of big action, popcorn tent pole,” says the actor, In fact, he could hardly disguise his amusement notingthat the giant-robots-from-space maestro when talking up his latest movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise Michael Bay was originally attached to direct of Cobra,derivedfromthecartoonseriesthat,let’s G.I. Joe,too.“Wehopetomakeafranchiseoutofit. face it, was cheesy enough to make Transformers There are supposed to be two more movies.” look like The Iliad. That noted, it isn’t all silly stuff these days for “I play General Hawk, the leader of the Joes,” says the man whose admirable filmography includes Quaid. “I remember when they first came out; sol- Breaking Away, The Long Riders, The Right Stuff, dier dolls for boys. They hardly did anything, either. The Big Easy, Great Balls of Fire, Wyatt Earp, Any “This is based on the cartoons, where they Given Sunday, Traffic, The Rookie, Far from Heaven came up with a whole other story; that was big. and In Good Company. Upcoming projects include General Hawk is the guy who created the Joes. He’s playing Bill Clinton in The Special Relationship, sort of a cross between Chuck Yeager, Sergeant which was penned by The Queen’s Oscar-winning Rock and a kind of naive Hugh Hefner. It’s like, my screenwriter Peter Morgan. aide-de-camp is a Victoria’s Secret supermodel Quaid has indeed reached that presidential [played by the real thing, Karolína Kurková], and I stage of his career; he did a deft George W. Bush never acknowledge that anything’s out of place, caricature a few years back in American Dreamz. it’s strictly professional. But the actor harbours no delusions; he’s well “How serious can it be?” aware that most people are familiar with him from Well, as serious as any movie directed by the undemanding, but popular, family comedies Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) gets. The Parent Trap and Yours, Mine and Ours. With a cast that includes Channing Tatum, Marlon “I guess I have a kind of American everyman Wayans, Sienna Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, quality,” he reckons. “I’m not really interested in Ray Park and Rachel Nichols, it’s a special-effects nurturingit;Ijusthavenocontrol continued

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Joesatyourservice,fromleft: ChanningTatum,DennisQuaid, SaïdTaghmaoui,RachelNichols andMarlonWayans

over the way I’m perceived by other people. But I do think actors so very seriously. I just feel, now, that I’m acting for the same serve as archetypes, and there are a certain number of archetypes reasonsas when I started out, just that I really love to do it. that audiences see in films. You could say that George Clooney is “I mean, it’s not a real job, for God’s sake,” he cracks. “And I the Cary Grant archetype, Tom Hanks is the Jimmy Stewart arche- think I’m better at it than I used to be. Certainly,you would hope type…you could pretty much go down the line replacing that that.Ifyou’reaplumber,youlearnlittletricksasyougoalongthat mythic figure from the Hollywood pantheon with someone today. make you better. I don’t think this is much different.” F “I don’t know who I am, to tell you the truth.” ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We suggest Gary Cooper. Bob Strauss is an L.A.-based writer. “That’s fine, I’ll take that,” he laughs. “Thank you.” Fatherhood again well into middle age seems to have reinforced Quaid’s realistic outlook on life (he has a teenage son from his HE’S SO marriage with Ryan). Except for the horrible few weeks he and wife Kimberly went through in late 2007 when it looked like infants PLASTIC Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace might not survive, it appears to have We’re not sure it’s the first given him all the fulfillment he could want. time Dennis Quaid’s been “They’re beautiful kids, fantastic and really healthy,” he reports. immortalized in plastic (there “Something good came out of it. I don’t know if fatherhood’s better must have been Postcards from the second time around, but it is easier. Y’know, that first one comes the Edge action figures, no?), but it’s along and you worry about everything. The second ones come along certainly the coolest. It is, after all, and it’s kind of, seen that, done that. You realize that they are going a G.I. Joe doll — the daddy of them all. to go off to college one day,that you’re not going to be changing di- Hasbro is releasing this 3.75-inch, fully apers for the rest of your life.” jointed replica of Mr. Quaid alongside As for the job, there’s really nothing better than being at a stage Sienna Miller and Channing Tatum dolls, where you don’t have anything to prove anymore, yet still get the allowing for hours and hours of plastic- chance to prove you can do something new now and then. mashing fun. Or, you can just let your “VarietyisreallywhatI’malwayslookingfor,”Quaidsays.“Onthe $10 investment sit in its box for a few otherhand, I’m just going along, probably having more fun with my decades and increase hundreds and OPENING IN SELECT THEATRES ON careerthanI’ve everhad. Yougo throughdifferentstagesinyourlife hundreds of cents in value. —MW and your career.In your 20s and, especially,your 30s, you take yourself AUGUST 14 2009

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TAKING WOODSTOCK HITS THEATRES AUGUST28TH FIELD OFDREAMS Elliot Teichberg had no idea what he was getting into when he brokered the deal that saw Woodstock come to a neighbour’s farm. Maybe that’s why he didn’t even plan to attend the show. Director Ang Lee and the stars of Taking Woodstock explain  BYBRUCEKIRKLAND

aphazard, chaotic and legendary: “As a filmmaker, the heart of the film is done,” Woodstock is one of the seminal Lee says during an interview at the Cannes Film events of the hippy era, a period Festival. “It was done by the documentary.I cannot on the rambling sentence that recreatetheconcert.ThereisnowayIcandothat. Hwas the 1960s. Neither am I interested in that. What I can do is Now, 40 years later, Ang Lee’s whimsical movie [show] how it affected a small group of people in a Taking Woodstock skirts around the edges of the very sensitive way. That’s something I can make.” Woodstock Music and Art Fair, those three days of Taking Woodstock is the mostly true story of peace and music at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in local resident Elliot Teichberg — played by Martin Bethel, New York. — and how he enabled the Woodstock promoters Lee’s film stars comedian Demetri Martin, to come to Bethel after being kicked out of Wallkill, while Liev Schrieber and Emile Hirsch have pivotal another Upstate New York town. Teichberg, who roles. But Taking Woodstock never gets any of wrote his autobiographical book Taking Woodstock them close to the Woodstock stage. Instead, Lee under the name Elliot Tiber, brought the festival Ang Lee (right) gives Emile Hirsch some direction on the set of Taking Woodstock (famed for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and to Bethel to help his parents attract customers to Brokeback Mountain) keeps them on the fringes. their failing motel, which was continued

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Fromleft: KelliGarner, PaulDanoandDemetriMartin rapinTakingWoodstock

“I think Ang HAD likes to tell stories where people might not be that comfortable in ENOUGH their own skin,” says Martin CANYOU

falling into neglect and ruin. But there are Hirsch was born in March of 1985, undercurrents, too. making himjust24.Hejokesthatitwould DIG IT? “It’s a call from a distance,” Lee says. “It’s be helpful for young people like him to Director Ang Lee is known for his REALITY? an idea. It’s not a nostalgic feeling of the have a guidebook so they can talk about attention to detail, making sure past.Itissomethingofinnocence,ofideal- things like Woodstock with people who the clothes, hairstyles, props and ism, or harmony,of possibilities.” livedthroughthatera.“Theyneedtomake language of his films correspond Recalling how Woodstock represented just one big book — The Book of Sh-t You to the period in which they are set. those ideals in 1969, Lee says they are still Need to Know, if you were born after so- For Taking Woodstock, he hired worth thinking about as “something that and-so, everything you need to know to David Silver to act as the film’s we need, something that I’m longing for, get along with all the adults, no matter historian. One of Silver’s jobs was to something to capture because it is whimsy.” how old they are.” create the “Hippie Lingo” glossary, In the film, Elliot has a best friend, the fic- This is the first lead movie role for 36- a compendium of words and phrases tional Billy. Just back from Vietnam, Billy is year-old Martin, who’s better known for that were popular during the era, a head case whose Woodstock experience is his appearances on The Daily Show and as and that are used in the film. Here’s a soothing balm for psychological wounds. the star of the comedy series Important an excerpt from the glossary: “Everyone is searching for his identity,you Things With Demetri Martin. So seeing know what I mean?” asks Hirsch, also in himselfonthebigscreenatCanneswasan AXE: Any musical instrument, Cannes. “Billy is a guy who is probably a understandably strange experience. or any tool you use to do your art normal cool guy in the town of Bethel be- “You hopefully get over that and start BALL: (as a noun) A good time; fore he gets to Vietnam.” thinking more about the story,” he says. “I (as a verb) Sexual intercourse When he gets back, Hirsch says, “he’s was thinking: Yeah, there is a great histor- BREAD: Money (“I’m broke — man, lost himself, you know.” So he hangs out ical event attached to this and everyone can you lay some bread on me?”) with Elliot and interacts with the waves of brings their own expectations to it. At the FREAK: Insiders’ synonym for hippie hippies and other music fans flooding the same time, you’re just telling a story. So, (possibly coined by Frank Zappa) area for the concert. “Woodstock was the hopefully,you just resonate with people and FUZZ: The police medium that lets this character really find there is something about human nature.” GAS: Sublime (“They’ve never himself. That’s, to me, what I really liked And something about the anti-Semitism sounded better — that was a gas!”) when I saw the film.” the Teichberg family faced, something HEAD: Insiders’ term for a member Some of Hirsch’s favourite scenes show about the prejudices Elliot faced as a gay of the counterculture (possibly Martin just walking with the extras, recall- man in the era. That made him a classic coined by Ken Kesey) ing the news footage and off-stage excerpts Ang Lee character, Martin says. LID: An ounce of marijuana from the 1970 documentary that gave “I think Ang likes to tell stories where MIKE: Microgram people a glimpse of the calm nature of people might not be that comfortable in PIG: Hippies’ term for the police Woodstock patrons, he says. “Even though their own skin, or maybe he likes to look RAP: To speak/communicate YOUR EXPERIENCE CONTINUES AT there’s not a lot of dialogue in those scenes, from the outside in. He likes the story of in the language of hip it’s the vibes, it’s the mood, it’s the energy somebody who is a bit of an outsider.” F RIPPED: Under the influence that, when you’re in places like that, you ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// of an illegal substance can’t necessarily put in words. But it’s posi- Bruce Kirkland is a film and DVD critic for ROACH: A small butt of marijuana tivity.It’s a lack of cynicism.” The Toronto Sun and Sun Media. —IR

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tunning enough to play Helen of Troy in Troy and versatile enough to conquer cinema on several continents, Diane Kruger finally found a big Hollywood role she was born to play: a German. INGLOURIOUS Kruger, from Algermissen, Germany,spied BASTERDS her big break when she discovered director Quentin Tarantino was looking for a Teutonic DianeKrugerasmoviestar HITS THEATRES beauty to portray Bridget von Hammersmark, an actor who helps a BridgetvonHammersmarkin brigade of Jewish soldiers flame broil the Third Reich in Tarantino’s InglouriousBasterds AUGUST21ST SInglourious Basterds. “It took a while [before he agreed] to audition Inset: Krugerplaysagame me because he didn’t believe I was German,” Kruger says of the withNazisoldiers director. “And I finally did, and that’s that.” Tarantino can be forgiven for the misunderstanding. Kruger, 33, speaks fluent French and English in addition to her native tongue. She has a long list of credits in French and American films, including National Treasure (2004)andits2007sequel.And,accordingtomedia reports, now that her boyfriend Joshua Jackson is shooting TV’s Fringe in his hometown of Vancouver, the couple is expected to set up house there soon. She is perhaps best known for inhabiting the face that launched a thousand ships and causing havoc for Brad Pitt’s Achilles in Troy (2004), and Inglourious Basterds reunites her with Pitt (who plays squad leader Aldo Raine) in a revenge fantasy that rewrites history with a pastiche of Tarantino’s favourite movie genres. But getting to this point in her career was a struggle. Kruger endured a difficult childhood, and turned to ballet to escape the tension caused by her alcoholic father. When Diane was 13, her mothertookherandherbrotherandfledtheirhomeinthemiddleof the night. When an injury ruined her dance aspirations, Kruger turned to modelling in France and Germany. After some acting classes, Kruger made her onscreen debut in the 2002 South Africa-set TV thriller The Piano Player with Dennis Hopper. Her résumé includes very few German-speaking roles, but Inglourious Basterds — in which she speaks English, French and German — should make up for that. Kruger was at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where the movie BEAUTYANDTHE premiered, when we sat down to discuss Tarantino’s quirks and the joy of playing a World War II German who’s a hero for a change.

Q:How were you first introduced to the part? A:“The script was quite public when Tarantino first decided he was goingtomakethisfilm.Iimmediatelythought,‘Oh,thatpartshould gotome.’Itwasn’tagivenatallbecausehehadsomeoneinmindfor this role, so he didn’t want to meet with anyone else. Then that didn’t work out for whatever reason.”

Q:Why were you compelled to play Bridget? Don’t let that pretty face fool you. Diane Kruger holds her own as one of Quentin Tarantino’s bloodthirsty Nazi A:“As you can imagine, when you’re German you get offered a lot of BEASTS World War II movies, and I’ve always said no. I didn’t want to be hunters in the WW II revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds  BYKARINECOHEN-DICKER limited to play that. Then this came around and it continued

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was just so funny, and obviously, yes, it’s a seeseverything. And every little thing that fairy tale, a farce. That character was just you’re trying to do, if he likes what you do, the coolest. What I like about her is that he’s right there and he’s going to give that BACK TO SCHOOL she’s an impossibly glamorous movie star an extra shot.” but she’s not James Bond. She’s not this killing machine. You see her quite vulnerable Q:He is also known to make actors and funny, rather than an obvious cliché of stick to the script. Marlene Dietrich the movie star.” A:“He’sveryattachedtohiswordsinEnglish. He can stop a scene if you forget a word.” Pistachio Cahiers Q:But you modelled Bridget after another and Notebooks Q: German actor, Hildegard Knef. Why? Tarantino made what many might see Made in Canada and A:“WhatIlikedaboutherwasthatshewas as a guys’ movie, yet it features some printed with soy ink on very tough and she must have smoked two heroic women, including your character. Smencils Scented packsof cigarettesaday.Hervoice wasvery That’s pretty rare. WHAT’S IN A 100% post-consumer Coloured Pencils deep. She was very beautiful but she was A:“He’s one of the few directors who truly recycled paper. Made from recycled newspapers. just a tad mannish, a little tough.” love strong women. Women are always From $3.99 - $19.99 $14.99 (10 pk) very elevated and are shown as strong, not NAME? Q:What is it about the fairy tale aspect of victims.” If you think Quentin Tarantino’s this movie that is so appealing? Inglourious Basterds has an odd title A:“I think it’s part wishful thinking. It was Q:How do you think Inglourious Basterds take a look at the film on which it’svery fun to me. I am German. Nobody will ever will affect your career? loosely based — a 1978 B movie Oxford Canadian forget. It wasn’t disrespectful to anyone. It A:“I definitely see it as the greatest oppor- from Italian director Enzo G. Casellari Dictionary & Thesaurus was fun. I liked Quentin’s tone. Only some- tunity I’ve had to play in a movie with a (which was recently re-released on DVD Two-pack one like Quentin could pull that off.” director that I admire 100 percent. I feel like and Blu-ray). Shot in Italy, that film began it was the first time a director of this calibre itslifewiththeshootingtitle Bastardi Printed on 80% FSC Q:How would you categorize this movie? trusted me with a part that had nothing to Senza Gloria, which literally translates to recycled paper. A:“It’s a Western, a film noir, it’s all those do with the way I look or movies I’ve made Bastards Without Glory, but was released Reg. $14.95 NOW $10.47 things. I don’t think Quentin intended to before. He’s famous for hiring people who in Italy as Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato irewards $9.42 each make a serious movie. I don’t think he are 100 percent right for the part. I feel like (That Damned Armoured Train). wanted to make something with a deep that also because of this, a lot of opportuni- In the States the movie hit theatres as political message. I didn’t see it that way.” ties have come across. I’ve gotten spoiled Inglorious Bastards, but was subse-  with this and realized what a difference a quently re-released as Counterfeit (%d[[ Q:Did you project yourself into the film? great director can make, what he’s able to Commandos, The Dirty 7 (a play on A:“I like to think that if I had the opportu- get out of an actress. The next project, I’ll The Dirty Dozen, the far superior film it nity to bring down the Third Reich, I would choose a lot more carefully.” unabashedly aped), Deadly Mission, have had the balls to do it.” Hell’s Heroes and, perhaps most Q:You wereoneof thefew to interesting of all, G.I. Bro. Although ™ * Q:How will modern Germany speak German, French and English re-releasing a movie with a new title in regard this? in the film. Did you ever play translator order to pass it off as a fresh film was RECEIVE 250 SCENE POINTS A:“It all depends on Germany’s sense of on the set? not unusual at the time, G.I. Bro went one by adding a green back to school humour, which only time will tell. I’m A:“I did a lot of translating, because you’d step further. To capitalize on the growing German. I thought it was very funny. It’s a think you understand something, and then popularity of blaxploitation films, product to your purchase in-store. cool idea. We’ll see.” you didn’t. For me it was great.” the movie was actually recut to make it seem as if supporting actor ™ Q:We hear so many stories about Q:Beyond your experience in Cannes, Fred Williamson, an African-American, BE SCENE BUYING GREEN what it’s like to work for Tarantino. what’s it like to see yourself onscreen in a had the starring role. —MW Please add to the canon. film for the first time? * A:“It was challenging. He’s very demanding. A:“You don’t really watch the movie. You ® He’s a very precise, hands-on director. For see it for what it is. You discover what it is.

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Rob Zombie movies are not for the faint of heart. There are few laughs in his horror films — just blood and gore and fright. If you’re still reading, Zombie’s Halloween sequel H2 hits theatres this month, promising all of the above  BYCHRISALEXANDER

rom his grizzled, heavy-metal hillbilly visage, to his creepy multimedia endeavours, to his very name, no one has done more to legitimatize trash movie culture than Rob Zombie. The former frontman for the metal band White Zombie (named after the Bela Lugosi Ffilm), Zombie forged his identity with liberal inspiration from the vintage-exploitation, cult and horror worlds. Thanks to several Platinum- selling albums in the 1990s, Zombie looked to be the heir apparent to Alice Cooper. But in 1998 when White Zombie disbanded, the man born Robert Cummings launched a solo career and, eventually,turned his attention to writing and directing movies. First, in 2003, Zombie released his ’70s-styled shocker House of 1000 Corpses, and then in 2005 its blood-spattered sequel, The Devil’s Rejects. RobZombie Two years later came his controversial, and rather successful, remake of John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 horror, Halloween. This summer Zombie returns with H2, a Halloween sequel that once again casts the lovely Scout Taylor-Compton as Haddonfield, Illinois, resident Laurie Strode, and Tyler Mane as her deranged brother Michael Myers. The film picks up where the last movie left off, with Laurie in hospital being treated for wounds inflicted by her masked sibling. However, as Michael hacks, slashes and batters his way PRINCEOF back to her door — his intent as malicious as ever — we slowly begin to realize that the madness which has plagued the killer since he was a child may in fact be hereditary. Zombie was in Los Angeles when Famous

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When you’re remaking a movie you need to be faithful in some respects, at least that’s what I thought when I made Halloween. If I had taken it and radically changed it, people would be like, why call it Halloween at all? And if I had stuck too close to the source, fans would have been just as irate. I was damned either way. So, this time, I just did 100 percent what I wanted. I never looked back, didn’t think about people’s expectations. I really believe that you need to be free to create good work.”

Q:How do you feel about Hollywood’s need to keep remaking LOOK WHAT THE BEAST classic horror films? A:“AtfirstIwasprettybummedoutbyitall,butnowI’mnumbto DRAGGED HOME. it. The business has changed so much and it’s almost impossible to getsomethinggreenlitunlessit’saremakeorasequelorbasedon WINNER 2009 AJAC BEST NEW a graphic novel or something. So you just have to realize this and $ work within those boundaries.” SPORTS / PERFORMANCE CAR OVER 50K. With its 416-hp V8 engine, 19¨‘BBS’ forged-aluminum samurai sword wheels, massive Q:Outside of going entirely with your own creative instincts, Brembo brakes and the world’s fi rst 8-speed Sport Direct Shift transmission, the Lexus what’s the biggest departure in H2? IS F “Beast” didn’t just compete against a fi eld of powerful cars, it impressed the A:“It’s way darker, way grittier. I thought my Halloween was a toughest experts. Judge for yourself. Test drive the IS F or IS Series today. Four models. nice-looking film but it just wasn’t dirty enough for me. I’m a big Three engine sizes. One rush of pure adrenaline. Priced to thrill from the low thirties*. fan of crud, so to speak, so instead of shooting 35 mm, this time I usedSuper16mm,whichiswhatIshot TheDevil’sRejects on. I just love the way it looks, so dirty, so worn. It looks like what 35 mm usedtolooklikeinthe’70s.Tomethere’slifeinthatgrime,areal- ity that really brings an almost documentary feel to the movie.”

Q:There’s always a tendency in mainstream horror films to bring humour or satire into the proceedings. Is there any comedy within the confines of your film? A:“There’s really no humour in H2 at all, it’s very grim. Every H2 character is totally f--ked up, totally damaged after the events in the first movie. We basically follow the path of three people, HITS THEATRES Michael, Laurie and Dr. Loomis [once more played by veteran British actor Malcolm McDowell] and how they all came out of it. AUGUST28TH Loomis seems to have come out of it perfectly and if there is any dark laughs in the film, they come out of what a douche bag he’s turnedinto.Butthat’sMalcolm,that’swhatIloveabouthim.He’s sogoodaboutplayingthatpart.Hecanbesuchaprickoncamera H2’sserialkillerMichaelMyers(TaylorMane) and yet he can be so charismatic and lovable at the same time.”

Q:Like Tarantino, you seem to thrive on resurrecting


Q:From the time you got the greenlight to do H2 last December these ’70s cult actors like Malcolm and assimilating them until completion earlier this year…well, it was a pretty small into your cinematic universe. Who else have you window. It must have been a stressful shoot. brought on board for H2? A:“It was insane, but making a movie is always insane. By the same A:“I was so totally excited to have Margot Kidder in this one. token, we really made things happen in the time that we had. Some people thought that, because of the troubles she’s had in Somehow, everyone seemed to move twice as fast which I really the past, there would be issues with her on set, but she was a joy think worked to the advantage of the picture because there was no andshe’sincredibleinthemovie.Itseemsthatmanyoftheactors time to second-guess. We were moving ahead so furiously that no who worked in the ’70s have a different vibe; they have a looser, one could keep up with what we were doing and I think, creatively, freer aura about them. Whether it be Margot or Karen Black or the movie has really benefited from it. There’s a real energy here.” Brad Dourif, they all just have such a different sense of who they are. I love working with them and, for me, it’s just a thrill to still Q:In the first film you were somewhat shackled by the have them around.” F shadow of John Carpenter’s original. Have you strayed ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// from the formula with H2? Chris Alexander is a Toronto-based writer and radio personality and lexus.ca A:“Ohyeah,thisoneisallmineandthat’swhyIwasexcitedtodoit. the Canadian correspondent for the horror magazine Fangoria. *IS 250 starts from low thirties; ISF starts from the mid sixties. MSRPs do not include Freight and PDI ($1895), license, insurance, registration, applicable taxes, levies, duties on new tires and fees extra. Dealer may sell for less. Visit lexus.ca for full details. 32 FAMOUS AUGUST 2009 INTERVIEW VANESSA HUDGENS CAN’T STOP THE CBGBlives! There’s a sweet scene in Bandslam in which stars Gaelan Connell and Vanessa Hudgens make a pilgrimage to New York’s famed CBGB, the grotty, hole-in- the-wall music club that hosted punk and new wave bands such as the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie and Talking Heads when they were just starting out. And the fact that CBGB was Just because Vanessa Hudgens shut down and stripped bare in plays a singing teen in her new 2006 didn’t deter director movie Bandslam doesn’t mean it’s Todd Graff — who actually Music played there many times with anything like that other role his former band, The Pedantics she’s famous for. Seriously. — from fudging history and  BYINGRIDRANDOJA recreating the club on a soundstage in Austin, Texas, to include in his film. Using books, anessa Hudgens has one more Too bad no one told Hudgens about that. “Honestly, they didn’t photos and Graff’s personal closing number left in her. even tell me I would have to play,” she says, still sounding a bit sur- memories, the production team However, it isn’t as Gabriella Montez, the prised. “I read the script and it said I was playing, and I was like, spent weeks gluing stickers sweet good girl she played in the mega-successful ‘Okay,cool,whatever.’AndthenIfoundoutIwouldplayandwehad onto the walls, spraying graffiti High School Musical franchise, but rather as a a few weeks of band rehearsal, which was a lot of fun ’cause I got to and building the club’s rickety surly teen who steps out of her shell in the clever learn how to play the guitar.” stage, ultimately creating a musical comedy Bandslam. Hudgens makes a convincing rock chick, complete with the loving homage to a lost piece of The brainchild of writer/director Todd Graff, de rigueur guitaronthehipstanceandpoutylips.Itseemstheentire rock ’n’ roll history.—IR Bandslam stars Gaelan Connell as teenaged Will, a shy music geek cast gleaned some of their best moves from the Rock Band who transfers to a high school in New Jersey. Will’s encyclopedic videogame.” I looove RockBand,” says Hudgens. “Weplayed RockBand Vknowledge of music impresses sexy senior Charlotte (Aly Michalka), alotonset,anditwasalotoffun,itwasourbondingtime.” who asks Will to transform her garage band into a well-oiled musical And what was her song of choice? machinecapableofwinningtheepicbattleofthebandscompetition “For some reason I got stuck singing ‘Creep’ by Radiohead a lot.” called Bandslam. Shesoundsunfazedaboutthemusicalchallengesshefacedonset, Hudgens plays Sa5m, “it’s pronounced Sam, the 5 is silent,” says which makes sense when you consider the 20-year-old native of Hudgen’s character, a sarcastic, book-reading loner who carries a Salinas, California, is a show-business veteran, beginning her musical torchforWill.“It’sadifferentcharacterfromanythingI’veeverdone theatre career at the age of eight when she starred in local stage before so it was nice to step into someone else’s shoes,” says Hudgens productions, and making her feature film debut at 15 in director on the line from Los Angeles. “She’s dark, introverted, very deadpan Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen. and monotone.” When HSM exploded she was suddenly a 16-year-old television Sa5m also possesses some hardcore musical talent, which comes superstar and best-selling recording artist. The microscope she lived to the forefront during Bandslam. Graff, an actor turned filmmaker under clicked to a higher magnification when it was revealed she (he played the wisecracking Hippy in The Abyss), shot the movie in was dating HSM co-star Zac Efron, and the scrutiny became unbear- the indie music hotspot of Austin, Texas, and insisted that every actor able in 2007 when private nude photos of Hudgens surfaced online. he cast be able to play his/her musical instrument in the movie — Yet Hudgens proved to be Teflon-coated, apologizing for her lapse there would be no lame, fake guitar strumming in his film. in judgment and surviving a scandal that could continued
Vanessa Hudgens as Sa5m in Bandslam. Inset: The members of the band I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

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“It’s a different character from anything I’ve ever done before,” says Hudgens, “so it was nice to step into someone else’s shoes. She’s dark, introverted, very deadpan and monotone”

Sa5m (Hudgens) checks out Will (Gaelan Connell) in Bandslam

have derailed her career before it really took off. And Bandslam proves However, kicking butts and toting a gun are yet to come, the she has the acting chops to survive in a post-HSM world, if only Hudgens we spoke with was on hiatus, back home in L.A. having Hollywood movie execs would stop sending her HSM retread scripts. returned from Bandslam’s Austin set. “I’m just kind of waiting since “The things that I really like are, of course, the things I really have I’m going to have to do two movies in a row, so I’m just relaxing to fight for because they are different,” she says of the roles she before the storm.” wants to play. Her boyfriend Efron complains of the same problem, And what does that entail? “Hang out, relax at home, do nothing. and you wonder who she thinks has had an easier time making that Avoid my phone,” she says with a laugh. transitiontomoreadultfare—himorher?“Idon’tnecessarilythink To be honest, it’s difficult to believe someone who’s been per- it’s an easy thing in general,” she says diplomatically.“You just have forming since she was eight could really sit still and do nothing. to be smart and it doesn’t matter who you are, you just have to be When pushed, she does concede she’s no couch potato. “I have smart about what you’re doing and really be focused.” been getting antsy, yes, but I definitely have the ability to relax. I So could Hudgens — not Efron — be HSM’s breakout star? think I’m going to start photography,and I’ve been working out a She just finished filming Beastly in Montreal, which is a modern- lot — Pilates, boxing, spinning and hiking. And it’s always nice day take on the Beauty and the Beast fable in which a spoiled young driving around with the top down.” man (Alex Pettyfer) is turned into a horrible monster, and Hudgens Although,atleastoneaspectoffilming Bandslam inAustinwas plays the girl who can break the spell. relaxing as well. But the big news is that cutting-edge director Zack Snyder (300, “It was my very first time there, and there were no paparazzi, Watchmen) cast Hudgens in his next film, SuckerPunch, due out in 2011. which was nice. You could just walk around everywhere, it was She joins castmates Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone and Emily Browning in really artsy and there was really cool music. the female-only action flick about a girl in a mental institution who re- “It was nice to just wake up in my pyjamas, go downstairs and treats into a fantasy world where she fights against her tormentors. walk my dog.” F ™ Hudgens plays Blondie, one of the institution’s inmates, in this ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// movie Snyder refers to as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns.” Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Famous.

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INGREDIENTSMeryl Streep, Amy Adams, food, France, the mother of all cooking shows — Julie & Julia looks to be a tasty treat for anyone who likes to eat  BYBOBSTRAUSS

myAdamsandMerylStreepreallyenjoyedworking Julie Powell. It’s this beautiful parallel of these two women together in Doubt. searching for themselves and finding themselves through food Somuchso,theyhopetodoitagainsomeday. and cooking, and finding purpose.” In the meantime, there’s Julie & Julia. “It follows a long time in her life,” Streep says of the towering The film is a combination of renowned food (6’2”) superchef with the distinctively trilling voice. “But it’s not writer and TV cook Julia Child’s autobiography about her. It’s about a young woman in Queens who works at the My Life in France and Julie Powell’s recent Lower Manhattan Development Project right after 9/11.” bestseller about trying to make all the During separate interviews last fall, both actors wear their recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of blond hair in ponytails; Adams sporting a sharp, navy blue suit French Cooking, Vol. 1. Writer-director Nora Ephron’s script depicts while Streep is elegantly relaxed in an olive green silk smock over the goings on at Child’s (Streep) French residence of the 1950s, and dark blue jeans and high heels. Powell’s culinary experiments in her cramped New York apartment, Adams’ blue eyes sparkle as dazzlingly as they do onscreen, which commenced in 2004, the year of Child’s death. reinforcing the notion that she’s some version of the optimistic “I was really happy to have worked with Meryl on Doubt because Pollyanna she played in Junebug, Enchanted and NightattheMuseum: in Julie & Julia we don’t share any scenes,” notes Adams who, like Battle of the Smithsonian. But the actor says Powell should leave Streep, was Oscar-nominated for her performance in the earlier film. quite a different impression. “It would have been a great heartbreak of my life to have done a “Ourcharactersarepolaroppositesin Julie&Julia,”saysAdams. movie with Meryl Streep and not shared a scene with her!” “Meryl’s so fantastic as Julia Child, creates a humanity and a Not that Julie & Julia was unfulfilling. warmth. My character’s the complete opposite, frustrated and “It’s parallel stories,” Adams explains. “I’m reading her book, and confused and questioning and grouchy.” Where did she find that it goes back and forth between that and Julie & Julia written by kind of personality,we wonder. continued

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Clockwise from left: JuliePowell (AmyAdams,centre)haslunchwith friends;JuliaChild(MerylStreep) learnstocookwiththeboys; PowellreadsChild’sautobiography

“You know, I do not have an unflagging good spirit,” Adams says think people put on her that sense of perfectionism, that I would with a laugh. “It’s about a 75 to 25 ratio, I would say.And those who expect that Meryl would expect that I would be perfect. And that is know me well are always, like, when it comes out, ‘Oh, here she is; not true at all. She is so open and embracing of the human experience Visitors to the Smithsonian’s overall organization of the here’s the other Amy.’ They can well attest.” that your flaws are just as good as your perfections in her eyes.” National Museum of American space, told a bigger story Streep, apparently,did not get that memo. “Do I have an A Game?” Streep responds to the question of just History in Washington, D.C., about Julia’s philosophy of “Amy’s incredible. In-credible,” the acting legend gushes. “She just how she’s delivered so many outstanding performances. “I guess I can get a peek inside the late cooking.” Child agreed, and seems so pure and guileless. And she’s very alive on set. Too bad we try to clear away anything that’s going to inhibit me in my work. I Julia Child’s charming the exhibit opened in August never crossed paths on this one. It was like two different movies. We have a very bad short-term memory,so that helps [laughs] — it really kitchen. 2002, two years before the got to shoot in Paris and she got to shoot in Queens!” does! I clear away what isn’t going to be useful. You have to check In 2001, curators heard famed chef’s death. A copy of As for her own work on the film, Streep — who lets others claim your medals at the door. The whole job is to be as honest as you can that Child was leaving her Child’s seminal cookbook she can do anything, but has never said so herself — didn’t come to this person that you’re inhabiting. Their heart, their convictions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mastering the Art of French away from Julie & Julia with a new language or musical skill like she their needs and dilemma, all those things. So working is kind of a home and moving to a little Cooking — which plays a huge has in films past. As for French cuisine… “Yeah, I learned to cook,” wonderful place to be. place in California. She was in role in Julie & Julia — is part Streep shrugs. “I’m not that good. But, y’know, you put butter on “It’sonlywhenIgetouthereinthemarketingendofmoviemak- her late 80s at the time. So of the display. anything, it really does taste better. That was her whole thing.” ing that I feel those labels hurled at my feet. But I don’t normally they travelled to Cambridge If a trip to Washington is Otherwise, the role had a very easy “in” for the record-holding, feel that way.” to ask if they could pick up not in your plans, you can 15-time Academy Award nominee (and double winner). There is one new label, though, that pleases Streep, who’s been the entire room, contents explore the kitchen online at “You do immediately envision her by her voice, the way she her the minute that it hit The New York Times!” moreadmiredforthequalityofherworkthanitsmasspopularityfor included, and move it http://americanhistory.si.edu/ talked,” Streep notes, adding that it’s too bad the movie didn’t go Speaking of paranoia, Amy couldn’t help but bring some of it to most of her career. en masse to Washington. juliachild — zooming in and a little bit deeper into Child’s just-confirmed activities during her first encounters with Meryl. “Julie&Julia iscomingoutinwhattheynowcallThe Mamma Mia! A statement on the out on baking sheets, oil World War II. “She’s a really interesting woman. It’s so weird, the “I signed on to do both movies before we started Doubt, and she Slot,” she says with a delighted laugh. “That’s because they put Smithsonian website says, and vinegar, and the whole thing about her working with the OSS [Office of Strategic agreed to work with me,” Adams reveals. “It’s the same attraction Mamma Mia! in The Devil Wears Prada Slot. Now they think I’m the “We could see that the unusually tall countertop Services] recently came out. I always said to Nora Ephron, ‘Y’know, everybody has to working with Meryl. But I have to say, going into Queen of Summer! All I can do now is fail.” F relationships between the built to accommodate she was a spy,’ and Nora said, ‘No, that’s just apocryphal, surmised Doubt I did feel an extra, added sense of responsibility that she would /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// parts and pieces, and the Child’s height.—MW by all of these people who have paranoid fantasies.’ Well, I called have agoodworking experience withme. ButMeryl’snotlike that. I Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers.

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42 FAMOUS AUGUST 2009 AUGUST 2009 FAMOUS 43 THE GOODS HOTPLAY Batman’s committed to saving Gotham  BYSCOTTGARDNER MUSIC MAKERS Turning the tables on a VJ. Plus, Weird Al has never been scarier  BYINGRIDRANDOJA MATT WELLS Singers TIM MACNEILL On Screen PARODY SINGERWeird Al Yankovic plays himself in the bloody horror flick H2. Director Rob Zombie — who has a thing for casting faces from the ’70s and ’80s in his movies — has Weird Al appearing on a TV Batman:ArkhamAsylum PC, PS3, XBOX 360 talk show alongside the creepy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), and it seems Al gets inally, Gotham City can exhale: Batman has the best of the pretentious psychiatrist. captured the Joker and he’s taking him to the city’s fortress-like Arkham Asylum for the LAZYBONES Criminally Insane. Home, in other words. But that’s the problem. Arkham is not only GETSMOVING KISS the very place the Joker knows best, it’s also att Wells Paul Simon, Willie Nelson “They are either media POTATO overflowing with supervillains like Harley Quinn, makes a living and Townes Van Zandt that trained, or protected ’cause HEADS Poison Ivy and Bane. Seeking revenge on their captor, they interviewing I tried to bring their we are told by publicists not Imagine spring a trap on Batman just as he arrives. Suddenly the Martists for melodic sensibilities to to ask this or that question. Gene Simmons’ inmates are running the asylum and only the Dark Knight MuchMoreMusic, but now Bucket Truck. And when the We live in a world where tongue comingoutofAceFrehley’smouth. can stop the chaos from spreading to Gotham itself. it’shisturnto fessup and band ended, it was just me when these interviews Thesenew KISS Mr. Potato Head dolls (out Batman fans haven’t had a new videogame since 2005’s mediocre reveal details about his and a guitar, and Ihadway happen, it just seems it’s not August 3rd) let fans rearrange the band’s FBatman Begins (Xbox, PS2, GameCube), and many expected another own music. more time to focus on about the music anymore. facial features. The collectors set includes uninspired movie tie-in during 2008’s Year of the Bat. Instead, the Wolfenstein Metroid The Newfoundland playing that kind of music.” And I get it. I get it’s a world the four original bandmates: Simmons developers used the renewed interest in the Caped Crusader to create PC, PS3, XBOX 360 PrimeTrilogy WII native (who moved to The duo’s debut CD, of gossip and all those kind (The Demon), Frehley (The Spaceman), a game inspired by the comic books, with a nod to the critically Launched when the mountains This exceptional value pack Toronto in 2007) teamed Songs From Here, is available of things, but it’s really Peter Criss (The Catman) and Paul Stanley acclaimed mid-’90s Batman: The Animated Series. Arkham Asylum were young (okay, 1992), features the near-perfect with Tim MacNeill, an old August 11th, and as a difficult for me ’cause I like (The Starchild).Costumes,instruments,hair boasts an original script by that show’s Emmy-winning writer, idSoftware’sWolfenstein3Dwas sci-fi action-shooters pal from Nova Scotia, to veteran music journalist to talk about music.” and footwear are also interchangeable. and employs the series’ main voice talent, including a demented theoriginalfirst-personshooter, Metroid Prime and Metroid form Lazybones. The duo one assumes Wells has Mark Hamill as the Joker. and bane of campus computer Prime 2 Echoes (originally for plays rootsy,acoustic mastered the art of music True to Batman’s nature, the game blends hand-to-hand combat, labs everywhere. Now id’s back GameCube), reworked with guitar-driven rock, a chit-chat and promotion. 8OUT THIS MONTH stealth and detective work. For your CSI-ing you’ll have forensic with a souped-up version, and full widescreen support, departure from the heavy “The most interesting AUGUST 4
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AUGUST 25 Polytechnique Jamie Foxx plays schizophrenic music prodigy Nathaniel Ayers in The Soloist STARS:KarineVanasse, MaximGaudette DIRECTOR:DenisVilleneuve AUGUST 4 a schizophrenic, homeless all of his friends are women, and (Maelström) musical prodigy (Foxx) and the he has no one to be best man at STORY:The true story of RacetoWitchMountain Los Angeles Times columnist hisrapidlyapproachingwedding. December 6th, 1989, when STARS:DwayneJohnson, (Downey Jr.) who befriends — Marc Lepine (Gaudette) AnnaSophiaRobb and writes about — him sounds 17Again entered Montreal’s École DIRECTOR:AndyFickman uplifting, think again. The Soloist STARS:ZacEfron,MatthewPerry Polytechnique, divided the (TheGamePlan) is based on a real story, and that DIRECTOR:BurrSteers menfromthewomen,and STORY: A cabbie (Johnson) has real story was complicated and, (IgbyGoesDown) openedfire on the latter. to get two extraterrestrials — at times, disheartening...and so STORY:A little bit of Big. A little bit who happen to be disguised is the movie. of It’s a Wonderful Life. A lot of Adventureland as children (Robb, Alexander Zac Efron. Thirtysomething Mike STARS:JesseEisenberg, Ludwig) — to the Nevada AUGUST 11 (Perry) despairs after his KristenStewart mountain that’s hiding their marriage fails and his kids want DIRECTOR:GregMottola spaceship before an evil ILoveYou,Man nothing to do with him. He (Superbad) organization can stop them. STARS:PaulRudd,JasonSegel returns to his high school for STORY:Strapped for cash, DVD Extras: two-disc set DIRECTOR:JohnHamburg some old-fashioned wallowing a recent college grad featuresbloopers,deletedscenes (AlongCamePolly) and tells the janitor how much (Eisenberg) takes a job at a STORY: A bromance blooms better his life could have been. rundown amusement park TheSoloist when uptight real estate agent On his way home, there’s that where he crushes on his STARS:RobertDowneyJr., Peter Klaven (Rudd) meets mysterious janitor about to jump co-worker (Stewart), smokes JamieFoxx laidback investor Sydney Fife from a bridge. Mike goes after a lot of weed and learns to DIRECTOR: Joe Wright (Segel) at an open house. Which him and plunges into the water lighten up. DVD Extras: two (Atonement) is perfect, since Peter really below only to emerge as his disc set features deleted STORY:If you think a movie about needs to bond with a man fast — 17-year-old self (Efron). scenes, commentary

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