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MILLA JOVOVICH DOES THE JESSICA WORLD ALBA NEED EMMA GORDON STONE GEKKO?

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EVIL DOER30 Milla Jovovich models, sings 34 and twitters, but nothing beats THE MONEY MAN Michael Douglasreturns as “greed is good” guru Gordon Gekko in theWall Street the rush of whacking zombies. sequel, Money Never Sleeps.After years spent in prison for insider trading, Gekko is finally released. But Here the Resident Evil: Afterlife is he a changed man? Maybe. But not too changed. That’s a good thing, though, since Douglas prefers to star admits getting to play a play flawed characters. Here the actor talks about the joys of winning over an audience, the merits of kick-ass hero is wicked cool juicy supporting roles and his family’s sad, real-life brush with incarceration this year • By Marni Weisz • By Ingrid Randoja

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We have to admit we were ROBERT PATTINSON 1 pleasantly surprised when Russell Brand disrobed on the JIM CARREY New York set of Arthur. And MICHELLE WILLIAMS filming a wedding scene at CAUGHT a church, no less. GREG KINNEAR PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS KATIE HOLMES Michelle Williams films a RUSSELL BRAND 2 scene for Take This Waltz in a Toronto home. The Sarah Polley- ON FILM directed drama co-stars Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman and should come out next year. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

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Artifact IN THIS MONTH’S BRIEF OBJET DE FILM Madonna directs a movie; take two life, muchachos. SHREK ART DreamWorks Animation is banking on the fact there are a lot of well-off mommies and daddies out there willing to shell out Add social networking big bucks to show their kids $ some love. Like $6,000 (U.S.) for 10/month. for this one-of-a-kind 19” x 24” paper sculpture by Florida artist Tim West. The studio recently launched a “Fine Art” branch (Dreamworks animationfineart.com) aimed at the bedrooms of young art lovers. The pieces riff off recent Madonna (far right) watches as her DreamWorks releases, such cameraman films W.E. actors as Kung Fu Panda, How to James D’Arcy and Andrea Riseborough Train Your Dragon and Monsters vs. Aliens, but they’re not your typical ou wouldn’t about a married American the film before making and Edward, who framed cels. Most are expect Steven (Abbie Cornish) falling Filth and Wisdom. And became the Duke and unique or limited-edition Spielberg to for a Russian security what a ballsy move on Duchess of Windsor after works — original direct in a Lycra guard (Oscar Isaac). her part, an American he abdicated the throne abstracts, stained glass, yoga outfit, so Give the pop star pop star setting out to in 1936, remained pencil sketches — that are Ywhy would Madonna? credit for getting back recount one of the most married for 35 years. merely inspired by the The Material Girl — behind the camera after celebrated, and painful, Maybe there’s a bit of films and characters, hence seen here in a head-to- her debut directing chapters in recent wishful thinking on her the price tags ranging from MADONNA PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS BY PHOTO MADONNA

toe white outfit to effort, 2008’s erotic tale British history. part as well. —IR $99 to $8,000. —MW protect her from the Filth and Wisdom, was Not to get all Freudian sun’s rays — was in the critically panned — here, but it is interesting south of France this Roger Ebert called it that Madonna’s obsessed summer directing her “a pointless exercise in with the notion of an second film, W.E. ‘shocking’ behavior.” American woman The movie, co-written However, Madonna arriving in England, by Madonna, recounts isn’t one to take things marrying a British man American divorcée lying down, oops, we deemed above her social Wallis Simpson’s mean she isn’t one to let station and who’s scorned (Andrea Riseborough) critics get in the way of by the British public for love affair with England’s her dream project. She “ruining” his life. King Edward VIII told Interview magazine While Madonna’s (James D’Arcy) in the that W.E. has “been an marriage to British 1930s, which is mirrored obsession of mine” and filmmaker Guy Ritchie by a contemporary tale that she had the idea for ended in divorce, Wallis

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Score: A Hockey Musical plays at the Toronto International Film Festival this month, then opens nationally October 22nd NOAH REID’SGOOD OLD HOCKEY SONGS “Occasionally you feel something has Plus, he’s an incredible hockey player. “He’s discovered one day on your name on it,” says Noah Reid, the 23-year-old star of Score: A the shinny rink for his hockey skills and put through the minor Hockey Musical, the opening night movie at this month’s Toronto hockey system where he is expected to, among other things, throw International Film Festival. “I thought that if I couldn’t land this one down the gloves and fight a little bit,” says Reid. “And he’s been there would be something a little wrong with me.” raised a pacifist by his hippie parents so that doesn’t fly too well.” Reid’s been acting since he earned the title role in Oliver at age And, from time to time, the characters break into song, starting six. He’s been singing in choirs, playing piano and writing songs all with one written for the film by the Barenaked Ladies. “They’re not his life. And, born in Toronto, he’s played hockey all his life, too, really typical musical songs, I think there’s something distinctly often outdoors on a rink built by his uncle; one year even good Canadian about them in that they’re kind of folky or rocky or enough to play on a Select team. So when the opportunity arose to occasionally there’s this kind of beer hall feel to them,” says Reid. play Farley Gordon in director Michael McGowan’s (One Week) “They’re really interesting and they were a lot of fun to sing.” unlikely hockey musical, Reid was thrilled. Yes, the concept is tongue-in-cheek, but the actors weren’t “These are the three things in life that I can do. Acting, singing allowed to play it that way, says Reid. “Mike McGowan wanted us to and playing hockey,” he says with a laugh. treat the comedy very seriously. He thought the comedy would be Filmed over five weeks in Toronto this past February, Score: A in playing it really truthfully, which I thought was a great idea. If Hockey Musical co-stars Australian icon Olivia-Newton John and you play for the joke there is no joke, but if you pretend it’s not a Canadian singer/songwriter Marc Jordan as Farley’s parents. joke, then it’s funny.” F Farley, Reid explains, is something of a boy wonder. He’s been //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PHOTO BY TIM LEYES TIM BY PHOTO

home-schooled, travelled the world and speaks several languages. Marni Weisz

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Resident Evil: Afterlife’s Ali Larter (left) and Milla Jovovich

Resident Evil: Afterlife zombie killer Alice. Along with searching for its evil head takes four of her friends for a The most successful human survivor siblings Claire honcho, Albert Wesker ride in her plane. When the videogame-to-movie (Ali Larter) and Chris Redfield (Shawn Roberts). See Milla weather turns nasty, they climb franchise rolls out its fourth (Wentworth Miller), Alice fights Jovovich interview, page 30. above the clouds and encounter flick — this time in 3D — all manner of undead when the a tentacled, supernatural starring series stalwart trio infiltrates the underground Altitude creature who loves the taste of Milla Jovovich as ruthless lair of the Umbrella Corporation A teen pilot (Jessica Lowndes) airplane food. George Clooney kills people for a living in The American

The American Never Let Me Go His graying hair and deepening Three of Britain’s hottest wrinkles instill George Clooney Machete 20-something actors — 15 with a certain world-weariness, Director Robert Rodriguez Carey Mulligan, Keira september appropriate for his role in this 3 so loved the fake trailer he Knightley and the newly cast contemplative thriller. He plays september created for Grindhouse that Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield Jack, a disillusioned assassin he decided to turn it into a — bring Kazuo Ishiguro’s looking to finish his career with real feature. Danny Trejo best-selling book to life. Three one final job. Waiting in the stars as Machete, a killer friends look back on their Italian countryside to fulfill who’s hired to slay a corrupt childhood when they attended the task, he falls in love with senator (Robert De Niro), the idyllic English private Clara (Violante Placido), but ends up on the run from school Hailsham. However, a local woman who brings out a comely government agent their bucolic existence was his humanity, not a good thing (Jessica Alba). See Jessica full of secrets and lies that Never Let Me Go’s school chums, from left: Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan when you’re a stone cold killer. Alba interview, page 20. haunt them still. continued

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t sounds like some sort of time-management voodoo. With abiding citizen and by the book. The other one, I wouldn’t say she’s a toddler in tow, Jessica Alba claims to have maximized her evil, but she’s kind of a mess on the other side of the law. She just quality time while doing more movies than ever — four this doesn’t have her stuff together, she’s sloppy and she has problems.” year alone. The secret: small, but eye-catching parts in lieu In the wings, influencing all of Alba’s career decisions, is two-year- of starring roles. In her latest, Robert Rodriguez’s gritty, old Honor Marie Warren, her daughter with producer Cash Warren campy Grindhouse spin-off Machete, she even plays twins, (conceived about the time Alba was in Toronto filming The Love Guru doubling the payoff. with Mike Myers). “Since she’s been born, I changed everything about “It was cool, it was crazy, it was fun,” Alba says of Machete how I approach my work,” Alba says. “I mean, I just frankly don’t care Iduring a recent L.A. interview. The film stars craggy-faced Danny Trejo if a role’s small or big. I just like working with good directors. That’s as the title character, a Chicano hired gun who’s double-crossed when sort of been the focus, because if I’m going to spend any time at all he’s assigned to assassinate an immigrant-hating U.S. politician away from her, it better be for a good reason. (Robert De Niro), and is based on a fake movie trailer Rodriguez pro- “As it is, I have four movies coming out this year,” she says. “So I duced as filler between his movie and Quentin Tarantino’s in the think I worked pretty much as much as I ever want to, for sure.” B-movie double-bill Grindhouse. Machete’s tagline: “They just fu--ed Machete is part of a chain of meaty supporting roles that happened with the wrong Mexican!” almost simultaneously — the better to free her up the rest of the year. “I guess he can look dangerous, but not if you know him,” Alba She played Ashton Kutcher’s heartbreaker fiancée in Valentine’s Day says of Trejo, a character actor who’s played every flavour of bad guy, and filmed a supporting role opposite Ben Stiller in the upcoming as well as the not-so-mean inventor Machete Cortez in Rodriguez’s Little Fockers, the sequel to Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, Spy Kids series. “But Danny is fantastic. He’s just the sweetest guy on which adds parenthood to the ongoing saga of Gaylord (“Call me the planet. He is adorable, absolutely adorable.” Greg”) Focker, his wife Pam (Teri Polo) and their in-laws. As the story In Machete (a movie with a crazy-quilt of guest stars, including begins, Greg and Pam are the parents of five-year-old twins, and Greg De Niro, Lindsay Lohan and Steven Seagal), Alba plays Sartana, a is suffering a mid-life crisis. federal agent who starts out on Machete’s trail with extreme preju- “I actually shot two movies at the same time all the way through dice, but softens toward him when they finally come face-to-face. Valentine’s Day,” Alba says. “Valentine’s Day was two-and-a-half You can see her in the posters, wearing skin-tight jeans and a sleeve- months of a couple of days at a time. I was shooting Machete all the less T-shirt, not exactly standard-issue law-enforcement wear. way through the beginning. And I started Meet the Little Fockers as But there is that twist. “I play identical twins, which was very cool Valentine’s Day was finishing.” because it gave me a chance to play two different characters,” Alba Apparently some juvenile puns never get old. Just saying the name says. “The main character is an immigration officer and she’s a law- of Stiller’s movie still makes Alba laugh (the title continued

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MACHETE Go pink. Pass it on. HITS THEATRES . ® SEPTEMBER 3rd It’s a positive chain reaction And, it starts with a pink BlackBerry and ends with women having access to the latest breast cancer detection has been shortened simply to Little Fockers since we spoke). In Little Fockers — which sees the return of Barbra Streisand as technology. For every pink BlackBerry ® CurveTM 9300, PearlTM 3G or Greg’s mom and Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner as Pam’s parents — Alba plays a pharmaceutical sales rep. “And you know, Ben Stiller’s character is a male nurse, so let’s say we have a lot of interaction in Jessica Alba as Machete’s CurveTM 8530 sold,TELUS will support a local hospital by donating $25 this movie. I don’t want to get in trouble by giving away too much. good twin, Sartana ELI ROTH PHOTO BY BYRON PURVIS/KEYSTONE PRESS PURVIS/KEYSTONE BYRON BY PHOTO ROTH ELI “I will say my character’s hilarious and very eccentric, like a guy’s . girl. She’s tough and funny, she’s like a dude.” towards innovative breast cancer equipment That new equipment Which speaks to what Alba enjoys most in a role, and why Machete was clearly her favourite experience in that flurry of parts. HOPE IT’S will then have a positive effect on the hospital’s patients because While the media has tended to concentrate on Alba’s looks — she topped Maxim’s Hot List, was one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People, repeatedly ranks near the top of FHM magazine’s 100 Sexiest Women, NOTURKEY it’s 28% more accurate than film, it delivers approximately 22% less and GQ pronounced her one of the “25 Sexiest Women in film of all If all goes well Machete won’t be the only time” — she’s a self-proclaimed tomboy. Her standing as a sex symbol fake trailer from Grindhouse to get its own doesn’t seem all that important to her. feature film. Actor (Inglourious Basterds) radiation, and it allows radiologists to immediately email images of “I really don’t take myself all that seriously, so I don’t take that and director (Hostel) Eli Roth (seen right), stuff all that seriously,” she says. The unspoken truth is that it also who helmed the fake trailer for Thanksgiving, is the test results. Breast cancer touches us represents a possible impediment to the kind of dramatic stretching working on a script to turn the holiday-themed she’d like to do down the road. “Hot” is fleeting, after all. horror flick parody into a full-length film. And she’s a sucker for an action role. She was, of course, plucked Expect a lot of cheese in this all, so go pink today to give the gift of health from obscurity by James Cameron himself to star in his sci-fi TV series Thanksgiving feast, which managed to Dark Angel, a kick-butt debut that led to her tenure as Sue Storm (a.k.a. squeeze all of the following witticisms . the Invisible Girl) in two Fantastic Four movies. “I finally get to play into its two-and-a-half-minute trailer: to women in your local community full-out action again,” she says of her gun-toting turn in Machete. “I “This holiday season prepare to have mean, I always played sports and was a total tomboy growing up. the stuffing scared out of you;” “This And all my friends were guys, pretty much until I was an adult.” year there will be no leftovers;” Beyond that, she says, “I’m kind of just enjoying spending time “White meat, dark meat, all will with my daughter, savouring my time off and trying to balance it all. be carved;” “Arrive hungry. When you work all the time, you miss such milestones in their lives, Leave stuffed;” and especially at this age.” F “Thanksgiving. You’ll come telusmobility.com/pink /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// home for the holidays...in a Jim Slotek writes for the Toronto Sun. body bag.”—MW

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Branchez-vous sur le Canada et courez What’s a girlSHAME to do when the la chance de vous Times sure change. rumours start to fly? Four hundred Back in 17th-century Massachusetts, a single act of promiscuity years ago, repent. Now? Own it. could ruin a woman’s reputation for life. Today, a smart girl can get mêler aux stars! as much positive as negative notoriety from sexualizing her image. Easy A star Emma Stone explains Emma Stone is a smart girl. And that’s exactly what she does in L’heureux gagnant proﬁ tera d’un BY BOB STRAUSS her new movie Easy A, playing an unpopular and overlooked weekend VIP à Toronto pour célébrer teenager, Olive Penderghast, who becomes quite a sensation at avec les plus grandes vedettes de la her California high school after faking a libidinous romp with a gay friend (Dan Byrd) who’s not ready to come out of the closet. télévision à l’occasion du gala des But even in this Rihanna/Lady Gaga age, Olive discovers, there’s Prix Gemini 2010. a price to be paid whether you’ve actually Done It or not. “She kind of turns it to her advantage and uses what goes on Inscrivez-vous au site to improve her social standing,” Stone, 21, explains during an branchessurlecanada.ca interview on the Santa Monica Pier. “What really continued

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Given a choice, she’d prefer to work more in an Easy A than Scarlet Letter vein. “I always wanted to be on Saturday Night Live,” Stone says. “That was my jumping- off point; Gilda Radner was my hero as I was growing up. I always connected comedy to love and joy. My parents watched a lot of comedies and showed me a lot of them; like, I think The Jerk was the first movie that I ever saw. Then when you get into John Hughes and Woody Allen and Hal Ashby, the comedy mix- ing with something that’s very heartfelt and true, that’s where I’ve been drawn Are you looking at me? Amanda Bynes (left) gives Emma Stone a dirty look in Easy A more as I’ve gotten older.” Of course, the passage of centuries doesn’t change interests me is the genuine sadness that underlines a lot of the hu- some aspects of human nature. When it comes to intense com- mour. But it’s very much a comedy, not tragic drama.” munity judgment of inappropriate behaviour, Lindsay Lohan is Stone emphasizes the film’s humour to offset the idea, which is arguably the real internet-age incarnation of Hester Prynne. reinforced by references in its own trailers, that Easy A is some kind With her physical resemblance to Lohan, husky voice and of updated dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic, not-funny- alternating blond and red hair, when asked if anyone’s ever com- at-all novel of Puritan-era intolerance, The Scarlet Letter. In the film, pared her to the troubled LiLo, Stone laughs and says, “Yeah, I Olive is studying the book, and even gets a provocative fashion notion think probably.” out of it. But don’t expect Stone to have anything to be ashamed of “There are some As on the wardrobe,” Stone admits, referencing anytime soon. “I just keep my head down,” she says. “I like to hang the mark of shame that the novel’s heroine, Hester Prynne, is forced out with my friends and enjoy what I get to do for my job, but I to wear to signify “adulterer.” A big difference in the movie is that definitely don’t fall into what I guess you’d call the lifestyle that it Olive simply opts, as the modern phrase goes, to own it. offers. I’d rather remain as normal as possible. As long as all it says “People are describing it as a takeoff of The Scarlet Letter, but it’s on the internet about me is I do PowerPoint, that’s enough for me.” F really not,” Stone continues. “It’s the story of a girl in high school who /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// gets a rumour started about her and she decides to go with it. She’s Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers. reading The Scarlet Letter and sees her life mirroring Hester Prynne’s in the sense that she’s being ostracized by her classmates. But the story is in no way based on The Scarlet Letter.” More important to Stone will be the box-office’s judgment of Easy A. It marks her first attempt to carry a movie after notable successes in the ensemble hits Superbad, The House Bunny and Zombieland. She doesn’t seem too concerned, and shouldn’t be. After all, Easy A earned a coveted spot at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival. And she’s already got a string of high-profile projects lined up, such as Crazy, Stupid, Love with Steve Carell and Julianne Moore, and the adaptation of the bestseller The Help. Raised in Arizona, in a major nerd move, Stone gave her golf course-owning parents a PowerPoint presentation on why it would be okay to let her move to Hollywood and pursue her dream. And she appears to be refreshingly neurosis-free when it comes to the type of career concerns that plague most actors. “I just always wanted to play someone else,” she says with a shrug. “I don’t know why, I just can’t remember ever wanting to do anything else. And it still makes me happy, so I’m going to keep doing Stone goofs around with hottie Penn Badgley it until it doesn’t anymore — and, hopefully, that won’t happen.”

28 FAMOUS SEPTEMBER 2010 INTERVIEW MILLA JOVOVICH

ollywood can adapt books into movies people MODEL Hwant to watch. Graphic novels, old TV shows, even inanimate plastic toys are turned into crowd-pleasing pictures. But videogames — the success rate of games-into-films ranks right up there with BP’s ability to cap a gushing undersea oil well. Shout Wing Commander or In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale at a party full of Hollywood executives and watch them scurry to the nearest exit. Then there’s the Resident Evil franchise. This month the series’ fourth film, Resident Evil: Afterlife, hits screens. While the films don’t break box-office records, they continue to be profitable and boast a very loyal fan base. Why? Credit the quality and popularity of the games themselves — which focus on human survivors battling zombies created by a virus unleashed by the nasty Umbrella Corporation — and credit the series star, Milla Jovovich, a model-turned-actor-turned-ass-kicker. We caught up with the 34-year-old Jovovich on the Toronto set of HERO Resident Evil: Afterlife last fall. Filming was almost complete as Jovovich and co-stars Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller shot a simple scene in which they walk into a dark room with flashlights and guns drawn. They do it a few times, and each time Jovovich finishes the scene with a terse one-liner, something like “this doesn’t feel right.” This fourth flick, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who helmed the first Resident Evil movie in 2002 and is Jovovich’s husband, has hero Alice (Jovovich) leading survivors — including siblings Claire (Larter) and Chris (Miller) — deep into the Umbrella Corporation’s underground sanctuary to destroy the bad guys once and for all. Afterlife has the biggest budget of all the Resident Evil movies, and was shot in 3D, using the same 3D system James Cameron used to make Avatar. In the eight years she’s played her, Jovovich has molded Alice into a hardened hero with a taciturn sense of despair. “In the beginning Alice was definitely very different,” says Jovovich on a break from shooting. “I was very inspired by Alice in Wonderland, that was sort of the character — this innocent girl going into this twisted world. But then I sort of got really inspired by Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, she’s a female Dirty Harry in a sense [laughs]. “That mysterious kind of person who gets things done, who doesn’t RESIDENT EVIL: talk too much about themselves and you don’t see them cry, there’s a lot inside.” AFTERLIFE While Alice remains tight-lipped, Jovovich is uncommonly verbose. She’s been tweeting from the Afterlife set and posting video blogs HITS THEATRES about the making of the movie for fanboys and girls to enjoy. “I was th a little unsure at first, I’d never twittered before, but once I got the SEPTEMBER 10 hang of it I was, ‘Oh, this is interesting, this is cool.’ These people have no clue what it is to be on a film set and suddenly I’m giving them a little taste of what goes on here,” says the actor. continued

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“It’s not just some random action film I’m doing to make a bunch of money, and I really don’t want to do it because I want to be a serious actress,” says Jovovich. “I do it because I really love it...and it makes me feel good”

“And something that is not interesting for us because we are doing stuffing out of zombies. The woman loves her work, and it shows. it every day is really interesting for people [not in the industry]. “I think this series has done a great job, we are on number four of There are over 70,00 people on my twitter page now, and maybe, like, giving people what they want and delivering a good product,” she four of those people have been negative.” Since filming Afterlife says proudly. Jovovich’s twitter following has grown to almost 400,000. “People know we love it, we are passionate about it and can feel Speaking her mind and living a very public life is something the it when they watch the movie. And it’s not just some random action Ukraine-born Jovovich has been doing since the age of 12, when she film I’m doing to make a bunch of money, and I really don’t want became a professional model and shot her very first magazine cover. to do it because I want to be a serious actress. It’s like, no, I do it Her family moved to Los Angeles when Jovovich was five. She was because I really love it and I do it because I’m into it, and it makes raised by her Russian mother after her parents divorced and her father, me feel good.” F a surgeon, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a health ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// insurance scam (he served five years). Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Famous. Jovovich’s modelling career took off and she made the move into acting — and marriage — getting hitched to her Dazed and Confused co-star Shawn Andrews at age 16. That lasted less than two months (her mother had the marriage annulled), but Jovovich continued to express herself, this time as a singer, releasing her first CD at age 19. More modelling, acting and another marriage — to her Fifth Element director, Luc Besson — followed, but it wasn’t until the Resident Evil franchise entered her life that the kinetic Jovovich found a touchstone both professionally and personally, grabbing hold of the kick-ass Alice role and series skipper Anderson. They have a two-year-old daughter, Ever, who watched mom work on the day of our set visit. “It’s great, I get to have my family with me,” says Jovovich about making the film a family affair. But does she ever find it stressful to be directed by her husband? “So far, no, but if we do five or six more of these, you never know [laughs]. No, I mean we have so much fun, I really feel like these movies wouldn’t be the same without Paul and his vision and his PRETTY YOUNG THING passion for them. He’s so into the games and it’s his love for them Even at age 12 Milla Jovovich had a stare that could stop zombies. that brought this franchise to the table.” This early modelling shot was taken at her Beverly Hills home in And it’s refreshing that Jovovich never feels embarrassed about May 1988 — one year after she’d scored her first magazine cover, SIDEBAR PHOTO BY MICHAEL GRECCO/GETTY MICHAEL BY PHOTO SIDEBAR

playing Alice, or starring in a videogame series, or kicking the dead for the Italian fashion magazine Lei (inset).

32 FAMOUS SEPTEMBER 2010 COVER STORY MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Director Oliver Stone (centre) confers with stars Shia LaBeouf (left) and Michael Douglas

rewrite that would reflect the financial crisis, and make it seem as if Gekko saw it coming. After being released from prison a somewhat changed man, Gekko writes a book called Is Greed Good?. During a promotional appearance he tells the audience, “Someone reminded me I once said, ‘Greed is good.’ Now it seems it’s legal, because everyone’s drinking the same Kool-Aid.” Unlike Gekko, Douglas — a child of the ’60s whose hobbies include campaigning against nuclear arms rather than trading in stocks and bonds — didn’t see the meltdown coming. “I wish I did,” he says. “I would have been a lot richer had I gotten out…. I got hurt.” Similar to the first film — which revolved around Charlie Sheen’s ambitious young trader Bud Fox — the sequel tells the story of another young hotshot, Jacob Moore (Shia LaBeouf). Moore’s world is rocked when the economy crashes and his mentor, Lewis Zabel (Frank Langella), is brought down by an unscrupulous hedge fund manager named Bretton James (Josh Brolin). Moore turns to Gekko for help in getting back at James. “As in the first one, he’s a secondary character,” Douglas says of BACKON Gekko. “The first one was about Charlie Sheen and this one is about Shia. It’s a colourful supporting role.” Not that Douglas is belittling the part. In fact, he says secondary parts are often the most memorable, and points to another of his films — in which the roles were reversed — as proof. “In Basic Instinct Sharon Stone had a great, colourful part and I had to carry the storyline.” The fact that Moore is dating Gekko’s estranged daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan) is more than coincidence and provides the young stockbroker with the leverage he needs to get Gekko on board. If Gekko helps him avenge Zabel, Moore will smooth things over Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps hile Michael Douglas admires Enter Gordon Gekko. Again. with Winnie, who holds dad responsible for her brother’s fatal THESTREETactors like Tom Hanks, who can Twenty-three years after winning an Oscar for playing the greedy drug overdose. gives Michael Douglas one more make affable characters interesting, financier in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, Douglas returns to the role for That’s a part of the story to which Douglas can relate. At the time kick at his most famous role, greedy he says he’s never been able to pull it the timely sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. For Gekko, not much of this interview the actor’s own son, Cameron Douglas, had been Gordon Gekko. Fresh from prison, off. He plays men with flaws. has changed over those years, since he’s spent most of them behind sitting in a jail cell for two months following a drug-related arrest. He the disgraced trader may be a “It’s just the challenge. It’s fun to bars for illegal financial practices. As the movie opens it’s 2001 and the was caught with heroin and half a pound of methamphetamine, win over an audience,” Douglas says disgraced corporate raider is on his way out of prison. He claims his enough to turn the charge from possession to trafficking. changed man. But he’s still full of during an interview in Toronto last year. possessions, things he last saw in the late 1980s, from a straight-faced “He’s doing fine, thank you,” Douglas responds, genuinely, when flaws. Wonderful, wonderful flaws. NowW 65, the actor is still handsome, but with loose skin, deep guard — tacky gold ring, empty money clip, four-pound mobile phone. asked about Cameron. “He’s doing as well as can be expected. It’s a BY MARNI WEISZ crevices around his eyes and a shock of slicked-back white hair. “I The world around Gekko has certainly changed, and in a few years difficult, difficult time, as any parent who’s dealt with substance don’t know if likable, pleasant characters have enough for me, it will be in meltdown. abuse [knows]. But we’ll see how it all comes out.” enough conflict, for me to want to do…. I’ve never been the kind of The sequel went into pre-production in early 2007. Then, in the fall It would be April of this year before Michael, Cameron and the rest screen presence to do nothing, I need to do something.” of 2008, the economy collapsed and the script was sent back for a of the Douglas family — including Michael’s father continued

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Gordon Gekko just can’t get a break. Since 2005, the financial wizards at Forbes magazine have issued “The Forbes Fictional 15,” a ranking of the world’s richest “authored fictional creations.” In 2008 Gekko made his first appearance on the list, coming in at a lofty number four with Forbes estimating his worth at $8.5 billion Douglas and Stone on set based on investments. Gekko was surpassed only by Richie Rich (3), Scrooge actor Kirk Douglas and wife of 10 years Catherine Zeta-Jones — knew flamboyant pianist Liberace in a McDuck (2) and Uncle Sam (1). Cameron’s fate. The 31-year-old was given a five-year prison sentence. bio-pic co-starring Matt Damon For reasons unexplained, Much like Gekko, Michael Douglas took some of the heat for his as the showman’s lover. Forbes did not issue the list son’s transgressions. Appearing on the Today Show he said, “Certainly A resurgence in the career of last year, but upon its return the family has a lot to do with it. I’ve taken blame about being a bad Michael Douglas? Perhaps. But this past April poor Gekko father…. I’ve also confessed the fact that I was in rehab 20 years ago, don’t expect the senior citizen to had fallen off the list so we had that issue.” And then later in the interview, “When I had except every offer that comes his entirely. It seems the Cameron I was early in my career and, as opposed to most jobs, making way. When asked whether he and magazine’s editors were movies takes you all around the world so you were absentee.” Zeta-Jones have rules about how keeping up with Wall Street: Michael’s notorious womanizing, and his parents’ eventual divorce much they’ll work, Douglas says, Money Never Sleeps’ plot at the end of a rather tumultuous relationship, probably didn’t help “My priorities have changed com- points, and turfed Gekko Cameron either. pletely. I’m totally focused on my because of his “stint in Being a celebrity is not always easy, nor is being the child of a marriage and I’ve got two young federal lock-up.” celebrity — a fate Michael and Cameron share. Michael says being children, which is a joy that I never They went on to write, around his dad and his dad’s famous friends like Tony Curtis, anticipated, having another couple “Ignored, scorned by former Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster made him acutely aware of the of kids this young. That’s really it.” Wall Street chums, Gekko insecurities that can make actors go astray. Fortunately, Douglas And when asked for his secret sunk fortune into Internet- still has many friends from his days at the University of California to an apparently successful second based men’s apparel at Santa Barbara. “People are goofy about the movie business,” he marriage he says, “Being kind to business, made enormous, says, “so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were each other. Sometimes we all losing bet on suspender successful. It’s harder to make new friends because you’re a little make more of an effort for fashion revival. Mellowed by more cautious.” strangers to like us than we do the age, said to be focusing on But then there’s the upside to showbiz. Like the buzz that’s been person closest to us.” rebuilding relationship with building for Money Never Sleeps since its debut at Cannes, where the Two flaws down. F estranged daughter, growing vast majority of the reviews were positive. Then, in 2012, Douglas ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// championship orchids.” —MW will have a chance to wow audiences playing against type as Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous.

36 FAMOUS SEPTEMBER 2010 TIFF RETROSPECTIVE

2004 TIFF experiences a meta-moment as the closing FESTIVAL night film, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, is set during the NATION festival and has Martin Short gently poking fun at those who It’s not just Toronto attend and cover the event. that goes film crazy 19 9 9 this time of year. Every 2005 TIFF’s ability to draw star September and October a 1991 A festival van 1999 American Beauty power is evident when restaurant slew of film festivals take containing 21 films — including (above), Boys Don’t Cry and Sotto Sotto, a favourite with place across the country The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) celebrates its 35th My Own Private Idaho — is The Cider House Rules all debut visiting celebs, serves Johnny TIFFat35 stolen. The van is recovered at TIFF then win Oscars, Depp, Keanu Reeves, Sean Penn, Atlantic Film Festival anniversary this year (September 9th to 19th, www.tiff.net for info). with all films accounted for. solidifying TIFF’s reputation Viggo Mortensen, Pierce Brosnan, Halifax, Nova Scotia Here we present a fact for each year so far, tracing TIFF’s emergence as a movie launching pad. Tim Burton, Helena Bonham September 16-25 as a festival heavyweight BY INGRID RANDOJA 1992 Fisher King director Carter and Jodie Foster — at www.atlanticfilm.com/aff Terry Gilliam disappears before 2000 Animal activists separate tables, with guests — his film’s screening. Festival demand the Mexican film all at the same time. Cinéfest Sudbury organizers find him watching a Amores Perros be banned due Sudbury, Ontario 1980 Legendary filmmaker 1985 Catholic protestors Blue Jays game at the SkyDome. to its depiction of dog fighting, 2006 Borat star Sacha Baron September 18-26 Jean-Luc Godard attends a picket the screening of the film even though no animals were Cohen and a live donkey arrive in www.cinefest.com retrospective of his films, which Hail Mary, which depicts the 1993 The opening-night party harmed during filming. a cart pulled by women dressed helps put the festival on the map. Virgin Mary as a basketball- for M. Butterfly is one of the best in Kazakhstani costumes for the Calgary International playing, gas station attendant. as guests celebrate on a barge in 2001 The 9/11 attacks shut film’s screening. Film Festival 1981 Chariots of Fire wins Lake Ontario while fireworks down the fest for the day. TIFF Calgary, Alberta the People’s Choice Award. It’s 1986 Heavy rain causes part explode to Malcolm McLaren’s continues, but parties are 2007 A TIFF audience of September 24-October 3 the first sign the film could be of the New Yorker Theatre’s roof adaptation of Madame Butterfly. cancelled. 1,200 sings “Happy Birthday” www.calgaryfilm.com a winner, and it goes on to take to collapse during a screening. to director Dario Argento when the Best Picture Oscar. 1994 The festival officially 2002 After being turned he presents his film Mother of Edmonton International 1987 The 1924 silent film changes it name to the Toronto away from a press screening for Tears: The Third Mother Film Festival 1982 When their films are The Thief of Bagdad is screened International Film Festival. lack of room, Roger Ebert writes Edmonton, Alberta rejected by the festival, newbie with a 26-piece orchestra a column deriding the festival 2008 New York Post critic September 24-October 2 directors Atom Egoyan and performing the original score. 1995 Not every TIFF filmmaker for allowing industry types into Lou Lumenick is vilified after he www.edmontonfilmfest.com Bruce McDonald set up a is famous, or even full-grown. press screenings. Changes are smacks fellow critic Roger Ebert projector on the sidewalk outside 1988 The festival unveils Fifteen-year-old Susanna Fogel’s made the following year to on the knee with a paper roll Vancouver International the University Theatre and show its Midnight Madness Program. short film For Real is screened. separate the two groups. when Ebert, who can no longer Film Festival their movies to festival patrons speak due to illness, taps him on Vancouver, British Columbia leaving the movie house. 1989 Roadkill wins Best 1996 Jean-Luc Godard 2003 The 83-year-old the shoulder to try to get him to September 30-October 15 Canadian Film and $25,000. agrees to attend TIFF only if a Uptown Theatre’s final screening move out of his sightline during www.viff.org/festival 1983 The People’s Choice Director Bruce McDonald video suite is set up for him to before shuttering is the TIFF a screening. Award goes to The Big Chill, and accepts the prize saying, edit his film, and he can play selection The Undead. Before the Antimatter Underground baby boomer cinema will never “$25,000 is going to buy me tennis. TIFF organizers get him film begins there’s a minute of 2009 TIFF brings live women’s Film Festival be the same. a big chunk of hash.” the suite and a tennis pro. silence, the audience is served roller derby to downtown Victoria, British Columbia champagne and toasts the Toronto to celebrate director October 8-16 1984 After every studio had 1990 A new token system — 1997 One of TIFF’s theatre. Drew Barrymore’s flick Whip It. www.antimatter.ws 1985 passed on it, the Coen Brothers’ to insure people in line get biggest movie sales occurs Blood Simple is a hit at the fest. tickets — is introduced. But with when October Films buys Festival Nouveau Cinéma 1976 TIFF is created under the 1978 The Ontario Censor Board The film finds a distributor and fights between patrons reported, Robert Duvall’s The Apostle for Montreal, Quebec name The Festival of Festivals. threatens to ban In Praise of the Coens are off and running. the system isn’t embraced. a hefty $6-million (U.S.). October 13-24 Fifty films are screened at the Older Women unless cuts are www.nouveaucinema.ca Ontario Place Cinesphere. made. The festival ignores the 1998 An Air Canada strike threat and shows the film uncut. means many celebrities and Ottawa International 1977 The groundbreaking, 1981 press have to fly into Buffalo Animation Festival gay-themed Canadian film 1979 For the first time a film and then drive to Toronto. As one Ottawa, Ontario Outrageous! debuts at the — the documentary Best Boy — critic writes, the strike “made October 20-24 festival and goes on to become wins the People’s Choice Award Buffalo’s airport look like a www.animationfestival.ca CATHOLIC PROTESTORS PHOTO COURTESY TIFF. ROLLER DERBY PHOTO BY ALEX HENRY MOORE/WIREIMAGE FOR TIFF FOR MOORE/WIREIMAGE HENRY ALEX BY PHOTO DERBY ROLLER TIFF. COURTESY PHOTO PROTESTORS CATHOLIC a homegrown hit. and then later, an Oscar. Cannes cocktail party.” 2009 38 FAMOUS SEPTEMBER 2010 SEPTEMBER 2010 FAMOUS 39 TIFF STARGAZING

YORKVILLE RESTAURANTS 4The upscale neighbourhood is the epicentre of the festival. Penélope Cruz (left), Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard are seen here attending a dinner party at the now defunct Michelle’s Brasserie on Yorkville Ave. But fear not, any place in the neighbourhood that has slick furniture and mood lighting will host a shindig or two. Or you may spot an off-duty celeb sipping cocktails on a patio or hiding out with a steak in a dark back corner. Try Sassafraz, Pangaea or Bistro 990. PHOTO BY CHARLEY GALLAY/GETTY

BLOOR STREET 2Bloor connects the festival’s dots. Since many of the hotels, theatres ROY THOMSON HALL and restaurants used for the event line 1The biggest galas are held here every night (usually the street, actors are often spotted — two shows, an early and a late) and if you stand outside dressed up, or incognito, like Rob Lowe long enough you’ll see the stars all glammed up, like here — wandering the strip between TOP-5 Robin Wright Penn, who was kind enough to pose with this Yonge and Spadina. Plus, the shopping smiley fan last year. The Elgin Theatre, Winter Garden here is as good as it is in any city, so don’t Theatre, Ryerson Theatre and Jackman Hall at the be surprised who you’ll find browsing in Art Gallery of Ontario also host red-carpet screenings. Coach, Hermes, Williams-Sonoma, and PHOTO BY GEORGE PIMENTAL/GETTY yes, even Roots. PLACESTO SEE THE STARS AT PHOTO BY MICHELLE LINDO/SPLASH NEWS FOUR SEASONS THE TORONTO HOTEL Whether you’re hovering by MOVIE THEATRES INTERNATIONAL the front doors or manage to While stars, industry types and 3get inside, the Four Seasons is one of the those willing to shell out the big most popular places to stargaze. You can’t bucks will be watching TIFF films FILM FESTIVAL make your way through the lobby without in the glamorous surroundings of seeing someone famous — which is why 5Roy Thomson Hall, the Elgin or Winter Garden, security will probably ask you to leave if most festival goers enjoy their films at good Grab your camera. Grab a friend. you don’t have a good reason to be there. old-fashioned movie theatres like the Grab some patience…and with a Here, Matt Damon (left), his wife Luciana Scotiabank Theatre Toronto, where Tilda Swinton little luck you’ll be spotting stars all Bozan Barroso and George Clooney share and director Luca Guadagnino posed before a over the place as the biggest movie a drink at the hotel bar. Other hotels that screening of their movie, I Am Love. Also try the pack in the stars are the InterContinental Varsity Cinemas where many press screenings event of the year unspools in and Park Hyatt, both a stone’s throw from are held. That’s where you’ll catch celebrity critics Toronto from September 9th to 19th the Four Seasons. at work, like Roger Ebert or Richard Roeper. PHOTO BY TODD G/SPLASH NEWS PHOTO BY JIM ROSS/GETTY

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FUTURE PERFECT Sleek and minimal, the woman of the future (as seen on the runways of Narciso Rodriguez, Stella McCartney and, here, Calvin Klein) eschews extraneous details and expresses herself through streamlined garments. Adornment? Maybe some decorative seaming. But she’s way too busy living at top speed to be interested in frivolity. PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS

LADYLIKE Womanly curves were the byword of Louis Vuitton’s FA LL fall collection, seen here. Call it a plea for elegance via prim dresses and REFINED prominent décolletage. Not for you? Then add Clean, sleek and some edge with suits in ou probably overpaid for it, but that artfully clashing patterns from classy make a ripped T-shirt you bought last season is history. French house Rochas, triumphant return Y Maybe you can use it for dusting. worn with makeup’s to the runway This fall, while your inner rock-chick is sleeping off a newest trend, the smoky bad fashion hangover, the rest of the world will be cat eye and a bright lip. BY LIZA HERZ scooping up trends like structured handbags, kitten- TAWNY So. Not. Grandma. heeled shoes and dresses with fitted waists because PHOTO BY ERIC RYAN/GETTY ladylike is back in fashion. KITTEN For cinematic inspiration think Gwyneth Paltrow in Modelling for Chloé, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Julianne Moore in Far From Heaven, Raquel Zimmermann or pretty much anything Grace Kelly ever wore. embodies the new preppy If ladylike isn’t your thing, go spare, as the pared- luxe. The essentials include down ’90s minimal look is returning: long narrow mannish wide-leg trousers skirts, clean, unadorned garments and neutral makeup and the return of the classic — but a warmer neutral than that ’90s combo of too camel coat. It’s a throwback much brownish lip liner and a chalky matte face. to an American sportswear We like Christopher Bailey’s new beauty line for ideal, but this girl is all Burberry (at Holt Renfrew) with wearable eye shadows plush golden hair and inspired by Britain’s stormy skies and the subtle natural luxurious separates — shades of a Burberry trench coat. It’s a new portable American prep but with luxury — spare but definitely luxurious — and that stealth sex appeal. embodies the essence of this fall. PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS continued

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FUR SURE Karl Lagerfeld, never known for runway restraint, imported a towering chunk of Scandinavian iceberg as a backdrop for his fur-clad Chanel models (love those yeti boots). Anti-fur? Then choose Nordic patterned MILITARY sweaters to stay cozy. RULE PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS You don’t need ripped jeans to show the world you’re tough. Instead, a military jacket in olive drab with epaulettes and patch pockets whispers both tough and chic. Sonia Rykiel makes it wearable here with leggings and that perennial favourite, the SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE SEPT 3 chunky shoe. PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS 416-968-film tiff.net/thefestival

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