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20 ATTENTION SHOPPERS! 06 EDITORIAL 52 STYLE Still need to buy a few last-minute The honest truth about King Kong Five of our favourite Canadian gifts? Then check out our HOLIDAY designers GIFT GUIDE for some brilliant 08 SNAPS suggestions. We’ve got your Uma...dressed as a superhero; 56 VIDEO AND DVD big-ticket presents, decorative Penélope Cruz and Matthew Brace yourself for Sin City: Recut, items, and even sensational host McConaughey stroll through Paris Extended and Unrated gifts and stocking stuffers 10 SHORTS 60 HOROSCOPE 30 COWBOY JUNKIE Drool over the Deluxe Bamboo Prepare to be emotional, Sagittarius What does JAKE GYLLENHAAL say Director Chair; and Tom Green raps was the coolest thing about about his new hip-hop album 62 FAMOUS LAST WORDS playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback The stars talk faith Mountain? Riding a horse, 14 THE BIG PICTURE of course! (And you thought it Meet The Producers, Casanova and COVER STORY would be kissing Heath Ledger) The Family Stone I BY MATHIEU CHANTELOIS 40 APE QUEEN 46 TRIVIA She’s finally earned a spot in 34 STATE OF FLUX What movie won first-time director Hollywood’s upper echelon, but CHARLIZE THERON plays a comely Rob Marshall an Oscar? Who is is NAOMI WATTS risking her assassin in the futuristic thriller Téa Leoni’s real-life partner in crime? new-found success by starring Aeon Flux. Here she recounts the as a monkey’s plaything in near-paralyzing on-set injury that 48 EATS Peter Jackson’s big-budget almost curtailed the film and Paul Newman, Dolly Parton, Oprah remake of King Kong? ended her career Winfrey and Pierce Brosnan share I BY RON DICKER I BY EARL DITTMAN holiday recipes
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PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR RETURN OF THE KING EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA
ave you seen the original King Kong? 3/C No — honestly. Have you seen the CREATIVE DIRECTOR DANIEL CULLEN original King Kong? PRODUCTION MANAGER SHEILA GREGORY B H PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA
A quick, entirely unscientific, survey G around the Famous offices shows that, CONTRIBUTORS RON DICKER R although they’re reluctant to admit it, most EARL DITTMAN people under the age of 40 have never seen SCOTT GARDNER the 1933 version of King Kong. Despite its SUSAN GRANGER classic status, and that it starred Canadian DAN LIEBMAN Fay Wray, it’s one of those movies that represents an embarrassing blank spot ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS in many movie lovers’ filmographies. IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. I would like to go on the record to say that, I, Marni Weisz, editor of a national movie magazine, have HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) never seen King Kong. I thought I had, but then I realized I was NATIONAL SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) confusing it with 1949’s Mighty Joe Young, another movie about a DIRECTOR OF SALES ANTON KIM (ext. 238) gorilla brought from Africa to the States by a Hollywood promoter ACCOUNT MANAGERS ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) looking to make a buck. Just like Kong, an exploited Mighty Joe
JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 breaks loose and wreaks havoc. So you can understand my error. BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) It’s for exactly this reason that Peter Jackson’s new remake of SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) King Kong isn’t such a bad idea. At a time when so many questions CO-ORDINATOR begin, “Why on Earth are they remaking…” this redo actually makes some sense. In “Finding her Wray,” page 40, NAOMI WATTS talks BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 about the delights and challenges of taking over Fay Wray’s role as WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH the object of the big ape’s animal desires. ALBERTA 403.266.4412 You may be surprised to see CHARLIZE THERON in this month’s WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS slick sci-fi action pic Aeon Flux. After all, hasn’t the leggy South African gotten all serious on us? There was her Oscar- QUEBEC 514.868.0005 winning turn as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, then her DIRECTOR OF SALES SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) wrenching performance as a sexually harassed miner in October’s SALES CO-ORDINATOR PATRICIA CARPENTIER (ext. 223) true-ish North Country. So what’s up? 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Truth is she signed on to do Aeon Flux before she’d even won SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS the Oscar, not that she would have changed her mind. In JOAN GRANT “Charlize Theron’s Backbreaking Role,” page 34, she says it was JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ CATHY PROWSE the chance to work with director Karyn Kusama, whose only other SUSAN REGINELLI movie was the popular 2000 indie Girlfight, that attracted her to the JEFF RUSH film. Oh, and the backbreaking part of it? Theron was almost paralyzed after an accident on set. Speaking of backbreaking, JAKE GYLLENHAAL stars in the new Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by 1371327 Ontario Ltd. Ang Lee western Brokeback Mountain. But this is no typical western Subscriptions are $32.10 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. — you know, heroic ranchers taking on greedy landowners and all and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should that. This one’s about a topic most don’t immediately associate with be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto,
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CAUGHT ON FILM B UMA THURMAN, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, PENÉLOPE CRUZ, MENA SUVARI, RYAN GOSLING, JENNIFER ANISTON G >>> Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz take R a romantic stroll past the chic boutiques of Avenue Montaigne in Paris. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
PHOTO BY ERIC TRAVERS/SIPA > > > It’s pretty rare that an actor will do a public photo session on a movie set, but when you’ve got something like Uma Thurman’s outfit in PHOTO BY MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS Super Ex-Girlfriend to promote, it just makes good
marketing sense. Thurman plays a superhero who 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 makes her ex’s (Luke Wilson) life difficult after he dumps her. It’s shooting in New Jersey (this pic was taken at Liberty State Park) and should be out
next summer. >>> >>> Sopranos star James Gandolfini gives a snapper the one-tongue salute as he rides in the back of an SUV through the streets of New York City.
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to believe Jennifer B Aniston even knows that G look. Here the star of
Derailed and Rumor Has It R enjoys an Oscar de la Renta outfit at “Couture Cares: A Benefit for Breast Cancer” in Los Angeles. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PHOTO BY ERIC TRAVERS/SIPA PHOTO BY MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS First they were lovers in the steamy 2004 romance 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The Notebook, then they sucked face at the MTV Movie Awards after winning “Best Kiss,” and now it looks like Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams — who both hail from Southwestern Ontario — are actually a couple. Here >>> Gosling clowns around as the pair finishes up some grocery shopping in L.A. Reportedly, there was smooching as well. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PHOTO BY MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS Mena Suvari hasn’t had a hit in a long time, but, boy, does she know how to
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>>> show in Los Angeles. And that hit? Well, it might come in the form of this
PHOTO BY MARIO MAGNANI/GETTY month’s Rumor Has It — she plays Jennifer Aniston’s naïve little sister in the Rob
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TOM GREEN, GIFTED RAPPER 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 He’s survived a cable access show, testicular cancer and harrowing Freddy Got Fingered reviews. If there’s one thing Tom Green’s learned it’s that you shouldn’t worry about stuff you can’t control and should focus on having fun, which explains why the Canadian comedian is returning to his first love: rap music. Green’s debut rap CD, Prepare for Impact (in stores December 6th), is a throwback to Green’s early years in Ottawa where he was a teenage rap sensation. “I started playing a lot of shows around Ottawa and got a record deal,” says Green on the line from a Toronto studio where he’s busy editing a top-secret new movie he wrote and directed (due out next year). “I got the record deal right before I got cancer and ended up not being able to complete that record,” remembers Green, “and during that process I built a whole recording studio, but had to put the breaks on my music when I got sick.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Prepare for Impact sounds exactly how one would expect a Tom Green rap album to sound. Songs such as “My Bum is on Ya Lips,” “I’m an Idiot” and “I Like Hooters” capture Green’s goofball, bodily functions-obsessed charm. The surprise is discovering that Green can really rhyme. Green kicks off a cross-Canada Keepin’ It Real Crew tour this January, and don’t be surprised if you see some real live Hooters gals on stage with the rapper. “When we roll into each town we’ll usually eat lunch at the Hooters and basically ask the waitress if they’d like to dance on stage, and they usually want to. It’s not like we’re travelling with
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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 AND THE WARDROBE WHO’S IN IT? Tilda Swinton, Jim Broadbent WHO DIRECTED? Andrew Adamson (Shrek) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? C.S. Lewis’s classic tale of four siblings who wander into the mythical world of Narnia and help lead an army of magical creatures against an evil witch (Swinton) is poised to vanquish King Potter from the family-friendly box office throne. And MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA if it does, it will be in large part due to the work of WETA, the New Zealand special effects house that spent some two years perfecting the film’s costumes, weapons and 64 separate WHO’S IN IT? Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe types of creatures (they worked nine months on the centaurs alone). WHO DIRECTED? Rob Marshall (Chicago) • HITS THEATRES DECEMBER 9 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The daughter (Zhang)
of a poor Japanese fisherman is sold to 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a Geisha house in Kyoto during the DECEMBER 2 CAKE 1920s and eventually becomes the WHO’S IN IT? Heather Graham, Sandra Oh city’s most renowned Geisha, but she AEON FLUX WHO DIRECTED? Nisha Ganatra (Fast Food High) can never completely win the heart of WHO’S IN IT? Charlize Theron, Jonny Lee Miller WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Shot in Toronto a while her lover (Watanabe). Kyoto’s once- WHO DIRECTED? Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) back, this romantic-comedy follows a travel famed Geisha district of Gion was too WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Four hundred years after a writer (Graham) who reluctantly takes the modern-looking to use as a location, so nasty virus wipes out most of humanity reins of her dad’s wedding magazine. most of the ornate sets, including and sends the survivors into a single cobblestone streets, were constructed remaining city, a superhot assassin (Theron) IN THE MIX in Ventura, California. is conscripted by rebel leaders to take out WHO’S IN IT? Usher, Emmanuelle Chriqui • HITS THEATRES DECEMBER 9 a ruling government official. See Charlize WHO DIRECTED? Ron Underwood Theron interview, page 34. (The Adventures of Pluto Nash) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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� � time forgot and then take said ape to the wilds of New York City. We should also mention the simian’s got a thing for a certain blond actress (Watts), and bad things happen to those who get between 3/C a monkey and his girl. See Naomi Watts interview, page 40. B G THE PRODUCERS WHO’S IN IT? Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick R WHO DIRECTED? Susan Stroman (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A devious theatrical producer (Lane) and his lawyer partner (Broderick) decide to bilk their investors by creating a play so wretched that it’ll close after a single show and allow them to skip away with the profits. Who knew THE FAMILY STONE Springtime for Hitler would be such a WHO’S IN IT? Dermot Mulroney, hit?! The original 1968 movie, turned into Sarah Jessica Parker a Broadway smash, turned back into a WHO DIRECTED? Thomas Bezucha (Big Eden) movie should make its investors very, affair between two cowboys who can never WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Everett Stone (Mulroney) very happy. “come out” to anyone except each other. brings his nervous girlfriend Meredith 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Gyllenhaal, and especially Ledger, give (Parker) home for Christmas thinking his DECEMBER 16 marvelous performances as men forced to clan will go gaga over her. Wrong! They lead double lives. See Jake Gyllenhaal hate her, so she calls on charming sis Julie BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN interview, page 30. (Claire Danes) to help turn the negative tide. WHO’S IN IT? Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal • HITS THEATRES DECEMBER 16 WHO DIRECTED? Ang Lee (The Hulk) DECEMBER 18 WHAT’S ABOUT? This nuanced and heart- breaking drama recounts the 20-year love WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW DECEMBER 21 ARMAGEDDON CASANOVA Check www.famousplayers.com or FUN WITH DICK AND JANE www.cineplex.com for a list of theatres WHO’S IN IT? Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni WHO’S IN IT? Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller where you can watch it live, and to buy WHO DIRECTED? Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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Text Message the word (Beyond the Mat) R CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It should come as no GODDESS WHO’S IN IT? Steve Martin, Hilary Duff surprise that the Farrelly Brothers exec WHO DIRECTED? Adam Shankman produced this comedy about a guy to number # 13579 (The Pacifier) (Knoxville) who pretends to be mentally * 50 cents per text WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Tom and Kate Baker take challenged so he can enter, and win, the Special Olympics. FYI: The Special Olympics approved the script and RUMOR HAS IT participated in the filming. WHO’S IN IT? Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner WHO DIRECTED? Rob Reiner MUNICH (This is Spinal Tap) WHO’S IN IT? Eric Bana, Daniel Craig WHAT’S IT ABOUT? On the eve of her sister’s WHO DIRECTED? Steven Spielberg
wedding, Sarah (Aniston) suspects her (War of the Worlds) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 family was the real-life inspiration for the WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Spielberg enters powder- Robinson clan, made famous in the novel keg territory with his latest drama about The Graduate, and later the movie. Shirley the squad of Mossad agents (led by MacLaine is perfectly cast as the famed Bana) assembled to hunt down the Mrs. Robinson, but the question is, will Palestinian terrorists who kidnapped and you buy Costner as aged Benjamin killed 11 Israeli athletes in the Olympic Braddock? Village during the 1972 Games. Quebec • HITS THEATRES DECEMBER 25 star Marie-Josée Croze lands a plum role as a spy. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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so-so to spectacular while listening to your favourite tunes, play 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 with this facetted games and look at still photographs. Clear Crystal Ornament from Swarovski ($95). 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 If you know someone who likes their stuffed animals with a bit of an edge, Uglydog ($30) — the latest in the Uglydoll collection — is a very friendly canine, despite being a fanged Cyclops. Save a real tree without scrimping on festive ambiance with this Pre-lit, Seven-Foot Artificial Tree from HomeSense ($150). It even comes in its own 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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As sparkly as an icicle, Roots’ 3/C Paris Watch ($125) features This shimmering B a delicate chain-link bracelet Lace Scarf ($15) with an elegant T-bar clasp. from Winners is G
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Scene It? is one of our favourite movie-themed trivia games here at Famous — and now there’s a 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 007 edition! The James Bond Super Game Pack ($35) can be played on its own or with the original Scene It? game board.
Designed with fashionistas in mind, the slick Nokia 7280 Cellphone ($599) has a baton design and round 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 navigation pad. You answer calls using the active slide, and when the phone is not in use the LCD screen transforms into a mirror. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
It’s the gift you give for the holidays that you know will be gone by New Year’s Eve. The Veuve Clicquot Paint Box ($70) contains four miniature bottles of one of the world’s finest champagnes packaged with four “clicqs” — patented spouts that let the champagne breathe
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No ordinary gloves are these. Columbia Sportswear’s Skyjuice Soft Shell Gloves ($50) have an Omni-Bloc waterproof insert to keep hands dry, and they’re also highly wind resistant. 3/C
Know someone who’s going south this B winter? If they like to snorkel or scuba dive,
HP’s Photosmart Scuba/Underwater G Camera Case ($250)— which fits over two The 2006 Winter R models of HP cameras, the R8-17 ($400) Olympics in Torino, or the R8-18 ($500) — lets you safely Italy, are just around snap away while underwater, sailing or just the corner, February 10th to 26th, to standing in the rain. be exact. Hudson’s Bay Company has a slew of official Olympic items for sale, including these funky heritage-inspired Boots ($300) and a Team Canada Hockey Jersey ($75).
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PLAYING COWBOYS 3/C JAKE GYLLENHAAL and Heath Ledger fall for each other in Ang Lee’s award-winning BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. B Here Gyllenhaal opens up about playing gay I BY MATHIEU CHANTELOIS G hen he was a young boy, Jake Gyllenhaal dreamed of being a firefighter. “I was so wrong,” he says, thinking R Wback. “It was my friends who wanted to be cowboys that had it right. There is nothing cooler than being a cowboy.” And if the hat fits… Gyllenhaal does look ruggedly handsome with a wide Stetson sitting atop his head in his first western, Brokeback Mountain — a movie that has, since its world premiere this summer, been receiving nothing but praise for its sensitive script and breathtaking beauty. A day after the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Gyllenhaal is clearly jubilant about the response the film has garnered so far. His smile is white and wide, his blinking eyes gigantic and blue. He has already read a couple of reviews this morning — 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 everywhere there is praise for the raw direction of filmmaker Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and for Gyllenhaal. This same weekend the Venice International Film Festival handed Brokeback Mountain the Golden Lion for Best Film, the festival’s highest honour. An actor best-known for soulful portrayals of misunder- stood, sensitive young men (October Sky, Moonlight Mile, The Good Girl), this film gives the 24-year-old a chance to give one of his most mature performances yet. “This is my first gay character and the most masculine portrayal I have undertaken on screen. It marks a turning point in my career,” the actor says, then pauses for a couple of seconds and adds, “but I can’t stop to think about that 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 because it goes against the nature of my work.” Adapted from a short story by American author Annie Proulx that was first published in a 1997 issue of The New Yorker, Brokeback Mountain tells of the forbidden love affair between Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) and Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger), two cowboys hired to tend sheep on a Wyoming mountain one summer in the 1960s. Hostile toward each other at first, the two develop a deep bond Heath Ledger (left) and Gyllenhaal and quickly become friends, then lovers. At the end of the summer
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� � Gus Van Sant tried to make it. And Gyllenhaal knows Hollywood. Born in Los Angeles, he Gyllenhaal remembers meeting with Van Sant, whose work grew up in the industry. His father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a he admired, for the role. “I remember saying ‘No way,’” he director, and his mother, Naomi Foner, is a screenwriter. His says, laughing at himself. “All I heard was that they wanted to sister, Maggie, has also made a name for herself as an actor make a gay cowboy movie. I was 16! I could not imagine with memorable roles in films like Secretary, Mona Lisa Smile myself acting in a film like that.” and Happy Endings. Six years later, one of Gyllenhaal’s agents passed him the “Films have greatly influenced my life. Even my love life! 3/C
script with Ang Lee’s name attached. Of course the characters on screen are all fictional, but for B “I really wanted to shoot this story once I saw that Ang Lee years I tried to recreate the relationships I saw on screen. I was associated with the project,” says Gyllenhaal. “I have an can even remember using dialogue from films to try and G
unconditional respect for his work. But my desire to do the impress my girlfriends. And, you know what? It never worked! R film went farther than that. It is so difficult to find truly Brokeback Mountain’s message is full of meaning. It reminds beautiful love stories out there today. Almost everything has you that love is rare and when we find it we need to hang on, already been done. In the United States, we do hundreds of by hook or by crook,” imparts Gyllenhaal, who turns 25 on dramas and romantic comedies a year. Most of them are the 19th of this month. almost always full of pretense and clichés.” The guy who has locked lips on screen with Gwyneth Paltrow 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Interview_Gyllenhaal 11/15/05 10:22 AM Page 33 SURELY THE FUNNIEST MOVIE
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interview | CHARLIZE THERON’S BACKBREAKING ROLE You’d never know it from looking at CHARLIZE THERON today, but an accident on the set of AEON FLUX
could very easily have left her in a wheelchair. Here she talks about the injury and the physical 3/C demands of the role I BY EARL DITTMAN B
ears from now, when Charlize Theron is flipping Theron puts it more simply: “I’m usually doing romances G through the channels and comes across a late-night or dramas, so I don’t have very many action scenes to film. So Yshowing of Aeon Flux, before she even has a chance to when I’m doing a film that offers me a lot of stunts, I train for R judge her old performance, gawk at that funky hairdo or the stunts that I feel confident I can do — which luckily end marvel at the painterly cinematography, odds are she’ll get a up being most of them — and leave the questionable and twinge in her back. maybe overly technical ones to the pros.” Her injury, God willing, will be completely healed by then, In retrospect, the stunt in question may have been one that but a herniated disc between your third and fourth vertebrae should have been left for the pros — production of the — especially when it’s the result of a sudden and dramatic big-budget thriller had to be shut down for a long six weeks accident — is just the sort of thing your body never forgets. while the 30-year-old actor healed. Maybe it was the fact that Theron trained as a ballet dancer Aeon Flux takes place 400 years in the future, just under 400 in her native South Africa that made her think she could really years after industrial disease wipes out most of the world’s push it with the stunts, or maybe it was just her compulsion population. A walled, Utopian society called Bregna represents to throw herself into her characters — we all remember how the majority of the remaining civilization, but there is an the model-turned-actor transformed for Monster, winning an underground society called Monica, comprised of those who 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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� � Theron plays the title hero, a gymnastic secret agent sent by The Handler (Frances McDormand, who also starred with Theron in October’s moving drama North Country) to assassi- nate a government leader in Bregna. Based on the animated series that ran on MTV, the film’s look and feel falls somewhere between live action, animation and a slick videogame. And it’s the first film from director Karyn Kusama since her 3/C
debut, Girlfight, caused a stir back in 2000. B Literally hours before she was whisked off to the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles this past September, Charlize Theron G
squeezed in a few interviews with the press, including R this one.
What did you actually do to cause this kind of damage to your back? “I did a back handspring, my feet slipped from underneath me, and I landed on my neck with my body straight. I was on a wire but the thing is, I was really learning gymnastics and you only get speed from not really using the wire that much. The wire was just guiding me, the wire wasn’t lifting.”
Was it tough to stop for six weeks in the middle of filming? “Not only did I have the time and luxury to get to know my character of Aeon much better, and understand what compelled her to almost single-handedly lead this rebellion 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 against the bad guys, but I got to know her as a feeling, loving “It was an accident. Accidents happen and you have got to get over that fear,” says Theron 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 � �
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� � woman. Before Aeon Flux, I hadn’t been able to spend much time with my mom [Gerda], my wonderful boyfriend [actor Stuart Townsend, star of TV’s updated Night Stalker series] and my animals. That time off gave me a chance to get my head together, because I had literally spent just days between reporting to films sets. After Monster, it was Head in the Clouds, then North Country and finally Aeon Flux. Honestly, I think 3/C
Aeon Flux will benefit from my time off.” B
Are you completely healed? G
“Yeah, I go for one more check up. The reason why we had to R shut down was just because if I had any other smaller accident, like a car accident or if I slipped and fell or anything like that, it was really very close. If [the disc] had moved any more it would have compressed on my spinal cord. That’s paralyzed. The nerve damage was really what was problematic because I lost all feeling in the right side of my body.” So you can walk off that set and that energy, that character, disappears? “I really believe that every actor can do it, it’s discipline.” Did you know you were in trouble when you landed? “No, because I had been in so much pain in this movie Does that come from your dance background? [laughs]. I thought it was just maybe a spasm. I got up and said, “Maybe. But also just because I love my life. I really love my ‘No, I’m fine, I think maybe I just pulled it a little bit. It’s just life just as much as I love my work and I don’t want the two spasming a little bit.’ I lay down for a second, started to stretch to override each other.” a little bit, and within 20 minutes the pain got so intense that 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 we went to the hospital and did a CAT scan and found out.” You and Stuart Townsend have been a couple for quite a while, how do you keep it going with your crazy lives? Did you vow that you would never do another action movie? “We’ve been together almost five years now. I think the most “No, it was an accident. Accidents happen and you have got important thing is not what the person’s occupation is, but to get over that fear. I wouldn’t have wanted to make that just the personalities. It’s the two personalities that have to film if I couldn’t. The physical aspect is what I was so live together, and he challenges me and keeps me on my interested in. I come from a background of telling stories toes. He’s a fire sign, I’m a fire sign. What I like to call a with my body and I really thought that this was a great Saggi-terrorist [laughs].” throwback to that.” After winning the Oscar, did you become more selective about roles? Does a part of you stay in character the entire time you’re working on “No. I took North Country a week before I won the Oscar. I
a movie? would be stupid to say that it wasn’t because of the noise, I’m 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “No, I don’t like bringing my work home because it makes my sure it had a lot to do with that too, but it was before I actually work not as effective, I think. I need the energy, I need to be won the Oscar. When I won the award I never even entertained able to switch off and rest.” any other offers, I never read any other scripts. I haven’t read a script since Aeon Flux and then North Country in the last two years since I won it.”
The Aeon Flux announcement was just shortly after you won the Oscar. “But I had said yes, then they go and do all the paperwork and all of that stuff. I had completely committed myself to the two projects of Aeon Flux and North Country because of directors Karyn Kusama and because of Niki Caro [North Country’s direc- tor, who’d previously made a splash with Whale Rider]. Those are two filmmakers that I really wanted to work with, they felt 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 like two projects that were day and night from each other.”
What’s next for you? “Nothing, I’m going to go live life. It’s time to go live life. I’m doing a five-episode character on Arrested Development. I really didn’t think I would go back to acting for the rest of this year, then they called and I said, ‘Oh God, I love the show. I’d love to go do some comedy.’ I’m producing a couple of things that don’t take me away from home. Stuart’s working nights, so I can work a little bit during the day.” Martin Csokas looks to Theron to save the day Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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how they’ll react, it’s death.” At the same time, Watts hopes that, while this might be the FINDING HER WRAY defining role of her career, it will not define her. “I won’t be There are few roles more iconic than Fay Wray’s this part forever,” she insists. screaming Ann Darrow in KING KONG. Will Right, like we forget that Judy Garland ever wore ruby 3/C NAOMI WATTS be able to make it her own in slippers. B Peter Jackosn’s redo?I BY RON DICKER But this compelling actor — today she looks dazzling in a
sweater and boots, blond and Noxzema radiant — can’t really G fter Alberta farm girl Fay Wray caught the eye of a giant complain. Not long ago her fears weren’t about being ape in the 1933 classic King Kong, she said she didn’t typecast; they were about not being cast at all. R A realize that “King Kong and I were going to be together “I remember spending a lot of time in my car,” she says. for the rest of our lives, and longer.” “While I was driving along Mulholland Drive, I’d think, Naomi Watts discovers this month whether she and the ‘Maybe I’ll take a right there and drive myself off the cliff. I supersized simian can form an eternal bond as she reprises can’t take it.’” Wray’s Ann Darrow in the new King Kong. She laughs at the irony. Mulholland Drive is also the name It is an event movie of the highest order, combining an of the 2001 David Lynch mindbender that launched her Oscar-winning director, Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) career in North America. fulfilling his greatest ambition, and cinema’s greatest beauty The England-born and Australia-raised 37-year-old became a and the beast story. soap star Down Under then followed Nicole Kidman to No pressure, right? Los Angeles and watched her blossom into an international “I try not to pay attention to it,” says Watts, surrounded sensation — and a target. Watts had no idea that she, too, would by the snowy mountains of Park City, Utah, during the become a victim of Australia’s tall poppy syndrome, the natives’ 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Sundance Film Festival. On a break from shooting Kong in term for the collective urge to chop down those who rise above. Wellington, New Zealand, Watts is here to hype the comedy “We have a tabloid cancer in Australia and it’s very toxic,” Ellie Parker, about a wannabe actor struggling to maintain her she says. dignity. “I show up on the day, give it my all. The minute you A now-defunct relationship with fellow Australian actor
start thinking about what people are going think of you and Heath Ledger, 10 years her junior, created quite a stir, and � � 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Handmaiden: Naomi Watts gets a lift from giant ape Kong in King Kong
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� � Watts is at the point where anything she does, any movie she chooses, grabs attention. Kong, of course, has upped the ante. “With success, stakes get higher and higher,” she says. “It doesn’t matter what your dream is in life. You can’t really go, ‘Now I’m done.’”
Her credibility as an actor was sealed with an Oscar- 3/C nominated turn as a grief-worn mother in 21 Grams (2003), B she’s made two hit horror films, The Ring (2002) and its
2005 sequel, and last year she starred in three thinky critics’ G faves, I Heart Huckabees, The Assassination of Richard Nixon and We Don’t Live Here Anymore. R But Watts, a Hollywood bridesmaid so many times before she became the bride of Kong, still vividly remembers a time when validation, from the public and her peers, seemed unattainable. “I tried to think of something else I could do but there’s nothing I loved as much as this acting,” she says. She hung in there long enough to get the call that would jolt any movie star. While Jackson was putting the final touches on his third Lord of the Rings film, he called Watts to see if she was interested in being Ann Darrow. They had dinner in London. “We spoke about the project, but mostly we just talked,”
Watts recalls. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Dessert came later, when Jackson informed her that she had won the role. Although Watts had never before worked on an action adventure, she insists she adores them “if they Watts radiates that perfect ’30s look
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� � King Kong did not adore Watts, however. She was bruised and emotionally spent, particularly from the well-known scene in which the Skull Island natives offer her up to their WETA GOES APE hairy tormentor. But Watts says the spirit of the moment 3/C carried her through any physical discomfort. She and Jackson When it comes to using cutting-edge technology to make and promote had even asked the cast to tone down their aggression, but his films, there’s no one better than King Kong director Peter Jackson. B
realized the immediacy fizzled once they did. Like George Lucas before him, New Zealand native Jackson helped G The rubber-limbed Andy Serkis, who stood in as the slithery launch a design workshop and digital effects house to serve his Gollum before he was digitalized in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, filmmaking needs. WETA — established in the Wellington suburb R performed similar duties as the stand-in for Kong. of Miramar in1995 and named after an antennaed bug native to The plot is basically the same as in the 1933 version, with a New Zealand — is best known for producing the costumes, creatures, few tweaks. A filmmaking crew with a bully of a director miniatures and the thousands of digital shots used in the Lord of the (Jack Black instead of the vaudeville blowhard played by Rings trilogy and this month’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Robert Armstrong), a beautiful actress (Watts instead of With King Kong, WETA’s staff faced the daunting task of Wray) and a screenwriter (Adrien Brody instead of the creating a huge ape who had to be able to act. They turned to actor explorer played by Bruce Cabot) arrive at Skull Island to Andy Serkis and motion-capture technology to pull it off. Serkis, investigate the Kong legend, but find themselves terrorized who had been down this road before playing LotR’s computer- by the real deal. The natives kidnap Ann as altar candy for generated Gollum, was plastered with sensors that recorded his Kong, and the crew embarks on a rescue mission. muscle movements. Concentrated mostly on his face, the sensors The team eventually bags the creature, crates him, and provided the road map WETA’s digital artists needed to create an brings him to New York to be the ultimate freak show. Kong ape who could look perplexed, happy and, of course, really, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 goes bananas, of course, and the Empire State Building really mad. becomes his tree house away from home. He cradles Ann and Check out the stellar website KongisKing.net, and specifically the swats fighter airplanes like mosquitoes in what is perhaps series of production diaries, to see the motion-capture technology cinema’s most memorable finale. at work. The diaries offer a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at As an homage to the original, Watts wears a hat similar to the complex and often mind-bending technology used to recast Kong one worn by Wray. “It is an iconic movie and an iconic role,” as a 21st-century ape. —IR Watts says. “Those are very big shoes to fill.” But not so big as to dissuade Watts from taking one more stab at Hollywood Royalty. Next year she’ll appear in another role originally played by a seemingly incomparable icon — Greta Garbo’s part as an adulteress in a remake of The Painted Veil. Despite the success, Watts says she remains her worst critic — although a bad audition is not likely to give her that split- 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 second urge to take the short route down Mulholland Drive. “I do have a little bit more confidence that it won’t go away tomorrow,” she says.
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Witch and the Wardrobe comes out this month. Who wrote the book on R 1 which it’s based? Rob Marshall directs the new movie Memoirs of a Geisha, about a poor Japanese girl sold into slavery. The last movie he directed won Best Picture 2 at the Oscars. Name it.
Matthew Broderick plays nebbish accountant Leo Bloom in an updated 3 version of The Producers. Who played his character in the 1968 original? From left: Matthew Broderick, Will Ferrell and Nathan Lane in The Producers 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
The Family Stone stars Dermot Mulroney 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 as a guy who just wants his offbeat family 4 to like his girlfriend. Can you name the 1988 western that’s considered to be Mulroney’s breakthrough film? Clue: It also starred Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips.
Fun with Dick and Jane has Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni as a burgling husband and 5 wife team. Which actor/director is Leoni married to in real life? >>> 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 In Rumor Has It, Jennifer Aniston’s charac- ter thinks that her grandmother was the 6 inspiration for The Graduate’s mature seductress, Mrs. Robinson. Can you name the pop-folk duo that performed the song “Mrs. Robinson” used in both films?
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eats | HOLIDAY COOKING FIT FOR A STAR Pierce Brosnan, Dolly Parton, Oprah Winfrey and Paul Newman share their favourite holiday recipes I BY SUSAN GRANGER
DOLLY PARTON 3/C “This is such an easy Christmas bread to prepare, and it makes a wonderful gift during the holiday season.” B G CHRISTMAS-CRANBERRY BREAD
(serves 4 to 6) R Ingredients: • 1 cup fresh cranberries, chopped • 2 cups sifted flour • 3/4 cup sugar • 3 teaspoons baking powder • 1/2 cup walnuts • 2 eggs • 1/4 cup melted butter • 1 teaspoon vanilla • 1 cup milk
Method: 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Combine cranberries, flour, sugar, baking powder and walnuts in a large mixing bowl. 2. Beat the eggs slightly and mix with melted butter, vanilla and milk. 3. Make a depression in the centre of the cranberry mixture and pour in the egg mixture. 4. Stir until dry ingre- dients are moist. 5. Pour into greased 9” by 5” bread pan. 6. Bake for 55 minutes at 350 F, or until a toothpick inserted comes out dry.
PAUL NEWMAN 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “This is one of Joanne [Woodward] and my favourite appetizers — and it combines the colours of the Christmas season.”
SMOKED SALMON AND ASPARAGUS (serves 4) Ingredients: • 20 to 24 fresh asparagus spears • 4 thin slices smoked salmon • watercress sprigs for garnish • to taste: extra virgin olive oil,
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Method: Cut all asparagus to about 6 inches long, steam or boil until tender-crisp (al dente), and cool by immediately immersing in cold water. 2. Wrap smoked salmon around five or six spears to make a bundle. 3. Place an asparagus bundle on each plate and garnish with watercress. 4. At the table, pass cruets of oil and vinegar, a pepper mill and a small bowl of drained capers. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 ALL PHOTOS SZULC. BY FOOD RYAN AND PROP JUDY STYLING INC. BY NOAH WITENOFF, � �
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� � OPRAH WINFREY “Everyone wants rich, creamy comfort foods at Christmas. This one 3/C not only tastes great but it has those great aromas of holiday baking. [Chef] Rosie Daley taught me to bake, rather than boil, the sweet B potatoes for the filling, which produces a more intense flavour.” G
SWEET POTATO PIE (serves 12) R Ingredients for crust: • light vegetable cooking spray • 2 cups graham cracker crumbs • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon • 1 large egg white
Ingredients for filling: • 4 baked medium sweet potatoes (prick the surface of each potato 4 times with the tines of a fork and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees F) • 6 large egg whites • 1/4 teaspoon each: ground nutmeg, ground cloves, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 ground allspice, ground ginger • 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract • 5 tablespoons pure maple syrup • 1 tablespoon honey • 6 ounces light cream cheese • 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
Method: Preheat oven to 350 F. 2. Spray a 10”-round pie pan 3 times with vegetable oil PIERCE BROSNAN to coat. 3. Put all the remaining ingredients for the crust in the bowl of a food “Being from Ireland, I remember with fondness the Christmas Goose.” processor. Pulse 5 times. 4. Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan and press down firmly, spreading the crumb crust until it covers the bottom evenly. ROAST CHRISTMAS GOOSE (serves 10 to 15)
5. Peel sweet potatoes and place in large mixing bowl. Mash them with a fork. Ingredients: 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 6. Transfer potatoes to blender and add all the remaining filling ingredients. • 1 10- to 14-pound young goose Whip until mixture is smooth and frothy, scraping down the sides as necessary • 6 sprigs of rosemary so that all the ingredients are blended. 7. Pour filling into crust. 8. Bake 30 to • 6 sprigs of thyme 45 minutes, until centre of the pie is firm and not sticky to the touch. 9. Transfer • 2 apples, cut into quarters pan to rack and allow pie to cool 30 minutes. 10. Refrigerate for 1 hour. I like • 2 oranges, cut into quarters to garnish each serving with a dollop of real or mock whipped cream and a • 2 onions, peeled and cut into quarters sprinkle of ground nutmeg or cinnamon. • salt and pepper to taste
Method: Preheat oven to 375 F. 2. Sprinkle the goose with salt and pepper, both inside and out. 3. Remove any additional fat
and discard. Prick the skin and allow the fat beneath to run 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 out as it cooks. Place the rosemary and thyme in the cavity. 4. Place the goose, breast-side down, in a deep roasting pan. Arrange the apples, oranges and onions around the goose in the pan. 5. Pour in enough water to come halfway up the sides of the goose. 6. Roast for 2 to 2.5 hours. Pour off fat from time to time, adding more water if necessary, stirring it into the pan juices. 7. Turn the goose breast-side up and roast for another 1.5 to 2 hours, or until completely cooked. (Insert meat thermometer in thick inner thigh.) 8. Pour off the fat and add more water, as necessary, stirring it into the pan juices. 9. Transfer goose to a large serving platter and keep it warm. 10. Remove remaining fat from sauce and strain sauce, seasoning it with salt and pepper. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 11. Serve goose with sauce. Don’t try to slice more than the breast and thigh meat at the table; goose is so rich that smaller portions are fine.
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style | National dress Over the past year Famous style columns have bowed at the well-shod feet of international trendsetters like Mouret, Balenciaga, Chloe, Armani and Lang. But we’d be remiss if we let the year draw to a close without paying attention to some of the great talent we have at home. Here are five of our faves I By Mathieu Chantelois, Jean-Francois Légaré and Émilie Villeneuve ANDY THÊ-ANH The three letters comprising designer Andy Thê-Ahn’s label, P.O.W., stand for Power of Women, but also form an onomatopoeia that fits. The Quebecer’s collections, which explode with shape and colour, have been delighting Montreal fashionistas for five years now. We remember his summer 2004 line with an almost childlike nostalgia, those satin skirts in electric reds and blues! This fall, Thê-Ahn presents a line that’s as much military as romantic, as if lifted from 19th-century Russia. Shades of black and violet set off luminous lilacs, while printed silk ribbons hug waistlines. The Vietnamese-born designer renounces the concept of a single look, opting instead for an amalgam of structured pieces, starched fabrics and light, floral-print chiffons, proving that opposites do attract. —ÉV ARTHUR MONDONÇA In the kingdom of designers, there is a King Arthur. Not yet 30 years old, he’s already been lauded on the runways of Los Angeles, Sao Paolo and Montreal. And everywhere, nothing but accolades for this designer who was still a fashion student at Toronto’s Ryerson University just three years ago. But once ultra-chic Wallpaper* magazine gushed over Mendonça, it wasn’t long before the rest of the fashion media followed suit: “A rising star,” trumpeted British Vogue. “The next Alfred Sung,” proclaimed Toronto Life. “The designer to watch,” announced Elle Canada. His collections seduce with modernity and sensuality, his fabrics are sumptuous, his lines striking, and his fits masterly. —MC � �
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� � PHILIPPE DUBUC The designer who began his career 3/C 12 years ago as the Montreal hipster’s best kept secret has now B
expanded into markets from G New York to Tokyo. In 2003, his line of skirts for men snagged R Dubuc an invitation — the only one bestowed upon a Canadian — to show at the prestigious London exhibition “Men in Skirts” along- side the likes of Jean-Paul Gaultier. He’s also among the precious few Canadians who have shown their collections in Paris. Upon his most recent journey to the city of lights, French Vogue proclaimed Dubuc a “designer to watch.” This winter he follows in the footsteps of 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Dior Homme with a punk rock- inspired collection featuring silhouettes reminiscent of London in the early ’80s. Dark colours (black, charcoal) and robust fabrics (wool, mesh, jersey) are elegantly crumpled, brushed or boiled. And ladies, worry not; women’s wear has been added to the line. —JFL HOAX
COUTURE 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 One is an architect, the other a lawyer. In both life and work, they make a spectacular duo. It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Torontonians Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell first created their label, Hoax Couture. With no formal fashion training, the pair quit their respective day jobs to begin selling their creations — which, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 at the time, consisted of JULIE BÉRUBÉ T-shirts — on a street Four years ago, this 31-year-old graduate of Montreal’s corner. When their first LaSalle College opted to cross the pond and move to London, collections turned all the England. “I was fed up after my studies and wanted a new life right heads, the pair played experience,” she explained during a recent telephone interview. their cards right and the Once in London, Bérubé was promptly hired as assistant to rest is history. Their style is German designer Markus Lupfer, and, somehow, also found at once classic and romantic, time to work on her own creations. Evidently, her move was a unique but with universal good one. Bérubé presented her first show at prestigious appeal. And their threads London Fashion Week last February. Starting with androgynous can be spotted on the silhouettes, she unites ultra-feminine pieces, such as capes
backs of such celebrities as and cardigans with plunging necklines, with more basic styles, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 *NSYNC, Jann Arden, including pinstripe trousers that evoke a military sensibility. Alannah Myles and boy-band She also loves to combine neutral shades with vibrant colour, The Moffatts. —MC creating an innovative yet accessible prêt-a-porter collection that fuses streetwear and subtle glamour. —JFL
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2005 R HOROSCOPE | BY DAN LIEBMAN Sagittarius November 22 � December 22 The emotional and intuitive sides of your personality are on display this month. On the one hand, small things irritate you. Happy 33rd, Jude Law On the other, you seem to be able to figure out what’s going to happen next — especially in matters involving finance. Aries Cancer March 21 � April 20 June 22 � July 22 Capricorn Sometime this month you get a glimpse Trying a new approach helps you get 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 December 23 � January 20 into the year ahead. There could be an through to a friend. Now it’s time to take It’s been a difficult year in the commitment indication of an upcoming job, vacation some of your own advice, especially department, whether you’re trying to get or move. Don’t hold back when it comes where relationships are concerned. Enjoy one or trying to make one. But all that to emotional support for a friend. improvements in your home environment. changes around the 15th. As the year draws to a close, your social standing — Taurus Leo so important to your sign — has rarely April 21 � May 22 July 23 � August 22 been this elevated. If you’ve been concerned about your The gap narrows as you develop rapport recent lack of incentive — or lack of work with those from both older and younger Aquarius — you can expect a turnaround. Despite generations. Your leadership skills are in January 21 � February 19 the usual tendency to slow down this demand, especially during the middle
You’ve been finding it hard to get together month, you’ve seldom been so productive. chunk of the month. To everyone’s surprise 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 with someone, but this is the month when You still find time to socialize, and in a — and relief — your domestic skills are the two of you finally connect. If you’ve stylish fashion at that. impressive. been looking for answers, try searching in different places. Gemini Virgo May 23 � June 21 August 23 � September 22 Pisces Don’t hold back when it comes to telling Despite the hubbub of the season — February 20 � March 20 others how much you care about them. in fact, because of it — this proves a You’ll be paying some sort of tribute to a Be cautious, however, where criticism is productive time. Your listening skills are person you admire. At the same time, you involved. Someone you’re just getting to sharp, so you can expect to pick up receive accolades from an unlikely party. know shares an unusual interest. Get a important bits of information. Don’t hesitate to seek comfort from a professional opinion before signing new friend. agreements. Libra September 23 � October 22 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS Your practical side emerges during the first half of December. Thanks to your 1st: Bette Midler 12th: Jennifer Connelly 23rd: Estella Warren business savvy, you could be climbing the 2nd: Lucy Liu 13th: Jamie Foxx 24th: Ricky Martin professional ladder. Your spiritual side is 3rd: Brendan Fraser 14th: Patty Duke 25th: Sissy Spacek prominent during the last two weeks. 4th: Marisa Tomei 15th: Don Johnson 26th: Jared Leto 5th: Frankie Muniz 16th: Benjamin Bratt 27th: Gérard Depardieu Scorpio 6th: Tom Hulce 17th: Eugene Levy 28th: Maggie Smith October 23 � November 21 7th: Ellen Burstyn 18th: Brad Pitt 29th: Jude Law Don’t use the holiday season as an 8th: Kim Basinger 19th: Jake Gyllenhaal 30th: Tracey Ullman excuse to ignore tricky issues. You do well 9th: John Malkovich 20th: John Spencer 31st: Val Kilmer to tackle these — and ask hard questions
10th: Kenneth Branagh 21st: Kiefer Sutherland — before the end of the year. The full 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 11th: Teri Garr 22nd: Ralph Fiennes moon of the 15th marks the start of an extended period of both stability.
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10 B STARS TALK ABOUT FAITH I BY SUSAN GRANGER G R BRITNEY SPEARS “I believe in the power of prayer. I’m a practicing Baptist. I had a Bible book that I prayed in, night after night. I would pray, ‘I hope my song plays on a certain radio station that’s really big,’ and it happened. Then I was like, ‘I pray they play it on MTV.’ I am totally blessed.”
JOHN MALKOVICH “I believe in people. I believe in humans. I believe in a car. But I don’t believe in something I can
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JENNIFER LOPEZ “Although, as a good Catholic, I went to church every Sunday, it wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized how important it is to have a relationship with God. God is a very big part of my life. I pray a lot.”
COURTNEY LOVE “When I attend church and they say, ‘Father,’ I replace that with ‘Mother.’” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 ELIJAH WOOD “When I sign an auto- graph I always write, ‘God Bless You.’ I’m a Christian and that’s important to me.”
BILL GATES “Religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
WESLEY SNIPES “I never fail to pray before a meal.”
JOHN WOO “I am a Christian and I love doves. Doves represent the purity of love, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 beauty. They’re spiritual. Also, the dove is the messenger between people and God.” JANEANE GAROFALO “I am almost certain MARTIN SHEEN “I was married in the there is no Heaven but, Church, and I baptized my children. But, if there is, I want to make like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time sure I have just enough that I had outgrown the Church. Now it is faith to get in.” a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98
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