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20 MISSION STATEMENT 06 EDITORIAL 44 NAME OF THE GAME In taking on the role of M:i:III’s Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Legend villain, consummate character actor 08 SNAPS and Oscar-winner Philip Seymour 45 LINER NOTES 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Hoffman lets audiences know he’s up 10 SHORTS Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s for anything, especially tormenting Taxing celebrities; and older Tom Cruise celebrities + young Canadian men 46 VIDEO AND DVD I BY EARL DITTMAN 12 SPOTLIGHT 48 HOROSCOPE 26 HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES Vanessa Lengies hits the gym The Rocket marks the third time in for Stick It 50 FAMOUS LAST WORDS his career that Roy Dupuis has laced The stars yap about yoga up to play Montreal Canadiens 14 THE BIG PICTURE legend Maurice Richard, and the United 93 lands in theatres Québécois star boasts he was COVER STORY
steadier on his skates than his NHL 35 COMING SOON 32 FARIS IS BURNING 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 co-stars I BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ She scored critical points for her 36 TRIVIA work in Lost in Translation and 28 MOL SKIN Brokeback Mountain, and now the Slim, blond Gretchen Mol may seem 37 ON THE SLATE suddenly hot Anna Faris reprises like an odd choice to play curvy, her signature role as Cindy Campbell dark-haired pin-up Bettie Page. But 38 THINGS in Scary Movie 4. Here the savvy The Notorious Bettie Page’s star Layers upon layers actor talks about the art of making says she felt a kinship with the people laugh I BY EARL DITTMAN fifties’ naughtiest model 40 STYLE COVER PHOTO: ROGER ERIKSON / ICON PHOTO RAV4 is not intended to be operated as race car, snow I BY BOB STRAUSS Hot on the runway terrain vehicle or dune buggy. Operate only in accordance with Owners Manual. Always drive responsibly. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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WHO’S THE FARIS 3/C EDITOR MARNI WEISZ B DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ONE OF ALL? ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET G PRODUCTION MANAGER SHEILA GREGORY id you recognize Anna Faris on the R PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA cover of this magazine? Chances Dare you have seen at least one of CONTRIBUTORS EARL DITTMAN her films. With her Scary Movie franchise SCOTT GARDNER SUSAN GRANGER already past the $640-million (U.S.) LIZA HERZ mark (the fourth one comes out this JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ month) there aren’t too many people DAN LIEBMAN BOB STRAUSS who haven’t watched at least one of her turns as the oft-frightened Cindy ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS Campbell in the popular spoof series. IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. And those who wouldn’t be caught HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232)
dead at a Scary Movie are just the demo- 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 graphic that would have enjoyed Faris as a spoiled starlet in 2003’s NATIONAL SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SALES JAN DI CLEMENTE (ext. 249) nuanced Lost in Translation, or in last year’s tragic Brokeback Mountain. MANAGING DIRECTOR, SALES CINDY FROST (ext. 254) What? You didn’t recognize her in Brokeback Mountain? Don’t be ACCOUNT MANAGERS ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) embarrassed, neither did I until the credits rolled. She was the yappy JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) housewife who danced with Jack Twist at the country club — stick a BILL LAMMERS (ext. 257) puffy bleached wig on her head and she’s unrecognizable. SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) CO-ORDINATOR In “Anna Faris Just Won’t Die,” page 32, the actor says her chameleon-like abilities have helped her carve out a pretty interesting BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 career — much more interesting than most of her blond-haired WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH
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Speaking of chameleons, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who many WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 consider to be the best character actor of his generation, made the QUEBEC 514.868.0005 somewhat surprising choice to play the villain in next month’s DIRECTOR OF SALES SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) blockbuster Mission: Impossible III. In “Big, Bad Hoffman,” page 20, SALES CO-ORDINATOR PATRICIA CARPENTIER (ext. 223) Hoffman admits that some of his actor friends have kidded him about SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS going mainstream. No worries, the thrill of getting to beat up on DANIEL CULLEN Tom Cruise made it all worthwhile. JOAN GRANT Would you believe that Quebec superstar Roy Dupuis has now ELLIS JACOB JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ played Maurice “Rocket” Richard three times? The latest is the first The funniest thing PAT MARSHALL feature-length film of the trio. Titled simply The Rocket, the movie DAN MCGRATH comes after Dupuis played the iconic Montreal Canadien in a CATHY PROWSE you ever sawed. SUSAN REGINELLI
Heritage Minute and a TV series. In “Hat Trick,” page 26, Dupuis tries 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 to explain why Richard was so important to Quebecers. Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions are $32.10 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. The Notorious Bettie Page isn’t likely to play in every theatre across and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. the country, but if it comes to yours check it out just to witness All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto, Gretchen Mol’s transformation from fair-haired, Ontario, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] girl-next-door type to the originator of the Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019 smoldering, brunette pin-up — Bettie Page. Mol Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: shares her makeover secrets in “Paging Gretchen Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ont., M6K 1X9
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snaps | >>> Keri Russell adjusts her fake pregnant belly on the New York City set of August Rush. Russell’s career seemed to be on 3/C pause after TV’s Felicity was CAUGHT ON FILM cancelled. But now she has roles B in next month’s Mission: KERI RUSSELL, MILLA JOVOVICH, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, KATE WINSLET, JOAQUIN PHOENIX G Impossible III and this quirky
drama about an orphaned music R prodigy trying to find his parents On a snowy day, Kate Winslet gives >>> (one of whom is played by Russell). her two-year-old son Joe a ride home after a trip to New York’s Chelsea Market. >>> Wow, and you thought Johnny Cash was dark. Joaquin Phoenix looks as if he’s allergic to the light at a Hollywood luncheon to celebrate the Cash bio-pic >>> Is that how a nice young lady excuses Walk the Line. herself? Dustin Hoffman helps his >>> daughter Ally get out of her seat by Ultraviolet heroine Milla stepping over the table at New York Jovovich looks as though she’s 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 restaurant Le Bilbouquet. been plucked from a Renaissance painting as she dines at the Cinema for Peace
Gala in Berlin. PHOTO BY BRAD WASHBURN/FILMMAGIC PHOTO BY LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH-KEYSTONE PHOTO BY LAWRENCE 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PHOTO BY LAWRENCE SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH NEWS NEWS SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH SCHWARTZWALD/SPLASH PHOTO BY LAWRENCE PHOTO BY LAWRENCE PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS PHOTO BY AARON ST.CLAIR/SPLASH NEWS PHOTO BY AARON ST.CLAIR/SPLASH
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few years ago it was The Barenaked Ladies, before that it was Halle Berry and 3/C Roots. But if you wanna know what the hottest Canadian export is Gabriel Aubry on a day A B these days, look no further than the arms of some of celebritydom’s of shopping in Soho
charter members. It’s younger men. G Elton John was the first star to scoop up a young Canuck mate — R Scarborough, Ontario, born and bred David Furnish is 16 years his junior. But the two are now married, and therefore old news. Sultry Kim Cattrall, 49, who played Samantha on Sex and the City, is dating chef Alan Wyse, 28, who hails from Toronto and is a dead ringer for Smith Jerrod, Samantha’s boyfriend on the last season of Sex. They met while she was in Toronto shooting Ice Princess a couple of years ago. And 39-year-old Halle Berry hooked up with 30-year-old Montreal model Gabriel Aubry (who’s done print for Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss, and walked the runway for Ralph Lauren and Gucci) on the set of a Versace ad campaign last November.
So if you happen to be an established celebrity in 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the market for a hot, young, Canadian man (Sharon Stone, we’re looking at you) we humbly suggest 27-year-old Luke Kirby, the Hamilton-born star of Mambo Italiano; 26-year-old Montreal actor/director Jacob Tierney (directed Twist, appeared in Blood); or 22-year-old Montrealer Marc André Grondin, nominated for a Genie this year for C.R.A.Z.Y. Alan Wyse and Kim Cattrall at We have no idea whether they’re single, but Fashion Rocks they’re cute and could use the publicity. —MW
HOME OF THE (NOT SO) FREE 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 s usual, this year’s Oscar Here in Canada, at last month’s Anominees were inundated Genie Awards, Canadian celebs with gift bags and baskets, were also presented with goodies including one from M&M’s that backstage. Inside the Genies gift contained personalized candies bags items such as Fossil watches — the nominee’s name and a and spa getaways were up for congratulatory message were grabs. But do Canadian stars printed right onto the shells. have to pay the taxman? Puh-lease. “We cannot provide information So it’s with a sense of poetic on specific cases,” says Canada
justice that we report American Revenue Agency spokesman 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 celebs have to claim their swag Sam Papadopoulos. “However, to the IRS, which treats the gifts in general, if gifts are provided as as taxable items. Yes, the stars a form of compensation, then have to pay tax on their loot, they are considered to be which could turn out to be a taxable.” sizeable sum. In other words, the tax folks In fact, the official gift baskets aren’t quite sure what to make of given out to Oscar-night presenters the gift bag phenemenon. It took were worth about $100,000, and them a few days of digging included a $7,000 Victoria’s around just to come up with their Secret outfit and a coupon for maybe/maybe not answer, which laser eye surgery. That translates may make last month’s Genie 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 to about $30,000 in taxes. celebs a wee bit nervous. —IR KIM CATTRALL PHOTO BY KIM DAN CATTRALL HERRICK/KEYSTONE; HALLE BERRY PHOTO BY BRIAN PAHL/SPLASH-KEYSTONE
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the | big | picture | THE WILD VOICES? Kiefer Sutherland, James Belushi WHO DIRECTED? Steven “Spaz” Williams (debut) now in theatress WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When a young zoo lion I BY INGRID RANDOJA (Sutherland) is mistakenly shipped to the wilds of Africa, his dad, a giraffe, squirrel, koala bear and snake join forces to rescue him. • HITS THEATRES APRIL21
Richard, one of hockey’s greatest players. Dupuis stars as the fiercely competitive Richard, who, during the ’40s and up until the mid-’50s, rewrote the NHL record book despite the fact his beloved Montreal Canadiens organization treated him, and all the francophone players, shabbily (they weren’t allowed to speak French on the bench or in the dressing room). Look for present-day NHL stars Vincent Lecavalier (somewhat tame by today’s standards) that WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In the hopes of saving her as the gentlemanly Jean Béliveau and made her “notorious” and caught the disturbed daughter Sharon from Colorado Avalanche’s Ian Laperrière as attention of the U.S. government. institutionalization, Rose (Mitchell) takes Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion. See Gretchen Mol interview, page TK. her to Silent Hill, a deserted town that is See Roy Dupuis interview, page TK. somehow connected to Sharon’s illness. APRIL 21 But the fog-enshrouded town isn’t STICK IT deserted, it’s crawling with demons, WHO’S IN IT? Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym HOOT spirits and other nasty creatures who WHO DIRECTED? Jessica Bendinger (debut) WHO’S IN IT? Logan Lerman, Luke Wilson want to claim Sharon as their own. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Teenage rebel Haley WHO DIRECTED? Wil Shriner (debut) Graham (Peregrym) is forced to return to WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Best-selling author Carl THE ROCKET her former school — an elite gymnastics LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN Hiaasen (Striptease, Sick Puppy) surprised WHO’S IN IT? Roy Dupuis, Julie LeBreton academy — and it doesn’t take long before APRIL 2 WHO’S IN IT? Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu some of his fans when he penned the young- WHO DIRECTED? Charles Binamé she infuriates her by-the-book coach WHO DIRECTED? Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park) adult novel Hoot, which focuses on teenager (Séraphin: Heart of Stone) (Bridges) and alienates her uptight WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Wicker Park’s director and star — McGuigan and Hartnett — reunite for Roy Eberhardt, who moves from Montana to WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In the same way teammates, including the catty Joanne WRESTLEMANIA 22 this stylish thriller about an ordinary guy named Slevin (Hartnett) who is mistaken for a the Florida Everglades and becomes African-Americans revere Muhammed Ali, played by Montreal’s own Vanessa Lengies. Check www.famousplayers.com high-rolling gambler by two rival gangsters (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman). The involved in a plot to save an owl habitat from Québécois idolize Maurice “Rocket” See Vanessa Lengies interview, page TK. or www.cineplex.com for a list of mobsters threaten to do very bad things to the mystified Slevin unless he agrees to act as a developers. This movie version stars Lerman theatres where you can watch it live, hitman for them both. Liu is the gambler’s next-door neighbour. (TV’s Jack and Bobby) as Roy, Wilson as a and to buy tickets. bumbling cop, and singer Jimmy Buffett as • HITS THEATRES APRIL 7 a high school science teacher. APRIL 7 THE BENCHWARMERS success of horror films means the Scary SILENT HILL PHAT GIRLZ WHO’S IN IT? David Spade, Rob Schneider Movie franchise has fresh fodder to feed on. WHO’S IN IT? Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean WHO’S IN IT? Mo’Nique, Jimmy Jean-Louis WHO DIRECTED? Dennis Dugan Flicks such as The Village, Saw, The Grudge WHO DIRECTED? Christophe Gans WHO DIRECTED? Nnegest Likké (debut) (National Security) and War of the Worlds are lampooned, as is (Brotherhood of the Wolf) M M WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A plus-size woman and WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This comedy is aimed at all Tom Cruise’s now legendary Oprah couch- aspiring fashion designer (Mo’Nique) finds those whose memories of playing sports as a jumping episode. love in the form of an African man (Haitian kid bring on post-traumatic stress syndrome See Anna Faris interview, page TK. THE SENTINEL model Jean-Louis) who reveres the large rather than reverie. Spade, Schneider and WHO’S IN IT? Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland female form. Jon Heder star as three grown nerds who THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE WHO DIRECTED? Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T.) decide to reclaim their childhood by playing WHO’S IN IT? Gretchen Mol, David Strathairn WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A veteran Secret Service TAKE THE LEAD baseball against little league teams. The WHO DIRECTED? Mary Harron agent (Douglas) is accused of conspiring to WHO’S IN IT? Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard problem is, they still suck. (American Psycho) assassinate the American President. Now WHO DIRECTED? Liz Friedlander (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Sweet-natured Bettie Page he has to find out who framed him before WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Professional dancer Pierre APRIL 14 (Mol) made the most of her silky black the real killer strikes. Filmed in Hogtown, Dulaine (Banderas) volunteers to teach hair, curvy figure and playful spirit to Torontonians will get a kick out of seeing troubled New York City high schoolers the art SCARY MOVIE 4 become the 1950s most famous pin-up landmarks such as Nathan Phillips Square of ballroom dancing. Look for these badass WHO’S IN IT? Anna Faris, Craig Bierko model. She was known for posing in skimpy figure prominently in the action. kids with hearts of gold to give the elegant WHO DIRECTED? David Zucker (Scary Movie 3) tiger-print outfits and two-piece bathing • HITS THEATRES APRIL21 endeavour an urban edge. Filmed in Toronto. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The continued box-office suits, but it was her bondage pics
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famous | underdogs | 3/C B G NSCOREerds R [ at least on the field ] The Benchwarmers opens this month, and it isn’t just another sports movie — it’s a nerd The Benchwarmers sports movie! David Spade, Jon Heder and Rob Schneider star as three grown losers who take on arrogant, and often downright mean, little league squads to prove nerds have got game too. Hollywood loves a misfits vs. jocks sports flick, and if you consider 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 that a lot of Hollywood types were probably geeky kids, well, you can understand why these movies keep getting made. So, to celebrate the uncoordinated spaz in all of us, we break down Hollywood’s best-known nerd sports flicks I BY INGRID RANDOJA
THE BAD NEWS THE MIGHTY LITTLE GIANTS (1994) DODGEBALL: A TRUE BEARS (1976) DUCKS (1992) PREMISE: The younger brother UNDERDOG STORY (2005) PREMISE: A washed-up, beer- PREMISE: A disgraced (Rick Moranis) of a football star PREMISE: To save their rundown guzzling ex-baseball player Minnesota lawyer (Emilio decides to coach a team of gym a bunch of non-jocks, (Walter Matthau) takes over a Estevez) is court-ordered also-ran peewee players, taking led by Vince Vaughn, enter team of misfit little leaguers. to coach a losing peewee on his brother’s all-star team in a dodge ball tournament. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 hockey team. the process. DodgeBall TEAM NERD INCLUDES: TEAM NERD INCLUDES: a nose-pickin’ outfielder, a TEAM NERD INCLUDES: TEAM NERD INCLUDES: a fat kid a lackadaisical gym owner, short-sighted pitcher, a racist a scaredy-cat goalie, a figure- with a gas problem, a clumsy a failed male high school shortstop, an overweight catcher skating princess, a silent wide receiver and a math nerd cheerleader, a slob and a pirate and a juvenile delinquent winger and an ankle-skating who designs the plays forward with a wicked shot OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS: The Bad News Bears OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS: the OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS: Team Globo Gym, which dreaded Yankees, a team just OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS: the smartly attired Cowboys, includes pumped-up jocks as arrogant as their The Hawks, coached by the led by the helmet-smashing and a woman with a unibrow professional namesakes evil Jack Reilly, and we know linebacker Spike he’s a jerk since he runs up FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE: Peter
FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE: scores and calls his players FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE: La Fleur (Vince Vaughn): “I 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Tanner Boyle (the mouthy “ladies.” Boo-hiss Hanson (the pathetic found that if you have a goal, shortstop): “Hey Yankees...you receiver talking to his hands): that you might not reach it. But can take your apology and your FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE: The “Why do you do this to me, if you do not have one you are “I found that if you have trophy and shove ’em straight Mighty Ducks: “Quack! Quack! fellas? I cut your nails, wash never disappointed. And I gotta up your a--!” Quack! Quack! GOOOOOOO you, put gloves on you when tell you, it feels phenomenal!” a goal, that you might DUCKS!” (It doesn’t get any you’re cold...” not reach it. But if you FINAL SCORE: 8 out of 10. nerdier than that.) FINAL SCORE: 9 out of 10. Foul-mouthed children, FINAL SCORE: 6 out of 10. Straight man Vaughn and do not have one you are morally questionable parents FINAL SCORE: 5 out of 10. While the plot is ho-hum, the Ben Stiller (in full ’roid rage) never disappointed. who abuse their offspring Hockey is a sacred sport here relationship between Moranis lovingly lampoon sports clichés, and a cranky coach who in Canada, so to see a movie and his older brother (Ed and what’s not to love about a And I gotta tell you,
actually splashes beer in a screw up basic stuff such as, O’Neill) is surprisingly complex movie that sees guys getting 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 kid’s face — a rough gem um, the rules (!) doesn’t score and overshadows the misfits’ smacked in the groin with big it feels phenomenal!” hiding in a PC world. the filmmakers many points. on-field heroics. rubber balls? —Vince Vaughn, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
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interview | PHILIP SEYMOUR H0FFMAN
just because you make movies and obtain M:i:III’s Tom Cruise (left) and a certain amount of success that your Philip Seymour Hoffman private life is automatically an open book of any kind. I mean, there are things I
don’t want anyone to know, much less 3/C some person on the west coast, reading it in a tabloid, who I don’t even know…. I B
know some actors think there’s a trade- G off, but I refuse to let the fact that I make movies rule what I will or won’t say to R promote those movies. So, yeah, I guess you could call me private.”
When did you start to get your choice of projects? “I’ve been choosing scripts for a while, since I was like 30, maybe, and I’m 38 now. I don’t know how many scripts are out there, and what kind of scripts I am getting comparatively to everybody else, but I’ve been basically trying to choose amongst offers.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
So, why Capote? “It was really the story that was the most attractive thing. The story of writing In Cold Blood, and his life story. The idea If you’re surprised to see Philip Seymour Hoffman of the technical stuff of playing him, that as the villain in Mission: Impossible III, don’t be. wasn’t the thing that attracted me to it…. What I was drawn to was the tragic tale. The Oscar-winning actor has nothing against This classic, tragic tale. Something being blockbusters…and admits the opportunity to beat inevitable, something playing itself out up on Tom Cruise made the role and no one could stop it. There was something about that which was very “that much sweeter” I BY EARL DITTMAN interesting to me and compelling.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
Capote was filmed in Winnipeg. With the comparative isolation of Winnipeg in North America, was there a efore this year, Philip Seymour Decked out in a baggy, light brown suit, secret set. Much like its two predecessors, an action film, you still have to do your parallel to Capote’s journey to a small Hoffman was highly regarded by T-shirt and sneakers at a New York City M:i:III’s plot has been shrouded in homework. You have to get into this guy’s “I love playing bad Kansas community? Bfilm aficionados and his peers as hotel, Hoffman admits he’s been razzed mystery, with a copy of the screenplay as head. You have to ask questions like, ‘What guys, and when I “Actually, Winnipeg is fantastic. You see it “an actor’s actor” thanks to nuanced, and by some of his acting friends for taking a impossible to find as the Holy Grail. “It’s is it that makes this guy tick and what is in the film, it does capture the Midwest in incredibly varied, performances in films role in M:i:III. “I’ve done a number of big more exciting when you sit in your theatre the interesting thing about this guy?’” know I’m out to that period very well, actually. I don’t like The Talented Mr. Ripley (upper-crust studio films, but my heart really lies in the seat and don’t know everything about the kill someone like know if there were any other parallels…. cad), Happiness (socially inept stalker), independent filmmaking world, and movie before it even starts,” says Hoffman. You worked with Tom Cruise on Magnolia, If there was a sense of isolation it really
Flawless (drag queen) and Boogie Nights most people know it, so doing a film like “It’s like acting, the less you know about the one of his most-acclaimed roles. How Tom Cruise, it makes it was after the fact, looking back, it was dur- 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 (porn film crew member) — yet the Mission: Impossible gets me a few ‘sell-out’ actors playing the part, the easier it is to would you compare the performances? ing the cold season, it was very, very cold. 38-year-old from Fairport, New York, jokes from some of my buddies — but believe the performances.” “In both films, he worked his butt off. In that much sweeter,” It was isolated, I had never been there wasn’t exactly a household name. they’re just jealous,” Hoffman says with a Magnolia, he had a tough part. He had to jokes Hoffman before and another thing that happened But with his Academy Award-winning laugh. The real draw, he explains, was the You’ve played some nasty bad guys, but go in there and do all this emotional was that I slowly started becoming very performance as the late, openly gay chance to play the archenemy of Cruise’s never an action villain. How do you avoid purging. If there were a title for his friendly with the people in the town. On writer/celeb-at-large Truman Capote in segret agent Ethan Hunt. turning him into just a caricature? scene, it would be ‘The Emotional Most people don’t know you have a child, my days off I’d have to get out of where I Capote (which also earned him statues “I love playing bad guys, and when I “You are right, they can be. I mean, this is Purge.’ And he did it, time and time Cooper Alexander [with girlfriend Mimi was staying and I’d go to these same from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden know I’m out to kill somebody like a different thing than that, but ultimately again. It was amazing. With Mission: O´Donnell], and you kicked a substance- places… There was a similarity in that Globes and the British Academy of Film Tom Cruise, it makes it that much sweeter,” if you are doing Mission: Impossible, what- Impossible, not only does he have tough abuse problem when you were around 22. aspect of just kind of starting to live in the and Television Arts) Hoffman should now Hoffman jokes. ever you are doing, you want to find some emotional scenes, but he’s got these Are you a private person by nature, or do you town and the people in it, like Capote did.” be recognizable. If not, his role opposite His character’s plot to find and kill moment, something that, in the end, the crazy, wild, physical stunts that he always just hate seeing your name in the tabloids? Tom Cruise in next month’s Mission: Hunt is practically the only story element audience — hopefully — will buy you. wants to perform himself. With me, if it “Well, I certainly don’t believe in the old Where did you go? 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Impossible III (a.k.a. M:i:III) will certainly that has leaked from writer/director Then that just sucks a person more into even looks a tiny bit dangerous, I’m saying that ‘all publicity is good publicity.’ “There is this place, this great German
pick up any lost sections of the population. J.J. Abrams’ (creator of Lost and Alias) top- the film. And, even though he’s a villain in screaming for my stunt double [laughs].” I’m pretty private, and I don’t believe that coffee shop/restaurant that I used M M
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to go to, I can’t remember what street M M it was on. It was very much this Starbucks kind of area, with this wonderful German MISSION: owner, I’d go there all the time. He was IMPOSSIBLE (1996) 3/C like selfless, I’d go and chat with him for THE MISSION: You’d think it would be
B SHE’S GRACEFUL, BEAUTIFUL two hours, and eat his pastries.” against a spy agency’s better judgment to put
the real identities of all of America’s double G You have no problem taking on gay roles, agents into one computer file, but darn it (!)
which still seems taboo for some actors. R AND DEADLY. that’s what some pea brains decided to do Are we at a point where actors can take on and now a bad guy’s trying to steal it. Secret gay roles with no bad career aftereffects? agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is brought in “It’s a tricky thing, isn’t it? I still think it’s not only to stop the crook, but to take pictures tricky, I think it will always be a tricky thing. of him nabbing the file, and then follow him It’s never been a tricky thing for me, and until he hands it off to the Big Bad. I don’t think that makes me a better MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? The plot had as person or anything like that. I just think many holes as a football jersey, but director that, early on, I just kind of played char- Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables) acters that I’ve wanted to play and some of used his own style of subterfuge — stunning them have been gay and some not, some stunt sequences, bullet-paced action and of them transsexuals. Again, the story is face-peeling special effects — to distract the thing that pulls you in, and I think that from the storyline’s flaws. the biggest honour you can pay to playing 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a character whose sexual identity is in the TRIVIA: It was the first film to be shown minority is to not make it about that, to in more than 3,000 U.S. cinemas. make it about them, their lives, the people, PAYOFF: It has grossed $456-million (U.S.) the fact they’re struggling — obviously on an $80-million budget. their struggles are going to pertain to that issue — but I really am wary of pointing out the fact of their sexuality in these films because it’s more about, like everyone, the MISSION: drama is in their lives.” IMPOSSIBLE II (2000) You’ve directed several stage plays. Do you THE MISSION: It’s the classic good-guy-
want to direct films? turned-bad scenario, with former secret 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “No, no. Maybe when I’m older.” agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) plotting
MISSION CONTROL to steal samples of both a killer virus and its Why not? antidote. You see where this one is going… “Because I don’t think I know how to do Since plot details After Ambrose leaks the nasty bug on the that. I mean, you have people directing streets of Sydney, Australia, he’ll sell the films that are so God-awful that I know about the new cure to the highest bidder. And it’s Ethan my little brother could have done that. Hunt’s job to stop the scoundrel! Thandie There are a lot of people out there that Mission: Impossible Newton plays Bond Girl to Cruise’s hero, should not be directing films. You have so helping him to find her ex-boyfriend Ambrose many of these guys going around saying, movie seem to and falling for Hunt amidst the action. ‘I’m a film director.’ I’m like, ‘How can LET’S HANG HER. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? A more you call yourself a film director? You have been locked streamlined plot is artfully directed by 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Four hundred years from now, humankind will be living in utopia. don’t even know what a damn f-stop is!’ John Woo (Face/Off, Once a Thief), who And I know that I don’t know how to see in a vault in some uses many of his trademarks — flying doves, With just one secret. Join the rebellion and rent or buy ‘Aeon Flux’ starting April 25th things visually through a camera. I’m not slow motion and double-handed gun action and you’ll receive this exclusive poster. going to make one until I know I’m secret Swiss — to keep the viewer occupied. ready or I go to film school.” hideaway we TRIVIA: When he delivers the line, Is this the best period of your career? thought we could “Mr. Hunt, this isn’t mission difficult, it’s “Is it the best period in my career? I don’t mission impossible. ‘Difficult’ should be a walk in the park for you,” Anthony Hopkins know, I haven’t lived any more of it, so at least remind (as Mission Commander Swanbeck) becomes maybe it might get better, hopefully. Or it the first person to utter the phrase “mission might get worse, and that might be a you of what impossible” in any of the movies, or the TV good time, too.” series that inspired them. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Membership rules apply for rental. See store for happened in the complete terms and conditions. Release date Earl Dittman is a Houston-based PAYOFF: It has grossed $546-million on a subject to change. Availability may vary by entertainment writer. $125-million budget. —MW location. Quantities limited. See store for details. first two movies. *Posters available while supplies last. BLOCKBUSTER name, design and related marks are trademarks of Blockbuster Inc. © 2006 Blockbuster Inc. All rights reserved. famous 22 | april 2006 TM, ® & Copyright © 2006 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
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M:i:III | timeline | 3/C B Clockwise from left: Tom Cruise as segret agent Ethan Hunt; Cruise G with co-star Michelle Monaghan; R Tom “The Running Man” Cruise MISSION gets some exercise BREAKDOWN We chronicle the nearly impossible task of getting M:i:III to the big screen I BY MARTIN GRENIER 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
n an ideal world, Mission: Impossible III Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) is signed would already be ancient history. to direct Dogtown and Fincher merely ends I After the astonishing success of the up with an executive producer credit. first two movies — $456-million (U.S.) for 1996’s Mission: Impossible and $546- FINDING A NEW DIRECTOR million for 2000’s Mission: Impossible II — Fincher’s director’s chair is still warm Paramount bigwigs were eager to get when Paramount signs Joe Carnahan to moving on the third installment. replace him. The little-known filmmaker wrote and directed Narc, a thriller about FINDING A DIRECTOR a narcotics officer investigating a cop As early as 2001, the production team killing, which just happened to be exec- starts their search for a new director. It’s utive produced by Tom Cruise. After the 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 not that they don’t like how Brian De Palma quick switch, shooting is expected to handled the first movie, or what John start right away. Woo has done with the sequel. They are That’s when Collateral comes along and simply looking for a change. In fact, it’s messes everything up. Cruise decides to were, at one point or another, associated character from the script. months before, he’d jumped the couch star Tom Cruise, also one of the franchise’s play the brutal hitman in Michael Mann’s with the film. Combine their busy skeds Then there’s Lindsay Lohan. While on Oprah and, after what seemed like an producers, who insists on having a new thriller (and rightly so, it earns him his with each director’s vision of who should reports that she was to replace Johansson instant engagement to Dawson’s Creek director for each movie so that each one best reviews since Magnolia), so M:i:III’s be in the film and you end up with more zoom around the internet, in the end, the star Katie Holmes, used the presence of will have a different atmosphere and tone. start date is once again up in the air. turnover than a bad fast-food restaurant. story is never confirmed and Lohan has any camera (and there were many, as he At one point the buzz is that Oliver Carnahan is patient until the summer Take the star of Lost in Translation, no role. Instead, Abrams gives the part to was travelling the globe promoting Stone will direct, at another the rumours of 2004, but one month before shooting Scarlett Johansson. In the beginning, the one of his protégés, Keri Russell, the War of the Worlds) as an opportunity to dip, are about Ang Lee. But the man who is to begin, another surprise. He dumps beautiful blonde is supposed to be 30-year-old actor best-known as the and suck face with, his new leading lady.
finally signs on is David Fincher, director the project, claiming “artistic differences.” M:i:III’s leading lady, but because of the angst-filled title character on TV’s Felicity, Cruise had also angered a lot of people 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 of Seven and Fight Club. It’s 2002 when As everything is put back on hold Cruise many delays she can’t do it. (There are yet another series created by Abrams. by bashing the entire field of psychiatry Fincher agrees to shoot the film in 2003 squeezes in Steven Spielberg’s update of also rumours Cruise tried to “educate” on Today with Matt Lauer, and by taking with a 2004 release date in mind. War of the Worlds. Johansson about Scientology — an CAMERAS ROLL a shot at Brooke Shields after she talked education the sure-minded starlet July 2005: Two years after M:i:III was sup- about using antidepressants to deal with LOSING A DIRECTOR ANOTHER NEW DIRECTOR reportedly did not appreciate.) posed to start shooting, the cameras her post-partum depression. Months pass while Tom Cruise finishes J.J. Abrams, who created the ground- Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh finally roll. Cast and crew fly to Italy with a Even today the 43-year-old actor’s shooting The Last Samurai. In the mean- breaking TV shows Lost and Alias, is was set to play the villain, but is dropped $150-million budget that will also be spent behaviour is watched with raised eye- time, Fincher keeps busy by working on handed the reigns despite the fact he has when one of the revolving directors on sets throughout the U.S. and China. brows. Despite the fact that Holmes is the skateboard flick Lords of Dogtown. But never directed a feature. No matter. Tom decides Branagh doesn’t have the right now pregnant, many still suspect their Fincher and Cruise’s schedules become Cruise is a big Alias fan, and that’s enough. look for the part, which eventually goes THE TOM CRUISE FACTOR relationship is primarily a publicity stunt. increasingly incompatible and eventually to Philip Seymour Hoffman. And, of course, there is the situation sur- The most cynical conspiracy theorists Fincher has to quit the mission. In the SIGNING THE ACTORS For Canadian Carrie-Anne Moss, rounding Tom Cruise. By the time Mission: have even noticed that their baby is due end Fincher doesn’t even direct Lords of If you think listing all of M:i:III’s directors getting cut is simply a case of bad luck, as Impossible III starts shooting, much of the in May, about the same time M:i:III will 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Dogtown. As soon as he quits M:i:III, is a big job, try cataloguing the stars who Abrams and his new writers trim her world has tired of seeing his face. Just eight finally be released.
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Quebec superstar Roy Dupuis plays Maurice Richard for the third time in The Rocket I BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ TRICKhen it comes to Maurice “Rocket” Richard, Roy Dupuis Roy Dupuis as Maurice Richard knows what he’s talking about. WFor the third time in his career, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the 42-year-old actor plays the French- Canadian hockey icon, this time in The Rocket, a feature-length bio-pic about the Montreal Canadiens’ legendary number nine. The relationship between Dupuis and Richard began in 1997, when the actor played the Rocket in a Heritage Minute. Two years later, Dupuis was back on the ice starring in a TV series called The Maurice Rocket Richard Story. “After I watched the TV show, I knew we had to make a movie out of it,” explains 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Dupuis, who met Richard several times before the hard-hitting right winger died for making contact with a referee. For sequences, all based on archival footage in 2000. many historians, the event is considered from the ’40s and ’50s. In fact, Dupuis would even suggest to be a key catalyst in Quebec’s imminent To add more credibility, filmmakers changes to the TV series when he felt Quiet Revolution. even cast a number of present-day NHL something wasn’t right. “But it only hap- “Not only was he a great athlete, but players in supporting roles, including pened a few times,” says the Quebec-born Maurice also showed Quebecers that Vincent Lecavalier, Sean Avery and the actor, one of the most popular celebrities they could be the best at anything they recently retired Stéphane Quintal. in his home province. wanted,” says Dupuis. Dupuis, himself a long-time hockey Written by Ken Scott (who directed To bring the Rocket back to life, Oscar- fan, says he wasn’t nervous about skating Seducing Doctor Lewis) and directed by winning producers Denise Robert and with real players. In fact, the professional
Charles Binamé (Séraphin: Heart of Stone), Daniel Louis (The Barbarian Invasions) athletes had more trouble on the ice 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The Rocket opens with the infamous 1955 raised $8-million, the biggest budget than Dupuis. “I have been playing since riots, when angry Richard supporters ever for any entirely Quebec-made I was three years old,” says the actor, “so took to Montreal’s streets to protest the film. With that money, the production it was easier for me to adapt to the
PHOTOGRAPHY: JOCELYN MICHEL ASSISTANT: ROGER AZIZ MICHEL ASSISTANT: JOCELYN PHOTOGRAPHY: MAKEUP: MARIE-CLAUDE LANGEVIN STYLING: SARAH LAROCHE CLOTHES: ET TRISTAN AMERICA NHL’s decision to suspend the Rocket team was able to stage several on-ice old-style skates.”
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interview | GRETCHEN MOL PAGING GRETCHEN MOL After being out of the limelight for years, fair-haired Gretchen Mol makes a surprising return as Bettie Page, the dark, smoldering pin-up girl of the 1950s I BY BOB STRAUSS
aven’t seen much of Gretchen Mol lately? Don’t blame yourself. Or her. H The actress has been doing note - worthy work, but much of it has been on the New York and London stage. She was Roxie Hart in the Broadway revival of Chicago, and appeared in productions of Neil LaBute’s caustic The Shape of Things on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the acclaimed, but spottily dis- tributed, movie version. So don’t feel too bad if you’ve lost track of her. Yes, things have changed from 1998, when the then-25-year-old starlet was Vanity Fair’s Next Big Thing cover girl and co-starring with the hottest screen hunks around — Matt Damon in Rounders, Jude Law in Music from Another Room and Leonardo DiCaprio in Woody Allen’s Celebrity. But few went to those movies, and since then it’s mainly been small indie flicks, interesting TV and live proj- ects, with a little time off to marry director Tod Williams (The Door in the Floor). Get ready, though, to see more of Mol than you ever have before. And, yes, we “She was just so alive and unselfconscious in do mean that in a nudge-nudge way. As The Notorious Bettie Page, the actor front of the camera,” says Mol. “The way she kind does bare all. Had to; Page was America’s of invited people in, without judgement” first nude supermodel, and her vintage 1950s glamour photos (and rougher E! True Hollywood Story on her. At the very people in, without judgment, was to me stuff) still make hearts beat faster. end of that, she was interviewed very briefly the thing to capture. It just was so joyful. But it was capturing the sunny, play- — all blacked out, she didn’t want to be All those photographs, even when she fully kinky spirit of the deeply religious seen — and her voice had this very gritty, was doing the dominatrix thing, she and somehow kind-of-innocent Ms. Page earthy, Southern country accent. So I set always had a little bit of a wink going on.” that made the role a serious above-the- about trying to track that thing down. The film is directed by Canadian neck exercise as well. “I didn’t know if anyone would ever Mary Harron (the daughter of entertainer “I had heard of her and seen photo- see me as this character, so I just gave it Don Harron, a.k.a. Charlie Farquharson), graphs of her, but I didn’t know much my all and had a good time. I did see whose previous movies include American about her,” Mol admits over the phone something in her photographs, though, Psycho and I Shot Andy Warhol. Harron from New York. “I had sort of an image of that I felt a sort of kinship with. She was quickly understood that the slim, blond the leopard bikini and the whip and the just so alive and unselfconscious in front Mol could nail the essence of the black bangs, and I had seen pieces of an of the camera. The way she kind of invited curvaceous, jet-haired temptress. M M
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Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page 3/C 3/C Right: Mol “au naturel” at the B 2005 CFDA Awards B G WORKING G R There are lots of reasons a movie R may start its life with one title and end with another. Perhaps the tone of the movie changed during the course of production, and the old title just doesn’t fit anymore. Maybe that original title just sucked to begin with. Or sometimes — especially when you’re dealingtitles with a high-profile project — a fake title is purposely used to throw off the The Man paparazzi or curious fans. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
M M Money people, perhaps wary of Mol’s former flavour-of-the-month status, were admittedly harder to convince. “It was a long process, trying to get it HERE ARE 15 RECENT FILMS THAT WERE CALLED going, trying to find people who would SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE THEY WERE RELEASED. make it with me,” Mol says. “But when we SEE HOW MANY YOU CAN FIGURE OUT. finally got to it, it ended up being a really wonderful, wonderful experience.” Even the scenes we’re all nudge- Working titles: Final movie titles: nudgey about? “I felt safe with Mary, I believed in her 1. Class Action A. Wallace & Gromit in the take on Bettie and the film as a whole,” Curse of the Were-Rabbit 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Mol says. “Really, [the nudity] wasn’t as 2. Somebody Loves You 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 difficult as some of the other scenes. In B. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Wallace & Gromit her younger days, there was some sexual 3. El Maninator abuse. It’s very subtle in the movie, but just C. The Family Stone some of her psychology, I’d say, was the 4. If Only It Were True most difficult part.” D. Hitch The real test still lays ahead: convincing 5. Hating Her North Country those Bettie fans out there, who — we’ll E. Kingdom of Heaven make an educated guess — must be mighty 6. The Last First Kiss particular about how their dream queen is F. March of the Penguins presented. 7. The Crusades Hitch “It was, maybe, a little bit easier than if G. Rebound 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 I had been asked to portray, say, June 8. Something Borrowed 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Carter, somebody who people have a H. Rumor Has It… strong image of,” Mol reckons. “But I 9. The Great think you’ll just have to see the movie and Vegetable Plot I. The Wedding Date decide for yourself. For me, look, I’m never going to have her exact figure. But 10. The Emperor’s Journey J. Zathura not every curve has to be the exact same curve. Hopefully, we captured the 11. Rage Control K. The Man essence of her, and that helps you see the full character rather than a carbon copy 12. Wild Life L. Just Like Heaven of someone who looks just like her. “But I definitely studied her poses and 13. Otherwise Engaged M. Where the Truth Lies worked on that as if it was choreography 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 in a dance recital or something. And it’s 14. Jumanji 2 N. North Country interesting what the undergarments of the ’50s and a black wig can do!” 15. Locked and Loaded O. Madagascar Madagascar Bob Strauss is an L.A. entertainment writer. ANSWERS: 1. N; 2. M; 3. K; 4. L; 5. C; 6. D; 7. E; 8. I; 9. A; 10. F; 11. G; 12. O; 13. H; 14. J; 15. B
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ANNA FARIS “The secret to being funny in the JUST WON’T Scary Movie films is to play each scene as if it is a drama...and believe me, it’s certainly far DIEBack for her fourth turn as the unkillable Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie franchise, the emerging actor says she’s learned to easier on your appreciate her trademark role I BY EARL DITTMAN nerves than to
eople are always a little shocked casting agents realized I could look actually try to “ when they find out that I’ve been in different, and once I’d read for them, they Pother movies besides the Scary Movie knew I could do more than just comedy.” be funny” films. I guess they think I come out of my Each Scary Movie has followed pretty cave every two or three years to star in much the same conceit — scenes from them and then go back and hibernate,” popular movies of the day are aped in an jokes Anna Faris, star of Scary Movie 1, 2, 3 over-the-top manner for comedic effect, and this month’s fourth edition of the with Faris’s Cindy Campbell character horror/teen/action-spoof franchise. the butt of many of the jokes. In the first Truth is, the 30-year-old natural blonde movie, the Halloween and Scream movies Zucker, director of Airplane!, Top Secret! loud. I was mortified because I thought I (her hair was dyed black for Scary Movie were the targets, the second branched and the Naked Gun movies. was really bad. When my friends saw the and the first sequel) boasts a rather well- out to lampoon teen movies like Dude, Surprisingly, Faris never thought of film they started laughing, and I was mor- rounded résumé that not only includes Where’s My Car? and Save the Last Dance, herself as a comic actor before landing the tified all over again until they told me the starring role in one of the highest- while the third took advantage of Signs, part. “I didn’t think I could be funny — it they never thought I could be so funny.” grossing film franchises on DVD (“With The Sixth Sense, The Matrix and Eight Mile. was with the first Scary Movie that people Coincidentally, her first major gig after the fourth Scary Movie, I think we’ll even This time around it’s War of the Worlds, started to consider me a comedienne,” moving to Los Angeles in 1999 from her beat out The Matrix series,” she says with Million Dollar Baby, The Village and the she admits. She credits Wayans and native Seattle, Washington, was also a a laugh), but a recurring role on the last Saw movies (in one very satisfying scene Zucker with teaching her how to make an horror film that got laughs, although season of Friends, and supporting parts in Dr. Phil McGraw saws off his foot, then audience laugh without really trying. Faris says it wasn’t supposed to. such acclaimed films as Lost in Translation realizes it was the wrong one) that seem “The secret to being funny in the “Right after graduation I was in this (the ditzy starlet staying at the hotel) and to get it the worst. And Campbell — who Scary Movie films is to play each scene as really awful, low-budget horror film Brokeback Mountain (the chatterbox has evolved from high school student in if it is a drama, that’s what David Zucker called Lover’s Lane,” recalls Faris, who was housewife at the country club). 1 to college student in 2 to young told me, and believe me it’s certainly far a member of The Seattle Repertory “In a lot of ways, the Scary Movie films reporter in 3 — is now a caretaker for easier on your nerves than to actually try Theatre, and a commercial spokes- have been great for my career,” Faris something called “Grudge House.” Oh to be funny,” says Faris. woman before heading for Hollywood. “I insists in a recent interview at a Beverly yeah, add The Grudge to that list. “Keenen Ivory Wayans actually taught played this cheerleader who gets gutted, Hills hotel. “Since I started out with dark While Keenen Ivory Wayans directed me the same thing, but without actually and some people in the audience hair in the Scary Movie series, I wasn’t and produced the first movie, since then saying it. I was doing a scene in which the thought it was hilarious. I guess that’s typecast as a dumb blonde, which was a the series has been helmed by a man with killer was in the house, and I was trying to part of the reason I have a soft spot for
blessing at auditions. Automatically, the considerable spoof experience, David be very scared. He started laughing out the Scary Movie movies. I kinda got M M
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my start in bad horror. But the Her Lost in Translation performance for myself with the Scary Movie series.” M M absolute best part about doing that caught the attention of Friends cast mem- Next up for Faris is the “best-friend movie is that it’s where I met my husband ber Matthew Perry, who thought she was a role” in the romantic comedy My Super Ben Indra. He proposed to me on the set good fit for a part in the last few episodes Ex-Girlfriend with Luke Wilson and Uma ... can’t wait forI BY MARNI WEISZ
of Lover’s Lane, we got married in 2004, of that show’s final season. And, before Thurman. Wilson plays an everyday kind 3/C and we’re still in love.” she knew it, Faris was playing the birth of guy who breaks up with his girlfriend X-Men: The Last Stand (May) like you have a disease, you’re not likely to B The very next script Faris read was for mom for Chandler and Monica’s baby. (Thurman) because she’s too clingy, So far, the X-Men series has proved that want to be cured.
Scary Movie. “The managers that I had “I still feel like I dreamed that whole only to discover she has superpowers and G casting great actors (Patrick Stewart, One concern is that Bryan Singer, who met in Los Angeles gave me the sides time on Friends,” Faris says with a smile. will use them to seek abnormally epic Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman) can make a directed not only the first two X-Men R [pages from the script] to audition for “I’d never done a sitcom before and here revenge on him. huge difference when trying to stay afloat movies, but brilliant pics like The Usual this movie called Scream if You Know What I was being offered a part on one of the And then, can we expect to see Faris in in a sea of comic book adaptations. The Suspects and Apt Pupil, opted to do I Did Last Halloween, which ended up biggest shows on TV. It was an incredible a Scary Movie 5 or 6? first movie was good, the second even Superman Returns instead of this movie Lee Alexander being Scary Movie,” Faris recalls. “I made time for me.” “You bet,” she says enthusiastically. “Let better, so what of the third? and was replaced by Brett Ratner, he of a tape in the basement of my house, in It also made her realize that doing the me tell you, they’re stuck with me now. One of the new additions to the cast is After the Sunset and the Rush Hour movies. Jim Campilongo front of the fireplace, with my mom Scary Movie sequels wasn’t a curse. And I would sign on for five or six or even Ben Foster, who is best-known as Claire’s reading the other part. I was terrible. She “There’s so many great actors out there 10 more sequels if audiences wanted friend and fellow art student Russell in Norah Jones was terrible. The tape was terrible. I hope who aren’t working, and here I am them. I am Cindy Campbell!” Six Feet Under. Foster plays the new Richard Julian they destroyed it. I hope it never appears whining,” she says. “I would have never mutant Warren Worthington, a.k.a. Angel, in public to embarrass me. But Keenen gotten a role in a film like Brokeback Earl Dittman is a Houston-based thus named for reasons obvious in this Dan Rieser and everyone else involved in Scary Movie Mountain without having made a name entertainment writer. picture. Another addition is Frasier star said they saw something special in my Kelsey Grammer as The Beast, a big, furry,
audition. That made me realize that I 100blue 2 5guy 25 with 50 75 superhuman 95 98 endurance, could act, even under the worst condi- strength and speed. tions. I felt really, really confident when Stewart, McKellen, Jackman, Halle Berry, Keenen told me he had found a star.” Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen and Rebecca When the movie was a hit, Faris was Romijn all reprise their roles for this third presented with a lucrative offer to head-up go-around in which a cure has been found any future installments. How could she BIO LOGICAL for mutant-ism. But when you don’t feel refuse? “I thought we’d probably do one sequel and that would be it,” Faris In all honesty, we remembers. “But that just wasn’t the Nacho Libre (June) have no idea whether this comedy starring case, people loved every movie. There CONNECTION Jack Black as a Mexican priest/wrestler will was a time while we were making the If you’ve spent any time on the web’s indispensable film portal, the Internet Movie be any good, but we really wanted to show third movie where I felt grateful for Database (imdb.com), you’re familiar with the “Mini Biographies” written about actors 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 you this picture. being able to do the films and the profile and directors. They’re usually penned by semi-professional writers, writer wannabes Black’s clergyman, Nacho, moonlights as a they’d given me but, creatively, I felt like or even fans. Anna Faris’s biography, however, was the first time we noticed a bio luchador in the Lucha Libre — which basically I was at a standstill with them. That’s co-written by a star’s mom. But who else would know that when she put on neighbourhood means he’s a wrestler in Mexico’s version of when I told myself, ‘If you want to be plays, young Anna was “always encouraged with the emphasis that she wasn’t just the WWE — in order to raise money for an doing different types of movies, get out ‘pretending’ but rather being an unpaid producer, director, writer and actor”? orphanage. Jared Hess, who directed 2004’s there and start making it happen.’” nerdy cult fave Napoleon Dynamite is behind Faris began making the rounds in the camera and shares the writing credit with Hollywood, and soon landed a plum School of Rock scribe Mike White. That should part as Kelly, a self-absorbed starlet, in give you an idea of the film’s direction. writer/director Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. Best known for her spoofing abilities, many who saw the film thought
Faris was doing a perfect parody of actor 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Cameron Diaz, a notion that still makes BRIEFLY… her laugh. JUNE “I never thought of her a single time The Lake House — In this spooky story, a CD NOW while I was filming the movie,” she says. man living in a lake house (Keanu Reeves) “When I first got the role, Sofia and I and its former occupant (Sandra Bullock) AVAILABLE talked more about the kind of actress she become pen pals, only to realize that they’re wanted me to play rather than any spe- separated in time by two years. Hear them now @ cific actress. Honestly, there were some emimusic.ca/thelittlewillies names that came up, but Cameron’s was JUNE never one of them. I swear. My character The Omen — One of the creepiest movies of is more of a combination of several ‘it’s all the 1970s gets a remake with Liev Schreiber
about me’ kind of actresses. If you spend 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 and Julia Stiles as a young couple who adopt any time at all in L.A. you meet them. They a boy who may just be the devil. Ooops. live on a different plane than real people.”
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3/C PRESIDENT, TWICE, AND GRANT FALLS FOR BARRYMORE | BY INGRID RANDOJA famoustrivia B ZOOEY MOVES TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS G 3/C In Take the Lead, Antonio Banderas plays a former professional dancer She’s likable, she’s got that slightly sultry, slightly R who teaches kids at a New York City public school how to ballroom dance. kooky thing going for her, and she can act. B Name last year’s surprise-hit documentary that told a similar story. Zooey Deschanel, who appeared in last month’s 1 G Failure to Launch, and who cranked heads with her
charming turn as a sweet department store elf in Elf, R is moving up the Hollywood ladder. The 26-year-old brunette just finished filming the much-hyped Brad Pitt western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, in which she plays Robert Ford’s (Casey Affleck) love interest, and she’s currently doing voice work for the animated penguin flick Surf’s Up (penguins are sooo hot in Hollywood these days). Then she’s off to New Zealand to start filming Bridge to Terabithia, the big-budget, Disney adventure based on 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the children’s book about two misfit kids who create an imaginary kingdom in their minds. Deschanel plays the kids’ sympathetic teacher. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 GRANT SNAGS SONGWRITER ROLE Singer Jimmy Buffett plays a science teacher in the kids’ movie Hoot. Can Hugh Grant began his career as a dramatic actor in films such as Maurice, you name Buffett’s most famous song? Clue: It’s likely to make you thirsty. White Mischief and Remains of the Day. But it’s romantic comedies that 2 paved his road, and no one plays self-deprecating British gentleman in love What is the new horror movie Silent Hill based upon — a 1970s better than Grant. He picks up the rom-com torch once again with Music and John Carpenter film, a song by Metallica, a Konami videogame or a Lyrics By, in which he plays a songwriter who falls for his collaborator, the
3 story by Edgar Allan Poe? 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 comely Drew Barrymore. The movie is being helmed by writer/director Marc Lawrence, who guided Grant through the 2002 hit Two Weeks Notice. Jeff Bridges plays a gymnastics coach in the comedy Stick It. On what
1950s TV show, which starred his father Lloyd, did Bridges make his 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 4 screen-acting debut? I David Strathairn will play Ryan Gosling’s boss in Fracture, a thriller that stars Gosling as a lawyer seeking vengeance against For which movie did Lucky You’s Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana killer Anthony Hopkins, who is released on a legal technicality. The Sentinel star Kim I Mandy Moore and James McAvoy star as a couple responsible 5 Basinger win an Oscar? for a deadly hit-and-run in Twist of Fate. I Will Ferrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) team up for Which star of the baseball the comedic figure skating flick Blades. comedy The Benchwarmers I Look for Chloë Sevigny as Catherine the Great in an upcoming was attacked by his personal 6 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 bio-pic about the ruler from Polish director Agnieszka Holland. assistant with a stun gun BRIEFLY and then robbed in 2000?
Eric Bana, who plays a 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 troubled poker player in WILLIAMS FOR PRESIDENT this fall’s Lucky You, was In an odd bit of casting Robin Williams will play an American president in not 7 one, but two, upcoming films. He’s currently in Toronto making Man of the born in Australia, where he started his career in the Year, the Barry Levinson-directed comedy in which he plays a late-night early 1990s. Did he begin political talk show host who runs for president, and wins. He has also signed as a singer, comic, painter, on to star in Night at the Museum as Teddy Roosevelt, the corpulent prez who playwright, magician or founded New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The comedy stars soap opera star? Ben Stiller as a night watchman at the museum who discovers that a spell on
100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 an ancient Egyptian tablet awakens many exotic exhibits at night, including
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Sea Hunt Sea director, and rare appearances from Hollywood veterans Mickey Rooney and 2. 1. “Margaritaville”
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The delicate paisley pattern of this Slip Prep your skin for that pre-summer Dress ($50, reveal. St. Ives 2 in 1 Shower Winners) should Cleanser/Masque ($6, drugstores) warm your heart Layering is the key to wearing spring threads when it doesn’t gives you the deep cleansing benefits and make the goose Bright Noww of a clay mask with an invigorating feel much like spring I BY LIZA HERZ bumps worth it. citrus kick all in about a minute. (Add a cashmere cardigan if you’re here’s nothing like a little wanting to wear our summer really cold.) global warming to mess clothes RIGHT NOW? 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Tup your wardrobe plans. “We’re in a buy now, wear There used to be actual now culture,” retail analyst seasons in clothing. Spring/ Marshal Cohen recently told Summer ushered in light the New York Times. In other colours and light fabrics words, if you’ve just bought Men need colour too. The crisp while Fall/Winter meant a pair of strappy floral shoes pattern and cheery colour of this dark, fuzzy warm things. (they are in-store after all) Ben Sherman Shirt ($240, But that was before we then dammit, you’re going bensherman.com for stores) sucker-punched our climate, to wear them, stepping partners well with jeans, khakis leaving a huge hole in the carefully to avoid the mud and your overall optimism that ozone layer and creating puddles, of course. spring is here. such havoc that predictable Besides, given how quickly weather patterns became a fashion turns over, why 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 thing of the past. Okay, okay, would anyone want to wait? we realize most scientists feel Today’s store-window fetish this wonky weather is more item is tomorrow’s sale rack of a short-term anomaly than has-been. Remember the the effects of actual global poncho? The tiered skirt? warming, but there’s For those of us who insist certainly something amiss. on wearing our summer Now, the climate’s effects purchases before the weather on fashion may be the last has decided to cooperate, the thing on the minds of envi- obvious solution is layering. Creamsicle- Nars Orgasm Lip ron mental scientists, but Cover that frothy summer The wicked stilettos coloured with Gloss ($28, Holt there’s no denying the dress with a cashmere keep these Strappy a zingy orange Renfrew) is a 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 sartorial fallout. What we’re cardigan or, better still, a Sandals ($100, Aldo) fragrance, Satsuma universally flattering, saying here is: You don’t have trench coat. It’s the perfect chic, not cloyingly Body Butter ($18, spring colour with to be a meteorological genius stylish shell, invoking sweet, while subtle The Body Shop) subtle shimmer. to know that checking the Kate Moss at her most floral accents add a hydrates normal And if the name calendar is a faulty way of anonymous chic. cheering note to even skin and prevents makes you blush, deciding what to wear. And if bare legs are too the most neutral dryness without well that will just wardrobe. ever feeling greasy. Adding to this state of chill-inducing, make a put an attractive wardrobe flux is the practical solution chic by flush in your cheeks. profusion of grocery store adding black opaque tights. tabloids showing skimpily dressed stars sipping their Any one of the bright elements in iced lattes in sunny L.A. Think Catherine Deneuve this ensemble from Canadian in the film Belle de Jour 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 while here in the north we designer Cheri Milaney (Shawl, (sexy, secret double-life) face the horrors of another $190, Two-Piece Outfit, $400) to keep your Trench Coat spring squall. Who can will inject seasonal zip into your ($375, RK) looking blame us for adopting a wardrobe. And together they make Parisian chic, not posture of denial? Or for a citrusy, spring-like statement. housewife frumpy.
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White Lace Whether macramé, crochet, or out-and-out lace, frilly, white see-through pieces are the ultimate look this summer. At Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld used a laser to cut doilies right into his cotton dresses. Chloé and Emilio Pucci drew on little girls’ confirmation dresses for inspiration, and Diane Von Furstenberg (seen here) matched eyelet shorts with an eyelet top for a sweet, THE oh-so young look.
Sex Sells A lot of designers seemed to be inspired by the “porno chic” style Tom Ford developed at Yves Saint-Laurent, and also Dress Shirt by Gianni Versace, with many Forget the power suit, this pieces sporting asymmetrical summer a men’s shirt is all looks. Alexander McQueen you need to feel like a (shown here) did a sensual powerful woman. At Hermes, dress that looks more like a Jean Paul Gaultier made an robe — very sexy, and very Popular Prints asymmetrical shirt out of simple. Marc Jacobs, on the Whether inspired by Bauhaus poplin, while Vivienne other hand, offered a bright architecture or African themes, Westwood matched her TTurning Japanese pink cocktail dress for Louis prints are bigger than ever, both model’s top with a belt in the ThThis season, everyone’s Vuitton that was completely in popularity and proportion. same shade to define the crcrazy about the kimono. unstructured and open at just Christian Lacroix and Alberta waist. Stella McCartney (seen PaPaco Rabanne designer the right places. Ferretti explored tribal prints, here) simply took an oversized
PaPatrick Robinson must PHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE while Phi and Alexandre men’s tuxedo dress shirt and hahave been thinking about Herchcovitch went with put it on a woman, worn at the MMemoirs of a Geisha when he psychedelic designs plucked knee for a chic effect. transformedtra vintage kimonos from the 1960s. Green — PHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE intoin beautiful, modern especially in the form of leaves dressesdr that are both chic and flowers — are also huge. andan sleek. And Diesel’s In Milan, Gucci, Valentino and Get to know these seven hot RenzoRe Rosso (seen here) Versace (seen here) were runway looks, you’ll be seeing accentuatesac the waist of a positively in bloom. whitew pencil skirt with a wide PHOTO: STUART GRIMWOOD / WIREIMAGE TRENDS a lot of them this summer redre sash and tops it all with a I BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ modernm Asian blouse. PHPHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE
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Men in White What colour matches best with white? More white. Alessandro Dell’Acqua dressed models in white suits from head to toe evoking the 1930s, while Gucci came up with a great pair of white pants in a slightly glossy fabric that would look great paired with Lacoste’s V-neck sweater (seen here).
Surprising Suspenders It’s been a long time since your grandfather was as in as he is this season. That’s right, suspenders are all the rage. The idea is to mix them with a very low-waisted pair of pants to create a little-boy look. You can either scrounge through grandpa’s attic, or invest in a new pair, like these ones from Diesel.
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name I of I the I game I liner | notes | LARA DIGS DEEP MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S EXPLODE I BY INGRID RANDOJA The latest Tomb Raider title, Legend, promises to reveal much more of Lara Croft I BY SCOTT GARDNER slew of local musicians who Richard Edwards (left) fronts wanted to work with Edwards, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s and thus Margot was born. The original Tomb Raider was turn for the unexpected when she 3/C And it wasn’t just that the 3/C
a multimillion-selling global hit, encounters a dangerous figure B band members — seven guys
but, perhaps taking a cue from from her past. Her hunt leads to and one gal — wanted to play B Hollywood, it spawned half-a- the Himalayas where a more G together, in 2004 they decided G
dozen sequels of steadily deteri- personal part of Lara’s story will R to dedicate themselves to the
orating quality. The graphics be revealed — the circumstances cause by moving into a house R may have improved over the that made her the tough-as-nails together. Bedrooms were split in years, but the storylines suffered adventurer she is today. two, drywall applied, and the and gameplay remained strangely Lara will have lots of toys — musicians were stuffed into unevolved. Tomb Raider: Legend, a grappling hook, binoculars, small rooms, some no bigger however, breathes new life into frag grenades and communica- than closets. It’s been intense. this once-tired franchise. tions gear, plus her trademark “Yeah, we live together right For starters, Legend takes the pistols. But perhaps the best now,” explains Edwards, “but I series back to its roots of actual new toy of all is Lara’s vastly think that’ll probably change in tomb raiding. That means our improved physicality. Her range the next few months. Personally, buxom adventuress is once again of movement has been increased, I’m leaving as soon as I can,” exploring archeological sites in and she’s now a nimbler, more he states without a hint of TOMB RAIDER: LEGEND world to the improbably propor- exotic jungles instead of skulking athletic heroine. 100EIGHT 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 IS ENOUGH amusement. PC, PS2, PSP, XBOX, tioned Lara Croft, archeologist, around cities and breaking into That’s all very well, say the f you are so over Arcade Fire, and aching pop tunes. “I think me liking Wes The fact that Margot recently 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 XBOX 360 treasure hunter and all-around military bases. Expect lots of fanboys, but what does the new and have cooled on the Arctic Margot’s heart and soul Anderson comes from me signed with a larger record label In 1996 Tomb Raider debuted on butt-kicking babe. Lara would, puzzles and gun action as Lara Lara look like. Great. She’s a lot IMonkeys, then you’re primed resides within Richard Edwards, liking Woody Allen when I was and has toured most of the last PlayStation with a canny mix of of course, eventually go on to encounters mystical creatures more realistic and detailed, and for Margot and the Nuclear So the band’s 22-year-old lead younger,” says the very laid-back year should enable Edwards to exploring, action and adventure big-screen fame and be por- and corrupt, competing raiders. that flawless face even shows and So’s, an eight-member outfit vocalist and tunesmith. He’s Edwards on his cellphone from make the move. And he needs set in groundbreaking 3D envi- trayed by the equally improbably As for plot, Lara’s search for a expressions now, making her hailing from the rock ’n’ roll the one who named the band Indianapolis. “Wes is our gener- to, ’cause it’s hard to write great ronments. It also introduced the proportioned Angelina Jolie. South American relic takes a less of a pneumatic cartoon. hotspot of Indianapolis, Indiana. after Gwyneth Paltrow’s character ation’s Woody Allen.” songs when you’re living and On the band’s just-released in director Wes Anderson’s film Edwards was considered working with the same eight debut CD, Dust of Regret you’ll The Royal Tenenbaums. a sort of rock prodigy in people 24/7. BATTLESTATIONS: MIDWAY and select targets on an overview map. Once hear the requisite guitars, bass Edwards’ first band, which Indianapolis, a kid who wrote “I don’t write very much on PC, PS2, XBOX your basic strategy is outlined, you lead the and drums, but also a cello, he started as a teenager, was tons of sad, complicated songs the road, I need to be alone and
100melodeon, 2 5 25 50trumpet 75 95 98 and a variety named Archer Avenue, the and who started a band before home,” he says. “I have to have Battlestations: Midway has you playing assault against the Japanese by jumping into of household items, all working fictional street on which the he could drive. When Archer a very specific setting, and it 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 an American naval officer battling through a plane for some fierce dogfighting or together to make mesmerizing Tenenbaums live. Avenue disbanded there was a has to be real quiet.” the Pacific theatre of the Second World War, manning the big guns on one of your ships. starting with the chaos of Pearl Harbor and culminating at the decisive battle off the BAD DAY L.A. tiny atoll of Midway. PC, XBOX The game’s claim to originality comes From riots to earthquakes to Eddie Murphy’s OUT THIS MONTH from mashing two of the most popular recent career, Los Angeles has seen its PINK war-game genres — real-time strategy and share of disasters, but it’s never suffered VINES I’m Not Dead >> April 4 third-person action — into a single through 24 hours like this. ROGUE TROOPER Pink returns to a-s-kicking form with her newest CD that experience. In each of the 11 ambitious A third-person action title, Bad Day L.A. PC, PS2, XBOX COME BACK includes the tee-hee send-up song “Stupid Girls” — are you missions you deploy your battleships, subs, takes a satirical jab at America’s current He’s big, bad and blue — he’s the Rogue listening Paris, Jessica? culture of fear by unleashing every Trooper, a genetically altered supersoldier carriers, fighters and bombers, chart courses 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
imaginable disaster — including a run amok in this third-person shooter. Based TO LIFE SOUL ASYLUM 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 bioterrorist attack, meteor showers, a on a U.K. comic book series, the game takes Many thought The Vines had Crazy Mixed Up World >> April 4 zombie infestation and what appears to place on Nu Earth, a post-apocalyptic withered; that their days as a It’s been eight years since the popular alt-band from be a very angry, six-storey tall walking landscape gripped by an endless war. powerhouse rock band — which Minneapolis released a studio CD, and almost one year since hamburger — on the beleaguered city. Aligned with neither side, Rogue Trooper exploded out of Australia in 2002 — were over. In 2004 lead singer and the death of bassist Karl Mueller from throat cancer. However, Through it all you play Anthony Williams, pursues his own agenda: hunting down the wild child Craig Nicholls, who had recently been charged with assault, Mueller was fit enough in 2004 to record with the band and a crazy, cynical homeless man turned military traitor who killed his entire regiment. discovered he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome, a mild form of autism. can be heard on this album. reluctant hero who uses his street smarts, Helping RT are a few bits of military hardware With the proper diagnosis and treatment Nicholls was saved from self- combined with weapons like nail clippers — his gun, helmet and backpack — that destruction, and now two years later the band’s third CD, Vision Valley, SAM ROBERTS and a fire extinguisher, to rescue his are actually sentient, having been implanted hits shelves (April 4th). And what a comeback. Their garage-band sound Chemical City >> April 11 fellow Angelinos. The game also features with bio-chips preserving the personalities is alive and well on tracks such as “Gross Out” and “F*k Yeh,” but Canuck rocker Roberts finally drops the long-awaited follow- a distinctive visual style reminiscent of a of three of his fallen squadmates, and RT they’ve also perfected the art of the Beach Boys-esque pop tune with up album to his 2003 disc We Were Born in Flames. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
Saturday morning cartoon, but in full 3D. interacts with them as if they were alive. “Candy Daze” and “Take Me Back.” 00 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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video | and | dvd | that stars neither Allen nor someone doing (Danes) into dating him despite their age their best impression of him? In what’s difference. And all those presents and widely considered to be Allen’s best film in nice dinners don’t hurt. Based on Martin’s years, Johansson stars as an American in novella of the same name. DVD Extras: London, who falls for her boyfriend’s “Evolution of a Novella: The Making of
sister’s boyfriend (Rhys Meyers), a former Shopgirl,” deleted scenes, commentary 3/C competitive tennis player. There are no by Tucker B good guys or bad guys in this movie, just
people with varying attachments to lust TRISTAN & ISOLDE G and greed. Stars: James Franco, Sophia Myles R releasess Director: Kevin Reynolds (The Count of GO HOME WITH DICK AND JANE, CASANOVA, SHOPGIRL OR TRISTAN & ISOLDE I BY MARNI WEISZZ SHOPGIRL Monte Cristo) Stars: Steve Martin, Story: It’s 600 AD and Tristan (Franco), the newAPRIL 11 watching really bad things happen primarily days) despite being made for only a few Claire Danes adopted son of an English ruler, falls for to women. DVD Extras: director and cast million dollars. A couple of American Director: Anand Tucker the Irish princess Isolde, who saves his life FUN WITH DICK commentary, interview with John Jarratt, backpackers making their way through (Hilary and Jackie) after he’s presumed dead. Romantic, yes, AND JANE making-of featurette Europe get a tip about a killer hostel in Story: A wealthy, older but complicated too, as this all happens at Stars: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni Bratislava. Unfortunately, a lot of the man (Martin) charms a a time when the English and Irish are Director: Dean Parisot APRIL 18 guests actually get killed. smart, younger woman fighting over England. (Galaxy Quest) Story: When Dick (Carrey) BREAKFAST ON THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF loses his job as VP of PLUTO GUY TERRIFICO The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,
Communications for an Enron-esque Stars: Cillian Murphy, Stars: Matt Murphy, Kris Kristofferson the Witch and the Wardrobe (APRIL 4) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 company, he assumes he’ll get another Stephen Rea Director: Michael Mabbott (debut) World War Two is raging and the Pevensie kids — Lucy (Georgie soon enough. Easier said than done. The Director: Neil Jordan Story: Real-life country stars such as Henley), Edmund (Skander Keynes), Peter (William Moseley) and fact that his wife Jane (Leoni) just quit her (The Crying Game) Kristofferson and Merle Haggard chime in Susan (Anna Popplewell) — are waiting it out in an eccentric gig as a travel agent leaves the couple in a Story: In this dreamy drama for this mockumentary about the life of professor’s old country house. One day the youngest, Lucy, crawls desperate situation — which they rectify by that was a favourite on the festival circuit, 1970s country singer Guy Terrifico. into a wardrobe during a game of hide-and-seek and discovers it turning to armed robbery. an orphaned Irish boy (Murphy) reinvents contains a portal to a frozen parallel universe full of wonderful and himself as Kitten, a sweet-natured trans- APRIL 25 awful things. The kids quickly learn that a despotic witch (Tilda THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED vestite who makes his way through life Swinton) has cast a spell resulting in permanent winter, and they Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane alternately as a rock singer, a magician’s AEON FLUX are destined to remove her from power with the help of a benevolent Jesus figure in the form Director: Bill Paxton (Frailty) assistant and a streetwalker, all the while Stars: Charlize Theron, of a computer-generated lion. Story: In 1913, Francis Ouimet (LaBeouf), a trying to find the mother who abandoned Frances McDormand If you attributed the similarities between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and poor 20-year-old who grew up across from a him on the steps of a church. DVD Extras: Director: Karyn Kusama Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy to the fact that both were shot in New Zealand, and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 golf course and with oodles of natural ability, commentary by Jordan and Murphy, (Girlfight) both owed their looks to the hot special-effects company Weta Workshop, you might want to defeats reigning champion Harry Vardon behind-the-scenes featurette Story: Four centuries after a dig a little deeper. (Dillane) at the U.S. Open. Based on a true virus kills 99 percent of the Their authors — Lord of the Rings’ J.R.R. Tolkien and Narnia’s C.S. Lewis — taught at story. DVD Extras: featurettes on the real MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS population, most of the Oxford at the same time, and were intimately acquainted with each other’s fantasy worlds, people who inspired the movie, interview Stars: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins survivors have retreated to both of which are about good battling evil in unusual woodlands. But where Jackson’s Rings with Francis Ouimet Director: Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things) the apparently utopian walled city of Bregna. trilogy was off-limits for the under-12 set, Narnia, directed by Shrek helmer Andrew Adamson, Story: A bored widow (Dench) in wartime But all is not as it seems, and after her ducks in under that line, despite a few frightful scenes near the end. AN UNFINISHED LIFE England buys a theatre and, with the help peaceful sister is killed, Aeon Flux (Theron) You can opt for a single-disc DVD ($38), which still comes with lots of bonuses, or the Stars: Robert Redford, of a very proper producer (Hoskins), turns mercenary. Based on a series of two-disc Collector’s Edition ($45), which has almost 10 hours of added features. Producers Jennifer Lopez mounts a round-the-clock revue that does animated shorts that ran on MTV. DVD Extras: obviously had the DVD in mind from the project’s embryonic stage, as featurettes follow the Director: Lasse Hallström very well at first. But when their success featurettes on locations, stunts and four freakishly mature child actors (particularly that Georgie Henley) from their first auditions. (The Cider House Rules) spawns copycats that suck audiences out costume design, commentary by Theron We also see how much the kids grew over the seven-month shoot — Georgie shot up four- Story: A decade after his their door, they step it up a notch by having and-a-half inches, and 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 From left: Swinton, Keynes and Adamson on set son’s accidental death, the showgirls go nude. Based on a true CASANOVA they actually had to Wyoming rancher Einar Gilkyson (Redford) story. DVD Extras: directory commentary, Stars: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller stop shooting at one gets an unexpected visit from his daughter- making-of featurette Director: Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) point because of the in-law Jean (Lopez) and the granddaughter Story: Legendary lover Casanova (Ledger) growing pains in the he never knew he had. DVD Extras: director HOSTEL sets out to win the heart of the one woman little actor’s legs. The commentary, making-of featurette, Stars: Jay Hernandez, (Miller) who wants nothing to do with him. discs also boast a still gallery Derek Richardson DVD Extras: extended scene, featurettes on feature-length pop-up Director: Eli Roth costumes and location commentary with facts WOLF CREEK (Cabin Fever) supplied by co-producer Stars: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath Story: This slasher movie MATCH POINT Douglas Gresham, Director: Greg McLean (debut) made headlines early in Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Lewis’s stepson.
Story: A gruesome horror about a group of January when it won its opening weekend Jonathan Rhys Meyers 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 kids on a road trip through the Australian at the box office (over blockbusters like Director: Woody Allen (Manhattan) outback. Note: not for people who dislike Narnia and King Kong, in their waning Story: What’s this? A Woody Allen movie GO TO WWW.BLOCKBUSTER.CA FOR MORE INFORMATION
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unexpected houseguest. January 21 � February 19 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Someone’s trying to stir up trouble on and Leo off this month — but avoid a showdown at July 23 � August 22 all costs. Focus on improving your body, It’s time to let someone else take charge your mind or both. And, especially around $ in a family situation. There’s a last-minute the 20th, don’t hesitate to express your real Donate 5, wear denim feeling to the month. A travel opportunity feelings to a person you care about. unexpectedly opens up, or perhaps you’re suddenly called to an interview. Around the Pisces and fight breast cancer. 25th, someone shares a major secret. February 20 � March 20 Friends are easier to reach and more in tune Virgo with your interests. Relatives give you more August 23 � September 22 breathing space. Try new and even offbeat 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 You’re articulate and diplomatic. It’s an strategies if requesting favours or going excellent time to lead a group or present after a raise. Travel-related information is 1-888-592 www.curefoundation.com ideas. Enjoy an opportunity to take on less than reliable and needs clarification.
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