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21 INSIDE OSCAR 06 EDITORIAL Get the scoop on the 80th with our look at 08 SNAPS 44 Oscar fashions, trivia, host Katherine Heigl returns a Jon Stewart and critics’ picks. paparazzi’s shoe; Maggie Plus, a handy take-home ballot Gyllenhaal takes the subway 48 ON DVD 34 FEELING JUMPY 10 SHORTS Go get Gone Baby Gone It may seem like Samuel L. Jackson Orlando Bloom makes a run for is always working, but he’s actually it in Nepal; when Spider Pigs fly; an 50 HOROSCOPE very discerning about choosing his invitation to write for Famous Learn to let go, Aquarius roles. He agreed to star in the sci-fi PHOTO BY TKTKTKTKTKT Jumper because, as he puts it, “I’d 14 SPOTLIGHT COVER STORY pay money to see it with me in it” Shawn Roberts lands Jumper I BY BOB STRAUSS 40 THE SPORTING LIFE 16 THE BIG PICTURE is the franchise player of Vantage Point keeps you guessing; 36 THE MATCHMAKER sports comedies, making four in four British actor David Morrissey on ’s Wild West Comedy Show years. The funnyman’s latest is the his role as a royal matchmaker for comes to your town basketball flick Semi-Pro, and while and Natalie even he admits it’s time to hang up Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl 44 STYLE his movie sneakers, Ferrell says he I BY JIM SLOTEK Valentine’s Day Gift Guide couldn’t help but be drawn to Semi-Pro’s tale of misfit athletes 38 THE ZEN OF ZEGERS 46 LINER NOTES I BY BOB STRAUSS Normal’s on acting k.d. lang produces her COVER: PHOTO BY HANS GUTKNECHT/ I BY NATALIA WYSOCKA watershed album WIREIMAGE; OSCAR IMAGE ©A.M.P.A.S.®

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PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR BEST PICTURE OUR ISSUE BEST DIRECTOR BEST ORIGINAL BEST ACTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ TONY GILROY TONY GILROY TILDA SWINTON

DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET “THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.” RICHARD SCHICKEL, TIME HAS ISSUES ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ALIZA KLEIN PRODUCTION DIRECTOR SHEILA GREGORY s we go to press with this, our PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA IS BACK IN THEATERS... Oscar issue, we have no idea whether CONTRIBUTORS SCOTT GARDNER february 2008 | volume 9 | number 2 the Oscars will even take place. A LIZA HERZ WHAT’S With the writer’s strike stretching DAN LIEBMAN on, the fate of the 80th annual KEN LINTON WillFerrell’s Academy Awards has become as shaky as JIM SLOTEK GAME PLAN? The star of Semi-Pro BOB STRAUSS tells us why sports movies the plot of a Jerry Bruckheimer . have his number The program’s producer, Gil Cates, NATALIA WYSOCKA DAVID MORRISSEY GETS BETWEEN THE insists the show will go on — but when ® BOLEYN GIRLS Oscar ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS issue: Awards Nominees WHY SAM fashion, nominees, asked how that’ll happen should the JACKSON trivia IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. LEAPT AT JUMPER Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) not have PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 GEORGE CLOONEY TOM WILKINSON TILDA SWINTON SNAPS: BRAD PITT, MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, KATHERINE HEIGL, AMANDA BYNES, ETHAN HAWKE HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 Outstanding Performance by a Outstanding Performance by a Outstanding Performance by a a new contract by February 24th, he’s Male Actor in a Leading Role Male Actor in a Supporting Role Female Actor in a Supporting Role cagey. Giving it away, he says, would put their plan in jeopardy. VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) Those comments inspired wild, and humorous, speculation about DIRECTOR OF SALES, LORELEI OEMING (ext. 249) FAMOUS MAGAZINES DGA Awards WGA Awards PGA Awards the lengths Oscar’s producers would go to in order to keep the show DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) Nominee Nominee Nominee alive. Guesses ranged from producing a cartoon version of the show, DIRECTOR, SALES CINDY FROST (ext. 254) TONY GILROY TONY GILROY MICHAEL CLAYTON Outstanding Directorial Achievement Best Original Screenplay since animation isn’t covered by the WGA contract, to producing the DIRECTOR, SALES ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) in a Feature Film show with Team America: World Police-style puppets filling in for actors ACCOUNT MANAGERS JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) not willing to cross the picket line. Too bad ’s not hosting. BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) Famous offers a few more suggestions. CORY ATKINS (ext. 257) Hand the awards out on a first-come, first-served basis, weakening MANAGER, MEDIA SALES CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) the actors’ resolve not to cross the picket line, and adding the hair- pulling, shirt-ripping, oh-no-you-di’nt excitement of a Thanksgiving 604.904.8622 sale at J.C. Penney. WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH Hire Quebecois master impressionist André-Philippe Gagnon to ALBERTA 403.266.4412 impersonate every single winner and presenter. The man best known WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS for providing all 18 celebrity voices in his own version of “We are the World” is in no position to turn down such a gig — strike or not. QUEBEC 514.868.0005 Turn the show over to a high school drama class, with students ACCOUNT MANAGER ROBERT COLE (514.693.1221) writing the script and playing the parts of host Jon Stewart, the SALES COORDINATOR ANNIE DESJARDINS (EXT. 223) presenters, winners and nominees. At times like these, we really ATLANTIC 902.576.3131 should think of the children. ATLANTIC SALES MANAGER JILL HEIGHWAY Whatever happens, we hope you enjoy the Academy Awards Section we’ve put together. It all starts on page 21, and, hey, it may be the SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS only hit of Oscar glitz you get this year. JOAN GRANT Our cover boy Will Ferrell has a new movie that, like most of his ELLIS JACOB PAT MARSHALL , has no Oscar aspirations whatsoever. And that’s exactly why we DAN MCGRATH love him. In “Good Sport,” page 40, Ferrell swears Semi-Pro, about a CATHY PROWSE ragtag basketball team, will be his last sports movie for a while. SUSAN REGINELLI Samuel L. Jackson is certainly not the type of actor who makes his NATALIA WYSOCKA

decisions based on what the Academy will enjoy. He likes to work. Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. And to have fun. And to have fun working. The latest result of that Subscriptions are $31.50 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. positive attitude to making movies is the sci-fi All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should Jumper. To find out why he chose this particular be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, , , M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] role turn to “In Hot Pursuit,” page 34. And finally, British actor David Morrissey Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: plays uncle to Scarlett Johansson and Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ont., M6K 1X9

Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl. 650,000 copies of Famous magazine are distributed through Cineplex In “All in the Family,” page 36, Morrissey and Alliance Atlantis cinemas, HMV and other outlets. Famous magazine is not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. explains why he thinks of his character as a No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written Tudor-era Dick Cheney. —MARNI WEISZ consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2008.

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1 Katherine Heigl was at the DMV renewing her 1 license when a paparazzi lost his flip-flop while pursuing her. Heigl kindly bent down and retrieved the shoe, then returned it with a smile. PHOTO BY SPLASH-KEYSTONE

2 If you’d asked us which actor was caught reading The New Yorker on a subway in the West Village, we would have guessed Maggie Gyllenhaal. PHOTO BY DENNIS MARYANNAKIS/ SPLASH-KEYSTONE

3 Amanda Bynes visits the 2008 World Experience DPA Gift Lounge in 2 4 Beverly Hills. Planned as part of the Golden Globes, the freebie fest went ahead despite the show’s cancellation. And no, they 3 5 weren’t giving away puppies, Bynes brought little Charlie with her. PHOTO BY CHARLEY GALLEY/GETTY

4 “You look at the camera, and I’ll look away. It’ll make a great shot.” Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attend the welterweight showdown between Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas. PHOTO BY SPLASH-KEYSTONE

5 Awww, she looks like a big, pink marshmallow. Friends Mark Ruffalo (left) and Ethan Hawke take a stroll through with Ruffalo’s baby girl, Odette. PHOTO BY JACKSON LEE/ SPLASH-KEYSTONE

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Mechanical Approval YOU OVER Date: Aug, 2007 Internal: Client: Playtex It’sBOWL a first. Cineplex Entertainment’s recently opened SilverCity Oakville, on the border between Burlington and Oakville in BE PUBLISHED IN Client: 7 Ad #: pla_0209_07_A1 Ontario, is the company’s first cinema to incorporate a bowling alley. Experience the Studio #: PINPLA_0074_1037 Cozy and modern, the alley is just one part of a multifaceted Agency #: ADVPLA_0199_1037 entertainment area called The Backlot located inside the NEW Advanced Design 45,000 square-foot complex. Aside from the six premium lanes, Job Description: Soft Comfort Adapt Print New The Backlot boasts a licensed lounge offering drinks and FAMOUS! ® ® appetizers, two party rooms (which can be booked for special We’re starting a brand new feature of Playtex Soft Comfort. Mechanical Size: 7 7/8” x 10 1/2” occasions or corporate events) and a games room with pool and want you to be a part of it. Colours:4 colour | number 2 tables, plasma screens and an array of interactive videogames. february 2008 | volume 9 WHAT’S Each month we’re going to ask our And if the thought of leaving the kids at home for a whole Publication List or Component readers a question, and our favourite afternoon or evening has parents nervous, another first for the Famous, Fashion, Flare, Glow, Inside Entertainment, WillFerrell’s answers will be published in an 360˚custom fi t design opens all around LouLou, People, Tribute theatre chain — Cineplex Kids Club child-minding services — GAME PLAN? NEW The star ofSemi-Pro tells us why sports movies upcoming issue of Famous. Just go to will come as welcome news. have his number DAVID www.cineplex.com/famouslastwords MORRISSEY Those child-minding services are particularly useful for guests GETS BETWEEN THE Oscar BOLEYN GIRLS issue: to enter. So think hard, be creative and fashion, WHY SAM nominees, who want to make use of the complex’s VIP Experience, which JACKSON trivia LEAPT ATJUMPER maybe even funny. Oh, and do it all in

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Roberts, originally from Stratford, Ontario, has been acting professionally since he landed his first audition as a 12-year-old, playing Emily’s love interest in the TV series Emily of New Moon. His small-screen résumé includes appearances on Degrassi: The Next Generation and La Femme Nikita, while his movie credits include roles in X-Men, Skinwalkers and the horror pic Diary of the Dead, which also opens, albeit in limited release, this month. Jumper, about a man (Christensen) who discovers he can teleport, is helmed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith), a filmmaker known for his chaotic sets and demanding nature (he likes to shoot and shoot and shoot, which drives movie studios crazy). How did Roberts find working with him? “I can definitely see why some people might say he’s ‘different,’ but he’s a visionary genius is what he is. He’s coming off of making Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which I thought was awesome.... I mean, he’s a very intense guy, but welcoming and all that, so it was great.” A big-budget action flick like Jumper could jump-start Roberts’ career, but the actor isn’t waiting around for his cellphone to ring. Although he’s only 23, Roberts has decided he needs to start producing movies himself in order to take control of his career. “You can only go out for other people’s projects for so long until you say, ‘You SHAWN know what, I really want to do something that’s mine.’ “And this past year has been kinda slow, and with the writers’ strike it’s really made the industry a bit unsteady, unstable. So whatya do when things are ROBERTS unstable? You think, ‘Okay, what can I takes control do to better my situation?’ This is the next logical step.” With that in mind, Roberts is off to Your money is with you. hawn Roberts savoured his chance as it were,” says Roberts on the line from this month’s Sundance Film Festival to tear a strip off , a.k.a. his sister’s home in Hamilton, Ontario, to support Diary of the Dead, which SHayden Christensen, in this month’s where the handsome 23-year-old actor is is screening at the fest, and to make sci-fi action pic Jumper. crashing at the moment. “I’m all over the a few movie connections of his own. “I’m in a bar, hitting on a girl when place — L.A. Toronto, Vancouver — so “It’s time to shake hands and kiss comes in and we this is the easiest place for me to call babies,” he says with a laugh.

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THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES WHO’S IN IT? Freddie Highmore, now in theatress Sarah Bolger I BY INGRID RANDOJAA WHO DIRECTED? Mark Waters (Just Like Heaven) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The Grace family — mom and her three kids, Jared, Simon and Mallory — move into the Spiderwick estate where Jared stumbles across a book titled Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide. The tome describes the various fairies, ogres and magical beings that exist in the invisible world around the estate, and when Jared opens the book he is able to see the creatures, which makes some of them very, very angry. § HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 14

NORMAL phenomenon continues on screen with this FEBRUARY 22 WHO’S IN IT? Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers sequel to the 2006 dance flick Step Up. WHO DIRECTED? Carl Bessai (Emile) This time around a feisty street dancer BE KIND REWIND WHAT’S IT ABOUT? After a teenage boy is named Andie (Evigan) enrolls in the WHO’S IN IT? , Mos Def killed in a car crash, a driver involved in the Maryland School of the Arts and catches the WHO DIRECTED? Michel Gondry STRANGE WILDERNESS accident (Callum Keith Rennie), the boy’s eye of Chase (Hoffman), the school’s hottest (The Science of Sleep) WHO’S IN IT? Steve Zahn, Justin Long mother (Moss) and his best friend (Zegers) hunk and best hoofer. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? You know what a pain it is WHO DIRECTED? Fred Wolf (debut) deal with the aftermath. See Kevin Zegers when you demagnetize one of your credit WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When his crappy interview, page 38. JUMPER cards. Imagine the pain Mike (Def) feels wilderness TV show is about to be WHO’S IN IT? Hayden Christensen, when his pal Jerry (Black) demagnetizes cancelled, host Peter Gaulke (Zahn) OVER HER DEAD BODY VINCE VAUGHN’S WILD WEST EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC Samuel L. Jackson every VHS cassette in his small video store. and his crew set out to find, and film, WHO’S IN IT? Eva Longoria Parker, Lake Bell COMEDY SHOW WHO’S IN IT? Susan Sarandon, WHO DIRECTED? Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) To keep his most loyal customer happy — the elusive Bigfoot. WHO DIRECTED? Jeff Lowell (debut) WHO’S IN IT? Vince Vaughn, Ahmed Ahmed WHO DIRECTED? Paolo Barzman WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Davey (Christensen) a woman (Mia Farrow) suffering from § HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 1 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Chloe (Lindsay Sloane) WHO DIRECTED? Ari Sandel (debut) (Time is Money) foolishly believes he’s the only person in the dementia — the pair decides to re-enact her is dating Henry (), who believes WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Vaughn and four stand-up WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It’s 1945 and world who possesses the ability to transport favourite films, including Ghostbusters, he’s being haunted by his dead fiancée, comedians — Ahmed, Bret Ernst, John Jakob Bronski, a prisoner inside a Nazi himself through time and space. He RoboCop and Driving Miss Daisy. FEBRUARY 1 Kate (Parker). So Chloe hires phony Caparulo and Sebastian Maniscalco — hit detention centre, finds himself caring for eventually realizes there are others like him, psychic Ashley (Bell) to pretend to chase the road and travel 6,000 miles across two orphaned children — Melanie and in fact, there’s a war going on between the POSSESSION HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS: away the ghost. Things get really America to perform 30 shows in 30 nights. Christopher. Flash forward to the mid-1980s “jumpers” and the people who want to stop WHO’S IN IT? , Lee Pace BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT complicated when Ashley falls for Henry when the now mature Melanie (Sarandon) them, including a government operative WHO DIRECTED? Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist TOUR and actually starts to communicate with IN BRUGES discovers Jakob (von Sydow) is alive (Jackson). See Samuel L. Jackson interview, WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This remake of the WHO’S IN IT? Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers Kate, a very jealous spirit who’s WHO’S IN IT? , Brendan Gleeson and invites him to live with her and page 34. Korean thriller Jungdok (Addicted) stars WHO DIRECTED? Bruce Hendricks (debut) determined to ruin any budding romance WHO DIRECTED? Martin McDonagh (debut) her family in Canada. Gellar as Jess, a woman married to M M WHAT’S IT ABOUT? For those who didn’t sell involving Henry. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Two Irish hitmen DEFINITELY, MAYBE an organ to pay for a ticket to see teen (Farrell, Gleeson) are instructed to lay low FEBRUARY 13 WHO’S IN IT? Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin singing sensation Cyrus in concert, here’s FEBRUARY 8 in the picturesque Belgium city of Bruges. WHO DIRECTED? Adam Brooks (Almost You) THE METROPOLITAN your chance to check out her gig, in 3-D no But their under-the-radar existence is MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The soon-to-be-divorced OPERA less. However, it’s only playing in theatres WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS spoiled when nutbar Harry () WHO’S IN IT? , Norah Jones Will Hayes (Reynolds) recounts the history Enjoy productions direct from New York’s for a single week so don’t dawdle. WHO’S IN IT? Martin Lawrence, shows up wanting to kill them both. WHO DIRECTED? Kar Wai Wong (2046) of his love life to his 11-year-old daughter renowned Metropolitan Opera. Check Cedric the Entertainer WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Singer Jones makes (Breslin), who is curious to know the www.cineplex.com for a list of theatres THE EYE WHO DIRECTED? Malcolm D. Lee FOOL’S GOLD her big-screen debut in this moody and identity of her biological mother, a secret where you can watch live and encore WHO’S IN IT? , Alessandro Nivola (Roll Bounce) WHO’S IN IT? Matthew McConaughey, romantic study of a woman (Jones) who Will won’t divulge. performances, and to buy tickets. WHO DIRECTED? David Moreau, WHAT’S IT ABOUT? R.J. Stevens (Lawrence) Kate Hudson travels across America and encounters Xavier Palud is an L.A. talk-show host who conveniently WHO DIRECTED? Andy Tennant (Hitch) an array of fascinating characters. FEBRUARY 17 MACBETH (VERDI) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This remake of the forgot all about his country roots when he WHAT’S IT ABOUT? What could rekindle an Encore performance: Saturday, Hong Kong horror flick Jian gui casts Alba made it big in showbiz. He reluctantly estranged couple’s passion? Why sunken FEBRUARY 14 WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW February 9, 1:30 p.m. EST as a blind woman who regains her sight agrees to return home to Georgia to attend treasure, of course. McConaughey plays a NO WAY OUT when she receives an eye transplant. his parents' 50th wedding anniversary, and beach bum/treasure hunter who convinces STEP UP 2 TO THE STREETS The WWE heads to Las Vegas for its annual MANON LESCAUT (PUCCINI) However, her new eyes seem to be playing you just know his down-home family is his ex-wife (Hudson) to help him search for WHO’S IN IT? Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan February bust-up. Check www.cineplex.com Live performance: Saturday, tricks on her when she glimpses going to show uppity R.J. some special the fabled Queen’s Dowry — 40 chests of WHO DIRECTED? Jon M. Chu (debut) for a list of theatres where you can watch it February 16, 1 p.m. EST supernatural beings and strange events. southern hospitality. 18th-century Spanish gold and jewels. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? 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OSCARS2008 LOVE OR HATE HIM HIMSome people were shocked when The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart was announced as this year’s Oscar host. Others not at all. Which comes as no surprise since his stint hosting the 2006 Oscars received the same bipolar reception. Time magazine’s James Poniewozik put it best when he wrote on his blog, “Stewart, it turned out, was not a very good Oscar host. But he was a great anti-host.” In other words, if you like watching the awards, but only ironically, Stewart’s not-letting-them-get-away-with-anything style was an enjoyable salve. We loved it, but judge for yourself. We take you back to the year of Brokeback Mountain, Cinderella Man and Crash, for a list of Stewart’s 10 best jokes. Oh, and for good measure, we threw in a couple of the self-deprecating comedian’s evaluations of his own performance. —Marni Weisz

JON STEWART’S TOP-10 OSCAR JOKES

“If there’s anyone out there people are virile cowboys. literally out of film clips! If you nominee. Two of the nominations 10 involved in illegal movie Some are actually effete have film clips, send them, for Good Night, and Good Luck., piracy, don’t do it. Take a good New York intellectuals.” please. We have another three which is not just Edward R. look at these people. These are hours, I don’t care if they’re on Murrow’s sign-off, it’s also how the people you’re stealing from. “A lot of people say this town Beta, just send them.” Mr. Clooney ends all his dates.” Look at them! Face what you’ve 7is too liberal. Out of touch done! There are women here who with mainstream America. After a self-congratulatory Upon returning to The Daily could barely afford enough gown An atheistic pleasure dome. 5montage about the tough 2Show, Stewart’s reaction to to cover their breasts.” A modern-day beachfront Sodom issues tackled by Hollywood the conflicting reviews he and Gomorrah. A moral black movies: “And none of those issues received: “I sucked, and was “I have to say congratulations hole. Where innocence is were ever a problem again.” great! I was a painfully smug and 9to The Chronicles of Narnia obliterated in an endless orgy of unfunny heir to Johnny Carson.” [winner for Best Makeup]. I’m a sexual gratification and greed. I “The theme of the award little surprised Cinderella Man don’t really have a joke here. I 4show tonight is a return to In a statement released by didn’t win that category. I just just thought you should know a lot glamour. And thank goodness, 1the Academy of Motion think, you know, imagine the of people are saying that.” because for too long Hollywood Picture Arts and Sciences, difficulty in making has done without.” after he was announced as this look like he got into a fight.” On the unending procession year’s host: “I’m thrilled to be 6of movie montages: “I can’t “There are a lot of really big asked to host the Academy “Capote was a groundbreaking wait until later, when we see 3stars here tonight. It’s really Awards for the second time 8film that broke taboos, that Oscar’s salute to montages! Holy exciting. We’ve got the man, because, as they say, the third showed America not all gay crap, we are out of clips! We are Mr. George Clooney, triple time’s a charm.” JON STEWART PHOTO BY AFP-GETTY. OSCAR IMAGE ©A.M.P.A.S.® PHOTO BY AFP-GETTY. JON STEWART

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OSCARS2008 the OSCARS ON FILM Sound Choice for the 2008 When someone refers to an Oscar movie, they’re usually talking about a film that won an Grammy Awards Academy Award. But there are also movies where the Oscars provide a major plot point. Here are five films that wouldn’t be the same without Oscar I BY MARNI WEISZ Rap and R&B

From braggadocious street poetry to soul-stirring balladry to party-starting floor-fillers and all points in between, this year's hip-hop and R&B nominees have all the angles covered.

Rihanna A Star Is Born For Your Naked Gun 33 1/3: Suite In & Out Good Girl Gone Bad (1954) Consideration The Final Insult (1978) (1997) (2006) (1994) The Bajan born pop princess has delivered her best album yet How Oscar Figures In: How Oscar Figures In: How Oscar Figures In: with Good Girl Gone Bad, stacked full of pop hits infused with R&B, reggae and her signature dancehall sound. Includes the Judy Garland plays How Oscar Figures In: How Oscar Figures In: Based on the Neil Simon When actor Cameron Drake hits "Umbrella," and the new smash “Hate That I Love You” Esther Blodgett, an On the set of a terrible Seven years before 9/11 play, the movie () wins an featuring Ne-Yo! up-and-coming singer who indie drama about a necessitated a dramatic intertwines the stories of Oscar for playing a gay gets involved with fading, Jewish family celebrating increase in security at four sets of people staying soldier he thanks his 6 Nominations! Of the Year and Record Of the Year - "Umbrella" with Jay-Z, Best Rap/Sung alcoholic actor Norman Purim, a ridiculous the Oscars, this third at the same high school teacher Collaboration, Best Dance Recording - "Please Don't Stop The Music", Best R&B Vocal Performance Maine (). rumour starts about Naked Gun movie hotel. One of those sets is Howard Brackett (Kevin By A Duo or A Group and Best R&B Song - "Hate That I Love You" with Ne-Yo With Maine’s help, she Oscar buzz surrounding has Lt. Frank Drebin British actor Diana Barrie Kline) for being his changes her name to fading star Marilyn Hack’s (Leslie Nielsen) trying to (Maggie Smith) and her inspiration in playing a Alicia Keys Vicki Lester and finds (Catherine O’Hara) stop a group of terrorists husband Sidney Cochran gay character. Problem is, As I Am success in motion pictures. performance. from detonating a bomb (), who Brackett’s not out of the As Lester’s star rises, Trivia: The story was at the Academy Awards. have come to L.A. closet, he’s not even sure Promising a fresh and new direction for her third studio outing, Alicia Maine’s plummets and inspired by a movie Trivia: The film co-stars because she’s been he is gay. After all, he’s Keys delivers with the spectacular pop-soul crossover ofAs I Am. In his jealousy comes to a that writer and director two actors who later nominated for an Oscar. engaged to a woman. addition to hit singles “No One” and “Superwoman,” Linda peak during the Academy Christopher Guest worked became infamous for other Trivia: Smith and Caine’s Trivia: Inspired by Perry lends a hand to “The Thing About Love,” and guitarist John Awards just after she’s on early in his career. things — O.J. Simpson scenes outside the Tom Hanks’ acceptance Mayer makes an appearance on “Lesson Learned.” won Best Actress. Drunk, Just a few days into and Anna Nicole Smith. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion speech for Philadelphia he dramatically interrupts shooting, someone told Both won Razzie Awards were filmed before the in which he thanked a gay 2 Nominations! Best Female R&B Vocal Performance – “No One" and Best R&B song - “No One” the ceremony to beg for a the cinematographer to for their performances, 50th Academy Awards. teacher. Although the From one of HipHop's most influential artists comes Graduation, Kanye West's third instalment in the groundbreaking series that job, accidentally slapping prepare for an Oscar Simpson for Worst Richard Burton, who was teacher was openly gay, started with College Dropout and Late Registration. Once again, Lester in the face. nomination. Supporting Actor and nominated that year, can many in his life had Kanye challenges boundaries and raises the bar with his inventive Trivia: While in the movie Oscar Worthy? No Smith for Worst New Star. be seen in one shot. no idea about his sexual style, as seen on the single “Stronger”. Graduation features special Mary J. Blige it’s James Mason’s Academy Awards, no Oscar Worthy? Um, no. Oscar Worthy? orientation. guests Mos Def, T-Pain, Daft Punk and Coldplay's Chris Martin. Growing Pains character dealing with nominations. And those Maggie Smith won for Oscar Worthy? Includes the new single “Good Life”. substance abuse, it was who honestly suggested Best Supporting Actress. Joan Cusack received a Grammy Award® winning singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige's 8th Garland who died of a that O’Hara might be The film was also Best Supporting Actress 8 Nominations! Album of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo studio album Growing Pains features production by Timbaland and drug overdose 15 years nominated should feel a nominated for Art/Set nomination for her Performance - “Stronger”, Best Rap Song - “Can’t Tell Me Nothin’”, “Tricky” Stewart who produced the first single “Just Fine”. The later. Mason (with whom bit self-conscious. Decoration and Adapted performance as Best Rap Song - “Good Life”, Best Rap Collaboration - “Good Life”, “Queen Of Hip Hop Soul” has firmly established herself as an icon as Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - “Better Than I’ve Ever well as one of the best selling recording artists of our time. she’d had an affair) Screenplay. Brackett’s fiancée. Been” with Nas (released as a charity single), Rakim and KRS-One delivered her eulogy. and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - “Southside” with 2 Nominations! Best Female R&B Vocal Performance - "Just Fine" and Best R&B Performance By A Oscar Worthy? It didn’t Common (from Common’s album Finding Forever) Duo Or Group With Vocals - "Disrespectful" (from Chaka Khan’s album Funk This) win any, but was nominated for six — Best Actor (Mason), Best Actress (Garland), Art/Set Decoration, Costume Design, Original Song and Score give OSCAR IMAGE ©A.M.P.A.S.® the HMV GRAMMY Awards and the gramophone logo are registered trademarks of The Recording Academy, gift card and are used under license. © 2007 The Recording Academy. famous 28 | february 2008 OscarWrap_Feb08:OscarAwards_Feb007 1/17/08 12:49 PM Page 30 OscarWrap_Feb08:OscarAwards_Feb007 1/17/08 12:49 PM Page 31

OSCARS2008 The golden National Board of Review �Best Picture: �Best Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd �Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton GLOBES �Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her �Best Supporting Actor: , The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford AWARDSS �Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone Atonement

Boston Society of Film Critics The writers’ strike landed a body �Best Picture: No Country for Old Men blow to the Hollywood Foreign Press �Best Director: , Association’s annual Golden Globes, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly although it didn’t knock the awards WRAPHandicapping the Oscars is a whole lot easier �Best Actor: Frank Langella, show off the air entirely. Reduced Starting Out in the Evening from a three-hour, celebrity-filled when you know which films, actors and directors glitzy dinner and prize giveaway to a �Best Actress: , the critics think are the best of the best. Here’s a half-hour televised news conference, La Vie en rose the GGs were a muted affair. However, handy summary of Oscar-worthy candidates, as �Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, that doesn’t change the fact they chosen by critics from across North America. No Country for Old Men kick-start the awards season, and �Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, people pay very close attention to the Gone Baby Gone Golden Globes when it comes time to Toronto Film Critics Association picking Oscar winners. (Best Picture: No Country for Old Men Film Critics Circle (Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, �Best Picture: The Assassination of Jesse James HERE ARE THIS YEAR’S WINNERS. � No Country for Old Men by the Coward Robert Ford Best Picture (Drama): Atonement (Best Actor: , �Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, �Best Picture (Comedy or Musical): Eastern Promises No Country for Old Men Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber (Best Actress: (tie) Julie Christie, �Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton of Fleet Street Away from Her and Ellen Page, Juno �Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her �Best Director: (Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, �Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell No Country for Old Men The Assassination of Jesse James by the and the Butterfly (Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Coward Robert Ford �Best Actor (Drama): I’m Not There �Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood Gone Baby Gone �Best Actor (Comedy or Musical): New York Film Critics Circle , Sweeney Todd: (Best Picture: No Country for Old Men Chicago Film Critics Association The Demon Barber of Fleet Street �Best Actress (Drama): (Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, �Best Picture: No Country for Old Men Julie Christie, Away from Her No Country for Old Men �Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, �Best Actress (Comedy or Musical): ( Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, No Country for Old Men Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose There Will Be Blood �Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, �Best Supporting Actor: (Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her There Will Be Blood Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, �Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno � Best Supporting Actress: No Country for Old Men �Best Supporting Actor: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There (Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men Gone Baby Gone �Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There National Society of Film Critics Los Angeles Film Critics Association �Best Picture: There Will Be Blood (Best Picture: There Will Be Blood Washington Film Critics Association �Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, (Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, �Best Picture: No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood �Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, �Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, (Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood There Will Be Blood �Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton �Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her (Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose �Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her �Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, (Best Supporting Actor: Vlad Ivanov, �Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, The Assassination of Jesse James by the No Country for Old Men’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days No Country for Old Men Coward Robert Ford Javier Bardem (Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, �Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, �Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett,

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BEST ANIMATED THE I Met the Walrus Madame Tutli-Putli Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons go to Heaven) My Love (Moya Lyubov) NOMINEES Peter & the Wolf Having an Oscar pool with your friends or co-workers? Here’s a handy ballot to clip out, photocopy and ARE BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM pass around. The Academy Awards are scheduled for Sunday, At Night February 24th, at 8 p.m. ET. The show is expected to be broadcast live on ABC. Tanghi Argentini Il Supplente (The Substitute) Le Mozart des Pickpockets BEST PICTURE ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (The Mozart of Pickpockets) Atonement Julian Schnabel, No End in Sight The Tonto Woman Juno The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Operation Homecoming: Writing Michael Clayton Jason Reitman, Juno the Wartime Experience ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING No Country for Old Men Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton Sicko The Bourne Ultimatum There Will be Blood Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Taxi to the Dark Side No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men War/Dance Ratatouille BEST ACTOR Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will be Blood George Clooney, There Will be Blood BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Transformers Michael Clayton Freeheld Daniel Day-Lewis, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE La Corona (The Crown) ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING There Will be Blood Persepolis Salim Baba The Bourne Ultimatum Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: Ratatouille Sari’s Mother No Country for Old Men The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Surf’s Up Ratatouille , ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING 3:10 to Yuma In the Valley of Elah ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP The Bourne Ultimatum Transformers Viggo Mortensen, La Vie en rose The Diving Bell and Eastern Promises Norbit the Butterfly ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS Pirates of the Caribbean: Into the Wild The Golden Compass BEST ACTRESS At World’s End No Country for Old Men Pirates of the Caribbean: Cate Blanchett, There Will be Blood At World’s End Elizabeth: The Golden Age ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION Transformers Julie Christie, Away from Her American Gangster BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose Atonement Beaufort, Israel BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY , The Savages The Golden Compass The Counterfeiters, Austria Atonement, Ellen Page, Juno Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Katyn, Poland Christopher Hampton of Fleet Street 12, Russia Away from Her, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR There Will be Blood Mongol, Kazakhstan Sarah Polley Casey Affleck, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Assassination of Jesse James ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Ronald Harwood by the Coward Robert Ford The Assassination of Jesse James Atonement No Country for Old Men, Javier Bardem, by the Coward Robert Ford The Kite Runner Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men Atonement Michael Clayton There Will be Blood, , The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Ratatouille Paul Thomas Anderson Charlie Wilson’s War No Country for Old Men 3:10 to Yuma Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild There Will be Blood BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton BEST ORIGINAL SONG Juno, Diablo Cody ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN “,” Once Lars and the Real Girl, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Across the Universe “Happy Working Song,” Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There Atonement Michael Clayton, Ruby Dee, American Gangster Elizabeth: The Golden Age “Raise it Up,” Tony Gilroy Saorise Ronan, Atonement La Vie en rose “So Close,” Enchanted Ratatouille, Brad Bird Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber “That’s How You Know,” The Savages, Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton of Fleet Street Enchanted Tamara Jenkins OSCAR IMAGE ©A.M.P.A.S.®

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interview | SAMUEL L. JACKSON When in Rome… DON’T TOUCH tell, or something that I saw growing up that made me excited and all of a sudden I can do it! Y’know, I don’t have to go home and describe it for my friends. I’m actually in something where people teleport — and I get to chase ’em, yeah! I can’t do it, but I can chase ’em. And when I catch ’em, ANYTHING I get to beat ’em up!”

Jumper has a bigger budget than most of the movies you’ve been making. Do you try to do a certain number of those to subsidize your artier or more outlandish efforts like Black Snake Moan? “There’s no plan for a big studio movie right here and an independent movie there, because movies are ready to go when they’re ready to go. Like, Jumper is a big studio sci-fi movie, the one I did before it, Resurrecting the Champ, was a small indie I made in Calgary. You just never know.”

You work so much, we’ve gotta ask: Do you ever turn anything down? “I turn down movies all the time. I can’t do everything! But I do the things that are meant for me to do and the things that appeal to me in a specific kind of way. And y’know, there are actually movies that I want to do that I don’t do. That happens, can’t get everything. But I’m really happy with the things that I do, and that I’m able to make choices and continue to work, because I enjoy it.”

So what’s your criteria for the movies you do pick? “I know what I want to see if I’m an audience member. So when I look at a script I always say, ‘Would I pay my money to see this?’ And then I say, ‘Would I pay money to see this with me in it?’ And if the Jumper stars Toronto’s own Hayden Christensen (above) as IN David, a young man from an abusive household whose genetic answer is yes, then I do it.” HOT abnormality allows him to teleport around the world in the Next logical question: Are you ever not working? “There are times blink of an eye. when my agents and managers tell me that I need a break and For the film’s cast and crew, that meant shooting in a slew they enforce it by not letting me go to work or making sure that of exotic locales, from Egypt and the Far East to Mexico City. my next job is, like, three months away. But I like to kind of “We got to travel all over the world. Rome, Tokyo, Mexico…it know what I’m doing three pictures down the line. I guess I get was a lot of fun,” says Christensen in a recent New York PURSUIT bored. I golf every day when I’m not working, but I miss being interview. Having grown up in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Samuel L. Jackson hunts down his old foe Hayden Christensen in Jumper I BY BOB STRAUSS part of the creative process.” the actor best known for playing the young Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies still lives in Toronto part-time. amuel L. Jackson appeared in four movies last year and You carry a painful-looking harpoon-type thing in Jumper. Safe to say Unlike a lot of stars — and, more particularly, a lot of African- But the most amazing location of all may have been Rome’s will probably clock at least the same number in 2008. First you’re playing another mean badass? “It’s a film about kids who American stars — you don’t seem to be very cause conscious. “I’ve famed Colosseum. Amazing because Rome’s mayor — and Sup is Jumper, a sci-fi thriller by the eclectic and always can teleport. I play a government agent that’s sort of chasing always spoken my mind. I talk about my life and I talk about who film buff — Walter Veltroni gave Jumper’s crew access to the interesting director Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne them and killing them. He kind of hates kids who can do that I am honestly and openly — I guess everybody kinda knows that ancient landmark. HBO’s Rome and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator Identity, Swingers), which pits Jackson against his old Star Wars because they leave these interesting rips in the atmosphere I was kinda drug-addicted way back when — and I don’t know were both denied the privilege. co-star Hayden Christensen. when they do it. That annoys him.” if it’s gonna help people or not. A lot of times people say, you’ve The crew for Jumper did have some serious ground rules for Then there’s the comic book adaptation Iron Man, the racial overcome this and you’ve overcome that, you should go out and shooting inside the 1st-century structure. They had to keep all drama Lakeview Terrace, the murder mystery Cleaner… You’re considered a first-class actor, but you’re drawn to a lot of genre talk to kids. I just don’t feel like I need to do that. I can say what equipment off the ground. Filming was limited to three days, Somehow, no matter how overexposed he may seem, we stuff like this and 1408. How do you choose between these popcorn happened to me, how I got through it and I’m glad I’m on the and could only be done using natural light. And they could never grow tired of Jackson. Maybe it’s the marvelous array of pics and more serious work, such as Resurrecting the Champ and other side of it, but y’know, that’s all.” only shoot between 6:30 and 8:30 a.m., and then between inventive hairdos (in Jumper, it’s a shocking white cut). Maybe your upcoming Lakeview Terrace? “Sometimes I just want to be in 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. to avoid disturbing the tourists. it’s because we can rely on him to cuss spectacularly most times the kind of movie that’s entertaining and fun and great for Anything you’ve overcome recently that you’d like to share? “Quit The rest of Jumper was filmed in a much more familiar out. Likely, we recognize that he’s a consummate actor whose somebody’s Saturday afternoon escapism. Then there’s the smoking! I actually went to this doctor in New York who uses environment for Christensen, Southern Ontario — Toronto own enjoyment of any movie he’s in — yes, even Snakes on a Plane great story that comes along that you want to tell with the great sodium pentothal. Judge Judy turned me onto him, she used and Peterborough to be precise. — is infectious. character in it, and that’s fun and fine to do too as an actor, to him to quit. I have no idea what he did, I just know I don’t “It was a blast,” says Christensen. “Most of the movie was And if that wasn’t so, he’d probably scare all of us to death. stretch yourself and give yourself a challenge. And that’s all that smoke. Which is kinda cool.” filmed in Toronto, where I’m from, so I was around the corner Jackson was in L.A. when we spoke about his latest movie and I’m really trying to do. from my friends and family.” —Ken Linton his busy schedule. “It’s always something that moves me, or a story I want to Bob Strauss is an L.A.-based writer.

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David Morrissey with Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl Inset: Sister Act. Portman and Scarlett Johansson get close

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it has sold a million-plus copies. It is what would call a work of “truthiness” with its gossipy treatment of real figures. (Did Henry VIII sire a male heir by his wife’s sister? Was one of his children a product of incest?) At the very least, it is movie-worthy intrigue of the sort that the claustrophobic court of the Tudors would have produced. “Henry had his affair with Anne’s sister — who was married and those politics are kind of what the film is about. — before Anne was even on the scene, and there was a rumour “What she finally realizes is that once she couldn’t give Henry she bore him a son,” Morrissey says. “And, of course, Henry a male heir, she didn’t have a leg to stand on and suddenly all was married [at the time] to Catherine of Aragon and was her friends start disappearing into the wallpaper…. My part of the . Then all of a sudden he meets character actually sets her up to be Queen, and once she Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson star as two sisters who share King Henry VIII’s bed in Anne Boleyn, he starts thinking with his d--k and the rules are becomes Queen she says, ‘I’m sorry, I do this now, not you.’ The Other Boleyn Girl. But it’s British actor David Morrissey, as the girls’ scheming uncle, who out the window.” And when she gets into crisis, I just step back.” FAMILYY In the movie, Anne is a schemer who uses the occasion of With Morgan’s imprimatur and, as Morrissey puts it, “a great plays matchmaker I BY JIM SLOTEK her sister’s pregnancy to make her own move on the monarch. cast to work with,” The Other Boleyn Girl is a bona fide prestige Norfolk is in a position to see it all happen, being related to picture — which, for the actor, makes quite the contrast from he Other Boleyn Girl is more than the tale of Henry had a codpiece that was much bigger than mine. You could seemingly everybody. “The Duke of Norfolk was Anne Boleyn two years ago. At that time, the film he’d hoped would vault him VIII’s doomed wife Anne with an extra Boleyn, her hang your coat off it!” and Mary Boleyn’s uncle. He was also Catherine Howard’s into the ranks of Hollywood leading man — Basic Instinct 2 T sister Mary, thrown in. It’s got adultery, incest, same- Scripted by Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) uncle and she lost her head as well,” Morrissey says, adding with with Sharon Stone — was greeted with a fistful of “Worst” sex affairs and impotence that decides the fate of nations. and based on the best-selling book of the same name by a chuckle, “He gave great Christmas presents, but you know nominations from the Oscars’ evil twin, the Razzies. “It’s the political story we all know and love with a lot of Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl stars Natalie Portman what? There was a downside.” He’s philosophical about that experience. sex in it, brilliantly told,” says David Morrissey, who plays the as Henry VIII’s second wife Anne — the one for whom he Morrissey sees his character as an operator, describing him as “You don’t work any less hard [on movies that bomb],” he Duke of Norfolk, the Tudor court powerbroker he describes started his own church — and Scarlett Johansson as Mary, the the power behind the throne. “Sort of Henry VIII’s Cheney in says. “Part of being an actor is you stand up there and say, ‘This as Henry’s Dick Cheney. “forgotten” sister who was the mistress of two monarchs (Henry the way everyone went to him to get to the King,” he says. is me, what do you think?’ You can’t get too upset when people None of the sex involves Norfolk though, “which really pissed and the King of France). “Anne Boleyn was not only devastatingly attractive, but she say, ‘You know what I think? I think it’s rubbish.’” me off,” Liverpool native Morrissey quips in a recent L.A. Awash in , Gregory’s book — complete with a was an operator, a political mind,” Morrissey continues. “She

interview. “And y’know what? Eric Bana [who plays King Henry] chapter of academic sources — has dismayed historians even as PHOTO BY MARIO ANZUONI/CORBIS was a force to be reckoned with as far as Norfolk was concerned, Jim Slotek writes about movies for the Toronto Sun.

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ZEGERSI BY NATALIA WYSOCKA hances are you first saw Woodstock, Like Transamerica, Normal is about reaction to somebody touching you, it’s Ontario’s Kevin Zegers travelling difficult family relationships. Is that a sort of minor but I think audiences Cacross the States as the estranged subject that appeals to you? notice that we have these reactions.” son of a transsexual () "I think I play, sort of, somebody who has in 2005’s indie hit Transamerica. something going on in their head for a Where do you get your inspiration? This month the 23-year-old plays Jordie while. I do that well. There’s something “I go sit in the park and just watch in director Carl Bessai’s Normal. The film tragic about me, that’s what Carl said people, and then I can use little bits from takes place two years after Jordie was when he hired me. my friends, from things they do. It just behind the wheel of a stolen car when it “And I don’t know what it is, I feel like works for me.” crashed, killing his best friend Nicky. I’ve had a pretty good life, but I feel like Jordie, Nicky’s mom (Carrie-Anne Moss) I’m able to do a lot without saying a lot, People have been calling you the and a professor involved in the accident don’t have to say a bunch of dialogue to new . How do you (Callum Keith Rennie) are still trying to get the story across. And pain, and all that feel about that? come to terms with what happened. stuff, is so much easier to play just with “Everyone keeps saying all this stuff! It’s Zegers was at last September’s Toronto your eyes and your face.” great if people are talking about me, it’s International Film Festival when he good for me, they must see something. I answered these five questions. So your acting process is more don’t know exactly what it is, obviously. emotional than physical? I’m bringing something to their table Did you start to get good scripts “Yes. I don’t go over the lines a hundred that they like, they enjoy watching. I’m instantly after Transamerica? times to get it perfect. But the tone of just gonna try not to mess it up, I’m “It happened pretty quick, I was surprised your voice, the way you move your body, gonna keep working hard.” — as soon as people feel like they don’t all these things, you can drastically need to challenge you to act, they just change somebody. Even if it’s just a little Natalia Wysocka is the deputy editor

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famous 38 | february 2008 WillFerrell_Feb08:Interview_xx 1/17/0812:00PMPage40 SPORT Ferrell explains. “Anotherreasonwhysports movies outlandish characters andcrazy, small-market teams,” league totheNBA inthe’70sthathadallof these bigger, better-established organization. to makehismisfit-mannedTropics attractivetothe the lesserleague’s teams.Sohehastofigureouthow when wordcomesthattheNBA willabsorbsomeof than heprobablyshould,and whoisoverthemoon more confidenceinhisabilities—andappeal atL.A.’sinterviews FourSeasonsHotel. explains thefrizzed-outafroonFerrell’s headduring short-lived AmericanBasketballAssociation,which they’re aminor(andfictional)teamfromthe1970s’ Tropics. Neverheardofthem?That’s because coach-player-sweaty-sex-symbol oftheFlint,Michigan, sports, together.” ful togetinfusemytwogreatloves,comedyand fan. Ilovesports,soit’s beenreallykindofwonder- kind oflinedupthatway. Andyet,I’mahugesports comedy starsworkingtoday. “It’s funnyhowitjust helped turnhimintooneofthemostsuccessful timingthat’s again,” Ferrellcracks,withtheperfect says it’s akindofbest-of-both-worldssituation. Saturday NightLive Ferrell’s fourthathletespoofinasmanyyears. Glory Ricky Bobby the NASCARcomedyTalladega Nights:TheBalladof out ofwhatcouldbecalledsportsdis W cover “The ABA was kind of a stepchild/sister basketball ofastepchild/sister “The ABAwaskind Moon isatypicalFerrelldoofus,guywhohas In “I won’t beallowedtomakeasportsmovieever The 40-year-old actor, whospentmanyaseasonon Following thesoccercomedy ’70s basketballplayerwithabig’fro.Funny, yes.Buttheamiableactorswears Semi-Pro, FerrellplaysJackieMoon,owner- comes Recently, he’s madeabigpartof his career California. from theUniversityofSouthern ill Ferrellhasadegreeinsportsinformation and thefigureskatingcomedy | Semi-Pro, abasketballcomedyand story playing awannabecheerleader, Will Ferrell’s fourthsportsmovieinfouryearshashimplaying a this willbe hislastmovieaboutathletesforawhile | WILL FERRELL Kicking &Screaming information. famous Blades of 40 , | often ridiculous—sport. absurdities ofsuchadifficult—thoughadmittedly, example, theactorfeltguiltyderiding for , Glory ihsm ftebs c with someofthebest bittersweet toatrueathleticsupporter. After training obviously, pokefunatthegame.” make funofrealsportsmoviesatthesametimeand, add thatyou’regoingtobefunnyaboutit,youcan you when then in.And great worldtocreateastory losing andfriendshipthingslikethat.Soit’s a kind oftacklesallthosebigissueswinningand are greatisbecausethere’s alreadyabuilt-inarc.It february 2008 Sometimes, though, that kind of comedy can feel Sometimes, though,thatkindofcomedycan GOOD ompetitive skatersfor I BY BOBSTRAUSS Blades of

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range of behaviours and fresh humour within that deceptively narrow definition. Although it may look like it on the surface, Ferrell claims that he doesn’t pander to any kind of core audience. “I’m very thankful that I’ve had some success and I have some fans,” he says. “But in a weird way, I’m never trying to please them. I’m just trying to do what I think is funny. Because if you start making decisions based on demographics, you’re 1 just going to have these homogenized things that don’t really work for anyone.” One area where Ferrell is thinking out- side of the box is on the outrageous Funny or Die website (funnyordie.com), where he’s appeared in subversive (and popular) video vignettes involving drunk baby land- lords and violent environmental zealots. He’s also not shy about making cameo appearances in movies starring other comedians (, Starsky & Hutch, The Wendell Baker Story), thereby cementing his status as a member of the Frat Pack, that loose conglomeration of the era’s hottest comic actors which includes , Vince Vaughn, 2 and Jack Black. But what about breaking out of the funny end of the business? Ferrell sort of tried it a few years back with Winter Passing and Stranger than Fiction, which earned him solid critical acclaim but fewer paying 4 customers than his laugh riots usually do. “Well, I’m actually not going back to drama or comedy. I’m going into Mexican soap opera. That’s my next move,” Ferrell cracks. “I mean, comedy will be the thing that I probably ultimately and predominantly do. In fact, I’m really not getting sent any more dramatic scripts since Stranger than 3 1 Ferrell went with the double

M M Ferrell felt much more at home on to be pretty even-keeled for someone in around in my underwear somewhere.” Fiction. To tell the truth, I haven’t been hardwood than he did in rinks. the crazy-making world of showbiz. Some After college, Ferrell joined the L.A. getting sent any. I still mostly just get blue tiger stripes as coach of a “It’s a lot more comfortable than ice credit for that goes to the example set by improv troupe The Groundlings, and like comedies, and I never want to force that SUITING UP Little League soccer team in skating,” Ferrell admits. “I played a lot of his father, Lee, who played saxophone and many of its members eventually graduat- issue. I’d like to continue to do some of Kicking & Screaming. basketball in high school, and on and keyboards for The Righteous Brothers ed to an SNL spot. Not considered much that stuff, but we’ll just see what happens.” off since.” but raised his children under conven- special when he started on the show in As for sports comedies, even their Each of Will Ferrell’s 2 Check out the fire-retardant These days, when he’s not training to tional suburban circumstances. 1995, he’d become its highest paid and biggest fan seems to understand when jumpsuit — complete with trash a chosen sport, the Orange County, Ferrell was funny growing up, but didn’t most versatile Not Ready for Primetime enough is enough. sports films requires Wonder Bread logo — in California, native mostly keeps in semi- think seriously about pursuing comedy Player by the time he left seven years later. “Is there any sport that I’m not going Talladega Nights: The Ballad shape by jogging. (Ferrell and his Swedish until after college. Ferrell didn’t exactly follow the Eddie to make a comedy out of,” Ferrell asks the flamboyant of Ricky Bobby. wife, Viveca, have run in the New York “I was pretty comfortable making an Murphy trajectory from SNL to instant rhetorically. “I knew that would be a and Boston Marathons). Then there are ass of myself from the get-go,” he admits. movie success, either, struggling in such question. It’s kind of a shame that I’ve actor to don 3 had Ferrell two young sons that keep him on his toes. “But I’m kind of atypical, in that I was underwhelming films as A Night at the made so many. It will be now written burning up the ice in this flaming “I’m trying to work at home a lot,” says never the class clown kind of guy who Roxbury, Superstar and Boat Trip before that there’s a Will Ferrell sports movie the appropriate spandex and sequins number. Ferrell, meaning L.A. “Semi-Pro was shot needed the attention. At the same time, hitting it big as the over-age frat boy in anthology in the works. But no, there athletic apparel. up near Dodger Stadium, which is 15 min- if someone dared me to do something 2003’s Old School. aren’t any more on the horizon.” 4 Ferrell’s short-shorts, tube socks utes from my house. So we’re managing outlandish, I was like, ‘Well, what’s the Ferrell’s hits since then, from Elf and Here’s a look at his and old-school Adidas sneakers to keep everything somewhat balanced.” big deal? Yeah, I can do that.’ And the Anchorman on, have required him to act Bob Strauss is an L.A.-based scream 1976, the year in which Wacky as he often acts, Ferrell appears next thing you know, I’d be running similarly stupid. Yet he’s found quite a entertainment writer. outlandish outfits the basketball flick Semi-Pro is set. famous 42 | february 2008 Style_Feb08:Things 1/18/08 12:02 PM Page 44 Style_Feb08:Things 1/18/08 12:05 PM Page 45

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loved myself in the beginning, I just loved that unbridled, unrestrained...I was just so not afraid of anything back then. I just thought, ‘You are the same person, so, just do it.’ “watershed is about looking at myself, looking at my fears, looking at how I am stagnant because of my habitual patterns, and how I should go around an obstacle like water flowing around an object.” Some of the were recorded in one take, and when you hear the elegiac “shadow and the frame” it’s hard to believe it’s the first time lang ever sang the song out loud. “It was done in my living room and there was a lot of noise, you could hear me moving papers, and I tried singing it again — and I won’t say I’ll never sing it k.d. lang’s I BY INGRID RANDOJA that good again — but there was something about the first time you had to walk away from and not touch.” WATERSHED MOMENT lang has always strived to k.d. lang has been waiting for my Amelia Earhart moment, but was completely emancipating take the theatrics out of her this moment for 25 years — no, that didn’t turn out so good,” because it shifted what was performances and simply let her not the chance to speak with lang says with a laugh during important to me and what felt voice carry a song. So is she Famous magazine, but to talk a recent interview in Toronto. natural and what felt good.” dispirited at the American Idol- about an album she produced. “In the back of my mind it The 11 songs on watershed inspired trilling and emoting that The 46-year-old Alberta native was there. It’s something I are unadorned musings that plagues many of today’s singers? with the pitch-perfect voice has always wanted to do, but it was lang admits are autobiographical “You know, that singing is released 13 albums, won eight something I was afraid to do. nuggets about love, loss and basically a characterization of Junos and four Grammys, but I was writing a lot, and the finding pleasure in life’s quieter something that is real. But I has never produced any of her bar had been set incredibly, moments. And it’s a record don’t despair because there are albums entirely on her own, dauntingly high with hymns of about facing her fears. so many great singers. I think that is until watershed the 49th parallel,” she says of “reintarnation [lang’s 2006 Christina Aguilera is a really good (available February 5th). her critically acclaimed 2004 compilation CD featuring her singer, I think Amy Winehouse “I had been producing for 25 CD of songs by Canadian singer- best country songs] gave me a is a fantastic singer, I do. I’m years, but just never solo...it’s . “But in a way that lot of confidence, ’cause I really just different.” KEEPING IT SIMPLE Montreal’s Simple Plan made pop-punk noise back in 2002 with its debut release No Pads, No Helmet...Just Balls, and while critics may have shrugged their shoulders, fans went wild for the band’s hardcore, teen-angst rock, as evidenced by the fact the group has sold more than six million records worldwide. With the release of their self-titled third CD, Simple Plan (available February 12th), the band stretches its wings, but not enough to fly the rock-anthem coop. Simple Plan is still writing songs about young love (“I Can Wait Forever”) and young love on the run (“Take My Hand”), but they surprise with neat little touches — an Oasis-like vibe in “Love is a Lie” and the use of a luscious string section in the pedal-to-the-metal “What If.”

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GONE BABY GONE releasess FEBRUARY 12 GO HOME WITH THE BRAVE ONE, AMERICAN GANGSTER OR THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB I BY MARNI WEISZ Well, he showed them. Gone Baby Gone director new has already been FEBRUARY 5 FEBRUARY 12 FEBRUARY 19 tapped as 2007’s most promising new director by ACROSS THE BECOMING JANE IN THE VALLEY the National Board of Review, UNIVERSE STARS: Anne Hathaway, OF ELAH Chicago Film Critics and STARS: Evan Rachel Wood, James McAvoy STARS: Tommy Lee Jones, Boston Film Critics. Jim Sturgess DIRECTOR: Julian Jarrold DIRECTOR: Paul Haggis (Crash) Ben can thank his little DIRECTOR: Julie Taymor (Kinky Boots) STORY: When a soldier just back from Iraq brother Casey Affleck for (Frida) STORY: Jane Austen fans disappears from his New Mexico army contributing to those accolades STORY: Taymor fought will have fun trying to spot base, his father, a Vietnam vet (Jones), via his understated performance Casey Affleck as private hard to preserve her vision of this modern the events that influenced her books in this takes it upon himself to investigate. as private investigator investigator Patrick Kenzie Below: (left) musical in which the lead actors sing biography of the early 19th-century writer. Patrick Kenzie, who’s struggling with Ben Affleck Beatles tunes. The story follows British Hathaway plays the title role with McAvoy RENDITION to keep his head above water dockworker Jude (Sturgess) who travels stepping in as her dangerous but devoted STARS: , after being given the toughest to the States to find his dad and falls in suitor Tom Lefroy, whose countenance DIRECTOR: Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) case of his career. love with lovely Lucy (Wood) along the way. bears a striking resemblance to a certain STORY: After her Egyptian-born husband When a four-year-old girl is DVD EXTRAS: two-disc Special Edition DVD Mr. Darcy. DVD EXTRAS: “Discovering the () goes missing on a flight seemingly snatched from her features eight extended musical Real Jane Austen,” pop-up facts and home from South Africa, a heavily pregnant bed in a down-and-out suburb performances, five featurettes, director footnotes, deleted scenes, director woman (Witherspoon) frantically searches of Boston, the girl’s aunt commentary commentary for answers, discovering that the CIA (Amy Madigan) hires Kenzie believes he has terrorist links. and his partner Angie Gennaro THE JANE AUSTEN WE OWN THE NIGHT (Michelle Monaghan) to BOOK CLUB STARS: , AMERICAN GANGSTER coax information out of the STARS: Emily Blunt, STARS: , Russell Crowe neighbourhood’s cop-shy Kathy Baker DIRECTOR: James Gray DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott (A Good Year) toughs. The little girl’s mother DIRECTOR: Robin Swicord (The Yards) STORY: Inspired by an article in New York (Amy Ryan) is a drug runner (debut) STORY: In 1980s New York, Magazine, this bio-pic traces the rise and and an addict with a long list STORY: Five women and a nightclub manager fall of Frank Lucas, an African-American of acquaintances capable one man form a book club to discuss (Phoenix) has to choose between the drug dealer who’s best known for of harming her daughter. Jane Austen’s works and are surprised how drug-dealing gangsters who frequent his smuggling heroin into the States in the Morgan Freeman plays the much the 200-year-old stories reflect their business and his brother and father, both coffins of Vietnam soldiers. Russell plays police detective in charge own complicated love lives. DVD EXTRAS: cops, who want him to help bring the detective Richie Roberts, trying to make of the investigation, while on a Lehane story, director even Eastwood’s can’t match — includes a conversation with seven deleted scenes, commentary track, criminals down. DVD EXTRAS: “Police a case against Lucas. is a cop assigned ’s Mystic River. probably because Affleck is both of the Affleck brothers. “Character Deconstruction,” “The Life of Action: Filming Cops, Cars and Chaos,” to liaise with Kenzie. They’re both tense, grimy, from Boston. Plus, there are the requisite Jane Austen” “A Moment in Crime: Creating Late FEBRUARY 26 The script is based on a twisty crime pics that take In fact, the DVD’s bonus deleted scenes and Ben Affleck ’80s Brooklyn” Dennis Lehane novel, and the place in Boston’s underbelly, material kicks off with “Going teams with screenwriter THE BRAVE ONE THE DARJEELING movie has much in common but Affleck’s pic has an Home: Behind the Scenes with Aaron Stockard to provide STARS: Jodie Foster, NO RESERVATIONS LIMITED with that other movie based intimacy and authenticity that Ben Affleck,” a featurette that an audio commentary. STARS: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart STARS: Owen Wilson, DIRECTOR: Neil Jordan DIRECTOR: Scott Hicks (Hearts in Atlantis) (Breakfast on Pluto) STORY: Kate (Zeta-Jones) is a top chef at a DIRECTOR: THE ASSASSINATION OF wants to be him. Eventually, and inevitably, you go? To deepest, darkest Alaska, of STORY: A radio-show host trendy restaurant. She’s also a () JESSE JAMES BY THE their story rolls toward the fulfillment of course, where for 30 straight days in winter (Foster) turns vigilante perfectionist who likes things done a STORY: After their father COWARD ROBERT FORD the film’s title as Ford seeks to have James- there is absolutely no daylight. Hartnett after being attacked in the park and certain way. Then two things happen to dies, three brothers (Wilson, Brody, STARS: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck type fame the only way he knows how. plays the sheriff of Barrow, Alaska, charged watching as her fiancé is beaten shake up her well-controlled life. Her sister Jason Schwartzman) bond on a train trip DIRECTOR: Andrew Dominik (Chopper) with saving his town from the descending to death by thugs. After learning dies in a car accident and leaves her through India. Along the way they nearly STORY: The newest member of Jesse James’ 30 DAYS OF NIGHT bloodsuckers. George plays his ex-wife, who to use a gun she seeks out dangerous daughter (Abigail Breslin) in Kate’s care, kill each other and have a life-changing (Pitt) band of outlaws is Robert Ford STARS: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George has to help him with the fight. DVD EXTRAS: situations and lets her trigger finger and a rival chef with a completey different experience in a small village. DVD EXTRAS: (Affleck), a young crook who idolizes the DIRECTOR: David Slade (Hard Candy) “The Vampire,” “Building Barrow,” mete out justice. attitude (Eckhart) comes to work for her. featurettes, “Hotel Chevalier” short film legendary hold-up man, perhaps even STORY: If you were a vampire, where would “The Look,” “Night Shoots”

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make up your own mind — not always so simple this month. You feel less alone and BEST ACTRESS GLENN CLOSE FEBRUARY more at ease confiding in others. People who weren’t available are suddenly ready to help. 2008 Leo July 23 � August 22 HOROSCOPE | BY DAN LIEBMAN Your talent as a writer shines and can lead to recognition. As a reader, it’s another matter — check directions before baking Aquarius or assembling anything. You’re on the January 21 � February 19 road to romantic recovery. The speed You tend to fine-tune ideas too much, but limits aren’t posted, and you’ll need to this month you learn — sometimes the be more patient. hard way — when to let go. After the 15th, your calming effect helps settle a family Virgo crisis. Discoveries abound, so check your August 23 � September 22 pockets for everything from lottery tickets Someone who has been aloof is now to old bills. receptive to your feelings. After the 9th, there’s greater harmony in personal and Pisces professional relationships. Being a pack February 20 � March 20 rat has advantages as you produce an Pisces usually needs periods of solitude, object that people are willing to pay or but there won’t be many in February. trade for. With your fresh ideas and charismatic personality, everyone wants you on their Libra team. You’re attracted to people who are September 23 � October 22 quite different from yourself. One of them You and a romantic partner are on different returns the attraction. wavelengths — one is spontaneous, the other methodical — but that’s a good Aries thing. Look for new sources of information March 21 � April 20 about your family tree. And try different Although your ruling planet is Mars, this fitness strategies — anything from salsa month you’re more pussycat than warrior dancing to yoga. — willing to play by the rules and defer to others. Of course, this is part of a strategy to Scorpio win support. Squeeze in time for a workout, October 23 � November 21 no matter how busy you think you are. Be selective this month. It’s one thing to “ killer legal thriller” extend yourself, but another to volunteer Detroit Free Press Taurus for every job offered. Surroundings are April 21 � May 22 serene after the 11th, when an unwelcome It’s a month of negotiations with crotchety guest leaves. Think twice before playing people. If you don’t let yourself get hooky. You could miss out on a very good cornered, you’ll wind up with what you opportunity. want. Watch out for a late-month stingy streak and pick up the occasional cheque. Sagittarius November 22 � December 22 Gemini There’s greater harmony at work after the May 23 � June 21 11th when an instigator steps out of the You’re a wizard at bringing together picture. If given the choice, you’d rather interesting people. Meetings or parties have knowledge over possessions, but this F that you arrange are sure to become the month is an exception. You’re acquiring 1s talk of the town. A family responsibility items, both luxurious and practical. 2n restricts some of the freedom you need, 3r but by month’s end a major obligation 4t Capricorn 5t will be shared. December 23 � January 20 6t You’re intuitive right now — aware of 7t Mondays at 10 ET Cancer changes before they occur and sensitive to 8t PT June 22 � July 22 the moods of a loved one. You also have 9t With so many offers coming up, you feel good instincts about predicting things, like 10 Premieres February 18 like you’re in a multiplex. The key is to the Academy Awards. showcase.ca /damages famous 50 | february 2008

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