MOVIE TIMES | INTERVIEWS | REVIEWS | CROSSWORD & GAMES Why won’t Say goodbye Fox let us see to the WB, Mike Judge’s & hello to hilarious the CW: new movie, The WB IDIOCRACY? Television Find out Network inside this will offi cially week’s issue go off the air & become the CW, HOLLYWOODLAND! a combination of WB & UPN We check out the new movie that stars Ben Affl eck, Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins, & Robin Tunney by Jessie Alba DON’T MISS A THING Entertainment Today presents a FALL MOVIE PREVIEW GUIDE for people who really give a damn about their movies: the most extensive and up-to-date guide you’ll fi nd anywhere || ENTERTAINMENT TODAY SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2006 ENTERTAINMENTVOL. 38|NO. 48|SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2006 TODAYINCE S 1967 PUBLISHER KRIS CHIN MANAGING EDITOR CECILIA TSAI EDITOR MATHEW KLICKSTEIN ART PRODUCTION DAVID TAGARDA TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR KATSUYUKI UENO COPY EDITOR JULIAN CAMILLIERI WRITERS JESSE ALBA ADAM BARNICK FRANK BARRON KATE E. BROOKS AMY BOWKER JULIAN CAMILLIERI WARREN CURRY BROOKE DAMMKOEHLER CLAYSON DEBURGER JOSEPH FEINSTEIN 19 HOLLYWOODLAND 20 THE WICKER MAN SHIRLEY FIRESTONE JANOS GEREBEN MICHAEL GUILLÉN INDEX ORMLY GUMFUDGIN JONATHAN W. HICKMAN TRAVIS MICHAEL HOLDER TINA KIM 16 FALL MOVIE PREVIEW GUIDE KAT KRAMER M. Y. LEE Entertainment Today gives you the most exhaustive Fall Movie Preview Guide you’ll ever need. We MICHAEL LEVINE even tell you which movies are “must-sees,” and which ones you “shouldn’t screen near an open fi re.” ERIC LURIO RUBEN MACBLUE MARY MALLORY SCOTT MANTZ TONY MEDLEY MUSIC MOVIES DAWN MILLER by Mike Restaino MIA PERRY 12 TEA FOR TWO 11 DVD REVIEWS MIKE RESTAINO Joseph Trinh reviews a Two Loons for Tea concert. SEAN REYNOLDS 19 ART FILM OF THE WEEK with Aaron Sheley RICA ROMERO GAIL ROBERTS BOOKS ANNIE ROLLINS 20 HEY, BABY SUSIE ROTEMAN 9 FENADY WRITES HOLLYWOOD What’s not to love about Maggie Gyllenhaal (and don’t say her BRAD SCHREIBER Frank Barron reviews Andrew J. Fenady’s latest literary creation, brother)? Jonathan Hickman checks out her latest: Sherrybaby. AARON SHELEY A. Night in Hollywood Forever. STEVEN SNYDER PETER SOBCZYNSKI 21 JUDGING OUR COUNTRY’S IDIOTS BETH TEMKIN THEATER Offi ce Space is a cult hit that became big business for DVD’s and JOSEPH TRINH cable. King of the Hill has been a massive success for years. So, KIM VOYNAR 4 DREAM A LITTLE DREAM what’s Fox got against Mike Judge’s new fi lm, Idiocracy? Peter MARCI WEINER Travis Michael Holder takes a trip with former Cirque du Soleil RUSTY WHITE Sobcynski has a few “edu-ma-cated” thoughts on the subject... JONATHAN ZEITLIN mastermind Franco Dragone and his latest creation, Le Reve, at Las Vegas’ Wynn Hotel. CARTOONISTS 22 AMERICA’S GREATEST FILMMAKER? PHIL CHO It’s the easiest thing in the world for a writer to make a blanket MARK DARCOURT RESTAURANTS statement like, “Th e Best Filmmaker...” And yet, Warren Curry DREW-MICHAEL just can’t help himself when it comes to Mutual Appreciation. ANNIE ROLLINS 10 A PLACE MOM & DAD WILL LOVE Th ese days, you never know where the ‘rents will want to have PHOTOGRAPHER dinner. Kate E. Brooks gives you a helpful hint at where to go next 22 TWO STEPS FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK DREW RESSLER time the fam “drops in” unexpectedly. Opposites attract in a movie from fi rst-time fi lmmaker Van Fischer. Th e pic, Neo Ned, takes a look at what would happen if COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT THE WEBSTER GROUP a crazed Nazi were to fall in love with a black girl...who thinks COLUMNS she’s Adolf Hitler. Don’t worry: Jonathan Hickman will explain. 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The views of the reviewers and writers of this publication are their own, and do not necessarily reflect those of 30-31 FROLICSOME FUN the management of Entertainment Today. ©2006 Professor Klickberg’s Insuperable Crossword Puzzle, Lady Katsura and Suki Yaki’s Astrological Forecast, Sudoku, and Comics. |3| SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2006 ENTERTAINMENT TODAY TicketHolders proportions—dwarfed only by ol’ Steverino’s most spectacular resort hotel. And may I say something about the gor- geous Wynn Las Vegas? I’ve been coming to Vegas on press assignments several times a year for as long as I remember, and no hotel could rival our suite with a fl oor-to-ceiling wall of windows that overlook one of the most spectacular views I’ve ever enjoyed. With its Warhol-adorned walls, a cascading marble tub, and swirly art deco touches everywhere you look, the Wynn is instantly reminiscent—from the elevator banks to the ice machine nook—of one of those creamy old sets from a 1930 Fred and Ginger movie. I almost expected Edward Everett Horton to greet us whenever we opened the door of our elegant temporary home on the 24th fl oor. Th e Wynn not only has an entire atrium in its lobby, its own golf course, its own lake, some of the most prestigious restaurants and shops anywhere in the world, but it also boasts the busiest Ferrari dealership in the Western Hemisphere. You do the math. But whatever the expense, a stay at the Wynn is worth every cushy moment. P Tickets for Le Reve are available at the Wynn Las Vegas box offi ce, online at www.wynnlasvegas. No longer just in his dreams… com, or by phone at (702) 770-WYNN. by Travis Michael Holder haunting “small collection of imperfect dreams” looking for something or someone familiar called Le Reve. to make the journey more grounded—is met Travis Michael Holder has been writing I’ve often said in print that Cirque du Soleil instead with ominous devils and scary kiddie for ET since 1990. Also an award-winning has reinvented the Las Vegas Strip. But, consid- It wasn’t long after Dragone split from the fi gures right out of a Tim Burton movie. In actor, he has authored fi ve plays produced in ering that statement as simply a given, perhaps Cirque that unstoppably prolifi c hotelier Steve defense of the more horrifi c and even nightmar- LA, including Surprise Surprise, soon to be a the chief architect of this monumental change Wynn approached the artist to create a show ish aspects of his visualized dream of “com- feature fi lm. from processed cheese spread to imported brie that would become the fl agship for his new phe- promised purity,” Dragone has been quoted as is Franco Dragone: for many years, a major nomenal resort, the Wynn Las Vegas. Housed saying the defi nitive theme ofLe Reve is “how creative force behind the Cirque’s astounding in an auditorium-sized theatre built entirely for men can be great and little, can do beautiful, rise to international success. Credited with the show—the only in-the-round theatre in great things like walk on the moon, and at the “founding the artistic soul of the company” Vegas—the otherworldly Le Reve (French for same time do bad, ugly things like war.” when he was recruited by the fl edgling Mon- “Th e Dream”) revolves around a huge 68½-foot treal-based troupe in 1985, Dragone began his pool of water where audience members join the Th ere’s an obvious, almost palpable rever- long tenure with the aptly named Le Cirque consciousness of a somnambulant everyman ence and respect for water in the work of Le Reinvente and, over the next 15 years, he was character who defi es the bounds of conventional Reve’s unique almost singlehandedly responsible for creat- reality for a breakneck 90 minutes of aerial assemblage ing the amazingly successful Cirque du Soleil and aquatic splendor never before seen on any of gratefully touring shows Nouvelle Experience, Saltimbanco, stage. Esther Williams is about the only aquatic scantily clad Alegria, Quidam, and La Nouba. wonder not in attendance. performers, a collective Over the ensuing years, an estimated 40 Th e cost of building Le Reve’s own 2,087- appreciation million patrons worldwide have entered the seat theatre (with no one farther than 42 feet amongst the brilliant mind of Dragone as brought to life from the playing space) has not been disclosed, cast for its in those unearthly touring shows created for but comparable shows housed permanently on power and a the Cirque. Surely nothing will secure him the Strip average around $30 to $40 million. celebration a place in the history of the performing arts Since this is theatre-in-the-round and no wing of its inher- more than his work in Vegas, fi rst as the genius or storage space is available off stage to hold ent beauty. behind Mystere (the company’s fi rst permanent elaborate movable set pieces, designer Claude Designed attraction at Treasure Island, which opened in Santerre’s incredible mammoth pieces either rise by Claude 1993), and then with the mesmeric “O” at the from the water or are fl own in from above, as Renard, the Former Cirque Du Soleil visionary Franco Dragone Bellagio, which opened the groundbreaking are many of the performers themselves.