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FEATURES DEPARTMENTS APPROVAL Proof Reader Producer Print Studio Honda DF Graham Lee David Crichton INSIDE OSCAR 06 EDITORIAL 46 VIDEO AND DVD 16 The Nominees Trailer Park Boys: The Movie scores DATE 18 Critics’ Picks 08 SNAPS on the small screen Client Studio Art Director Copywriter 20 Your Host Tara Reid swims with the fishes; 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 22 Fashion Redux Woody Allen on the beach 48 HOROSCOPE 24 Memory Test Don’t be too honest with a 25 In Memoriam 10 SHORTS friend, Aquarius Felicity Huffman’s dating book; 26 DOUBLE DUTY really is a work of art 50 FAMOUS LAST WORDS She stars as a quirky wife in Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, SIGNATURE 4677 Honda All Line Q3 All Line Magazine ad Q3 All Line Magazine The Farmer and a terrified 12 SPOTLIGHT Meg Ryan and Zach Braff on the art HON4037_C_REV spouse in The Number 23, which Karine Vanasse explores cybersex of seduction suits the versatile Virginia Madsen just fine I BY EARL DITTMAN 14 THE BIG PICTURE COVER STORY APPROVAL Account Art Director Copywriter Why see a movie? Because I Said So. Reference # Docket # Project Description Ad #

30 HELL BOY 38 THE MUSIC MAN 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Comic book geek Nicolas Cage is 42 STYLE His musical talents are non-existent, 0 COPY DECK #

really, really pumped about finally No Teddy Bears Allowed: turning but that didn’t stop Hugh Grant LIMITED GRIP

getting to play ’s Valentine’s Day into a hip holiday from stepping up to the mic to play 100% supernatural biker I BY EARL DITTMAN a washed-up ’80s pop star in 0 CHANGE # OUTPUT PRINTED AT SPELL CHECK 44 LINER NOTES Music and Lyrics. Here he reveals AT FIRST & FINAL 34 SPACE CASE Steven Page on Barenaked Ladies how the movie got him off his bored gets in touch with Are Men behind and back in front of the his inner Jimmy Stewart to play camera I BY EARL DITTMAN The Astronaut Farmer’s determined 45 NAME OF THE GAME COVER: OSCAR IMAGE COURTESY A.M.P.A.S. dreamer I BY BOB STRAUSS Racing to play Fatal Inertia 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR 3/C EDITOR MARNI WEISZ B DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET G PRODUCTION DIRECTOR SHEILA GREGORY Grant R a good PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA

CONTRIBUTORS EARL DITTMAN SCOTT GARDNER interview SUSAN GRANGER LIZA HERZ t’s a bit of a paradox. The actors who JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ are least comfortable with the press DAN LIEBMAN often give the best interviews. BOB STRAUSS february 2007 | volume 8 | number 2 I Take Hugh Grant. He’d probably like nothing better than to avoid journalists ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. altogether. And who can blame him? He’s had HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 several run-ins with members of the VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 media over the past few years. There NATIONAL SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) was the law suit he and his girlfriend MANAGING DIRECTOR, SALES CINDY FROST (ext. 254) ACCOUNT MANAGERS ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) Jemima Khan filed against London’s JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243)

PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 for a story they claimed was BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) PLUS ZACH BRAFF, MEG RYAN AND OTHER STARS ON THE ART OF SEDUCTION largely fabricated; there was the incident BILL LAMMERS (ext. 257) where he called a paparazzo a rude name and then slapped him SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) over the head with a manila folder; and then there was the frightening CO-ORDINATOR revelation that Grant is one of a slew of celebrities who allegedly had BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 their phone calls tapped by a so-called journalist. WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH And yet, you’ll find that our interview with Grant, “Can’t Stop the Music,” page 38, is one of the most candid and interesting we’ve run. ALBERTA 403.266.4412 It’s as if — after a few bad experiences with the media — a veneer is WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS removed, and instead of staying on message, the actor decides to 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 QUEBEC 514.868.0005 speak his or her mind. DIRECTOR OF SALES SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) Sure, Grant says the requisite nice things about his new movie ACCOUNT MANAGER CHARLES DUMAS (ext. 224) Music and Lyrics and co-star , but he also talks about SALES CO-ORDINATOR PATRICIA CARPENTIER (ext. 223) being weary and wary of his status, the panic attacks he’s suffered while acting and why he refuses to do serious roles just to prove something. SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS Nicolas Cage doesn’t seem all that wary of the press right now. He just ANTHONY CUSHING JOAN GRANT wants to talk about his longtime passion project, Ghost Rider. Everybody ELLIS JACOB who knows anything about Cage knows he’s a huge comic book nut JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ (his last name was taken from a comic book character) and has been PAT MARSHALL trying to land a gig in a comic book movie for years. He finally gets his DAN MCGRATH chance playing soulless, avenging motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze, and CATHY PROWSE SUSAN REGINELLI

he really wants to tell you about it in “Born to Ride,” page 30. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Billy Bob Thornton calls his new feel-good film, The Astronaut Farmer, Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. his “Jimmy Stewart movie.” Find out why in “Billy Bob Needs His Subscriptions are $32.10 ($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. Space,” page 34. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should Thornton’s co-star in that film, Virginia Madsen, be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto, has a second movie coming out that very same Ontario, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] day — and that one, The Number 23, is anything Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019 but a feel-good film. In fact, if they did it Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: right, the movie should make you feel very Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ont., M6K 1X9 uncomfortable. Read why in “Virginia Madsen 525,000 copies of Famous magazine are distributed through Cineplex Has Her Day,” page 26. and Alliance Atlantis cinemas, HMV and other outlets. Famous magazine is not And starting on page 16 you’ll find our responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. Oscar Preview, with fashion, trivia, your list of No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2006. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 nominees and a spotlight on this year’s host, Ellen DeGeneres. —MARNI WEISZ

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3/C yes, a horse-racing carnival — when she 3/C stopped by Sea World to take a dip with a B couple of dolphins. B CAUGHTONFILM G PHOTO BY PATRICK RIVIERE/GETTY G TARA REID, GOLDIE HAWN, KURT RUSSELL, JUDE LAW, WOODY ALLEN, SIENNA MILLER R 2 When in Aspen…dress like a cowboy? R Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell pose for a paparazzo after enjoying lunch at Little Annie’s Restaurant. And the couple knows all the best places to eat in the Colorado tourist town, having owned property there for more than 30 years.

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4 …Meanwhile, Law’s ex Sienna Miller clowns around with a photographer’s equipment at the Weinstein Company’s post-Golden Globes party.

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5 Oh, just let her set up her own shot! Director Woody Allen has some advice for a fan trying to take his picture on a beach in Miami. Allen — who couldn’t have gotten much sun — 2 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 was there with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PHOTO BY MARVIX PHOTO/KEYSTONE

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FEBRUARY 14 BLACK SNAKE MOAN MUSIC AND LYRICS WHO’S IN IT? Samuel L. Jackson, now in theatress WHO’S IN IT? Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore Christina Ricci I BY INGRID RANDOJAA 3/C WHO DIRECTED? Marc Lawrence WHO DIRECTED? Craig Brewer 3/C (Two Weeks Notice) (Hustle & Flow) B B WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Washed-up pop star WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Brewer made

G Alex Fletcher (Grant) will appear on the waves with his edgy debut pic G TV show Battle of the ’80s Has-Beens Hustle & Flow, and continues to push R R alongside a teen singing sensation if he can buttons with this second film that write a catchy duet for them to sing. Never bravely wades into racial, sexual and great with lyrics, the musician teams up misogynistic waters. Jackson stars as with Sophie (Barrymore), the woman who a God-fearing bluesman who chains a takes care of his plants and has a way with sexually active party girl (Ricci) to his words. See Hugh Grant interview, page 38. couch, and won’t let her leave until DADDY’S LITTLE GIRLS he’s sure she’ll change her ways. WHO’S IN IT? Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba § HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 23 WHO DIRECTED? Tyler Perry (Madea’s Family Reunion) BREACH disturbing role to date, playing a man WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A mechanic (Elba) WHO’S IN IT? Ryan Phillippe, Chris Cooper whose wife (Madsen) gives him a book

100enlists 2 5 the 25 50help 75 95 of 98 a successful lawyer WHO DIRECTED? Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) titled The Number 23. He becomes 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 (Union) to gain full custody of his three WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This political thriller is obsessed with the number, and believes daughters who he doesn’t want anywhere inspired by the real-life exploits of FBI the book — which culminates in a brutal near his drug-dealing ex-wife. It doesn’t agent Robert Hanssen, who sold murder — is actually an account of his life. take long before the blue-collar guy and the government secrets to the Soviet Union for See Virginia Madsen interview, page 26. brainy lady find they have a lot more in 15 years before his arrest in 2001. Cooper common than just their case. plays the religious-minded Hanssen — he RENO 911!: MIAMI was a high-ranking member of the Catholic WHO’S IN IT? Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant FEBRUARY 16 sect Opus Dei — and Phillippe plays his WHO DIRECTED? Ben Garant (debut) new partner, who’s been sent in to collect WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The Comedy Central TV BECAUSE I SAID SO BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA evidence against him. show hits the big screen with the hapless WHO’S IN IT? Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore WHO’S IN IT? Josh Hutcherson, Reno police force travelling to Miami for a WHO DIRECTED? Michael Lehmann AnnaSophia Robb MA FILLE, MON ANGE police convention, and then being pressed (40 Days and 40 Nights) 100WHO 2 5DIRECTED? 25 50 75 95 Gabor 98 Csupo (debut) WHO’S IN IT? Karine Vanasse, Michel Côté into service when a terrorist threat ties up 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Daphne Wilder WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Middle school pals Leslie WHO DIRECTED? Alexis Durand-Brault (debut) Miami’s cops. (Keaton) will do anything for her three (Robb) and Jesse (Hutcherson) meet deep WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This French-Canadian daughters — Maggie (Lauren Graham), to Pearce’s Andy Warhol in this bio-pic the erudite ’s past with this in the woods where they create an drama about a man (Côté) who is THE ASTRONAUT FARMER Mae (Piper Perabo) and Milly (Moore) about the woman who inspired the great fourth Lecter-based film that stars Ulliel as imaginary world they call Terabithia. But devastated to discover that his daughter WHO’S IN IT? Billy Bob Thornton, — including going online to find pop artist. the young Lithuanian Lecter, who witnesses then a real-life tragedy strikes one child, (Vanasse) is appearing in online porn opens Virginia Madsen Milly the perfect man. his family’s demise at the hands of soldiers and the other child is forced to cope alone. in Quebec this month, and across the rest WHO DIRECTED? Michael Polish () during the Second World War. Lecter winds Based on the award-winning book by author of the country later in the year. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Charles Farmer § HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 2 PARTITION WHO’S IN IT? Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk up in Paris where he plans revenge against Katherine Paterson. See Karine Vanasse interview, page 12. (Thornton) is an aerospace engineer who WHO DIRECTED? Vic Sarin (Margaret’s Museum) those who killed his loved ones. wanted to be an astronaut but had to give FEBRUARY 2 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Set during India’s violent GHOST RIDER FEBRUARY 18 up his dream to take over his family ranch Partition era, this Canadian drama stars NORBIT WHO’S IN IT? Nicolas Cage, in Texas. He spends the next 10 years

THE MESSENGERS Kreuk as a young Muslim woman separated WHO’S IN IT? , Thandie Newton 100WHO 2 5DIRECTED? 25 50 75 95Mark 98 Steven Johnson WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW building a in his barn, and just when 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 WHO’S IN IT? Dylan McDermott, from her family and taken in by a kind WHO DIRECTED? Brian Robbins (Daredevil) NO WAY OUT he’s ready to launch himself into space the WHO DIRECTED? Oxide Pang Chan, Danny Pang Hindu man (Mistry). (The Shaggy Dog) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Stunt motorcycle rider Check www.cineplex.com for a list of U.S. government gets wind of his plan. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? To keep their rebellious WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Lucky for Jennifer Johnny Blaze (Cage) sells his soul to the theatres where you can watch it live, and to See Billy Bob Thornton interview, page 34. teen daughter Jess (Stewart) out of trouble, FEBRUARY 9 Hudson and Beyoncé Knowles that devil () to save his dying buy tickets. Roy (McDermott) and Denise (Penelope Ann Eddie Murphy didn’t want their roles in father. He then becomes the Ghost Rider, a FEBRUARY 24 Miller) move their family to an abandoned HANNIBAL RISING Dreamgirls! The actor once again plays supernatural agent of vengeance whose FEBRUARY 23 sunflower farm. But it seems Jess and her WHO’S IN IT? Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li multiple parts in this comedy about a meek skull lights on fire when he gets really mad. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA brother Ben are the only ones who can see WHO DIRECTED? Peter Webber loser named Norbit (Murphy) who’s raised However, Johnny can break his contract THE NUMBER 23 TCHAIKOVSKY’S EUGENE ONEGIN the creepy ghosts who live there. (Girl With a Pearl Earring) by Chinese restaurant owner Mr. Wong if he does away with Blackheart WHO’S IN IT? , Virginia Madsen Check www.cineplex.com for a list of WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Part of what makes (Murphy). Norbit is pushed into marrying (Wes Bentley), the devil’s very own son. WHO DIRECTED? Joel Schumacher (Tigerland) theatres where you can watch it live, FACTORY GIRL Thomas Harris’s fictional creation the rude Rasputia (Murphy), but after years See Nicolas Cage interview, page 30. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Carrey takes on his most and to buy tickets. WHO’S IN IT? Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce Hannibal Lecter so scary is the fact that we of tortured married life his hope for real 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 WHO DIRECTED? George Hickenlooper (Dogtown) don’t know why he does the ever-so-nasty happiness is restored when his childhood CHECK WWW.CINEPLEX.COM FOR SHOWTIMES AND LOCATIONS WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Miller plays Edie Sedgwick things he does. But now Harris delves into sweetheart (Newton) moves back home. Some films play only in major markets. All release dates subject to change.

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BEST PICTURE Martin Scorsese, The Departed BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT BEST ORIGINAL SONG 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Babel , The Blood of Yingzhou District “I Need to Wake Up,” The Departed Letters from Iwo Jima Recycled Life An Inconvenient Truth Letters from Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Rehearsing a Dream “Listen,” Dreamgirls Little Miss Sunshine Paul Greengrass, United 93 Two Hands “Love You I Do,” Dreamgirls The Queen “Our Town,” Cars BEST ANIMATED FEATURE ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING “Patience,” Dreamgirls BEST ACTOR Cars Babel Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Blood Diamond Monster House Children of Men The Danish Poet Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson The Departed Lifted Peter O’Toole, Venus ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP United 93 The Little Matchgirl Will Smith, The Pursuit Apocalypto Maestro of Happyness Click ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING No Time for Nuts 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 , Pan’s Labyrinth Apocalypto The Last King of Scotland Blood Diamond BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION Dreamgirls Binta and the Great Idea BEST ACTRESS Dreamgirls Flags of Our Fathers Éramos Pocos Penélope Cruz, Volver The Good Shepherd Pirates of the Caribbean: Helmer & Son Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Pan’s Labyrinth Dead Man’s Chest The Saviour Helen Mirren, The Queen Pirates of the Caribbean: West Bank Story Meryl Streep, Dead Man’s Chest ACHIEVEMENT IN The Devil Wears Prada The Prestige SOUND EDITING ACHIEVEMENT IN Kate Winslet, Little Children Apocalypto VISUAL EFFECTS ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY Blood Diamond Pirates of the Caribbean: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR The Black Dahlia Flags of Our Fathers Dead Man’s Chest , Little Miss Sunshine Children of Men Letters from Iwo Jima Poseidon 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children The Illusionist Pirates of the Caribbean: Returns Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond Pan’s Labyrinth Dead Man’s Chest Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls The Prestige BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Mark Wahlberg, The Departed BEST FOREIGN- Borat: Cultural Learnings of ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN LANGUAGE FILM America for Make Benefit BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Curse of the Golden Flower After the Wedding Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Adriana Barraza, Babel The Devil Wears Prada Days of Glory Children of Men Cate Blanchett, Dreamgirls The Lives of Others The Departed Notes on a Scandal Marie Antoinette Pan’s Labyrinth Little Children Abigail Breslin, The Queen Water Notes on a Scandal Little Miss Sunshine Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE BEST ORIGINAL SCORE BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Rinko Kikuchi, Babel Deliver Us from Evil Babel Babel 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 An Inconvenient Truth The Good German Letters from Iwo Jima ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING Iraq in Fragments Notes on a Scandal Little Miss Sunshine Alejandro González Jesus Camp Pan’s Labyrinth Pan’s Labyrinth Iñárritu, Babel My Country, My Country The Queen The Queen OSCAR IMAGE COURTESY A.M.P.A.S. OSCAR IMAGE COURTESY

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�Best Supporting Performance, Male: Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond Helen Mirren �Best Supporting Performance, Female: The in The Queen Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration

San Francisco Film Critics GOLDEN 3/C �Best Picture: Little Children 3/C

B � Globes B Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93 �Best Performance, Male: Sacha Baron �Best Picture (Drama): G Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Babel G

R Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan �Best Picture (Comedy or Musical): R Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious �Best Performance, Female: Dreamgirls Nation of Kazakhstan; and Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, The Queen �Best Director: AWARDSS The Last King of Scotland �Best Supporting Performance, Male: Martin Scorsese, The Departed �Best Performance, Female: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children �Best Actor (Drama): Helen Mirren, The Queen �Best Supporting Performance, Female: Forest Whitaker, �Best Supporting Performance, Male: Adriana Barraza, Babel The Last King of Scotland Michael Sheen, The Queen �Best Actor (Comedy or Musical): , �Best Supporting Performance, Female: Chicago Film Critics Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Luminita Gheorghiu, �Best Picture: The Departed Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan The Death of Mr. Lazarescu �Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed �Best Actress (Drama): �Best Performance, Male: Your pen hangs in the air, not sure who to tick off on your Oscar ballot. Helen Mirren, The Queen National Board of Review Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland �Best Actress (Comedy or Musical): WRAP 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 The final moments before making your Oscar picks can be fraught with �Best Picture: Letters from Iwo Jima �Best Performance, Female: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada worry and indecision, so to help you make those last-minute selections �Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed Helen Mirren, The Queen �Best Supporting Actor: � � we’ve compiled a list of the year’s best actors, directors and movies Best Performance, Male: Forest Whitaker, Best Supporting Performance, Male: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls The Last King of Scotland Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children � Best Supporting Actress: as chosen by film critics from across North America �Best Performance, Female: �Best Supporting Performance, Female: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls Helen Mirren, The Queen Rinko Kikuchi, Babel Toronto Film Critics Association (Best Picture: The Queen Forest Whitaker in (Best Director: (tie) Jean-Pierre Dardenne The Last King of Scotland and Luc Dardenne, L’Enfant; and Stephen Frears, The Queen (Best Performance, Male: Sacha Baron

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OSCARS2007 YOUR 3/C B G HOST R FOR THE EVENING… Hosting the Oscars is like surfacing from the bottom of the ocean: the pressure can kill you and the best you can hope for is survival. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 It takes a special talent to walk out in front of an audience of Hollywood’s most powerful and glamorous players — let alone the billion or so people watching on TV — make them laugh and keep a sprawling, close-to-four-hour show on track. So when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced comedian/talk show host Ellen DeGeneres would be this year’s MC, you could almost hear the sigh of relief from Oscar fans around the world. Not only is DeGeneres funny, she’s a quick-on-her-feet wit, and goodness knows she can Get fresh. handle pressure. Remember, this was the woman who hosted the 2001 Emmy Awards, the post-9/11 awards show that was postponed twice due to concerns it would be crass to fawn over TV stars during an American crisis. Yet, in what was probably the most scrutinized appearance of her life, DeGeneres struck a note-perfect chord, addressing the nation’s mood but still firing hilarious zingers, such as: “We’re told to go on living our lives as usual, because to

do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?”

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ELLEN DEGENERES

BORN: January 26, 1958, in University of after to sit following her monologue. 2001 & 2005 Primetime Emmy Metairie, one semester Awards TV SHOWS: Ellen (1994-1998), PARENTS: Betty (real estate agent) WORK EXPERIENCE: dress shop The Ellen Show (2001) and ON HOSTING THE ACADEMY AWARDS: and Elliot (insurance salesman) salesperson, housepainter, law The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003-) “I’m not nervous, I’m excited and firm clerk, bartender, waitress at I take everything I do seriously.... 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 SIBLINGS: one brother, Vance T.G.I. Friday’s, hostess and oyster FEATURE FILMS: Coneheads, It’s a tough job, it’s not an easy shucker Mr. Wrong, Goodbye Lover, job so I want to make it special PARTNER: actor Portia de Rossi Doctor Dolittle, EdTV, The Love and it’s hard to make something (played Nell Porter on DEBUT AS A STAND-UP COMEDIAN: Letter, Finding Nemo special that’s been done over and Ally McBeal, Lindsay Bluth on 1981, Clyde’s Comedy Club in over and over again. It’s almost ™ ® Arrested Development) New Orleans BOOKS: My Point...And I Do like somebody saying how do you Always Fresh joins the line of Always pads you know and love. Have One (1995) and The Funny write another love song? But It’s lightly scented for a refreshing change. EX-PARTNERS: actor Anne Heche, FIRST TONIGHT SHOW APPEARANCE: Thing Is... (2003) there’s gotta be a way to do that photographer Alexandra Hedison 1986. On her debut performance, different, and in my tone, so I’ll DeGeneres becomes the first AWARD SHOW HOST EXPERIENCE: figure something out.” [Ellen’s Have a happy period. EDUCATION: dropped out of the female comic Johnny Carson asks 1996 & 1997 Grammy Awards; Blog, November 1st, 2006] 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PHOTO AND OSCAR IMAGE COURTESY A.M.P.A.S. PHOTO AND OSCAR IMAGE COURTESY

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OWN IT ON DVD FEBRUARY 13 AVAILABLE IN HIGH DEFINITION 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 JENNIFER LOPEZ AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS PHOTOS BY BIG PICTURES UK-KEYSTONE. ALL OTHER PHOTOS, AND OSCAR IMAGE, COURTESY A.M.P.A.S. JENNIFER LOPEZ AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS PHOTOS BY BIG PICTURES UK-KEYSTONE. ALL OTHER PHOTOS, OSCAR IMAGE, COURTESY Top row, from left: Salma Hayek draped in teal satin by Versace; Michelle Williams looking classic in vintage-inspired Vera Wang;

an adi Hom an e Keira Knighley opts for eggplant from Vera Wang. Bottom row, from left: Jennifer Lopez swathed in layers of chartreuse purchased at Beverly Hills C Video

antique wardrobe shop Lily et Cie; Charlize Theron goes over-the-top with a clunky satin bow tied by Dior; Felicity Huffman takes the plunge Rating [

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Jon Stewart 3/C 3/C I REMEMBER IT B B G

G The “In Memoriam” part of the Academy Awards has always been our favourite. Perhaps it’s that swelling music and

IN MEMORIAM R LIKE IT WAS JUST those long-ago clips, or maybe it’s because the segment adds a respite of reality to a night that’s so puffed up. So, we’re getting a R head start on paying tribute to a few of the filmmakers who died in 2006. With apologies to the late Chris Penn, Bruno Kirby and LAST YEAR… Don Knotts, we opted to focus on three great stars who also had strong connections to the Oscars. How closely do you watch the Academy Awards? Are you one of those diehards who won’t watch with anyone else unless they sign an agreement vowing to only speak during commercials; or do you watch with half an eye while at an Oscar party sucking down cheese doodles and diet soda? These 10 questions about last year’s show will test whether

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“Travelin’ Through” from haven’t seen the film, it’s the film Transamerica? really wonderful. She plays a woman who is constantly Jack Palance, 1919-2006 Robert Altman, 1925-2006 Shelley Winters, 1920-1996 ? Name the winner who judged on her looks 5started his or her and paid less than her BORN: (Volodymyr Palanyuk) February 18, BORN: February 20, 1925, BORN: (Shirley Schrift) August 18, acceptance speech “Wow. co-workers. It must be 1919, Lattimer Pines, Pennsylvania Kansas City, Missouri 1920, St. Louis, Missouri Wow. All right, so I’m not wonderful to be done with winning director.” that and back here in DIED: November 10, 2006, DIED: November 20, 2006, DIED: January 14, 2006,

Hollywood.” Montecito, California Los Angeles, California Beverly Hills, California 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Name the winner who 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 6thanked her film’s Who introduced the OSCAR STATUES LEFT OSCAR STATUES LEFT OSCAR STATUES LEFT writer/director for creating 10 Best Visual Effects IN THE WILL: 1 IN THE WILL: 1 IN THE WILL: 2 her character, “Who is a category while dressed in a Palance was nominated for Altman was nominated five times Winters earned four Oscar real woman. Who has bright green unitard? Best Supporting Actor twice early in for Best Director — MASH (1971), nominations, one Best Actress for dignity and honour.” his career, for Sudden Fear (1952) and Nashville (1976), The Player (1992), A Place in the Sun (1951), which she did Shane (1953), but didn’t win. In 1992, Short Cuts (1993), Gosford Park (2001); not win, and three Best Supporting Name the Canadian at the age of 73, he was nominated and twice for Best Picture — Nashville, Actress nods, for The Diary of Anne 7winner who was again for his portrayal of grizzled Gosford Park, but never won...until last Frank (1959), A Patch of Blue (1965) emotional during his speech ? cowboy Curly in City Slickers, and won. year, when he was given the Honorary and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

because, as he explained, Award for his body of work as a whole. She took home statues for Anne Frank Ben Stiller Ben

“Just before, during…the 10.

North Country North Theron, Charlize 9. and A Patch of Blue.

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Which nominated commercial break, my sister characters main two the are ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: WHAT HE SAID IN HIS 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

— Ennis and Jack and Ennis —

1actress was pregnant? walked up to me and gave Mountain Brokeback In reference to his famous line from ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: WHAT SHE SAID IN HER ACCEPTANCE

ANSWERS:

Ang Lee, who won Best Director for Director Best won who Lee, Ang

me the ring, my mom’s ring, 8. City Slickers, Palance took one look at his “I’ve always said that making a film is like SPEECH FOR A PATCH OF BLUE:

Crash

Which of the following saying she was here with me. for Screenplay co-star Billy Crystal, who was hosting that making a sand castle at the beach. You invite “I would like to especially thank Mr. Pandro Paul Haggis, accepting Best Original Best accepting Haggis, Paul

2actors did host Jon And she really messed me 7. year’s show, and said, “I crap bigger than your friends and you get them down there, Berman [producer] for not only making such Walk the Line the Walk

Stewart not end up in bed up, Jo, thanks a lot.” for winner him.” Palance then dropped to the floor and and…you build this beautiful structure, a sensitive, beautiful picture about a

Reese Witherspoon, Best Actress Best Witherspoon, Reese

with during the opening 6. started doing one-armed push-ups in what several of you. Then you sit back and watch subject of integration...but for making the

Night, and Good Luck Good and Night,

montage — , Who thanked two . has come to be one of the most memorable the tide come in. Have a drink, watch the tide picture a box-office success, which is very Good

Halle Berry or ? imaginary people, for nomination Director Best moments in Oscar history. come in, and the ocean just takes it away.” important for subjects like these.” and got a got and Syriana 8 for Actor Supporting

Ennis and Jack, in his George Clooney, who won Best won who Clooney, George 5.

Dolly Parton Dolly Name the Three 6 Mafia acceptance speech? 4. FAMOUS FOR: His intimidating 6’3” FAMOUS FOR: Interconnecting FAMOUS FOR: Transforming from

“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” a for Here Out Hard “It’s

3tune that stole the show 3. physique and take-no-prisoners tough-guy several stories within one film, and using a sexy supporting starlet early in her career

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Owen Wilson Owen and won Best Original Song. Name the nominee, 2. attitude. • Proving his sense of humour large ensemble casts. • Using the same to a ballsy, brash character actor later in The Constant Gardner Constant The

9and the movie, host for Actress 100 2with 5 the 25 50role 75 95in 98 City Slickers after decades actors over and over again, particularly Lily life. • Writing scandalous tell-all books

Rachel Weisz, who won Supporting won who Weisz, Rachel Which country Jon Stewart was referring 1. of playing the bad guy. Tomlin, Shelley Duvall and Sally Kellerman. about her experiences in Hollywood. ALL PHOTOS, AND OSCAR IMAGE, COURTESY A.M.P.A.S. ALL PHOTOS, AND OSCAR IMAGE, COURTESY 4singer performed to when he said: “If you A.M.P.A.S. ALL PHOTOS, AND OSCAR IMAGE, COURTESY famous 24 | february 2007 famous 25 | february 2007 Interview_Madsen 1/19/07 2:45 PM Page 26 Interview_Madsen 1/19/07 2:46 PM Page 27

VIRGINIA MADSEN

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Madsenhas herday For years, Virginia Madsen didn’t know if she’d ever be in a big Hollywood movie again. On the 23rd of this month she’ll appear in two, as The Number 23 and The Astronaut Farmer hit theatres I BY EARL DITTMAN 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 hichever misinformed dolt claimed there are no second The Number 23, is a dark, supernatural thriller directed by acts in Hollywood never followed the topsy-turvy career Joel Schumacher, in which Madsen’s husband (Jim Carrey) Wof Virginia Madsen. From the mid-’80s through the becomes obsessed with a book about the strange, supernatural mid-’90s, Madsen proved she was more than a pretty face with qualities of the number 23. Eventually he comes to the conclusion dazzling performances in The Rainmaker, Ghosts of Mississippi and that the book is about his own life — and death. Slam Dance, and was christened the new It-Girl by the media. “It’s a very dark thriller,” she says. “It becomes really terrifying But then she started to turn down substandard roles, got a when I start trying to pull him back from the brink of insanity.” divorce from actor Danny Huston (who appears in her new movie, The Number 23), became pregnant by Antonio Sabato Jr. So what’s the story with the number 23 having all of these mystical (their son Jack is now 12), and moved to New Mexico. That’s implications? “There’s a lot of freaks that are very into the when she dropped right off of Hollywood’s radar. number 23. There are also a lot of scientists who don’t know

“I have always loved acting, but I have to have a passion for the why there are all the coincidences with the number. So the 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 projects I do,” explains the 45-year-old Madsen, wearing whole ‘23 thing’ has become an enigma. I’m not making this blue jeans, boots and a Dolce and Gabbana top during a recent up. You can go online and just type in ‘23’ and all these weird L.A. interview. “I wasn’t going to do something I didn’t care things will come up. So, when I say ‘freaks,’ I mean that for about just for a paycheque. I was willing to wait for the right some people it becomes an obsession and they start seeing the script to come my way, no matter how long it took.” number 23 everywhere. Is that because it is everywhere or just Just as the bank was about to foreclose on her home, Madsen because of your own awareness that you start to see it? I don’t was handed a script for director Alexander Payne’s Sideways — know. I mean, you can do that with almost anything. So I’m not and the rest, as they say, is Hollywood history. In addition to really a believer, but it is kind of interesting.” earning her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, her performance prompted offers to star with in Coincidences like what? “For instance, the Earth is on a 23-degree Firewall, a contract from E.R. creator John Wells for the network axis. We get 23 chromosomes from each parent. The Mayan series Smith and a phone call from late director Robert Altman calendar ends on December 23rd. There’s the 23rd Psalm. The to join the ensemble cast of A Prairie Home Companion. blood circulates at 23 seconds around the body, but I don’t 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Virginia Madsen had indeed begun her second act. think that’s entirely true. Actually, I don’t think that any of this Having recently completed the drama The Ripple Effect and is real. But there are a lot of people who get involved in this. I Being Michael Madsen, a comedy about/with her older brother, mean, these people become literally obsessed.” Virginia Madsen Madsen has two movies coming out on February 23rd. and Jim Carrey in One, The Astronaut Farmer, is a quirky dramedy that co-stars How does Carrey’s character become obsessed with 23? “The number The Number 23 Billy Bob Thornton as a man obsessed with making it into space comes into his life through this book. He begins descending

even if it means building his own rocket ship, while the other, into madness and I’m trying to pull him out. I play his wife, M M M

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You were a big part of the late Robert Altman’s final film, A Prairie Home Companion. What does that mean to you? “I mean, he was so inspiring. I don’t know how old he was, but he was 3/C

working with all of this new technology, he’s got four cameras 3/C

going at one time, these brand new digital cameras, and a new B sound system and I was like, ‘God, that’s where I’d like to be at B G

his age.’ I’d like to be still experimenting and having fun at the G

age he lived to, and with all the focus and energy that he had.” R R

Wasn’t there another director working with Altman? “Yeah, he had Paul Thomas Anderson [Magnolia] sort of co-directing with him. But that was for insurance purposes. We all thought, ‘Isn’t and it ridiculous that they wouldn’t insure Robert Altman?’ I for thought he was in relatively good health. I know that he seemed the like he was to me. But I guess I thought that it was great sort of 2 mentoring, and he really enjoys that. He liked being in that winners position. On the back of Paul Thomas Anderson’s chair it said ‘Pinch-Hitter’ [laughs].” are... $ Robert Altman received a Lifetime Achievement Award before he 30 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

passed away. What was your own Oscar night experience like? “Oh, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 that was incredible because I was filming Firewall and I thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m leaving the set.’ Every- because your collection is never complete. one was like, ‘Good luck, Virginia,’ and I was leaving the Harrison Ford set to go to the Oscars. I mean, that was amazing. What more could you want?”

What did getting a nomination mean to you? and I’m the one who gives him the Another job? More money? “Yeah, I wanted to M M book. At first, I just think it’s all kind of cool, get another job. I mean, I was putting but he gets completely and utterly obsessed.” myself in a different position in Hollywood

and taking a step up. Making more money 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Jim Carrey dramas haven’t always done well would be a great bonus, but I think that is 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 at the box office, what’s he like in this role? going to come anyway as you work more.” “I think this is going to be Jim’s most tremendous performance. He really wants When you’re not working, what do you do to to do this kind of thing. He loves comedy, relax? “You know what, all I know is that it’s but he wants to do dramatic work, too. really good to be busy, and I can rest when He’s ready to do this kind of performance, The Astronaut Farmer’s I’m dead [laughs]. I had a long time to but in some ways he’s rolling the dice.” Virginia Madsen and her rest. I had many, many years that I was family say goodbye to moving slowly.” Billy Bob Thornton What’s The Astronaut Farmer about? “Basically, it’s about a dreamer. It’s about my husband But no relaxing? “I don’t do a lot of relaxing Charles Farmer, played by Billy Bob Thornton, who is a farmer now. Like I said, I had plenty of time to do that in the years 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

that wants to go into space and he dreams of being an astronaut. before this. I like being busy.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 So he begins building a rocket in our barn. The [Michael and Mark] are directing. It’s kind of a quirky drama. Does your son, Jack, want to act? “Well, now he wants to be a It’s a delight.” stuntman. I’m like, ‘Okay.’ He’s like, ‘Watch this fall!’ So he’s a daredevil. He’s a thrill-seeker. He’s one of those kids.” BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, THE CONSTANT GARDNER: © 2007 by Focus Features LLC. All Rights So you play another wife in The Astronaut Farmer? “Yeah, I’m his Reserved. Distributed exclusively in Canada by Motion Picture Distribution LP. All Rights Reserved. RAY, What’s the smartest thing you’ve learned since Sideways gave you a DEER HUNTER: © 2007 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. wife. I’m Mrs. Farmer. I’m Audie — which has to be my most Some restrictions apply. See in-store for details. © 2006 A.M.P.A.S. Oscar® statuette © A.M.P.A.S.® favourite name I’ve ever had in a movie. We’re very eccentric second chance at a film career? “I’ve made the firm decision that people in this movie and I loved that because the Polish Brothers I’m not going to read a script unless they’re going to pay me a have kind of got this slightly slanted way of looking at the world. salary [laughs]. I just can’t do that anymore. I’m too old to run Billy Bob’s a real American hero in this movie. He’s building the away and join the circus. You need to pay me a salary. I don’t care rocket in the barn, and the whole family is his mission control, how cool your film is. I can’t be on the set where the crew is not

and we believe that he can go into space. Of course, when the being fed. And if I’m going to be away from my son — and my 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 FAA finds out that he’s trying to buy rocket fuel on the black son needs to go to college — I would like to not be broke.” market they come down on him. Then it’s the struggle of whether they’re going to let him fly or not.” Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas.

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Obsessed with Ghost Rider since age seven, Nicolas Cage has been hell-bent on RIDEplaying the supernatural superhero. He beggedE for the role, he waited out production delays, and now he finally gets his chance I BY EARL DITTMAN

self-professed comic book geek for as long as he can Best Actor Oscar for . “I knew that this film was remember, Nicolas Cage vividly recalls the very moment somehow going to happen, so I wanted to hold onto them,” says A when ’ Ghost Rider rode into his life for Cage, decked out in tight black jeans, a white T-shirt and a black the first time. leather motorcycle jacket. “I was about seven years old and I was living in Long Beach, With more than 50 films to his credit, Cage has long had the California, when I went around the corner to the market in the clout to make just about any movie he wants. But, much like his 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 neighbourhood and I saw the comic on the stand,” Cage recalls dream of playing Superman, the role of Ghost Rider nearly during a recent interview. “There was this flaming skull on the slipped through his fingers. Vincent Price B-movie kind of scary, which is fun…. There’s a cover, and I don’t know why, but it was an image I felt really With the film in development for more than a decade, Cage’s lot of humour in the movie. This character is absurd. He’s an comfortable with. It was the first issue. He was on the bike, and friend was once slated to play Blaze, the motorcycle absurdist character. I think that’s a good thing, because that he was coming right at you. I bought it, took it home, and I stuntman who barters his soul to the devil to save a loved one’s life. gives me a chance to bring comedy to it. He’s not a chain-smoking, remember just staring at the cover in my room by myself for But after getting Depp’s blessing, Cage went after the role with a hard-drinking badass. What I wanted to contribute was that hours. At one point, my older brother was like, ‘What’s the vengeance, calling up the then-director and insisting, “I’m the Johnny was trying to keep the devil away matter with Nicolas? He’s been staring at this comic book for biggest Ghost Rider fan in the whole world. I even own a bunch of because he really is in trouble with the hours.’ I don’t know why, but I just thought that it was trippy, Ghost Rider motorcycles. I’m the guy that you want.” It worked. devil. If that’s the case, then why bring him scary and cool. It really appealed to me.” But over the next few years, Ghost Rider passed through in? So he’s trying to deflect and stay relaxed Unlike his other childhood superheroes Superman and several more hands before landing on director/screenwriter by listening to Karen Carpenter and eating

Batman, Cage felt an intimate connection with Johnny Blaze Mark Steven Johnson’s desk. Johnson knew of Cage’s personal 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 jelly beans out of a martini glass and just and his fiery alter ego Ghost Rider. “I think that I identified with connection to the role and asked if he was still interested. they don’t work out. I also believe that trying to stay calm, because he knows at him because he’s a scary character, and I was trying to compre- “I think I scared him because I screamed, ‘Yes, are you the right cast for a movie is the one that any moment it can creep up on him.” hend how something scary could also be good,” explains the kidding?’” Cage recalls with a laugh. “Mark and I had the same usually winds up in the movie. I think that To become Blaze, Cage wore a hairpiece 43-year-old actor who has sported a Ghost Rider tattoo for years. ideas for the film. So I told him that whenever he needed me I Superman Returns was a good movie and a that took the makeup crew three hours to The nephew of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford , would be there in a moment’s notice. I definitely didn’t want to very nostalgic movie, but I’m not interested apply. And the Ghost Rider’s flaming skull Cage dropped the Coppola and replaced it with Cage in homage go through another Superman Lives!” in repeating things. I was going to turn that is an exact replica of his own cranium. to the first major black comic book character, . Cage and director were a stone’s throw from character on its ear, which, obviously, wasn’t “Every groove, indentation and crack you “As a boy, I grappled with nightmares and a lot of scary starting to shoot Superman Lives!, which ultimately became what the studio wanted, because they went see on the skull is 100 percent mine, they things, so I was trying to get control of the nightmares by maybe director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, when the plug was with a more traditional approach. Ghost Rider, for me, is a better had to do it digitally,” Cage explains. “It was a really long, drawn- making friends with them. The character of Ghost Rider was pulled. “I’m not disappointed in that at all, because I’m a big match because it gives me a chance to do a unique approach to out deal. They put these sensors on my head, and they graphed like the perfect way to do that, because here was a nightmare believer that things that are meant to be are meant to be,” says something the way that I want to do it and to maybe introduce my skull somehow with X-rays or lasers. I don’t know how they who was also a friend.” Cage, whose year-old son with his third wife Alice Kim is named a character to a wider audience. do it really, but that’s me.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 So it’s not surprising that the first issue of Ghost Rider — and Kal-el (Superman’s Kryptonian name). “I wanted the kids to go see the movie,” Cage continues. A father of two boys, Kal-el and Weston, his 14-year-old son

a handful of other early editions — share a shelf with Cage’s “I don’t hold onto things,” he insists. “I let things go when “There are some scary moments in it, but more like a 1950s with former girlfriend model Christina Fulton, Cage is M M

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M M hell-bent on ensuring the film’s messages are clear for is son Weston’s new comic book series. “Weston loves comics, younger moviegoers. “In a way, I could argue that my responsi- which is no surprise because we all do in my family, but he’s bility here is bigger than even the responsibility that I had with really talented at creating them,” Cage beams. “Uncle Francis

World Trade Center,” says Cage. “You could pick or choose whether likes comics, and my dad liked comics, too. It’s American 3/C or not you could take the kids to that film, but in this case the kids mythology, and the love of comics has become a real Coppola B are going to want to go see Ghost Rider, and their minds are so family legacy. I think it’s in our blood.

impressionable. What I wanted to make clear was that no matter “Weston has developed a character called Enigma,” Cage G how much trouble you get into, you can always take a negative continues. “It deals with spiritual elements in New Orleans R and turn it into a positive. That’s the spirit of Johnny Blaze.” back during the Civil War. This is something that we went to Filmed in and around Melbourne, Australia, Ghost Rider also Richard Branson’s company with, and Deepak Chopra got features Eva Mendes as Blaze’s true love Roxanne, Sam Elliott excited by it. So they’ve committed to doing five issues of it. as the Caretaker — Ghost Rider’s mentor — and Peter Fonda We’re going to start with the comic book, then maybe a graphic as Mephisto, the overseer of hell. Fonda, best known as the novel of it, and if that all works, then I will try to develop a script American flag-wearing hippie who tooled around the desert on from it and try to get a film made. It could be a cool franchise.” a motorcycle with Dennis Hopper in 1969’s Easy Rider, spent While there are a number of superheroes he would have much of his time between scenes talking bikes with Cage. loved to have played, Cage says that Ghost Rider has quenched “He still loves to ride,” says Cage, who often hit the highway his thirst for comic book movies. “I’m satisfied because I think with ex-wives and . “I still that this was the one — I’ve done it now,” he says. “So unless enjoy riding, but I haven’t been riding for some time though, there was a really great script for a sequel to Ghost Rider, I’ve ever since my youngest son was born. I don’t want to be the kind probably done what I’ve wanted to do in terms of doing a

of role model that inspires him to get on motorcycles. I’m look- comic book movie. I would come back and do another one if 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 ing more towards him hopefully trying sailing or something.” there was a great script attached to it. And, of course, if Weston With several films coming out later this year (Next, Time to has a role for me in Enigma.” Kill), and more in pre-production (Amarillo Slim, Crazy Dog, the National Treasure sequel), the project Cage is most excited about Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas.

STAR S ON BIKES 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 ongtime motorcycle enthusiast like that whole cyborg thing Cage certainly isn’t the only Angelina Jolie, , LNicolas Cage says that, in all where you become man and celebrity bike rider. Take a good Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ryan honesty, the massive chopper he machine and the bike does hard look at a motorcycle in Reynolds, , Ewan straddles in Ghost Rider isn’t exactly what you think,” Hollywood and you’re likely to McGregor, Harrison Ford, Keanu really his cup of tea. he says. “I want to get into see Alanis Morissette, Matt Reeves or perched “I prefer more of the race bikes corners, and I want to drag my LeBlanc, Sylvester Stallone, on top. Just don’t tell their like Ducatis or Yamaha ones. I knee and do all of that.” George Clooney, Brad Pitt, studio’s insurance company. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 From left: At 64, Harrison Ford still loves to take his Triumph out for a spin; Heath Ledger takes a break to answer his cell after riding his Ducati through the streets of Santa Monica; rides his vintage Norton motorcycle down Sunset Boulevard in L.A. ALL PHOTOS BY SPLASH/KEYSTONE

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profession — supportive wife Audie, M M and they’ve got three kids he recruits for “It’s like an his ground crew). But he also insists that

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films include the conjoined brothers R R romance Twin Falls Idaho and the bizarre religious parable Northfork. very subversive,” “It’s a feel-good movie — for the Polish , brothers, absolutely,” Thornton says with says Thornton. “In qualified certainty. “This is their first sort Oh of more commercial, accessible movie. other words, it’s And when you get to know these guys, they brother really have a lot of heart. And this movie sort of like real Michael and Mark Polish, the twin does. I’ve got to say, it’s going to go on brothers who wrote and directed the list of my top three or four movies patriotism” The Astronaut Farmer, have a rep for being that I’ve ever done. I mean, it’ll make you mighty quirky. Their first film, after all, laugh and cry and the whole thing.” hit pretty much on his own. But, while his was Twin Falls Idaho, in which they played

Back to that uplifting stuff again. And star rose, Thornton’s directing career hit 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 conjoined twins who live in a hotel room 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 why not? Thornton’s biggest hit since some bad ruts (All the Pretty Horses, Daddy and become involved with a woman. Santa, after all, was the inspirational and Them) from which it has never But, believe it or not, the Polish brothers sports movie Friday Night Lights, in recovered. And he admits that hitting the aren’t the only brother team to have made a which he played quite possibly the nicest word processor is a chore he just hasn’t movie about conjoined twins — in 2003 the football coach in recorded history. been able to face for some time. Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, turned But Thornton points out that a dissident But Thornton says he hopes to return out Stuck on You, in which Matt Damon and strain runs through The Astronaut Farmer, to the acutely observed, Southern Gothic Greg Kinnear play conjoined twins who which all the best films of its ilk have. After stuff for which he first became known. “I move to L.A. so one of them can pursue all, when Jimmy Stewart made his beloved mean, it’s been fun doing these comedies, an acting career. The Farrellys certainly Frank Capra movies, some politicians were but I think I’ve done enough of them for know something about being quirky, outraged; Wonderful Life was even greeted right now. I really want to get back to having found fame with off-the-wall films like Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something

with charges of socialist propaganda. what I used to do more. I’ve got more 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “You know what’s great about it?” he dramas on the horizon as an actor, and I About Mary and Me, Myself & Irene. enthuses. “It’s like an all-American, really want to direct another movie.” All of that got us thinking about other patriotic kind of movie, and yet very That said, Thornton acknowledges brother teams in Hollywood, almost all of subversive. In other words, it’s sort of like that, at age 51, he may have reached his which seem to be, shall we say, off-kilter? real patriotism. Not toward our current professional peak — and he’s totally cool There are the , Joel and government, it’s actually opposed to that with that. Ethan, the daddies of all brother teams, government. It’s about dreamers, and how “I’ll probably stay about where I am for having produced their first movie, the gory this society has started to kill dreamers.” my whole career,” he says with a shrug. brushes with stardom haven’t been all lot of the reason is that I don’t go any- talked about in a huge way. I just choose but fun Blood Simple back in 1984, and Thornton surely could relate. Consid- “I’m not, certainly, the matinee idol type that comfortable anyway. Soon after the where. I don’t really go to parties or go to to not say anything, it just doesn’t do then following it with such weird-out ering himself a songwriter and musician who’s going to have this huge thing where Sling Blade Oscar season, Thornton went the events or anything. And I’m not in a anybody any good. Sometimes you suffer comedies as , Barton Fink, more than a movie guy, he struggled in I have movies that gross $500-million through a nasty divorce from his fourth celebrity marriage or relationship, so I’m for it, and if you don’t defend yourself, Fargo, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Hollywood for years before film gave and stuff like that. But when you look at wife, Pietra, complete with restraining not real good cannon fodder anymore. then somebody who works at K-Mart in Where Art Thou? him the solid career that his first love, it this way — I make Bad Santa for, like, orders. And who can forget his union to 100 2“That 5 25 changed 50 75 95 98 a lot when I got out of Sioux City, Iowa, reads this in the grocery And who can forget the Wachowski 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 music — which he still pursues between $18-million and it makes $60-million. wife number five, Angelina Jolie? Knife a celebrity marriage, absolutely,” Thornton store, all they have to go on is that. They Brothers who, although not terribly movie gigs — never did. Percentage-wise, that’s what my movies play, tattoos, wearing vials of each other’s says. “There’s no question about it. I mean, don’t see me defending myself, but you productive of late, brought us the three Thornton made his first big splash as a have been doing. I don’t have huge- blood around their necks . . . the only time I’m really visible anymore is know what? I’d rather do it that way. It’s very out-there Matrix movies and also screenwriter with One False Move, A Family grossing movies, but the ones that I have And then there were the reports of when I’ve got a movie out. That’s really just plain and simple.” wrote the over-the-top comic book Thing and the short film Some Folks Call It that are successful will always be successful Thornton’s many eccentricities, some he about it. But what’s really a shame to me Sounds so, well, Jimmy Stewart. Still, adaptation V for Vendetta. Larry and Andy a Sling Blade. He became something of a within the world that I’m in now. Which was happy to cop to (fear of antiques), and is that the movie’s not enough.” it must be kind of frustrating. It seems are currently working on Speed Racer, sensation after directing, and bulking up I’m happy with, I don’t really require that others he’s still scratching his head about, In other words, he still gets asked logical to ask, did the anger from any of an action pic based on an animated to star in, the feature-length version of much. As long as I keep a good fan base like a supposed orange-food-only diet. questions about Jolie’s globetrotting that get vented in some of those nasty Japanese series from the 1960s. that last one, renamed Sling Blade. That and you guys like the movies okay and I These days, Thornton is happy to keep lifestyle and tabloid-attracting antics. All characters he’s been playing? So quirky, and a little bit…hmm… film earned him an Academy Award for do a good job in them, that’s really as far things quiet, spending time at home with he’ll say is that they remain good friends. “Probably,” Thornton agrees with a attached to their childhoods? Maybe it’s Best Adapted Screenplay. as I want to go. So I think I’m on a pretty his two-year-old daughter, Bella, and her “I’ve had two or three relationships in hearty laugh. “Every now and then you’ve like what happens when you walk into your

After that came roles in some high- steady path. It doesn’t necessarily climb mother, movie effects artist Connie 100my 2 life 5 25that 50 75were 95 98 public, and I’ve never got to play an a--hole just to grease the parents’ house and automatically feel 12 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 profile movies — Armageddon, Primary that high, but it stays where it is, which I Angland. “I’m not really that popular,” said a word about anybody from them,” machine a little bit.” years old again — working with a sibling Colors, A Simple Plan, Monster’s Ball — think is a pretty good place.” he says happily. “I mean, I’m known as an Thornton points out, with some pride. simply brings out one’s inner child. —MW before Bad Santa proved he could carry a Add to that the fact that his bigger actor more than a celebrity, and I think a “And a couple of those relationships, I got Bob Strauss is an L.A.-based movie writer.

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ugh Grant just can’t seem to escape the sounds of pop put three notes together and not scare small children, because music, and it’s driving him a bit nuts. In last year’s dark I can’t. And the biggest irony of it all is me playing this talented Hsatire on reality television and politics, American Dreamz, and charismatic pop star, because as you’ve probably already

Grant played a snotty Simon Cowell-like music executive discovered, I’m neither. I have been incredibly miscast. Why did 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 moonlighting as a judge on an American Idol-esque show. In this I agree to do this film, anyway?” month’s Music and Lyrics, the 46-year-old Brit plays middle-aged, As the movie begins Alex has been reduced to singing for former teen heartthrob Alex Fletcher, a one-time member of nostalgia-hungry nu-wavers at cheesy local events. Then he POP!, a chart-topping boy band along the lines of gets his big chance at a comeback when a current pop star Wham! and New Kids on the Block. invites him to write and record a duet with her. Problem is, While perpetual bachelor Grant says he loves music, and like most studio-created boy and girl groups, POP! didn’t write counts several musicians as his close friends (Coldplay’s their own songs. While Alex did write many of the melodies, he Chris Martin, Elton John), his own melodic shortcomings are never penned a single lyric. But help comes in the form of what have him flustered. Sophie Fisher (Barrymore), the woman who takes care of Alex’s “I can act, I can play sports and I’m a wonderful lover, but I’m plants. Having recently broken up with a boyfriend, Sophie absolutely hopeless when it comes to music, and I always have soothes her broken heart by singing while she works with his been,” Grant says with his trademark dry, British wit. He’s foliage. When Alex discovers the words are her own, he asks her wearing an Armani suit, but casually sans tie, as he lounges on to write with him. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a couch in a New York hotel suite. “Doing American Dreamz just “It’s a wonderful romantic comedy set against a world and made me realize how much I really admire anyone who could people we haven’t been hit over the head with,” says Grant. February13th M M

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M M In the ’90s, you played romantic leading men women adored. You’ve kept a really a low profile of late. There was even a span of a Is there anything you still like about the movie business? “I can’t Would you like to make a movie in which the press is a target? “I have Recently, however, you seem to be playing a bit of a jerk in films like year or two where you didn’t make a movie. Do you care about your think of anything offhand. I do quite like feeling like I’m working. often thought about that. I think it’s quite a difficult thing to do, Bridget Jones’s Diary and American Dreamz. How will Alex go over career at this point? “You’re right, I haven’t done very much work I think a man has to work at the end of the day, otherwise, you funnily enough. You never get any sympathy on this front, and with female fans? “Well, that’s not my main consideration in life. in the last few years, it’s true. I did slightly lose interest, but then just implode. It’s a bit like sheepdogs. They look miserable if I sort of see why. Whenever you see actors moaning about the Surprisingly, there are women who do quite like that kind of less I got bored. I got bored with being bored so I am back. they’re not chasing sheep. I don’t know why I brought up press, people’s reaction is just, ‘Oh, but you get paid so much cuddly type of character I’ve played in Bridget Jones’s Diary and In fact, in all honesty, the idea of playing an old, washed-up sheepdogs. But I do think you have to work and challenge and you love it anyway, blah blah blah.’” About a Boy. As for Alex, he’s relatively likable. He’s not an ass.” pop star drew me out of hibernation.” yourself. But it’s scary. And the thing I didn’t mention to you, really, which I’ve said before is the main reason I’m scared to What are your thoughts on today’s pop culture? “My theory is that Did you do much research? “The 1980s weren’t that long ago for me. Did you want to be famous when you were young? “I honestly don’t work, is just stage fright. I got a little touch of it on a couple of it’s all to do with capitalism and the free market. I think that you The senility hasn’t set in, yet, so I can remember watching a lot of think I did. I had ambitions, but they were mainly to do with films recently, where I suddenly seized up on scenes I should be work out, as a businessman, what people want, lowest common

those pop groups on Top of the Pops, or hearing them on the radio.” football. I wanted to play in the World Cup. I still haven’t given 100able 2 5to 25do 50 standing 75 95 98 on my head — just suddenly froze and my denominator market forces. The same with food. People 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 up hope completely. I didn’t ever think I want to be massive in mouth went dry, like panic attacks. I was so scared of that shouldn’t have Krispy Kreme donuts, but we’re going to create Is Alex based on anyone? “No, not really. Alex isn’t meant to be the world limelight, definitely not. A little bit of local limelight, happening again, I was reluctant to take a part. Now I start on them because they’re so delicious people won’t be able to resist.” fashioned after anyone in particular. I will admit, though, that I maybe. I quite like being the centre of attention out to lunch a film tomorrow and I can feel one coming on.” did watch a lot of tapes of ’80s singers like Duran Duran, Wham! with my family or something. That’s as far as it went.” I remember every time you did a Merchant-Ivory film people would and ABC. I have to say that many of them were, and still are, very Any differences between working in the United States and England? say, “Wow, Hugh Grant can really act.” You’re no longer tempted to good, and a lot of their music has stood the test of time.” Now that you’re older, do you think you’ve changed your outlook on “It’s not that different. There’s a lot more food around on an play those types of roles to show people what you can do? “I’ve fame and celebrity and how people see you? “Maybe, a bit, yes. You American film set. I got fatter than I’ve ever got in my life on never been tempted to do that, to do the part where I cry or get Why do you think Drew Barrymore is so often drawn to romantic get a bit weary and wary.” American Dreamz, and the irony is I was trying to get thin for AIDS or save some people from a concentration camp just to comedies? “She is just comfortable in any role she takes on. She’s Music and Lyrics. I thought I’d just eat health bars because I get good reviews. I genuinely believe that light comedy acting great in dramas and in action films such as a Charlie’s Angels, Do you feel like you’re going to have a mid-life crisis? “I don’t know. couldn’t find any food I liked in Los Angeles. So I got these is as hard as, if not harder than, serious acting, and it genuinely but she really shines when there is love and humour mixed I think I’ve had it. Look at my Aston Martin. If that’s not a mid- health bars, and I didn’t realize they had six billion calories doesn’t bother me that all the prizes and good reviews together in the story. I think that’s because she is so in love with life crisis, I don’t know what is. And there were about six months each and that’s why I’m so jowly in the film. And they work automatically by knee-jerk reaction go to the deepest, darkest, both. She’s a hopeless romantic, which makes her a natural in where I wore some quite dodgy shirts, just a bit too tight. But that 100bloody 2 5 25long 50 75 95hours 98 in the States, I’ll say that. My brother most serious performances and parts. It makes me laugh.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a love story, and she is really a funny, sweet person. That charm was about five years ago. I think I’m through it. I did burst into complains of the same thing. He works here as a banker and is not an act for her.” tears watching Finding Nemo, so maybe that’s a mid-life crisis.” looks like a broken man.” Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas.

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8 ValentineFor when “teddy bear holding a heart” just ain’t right I BY LIZA HERZ e Valentine’s Day is difficult for cool people.

Heart-shaped boxes of 1 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 6 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 chocolates clash with modern interiors, and long-stemmed roses are a bit of a yawn. So how can the cool maintain their edge in the face of all this seasonal treacle? 10 We believe you can keep your taste level intact, dear hipster, and still observe the rituals of 3 the day. Instead of getting your 12 loved one a cheesy “teddy bear holding a heart,” try Suck UK’s 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 modern classic Three-Gun Vase and a bunch of roses. Our fashion choices are 1 Armand Basi’s “In Red” Eau 4 The pure red mouth is a 7 Wear this Diamond Filigree 10 Take the cliché out of ostensibly traditional but keep de Parfum ($90 for 100 ml, classic old Hollywood look. Cross Pendant ($995, Birks) with long-stemmed roses by their style cred in the face of Holt Renfrew) blends earthy Styli-Style’s L3 Timeless white and it is above reproach, displaying them in this modern red overload by darkening ambergris and moss with Lipstick in Romance ($12.50, pair it with something black and classic Three-Gun Vase things up a bit. Add some ethereal lily of the valley and PharmaPlus) promises plush it’s transformed into a delicate ($69, Kama Kazi, Toronto, mystery and smoky heft to red jasmine for a unique scent you lips with rich, deep colour and Victorian artifact. www. kamakazistyle.com). nail polish with an undercoat will love (we do) or loathe oodles of long-lasting shine. It’s definitely not for of impenetrable black. (no middle ground here). 8 Valentine’s doesn’t everyone. Makeup stays simple and 5 For a dark but not goth nail, necessarily mean a red gown. glamorous with only mascara 2 11 100 2Get 5 smoldery-sexy, 25 50 75 95 98 never apply a base coat of Rimmel This Black Dress from Clinique High Definition 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 and liner for eyes 2 raccoon-like, eyes with Revlon’s Lasting Finish Nail Polish in Black JS Collection ($275, The Bay) Lashes ($17.50, department and deeply reddened lips Bedroom Eyes Powder Liner in Satin ($4, drugstores) followed has subtle beading and a stores) elongates lashes to — minimal effort, stunning Fishnet Jet ($15.50, drugstores). by two coats of your favourite plunging neckline, but you ridiculously glamorous lengths, effect. And you should The clever smudge applicator dark red or burgundy polish. can accessorize with dark and the built-in comb separates definitely wear luscious wand lets you deftly create a red lips and black/red nails them for a lush, clump-free undergarments that may soft line of sooty colour. 6 Strong minimal makeup for edge. fringe. or may not stay hidden. demands extra-clear skin. The If the whole chocolates-in-a- 3 This nylon and lamb leather new RoC Renewex At Home 9 Inspired by antique, carved 12 This beautiful lace heart-shaped-box thing is still Jacket from Rudsak ($275, Skin Renovator System ($65, jet, Anna Sui cosmetics cases DIM Cristalline Set (underwire a problem, just buy a giant www.rudsak.com) is an drugstores) with aluminum are utterly covetable. When the padded bra, $42, Brazilian brick of dark baking chocolate enduring classic in a modern oxide micro-crystal cream and Loose Powder ($36, Sears) is tanga, $18, The Bay) really and an ice pick and tell your fabrication, because even a soft sponge rotating head finished, use the jar to hold does deserve to be seen. sweetie to help themself. 100hipster 2 5 boys 25 50 75deserve 95 98 some gives professional level earrings or the shattered hearts How you arrange that is 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Very Basic Instinct. February 14th love too. skin-smoothing at home. of your discarded lovers. up to you.

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liner | notes | name I of I the I game I Outthis THE FUTURE OF RACING Fatal Inertia propels racing games ahead 200 years I BY SCOTT GARDNER 3/C

MONTH B 3/C BLOC PARTY creatively and destructively G A Weekend in the City B manipulate momentum — kind of like judo throws. For example, R >> February 6 G The latest “must-hear” you can shoot a giant magnet band from Britain looks R that will monkeywrench a vehicle’s handling, fire a rocket to break big with its to boost someone into a canyon second album. wall or start an avalanche, and the grappling hook just TARA SLONE overflows with fiendish Just Look Pretty and Sing possibilities. You’ll also see any >> February 20 damage to your ride, and it’ll The former Joydrop singer affect your ship’s performance. releases her debut CD, There’s plenty of love for anchored by the single gearheads as well. Different “My Little Secret.” vehicle classes resemble, Barenaked Ladies, from left: Ed Robertson, variously, big-nosed ’70s 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Tyler Stewart

MONEY MARK 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Corvettes, Stealth fighters, canyons, giant glacial ranges months.) That power drives the and Steven Page Brand New by Tomorrow FATAL INERTIA PS3 flying speedboats and even an — have escaped development game’s sophisticated internal >> February 20 Although Fatal Inertia sounds appealingly blocky winged and ecological ravages, but “physics,” creating the illusion Part-time Beastie Boy more like a cheesy, straight-to- minivan. Additionally, you can BARENAKED LADIES REVEAL MORE MATERIAL I BY INGRID RANDOJA now they are being used to race that the vehicles handle with a Money Mark lays his DVD thriller, perhaps starring alter both colour schemes and over and crash into at high solid, tangible, physical ou’d think that after recorded. They combined that terms of the older stuff, when emotions on the line with Tom Berenger and a former performance parts like spoilers, speeds. Presumably the presence. Although you’re just almost 20 years together with a prolific period of writing you make a record some songs this CD, which he wrote Playmate, it’s actually a cockpits, tails and wings. There’s Suzuki Foundation will not be holding a little plastic controller, Ythe Barenaked Ladies in which each member brought just don’t make it. It doesn’t as therapy to help him futuristic aerial racer. also a range of multiplayer sponsoring a team. the goal is to have you gritting wouldn’t have much to say to fresh material to the table, and mean they aren’t as good as the get through a dark In the 2200s — where we all modes and online play, including Speaking of the environment, your teeth and feeling gravity’s each other. But, in fact, the suddenly they had 27 new songs ones that do, they just don’t fit period in his life. drive hovercars — a new team racing and battles. band has never been more in ready to add to their repertoire. whatever the record is about.” motorsport combines street combat driving and space racing pull as you lean on the stick, And about that title…in tune with one another, as The first 13 songs were And when it comes to writing racing, off-road courses and have been videogame staples practically willing the flyer classical physics Newton’s 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 demonstrated this past year released as Barenaked Ladies new songs, Page knows it’s about says. “It’s a big part of what our demolition derby. In this since the mountains were around a looming obstacle. principle of inertia describes

when they rekindled their love Are Me last September, and taking risks and not just repeating relationship is like, trying to egg 100future 2 5 scenario, 25 50 75 95 98 it appears young, but Fatal Inertia uses The game’s underlying how an object is affected by of songwriting. this month the rest of the tunes set patterns. Fans have seen the each other on and take each environmentalists have also the considerable computational physics also forms the applied forces; so it does have In a bout of creative arrive as Barenaked Ladies Are group evolve from being a cutesy other to new places. And also prevailed…sort of. Large tracts power of the PS3 to tweak the cornerstone of combat. Rather a certain geeky wit to it. But a housekeeping, the Ladies — Men (in stores February 6th). cult band that made waves with what we’re trying to do in a of lovely, pristine landscape — genre. (The game will also be than blowing up opponents, the scowling Tom Berenger would vocalist/guitarist Ed Robertson, Both discs are also available catchy songs, to a mature pop collaborative situation is to get remote woodlands, dusty available for Xbox 360 in a few various weapons are used to have been cool too. vocalist/guitarist Steven Page, online as a deluxe edition. ensemble with the ability to somebody else to say something drummer Tyler Stewart, bassist “Because we have a band break your heart with their lyrics they wouldn’t normally have the play a variety of regular folk interacting Each maze is constructed of cubes like Jim Creeggan and keyboardist with four songwriters in it we just as easily as make you laugh. guts to say. When you start with other citizens while trying to escape you, suspended in midair, and peppered Kevin Hearn — cleaned out had a lot of material to choose “When Ed and I write together putting your own words in their the deluge. Staying alive involves climbing, with bombs, conveyor belts, elevators, dusty drawers to retrieve from,” says Page on the line I think we try to surprise each mouths it makes things a lot jumping, crawling and puzzle-solving, all spikes and other traps. And while your songs they’d written but never from his Toronto home. “In other as much as we can,” he more interesting.” while staying as warm and dry as possible. box-hero can only move in six cubey One of your biggest risks is dying from directions, it does stick to any surface. You 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 exposure, and the only zombies you’ll can also use wi-fi to beam custom levels encounter here are shattered fellow you’ve created to other PSPs, or play 35 citizens exhibiting a traumatized standard mazes head to head. KNOCKOUT PUNCH thousand-yard stare. ondre Lerche has kicked his brand of subtle, poetic rock out the door and gotten in RAW DANGER PS2 CUBE PSP touch with his ’80s inner child. Raised listening to his older sister’s ’80s tapes, the A waterfront city has been pelted by With titles like the Lumines series, WTF, S24-year-old Norwegian pop star revels in the sounds of the era, paying homage to storms, and as Raw Danger begins, a flash and good old Lemmings, the handheld PSP Elvis Costello, Spandau Ballet and others from the period on his fourth CD, Phantom Punch flood sweeps through, wiping out bridges, has become a very solid platform for puzzle (in stores March 6th). This isn’t a revolutionary record from the talented singer/songwriter, buildings and, ultimately, social order. While games, although this latest entry seems a but rather a trip into his, and our, musical pasts. many games strive to avert a catastrophe little, heh, heh, square. In Cube you play a

The great news here is that Lerche wraps these songs in his plaintive voice — sometimes deep — or even cause one — this is one of the 3-D polyhedron bounded at right angles by 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

and resonating, sometimes disarmingly girly (that’s a good thing) — and delivers them with urgency. few00 2 about 5 25 surviving 50 75 95 98 a natural disaster. six equal squares (okay, a cube) racing the Many of the songs were recorded in one raw take, and the record is all the better for it. As the city becomes a deathtrap, you clock to negotiate 135 hazard-filled levels. Unt

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G TRAILER her back for good. Wells carries G PARK BOYS: the movie, and his relatively R THE MOVIE ($39) nuanced performance shows a R Yes, it’s pretty much an new level of, um, maturity? GO HOME WITH MARIE ANTOINETTE, MAN OF THE YEARreleases OR TRAILER PARK BOYS I BY MARNI WEISZ s extended episode of the Trailer Other plot twists see the boys Park Boys TV series, but it’s a landing in jail after crashing newFEBRUARY 6 FEBRUARY 13 wooing his neighbour (Jacinda Barrett), a good extended episode, and the through a convenience store meek parking meter cop (Heder) enrolls in fans seemed to enjoy watching window, and then trying to steal HOLLYWOODLAND MARIE ANTOINETTE a class on confidence boosting taught by Ricky (Robb Wells), Bubbles a huge amount of change, FEBRUARY 20 mob-oriented flick since 1995’s STARS: Ben Affleck, STARS: Kirsten Dunst, the sadistic Dr. P (Thornton). (Mike Smith) and Julian (John which can’t be traced like bills. Casino (unless you count DIRECTOR: Allen Coulter (debut) DIRECTOR: (Lost in Translation) DVD EXTRAS: director commentary, gag Paul Tremblay) mess around on For those who could’ve done THE DEPARTED ($36) Gangs of New York, but we STORY: Affleck won Best Actor at the STORY: In an attempt to make the reel, deleted scenes the big screen for 95 minutes. with more than 95 minutes, the The plot sounds like a recipe don’t), and his third movie in a for his portrayal of infamous French Queen (Dunst) more Director Mike Clattenburg DVD features lost interviews with for disaster: A young Boston row with DiCaprio, following George Reeves, the man who reluctantly relatable, director Coppola suggests ZOOM managed to inject some extra the gang as they philosophize cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes Gangs and The Aviator. played Superman on the cheesy TV series similarities between Marie Antoinette and STARS: Tim Allen, heart into the film, much of it about everything from lap undercover and infiltrates the A two-disc Special Edition 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 of the 1950s. This noirish thriller dips modern-day celebutantes via rock music Courteney Cox courtesy of Ricky, who longs for dances to the percentages of mob, while a young mobster ($40) includes additional back and forth between Reeves’ life, which and funny wardrobe twists, like sneakers DIRECTOR: gayness, alternate takes, and a (Matt Damon) goes undercover scenes, each featuring an ended with an apparent suicide, and that worn with corsets, in this lavish film shot Peter Hewitt (Garfield) whack of deleted scenes, and infiltrates the police force. introduction by Scorsese, and a of a private investigator (Adrien Brody) partly at Marie Antoinette’s actual STORY: Over-the-hill including a hilarious mobius- Could have been a complicated couple of documentaries — hired by Reeves’ mother to find out if residence, the Palace of Versailles. superhero Captain Zoom strip of a conversation between mess, but director Martin “Stranger Than Fiction: her boy’s death was really murder. (Allen) comes out of Ricky, Julian and J-Roc Scorsese pulls it off, delivering The True Story of Whitey Bulger, DVD EXTRAS: “Recreating Old Hollywood,” HALF NELSON retirement to train a bunch of junior (Jonathan Torrens) that really a stylish ride that was one of the Southie and The Departed,” “Behind the Headlines,” “Hollywood STARS: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps superheroes in anticipation of the return of should have been in the movie. best-reviewed movies of 2006. and “Crossing Criminal Then and Now,” director commentary, DIRECTOR: Ryan Fleck (Young Rebels) his arch-enemy, Concussion. “Know what I’m sayin’?” The film is Scorsese’s first Cultures.” deleted scenes STORY: This indie drama showed up on a DVD EXTRAS: “Bringing Special Effects lot of 2006 Top Ten lists, in large part to Life,” “Academy for Superheroes TRUST THE MAN because of another standout performance Guide for Kids” their songs, fans burned their albums and FLUSHED AWAY THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND STARS: David Duchovny, by Ontario born and bred Ryan Gosling. 100Maines 2 5 25even 50 75 received 95 98 death threats for VOICES: , Kate Winslet STARS: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Billy Crudup Here Gosling plays an inner city New York FEBRUARY 20 dissing the Commander-in-Chief on the DIRECTORS: David Bowers, Sam Fell DIRECTOR: Kevin Macdonald DIRECTOR: Bart Freundlich teacher who inspires his students by day, eve of the Iraq war. DVD EXTRAS: deleted STORY: In this first computer-animated (Touching the Void) (Catch that Kid) but feeds his drug problem by night. After MAN OF THE YEAR scenes, making-of featurette, commentary feature from claymation wizards Aardman STORY: Fact and fiction intersect in this STORY: a student (Epps), who herself has grown STARS: , Laura Linney track, filmmakers Q&A (Wallace & Gromit), an upper-crust pet lauded indie drama about notorious (director Freundlich’s up in a drug-dealing family, finds him DIRECTOR: Barry Levinson (Bandits) mouse (Jackman) is flushed down the Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada real-life wife) plays a passed out in the school’s locker room, STORY: On a lark, the host of a late-night BABEL toilet and into the sewer system where he (Whitaker) and a mostly fictional young successful actor whose husband the pair develops an unlikely bond. talk show (Williams) decides to run for STARS: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett has to survive amongst the less fortunate Scottish doctor (McAvoy) who becomes the (Duchovny) has taken on most of the child- DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, outtakes, President. Much to his surprise he wins, DIRECTOR: Alejandro González Iñárritu vermin and rodents, and try to find a way dictator’s personal physician. Based on the rearing responsibilities. Meanwhile, commentary track but not because he has charmed the (21 Grams) to get back home. 1998 novel by Giles Foden. Crudup plays Moore’s lazy brother, who American people with his wit. He wins STORY: In this final piece of his trilogy that can’t commit to anything, including his INFAMOUS because of a technical glitch in a new includes Amores Perros and 21 Grams, FEBRUARY 27 TENACIOUS D IN

girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal). STARS: Toby Jones, computerized ballot-counting system. But 100Iñárritu 2 5 25interconnects 50 75 95 98 three stories. THE PICK OF DESTINY 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 DVD EXTRAS: commentaries by Freundlich DIRECTOR: Douglas McGrath (Company Man) Delacroy Voting Systems, the company There’s the American couple (Pitt and A GOOD YEAR STARS: Jack Black, Kyle Gass and Duchovny, “Real Love: The Making of STORY: If you loved Capote, but aren’t responsible for the system desperately Blanchett) riding in a tour bus in Morocco STARS: , DIRECTOR: Liam Lynch Trust the Man,” four deleted scenes quite sure whether you’re ready to see it wants to hide the flaw. DVD Extras: when an errant bullet rips through her DIRECTOR: (Gladiator) (Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic) again on DVD, rent Infamous instead. It’s a “Commander and Chief,” “Robin Williams shoulder. Then there’s their Mexican STORY: Banking = bad; Provence = good in STORY: It’s been about 12 years since THE RETURN slightly different take on Truman Capote’s is a Stand-Up Guy” housekeeper back in the States who makes this stop-and-smell-the-roses romance Black and Gass formed the real-life rock STARS: Sam Shepard, Sarah Michelle Gellar experiences writing In Cold Blood, the the disastrous mistake of taking the from the boys who brought you Gladiator. outfit Tenacious D, which has been DIRECTOR: Asif Kapadia (The Warrior) eccentric journalist’s groundbreaking SHUT UP & SING couple’s two kids across the Mexican Crowe plays Max, a cocky London featured in an HBO series, performed on STORY: Joanna Mills (Gellar) is a woman account of a small-town murder. STARS: The Dixie Chicks border to attend a wedding. And finally investment banker whose uncle (Finney) Saturday Night Live and even toured. This, who’s already on the edge, thanks to a bad DIRECTOR: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck there’s the deaf and mute Japanese dies, leaving him a vineyard in the south of the band’s first movie, sees the formation relationship with her dad (Shepard) and an SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS STORY: This documentary covers the fallout schoolgirl whose connection to the France. When Max travels to Provence to of the pot-addled duo, and then follows obsessive ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott), when STARS: Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton after Natalie Maines, lead singer of the shooting is eventually revealed. fix the place up before selling, he falls in them as they search for a magic pick that she starts to have nightmares that depict the DIRECTOR: Todd Phillips (Starsky & Hutch) girl-group the Dixie Chicks, told a British DVD EXTRAS: a two-disc Special Collector’s love with the locale…and a comely French will help them write a rock masterpiece. murder of a young woman she doesn’t know. STORY: After being harassed by co-workers, audience she was embarrassed President 100Edition 2 5 25features 50 75 95 “The 98 Making of Babel: woman (Marion Cotillard). DVD EXTRAS: commentary tracks, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, making-of having his sneakers stolen by gang George Bush was from her home state of West,” “The Making of Babel: East” and DVD EXTRAS: director commentary, 16 deleted scenes, “In the Studio: featurette, alternate ending members and having absolutely no luck Texas. Country stations stopped playing “The Making of Babel: Far East” making-of featurette Making the Music Video”

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star | gazing | comes to speaking your mind. It’s a good month to pursue artistic goals for enjoyment, not profit. And don’t forget 3/C FEBRUARY any February birthdays. B

Leo G July 23 � August 22 2007 R Timing is crucial. Don’t wait too long HOROSCOPE | BY DAN LIEBMAN before venting your annoyance. Let someone else take the lead in a partnership or team arrangement. An Aquarius unexpected ally goes to bat for you after January 21 � February 19 the 19th. It’s a good month for overseas An interest in a hobby intensifies, but keep communications, visitors and visits. your spending under control. When a friend asks for a frank opinion on a Virgo sensitive topic, do not feel you must be August 23 � September 22 brutally honest. You and a partner tend to Many conflicting stories are heard through disagree a lot, but only on small things — February. By the 28th, you’ll have a clear like movie choices. idea of the truth. Avoid office politics, but 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 be assertive in family matters — especially Pisces those involving older relatives. An original February 20 � March 20 idea can lead to increased income. Your files prove useful, so think twice before destroying them. A friend is Libra less distracted and more considerate. September 23 � October 22 You’re not as intuitive as usual, so avoid A platonic friendship evolves, and a making predictions. relationship with a child improves. You also find yourself fascinated with things Aries mechanical. Be careful about accepting March 21 � April 20 favours around the 20th. Celebrate an You find your comfort level with a new event with homey touches rather than friend, while at work you prove you can lavish ones. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 handle greater responsibility. Your predictions (including Academy Awards Scorpio picks) are uncannily accurate. It’s a good October 23 � November 21 month for decorating, with the accent on You’re known to be private, but make retro themes. yourself accessible. There are some exciting professional opportunities, and Taurus you’re very much in the running. People April 21 � May 22 are flirtatious — before, during and after Your interest in finance continues. Valentine’s Day. You prove to be a powerful Consider signing up for a business course. communicator. Watch who you share secrets with,

especially after the 15th. Balance is key Sagittarius 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 in health and diet, where you lean toward November 22 � December 22 extremes. Pets and pet causes are You don’t usually take sides in a family prominent in the late-month picture. dispute, but this month you appear to have no choice. A friend enjoys a financial Gemini windfall or other good news. Pay attention May 23 � June 21 to detail when making a major purchase, After several attempts, you and an old planning a getaway or taking on a new friend finally connect. There are a number winter sport. of puzzles to unravel this month, but you’re up to the challenges. In fact, Capricorn try to enter a competition of skill. December 23 � January 20 You make an impression on your employer 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Cancer while you continue to stand up for the June 22 � July 22 underdog. Take time to upgrade your Several attractive offers come your surroundings through botanical touches. way. Just know what you’re getting into And — especially at month’s end — avoid before signing on. Avoid subtlety when it meddling in a friend’s love life.

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EVA LONGORIA “I like being the experienced one. I’m the teacher, especially about love. I love to spoil a man by cooking different dinners,

like fondue. Men love good food.” 3/C B KATE HUDSON

“We can make men do what we want, but G it’s important that the man feels like he’s R in charge some of the time.”

MATTHEW PERRY “My favourite line is to go up to a girl who is wearing, like, a pretty dress and say, ‘You know, I had to come talk to you because I have the same outfit.’” 10ON THE ART OF “I like girls who are a lot smarter than I SEDUCTION am. They’ve always got something new to BY SUSAN GRANGER tell you; there’s something to learn.” STARS 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PATRICK DEMPSEY “My wife’s a hairstylist, so I pretend I’ve never met her and I’m coming in to get a haircut. The barber chair has added a lot to our relationship.”

MEG RYAN “You can go a long way with the nails, the hair, the breasts, the high heels, the walk, the deep voice. Men don’t realize how manipulated they can be. They are really

sitting ducks a lot of the time.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

EWAN MCGREGOR “I was never very good at it, especially with Scottish women. If you try to chat them up, they cut you down. One time, I was just talking about my feelings or something, and this girl said, ‘You’re being a bit f---king deep, aren’t you?’ She was saying, ‘I know what you want. Just get on with it.’”

SALMA HAYEK 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “I’m not telling — but there was never a man I wanted in my life I couldn’t have.”

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY “Dancing’s good. I’ve got some unconventional moves that work for me.”

ZACH BRAFF “What works for me is being the Everyman dork who sticks his foot in his mouth. I don’t have any interest in being the cool guy.” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PHOTO BY CARLO ALLEGRI/GETTY

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