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MEDIA: VARIOUS MAGAZINES SUPPLIER: OPTIUM AGENCY: TBWA\TORONTO STUDIO ARTIST: AM AUG 6/03 CLIENT: NISSAN CANADA contents Famous | volume 5 | number 4 24 20 32 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 20 QUAID IN FULL 06 EDITORIAL 40 NAME OF THE GAME He let drugs and marital problems Take a spin with Toca Race Driver 2 drag him down, but Dennis Quaid 08 SNAPS has since battled his demons and Elijah Wood parties at Mardi Gras, 41 FIVE FAVOURITE FILMS revived his career. Find out what Jennifer Aniston shows off her John Cleese refers you to went wrong, and what’s going right peekaboo dress Dr. Strangelove for the actor, including a starring role in The Alamo I By Earl Dittman 10 SHORTS 42 VIDEO AND DVD Kristin Booth opens up about eating Big Fish on the small screen 24 BILL ME NOW disorders, and toys that talk to the TV Kill Bill: Vol. 2’s creator Quentin 44 HOROSCOPE Tarantino tells us about the highly 14 THE BIG PICTURE anticipated finale to his revenge Say hello to Hellboy 46 FAMOUS LAST WORDS epic, while comeback queen Daryl Celebs contemplate political careers Hannah weighs in on the film’s 18 SPOTLIGHT violence I By Barrett Hooper Laura Harring’s wild life COVERSTORY 28 THE WHOLE TRUTH 22 TRIVIA Matthew Perry talks about rehab 32 CROSSING OVER andreuniting with old pals to make 26 COMING SOON Nia Vardalos stunned the world The Whole Ten Yards I By Earl Dittman It’s almost time for Troy with the success of her debut film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but 30 GIRL TALK 36 THINGS can she pull off another coup with Mean Girls’ Lacey Chabert on Makeup’s bright ideas her second pic, the cross-dressing surviving teen troubles, and what comedy Connie and Carla? it’s like to be a young Christian in 38 BIT STREAMING I By Ingrid Randoja Hollywood I By Marni Weisz Enter Motion Picture Purgatory COVER PHOTO BY PATRICK FRASER/ICON INT’L famous 4 | april 2004 847855_N41_553_1411A bleed trim live SUMMER 2004 COLLECTION N41-553_1411A ZELLERS MOSSIMO MAGAZINE _ SUMMER COLLECTION_ENGLISH Publications: Flare, Fashion, People, Elle, and Famous Bleed: 8.75" x 11.375" Trim: 7.875" x 10.5" Live: 7" x 10" 4/C • Printout @100% • Print Prod: Kim B. • Artist: Graham B. • March 4/04 editorial | April 2004 volume 5 number 4 WEDDING’S GIFT PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR y now, you all know that EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA Nia Vardalos’s last film, My Big CREATIVE DIRECTOR DANIEL CULLEN Fat Greek Wedding, became B PRODUCTION MANAGER SHEILA GREGORY the highest-grossing independent PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA movie of all-time. Sure, that sounds impressive. But come on, we’re CONTRIBUTORS EARL DITTMAN talking independent films, right? SCOTT GARDNER I mean, what is an independent SUSAN GRANGER film anyway? Sometimes it seems BARRETT HOOPER that any film with a budget under DAN LIEBMAN $50-million gets tagged with the ZENYA SIRANT label, or that if a famous actor ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS takes a 10-percent pay cut to be in IS HANDLED BY FAMOUS PLAYERS MEDIA INC. a film, it’s considered independent. The official definition of an HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 independent is any film not made GENERAL MANAGER ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) by one of the big eight studios —Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros., NATIONAL SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) MGM, DreamWorks, Columbia, Universal or Fox. But things get DIRECTOR OF SALES ANTON KIM (ext. 238) more wishy-washy when you consider how many production com- ACCOUNT MANAGERS JAMIE CRUVER(ext. 224) panies, studios and distributors are often involved in a pic by the ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) time it hits the megaplex. JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) TAP CHAUHAN (ext. 235) Of course, that wide definition only makes Vardalos’s feat all the SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE(ext. 256) more impressive. Would you have guessed that Silence of the Lambs is COORDINATOR considered an independent film? It is, having been produced by now-defunct Orion Pictures. Then there’s Pulp Fiction, The Usual BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 Suspects, Se7en, Platoon, even the Kill Bill movies — all considered inde- WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH pendent because they weren’t made by one of the big eight studios. So how does Vardalos follow up the highest-grossing indie film ALBERTA 403.266.4412 of all time? By joining the ranks of the studio system, of course. It WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS was Universal that coughed up the dough for her latest, Connie and Carla. In “Great Expectations,” page 32, the Winnipeg- QUEBEC 514.868.0005 ADVERTISING & SALES MANAGER NATHALIE RHO (ext. 223) born actor/writer tells you about the downside of making more ACCOUNT MANAGER MICHAEL KALLAUR (ext. 222) than $350-million (U.S.) with Greek Wedding, and what that movie has in common with Connie and Carla. SPECIAL THANKS CAROLINE BURGHER As you may have noticed a couple paragraphs back, Quentin MATHIEU CHANTELOIS Tarantino’s gory Kill Bill movies are considered independent. That’s ROBB CHASE because they were produced by Miramax, which, even though JOAN GRANT owned by Disney, isn’t considered to be one of the big boys. That’s CATHY PROWSE fine with Tarantino, he probably wouldn’t have been able to make SUSAN REGINELLI the blood-gusher the way he wanted (never mind chop it in half and JEFF RUSH release it as two volumes) if he’d been with anyone else. 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Famous magazine is not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. about a decade ahead of Perry in the whole recovery game. No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written And on page 30 you’ll find “Cruel Intentions,” our interview with consent of the publisher. © 1371327 Ontario Ltd. 2002. Party of Five alum Lacey Chabert. The child actor is all grown up now — 21 to be exact — but that didn’t stop her from playing a snotty high school student in Mean Girls.