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Studio: contents Famous | volume 6 | number 11 36 38 32 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 24 HOME ENTERTAINMENT 06 EDITORIAL 54 NAME OF THE GAME GIFT GUIDE The Movies — Hollywood in the palm It’s time to start thinking about 08 SNAPS of your hand that holiday gift list. We’ve got lots Naomi Watts has two cute dogs of ideas to help you shop for your 56 VIDEO AND DVD hard-to-please, media-obsessed 10 SHORTS The Polar Express chugs into video friends Dakota Fanning is really famous stores; the original King Kong on DVD for the very first time 32 UP FOR RENT 12 SPOTLIGHT She’s not really a singer, or a dancer. Kate Greenhouse scares us 60 HOROSCOPE So how did ROSARIO DAWSON earn a coveted starring role in the 14 THE BIG PICTURE 62 FAMOUS LAST WORDS big-screen adaptation of the musical The 411 on Jarhead, The Family Ellen Barkin talks about her Botox Rent? She says it’s because she’s Stone, Pride & Prejudice, Zathura just so New York and Just Friends COVER STORY I BY EARL DITTMAN 20 STYLE 38 PHOENIX EARNS CASH 36 FIENNES IS A BAD, BAD BOY Holiday wear that’ll leave you golden The dark, brooding aura was no Few actors get to play characters so problem — it was learning to sing evil their names can’t be uttered 44 COMING SOON and play guitar like Johnny Cash aloud. We’ll see what RALPH FIENNES that had JOAQUIN PHOENIX’s can do with the honour as he 50 TRIVIA stomach in knots. The intense portrays You-Know-Who (oh, what actor explains how he captured the heck, Lord Voldemort) in 52 ON THE SLATE Cash for Walk the Line Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Anne Hathaway practices her I BY TERRY LAWSON I BY EARL DITTMAN Jane Austen famous 4 | november 2005 50475_CB072 Famous 8/15/05 10:52 PM Page 1 THE NEW FRAGRANCE Baby Phat Goddess is a trademark of Phat Fashions LLC. Kimora Lee Simmons is a trademark of Kimora Lee Simmons Licensing, Inc. editorial | November 2005 volume 6 number 11 PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA JOAQUIN GOES DEEP CREATIVE DIRECTOR DANIEL CULLEN PRODUCTION MANAGER SHEILA GREGORY f you were going to star in a film PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA about a vocal legend, would you want to sing your own songs? CONTRIBUTORS EARL DITTMAN I SCOTT GARDNER If you pull it off it’ll be damn SUSAN GRANGER impressive, but if you don’t, you LIZA HERZ know what the first line will be in TERRY LAWSON every bad review. DAN LIEBMAN Filmmakers didn’t take a chance with Jamie Foxx when he played ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS IS HANDLED BY FAMOUS PLAYERS MEDIA INC. Ray Charles in last year’s bio-pic, Ray. Charles’ own vocals were HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 dubbed in and the Academy didn’t GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) seem to hold it against Foxx, NATIONAL SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) handing him a Best Actor Oscar. DIRECTOR OF SALES ANTON KIM (ext. 238) But having to have your voice DIR. OF MARKETING & SALES, BETH SCOTT (ext. 249) MAGAZINE DIVISION dubbed has been an embarrassment ACCOUNT MANAGERS ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) for many. JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) In the 1950s and ’60s a soprano named Marni Nixon earned a BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) paycheque by surreptitiously providing what came out of Audrey SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) Hepburn’s mouth every time the music started up in My Fair Lady. CO-ORDINATOR She did the same for Deborah Kerr in The King and I and Natalie BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 Wood in West Side Story. The situation was so shameful for the leading WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH ladies that Nixon’s now-famous performances went uncredited. So now, just one year after Foxx’s celebrated, non-vocal effort, ALBERTA 403.266.4412 JOAQUIN PHOENIX and his director James Mangold have decided to WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS take a chance that Phoenix — who didn’t even know how to hold a QUEBEC 514.868.0005 guitar — could capture the tone of the famous singer he plays DIRECTOR OF SALES SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) in the bio-pic Walk the Line. And this is not just any singer, but SALES CO-ORDINATOR PATRICIA CARPENTIER (ext. 223) Johnny Cash, he of the singular booming baritone. Stressful? Yes. But in “Here’s Johnny,” page 38, Phoenix explains SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS that Mangold took a lot of the weight off by reminding him that JOAN GRANT JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ they were just trying to capture Cash’s “essence,” or as Mangold put CATHY PROWSE it, “If people wanted to hear the actual voice of Johnny Cash, they SUSAN REGINELLI should buy the records.” JEFF RUSH ROSARIO DAWSON was confronted with a similar conundrum when she was offered a starring role in Rent. But this time, even though Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by 1371327 Ontario Ltd. she had never sung professionally, there was no doubt Dawson Subscriptions are $32.10 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. would have to sing (and dance) if she took the role — Rent being and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. one of the most successful Broadway musicals of the past 10 years, All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto, and most of her co-stars being holdovers from the Broadway cast. In Ontario, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] “New Kid on the Block,” page 32, Dawson explains how she found Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019 the courage to go toe-to-toe with some of musical theatre’s elite. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: And on page 36 you’ll find “The Face of Evil,” our interview with Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ont., M6K 1X9 RALPH FIENNES. We know, you’ve never looked 500,000 copies of Famous magazine are distributed through Famous Players at those blue eyes and delicate cheekbones and and Alliance Atlantis cinemas, and other outlets. 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