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Famous InsideOCTOBER 2009VOLUME 10 •10 regulars EDITOR’S NOTE6 CAUGHT ON FILM8 ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF10 SPOTLIGHT12 STYLE38 MUSIC MAKERS42 HOT PLAY44 DVD RELEASES46 HOROSCOPE48 FAMOUS LAST WORDS50 features FALL-HOLIDAY PREVIEW15 Movies about robots, wizards and men behaving badly are replaced with more serious fare, and we’ve got the details in our Fall-Holiday Preview • By Marni Weisz cover & Ingrid Randoja story HUSBANDS AND WIVES24 Couples Retreat co-stars Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, and director Peter Billingsley, tell us why they’re dead serious when it comes to poking fun at failing relationships 34 • By Glenn Whipp DIAZ’S DILEMMA Cameron Diaz faces a huge dilemma in her new movie The Box — whether or not to push a button and, perhaps, kill a stranger in order to earn $1-million. Off-screen, the 37-year-old beauty DERBY DARLINGS26 also faces difficult decisions (like when to act her age in youth-obsessed Hollywood) Whip It star Ellen Page and her • By Kevin Williamson co-star/director Drew Barrymore reveal how making a rock ’em sock ’em movie about ladies roller derby empowered them both • By Bob Strauss DESERT ROSE30 Patricia Clarkson talks about heading into the desert to make the burning romance Cairo Time 26 12 24 30 INTERNATIONAL WATTS/ICON CLIFF BY PHOTO COVER • By Ingrid Randoja 4 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 EDITOR’S NOTE Famous PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ALIZA KLEIN DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS SCOTT GARDNER, LIZA HERZ, DAN LIEBMAN, BOB STRAUSS, GLENN WHIPP, KEVIN WILLIAMSON ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUÉBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) VICE PRESIDENT, SALES IF I HADA MILLION JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) DIRECTOR OF SALES, FAMOUS MAGAZINES LORELEI OEMING (ext. 249) DIRECTOR, SALES CINDY FROST (ext. 254) DOLLARS… DIRECTOR, SALES ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) ACCOUNT MANAGERS JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) So, what’s a million dollars worth these days anyway? CORY ATKINS (ext. 257) In next month’s thriller The Box, Cameron Diaz plays one half of a married couple posed with a MICHAEL VAN ZON (ext. 241) VINCENT ALOI (ext. 235) moral dilemma. The twosome (James Marsden plays her hubbie) is presented with a strange box, ED VILLA (ext. 239) topped with a button, and told that if they push the button someone they don’t know, somewhere SHEREE MCKAVANAGH (ext. 245) in the world, will die. On the upside, they will be given a million dollars. DIRECTOR, MEDIA OPERATIONS CATHY PROWSE (ext. 223) The film is based on Button, Button, a short story by Richard Matheson that was first published in the June 1970 issue of Playboy. In Matheson’s story the reward for pushing the button was a mere QUEBEC 514.868.0005 DIRECTOR, SALES $50,000. When the tale was adapted for a 1986 episode of The Twilight Zone the prize was upped to SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) $200,000. And now, even though The Box takes place in the 1970s, before that Twilight Zone episode, ACCOUNT MANAGER the incentive has been upped again — to $1-million. Guess The Box’s people didn’t think we’d be GENEVIÈVE ROSSIGNOL (ext. 224) SALES COORDINATOR willing to account for inflation. That, after all, would involve doing math in our leisure time. ANNIE DESJARDINS (ext. 223) Besides, $1-million seems like a good amount. It’s the price Robert Redford offers Woody Harrelson BRITISH COLUMBIA 778.997.3923 and Demi Moore to sleep with the latter in 1994’s Indecent Proposal. 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Then there’s that question that comes up on the dock at the cottage: How much $31.50 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. would you have to win in a lottery to quit your job? I don’t think a million would do it for me. Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, In “Decisions, Decisions, Decisions,” page 34, Diaz, who takes home millions for every movie she back issue requests and letters to the editor should be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., makes, talks about the repercussions of decisions — big and small — we make every day. Ste. 100, Toronto, ON, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn have some decisions to make in their new comedy Couples Retreat, or [email protected] like whether to stick with their failing marriages. For “Wedding Bashers,” page 24, we talk to the Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019. 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And starting on page 15 we have our Fall-Holiday Movie Preview, your guide to all the big movies © Cineplex Entertainment 2009. coming out from now until the New Year. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Marni Weisz, editor 6 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 SNAPS LEONARDO DICAPRIO Jake Gyllenhaal captures 1 the moment as girlfriend JAKE GYLLENHAAL Reese Witherspoon’s daughter Ava crosses the finish line of a CAUGHT RACHELLE LEFEVRE 5 km race on Martha’s Vineyard. Gyllenhaal had already finished ETHAN HAWKE the race 53rd out of more than 1,500 runners. AUDRINA PATRIDGE PHOTO BY JACK MCCOY/SPLASH NEWS ON FILM Ethan Hawke finally gets to 2 explore his Christ complex during a performance of William Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale at Greece’s Epidaurus Theatre. This was just one of several European stops for the touring production directed by Sam Mendes. PHOTO BY TOM DASKALAKIS/SPLASH NEWS Hey, that’s not regulation. 3 Audrina Patridge stands in front of the mound to throw out the first pitch at a recent L.A. Dodgers game. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS “Don’t just stand there, help 4 him! It’s Leonardo DiCaprio for God’s sake!” The cutie-pie actor shows he can take a punch while shooting Christopher Nolan’s Inception in Morocco. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS Montreal’s Rachelle Lefevre 2 3 5 shoots a dramatic scene for Barney’s Version in Rome. Let’s hope the movie based on Mordecai Richler’s notable novel is good. Scheduling conflicts have been cited as the reason the Canadian actor got bumped from the Twilight franchise. PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS 8 FAMOUS1OCTOBER 2009 4 5 OCTOBER 2009 FAMOUS 9 SHORTS ENTERTAINMENT IN Forget Halloween,BRIEF October’s all about baseball for Saw star Tobin Bell. Plus, Buzz’s bust World Series games, but I’m so busy talking to the press that I can’t go,” says the 67-year-old Bell on the line from New York.