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ISLAND GETAWAY32 Emily Mortimer says playing an escaped mental patient in UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL AND RELATIVITY MEDIA 38 Shutter Island was stressful, HEAVENLY MATCH It’s a meeting of deranged minds (and we mean that in a good way) as Tim Burton but acting crazy in front of A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION A PAUL GREENGRASS FILM MATT DAMON “GREEN ZONE” adapts Lewis Carroll’s trippy classic Alice in Wonderland. Here, Burton discusses bringing Carroll’s co-star Leonardo DiCaprio strange creatures to life, casting an unknown as Alice and why he called on his long-time cinematic and director Martin Scorsese GREG KINNEAR BRENDAN GLEESON AMY RYAN KHALID ABDALLA AND JASON ISAACS co-conspirators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to join in the fun • By Sheila Roberts was enough to drive her mad CASTING BY AMANDA MACKEY CSA CATHY SANDRICH GELFOND CSA DAN HUBBARD JOHN HUBBARD • By Bob Strauss MUSIC VISUAL COSTUME BY JOHN POWELL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR PETER CHIANGDESIGNER SAMMY SHELDON TACKLING TOLSTOY36 PRODUCTION DIRECTOR OF After starring in Wanted, EDITOR CHRISTOPHER ROUSE ACE DESIGNER DOMINIC WATKINS PHOTOGRAPHY BARRY ACKROYD BSC CO- EXECUTIVE PRODUCED James McAvoy craved a PRODUCER MAIRI BETT PRODUCERS DEBRA HAYWARD LIZA CHASIN BY BEVAN ERIC FELLNERTIM talky role, and he got his INSPIRED BY THE BOOK “IMPERIAL wish playing a naive lad LLOYD LEVIN PAUL GREENGRASS LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY” BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN who becomes Leo Tolstoy’s WRITTEN DIRECTED BY BRIAN HELGELAND BY PAUL GREENGRASS 32 36 25 12 secretary in The Last Station • By Bob Strauss THIS FILM IS A UNIVERSAL PICTURE NOT YET RATED © 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

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ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Usually “hot couple” PENÉLOPE CRUZ 1 Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz instead opt JAVIER BARDEM for “adorable couple” in this CAUGHT shot taken while they were MILEY CYRUS scuba diving off Brazil’s KIEFER SUTHERLAND Fernando de Noronha Island. Bardem’s also a bit scary, we HUGH JACKMAN think, but just because his wet helmet hair reminds us of ON FILM No Country for Old Men.  PHOTO BY MJL/BROADIMAGE/KEYSTONE

Nothing in that outfit is 2 remotely Victorian, and yet when Robert Downey Jr. puts it all together he looks like he’s still channelling Sherlock Holmes. Maybe it’s the backdrop. Downey and his wife Susan Levi depart their London, England, hotel hand in hand.  PHOTO BY KEYSTONE

We had this crazy dream. 3 Hugh Jackman was there. And he was running with his kids on Copacabana Beach in Rio. The lighting was wild, and his eyes were glowing, and his son was doing this really freaky dance. Weird.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

We love how Parisian 4 teens care more about their croque-monsieurs than about watching Miley Cyrus and 2 3 her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth smooch on the Champs-Élysées during a recent trip to the City of Lights.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

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ENTERTAINMENT Artifact THIS MONTH’S OBJET DE FILM “FILMING IN NEW YORK” Brazilian mixed-media artist Hely Lima has been living and working in IN New York since 1972 where Getting under theBRIEF Wolfman’s skin...and hair...and teeth. he’s become famous for Plus, the Sex and the City gals are flat capturing the city in three- dimensional dioramas of constructions sites, subways, storefronts — all the things you’d see on a typical day. Before BIG that, he worked in the film industry, creating movie posters, short films HAIRY and trailers. So it was only a matter of time until one of Lima’s DEAL works captured an NYC film When you’re shoot. This piece, titled six-time Oscar- “Filming in New York,” has winning makeup the Sex and the City gals — artist Rick Baker, you from left, Samantha, don’t make cold calls to Miranda, Carrie and find work. Unless you Charlotte — shooting find out Universal is Rick Baker works in front of a grocery store remaking The Wolfman on Benicio Del Toro that, quite honestly, we with Benicio Del Toro. wouldn’t have associated It was while watching with the uptown girls. monster movies like the transformation. Perhaps Lima knows original Wolf Man (1941) The big difference RICK BAKER something about the and Frankenstein (1931) between the two artists’ second film we don’t? as a kid that Baker techniques is that LON CHANEY JR. This is just a detail from decided he wanted to materials have improved the 23” high and 31” wide become a makeup artist. in the last 70 years, so it Del Toro’s transformation would be going into the piece, which depicts three (And werewolves remain only took three hours to from man-to-werewolf CG end of it, and I think buildings and has a lighting special to Baker — he apply Del Toro’s makeup with CGI instead of they should. I just hope crew plying its trade on the won his first Oscar in instead of the six used makeup. But even the [makeup] doesn’t die.” roof. Interested? “Filming 1981 for An American to transform Chaney. maverick makeup artist —IR in New York” is priced Werewolf in London.) But Baker told (he’s never had an agent, at $7,950 U.S. —MW RICK BAKER INSET IMAGE © A.M.P.A.S., “FILMING IN NEW YORK” IMAGE BY LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH NEWS SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH LAWRENCE BY IMAGE NEW YORK” IN “FILMING © A.M.P.A.S., IMAGE INSET BAKER RICK

Baker wanted to pay Entertainment Weekly it works only when he feels  homage to the original was still difficult to work inspired and just film’s makeup artist, the on Del Toro since he recently learned to use legendary Jack P. Pierce, was so hairy to begin email) realizes that by mirroring the look with: “Here we have high-tech computer- Pierce created for star Benicio Del Toro, who’s generated effects may Lon Chaney Jr. He used practically the Wolfman put old-school makeup dentures, a wig and a already.... Where do you artists like himself out latex foam mask to cover go from there? He’s of business. At last the upper part of Del Toro’s practically there as it is!” year’s Comic-Con face, and then glued yak Baker admits to being Baker said, “I think hair on the lower part of disappointed that the the kids who have the his face to complete the studio decided to show interest in this stuff

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Valentine’s Day If attracting viewers 12 from every conceivable february demographic was the producers’ plan for this ensemble rom-com about friends and lovers surviving Valentine’s Day, well then, they’ve succeeded. The cast includes Taylor Lautner, Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift, Bradley Cooper, Shirley MacLaine, Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Jessica Alba and Jennifer Garner. That’s three Oscar winners, two Taylors, two Jessicas and Dear John’s Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried get romantic in the rain potentially one big payoff at the box office.

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20 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 21 ON SCREEN SPECIAL EVENTS on the Big february26 Screen A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION WITH GARRISON KEILLOR Thurs., Feb. 4 METROPOLITAN OPERA SIMON BOCCANEGRA (VERDI) Live: Sat., Feb. 6 RACE ACROSS THE SKY Sun., Feb. 7 CTV OLYMPIC GAMES BROADCAST AT CINEPLEX Fri., Feb. 12 to Sun., Feb. 28 (See details, page 12) WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW ELIMINATION CHAMBER Sun., Feb. 21 The Wolfman’s Benicio Del Toro before a full moon appears CELINE: THROUGH Tracy Morgan (left) and Bruce Willis in Cop Out THE EYES OF THE  kids (one human parent, one war breaks out between the it was originally set to open in re-shoots. Emily Bluntstars WORLD divine parent), where Zeus’s feuding gods. April 2009 — as the studio felt as Del Toro’s love interest, Feb 17, 18, 20 & 21 (Sean Bean) favourite lightning Benicio Del Toro’s transformation while the semi-retired Cop Out bolt is stolen. Percy becomes the The Wolfman from Victorian nobleman to Anthony Hopkins makes a Director Kevin Smith was blown GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR prime suspect, and it’s up to him This gothic horror pic has had its lycanthrope wasn’t terrifying rare on-screen appearance away when fellow New Jersey PARTICIPATING THEATRES, to catch the real thief before a release date pushed back twice — enough and ordered six weeks of as Del Toro’s father. boy Bruce Willis called to TIMES AND TO BUY TICKETS suggest they work together. So the indie filmmaker and the big action star teamed up — with The Crazies Shutter Island 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan along Director George Romero’s 1973 Martin Scorsese helms this for the ride — for this buddy pic horror about a virus that turns 19 twisty thriller set in 1954 on about two detectives (Morgan, the people of a small town into february the desolate Shutter Island. Willis) who get mixed up zombie-like killers gets updated The island is home to the with a stolen baseball card, with Timothy Olyphant playing Ashecliffe Hospital for the gangsters and, of course, the sheriff coping with the Criminally Insane, where a beautiful woman. violent townsfolk. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner (Mark Ruffalo) have been summoned to locate a SHOWTIMES murderer (Emily Mortimer) who’s escaped from her ONLINE cell and is hiding somewhere on the lonely island. @CINEPLEX.COM See Emily Mortimer The Crazies’ Timothy Olyphant From left: Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in Shutter Island interview, page 32. All release dates are subject to change.

22 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 23 2010 OSCARS GETTING READY FOR OSCAR

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FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 25 Duelling OSCARS Hosts More change — actors Steve Martinand Alec Baldwin share the hosting duties this year. The last time Oscar had more than one OSCAR’S host was in 1987 when Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and Australian shrimp- barbecuer Paul Hogan shared the duties. TOP Like Hawn and Chase (Foul Play, Seems Like Old Times), Martin and Baldwin have proven they work well together. This year, they co-starred in the Golden Globe-nominated rom-com It’s Complicated, and in 2008 Martin guest-starred as sham STEVE MARTIN business magnate Gavin Volure on Baldwin’s 30 Rock. ALEC BALDWIN Plus, the pair is one- The Academy of Motion Picture two atop the list of Arts and Sciences has doubled the frequent Saturday Night Live hosts, 10number of Best Picture nominees from with Martin’s 15 five to 10. Yes, it’s a big deal, but as appear ances nudging stuffy as the organization can appear, out Baldwin’s 14. it’s never really been opposed to change. Here we examine other 10 ways the Academy Awards’ structure ways the ceremony has evolved has changed since 1929’s inaugural ceremony: BY MARNI WEISZ

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LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS SAN FRANCISCO FILM CHICAGO FILM CRITICS VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS NATIONAL SOCIETY ASSOCIATION CRITICS CIRCLE: ASSOCIATION: CIRCLE: OF FILM CRITICS: Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: Up in the Air Best Picture: The Hurt Locker Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) (The Hurt Locker) (The Hurt Locker) (The Hurt Locker) Best Actor: Colin Firth (A Single Man) Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) ® Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) Best Actor: Colin Firth (A Single Man) Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) Best Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education) Best Actress: Yolande Moreau (Séraphine) A.M.P.A.S.

Best Actress: Yolande Moreau (Séraphine) Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) © Best Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education) Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor (tie): Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actor: Christian McKay Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) (Inglourious Basterds) and (Inglourious Basterds) (Me & Orson Welles) (Inglourious Basterds) Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga Paul Schneider (Bright Star) OSCAR STATUE STATUE OSCAR

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16 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 31 INTERVIEW EMILY MORTIMER

Shutter Island’s Emily Mortimer in her on-set cell with director Martin Scorsese

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 know what I’m going to do! I should have watched more documen- “I think that era was taries on mad people! I watched a DVD and I talked to a brilliant psychiatrist who was working on the movie. But in the end, you just conducive to mental have to make your own choice about what you’re going to do. I instability,” says Mortimer. probably got it wrong, but I felt like I vaguely understood what was required of me in this movie, which is brilliant and terrifying and, on “The book, script and movie some level, almost like those strange, perverse 1950s B movies. I all had this feeling of, is it think it’s full of references to Sam Fuller and Michael Powell films, me that’s mad or is it the which Marty’s obsessed with.” rest of the world? Especially Q:Well, it’s set in the era of Shock Corridor and Black Narcissus. for women at the time, who A: “Yes, I was playing a perfect ’50s housewife who happens to be a complete psychotic. I think that era was conducive to mental insta- were left at home all day, bility. The book, script and movie all had this feeling of, is it me that’s looking after the kids” mad or is it the rest of the world? Especially for women at that time, who were left at home all day, looking after the kids or living in this kind of lonely, Stepford Wife existence. They probably felt like they wanted to scream or stab someone. The claustrophobia of being the perfect woman, that’s what I had in my head.”

Q:Please tell us Leo was nice and helpful. A: “All of my scenes are with Leo. I liked him very much. I mean, everyone’s so nice about everyone when they talk about working with people, but I really, genuinely felt that he was such a down-to- earth person. He didn’t play the role of the big film star at all. He was Men in Hats: From left, Mark Ruffalo, easygoing and chatty and funny, but at the same time not showing Leonardo DiCaprio and a burly police off at all. He was really easy to be around, and made it much less officer on Shutter Island embarrassing and mortifying for me than it could have been.” Below: Emily Mortimer as Rachel Solando

Q:And Mr. Scorsese? A: “He is the least intimidating genius that I’ve ever met. Most genius- es are pretty terrifying, and you feel like you’ve got to sort of plan what you say around them before it comes out. But he’s so affable and he loves talking. And he loves to chat about movies, which is the best THE part. It was like a sort of master class in film history, being with him.” REAL DEAL Q:For someone with such an impressive resumé, you seem a little less confident than you ought to be. Is that just a natural If you’re going to set a movie sustaining community that personality trait? inside a psychiatric hospital, raised its own livestock and A: “I was very shy as a kid. I used to dread social interaction or having Q:You’re as English as a red rose is, well, red. Yet you’ve you might as well film inside a crops, with patients tending to to talk in class or anything like that. I found it just excruciating. But been living with your husband (American actor psychiatric hospital. the chickens and growing there was something about overcoming that terror; I guess it’s sort Alessandro Nivola) and your son in New York for a number Some scenes set at their own vegetables. The of like aversion therapy, where they make people who are terrified of of years now. Ever get homesick? Shutter Island’s fictitious hospital even generated its pigeons hold a pigeon. I realized quite early on that if I did the thing A: “I miss England terribly. But I’ve missed England so much for so Asheville Hospital for the own heat, light and power. that I was almost most scared of, it wasn’t so bad; in fact, it was quite long, I’ve now kind of got bored of missing England because it’s just Criminally Insane were shot at By 2001, Medfield’s good. Somehow I wasn’t shy when I was acting. I really don’t under- too exhausting. I spent the first six years of being with my husband the former Medfield State population was down to 150 stand it, there must be some subconscious thing going on begging to go back there, but now I’ve just given up. Actually, in Hospital, located in Medfield, patients and the institute was behind it — or not.” some ways, it probably has something to do with that thing we’ve Massachusetts. shuttered in April 2003. been talking about this whole time, which is forcing yourself into The psychiatric rehabilitation However, filmmakers have Q:Is that why you still seek the most challenging different situations. And so I now have decided it’s a privileged posi- centre, which is now closed, found the late 19th-century or disturbing roles you can find? SHUTTER tion to be in — much to my husband’s relief — to have a perspective was built in 1892 on a 900- property to their liking — not A: “I’ve worked out over the years that I have to be interested in the on the world that isn’t myopic like it can be if you stay in the same acre property. At the height of only did Martin Scorsese job that I’m doing. It seems so simple, but you forget these simple ISLAND place. But if I could get my mom and my sister and her family and my its use (1952) 1,500 patients choose Medfield for things sometimes. You have to be really interested in what you’re three best friends and all their children to all move to Brooklyn, then were housed among the Shutter Island, but director doing to have any chance of being any good in it or contributing HITS THEATRES I’d be perfectly happy.” F hospital’s 58 buildings. At that Richard Kelly filmed a portion anything to yourself. I guess, for that reason, I keep getting taken th /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// time, Medfield was a self- of The Box at the site. —IR MEDFIELD PHOTOS COURTESY OF IUSSA.ORG OF COURTESY PHOTOS MEDFIELD further and further into weirder and weirder set-ups.” FEBRUARY 19  Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies.

34 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 35 INTERVIEW JAMES McAVOY THE LAST STATION IS NOW IN THEATRES

FROM Opposite page: Kerry Condon tries to seduce James McAvoy This Picture: McAvoy with , Christopher Plummer Below: Helen Mirren gives WITH LOVE McAvoy the once-over There’s plenty of love for James McAvoy’s Russian secretary in The Last Station — love of country, love of fun,” he added. “But then to have the very thing that defines him Tolstoy, love of that sexy change into the complete opposite is really something. I really like minx Masha. Problem is character progressions like that. I don’t like to play a guy who comes trying to sort them out in with an opinion and by the time the movie ends, he’s still of the same opinion.” BY BOB STRAUSS The naive Valentin faces extra confusion at the nearby Tolstoyan commune, where the sect’s tenet of idealized, celibate love is quickly undermined for him by lusty, independent-thinking Masha (Rome’s OME WOULD SAY that James McAvoy mercurial wife, Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), who wants to keep the Kerry Condon). The Great Man proves no assistance when Valentin is back where he belongs. James McAvoy rewards of his legacy in the family. Upon reaching the Tolstoy estate, seeks guidance to help him keep his pants on. Tolstoy proves far would be one of them. Valentin finds himself torn between his populist cause and the wishes earthier than his dogmatic devotees, and enjoys an active physical “After Wanted, I knew I didn’t want to do of Sofya, who is as charismatic as she is intense and, often, outlandish. relationship with the countess. another big-budget thing — for a while, any- Based on a novel by Jay Parini, The Last Station is rich in history, The aristocrats’ daughter, Sasha, is played by McAvoy’s wife, The Conspirator in the can. And while he’s signed up for a Wanted way,” the congenial Scotsman says during a philosophy and, unlike most period pieces, humour. After the py- Anne-Marie Duff. Did that make McAvoy’s love scenes with Condon sequel, he says he hasn’t heard anything about a production date, recent interview in Beverly Hills. Wearing a rotechnics of his hit action film, the stage-trained McAvoy found extra awkward? “It was totally fine, everybody was an actor,” he says nor even seen a script. striped, long-sleeved T-shirt, jeans and scuffed everything about the production irresistible. unselfconsciously. “It’s just another part of the job, isn’t it? I mean, He doesn’t sound at all anxious about that. McAvoy will undoubt- cowboy boots, he looks utterly unpretentious “One of the real reasons I was attracted to the film was because I my wife and I have worked together before, and done sex scenes with edly be happy to keep making character-focused indie films for as and a good half-decade younger than his 30 thought it was funny,” says McAvoy, whose dramatic films such as each other and with other people in that TV show we did [Shameless].” long as they let him. years. “I wanted to do something that was less about the technical The Last King of Scotland and Atonement have leaned toward the heavy The couple lives a comparatively simple life in a North London flat, If they keep letting him. and more about the just artistic. Perhaps not about the artistic in end of the spectrum. “I liked who it was about and what it was about, which McAvoy has the annoying habit of cleaning obsessively. He “I went to a studio in Britain with an idea for a $40-million movie,” Sterms of the art and the image, but acting. Basically, a talking heads but I was really drawn by the fact that it was humorous at times. I says it’s not frugality that keeps him from hiring domestic help, but he recounts. “They said that they liked the idea, but they weren’t movie, lots of people talking. That’s really all this movie’s got; we found that really refreshing.” rather an outgrowth of the skyrocketing career that takes him to going to do it unless I could figure out a way to make it a three-picture didn’t have enough money to make it look, like, huge.” He was also attracted to the project’s overall tone. Director far-flung locations for long periods of time. franchise or if I could come back to them with a $100-million idea, so The film is The Last Station, a nonetheless handsome-looking piece Michael Hoffman had been developing the piece for the better part of “It’s my little kingdom,” he says of the apartment. “When I come they could stand to make bigger money back. about the final year of the great Russian writer, and count, Leo Tolstoy’s a decade. And its early 20th-century setting, before the old Russian home after I’ve been away for a while, my wife gets mad at me some- “I really don’t think I understand the film industry well enough to life. McAvoy plays Valentin Bulgakov, Tolstoy’s new secretary who is society was swept away by the communist revolution, inspired times because I’ll immediately start tidying things. But I spend a lot give my opinion as a member of the community,” McAvoy shrugs. “But sent to spy on the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina by the Hoffman to write much of the screenplay in the style of the great of time away from home and I want to make that territory mine they can’t all be blockbusters. They can’t all share the market; it seems leader of the Tolstoyans, a group devoted to the aristocrat’s spiritual chronicler of that bygone world, Anton Chekhov. again. Maybe if I was at home 365 days a year…but I’m not. So I really to me that you’re going to lose out if you only do that. We have to teachings. The Tolstoyans want nothing more than to have the copy- “When I was very young, I played a small part in The Cherry Orchard want to get involved in the daily things.” keep getting these mid-level and smaller movies made, somehow.” F rights to the writer’s works bequeathed to the Russian people. and loved it so much,” says McAvoy. “When I read Valentin in this, I McAvoy will spend this month in Vancouver trying to shoot the /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Tolstoy, played by Canada’s master thespian Christopher Plummer, felt there was a really shared soul there. Valentin was so full of belief, comic drama I’m With Cancer around the Winter Olympics hoopla. Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about is torn between that noble sentiment and the wishes of his loving, and to play somebody so defined and so definite is always quite He’s already got Robert Redford’s Civil War era courtroom drama movies and filmmakers.

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This picture: Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton gives his Alice (Mia Wasikowska) some guidance Below: Wasikowska in Wonderland

Tim Burton + Alice in Wonderland = Endless Possibilities. The director tells us Walking how he sifted through all the technology in a at his disposal, and utilized some of his T favourite actors, B to create his own R N version of a classic U O BY SHEILA ROBERTS

hard to imagine a more fitting interpreter of the film or TV adaptations he would later watch. Burton didn’t see to have an emotional grounding he felt was missing from earlier newcomer Mia Wasikowska nabbed the pivotal title role. And this is of Lewis Carroll’s delightfullyONDERLAND deranged 1865 novel anything special in the little girl famous for falling down a rabbit hole versions — but, of course, with a Tim Burton twist. “Every character no preteen, headband-wearing Alice. Now 19, our heroine finds WAlice in Wonderland than delightfully deranged until he bought a house once owned by an English illustrator named is weird, but I tried to give them their own specific weirdness so that herself at a lavish party receiving a very public marriage proposal It’s filmmaker Tim Burton. The director’s vivid imagination and place at Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939). “I live and work out of his studio,” they’re all different,” he says. “The real attempt was to try to make from a man she does not want to marry. Distraught, she runs off and, the forefront of moviemaking’s creative edge seems a perfect match Burton says during an interview at San Diego’s Comic-Con. “In 1905 Alice feel more like a story as opposed to a series of events.” once again, falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland, for the 19th-century English author, who was also an inventor and a he did some amazing versions of Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow, While Burton filled much of his cast with frequent collaborators a place she visited years before. respected photographer in that art form’s early days. things that I’ve been involved with. So I felt there was a real weird — Johnny Depp plays the Mad Hatter (their seventh film together) “There are so many stories of Alice in Wonderland,” says Burton, Yet Burton admits when he first read Alice in Wonderland as a boy connection to me, the material, and life. It always helps somehow.” and Burton’s long-time partner, Helena Bonham Carter, is the nefar- evoking the book’s sequel, Through the Looking Glass. “The goal was he felt no emotional connection whatsoever. Nor did he warm to any When Burton decided to do his own version of Alice, he wanted it ious Red Queen (their sixth joint effort) — 20-year-old Australian to take the random elements of the books and make continued 

38 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 39 COVER STORY TIM BURTON A pale of himself Left: Wasikowska with Tweedledee Johnny Depp has worked for Tim Burton and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas) seven times. Notice a trend? Inset: Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)

ED WOOD (1994)

Depp’s strength, according to Burton, is his ability to breathe life and ALICE IN humanity into eccentric, often morally ambiguous, characters. “Johnny SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) tries to find a grounding to the character — something that you feel as WONDERLAND opposed to just being mad,” says the director. “With a lot of versions, HITS THEATRES [the Mad Hatter] is a very one-note kind of character. His goal was to Notice a th bring out more of a human side to the strangeness of the character.” CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005) MARCH 5 The film’s formidable cast also includes Anne Hathaway as the resemblance? White Queen, Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts, Stephen Fry as Alice joins the Mad Hatter for tea in one of English artist the Cheshire Cat, Christopher Lee as the Jabberwock, Michael Sheen Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Alice in Wonderland illustrations. have been done before, but this is a new mixture of them that way.” as the White Rabbit and Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar. But it’s the Tim Burton now lives and works out of a studio once When Disney suggested doing the film in 3D, Burton had no virtually unknown Wasikowska on whom so much of the film’s success owned by the turn-of-the-century artist and feels a problem. “It puts you in this world more. Just with the Alice material, rests. While she’s had roles in smaller American films like Amelia and CORPSE BRIDE (2005) connection to the story because of his home’s history. growing and shrinking, the spatial, the weird spaces and places that Defiance, and on the TV show In Treatment, Wasikowksa doesn’t have you’re in, it just helps with the experience,” he says. the experience or star power of, say, an Ellen Page or a Dakota Fanning. As 3D technology has advanced, Burton says, the gimmicky aspects What made her right for such a weighty role?  its own story. They don’t really follow a specific linear structure. I just have diminished and the focus is now on enhancing the experience. “Most Alices are just a precocious girl wandering through things,” SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007) wanted to try and do a version that’s like a movie.” “Obviously, these movies have to not only work in 3D, but you’ve got to Burton says. “I wanted somebody with a gravity to her, an internal Of course, plot is only half the battle. Burton, who is well known look at it in 2D and say this is still a good movie that you want to see.” life, something that you could just look at and see the wheels turning. for his stylistic eccentricities, had to decide how much of the film Beyond the visual effects, Burton was counting on Depp’s ability It’s just a simple kind of power to her that I really liked — not flam- should be live-action and how much should be special effects. In an to bring a unique personal perspective to an unusual character. It’s boyant, not very showy. That’s why I picked her.” era when so many different techniques are available — motion- something the actor has done throughout his career and in each of And what about casting his lovely partner Helena Bonham Carter capture, animation, blue screen, 3D — he says he tries to choose the his partnerships with Burton, from their first film together, 1990’s as the villain? “Helena? I don’t know,” he responds. “She was available medium that works best for the project. “I went more with the pure Edward Scissorhands, to their last, 2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon and she’s got a big head that seemed to fit the Red Queen.” F animation and then live action,” he says of Alice, “but then tried Barber of Fleet Street. “Anytime I’ve worked with him that’s what he /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// to work the live action to fit into the world. All the techniques tries to do,” says Burton. “This was no exception.” Sheila Roberts lives in Los Angeles where she writes about film. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010)

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What is more beguiling on Valentine’s Day than a big smile and red lingerie, like the Beyond Cleavage Lace Bra ($43, La Senza)? ere’s a romantically certified fact. HThere is no union that isn’t improved by a package with a big honking bow on it. Even if it’s sent to you by The “player” in your life will love the flashy bottle, This Sterling Silver “Cha-Cha” Bracelet Nothing’s more classic for Valentine’s Day than a certain secret admirer but Paco Rabanne 1 Million ($56 for 50 ml, London ($192, Silpada.ca or 1-888-925-7732) is bold ruby-red lips. Maybelline New York’s Color (a.k.a. yourself). Drugs) with its notes of leather, amber and woods, and sparkly, and even after a big meal, Sensational Lipstick in Are You Red-Dy ($10, smoulders in a subtle way that’ll please you. it’ll still fit. What’s not to love? drugstores) is pigment rich and moisturizing. That’s the beauty of Valentine’s Day. It’s an inclusive holiday, a field day for committed couples but also a chance for the unattached to indulge in some serious auto-gifting. No one is exempt. Everyone gets a prize! And in a nifty reversal, the present on this year’s list from Tiffany actually goes to…a man. It turns out that iconic blue box is gender-neutral. Really. Guerlain Idylle ($82 for 35 ml, The Bay) is a Customize a Dell Computer (laptops $329 and up, Cheaper than a plane ticket, Paris Patisseries bouquet of lush Bulgarian roses, lilacs and OPI custom cover an additional $85at Dell.com) with ($49, Indigo) is a visual odyssey through the lilies of the valley wafting over a sensual a glossy cover in the classic OPI nail polish shade City of Light’s best pastry shops, complete with Valentine’s chypre base of patchouli and white musk. “I’m Not Really a Waitress” — perfect for Valentine’s. tempting close-up photos. Gift

Corral his keys and engrave a secret message to This Eco-Friendly Card from Botanical Paperworks The nifty Kodak Zx1 Pocket Video Camera Guide your beau on Tiffany’s “Return to Tiffany” ($5 for a pack of 10, botanicalpaperworks.com) is ($180, Canadian Tire) has a zoom lens, shoots It’s time for a heart-to-heart Sterling Silver Oval Tag Key Ring embedded with wildflower seeds. Plant it and let up to 10 hours of HD video of your sweetie BY LIZA HERZ ($170, www.tiffany.ca). your Valentine’s gift last into summer. and is compact enough to take everywhere.

42 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 43 THE GOODS HOTPLAY Sometimes you just want to hunt bugs BY SCOTT GARDNER

Lost Planet 2 PS3, XBOX 360 any of today’s finest videogames present sophisticated narratives, compelling characters and even wrenching moral choices. But sometimes all that thinking and caringfeels like work. That’s when you visit Lost Planet 2. The original game, Lost Planet: MExtreme Condition, arrived in January 2007 with an unusual premise — basically Starship Troopers on the ice planet Hoth. On an inhospitable world of vast snowy canyons (actually called E.D.N. III), small bands of colonists fight off both “snow pirates” and zillions of Akrid — an aggressive insectoid species of flying jellyfish, house-sized spiders and even bigger scorpion thingys. It was a highly enjoyable third-person shooter, with an eccentric steampunk-inspired look and BioShock 2 Sled Shred strong online team play, but hobbled by an incomprehensible story. PC, PS3, XBOX 360 WII Lost Planet 2 fixes this by adopting the following plot: “Listen up The sequel to one of the Coached by the Jamaican soldier! Your mission is to go to Insertion Point Alpha and accomplish most celebrated games Bobsled team, race a objective MacGuffin — should be a cakewalk.” But it isn’t. Cue intense, ever takes you back to Rapture, variety of inner tubes, chaotic sci-fi battle of men vs. other men vs. monsters. Repeat. the ruined underwater discs, toboggans and Also, E.D.N. is now warming, creating jungles, oceans and deserts city overrun by genetically sleds down 10 snowy and — Holy Unintended Consequences! — awakening even bigger modified freaks. This time, courses in a quest to Akrid. In one early battle you take on a six-legged, armoured however, you’re one of ’em: compete at the “World salamander the size of a football field. Not only is the situation visually a powerful Big Daddy, the Winter Games.” Racing jaw-dropping, but it’s a slick set-up for team play as you work together iconic heavy of the first game, against one another or the to target the beast’s weak spots, including running down the monster’s complete with old-time diving Jamaicans, you can also gullet to machine-gun its organs. Send the rookie on that one, especially helmet and a drill for an arm. use the Wii Balance Board since survival means exiting via the great beast’s, er, back door. Isn’t progress wonderful? to guide your ride. RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 2 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 9 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 1

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Gemini Sagittarius STAR GAZING May 23 June 21 November 22 December 22 HOROSCOPE FOR FEBRUARY 2010 BY DAN LIEBMAN Whether making a purchase or The coincidence factor is launching a friendship, uncanny. You begin to wonder SCREENTESTYOUR MONTHLY DOSE OF MOVIE TRIVIA concentrate on the standard if some of February’s chance features rather than the bells and meetings have been quietly whistles. planned. It’s not too late to Garry Marshall directs Julia Roberts make resolutions, particularly in this month’s Valentine’s Day. The Cancer ones involving your spending 1 first time the duo paired up it was June 22 July 22 habits. Examine relationships for a 1990 romantic comedy that Get involved, not carried away, before they get even more propelled Roberts’ career to a new in a winter sport. And take your intense. level. Name that movie. time as a new relationship finds its footing. The month’s most Capricorn In Cop Out, Bruce Willis plays, interesting news involves family. December 23 January 20 well, a cop. In which of the It seems unremarkable at first, Avoid digging too deep unless 2 following movies did Willis not but by the 28th you realize the you’re prepared to unearth a play a cop — Sin City, Die Hard, extent to which it will affect you. family secret. Look forward 16 Blocks, Unbreakable? to a classy party around the Leo 15th. Plan on meeting a Anthony Hopkins plays father to July 23 August 22 celebrity or politician. Benicio Del Toro’s hairy protagonist It’s better to build on past Renewal is an ongoing theme 3 in the 1880s-set monster movie Benicio Del Toro (left) plays Anthony Hopkins’ boy in The Wolfman accomplishments than to start as you reconnect with a The Wolfman. In which 1890s-set from scratch. And it’s not too childhood friend. monster movie did Hopkins play a late to ask for forgiveness for monster-hunter named Van Helsing? something you regret having done, or not done, last year or Chris Columbus directs the new kids’ the year before. FEBRUARY flick Percy Jackson & the Olympians: BIRTHDAYS 4 The Lightning Thief, a title that Virgo 1st: Lisa Marie Presley seems constructed to accommodate Drew Barrymore August 23 September 22 2nd: Shakira a franchise. Which major franchise SIGN: Pisces You move from bit player to 3rd: Nathan Lane did Columbus kick off earlier this BORN: February 22, 1975 co-star in a family drama – 4th: Lisa Eichhorn decade, directing the first two films? WHERE: Culver City, California and you’ll earn respect for 5th: Barbara Hershey your honest performance. 6th: Rip Torn Hayden Christensen stars in the You’re privy to confidential job 7th: Chris Rock upcoming heist pic Takers. For Aquarius Aries information and finally get how 8th: Nick Nolte 5 which movie was Christensen January 21 February 19 March 21 April 20 the system works. 9th: Joe Pesci nominated for a Golden Globe? The trick this month is to keep You can’t afford to coast on recent 10th: Laura Dern Hayden Christensen in the upcoming heist pic Takers things in motion. You can’t let successes. Continue to make Libra 11th: Jennifer Aniston Amanda Seyfried stars in Dear John, anything stall — whether in the innovations, and check that September 23 October 22 12th: Christina Ricci a romance revolving around love area of profession, health or you’re getting credit for all your It’s Valentine’s Month, with lots 13th: Stockard Channing 6 letters. In which movie did Seyfried personal relationships. Be ideas. At the same time, take of romance packed into 28 days. 14th: Meg Tilly write letters to three men, asking skeptical of all information that advantage of an opportunity to The key is to know when to take 15th: Jane Seymour them to come to her wedding? isn’t backed up. You strike a late- move a deserving friend out of the the initiative. Continue to simplify 16th: LeVar Burton month truce with a former foe. shadows and into the limelight. your surroundings before you 17th: Denise Richards With the release of Shutter Island, bury yourself in stuff. 18th: John Travolta Martin Scorsese has directed Pisces Taurus 19th: Jeff Daniels 7 Leonardo DiCaprio four times. February 20 March 20 April 21 May 22 Scorpio 20th: Rihanna Name their first flick together. Respond to bullies through wit or It’s a good month to make a October 23 November 21 21st: Kelsey Grammer silence. Continue to concentrate presentation, but remember that Early February marks the start 22nd: Drew Barrymore

on health and fitness and you’ll packaging is as important as of a period of professional and 23rd: Dakota Fanning

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ANSWERS7. present a warm aura by content. You finally shake off personal growth. As the month 24th: Billy Zane

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Valentine’s Day. Your opinions those busybodies who’ve unfolds you’ll see how the two 25th: Sean Astin 6.

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remain the same, but you disrupted your life. And you excel areas are interconnected. 26th: Michael Bolton 4.

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articulate them more in public speaking or other areas Friends show appreciation in 27th: Elizabeth Taylor 3.

Unbreakable 2. Woman Pretty clearly...and get results. that previously spooked you. novel ways. 28th: Bernadette Peters 1. Ah, young love. Dear John’s Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried

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