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InsideJANUARY 2009 VOLUME 10•1 regulars EDITOR’S NOTE 6 CAUGHT ON FILM 10 ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 12 SPOTLIGHT 16 IN THEATRES 18 STYLE 42 HOT PLAY 44 MUSIC MAKERS 45 DVD RELEASES 46 TRIVIA 48 HOROSCOPE 49 FAMOUS LAST WORDS 50 features KISS ME KATE 22 Kate Hudson plays one of two feuding brides in Bride Wars. But don’t tell her it’s a rom-com, ’cause she’ll just deny it • By Bob Strauss

cover BORN AGAIN 26 story Gary Oldman says he’s taking a break from playing disturbed characters, but what’s with his new role as a rabbi performing an exorcism in The Unborn? • By Bob Strauss

STORYBOOK HERO 30 38HEROIC DEPARTURE Tom Cruise has carved out a career playing larger-than life heroes, American When Hollywood needs a heroes to be precise. So why would Hollywood’s iconic good guy agree to play a German officer clean-cut action hero, it calls in the World War II thriller Valkyrie? Because his character is out to kill Adolf Hitler, that’s why. on Brendan Fraser. This time Famous editor Marni Weisz chatted with Cruise about the film, and his Canadian childhood he’s a father who brings a book’s characters to life in Inkheart • By Jim Slotek

NEW VAMP ON THE BLOCK 34 It’s not an Underworld movie without a sexy vampire. So when Kate Beckinsale left the series, the filmmakers nabbed hot new action star Rhona Mitra 30 22 26 34 GALLO/KEYSTONE ARMANDO BY PHOTO CRUISE TOM • By Kevin Williamson

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Greetings from Ellis Jacob, President and CEO, Cineplex Entertainment

APPY NEW YEAR! WELCOME TO THE JANUARY 2009 ISSUE OF FAMOUS MAGAZINE. The holiday season is a special time to reflect and focus on family and friends; to celebrate the relationships that give meaning to our personal lives and begin the year with renewed energy and focus. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you the best for 2009. Last year was an eventful one for the Cineplex Entertainment team. We have been working hard on a number of great initiatives including the expansion of the SCENE program to include music downloads and exclusive contests for members, with much more to come in 2009. If you haven’t already joined, you can do so by visiting Scene.ca. In late 2008, we opened the Cineplex Store on our website, Cineplex.com. The Cineplex Store extends the theatre experience by enabling you to purchase the movie you enjoyed in-theatre and add it to your collection at home. Purchasing DVDs online is the Hfirst phase, future phases will enable you to download movies to own in addition to earning SCENE points. The Cineplex Store will continue to evolve throughout 2009 so you will want to visit often to see what is new. We also added several digital projectors to our theatres across the country this past year, bringing our total to 65. And we added REALD 3D to 45 of these projectors so we can present The Cineplex Online DVD Store is NOW OPEN! the exciting slate of 3D movies being released this year. Our goal at Cineplex Entertainment is to provide you with an exceptional entertainment experience, You can now buy your favourite DVDs so in addition to great movies, we continue to expand our alternative programming. From ballet and from our extensive selection of new releases and all-time classics. Met Opera performances broadcast live in high definition, to various concerts and comedy festivals, we continue to expand our entertainment offerings on our big screens so that you have a variety Relive the excitement of the movies at home. from which to choose. We have also been actively raising funds for an extremely important charitable organization, the Starlight Children’s Foundation, and have raised more than $500,000 in the last year alone through various fundraising activities. The Starlight Foundation helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. Cineplex Entertainment is delighted to be a major sponsor and we thank each of you for your support of the activities we do in-theatre to assist this organization. At Cineplex Entertainment, our mission is to passionately deliver an exceptional entertainment experience to you. We hope you will continue to visit us often throughout 2009 and beyond. On behalf of all of us at Cineplex Entertainment, we wish you and your family a very happy and healthy new year. Enjoy the show!

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MICHAEL CERA It won’t turn into a prince, 1 Mischa. Probably better HUGH JACKMAN that way. Mischa Barton was one of many celebs who attended CAUGHT NATALIE PORTMANAN the opening festivities at Dubai’s extravagant Palm Atlantis PATRICK DEMPSEYEY Resort. Others included Robert De Niro and Charlize Theron but, MISCHA BARTON as far as we can see, they didn’t get to swim with the dolphins. ON FILM PHOTO BY GETTY Canadian passport in 2 hand, Michael Cera departs Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, lugging his own luggage. Adorable. And don’t even get us started on the knapsack.

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Man, those spoiled 3 celebrities really do expect to have everything done for them. Hugh Jackman gets a push from wee daughter Ava in a Sydney, Australia, park.

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What a trooper. 4 Natalie Portman takes a spill for her art while shooting Love and Other Impossible Pursuits on a rink in New York’s Central Park. The lump of flesh in front of her is co-star Charlie Tahan.

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He’s so James Dean. 2 3 5 Except for the accident part, we hope. Auto enthusiast Patrick Dempsey takes his classic Jaguar for a spin through Beverly Hills.

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SHORTS CANADA’S FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING

TOP ADORATIONON Adoration Heaven on Earth DIRECTOR:Atom Egoyan DIRECTOR: Deepa Mehta Egoyan’s multi-layered A beautiful Indian woman drama focuses on a teen (Preity Zinta) comes to (Devon Bostick) who causes Canada to marry and havoc when he creates a discovers her new husband false history for himself and (Vansh Bhardwaj) is an shares it with the world abuser. online. Lost Song Before Tomorrow DIRECTOR: Rodrigue Jean Young kids, DIRECTORS: Marie-Hélène Summer at a remote cabin Cousineau and Madeline turns ugly for a young couple CE QU’IL FAUT POUR VIVRE Inuit people and Piujuq Ivalu and their baby when the wife 10the city of Montreal An elderly Inuit woman (Suzie LeBlanc) suffers a recounts the oral history of mental breakdown. dominate 2008’s 10 best her people to her grandson Canadian films. The list while helping prepare him for Maman est chez (unveiled in alphabetical manhood. le coiffeur order) is chosen by a DIRECTOR: Léa Pool C’C’EST PAS MOI, JE LE JURE! C’est pas moi, je le jure! This coming-of-age tale panel of filmmakers, DIRECTOR: Philippe Falardeau focuses on 10-year-old Élise journalists, programmers Set in suburban Montreal in (Marianne Fortier), who and industry professionals the summer of 1968, this spends the magical summer dark comedy focuses on of 1966 in rural Quebec. assembled by the Toronto 10-year-old Leon (Antoine International Film L’Écuyer), whose family La Mémoire des anges Festival Group. makes him feel suicidal. DIRECTOR: Luc Bourdon Montreal filmmaker Bourdon The films will be Ce qu’il faut pour vivre creates a love letter to his screened in Toronto DIRECTOR: Benoît Pilon hometown using snippets of PONTYPOOL between January 30th An Inuit hunter (Natar NFB films set in Montreal Ungalaaq) with tuberculosis during the ’50s and ’60s. and February 7th is sent to a sanatorium in at Cinematheque Ontario Quebec City, where he bonds Pontypool (topten.ca for tickets), with an Inuit orphan. DIRECTOR: Bruce McDonald and then a select group A horror set in a radio station Fifty Dead Men Walking in a small Ontario town, of flicks will travel to DIRECTOR: Kari Skogland where an \on-air personality Vancouver and Ottawa This thriller is based on the (Stephen McHattie) realizes for screenings (check local life story of Martin McGartland the English language is (Jim Sturgess), a Belfast lad responsible for spreading a listings in those cities recruited by the British virus that turns people into for details). —IR police to infiltrate the IRA. bloodthirsty killers. HEAVEN ON EARTHRTH 14 FAMOUS JANUARY 2009 JANUARY 2009 FAMOUS 15 spotlight_Jan08:Fcontents 12/3/08 5:51 PM Page 16

SHORTS SPOTLIGHT ALISON PILL SPILLS ABOUT MILK

ean Penn may be the one getting most of the attention for movements of not only the lesbian community, but the women’s Milk, the bio-pic about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay movement, and he bridged a huge gap,” says Pill, who credits her American to be elected to public office. start in acting to a combination of Canadian Content regulations But 23-year-old Toronto native Alison Pill has the film’s and all the Toronto-shot TV movies of the mid-1990s. truly unique role. She’s the only female character — Milk’s When Kronenberg shows up at Milk’s busy campaign office on lesbian campaign manager, Anne Kronenberg. And she San Francisco’s famed Castro Street, his all-male group of supporters Sdoesn’t even arrive on screen until halfway through the movie. and hangers on greet her with confusion and fear. “She was too That’s because one of the issues addressed in this very honest young to know that she couldn’t do it, and I just love that,” says Pill. Receive 25 BONUS SCENE POINTS with the purchase of CINEPLEX BIG SCREEN SNAX MICROWAVE POPCORN. film is the separation between the gay and lesbian communities in “She just waltzed in and started organizing this group of fellas.” the 1970s, a separation that still exists today. “I think it’s just an As for that head fella, played by Penn, Pill says, “It was amazing. incredible thing that Harvey did, that a lot of the gay movement can As soon as the camera was on you were watching Harvey. And still learn from, and any other political movement can as well,” says then when it was off, it was Sean. And at first it was really strange Pill on the phone from New York City, the place she’s called home because I’d look around and be, ‘Who’s that talking?’ Then I’d realize since moving there at 18 to pursue roles in movies (Pieces of April, it was Sean, who I’d been talking to two minutes before, but inhab- Dan in Real Life) and on stage (Reasons to be Pretty). iting this completely different man.” F “He took a huge risk in getting people to recognize they were //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PHOTO BY ROBERT GALBRAITH/REUTERS-CORBIS ROBERT BY PHOTO

fighting for the same thing. He brought [together] these parallel Marni Weisz

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open the place up to all the (his single film was the ill-fated homeless pooches they can I Now Pronounce You Chuck & 16 find. But their canine retreat Larry). Now the big guy steps january draws the attention of back into the spotlight with this INTHEATRESS suspicious neighbours and Die Hard-inspired comedy about YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES  BY INGRID RANDOJA Animal Control officers. a nerdy security guard (James) who must thwart a group of Defiance thugs who take over a suburban Daniel Craig puts down his mall during the Christmas martini glass and heads to the shopping season. woods of Poland to portray one january2 of three Jewish brothers My Bloody Valentine 3D (Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell Nothing cures the January blahs Jamie Bell (left) and Daniel Craig fight Nazis in Defiance play his siblings) who not only like a good dose of in-your-face hide more than a thousand Jews frights. That’s what you’ll get deep within a sprawling forest with this 3D horror pic set in a Notorious an outspoken rapper who feuded during WWII, but carry out attacks mining town where a homicidal Sean Combs produced with West Coast peers such as against the Nazis. The film is killer dispatches townsfolk with Revolutionary Road this bio-pic about his Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie). based on the true story of the his flying pickaxe. Titanic’s lovers Leonardo deceased friend and protégé Derek Luke stars as Puff Daddy Bielski Brothers, who are revered DiCaprio and Kate Winslet The Notorious B.I.G (played by himself, while Angela Bassett is as Jewish heroes, but are looked The Class reunite for this less starry- hip-hop artist and acting Biggie’s mom, Voletta Wallace. upon as traitors by some Polish In this French film — which eyed romantic drama set in newbie Jamal Woolard), a who believe the family killed picked up the top prize at last 1950s Connecticut, where the Brooklyn rapper who was Hotel For Dogs innocent Poles during the war. year’s Cannes Film Festival — a once-ambitious Frank Wheeler gunned down in L.A. in 1997. When siblings Andi (Emma charismatic teacher tries to (DiCaprio) commutes to his Biggie Smalls (as he was Roberts) and Bruce (Jake T. Paul Blart: Mall Cop make a difference in the lives of white-collar office job in the known to friends) sold crack Austin) discover some stray When his breakout TV show the students attending a junior city, and his high-strung wife as a teen and served time in dogs living in an abandoned The King of Queens went off the high school located in a rough April (Winslet) settles into jail before finding his niche as hotel, they get the bright idea to air in 2007, Kevin James laid low Parisian neighbourhood. her role as a mother and housewife. It’s only a matter of time before smothering Revolutionary Road’s troubled couple Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet suburbia takes a toll on their Last Chance Harvey relationship. Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman had a brief scene 23 together in Stranger than january Fiction, an experience that Bride Wars swanky Plaza Hotel). Since whetted their appetites to Two soon-to-be-married best neither bride will reschedule, work together again. The friends (Anne Hathaway and they both set out to sabotage 9 result is this romantic Kate Hudson) somehow manage their BFF’s perfect day. See january dramedy that casts Hoffman to schedule their weddings on Kate Hudson interview, page 22. as Harvey, an American jingle the very same day, at the very writer who travels to London same location (New York’s The Unborn to attend his estranged Don’t blame Casey Beldon daughter’s wedding, only to (Odette Yustman) if she seems have his daughter shun him a little moody, it’s just that she’s and then to lose his job. But Inkheart’s Jim Broadbent (left) and Paul Bettany discovered the soul of her twin his outlook is cheered when brother — who died as a fetus he meets the witty — yet inside their mother’s womb — emotionally cautious — Kate the novel Inkheart aloud to his Outlander work together to kill the entity is trapped within her, and (Thompson). daughter (Eliza Bennett), and in Eighth-century Vikings get the before it wipes out the colony. he’s dying to get out. It’ll take doing so brings the book’s surprise of their lives when a the mad exorcism skillz of Inkheart dastardly characters — including spaceship crash-lands near Killshot Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman) to Cornelia Funke’s best-selling a dictator (Andy Serkis) and a their settlement and out pops an Based on an Elmore Leonard rid Casey of her bothersome bro’. kids’ book comes to the big fire-eater (Paul Bettany) — alien (Jim Caviezel) and a novel, this thriller stars Diane See Gary Oldman interview, Gary Oldman shines in The Unborn screen with Brendan Fraser to life. See Brendan Fraser mysterious evil entity. Lane and Thomas Jane as a page 26. playing Mo, a father who reads interview, page 30. Spaceman and Norsemen must married couple put continued

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INTERVIEW KATE HUDSON

VEILEDTHREATS Kate Hudson’s new movie is filled with bouquets, engagement rings and poofy white dresses. But don’t expect to get your fix of warm wedding fuzzies from Bride Wars. While the film may look like a romantic comedy, and smell like a romantic comedy, Hudson insists this is no rom-com  BY BOB STRAUSS

Her new film Bride Wars will undoubtedly be considered, in some quarters, yet another in a long line of Kate Hudson romantic comedies. Except that there’s really not a long line of funny love stories starring Kate Hudson — at least in the actor’s informed opinion. But if people want to think about her that way, it’s something the second generation Hollywood pro has become more than used to by now. “It’s funny how I got that rom-com girl reputation, because I don’t see it like that,” the bubbly, 29-year-old Hudson says during an “It’s sort of our version of interview in Santa Monica, California. “Perhaps it’s just that I’ve done a lot of comedies. But I think, I make films like [the horror] Skeleton Key; War of the Roses, where I think of You, Me and Dupree as a buddy movie. And Bride Wars is pretty much just girls; there’s no real romance in that. But that’ll be we get to fight each other referred to as a romantic comedy, I’m sure. So you just kind of go, okay.” To be honest, Hudson’s biggest hit was the unabashed rom-com to our wedding days,” How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. And last year alone she appeared in Fool’s Gold and My Best Friend’s Girl, both of which could technically says Hudson. “We slowly, be considered love stories with humour. But she insists that Bride Wars is an acidic satire of that staple Kate Hudson (left) and slowly get more and more subgenre, the wedding comedy. And lord knows the conventions of Anne Hathaway battle those movies could use some serious ribbing. continued it out in Bride Wars intense about it”

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INTERVIEW KATE HUDSON She’s going back to turn her life around.

Hudson’s first real movie success was as the poignant groupie Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. It earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, and she followed it up with the dramas Four Feathers and Le Divorce. Even though her gift for on-screen lightheartedness has dominated since, Hudson hopes to keep expanding creatively; her next movie is an adaptation of the Liv (Kate Hudson) tries on her wedding dress sophisticated Broadway musical Nine. “Everything I work on, I try to learn,” she says. “I enjoy the craft, so as much as I don’t take myself too seriously in it, I do take the work “This movie is a little different,” Hudson says with a “that’s an seriously. And with that, you’re always learning or else . . . time to quit.” understatement” laugh. “It’s a dark comedy with Anne Hathaway. It’s Perhaps another reason why Hudson is perceived as a rom-com type sort of our version of War of the Roses, where we get to fight each other is that, in real life, it seems she’s still trying to figure out the whole love to our wedding days. We’re destroying each other’s weddings, which thing. At age 21, she married Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, is really fun. We slowly, slowly get more and more intense about it.” more than 12 years her senior. The couple separated five and a half In the movie, Hudson’s Liv and Hathaway’s Emma are lifelong best years later and were divorced in 2007. Many blame the split on a friends whose relationship is torn to shreds when they somehow relationship between Kate and her Dupree co-star Owen Wilson. manage to schedule their respective nuptials on the same day. Sabotage Hudson broke up with him before his apparent suicide attempt but and counter-sabotage, rather than trying to work things out, becomes then, about a year ago, she and Wilson seemed to be dating again. Then the order of the day. It may not sound as plausible as Hathaway’s recent she went out for a while with championship bicycler Lance Armstrong. foray into matrimonial movies, the difficult drama Rachel Getting Hudson makes no apologies for her love life. She likes to describe Married. But Bride Wars is directed by Gary Winick, whose 13 Going herself as single and points out that her relationship with Robinson on 30 has a substantial and devoted cult following, so some of its hasn’t really changed much over the last several years, as both ex- nasty goings-on should be pleasing enough to watch. spouses are devoted to the care and happiness of their son Ryder, Plus, whatever kind of comedy she’s in, Hudson has proven able who turns five this month. to find the right tone for her performances. Unlike her mother, “It’s so funny when you become a parent,” Hudson muses. “You Goldie Hawn, Kate isn’t terminally typecast in the public’s mind. think that things change, but Chris and I still say that we integrate People may think she only makes romantic comedies, but they don’t Ryder into our lives. What you are is what you teach your children. always expect her to play a ditzy blonde. You teach your children that this is what you do, and part of what Raised by Hawn and her long-time companion and fellow actor makes you happy is living your life that way.” Kurt Russell, from an early age Hudson was exposed to a wide range Another thing that hasn’t changed: Hudson still has trouble of approaches to acting. watching herself on screen. Getting called a rom-com queen or “My mom’s incredible; her work speaks for itself and she’s just this anything else by others is no big deal, in large part, because it can iconic character,” Kate says. “But with my Pa [as she refers to Russell; hardly compare to what the reviewer in her head has to say. biological dad Bill Hudson of The Hudson Brothers has not played a “It’s so hard to watch anything you’re in,” Hudson reveals. “It’s so major role in Kate’s life], there’s just this effortlessness to his weird; it’s almost impossible, really, to completely be objective. Plus, characters, and it’s enabled him to work forever. And that’s what I I have that very self-deprecating, self-critical thing where you just hope to be. The actors that I really admire are the ones that are sort feel, uh, why did I go into this profession? That movie was fun while of seamless. That’s just a matter of taste, but it’s why I love being I was making it, but now I’ve gotta watch it.” F creative. You get to work with all these different actors who do /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// NEW SERIES BEGINS JANUARY 5th things differently from the other person.” Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers. Mondays at 9pm 24 FAMOUS JANUARY 2009 cbc.ca/beingerica

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INTERVIEW GARY OLDMAN

JUST CALL HIM HARRY GOLDMAN The Unborn sounds a lot like The Exorcist, but with one major twist. Instead of a priest wrenching an evil spirit away from the protagonist, it’s a rabbi played by Gary Oldman. And perhaps the chance to play a rabbi had something The Unborn’s “progressive” Rabbi Sendak (Gary Oldman) to do with Oldman’s decision to take the role. Last year, Oldman directed my street. I don’t know what makes people do it, you know? I used to “I give the a music video for the tongue-in- think about stuff too much, but I’ve kind of, actually, stopped. I think cheek Jewish hip-hop group I got to a point where I said, forget it, just live. Just stopped contem- illusion I go Chutzpah (think Beastie Boys plating my own navel.” to the wall, meet Sacha Baron Cohen). After making his widely acclaimed film debut in the Vicious bio-pic and that’s the In an interview with JMag, Sid and Nancy, Oldman wrestled with his own substance abuse issues Chutzpah member Master Tav and burned through three marriages (the middle one to Uma Thurman). trick,” says explained the band’s These days, the sober father of three sees no point in going to the Oldman. relationship with the actor. extremes that he used to, either personally or professionally. “I don’t. But “Gary Oldman and I play “You know, as you get older, you just kind of go, I’ve lost the am- that’s the music together,” said Tav. “He’s bition I once had, that sort of drive and fire underneath me,” Oldman a very talented musician. And admits. “I don’t mean it negatively, I just mean that there are other facility. It’s he has always wanted to be things and other priorities as you get older. I want my weekends off all smoke Jewish. Of course, he’s British, and I want to be home for dinner and in time to put my kids to bed.” and mirrors. Protestant, the whole thing, but Getting lazy in his old age? Hardly. Oldman still projects a riveting Nothing he always thought that being screen presence, even when he’s playing sympathetic as opposed Jewish would be really cool, ®* to the old sociopathic characters. And who knows? This talk about wrong with it; and he thinks it’s hip to be SCENE. Join today for free and start earning points towards entertainment rewards settling down and turning into a positive-thinking bloke could just that’s my job” Jewish. The only thing that ever like free movies and more, fast. Plus, get a SCENE ScotiaCard ™* and SCENE VISA* Card be a phase. Or an act. upset him was that I didn’t to earn points even faster on everything you buy! Regardless, it would be nice to see Gary Oldman play some emi- credit him Harry Goldman. nently crazy, scary and disturbing individual again in the future, He has this whole story about just because he does it so well — or, as he humbly notes, he does it how he just flipped a couple Get 250 points just for joining.∆ Earn 10% off your concession purchases.‡ so professionally. of the letters in his name and “I give the illusion I go to the wall, and that’s the trick,” Oldman became Gary Oldman so he’d explains. “I don’t. But that’s the facility. It’s all smoke and mirrors. be a famous movie actor, Nothing wrong with it; that’s my job.” F but he really wants to be ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Harry Goldman.” —MW Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers.

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INTERVIEW BRENDAN FRASER The FamilyGuy With acclaimed dramas like Gods and Monsters and The Quiet American a distant memory, Brendan Fraser has boldly become king of the family flicks. Inkheart, his third fantasy film in just seven months, has the amiable actor battling odd characters sprung from a storybook  BY JIM SLOTEK

erhaps more than any other actor working As for playing against nothing, he says “therein lies the question. today, Brendan Fraser has acted opposite Is nothing really there? As long as it lives in your imagination, nothing — or nothing more than a then the people you’re collaborating with — the CGI and visual If you read piece of tape on a green-screen. effects artists — can link together your organic performance It goes with the territory that his with their electronic ones and give it to the audience and have with your kids, oeuvre tends to skew young — three them believe it.” you’ll know Mummy movies (including last year’s As it happens, imagination is the linchpin of Inkheart, the first of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor), German author Cornelia Funke’s just-finished trilogy of storybook- more. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, two films comes-to-life tales to make it to the big screen (the others are in which his co-stars were cartoon characters Inkspell and Inkdeath). (Looney Toons: Back in Action and Monkeybone), one in which they “She writes in a fantasy world of her imagination that you can were animatronic animals (George of the Jungle) and his latest, compare to sword and sorcery,” Fraser says. “Fairies and goblins Inkheart, in which the characters from a fantasy novel find their aside, it’s literature that doesn’t condescend to the reader.” For information on Family Literacy Day, ways into our world with dire results. “My character’s called Mo — Mortimer Folchart — who has an as well as the answer to our question, Fraser, who grew up partly in Toronto and has three boys unusual ability, a blessing or a curse, although more of a curse visit with ex-wife Afton Smith (they split last year), admits his when we meet him and his 12-year-old daughter. The mother’s FamilyLiteracyDay.ca offspring’s approval motivates his frequent choice of kid- gone missing in mysterious circumstances. When Mo reads aloud, flicks. “I don’t know one parent who doesn’t want to make some elements of what he reads appear, and as a trade off, other things contribution to the world that their kids will be proud of,” he says in disappear into the story — in this case, unfortunately, it’s his wife a recent Toronto interview. “Not that that necessarily comes to pass, that disappears.” because it’s all about Spongebob Squarepants in my house right now. All of which is still a mystery when we meet Mo and his daughter Special Thanks: Famous Magazine | Adminfo | Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association | Annick Press | Astral Media Outdoor | BabyStages | Black Press | Black Woman and Child | BMO Financial Group | B-Zone | Calgary’s Child Magazine Canada’s National History Society | Canadian Community Newspapers Association | Canadian Family | Canadian Geographic | Canadian Immigrant Magazine | Canadian Library Association | Canadian Newspaper Association Did you know he lives in a pineapple under the sea? It’s amazing the Meggie (Eliza Bennett). They’ve spent the past nine years in Europe Canadianparents.com | Capital Parent Newspaper | CBC.ca | CBS Outdoor Canada | Chatelaine | ChickaDEE Magazine | Chirp | City Parent Newsmagazine | Cityparent.com | Concerned Children’s Advertisers | Credit Union Central of Canada P CTVglobemedia | EcoMedia Direct Inc. | Edmonton’s Child Publication | Education Today | Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario | Embassy Magazine | Exceptional Family | Family Channel | Famous Kids | Famous Québec | Faze Magazine things I’ve learned.” on a quest to find Meggie’s mother Resa continued Feliciter | Harrowsmith Country Life | Invest in Kids | Island Parent Magazine | Life with Kids | Manitoba Community Newspapers Association | Montreal Families | Natural Life Magazine | Newmarketbaby.ca | NOW Magazine One80 Youth Media Group | ONESTOP Media Group | Ottawa Life Magazine | Our Children Magazine | Ourkids.net | Outdoor Broadcast Network | OWL Magazine | Oxford Learning | Parentcentral.ca | Parentsource.ca | Pop! Magazine Pop! Jr. Magazine | Quebec Community Newspapers Association | Quebec Home & School NEWS | Reader’s Digest | Robert Munsch | Saltscapes Magazine | Savvymom.ca | Scholastic Canada | Scholastic.ca | The Beaver: Canada’s History Magazine 30 FAMOUS JANUARY 2009 The Gazette | The Hill Times | The Magazine | The Parent Link Inc. | The Star Phoenix | The Walrus | Themagazine.ca | Time Magazine | Today’s Parent Toronto | Transcontinental Media | Tribute Entertainment Media Group | UrbanBaby & Toddler West Jet | What If? Magazine | What’s Up Kids? Magazine | Whoa! Magazine | Winnipeg Parent Newsmagazine | Yellow Pages Canada | Yoyomama.ca | Zamoof! | zig | Zoomer

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INTERVIEW BRENDAN FRASER

Brendan Fraser (centre) protects some of Inkheart’s other characters up with it and we got to pass it around,” Fraser says with a grin. But in an interview, the kid in Brendan Fraser can return with the Inset: Fraser with Jim Broadbent Since he has some indie cred (notably 1998’s Gods and Monsters, slightest impulse. His face brightens when the upcoming G.I. Joe: Rise which earned Oscar noms for two of his co-stars, Ian McKellen and of Cobra comes up, a film in which Fraser has a small role as the Lynn Redgrave), Fraser takes slight umbrage to the suggestion that motorcycle-riding great-great-grandson of his Mummy character his is a career entirely rooted in fantasy and special effects. “The Rick O’Connell, a part given to him by G.I. Joe producer Bob Ducsay, only way I know how to answer that, my friend, is I don’t know how also the producer of The Mummy movies. to answer that. I don’t know an actor who idles well. I’m happy to be “I begged Bob to let me be in it. He was the only one with a smile working and I’m fortunate to do what I feel I’m comfortable with, on his face one night in Shanghai when we were shooting Dragon and sometimes a bit uncomfortable with. Emperor. I said ‘What are you so happy about?’ And he said ‘I just got “I’ve tended to learn new things from some of the more thoughtful, the greenlight to do Joe from Paramount.’ So the next question was darker independent pictures like The Quiet American, or a film I made ‘Can I be in it? Please, please, please?’ in Sao Paolo that nobody saw,” continues Fraser. “It was called Journey “Because I loved G.I. Joe. I was like every kid, y’know,” he says, to the End of the Night, and it was six weeks of nights all on location. accessing memories of his schoolboy days spent living in Toronto. It was a very dark tale, Scott Glenn is a brothel owner and it’s about “I had one wind up in a tree, twisting in the wind by his parachute for his son’s desire to get out of there. Every film is different. It’s the a winter.” F challenge of where you’re going to go and the muscles you’re going /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// to stretch and pull.” Jim Slotek writes about movies for the Toronto Sun.

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(Sienna Guillory), unaware that the trade off with the storybook dimension has brought three characters from Inkheart into our own world — the evil Capricorn (Andy Serkis), his henchman Basta (Jamie Foreman) and a “fire-eater” named Dustfinger (Paul Bettany). Things become clear when the homesick Dustfinger shows up demanding to be sent home. And they become dire when Capricorn kidnaps Meggie to gain control of Mo’s power. “It kind of takes place in a world the day before yesterday after tomorrow next week,” says Fraser, who’s fond of enigmatic expla- nations. “There’s anachronisms, futuristic things, medieval graffiti. [Director] Iain Softley met with the set designers, a lot of whom worked on movies like [Terry Gilliam’s] Baron Munchausen.” In fact, cinematographer Roger Pratt is a veteran of Gilliam films HE OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES going back to the Monty Python days. Hidden beneath Brendan Fraser’s childhood spent travelling the the fall of 2004, where more replied, “Now, children. “So there are effects,” Fraser continues. “But the thing about it is charmingly goofball exterior world. His work, which includes than 80 black and white prints Selfishly, mine. It used to be, it’s actually kind of light on the visual effects compared to the other lies the soul of a serious artist, snaps taken on location during were shown. before I had kids, I think about things I’ve done. It’s much more about the acting. Paul Bettany is a photographer to be exact. his movie shoots, has been When asked in a recent all the film I burned — oh, my great in this, and Andy Serkis.” A self-described “camera showcased in several photo USA Today interview about God, it’s so cool, look at that fire And then there’s Helen Mirren as Elinor Loredan, Meggie’s book- geek,” Fraser traces his love exhibits, most notably at his favourite subject matter, escape. Having kids — it’s just a crazy great aunt and confidant. “[We shot the movie] the year she of photography back to a New York’s Leica Gallery in the father of three boys wall, dude.” —IR took home her Oscar, and she turned out to be great fun. She showed

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The Underworld prequel, Rise of the Lycans, take us back to a time before Kate Beckinsale was even a glint in her Vampire BLOODmama’s cold blue eyes. Who was the hottestD bloodsucker in those early days? Meet Rhona Mitra  BY KEVIN WILLIAMSONN

hen Kate Beckinsale announced she was Were you hesitant about joining a franchise that’s so closely retiring her black latex, the Underworld identified with Kate Beckinsale? franchise needed new blood to survive. “Well, I think my hesitation was the hesitation of the fans. I thought Enter gorgeous Rhona Mitra, who’s no what they were offering was the opportunity to take over from Kate stranger to fanboys, having last starred in and play the role of Selene. I didn’t even bother having the conversa- 2007’s science-fiction thriller Doomsday. tion. I just said it’s not a conversation to be had. It’s suicide really. Other gigs include roles in 2000’s Hollow Man And I think everyone would agree with that. It would be a foolish and on TV’s Party of Five, The Practice, its spin- thing to do. She’s British, I’m British, there’s no way you try to fill the off Boston Legal and Nip/Tuck. shoes of something like that. Or the costume, the latex, all of it.” Off-screen, the 32-year-old British actor is also famed for being Wthe original live-action model for Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider What changed your mind? videogame franchise; years before Angelina Jolie took a crack at the “I sat down and had a meeting with them, and [producer] Len Wiseman character on the big screen. Yet it is Mitra’s role in Underworld: Rise of and Gary Lucchesi, the head of Lakeshore Entertainment, explained the Lycans — in which she is introduced as new character Sonja — to me that it was a prequel, much like, I suppose, Batman Begins, which which promises to showcase her to her largest audience to date. I think was far and away the best Batman. What it does is give the Co-starring Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen of Frost/Nixon, it’s a opportunity to breathe new life into it and have a rebirth of sorts…. prequel that delves into the origins of the blood feud between the Plus there was Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen. To find major actors like Vampires and the werewolfish Lycans. that at a level like this in the third installment is unusual…. You do Mitra was in San Diego to promote the new movie at Comic-Con need people who have that certain weight and set it apart from when we spoke. something that could be quite flimsy.” continued

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INTERVIEW RHONA MITRA UNDERSTANDING UNDERWORLD Can’t recall why the Lycans (werewolves) and Vampires of the Underworld films hate each other so much? Here’s a handy look at the history of their universe. Some 1,500 years ago, Hungarian warlord Alexander Corvinus survives a plague and becomes an immortal. Alexander has twin sons, Marcus and William. Marcus is bitten by a bat and becomes the first Vampire, William is bitten by a wolf and becomes the first Lycan. The two species become bitter enemies SET YOUR WISH LISTS FREE. and fight a war in which the Vampires prevail. The Vampires make the Lycans their slaves. (This is the time period in which Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is set.) The Lycans rebel and go into hiding. Over the centuries the Lycans evolve to the point where they look human and can transform into their Lycan selves at any moment. After the Lycan rebellion, a special group of Vampires, called “Death Dealers,” are assigned the task of hunting down each and every Lycan, a practice that continues to the present day. —IR B:11.125” T:10.5” S:10”

Rhona Mitra as Sonja in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

You mention the Batman franchise, which is directed by a Brit, you happiest are the simplest. It’s a really wonderful realization. Christopher Nolan, and stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine and You are either seduced by the dark side — quite literally because Gary Oldman. And of course you’re in Underworld now with it is — or you’re not.” Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy. What is it about the British that makes them such a good fit for horror, comic books and sci-fi? When did you realize you didn’t need the “It’s darkness. I just had a discussion about this with my brother, celebrity machine to fulfill you? who’s got a large collection of comic books, and we were talking “In the last few years. I had a lot of big things happen. Major about which movies manage to pull it off — whether it’s Watchmen, things, couple of deaths — that will do it. Then suddenly you look which is coming up, or Wanted or Iron Man. The people involved who at your life and just weigh it up. I’m not saying anything profound, are at the helm have to have an understanding of the darkness that’s but I have to feel like I’m being authentic and if I’m not being involved, and striking that right balance. I’m not sure whether it’s authentic then I’ve got to figure out what it is that makes me feel innate in who [the British] are because even our comedy is a bit authentic. And what that is for me is real life for real people and twisted and a bit dark. Comedy always has a blackness to it.” real heart. If you’re constantly living off the same source, which is Los Angeles, it’s like mad cow disease.” Do you divide your time equally between London and Los Angeles? Are you signed for more Underworld sequels/prequels? “I try to more. I have a family. It’s simple. You dedicate a certain amount “I think this is a one-time deal, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to of time and energy to your career and it makes sense to be present in don some vampire fangs and blue eyes and a sword.” Los Angeles as much as possible. But I think there’s a point in every- For more ideas on how you can create holiday print projects, please visit hp.ca/create one’s life where you stand back and decide if you’ve struck a balance.” But you’re not done with the action genre? “It’s my niche at the moment, so I’m getting a lot of offers to do A lot of people come to L.A. and lose all perspective. more action stuff, which is fine by me. I love it, I absolutely love it. You never did? And I have a nephew who thinks it’s the best thing ever, which HP Photosmart “Thank goodness, I didn’t. I thank the Lord I didn’t because I know amuses me.” F C6380 All-in-One exactly what you’re talking about. It’s a wonderful thing when, ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// hp.ca/wishlist whatever walk of life you’re in, that you realize the things that make Kevin Williamson is a Calgary-based movie columnist for Sun Media.

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COVER STORY TOM CRUISE

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After a lifelong fascination with the Second World War, Tom Cruise GERMANGfinally makes his first WWII movie, Valkyrie. And while it’s no surprise that he plays the hero, it is surprising that he’s not an American. In an exclusive interview with Famous, Cruise explains  BY MARNI WEISZ

s a kid, Tom Cruise didn’t play cops and robbers. “Right before I spoke with you we said, ‘We’re finished,’” says Cruise. He didn’t play Batman and Robin. He didn’t even “It’s a moment. I feel like, okay, good, done. Next!” play Mission: Impossible. Not so fast. First Cruise has to go out and sell Valkyrie to the world. He and his friends would watch World War II And it’s not hard to see that he has more of a stake in this one than in documentaries on TV, and then play war. most of his movies. It is, after all, being produced by United Artists, “And when we played war it was always the studio Cruise revived in 2006, and which has had a bit of trouble against the Nazis, and we always wanted to taking flight. Plus, it’s not often that you get a call from a publicist kill Hitler. Always wanted to kill Hitler and offering an interview with Tom Cruise, as we did, and then have the Mussolini,” Cruise recalls. Call it some early man himself on the other end of the line just 48 hours later. acting classes that would come in handy “You know, I always promote my films,” he says. “But I also love three decades later. the film. It’s a story that I’d never heard, an inspiring story…. When Tom Cruise hopes he has a Cruise, now 46, is sitting in the I first read the script, I guess it was about two years ago, I thought, hit on his hands with Valkyrie home office of his L.A. mansion, alone ‘My God this is an incredible suspense thriller.’” Top right: Cruise as the on this day — wife Katie Holmes is in It wasn’t until Cruise met with director Bryan Singer (X-Men) that German officer, Colonel New York appearing in a Broadway he realized it was also a true story. Claus von Stauffenberg production of Arthur Miller’s Known alternately as Operation Valkyrie and the 20 July Plot, if World War II play All My Sons. successful, the scheme would have seen von Stauffenberg and his Suri’s in the Big Apple too. And Cruise is taking a break from a long cohorts — including Major-General Henning von Tresckow (Kenneth day of meetings to do this interview. Branagh), General Friedrich Olbricht (Bill Nighy) and General Ludwig In one of those meetings he “locked picture” on his latest film, Beck (Terence Stamp) — manipulate Hitler into signing a document Valkyrie, about a plot to kill Hitler that was orchestrated by high- that would hand power over to Germany’s Reserve Army should he PHOTOS: THIS PAGE BY ARMANDO GALLO/KEYSTONE. OPPOSITE PAGE BY SPLASH-KEYSTONE BY PAGE OPPOSITE GALLO/KEYSTONE. ARMANDO BY PAGE THIS PHOTOS: Aranking military officers who were also part of the German Resistance, be killed. And then they would have killed him themselves. (Without including the man Cruise plays, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. this provision, power would have simply passed to continued

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“Loved hockey,” Cruise says. “I “a Spitfire and a Mustang.” He still flies, and now he owns his own learned how to play ice hockey, P-51 Mustang, a plane used by the Allies during World War II. In fact, I still play. I haven’t played in a the very plane Cruise flies has a special connection to the war. couple of years, but for me that “My P-51 was part of the Tuskegee Airmen corps. It was part of was the sport. I just loved it. It their training squadron,” Cruise says proudly, referring to the famous was great. I would wake up before all-black fighter unit. “I like history, I like aviation, and just preserving school to teach myself because, the history of that. So it’s fun. A lot of people come by and like to look you know, if you didn’t play hockey at the old planes.” no one would talk to ya.” Speaking of history, last year marked the 25th anniversary of The man who now owns man- Risky Business and Cruise’s first starring role — a teen who celebrates sions in Los Angeles, California, his independence by throwing a party and dancing in his under- and Telluride, Colorado, talks wear. When asked to briefly describe the best and worst ways his life about open-air ice rinks like has changed over those 25 years Cruise lets loose with one of his they’re cathedrals, and remem- famous peals of laughter and says, “Briefly?” bers another place he put his “You know, it was a dream of mine to make movies and tell stories blades to use. “Skating on the and learn about film, and to have been able to do that is incredible. canal,” he says wistfully. “I have It’s just been an extraordinary time, and I feel fortunate to have been great memories of that. The first able to do that,” he says. time I ever had a crepe was on the Boring. canal there.” And the worst? Oprah’s couch? The bitter parting with Paramount? And then there was learning to High-profile relationships being dragged through the tabloids? ski in the Gatineau Hills. “You Being hunted by the paparazzi? know, it was really beautiful “You know…life has ups and downs and even the worst is better country,” he says. “And I’ve gone than I thought.” back. I love going back.” Hmmm. What do you mean? Another of Cruise’s passions was “Well, you look at things. It’s challenging making films and you von Stauffenberg said of Hitler, “Someone oughta shoot that bastard.” stoked in Toronto decades later, in the mid-1990s. Cruise was in the live life, and I’m not someone who looks back. I mean [Paul] Newman “If you think about it,” says Cruise, “Stauffenberg was very reli- process of getting his pilot’s license when he was in Toronto with just passed, and Sidney [Pollack] passed, and you know, I think that gious, Catholic. But he opposed all of these things to where he felt then-wife Nicole Kidman while she was shooting To Die For. you have a choice of just living your life and making films. And it is a — you have to get in the mindset — I am willing to go to Hell for “I did a lot of my cross-country hours in Toronto,” he says. “I had love of mine and so I don’t really think in terms of the worst, you eternity for killing these people.” the time, and I would do it at night because [daughter] Bella was very know what I’m saying? I just think, no, I’m living life and going hard Much like the plot itself, the filming of Valkyrie did not go off young, and so I would fly all night so that I could get my hours up.” and, ummm, trying to make films that I believe in.” F without a hitch. There was the accident during which 11 extras Bringing the conversation back to his childhood, Cruise says that /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// playing soldiers fell out of a truck. They’re now suing. And then as a kid he always travelled with pictures of two fighter jets — Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous. there were the persistent rumours near the start of filming that From left to right: Cruise as some Germans didn’t want Cruise in Germany, or even to play their von Stauffenberg before being revered hero, because he is a Scientologist. Scientology is considered e’re not going the same time and you have wounded in North Africa; “unconstitutional” in Germany. to tell you what different settings for different “That got blown out, to be honest,” Cruise says of those reports. Cruise with on-screen wife Nina, happens in films — you could have three played by Carice van Houten “They never said that. And I know people jumped on it, and kind of Valkyrie’s movies, or five or six movies went there. We were talking about a location — the Bendlerblock — climactic scene shooting at the same time that it ended up we got. No major film had ever shot there. And they at the Bendlerblock (seen here — and then it goes to the film one of Hitler’s henchmen, like Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels.) never said that. I never heard that.” as it looks today). Suffice to lab and each picture has a Shooting took place on many of the historic sites in Germany, and The Bendlerblock is the Berlin building complex where the story say it’s dramatic and intense different setting where the being surrounded by the genuine Nazi artifacts used to dress the set comes to its dramatic end. It’s hallowed ground in Germany. and probably something you film needs to be exposed, you was an understandably unsettling experience. “It was very strange “I actually felt very wanted when we were shooting there, and the wouldn’t want to shoot more use different chemicals.” putting on the uniform, very strange seeing, you know, the swastika people were great with me,” Cruise continues. “So that was some- than once. But that’s exactly Unfortunately, the lab used and going back into that time period,” says the man whose first of thing that got spun. You know, spun out. This is a story, for [the what the cast and crew had the wrong setting and the very three Best Actor Oscar nominations came for playing another soldier, Germans], that means a great deal.” Then he adds, “And it wasn’t to do when the film stock was scene the filmmakers had to a Vietnam vet in Born on the Fourth of July. (The other two were for everyone, most of the people were very excited to have it done. Of accidentally destroyed fight so hard to shoot at the Jerry Maguire and Magnolia.) course, they just wanted it done properly and accurately.” at a German lab. hallowed Bendlerblock was But Cruise says that unsettled feeling helped him get into charac- It’s clear that Cruise’s passion for the story is deep-rooted. He talks “Yeah, sometimes it happens destroyed. Fortunately, they got ter, since von Stauffenberg would also have been uncomfortable about the war with the sort of fascination that comes from having when the labs, and I’ve had this permission to reshoot. Cruise surrounded by swastikas. He describes von Stauffenberg as a poet watched World War II documentaries since he was a boy. Bendlerblock happen on other films,” says insists he wasn’t upset because, and philosopher who came from a long line of nobility and felt he owed And as most Canadians know, a few years of Cruise’s nomadic star Tom Cruise, “the lab is he says, “You can always find his country a lot. He dreamed of a Germany that was a positive force childhood, from nine to 11, were spent living in Ottawa, where, developing different films at stuff and make it better.” in the international community, and Cruise says that as early as 1939 when he wasn’t playing Nazi-killer, he was, of course, playing hockey. Reshoot

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BigB enough to stash an extra sweater Kiss My Face’s Olive My Body Balm ($10, Jergens Natural Glow Daily Facial Moisturizer YEAR’S and youryou ballet flats, this oversized Ichalang Tote Shoppers Drug Mart) soothes cracked cuticles and ($10, drugstores) protects against seasonal ($50$ , Aldo) is a great example of a trend parched lips with olive oil, fruit butter, grapefruit dryness and sun (with an SPF of 20), and gives FASHIONN that is here to stay. peel oil and vitamin E — delicious and healing. your skin a boost of healthy-looking colour. RESOLUTIONSS Be Stylish, Fit and Organized  BY LIZA HERZ

o, let’s assume you weren’t able to hire a personal stylist over Christmas, and that you don’t have With its instructional 360-degree views of 80 John Frieda Luxurious Volume Bountiful Body Gossip Girl Serena van der Woodsen’s clothing budget. differendifferent poses, Let’s Yoga for Nintendo DS is your Mousse ($10, drugstores) actually coats each hair Don’t despair. Instead, try “shopping your closet,” own ppersonal yoga master ($130, Nintendo DS strand with non-sticky thickeners for volume which is just fashion editor-speak for rediscovering the systsystem, $20, Let’s Yoga, gaming retailers). that will banish hat head forever. great stuff you own that’s hidden behind the not-so-great stuff. As they say, most of us wear 20 percent of our wardrobe 80 percent of the time. Here’s what to do. Donate or toss the clothes you haven’t worn in two years and, voilà — a closet that’s user-friendly. From this already pared-down collection, choose your favourite go-to outfits and put them front As Gossip Girl ’s Serena van and centre to avoid those hysterical “I have nothing to wear” mornings that end up with you der Woodsen, Blake Lively being late for work with half your wardrobe strewn on the bed. wears her signature mix For further inspiration, read Project Runway judge Nina Garcia’s The One Hundred: A Guide of accessories and carries to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, a book that hails the fashion virtue of items as an oversized tote. disparate as white Hanes T-shirts and sparkly cocktail rings. SAnd if you must shop, choose versatile pieces. A colourful new scarf or oversized necklace brightens a great classic like the cabled sweater on the opposite page, and it will segue per- fectly into the warmer weather that still seems months away. Oh, and stay active. Just because it’s cold out and you got The Hills box set for Christmas is no excuse to spend January on the couch. With ththermal spring water and gentle cleansers, Wear these sheepskin-lined Sorels ($250, This Cabled Sweater ($50, Joe Fresh) is And finally, our best and cheapest tip: Don’t keep your accessories hidden in a drawer. Avène TTriXéra Bath Treatment ($21, drugstores) sorel.com for stores) without socks (your toes will chunky enough to be on-trend but still has a Swipe a glass vase from the living room and fill it with all your bangles and bracelets. Display calmcalms intensely dry skin, leaving it hydrated stay toasty, we promise), then slip into your lean silhouette. Pair it with leggings, PHOTO BY ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI ALEXI BY PHOTO BLAKE LIVELY PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER PETERSON/KEYSTONE CHRISTOPHER BY PHOTO LIVELY BLAKE on your bureau for maximum visibility and ease of dressing. See? You don’t need a stylist. and, best of all, itch free. favourite ballet flats when you get indoors. boots and a big necklace.

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THE GOODS HOTPLAY Samuel L. Jackson lends cred (and his voice) to Afro Samurai  BY SCOTT GARDNER MUSIC

MAKERSA.C. Newman owes a lot to Ron Burgundy; Wu-Tang Clan gives us the boot  BY INGRID RANDOJA

in a music student to listen to it, they would go, ‘No, Singers yours is wrong.’” He even made sure to On Screen include a rockin’ flute on the track “The Collected NATURI NAUGHTON Works,” which makes one (former member of the female trio 3LW) think of Will Ferrell’s landed the coveted role of bad-girl rapper Ron Burgundy playing the Lil’ Kim in this month’s Notorious B.I.G. “jazz flute” in Anchorman. bio-pic, Notorious. Naughton, who earned Afro Samurai PS3, XBOX 360 “People have been her acting stripes with a two-and-a-half- pointing out that Jethro year run in the Broadway production of Tull thing,” says Newman, Hairspray, has also claimed a role in the riven by an overdeveloped sense of revenge, “but I am fascinated with upcoming Fame remake. Afro Samurai — an African-American master flutes and recorders. swordsman — sets out on a long, lonely journey to PORNOGRAPHER “When The New track down his father’s killer, trekking through a Pornographers were Kickin’ Out the Jams strange world that blends ancient traditions and GOES SOLO making our last album, Wu-Tang Clan: 1. Snow and Slush: 0. modern perils. Also, he sports a mighty afro. Challengers, we brought in Hip-hop legends Wu-Tang Clan Store shelves have long groaned with the weight .C. Newman, a process that he enjoys this really good flutist and team up with Fila footwear of Japanese-inspired fighting games; and thug-life frontman for the because it means he can it was funny, when she to produce the Wu-Tang titles, from the GTA series to this month’s 50 Cent: Blood on Vancouver-based follow his instincts. would really let go and Weathertech boot. Sporting an the Sand, are hardly fresh, but Afro Samurai is a unique hybrid. Mixing A supergroup “The second song on start ripping on oiled suede upper, padded ankle hip-hop, technology and traditional Japanese culture it offers a novel The New Pornographers, Get Guilty, ‘The Heartbreak the flute, part collar and rubberized sole, the Dapproach to third-person action adventure. got married in 2007, Rides,’ opens with this of us would boot bears Wu-Tang’s bat insignia Afro Samurai originated in Japan as a comic book, then arrived in The Lord of the Dead Rising: Chop settled down to wedded Wurlitzer organ that I play think, ‘This is on both sides, just so Old Man Winter North America as a five-episode cartoon series with Afro voiced by — Rings: Conquest Till You Drop WII life in Brooklyn and then myself,” says Newman on awesome,’ and another knows whose kickin’ his... 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Taurus Scorpio STARGAZING April 21 ( May 22 October 23 ( November 21 HOROSCOPE FOR JANUARY 2009  BY DAN LIEBMAN You’re surprisingly competitive Expect some changes. How as you pursue a new goal. you react turns out to be SCREENTESTYOUR MONTHLY DOSE OF MOVIE TRIVIA The trick? Combine tact with more important than the assertiveness. You’ll see results events themselves. After a Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman by the 25th. Be aware of spell of listlessness you’re star in the romantic comedy extravagant leanings that surface much more motivated. 1 Last Chance Harvey. They’ve worked toward the end of the month. together on only one other film. Name Sagittarius it. (Clue: It also starred Will Ferrell.) Gemini November 22 ( December 22 May 23 ( June 21 Nothing is predictable in a Thomas Jane stars in the thriller You start the year with so much month involving last-minute Killshot. Jane is a married to one of energy that you tend to go off in travel, surprise guests and 2 Nicolas Cage’s ex-wives. Who is she? many directions. Late-January an unexpected job offer. is a good time to make decisions. Don’t change goals, just Titanic stars Kate Winslet and You’re thinking logically and enjoy the detours as you Leonardo DiCaprio reunite for the have a surprising ally. inch toward them. In sum, 3 1950s-set domestic angst movie it’s a month of innovation. Revolutionary Road. How many Cancer Remember to make time years has it been since Titanic was June 22 ( July 22 for health priorities. released — 11, 14 or 17? Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson in Last Chance Harvey Your confidence gradually strengthens — don’t force Emma Roberts stars in the family anything — and your romantic film Hotel for Dogs. Who is her life is back on track by about the JANUARY 4 famous aunt? 17th. Avoid a tendency to rush BIRTHDAYS a career decision. 1st: Frank Langella Paul Blart: Mall Cop stars comedian 2nd: Cuba Gooding Jr. Kevin James as a security guard Leo 3rd: Mel Gibson 5 fending off a gang of crooks. James is July 23 ( August 22 4th: Dave Foley most famous for a sitcom that ran Christian Bale Flamboyant people (you’re 5th: Robert Duvall from 1998 to 2007. Name it. SIGN: Aquarius surrounded by them) stimulate 6th: Rowan Atkinson BORN: January 30, 1974 your creative juices. Change 7th: Nicolas Cage The horror My Bloody Valentine will WHERE: Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK tactics, try a low-key approach, 8th: David Bowie be shown in 3D where theatres allow. and even the most stubborn 9th: Imelda Staunton 6 Which of the following movies person will agree to your 10th: Rod Stewart released in the past year was not Capricorn Pisces demands. 11th: Amanda Peet available in 3D — Journey to the December 23 ( January 20 February 20 ( March 20 12th: Kirstie Alley Center of the Earth, Fly Me to the Put the final touches on a Start the year by making deals Virgo 13th: Orlando Bloom Moon, Twilight? Revolutionary Road’s Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio leftover job before launching and dates. Your networking August 23 ( September 22 14th: Faye Dunaway a new project. There’s lots of skills have rarely been so sharp. Seek out different types of 15th: Andrea Martin Kate Beckinsale broke up with her pressure now, but you thrive It’s also a good month to take on activities and you’ll find a 16th: Debbie Allen partner, also her co-star in the first under it. There are indications a new hobby, particularly one winner. Around the 20th you’re 17th: Jim Carrey 7 two Underworld movies, to marry her that a breakthrough is about that involves a group. Stick up uncharacteristically pushy — a 18th: Kevin Costner Underworld director Len Wiseman. to take place. for others in the community, but trait that has mixed blessings. 19th: Paul Rodriguez The third Underworld movie, Rise of keep meddling to a minimum. It’s not a good time to change 20th: Bill Maher the Lycans, comes out this month, Aquarius your life. 21st: Geena Davis with Beckinsale’s ex the only one January 21 ( February 19 Aries 22nd: Diane Lane who’s still directly involved with the Someone continues to make March 21 ( April 20 Libra 23rd: Rutger Hauer franchise. Name him. unreasonable demands. The Enjoy the praise for your late-’08 September 23 ( October 22 24th: Nastassja Kinski timing couldn’t be better — a brainwaves, but don’t get carried Give yourself a mini-escape, 25th: Alicia Keys new month, a new year — to away. There are changing whether it’s a massage or a good 26th: Ellen DeGeneres

speak out. You’re strong on dynamics at work, and this is a book. So much is happening that 27th: Alan Cumming

Michael Sheen Michael 7. Twilight

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ideas and originality. Jobs good time to look for clues about you need to tune out. There are 28th: Elijah Wood

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2. are more successful than who seemed distant or cheap to make, but count on 30th: Christian Bale

Stranger than Fiction than Stranger 1. 1. Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin in Hotel for Dogs those you adapt. are warmer and more generous. nobody but yours truly. 31st: Minnie Driver

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