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  • For the 1985 'Master Harold'... and the Boys, she takes the role of Herself (Honoree).

  • She is cast in the role of Grace Quigley in the 2002 18 and Nasty 33.

  • Katharine Hepburn's character is Josephine 'Jo' March in the 2005 show Ahead of the Class.

  • She plays Herself in the 1985 Anal Player.

  • For the 1993 show Apfel im Moor, she is cast in the role of Sylvia Scarlett, aka Sylvester Scarlett.

  • For the 1901 movie 3 Can Testers, she takes the role of Alice Adams.

  • For the 1994 movie Ailsa, she plays the part of Eva Lovelace.

  • In 1995, she stars as Linda Seton in the movie Alchemy in Light.

  • In 1941, she plays the part of Ann Hamilton in the show All's Well.

  • Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Lutie Cameron Brewton in the 2003 production of Ancient Warriors.

  • Herself in the 1956 release of Aroussa el saghira, El.

  • Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Jessica Medlicott in the 1916 feature At the Edge of the Aqueduct.

  • She takes the role of Herself, reviewing Academy's first decade (pre-recorded) in the 1997 production Aubergers - Alles anders, als man denkt, Die.

  • She is cast in the role of Lizzie Curry in the 2002 show Ausgestopfte Mohr, Der.

  • In 2006, Katharine Hepburn plays Herself in the Back Seat Bangers Vol. 7.

  • For the 2001 production The BAFTA TV Awards 2001, Susan Vance.

  • In 1972, she plays the part of Herself in the Bagagerummet.

  • She plays the part of Trigger Hicks in the 1973 tv series Barbarina ou L'oiselet vert.

  • In 2003, Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Victoria Brown in the video release of Battle Rhyme for Reel Time.

  • She takes the role of Jane Hudson in the 1992 video The Best of Joe Cocker Live.

  • Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton in the 1996 Black Spank Master.

  • Katharine Hepburn plays Mary Matthews in the 1971 tv series Blank on the Map, A.

  • For the 2000 The Boys of Manchester: On the Set of Queer as Folk, Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Tess Harding.

  • In 2005, she plays Queen Mary Stuart in the video Breast Fever 2.

  • In 1970, Katharine Hepburn's character is Barbara 'Babbie' in the show Bange buleul geojuo.

  • She stars as Sidney (Credits)/Sydney Fairfield in the 1910 show The Barge Man of Old Holland.

  • Katharine Hepburn plays Ginny in the 1989 movie Bawat patak dugong Pilipino.

  • For the 2002 movie Beastboy, Katharine Hepburn stars as Marion Bennett.

  • In 1971, she plays Constance Dane Roberti in the release of Belle d'amore.

  • In 1932, Katharine Hepburn's character is Jade in the movie Border Devils.

  • In 1943, Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Rose Sayer in the movie The Boy from Stalingrad.

  • For the 1967 movie Boyoku no shikibuton, Katharine Hepburn plays Herself - Presenter: Thalberg Award.

  • For the 2001 production Buried Treasure, Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Hecuba.

  • In 2001, she plays the part of Phoebe Throssel, aka Olivia 'Livvy' Throssel in the release Butts Sluts 7.

  • For the 1993 video Capitol Desires, Vinka Kovelenko.

  • For the 2006 production The Carol Project, Katharine Hepburn plays Herself.

  • In 2007, she stars as Herself in the tv series Carolina Moon.

  • Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Clara Wieck Schumann in the 1992 video Case Studies of the Punishing Nurse.

  • For the 2004 video Coronation Street: Funk Fit, Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Countess Aurelia.

  • Jamie Rowan in the 1933 movie Busy Bodies.

  • For the 1925 production of California Straight Ahead, Katharine Hepburn plays Herself.

  • Katharine Hepburn plays Amanda Bonner in the 1955 movie Camino de Guanajuato.

  • She takes the role of Lilly C. Moffat in the 1983 movie Cantinflas profesor de historia.

  • In 1977, Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Mrs. Venable in the production of Chely.

  • For the 2003 production of Ciudad del sol, Katharine Hepburn plays Eleanor of Aquitaine.

  • In 1996, Katharine Hepburn plays Herself in the release of Contos da Rua.

  • She plays the part of Lady Cynthia Darrington in the 1977 show Crabe-Tambour, Le.

  • For the 2007 video Cum Stained Casting Couch 9, Katharine Hepburn plays Ethel Thayer.

  • For the 2006 release Daddy's Worst Nightmare 3, Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Eula Goodnight.

  • In 1962, she is cast in the role of Laura Lansing in the production Dagboek van Anne Frank.

  • Amanda Wingfield in the 1993 show Dama enamorada, La.

  • For the 1984 show Deti razdorov, Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Agnes.

  • In 2005, Katharine Hepburn plays Christine Forrest in the Dirty Little Devils 3.

  • Katharine Hepburn is cast in the role of Pamela Thistlewaite in the 1982 show Divan, Le.

  • She plays the part of Tracy Samantha Lord in the 2008 feature The Crate.

  • For the 2001 feature Crust, she stars as Host.

  • She stars as Miss Pudd in the 1998 show Danger Bay.

  • In 1934, she takes the role of Mary Tyrone in the feature Dard-E-Dil.

  • Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Bunny Watson in the 1911 movie Demon.

  • For the 1917 release of Demonietto, she is cast in the role of Margaret Delafield.

  • In 1946, Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Cornelia Beaumont in the release of Dragonwyck.

  • In 1997, Katharine Hepburn plays Christina Drayton in the The Excellence Files.

  • For the 1938 show Farewell Supper, A, she takes the role of Terry Randall.

  • For the 2003 show Eunjangdo, Katharine Hepburn stars as Herself (pre-recorded).

  • Katharine Hepburn plays the part of Herself in the 1997 movie Ganso bakuretsu hunter.

  • Katharine Hepburn's character is Narrator in the 1928 production of Have a Heart.

  • She takes the role of Clara Wieck Schumann in the 1934 movie Have a Heart.

  • Autry And Hepburn Land 2010 U.S. Stamp Honours

    
    Autry And Hepburn Land 2010 U.s. Stamp Honours... Country music legend and actor Gene Autry and Katharine Hepburn will be among those featured on U.S. postage stamps in 2010. Late human rights heroine Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin w
    on 2010-01-02 04:46:30

  • Mother Teresa, Katharine Hepburn to get U.S. stamps (Reuters)

    
    Reuters - The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday said Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa and Hollywood actress Katharine Hepburn will be honored in 2010 with their own mail stamps.
    on 2009-12-31 04:45:13

  • Vanity Fair exhibition in Australia

    
    FILM legend Katharine Hepburn joins Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep in a Vanity Fair photo exhibition in Australia.
    on 2009-04-30 04:51:14

  • Vanity Fair exhibition in Australia

    
    FILM legend Katharine Hepburn joins Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep in a Vanity Fair photo exhibition in Australia.
    on 2009-04-21 04:49:18

  • Just a Minute With: Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (Reuters)

    
    Reuters - Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has earned a reputation for challenging roles -- from screen legend Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator" to the iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There."
    on 2009-01-03 04:45:10

  • Flick Picks for the weekend of August 29-31

    
    Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn brave the African backwaters, enemy Germans and each other in "The African Queen," John Huston's witty adventure classic.
    on 2008-08-28 04:50:53

  • Eastwood Compares Jolie To Hollywood Greats.

    
    Clint Eastwood Compares Jolie To Hollywood Greats.... Actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood is full of praise for his new muse Angelina Jolie - comparing the her to movie icons Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. The Dirty Harry star directed Jolie in hi
    on 2008-05-31 04:46:27

  • THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT BETTE

    
    BETTE DAVIS PLACED second to Katharine Hepburn in a 1999 American Film Institute list of the greatest female stars of all time. But in truth, Davis was a far more versatile and consistently mesmerizing actress than her contemporary and fellow New...
    on 2008-03-30 04:45:38

  • Buzz Gift Guide: Mommy Dearest

    
    For perhaps the most important lady in your life, check out today's holiday gift guide for some sweet ideas that might be right up her alley this holiday season. If you're looking for something to watch during future girls' nights with you mom, check out
    on 2007-11-19 20:49:41

  • Pop forum: Talk amongst yourselves

    
    Reader of the day: melkay Real name: Melissa Kalwanaski Where I live: Outside of Johnstown, Pa. Occupation: 8th grade literature teacher Website: http://www.finetune.com/user/melkay Favorite movie: Desk Set. I want so desperately to be Katharine Hepburn i
    on 2007-11-16 12:49:59

  • Katharine Hepburn, In Writings and Diaries

    
    Twenty-two boxes of papers detailing the film career of Katharine Hepburn have been donated to the New York Public Library, where they will be available to scholars and fans after they have been cataloged.
    on 2007-10-30 12:45:43

  • Katharine Hepburn's papers donated to NY Public Library

    
    Decades before Britney, Paris and Lindsay had scrapes with the law, Katharine Hepburn got busted. She was picked up for speeding in Kansas. The four-time Oscar winner vividly recalls the episode in a detailed typed journal.
    on 2007-10-30 08:45:20

  • N.Y. Public Library gets Hepburn papers (AP)

    
    AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Picture this: Katharine Hepburn and her chauffeur stopped for speeding in the tiny town of Blackwell, Okla. Hepburn berates the strapping young officer as a "moron" and "dumbbell," then adds, "If I ever found an Oklahoma car in Connec
    on 2007-10-30 08:45:08

  • Katharine Hepburn tells her stories from the stage

    
    The correspondence flies back and forth, all concerning a naughty word that has offended a handful of theatergoers. The lady ...
    on 2007-10-30 00:47:10
  • I remember her in "Enemy at the Gates" which was a pretty good movie with Ed Harris, Jude Law, and Joseph Fiennes (not Ralph). She is a really good actress. Great in "Runaway Jury" and "Confidence". Kevin "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:b4jRe.497$HC6.7242@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-0508310009aug31,0,1286171.stor > y?coll=mmx-movies_heds > Tribune entertainment reporter > catch her -- which should be in "The Constant Gardener," which opens > Wednesday -- you still won't know what to expect. > accompanied by a carefully crafted persona or well-publicized dating > history. Actresses such as Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer > Aniston and Sandra Bullock have branded themselves, their names selling > tickets because viewers feel like they know these performers on screen and > off. > well, has the kind of beauty and talent that could make her a natural > fixture of our tabloid culture, but she hasn't gone that route. When you > watch her act, you see her character, not some extension of the person you > assume she is -- and that's fine by her. > real life, said while in town earlier this month. She attributes this lack > of expectations to the fact that "I've just done lots of different kinds of > things." > special-effects-filled blockbusters ("The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns"); a > determined manipulator of juries in a legal drama ("Runaway Jury"); the > down-to-earth girlfriend in a smart, character-driven comedy ("About a > Boy"); a classic noir femme fatale ("Confidence"); and a female cop and her > dead twin in a supernatural thriller ("Constantine"), you're not looking to > get pigeonholed. roles -- > such as when she is mercilessly remaking her boyfriend in Neil LaBute's "The > Shape of Things" or rebelling against the power structure in "The Constant G > ardener" -- they make her characters' ferocity that much more startling. > overshadowed by her celebrity. To her, appearing regularly in star-fixated > shows, magazines and gossip columns is a choice. > control, and then they become the victim of their choice." > ("Requiem for a Dream," "Pi"), and though they're not at the stop-and-stare > level of Brad-'n'-Jen, they've made adjustments to cordon off their private > lives from their public ones. > she said. "There are restaurants in New York where you know there are going > to be paparazzi there. The Mercer Hotel -- I live in SoHo, and I won't walk > past the Mercer because there are always paparazzi outside, and you know > you're going to get photographed. that > was a real bummer because I would be having lunch somewhere, and normally > Darren and I just slip away and go down into the subway if we see a > photographer. But I was on crutches, so I was very slow moving." She > laughed. "I couldn't get away." > interview, "I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about > Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner -- not really -- and I like > that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. > I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is." particularly > with "The Constant Gardener," a much-acclaimed political thriller based on > John le Carre's 2000 novel. Much of the film's tension involves trying to > discern the actions and motivations of her character, Tessa, an American > activist challenging British government officials and the pharmaceutical > industry over drug testing on poor Kenyans. > mild-mannered diplomat named Justin, played by Ralph Fiennes (another star > who hasn't lived out his personal life in public), but diplomacy is far from > her No. 1 priority. She says what she thinks when she thinks it, and decorum > be damned, much to the irritation of Justin's colleagues. > unobtrusive direction, to be a liberating experience. > doesn't care what people think of her at all. . . . She wanted to get > justice done, and if she makes some enemies on the way, she really doesn't > give a monkey's. . . . It's just a very free place to be in life. On the > whole one wants to be liked." she > said. "Maybe with my family, but that would be the only place." > Weisz was the first actress he interviewed for the role. Because the > director was hired on the project just weeks before production began, he > never actually completed the , and Weisz wound up improvising scenes > to help fine-tune her character and the story. Weisz also was active in the > production's efforts to set up a fund to aid the poverty-ridden Kenyan > community in which "The Constant Gardener" was filmed. > "humanity" she made so apparent in this strong character; and two, for her > lack of vanity. they > like to look beautiful because everybody expects them to look beautiful, and > so of course I thought she would always have her makeup next to her and > would try to look beautiful. But she didn't. All the scenes she spoke in, > she never uses makeup. The scene that she's using makeup is when she's at > the hospital, but we used makeup to make her uglier." > her current strategy of choosing roles based on who's making the film. "When > you're in your 20s, you just have to be working, really, just try all > different things," she said. "Now I realize that it's the director, the > director, the director." all. > Her next movie, probably to be released early next year, is a > science-fiction love story called "The Fountain," written and directed by > Aronofsky. Filming already has taken place, and the couple survived. > "That's the simplest way I can put it. One's professional self is very > different from one in a relationship, so I got to see him at work, and he's > tremendously talented. And he got to see me at work. We're both very > passionate and committed about our work, so it was like turning the object > around and seeing it from another angle." > because who wants do discover you're engaged to someone who's a professional > pain in the tush? > pause. "It's pretty sexy to see someone be good at something, isn't it? It's > very attractive. It made me find him even more attractive."
  • http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-0508310009aug31,0,1286171.stor y?coll=mmx-movies_heds Rachel Weisz: A woman of `mystery' By Mark Caro Tribune entertainment reporter You've probably seen Rachel Weisz in several movies, yet the next time you catch her -- which should be in "The Constant Gardener," which opens Wednesday -- you still won't know what to expect. That's because Weisz isn't one of those actresses who arrives on screen accompanied by a carefully crafted persona or well-publicized dating history. Actresses such as Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock have branded themselves, their names selling tickets because viewers feel like they know these performers on screen and off. Weisz, a 34-year-old British actress who does American accents often and well, has the kind of beauty and talent that could make her a natural fixture of our tabloid culture, but she hasn't gone that route. When you watch her act, you see her character, not some extension of the person you assume she is -- and that's fine by her. "I take that as a compliment," Weisz, casually stunning and thoughtful in real life, said while in town earlier this month. She attributes this lack of expectations to the fact that "I've just done lots of different kinds of things." That may be true. When you've played a librarian-turned-adventurer in two special-effects-filled blockbusters ("The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns"); a determined manipulator of juries in a legal drama ("Runaway Jury"); the down-to-earth girlfriend in a smart, character-driven comedy ("About a Boy"); a classic noir femme fatale ("Confidence"); and a female cop and her dead twin in a supernatural thriller ("Constantine"), you're not looking to get pigeonholed. A startling ferocity Although her kind, soft features often convey sweetness, in certain roles -- such as when she is mercilessly remaking her boyfriend in Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things" or rebelling against the power structure in "The Constant G ardener" -- they make her characters' ferocity that much more startling. The flip side to all of this is that Weisz's work has never become overshadowed by her celebrity. To her, appearing regularly in star-fixated shows, magazines and gossip columns is a choice. "Most definitely," she said. "I think then it sometimes gets out of their control, and then they become the victim of their choice." Weisz lives in New York City with her fiance, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream," "Pi"), and though they're not at the stop-and-stare level of Brad-'n'-Jen, they've made adjustments to cordon off their private lives from their public ones. "There's a way of organizing your life so you will be photographed more," she said. "There are restaurants in New York where you know there are going to be paparazzi there. The Mercer Hotel -- I live in SoHo, and I won't walk past the Mercer because there are always paparazzi outside, and you know you're going to get photographed. "I broke my leg there recently, so I was on crutches for six weeks, and that was a real bummer because I would be having lunch somewhere, and normally Darren and I just slip away and go down into the subway if we see a photographer. But I was on crutches, so I was very slow moving." She laughed. "I couldn't get away." Maintaining boundaries is important because, as Weisz told me in a 2003 interview, "I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner -- not really -- and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is." The lack of preconceptions about Weisz serves moviegoers well, particularly with "The Constant Gardener," a much-acclaimed political thriller based on John le Carre's 2000 novel. Much of the film's tension involves trying to discern the actions and motivations of her character, Tessa, an American activist challenging British government officials and the pharmaceutical industry over drug testing on poor Kenyans. Before her murder (revealed in the film's opening), Tessa is married to a mild-mannered diplomat named Justin, played by Ralph Fiennes (another star who hasn't lived out his personal life in public), but diplomacy is far from her No. 1 priority. She says what she thinks when she thinks it, and decorum be damned, much to the irritation of Justin's colleagues. A liberating experience Weisz said she found playing Tessa, particularly under Fernando Meirelles' unobtrusive direction, to be a liberating experience. "She's a very free person," the actress said. "She's not inhibited. She doesn't care what people think of her at all. . . . She wanted to get justice done, and if she makes some enemies on the way, she really doesn't give a monkey's. . . . It's just a very free place to be in life. On the whole one wants to be liked." She laughed. In other words, Weisz doesn't shoot off her mouth like Tessa. "No, no," she said. "Maybe with my family, but that would be the only place." Meirelles, the Oscar-nominated Brazilian director of "City of God," said Weisz was the first actress he interviewed for the role. Because the director was hired on the project just weeks before production began, he never actually completed the , and Weisz wound up improvising scenes to help fine-tune her character and the story. Weisz also was active in the production's efforts to set up a fund to aid the poverty-ridden Kenyan community in which "The Constant Gardener" was filmed. Meirelles said Weisz surprised him in several ways -- one, for the "humanity" she made so apparent in this strong character; and two, for her lack of vanity. "She didn't want to use any makeup," he said. "Beautiful women, usually they like to look beautiful because everybody expects them to look beautiful, and so of course I thought she would always have her makeup next to her and would try to look beautiful. But she didn't. All the scenes she spoke in, she never uses makeup. The scene that she's using makeup is when she's at the hospital, but we used makeup to make her uglier." Choosing right roles Weisz was complimentary of her director as well; in essence he reinforced her current strategy of choosing roles based on who's making the film. "When you're in your 20s, you just have to be working, really, just try all different things," she said. "Now I realize that it's the director, the director, the director." Such thinking led her personal and professional lives to collide after all. Her next movie, probably to be released early next year, is a science-fiction love story called "The Fountain," written and directed by Aronofsky. Filming already has taken place, and the couple survived. "I got to meet the director, and he got to meet the actress," she said. "That's the simplest way I can put it. One's professional self is very different from one in a relationship, so I got to see him at work, and he's tremendously talented. And he got to see me at work. We're both very passionate and committed about our work, so it was like turning the object around and seeing it from another angle." The fact that they enjoyed working must have been, let's say, helpful -- because who wants do discover you're engaged to someone who's a professional pain in the tush? "Yeah, it's definitely helpful, and it's also very . . . " She took a long pause. "It's pretty sexy to see someone be good at something, isn't it? It's very attractive. It made me find him even more attractive." Blush. Next subject.
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/08/07/1162839-sun.html Hollywood's Top Gun Sexism is rampant in a film industry where only a handful of male stars can carry a movie, and the few female stars who exist must be 'sweethearts,' not 'vixens' By KEVIN WILLIAMSON -- Calgary Sun Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise's job is a simple one. It is not, contrary to popular belief, to leapfrog on Oprah's furniture or terrorize psychiatrists. Nor is it to dry-hump Katie Holmes' leg or even, tempting as it may be, to antagonize and bully the former child star of The Blue Lagoon. It is, simply stated, to put arses in seats. To sell tickets. To make box-office turnstiles ring-a-ding-ding with the sound of moviegoers rabid to see him perform (albeit not in a manner similar to that of an amphetamine-addled circus monkey). To provide a service and in doing so merit a salary that is well north of $20 million US per film. And so it was a telling showdown when, only two months ago, newly-installed Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey demanded the 43-year-old actor reduce his backbreaking salary for starring in and producing his next film, Mission Impossible 3. Reasons for the take-it-or-leave-it staring contest, privately cheered on by other executives, abounded. Was the budget really out of control -- as much as $180 million US? Was Cruise's descent into toothy madness scaring off executives? Ultimately, Cruise blinked, scaling back his mammoth payday, and Mission Impossible 3 is being shot as you read this. Everything is fine again with the world as we knew it -- or is it? If Cruise, arguably the globe's top movie star, isn't impervious to such scrutiny, then who is? This is the age of the disposable celebrity, after all -- a time in which fiendishly untalented cretins and clingers grace the glossy pages of US Weekly and People for no reason other than they're famous for being famous. You know who Paris Hilton is -- but would you fork over money to see her "emote" in House of Wax? (Hey, if Rick Solomon couldn't do it during their infra-green fluid exchange, what are the chances of a director getting a believable performance out of her?) The fact is, when a star adopts an Ethiopian village or seduces her co-star, she's doing it for free -- and possibly to her professional detriment. This begs the question: Are there any stars left who can truly be counted on to carry a movie? It's a fleeting group, admits Brandon Gray, president and publisher of Box Office Mojo, a website devoted to all things box office. "There are only a handful of box-office stars and most everyone else is familiar," he says succinctly. "The industry today is very different than the '30s or the '40s, when you had a studio system in play and personas for the stars were developed. Stars were brand names. Their name meant something. That era was different -- it was much more focused on them and dialogue and character. Whereas today, it's more about spectacle." That erosion can probably be traced back to the 1970s when special-effects-loaded blockbusters such as Jaws and Star Wars supplanted character-driven dramas and comedies as Hollywood's genre of choice. Interestingly, though, today's remaining stars -- whose name above a marquee at least guarantees a potent opening weekend -- tend to follow the time-worn formula for success pioneered by the now-defunct studio system. "If you look at the stars who have maintained that model of classic Hollywood, they tend to be the most successful. Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise ... stays true to his persona and his strengths -- 'The cocky, young guy who does a lot of running.' He does similar things in each movie to establish a brand. People know what to expect ... He's the running man. He's always running in his movies. Even in Jerry Maguire, it has a scene of him running." As for whether or not Cruise's recent behaviour has permanently tarnished his box-office armour, Gray is unsure. "The effects of Cruise's antics are unknown right now. War of the Worlds still made money. And Cruise's next picture is Mission Impossible 3 ... These big-event pictures tend to be bulletproof; they're not star vehicles. We have to wait for something that relies heavily on Cruise within the context of the movie." But Gray admits Cruise broke from his own well-worn rulebook by expressing his views on everything from post-partem depression to Scientology. "Generally speaking, stars need to keep their opinions of politics and religion to themselves. Going public with those things tends to compromise the brand. It distracts people and turns them off." However, he adds, "not everybody cares or reads about celebrity rags and TV shows ... Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise is the world's top star, not simply because people adore him personally, but because he's always aware of the whole (of a movie) and he surrounds himself with other talented people, whether they be cast members or directors." And should a celebrity decide to melt down, is there any chance their careers might survive? It depends, says Gray, if what they're infamous for doesn't contradict their public image. Take Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's rumoured affair. While some pundits feared their relationship could do irreparable harm to their film Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the romantic action thriller turned out to be one of the summer's biggest hits. "Their purported off-screen affair played into their personas," he says. "Brad Pitt is this hot young guy even though he's 40, and Angelina Jolie is the bad girl. Those two hooking up is what people expect from them. "But when you have good girl Meg Ryan'>Meg Ryan straying from Dennis Quaid to fall in love with Russell Crowe -- that's not what people expect from America's sweetheart. "Angelina Jolie is a vixen. Meg Ryan'>Meg Ryan is a sweetheart. It really boils down to very simple terminology." And if that sounds sexist, so is Hollywood circa 2005. "Today, there are very few female movie stars," Gray says. "There are very few strong women in movies. That's one of the biggest changes since the golden age of cinema. "In classic Hollywood, women were top-billed. Katharine Hepburn would get top billing over Cary Grant. That was not uncommon. And there were strong characters. The irony is that that was prior to the feminist movement. "Some (younger actresses) have potential like Reese Witherspoon, but she doesn't seem to be working enough to take her over the top. Julia Roberts has had her day, it seems. "Sandra Bullock, who's a very well-liked star, doesn't pick the best movies to be in, which keeps her in the mid-range. But the thing all those actresses have in common is that they're all sweethearts. "For a female to be a top star, she has to be in the sweetheart mould -- the girl next door."
  • Richard Fangnail wrote: > Yeah, read his columns at fredoneverything.net I have. In fact, I carry his columns on my own website with his permission. Now, back to this claim he's a racist. He's slammed just about every race in his writings, including whites. Reed is brutally honest and doesn't pull any punches. Now, can you provide evidence of racist remarks he has made? -- [tv] She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), of Katharine Hepburn in a Broadway play
  • Guy Bannis wrote: >In article , "Rick in Oz" > wrote: >it's safe to say that she's not beautiful at all but rather plain. I adore Blanchett; I think she can do no wrong. But I think she is one of those people who is neither beautiful nor plain, naturally; she is . . . interesting-looking, and able to transform herself, with or without the help of makeup, into someone who is completely ravishing or quite plain indeed. I feel much the same way about Owen. I cannot wait to see this film. .:. Craig
  • In article , "Rick in Oz" wrote: > http://www.moviehole.net/news/5827.html > Posted on Thr, 23-Jun-2005 > he said. "We are talking about two of the most beautiful people to grace the > big screen." Now that we've seen Blanchett imitate Katharine Hepburn (wittily), I think it's safe to say that she's not beautiful at all but rather plain.
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/05/02/1022897.html Hollywood reality check By LOUIS B. HOBSON -- Calgary Sun Actors love getting real and for good reason. Just ask Jamie Foxx who won this year's best actor Oscar for his amazing impersonation of Ray Charles in Ray. He joins a long list of men and women who have wowed audiences and Academy voters by inhabiting the body and soul of a famous or infamous person. Oscar voters had quite a task in selecting Foxx this year because three of his fellow nominees also starred in biographies. Leonardo DiCaprio played Howard Hughes in The Aviator, while Johnny Depp tackled eccentric writer J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland. Don Cheadle was recognized for Hotel Rwanda. Cate Blanchett won this year's best supporting actress Oscar for bringing Katharine Hepburn to life in The Aviator. Blanchett joins a long list of actresses who won their Oscars for playing real people including, Charlize Theron for Monster, Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry, Nicole Kidman for The Hours, Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich, Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking, Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind and Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock. Last year also found Kevin Spacey playing crooner Bobby Darin in Beyond The Sea, Kevin Kline as composer Cole Porter in De-Lovely, Liam Neeson as Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Gael Garcia Bernal as a young Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries and Jim Caviezel as Jesus in The Passion of the Christ. This year's reality check reveals there are far fewer biographies which drastically narrows the field of possible Oscar nominees for the daunting and daring task of getting real. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (May 6): Orlando Bloom plays Balian of Ibelin who defended the walled city of Jerusalem during the Second Crusades. Ridley Scott says "the major characters in Kingdom of Heaven all existed as did this famous battle, but two steps back from that and everything in our movie is fiction." Oscar Nomination Odds: 100 to 1 CINDERELLA MAN (June 3): Russell Crowe teams with his A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard to play Depression folk hero Jim Braddock who defeated the legendary Max Baer to become heavyweight champion. Renee Zellweger plays Braddock's wife Mae. Crowe received Oscar nominations for playing real whistle-blower Jeffrey Wiggand in The Insider and John Nash in A Beautiful Mind proving the Academy voters love him in biographies. Oscar Nomination Odds: 10 to 1 THE BROTHERS GRIMM (July 29): In this wild fantasy adventure from Terry Gilliam, the German brothers who wrote some of the most famous fairy tales are played by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. Instead of focusing on their real lives, Gilliam has turned them into a pair of con artists who are inspired to write twisted fairy tales when they encounter real dark magic in a dark forest. What is worrisome is The Brothers Grimm has been sitting in post-production limbo for more than a year. Oscar Nomination Odds: 200,000 to 1 THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED (Sept. 30): Shia LaBeouf who starred as Keanu Reeve's sidekick in Constantine plays Francis Ouimet who, at age 20 in 1913, became the youngest golfer to win the U.S. Open. Actor-turned-director Bill Paxton filmed in Canada using such movie and stage veterans as Jackie Burroughs, Len Cariou and Elias Koteas who have better chances of being recognized in supporting roles than LaBeouf even if he does all his own swinging and putting. Oscar Nomination Odds: 100,000 to 1 JARHEAD (Nov. 11): Jake Gyllenhaal plays former marine Anthony Swofford serving his term in Kuwait. Joining Gyllenhaal are Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard and Chris Cooper, but the real ace up the sleeve for this one is Sam Mendes who received an Oscar for directing American Beauty. This one also has the advantage of making indirect comments on the current conflict in Iraq. Oscar Nomination Odds: 10 to 1 WALK THE LINE (Nov. 18): Johnny Cash's life always played out like a movie and it features a cast of characters that include Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny's wife June Carter and her whole clan. Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny with Reese Witherspoon as June and both are doing their own singing, as well as laying bare their characters' rawer emotions. Playing Cash moved Phoenix to admit his own alcohol problems and check into rehab, which will move his colleagues. Oscar Nomination Odds: 2 to 1 CASANOVA (Dec. 25): Lasse Hallstrom directs Heath Ledger as the fabled Casanova. It will be a great costume drama and will afford plumb roles for supporting actors such as Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin and Sienna Miller. Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, My Life as a Dog) is a favourite of the Academy. Oscar Nomination Odds: 10 to 1
  • She is so damn hot for 41 "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:e1T7e.555$oa7.6964@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/04/15/998739.html > phenomenon that is Sideways. > thriller starring Harrison Ford that is currently shooting in Vancouver. > Oscar-nominated actress tells the Sun by telephone. "It feels like I'm > starting a new volume, a whole new book. It feels like a fresh, clean > start." re-invigorated > her once disappointing career and it is Sideways that gets her connected > with the media again. Madsen is eager to share the newly released DVD, which > is now selling and renting well because the film has crossed over into > mainstream culture from its modest origins. > it next to Chocolat. But you'd still look cool if you put Con Air on the > other side. I like those movies, too, I'd have to say." > ensemble, was nominated as best supporting actress for Sideways. She played > the sensuous waitress-wine expert who sparks a tumultuous romance with the > wine snob played by Paul Giamatti. Madsen lost the Oscar to Cate Blanchett, > who played Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. > So Madsen ended up on what has become known as "the loser-cam," multiple > cameras that shoot closeups of the losers faces when the winner's name is > called. you > didn't win?' Are you kidding? Do you know the chances for someone like me > and for a movie like ours to ever go to the Oscars? I kept turning around to > the cast and going: 'Can you believe we're here?' I felt that someone was > going to come and kick us out! > actor for playing Giamatti's philandering sidekick) and I, either of us, > really expected to win anyway," Madsen says. Instead the Sideways gang > rooted for Payne and writing partner Jim Taylor to grab the best adapted > screen prize. "I think we would have been really disappointed if Alex and > Jim didn't win for the screenplay." > Searchlight, the speciality house that promoted and distributed the film > before its parent company, 20th Century Fox, released the new DVD, handled > Sideways. The campaign started with its debut at the Toronto film festival > and then went on to a lowkey, platformed release pattern. > the beginning, which is unheard of in this business. They were committed to > the film, to keep it in theatres. They didn't need to be in the top five > movies. They were interested in the long haul. It is very interesting that > anyone would do that nowadays, because if your film doesn't gross a certain > amount, or if it's not in the top 10, you're done. You're done on the first > weekend!" > who liked the robust nature of the story and the satirical humour. "That's > another reason why this movie works so well," says Madsen. > cry or to learn a lesson or to examine life. But that happens anyway. It > sort of sneaks up on you because it is so well written, but it's not > preachy." > actress Sandra Oh shocked and saddened Virginia Madsen, who grew to love > them both making Sideways. > feather, as my grandmother used to say. I was very upset by that and I don't > understand it and I don't know the details and I guess I kind of wish I did > so I could understand it more. Sideways > family and we all got to know each other so well. So I think I idealized > them as a couple. I think I really put them on a pedestal and just thought > that they were the perfect couple. They were mega-cool, yes they were, and > I'm so saddened by their annoucement. > and nobody is jumping all over it." > Anatomy. "It's great!" Madsen says. "You've got to watch it, man. I really > want to guest star."
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/04/15/998739.html 'Sideways' star Virginia Madsen upbeat By BRUCE KIRKLAND -- Toronto Sun For Virginia Madsen, life began again at 41 -- thanks to the cultural phenomenon that is Sideways. "New chapter?" she says rhetorically from the set of The Wrong Element, a thriller starring Harrison Ford that is currently shooting in Vancouver. "It feels bigger than a new chapter in my life," the Chicago-born, Oscar-nominated actress tells the Sun by telephone. "It feels like I'm starting a new volume, a whole new book. It feels like a fresh, clean start." It was Alexander Payne's tragi-comic road movie Sideways that re-invigorated her once disappointing career and it is Sideways that gets her connected with the media again. Madsen is eager to share the newly released DVD, which is now selling and renting well because the film has crossed over into mainstream culture from its modest origins. "It's a good one for your DVD library, that's for sure," Madsen says. "Put it next to Chocolat. But you'd still look cool if you put Con Air on the other side. I like those movies, too, I'd have to say." Madsen, the sister of actor Michael Madsen from the sterling Kill Bill ensemble, was nominated as best supporting actress for Sideways. She played the sensuous waitress-wine expert who sparks a tumultuous romance with the wine snob played by Paul Giamatti. Madsen lost the Oscar to Cate Blanchett, who played Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. So Madsen ended up on what has become known as "the loser-cam," multiple cameras that shoot closeups of the losers faces when the winner's name is called. "A lot of people asked: 'Was it hard? Were you really disappointed when you didn't win?' Are you kidding? Do you know the chances for someone like me and for a movie like ours to ever go to the Oscars? I kept turning around to the cast and going: 'Can you believe we're here?' I felt that someone was going to come and kick us out! "I don't think Thomas (Haden Church, who was nominated as best supporting actor for playing Giamatti's philandering sidekick) and I, either of us, really expected to win anyway," Madsen says. Instead the Sideways gang rooted for Payne and writing partner Jim Taylor to grab the best adapted screen prize. "I think we would have been really disappointed if Alex and Jim didn't win for the screenplay." Madsen believes that there is a lesson for other distributors in how Fox Searchlight, the speciality house that promoted and distributed the film before its parent company, 20th Century Fox, released the new DVD, handled Sideways. The campaign started with its debut at the Toronto film festival and then went on to a lowkey, platformed release pattern. "It built slowly," Madsen says. "Fox Searchlight never went for numbers in the beginning, which is unheard of in this business. They were committed to the film, to keep it in theatres. They didn't need to be in the top five movies. They were interested in the long haul. It is very interesting that anyone would do that nowadays, because if your film doesn't gross a certain amount, or if it's not in the top 10, you're done. You're done on the first weekend!" Sideways was nurtured and found its niche, especially among male audiences who liked the robust nature of the story and the satirical humour. "That's another reason why this movie works so well," says Madsen. "Because you didn't feel that it was a chick film where you were going to cry or to learn a lesson or to examine life. But that happens anyway. It sort of sneaks up on you because it is so well written, but it's not preachy." Pals' breakup shocks Madsen The post-Oscar end of the marriage between director Alexander Payne and actress Sandra Oh shocked and saddened Virginia Madsen, who grew to love them both making Sideways. "Oh my God," Madsen tells the Sun, "you could have knocked me over with a feather, as my grandmother used to say. I was very upset by that and I don't understand it and I don't know the details and I guess I kind of wish I did so I could understand it more. "You know, I just fell in love with all of those people. I loved my Sideways family and we all got to know each other so well. So I think I idealized them as a couple. I think I really put them on a pedestal and just thought that they were the perfect couple. They were mega-cool, yes they were, and I'm so saddened by their annoucement. "But, whatever (the truth is), at least it's been handled in a classy way and nobody is jumping all over it." Meanwhile, Madsen recommends the Canadian-born Oh's new TV show, Grey's Anatomy. "It's great!" Madsen says. "You've got to watch it, man. I really want to guest star."
  • http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=1&u=/nm/20050327/en_nm/leisure_boxoffice_dc By Kevin Krolicki LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guess who's number one at the weekend box office? Exactly: "Guess Who," an updated spin on the classic "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." The movie invited in enough weekend guests to make $21 million at North American theaters, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. The Sony Pictures' release, starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher, edged out "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous," the other major movie release over the Easter weekend, which took in $17.6 million. "Guess Who" was the fourth box-office weekly win of the year for Sony. The studio has also claimed top weekend debuts with comedy "Are We There Yet?," horror drama "Boogeyman," and the still-running hit "Hitch." That Will Smith comedy, the biggest box-office release to date this year, has taken in $166.5 million in its seven weeks on the market. "Guess Who" flips the original film's question of intolerance on its head and plays it for laughs by casting Mac as the disapproving black father confronting his daughter's white boyfriend. It played well with a wide audience, a Sony representative said. The movie combines elements of a buddy movie with romantic comedy. It "plays very broadly -- and it's fun," said Rory Bruer, president of domestic distribution for Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp . "Guess Who," which draws very little from the 1967 Oscar-honored film starring Sidney Poitier opposite Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, won out at the expense of another follow-up opening over the weekend. Warner Bros.' "Miss Congeniality 2" had been mostly panned by critics as a tired reworking of the 2000 action comedy also starring Sandra Bullock as a tough-minded FBI agent unwilling to be just another pretty face. The sequel topped the three-day opening take of the original "Miss Congeniality," which went on to make $107 million, but fell short of expectations it would be the weekend's biggest draw in part due to its Thursday release. Horror sequel "The Ring Two," in its second week in theaters, took in $13.8 million, a drop of just over 60 percent from the prior weekend when the DreamWorks release opened at number one with $36 million. Rounding out the top five spots were Fox's "Robots," which made $13 million for a three-week cumulative haul of $87.4 million, and the Vin Diesel comedy "The Pacifier," which brought in $8.5 million. The family movie, which riffs on Diesel's tough-guy persona, has brought in $86.3 million in four weeks and is on track to top $100 million for Walt Disney Co's Buena Vista. By contrast "The Chronicles of Riddick," a science-fiction action movie featuring Diesel in a more-accustomed hard-edged action role, brought in just $58 million when it was released last year. Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner Inc.
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/K/Kutcher_Ashton/2005/03/20/966660.html Kutcher keeps them guessing By STEVE TILLEY -- Edmonton Sun LOS ANGELES - Coming soon to a multiplex near you: Esteemed Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier starring in the screwball stoner comedy My Car, Dude! Where Is It? If you could swallow that, maybe you can also wrap your head around a remake of 1967's landmark love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Punk'd rocker Ashton Kutcher playing the suitor in a mixed-race relationship. Not that it'll necessarily matter to a lot of Kutcher fans who go to see Guess Who, opening in theatres Friday, since many of them weren't born when Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Katharine Houghton set tongues a-wagging about the state of race relations in the '60s. "For me, watching Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy ... I respect what it did at the time and what it did for generational relationships at the time," Kutcher told reporters last week at a Los Angeles hotel. "The working title of the movie was, like, The Dinner Party. If, for whatever reason, the movie didn't turn out and we didn't think it carried the same soul as the original, we didn't want to disrespect the original." Got that, Sid? No dis intended. Guess Who flips the race roles around, making Kutcher the white fiance of an African-American woman (Zoe Saldana), who takes him home to her parents (Bernie Mac and Judith Scott) for their 25th anniversary party. Here in enlightened ought-five, the tension between lily-white Simon Green (Kutcher) and huffing, puffing Percy Jones (Mac) is mostly played for laughs, a Jungle Fever reworking of Meet the Parents. While Kutcher hasn't talked to Sidney Poitier - whose last name he pronounces "Por-tee-ay" - about the film, director Kevin Rodney Sullivan (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) sought the legendary actor's blessing before cameras rolled. Or if not blessing, at least a lack of outright cursing. "I got his number and I called him," said Sullivan. "He was very gracious. He just told me that he wished me well. I said I wake up every day thanking God that you're around, and that I have this chance." "If Sidney Poitier didn't like my movie, I'd probably be disappointed." Kutcher-watchers hoping the 27-year-old That '70s Show star and Punk'd creator might dish the dirt on his two-year relationship with Demi Moore, 42, will also be disappointed. The actor is loathe to talk about his personal life, specifically his live-in relationship with Moore, who has three daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis. The latest rumour dogging the couple is that Moore is about nine weeks pregnant with Kutcher's child. When asked point-blank by the Sun if it was true he was going to be a father, Kutcher did a Tony Award-worthy song and dance. "What? Why am I the last person to find out?" he said. "If I am ... that I'm going to be a daddy? No one tells me anything! I need to make a phone call." He repeated the performance two nights later on The Late Show With David Letterman, telling the talk show host that he and Demi had sex that week so it could be true, but that he (as in Kutcher) had taken a pregnancy test that morning and it came out negative. Icky mental images aside, Kutcher has avoided flat-out denying that his cosmetically enhanced galpal is in a family way. Moore's publicist also picked her words carefully in a statement responding to the rumours: "Although having another child is something Demi would like to do, unfortunately she can't at this time say she is pregnant." Understandable, if you're a 42-year-old woman who hasn't yet entered the safety zone of the second trimester. A betting man would wager that there will be the pitter-patter of little feet around the Kutcher-Moore household this fall. Which in turn will undoubtedly increase the pitter-patter of papparazzi photographers skulking outside. "The weirdest place is when they're at your house," said a surprisingly calm Kutcher, when queried about the ever-present media spotlight. "That's, like, the creepiest thing, you walk outside and they're there. That's the place you thought was off limits, but unfortunately it's not. The laws don't prevent that." Kutcher is currently shooting his seventh and final season of That '70s Show, the series that initially propelled the lanky farm-boy model from Iowa to stardom as the lovably dense Michael Kelso. "For me, it's a little scary," he said. "It's kind of been my safety net for seven years and just thinking about leaving I already miss all of my friends. I mean, they're really my family out here." But after earlier saying he was done with Punk'd, Kutcher had a change of heart and is still producing the candid camera prank show, which debuted this week on MTV with a stunt that had Kutcher's pal Kirsten Dunst in tears after a fake drunk-driving sting. The punking doesn't stop there, either. Kutcher pranked Guess Who castmate Saldana through an elaborate joke in which an actor portraying co-star Kellee Stewart's boyfriend was discovered by Saldana in the arms of another woman. "She lost it. Lost it," said Kutcher. "It was pretty fun." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/Fashion/Blanchett-steals-limelight-at-frocky-horr or-show/2005/02/28/1109546799328.html?oneclick=true Blanchett steals limelight at frocky horror show By Patty Huntington March 1, 2005 Cate Blanchett recently complained that the designers who dress her generate more buzz than her body of work, but last night the unfalteringly elegant actress finally found the perfect balance between power frock and power role, in The Aviator's Katharine Hepburn. Blanchett's lemon silk taffeta Valentino haute-couture gown might have been made for her and modern, but it reeked of old-worlde Hollywood glamour. One-shouldered, with a vintage brooch pinned at the shoulder, swaggering bustle and burgundy belt, it's the sort of dress that might once have been worn by Hepburn. Curiously, it wasn't the evening's only yellow-toned gown. Penelope Cruz shone in a strapless, butter-coloured Oscar de la Renta dress with bustle and Zana Briski looked shrink-wrapped in a corsetted chartreuse-coloured Halston sheath. Also getting it very right was Natalie Portman in a divine, Fortuny-pleated mushroom brown Lanvin column. Best-dressed Blanchett is sure to set the fashion agenda for coming awards. Kate Winslet's jacaranda blue Badgley Mischka gown was lovely but it didn't have the punch of Blanchett's similarly-hued Jean Paul Gaultier gown worn at January's Golden Globe awards. Trying to take a leaf out of the same Blanchett book, Hilary Swank ended up looking a little mumsy in a cobalt blue Guy Laroche column with long sleeves, high neck and no back. While many sought to emulate Charlize Theron's knockout mermaid look from the Globes in teal blue strapless sheaths with fishtail hems (Virginia Madsen in Versace, Salma Hayek in Prada), it wasn't Theron's best fashion moment. The train of her ice-blue Christian Dior gown was so big it looked like a toilet roll doily. Although host Chris Rock made reference to Gwyneth Paltrow's breastfeeding, there was no evidence of any decolletage on the serial Oscars' fashion offender, who looked like she had strapped her chest to get into her badly-fitting, calomine-pink Stella McCartney puffball corset dress. As for garish disasters, the onslaught of the Hollywood stylist has ensured that they are a dying species, but a couple of clangers deserve special mention. Melanie Griffith wore a truly horrible embellished silver Versace dress, which looked like it had been designed by Donatella Versace in rehab. Paired with Marie Antoinette wigs and over-the-top jewellery, Christian Dior designer John Galliano might have just got away with his egg-shaped, silver and white Empire line gown on the Paris runway last month, but donned by Brazilian bombshell Gisele Bundchen, it looked like an haute couture doona cover - and she's a supermodel. There is a God after all. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:49:38 -0800, Rick in Oz wrote (in article ): > http://www.smh.com.au/news/Fashion/Blanchett-steals-limelight-at-frocky-horr > or-show/2005/02/28/1109546799328.html?oneclick=true > By Patty Huntington > March 1, 2005 > more buzz than her body of work, but last night the unfalteringly elegant > actress finally found the perfect balance between power frock and power > role, in The Aviator's Katharine Hepburn. > made for her and modern, but it reeked of old-worlde Hollywood glamour. > One-shouldered, with a vintage brooch pinned at the shoulder, swaggering > bustle and burgundy belt, it's the sort of dress that might once have been > worn by Hepburn. > Erm....wait...wasn't she quoted a few days before the Oscar about how she was buying an off-the-rack dress 'cause she didn't want to wear an expensive designer gown? Evelyn...maybe she couldn't find anything she liked at Ross Dress for Less?
  • http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1266&storyid=27177 96 Hepburn gives Cate a helping hand February 25, 2005 AS the nation crosses it's fingers for our Oscar hopeful, Cate Blanchett is hoping a pair of gloves owned by screen legend Katharine Hepburn will help her secure that Academy Award. Blanchett is set to wear the white, silk evening gloves to Monday's award ceremony where she is up for best supporting actress - for her portrayal of Hepburn in the movie The Aviator. The gloves were given to Blanchett by US television presenter Cynthia McFadden, an executor of Hepburn's estate, Confidential's LA correspondent Nick Papps reports. Hepburn is a three times Oscar winner, while Blanchett is hoping for her first award after missing out in 1999 as Best Actress for the film Elizabeth. A representative for Blanchett yesterday confirmed the actress had the magic gloves. "Cate was given a pair of gloves that Katharine Hepburn wore," the representative said. "Cynthia McFadden had been given them [the gloves] by Katharine Hepburn." Just what outfit Blanchett will wear with the famous gloves is one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Oscars. But she is not expected, Confidential hopes, to repeat the scandal of 1974 when Hepburn turned up at the prestigious awards wearing her gardening clothes. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1266&storyid=2723132 Cate's awards wait, filled with hot dates February 26, 2005 THE Cate Blanchett show is about to take Tinseltown by storm. Our Oscar hopeful will be dined by Hollywood kingpins, surrounded by filmmakers and toasted by the world's biggest stars in a stunning public relations blitz on the eve of the Academy Awards. Details of Blanchett's Oscar diary obtained by Sydney Confidential's LA operative Nick Papps reveals Blanchett will attend four dinners, two cocktail parties and six parties - and that's just on the night before the Oscars. Her hectic campaign diary, aimed at making the most of Blanchett's nomination, also shows that just hours before her night of Oscar eve madness, she's off to another awards ceremony - the Independent Spirit Awards - where she's been nominated for best supporting actress award for her role in the independent film Coffee and Cigarettes. But Blanchett won't have much time to enjoy any victory. Following the afternoon ceremony, she's off for Oscar presenters' practice at the Kodak Theatre, back to her hotel for a shower and then that devastating round of dinners, cocktail parties and studio parties with industry heavyweights, including Miramax and Warner Brothers. Her diary reveals she has a whopping 12 events to attend that night before the Oscars. And on Oscar day there's dress fittings, the all important hair and makeup, and then the big night when she may well join Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman and Geoffrey Rush as our latest Oscar star. After the awards it's off to prestigious Vanity Fair party and then another two parties before heading home. Experts are tipping Blanchett to take home one of the little gold guys for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. But as big an issue is just what Blanchett will be wearing - neither her reps nor stylist are revealing her look. Award watchers can reportedly expect to see plenty of figure-hugging glamorous gowns, says People magazine's beauty editor Eleni Gage. "The overriding trend calls for silhouettes, cut close to the body," she said. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4297673.stm Blanchett nearly refused Hepburn role The Aviator is Blanchett's second Oscar nomination Actress Cate Blanchett - nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator - nearly turned down the acclaimed role. Blanchett is the favourite to win the Oscar on Sunday night, for her portrayal of screen idol Hepburn - who until 2003 held the record for most Oscar nominations for an individual actor. "I think when someone asks you to play Hepburn, you just run in the other direction," Blanchett told BBC World Service's The Ticket programme. "It's verging on an impossible task, because she is so iconic." Personal choice The Aviator sees Blanchett starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Howard Hughes, and details Hepburn and Hughes' romance and messy break-up. Blanchett said she was only persuaded to take the role because she was asked personally by the film's director, Martin Scorsese. If you do fail it's a very public failure, but if you don't take the risk, you don't have the adventure of it Cate Blanchett "You can't say no to Scorsese," she added. "And because one's frightened of something is probably the reason to do it - because you can but fail. "If you do fail it's a very public failure, but if you don't take the risk, you don't have the adventure of it." She added that Scorsese was not so much interested in having an actress who could mimic Hepburn as much as someone who could "unlock the spirit of the woman". Blanchett is also starring in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, in which she plays a journalist following an expedition, led by Bill Murray's eponymous Zissou, on the trail of a giant - and possibly mythical - shark. The Life Aquatic is the fourth film from director Wes Anderson, who is noted for his quirky, offbeat comedies such as Rushmore and The Royal Tenebaums. "The great thing about working with someone like Wes Anderson is he's a real auteur," Blanchett said. "He's a very polite person - he's quite English, in that clichéd way... there's a restraint to him. "It's not that things aren't twisted, because he places characters in unusual situations - but they're always believable because there's an earnestness to the characters - they take themselves incredibly seriously." Acting truth Blanchett's diverse film choices are indicative of her versatility as an actress. The Life Aquatic sees Blanchett verbally sparring with Bill Murray Other biographical roles include her Oscar-nominated turn as Queen Elizabeth I and portraying Irish journalist Veronica Guerin. But she has also starred in literary adaptations such as Charlotte Gray and The Shipping News, and the popular Lord Of The Rings trilogy. For Blanchett, the most important thing is that the audience finds her credible. "Always, whether you're playing a fictional character or someone who lived, it is an active invention, because you have to tell the story, play the character that's been described in the , and try to feed as much detail as you can," she said. "But how many biographies are accurate? Often they're more about the biographer than the subject. "So, somewhere between all those things that you're filtering through, will lie the particular truth that's being described in the film."
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/Oscars-2005/Change-Darling-you-have-no-idea/2005/ 02/28/1109546799452.html?oneclick=true Change? Darling, you have no idea By Caroline Overington, Herald Correspondent in Hollywood March 1, 2005 Cate Blanchett has a reputation for being a thoroughly normal person despite her fame and success, but that is definitely going to change now she has an Oscar. "Oh, you just wait!" a delighted Blanchett said, after being asked yesterday if winning an Academy Award would go to her head. "Absolutely, you asshole. Oh darling, you have no idea!" She was kidding, obviously: Blanchett was simply over the moon to win an Academy Award for an actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator. On stage, she thanked her husband, Andrew Upton, saying: "I know you think it's cheesy, sweetheart, but I have to thank you." She also called out to her director, Martin Scorsese, saying: "I hope my son [presumably Dashiell, who is three, since her newest son, Roman, is not yet one] will marry your daughter [Francesca, who is five]." Blanchett then carried her ebullient mood backstage, where she arrived for interviews carrying her shiny new Oscar in one hand, a champagne flute in the other. "I've been waiting all night for this," she said, meaning the champagne, although the Oscar was a long time coming, too. Blanchett was first nominated six years ago for Elizabeth but did not win. With characteristic verve, the 35-year-old soldiered on and was overwhelmed - perhaps even a little stunned - when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday gave her the Oscar for playing Hepburn, who was herself nominated 12 times, and won four Oscars (although never turned up to collect any of them). Blanchett said her mind went blank when the announcer called her name, and the only thing she could think of was: "Don't trip on the way to the stage. But, on reflection, she said the award meant a huge amount. Hepburn, who died aged 96 in 2003, was still alive when Blanchett signed to play her in the movie. "I asked to meet her," Blanchett said. "I was aware that she was very ill, so I was very sensitive not to be pushy about it." The Hollywood legend died just as Blanchett was starting rehearsals. The Australian actress yesterday carried one of her long white gloves in her tiny handbag, as a good-luck charm. Asked if she felt the weight of Australia on her shoulders at yesterday's awards, Blanchett said: "I'm not so grandiose to think of myself that way. I think there's a lot going on in Australia other than me winning an Oscar." The former Melbourne schoolgirl then paused, and added: "I think my mum will be very pleased." The other Australians at the Oscars, Sejong Park and Andrew Gregory, who were nominated in the category for best animated short film for their nine-minute film, Birthday Boy, missed out on an Academy Award. It went to Canada's Chris Landreth for his film, Ryan - but before the awards ceremony, Gregory said it would be quite OK if they left empty-handed. "For us, it's an adventure, he said. "You can't count on winning. All you can do is enjoy yourself, and that is what we intend to do." Blanchett evidently felt the same. Leaving the interview room, she said: "Can I have my champagne now?" From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • AP NEW YORK - After 15 years in the public eye, Uma Thurman said she's learned to ignore what gossip columnists write about her. Now they're writing that her marriage to actor Ethan Hawke (news) is in trouble, and she's trying not to let that bother her — but it's been difficult. "You know, I think it was Katharine Hepburn (news) who had the best answer to that," Thurman told Vogue magazine for its November issue. "She said the only time it hurts is when it's true. "I am with the kids, and I am committed to taking the fall off," she said. "Then we will see what happens." The star of "Kill Bill — Vol. 1" told the magazine that she and Hawke haven't had a serious discussion about their future, and said she's unsure whether their marriage can survive. Thurman, 33, and Hawke, 32, married in 1998 and have a daughter, Maya Ray, and a son, Levon. They've co-starred in the movies "Gattaca" and "Tape."
  • http://canoe.ca/JamMovies/dec1_spacey-ap.html Spacey does it all in biopic By DAVID GERMAIN -- Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- Bobby Darin wanted it all and pretty much got it: pop music stardom, success as a folk singer, a reputation as one of the great stage showmen, acclaim as a movie actor. When it came to his Darin film biography Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey also wanted it all and pretty much got it. Spacey starred, directed, co-wrote, sang and danced. He's even going on tour with a 19-piece big band to promote the film, crooning tunes from Darin's eclectic repertoire, which includes Splish-Splash, Mack the Knife, Dream Lover, If I Were a Carpenter and the movie's title track. Multitasking to that extent is a risk for any actor. For Spacey, the gamble is even greater, coming at a time when his big-screen bankability has waned. Since winning his second Academy Award for 1999's American Beauty, Spacey, 45, has starred in four straight critical and commercial duds -- Pay It Forward, K-PAX, The Shipping News and The Life of David Gale. "The studio films I've done, I was an actor for hire, so the responsibility of being the storyteller wasn't mine," Spacey said in an interview last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Beyond the Sea premiered. "And in this case it is, so if this film works, it's because of the vast talents of a great number of people, and if it doesn't, there's nobody to blame but me. And I accept that going in. My eyes are wide open." Early reaction to the film has been lukewarm, though Spacey earned praise for his warm, energetic performance and spirited vocals. Spacey had performed in musicals from his early teens into his 20s, but good singing roles had since eluded him. He chose to sing himself because he's generally not a fan of lip-synched performances, and relying on his own voice allowed him to expand on the music without being tied to Darin's original vocal tracks. "This wasn't about an actor's ego, wanting to get my rocks off by singing in a movie. This was about trying to do something that would honour him as an entertainer," Spacey said. "This is all about Bobby. It's about trying to reintroduce people to his catalogue and hoping that this film will ignite a kind of recognition of his body of work that's just been denied too long." Beyond the Sea traces Darin's sheltered childhood, when he was afflicted with rheumatic fever, through his varied recording and acting career, which culminated in an Academy Award nomination for his role in 1963's Captain Newman, M.D. A Darin devotee since his teens, Spacey dreamed of making Beyond the Sea for 12 years. Studios were unwilling to finance a film about a comparatively forgotten singer who died in 1973 at 37 after open-heart surgery. "Every door slammed in my face," said Spacey, who eventually found overseas financing. "Politely, but every door slammed in my face." Darin's family also had objections, first, to the film itself, second, to the thought that anyone's voice but Darin's would be used for the soundtrack. Spacey gradually won over Darin's reluctant loved ones, including manager and pal Steve Blauner, played by John Goodman, and son Dodd from his marriage to teen idol Sandra Dee, played by Kate Bosworth. The film also co-stars Brenda Blethyn as Darin's mother, Caroline Aaron as his sister and Bob Hoskins as his brother-in-law. Hoskins recalls his initial skepticism when he met with Spacey over dinner to discuss the film. "He said, 'I'm going to direct it, I'm going to act in it, and I'm going to sing the songs, and I'm doing the dancing.' 'Yeah, you are, are you?' " Hoskins said. "And he said, 'Really, I am.' Well, I thought, if anybody's going to stick their neck out that far, I'm going with them." Spacey has stuck his neck out before. After a successful early career on stage, Spacey broke into movies but found himself typecast as sleazes or outright monsters, including the serial killer of Seven and a motor-mouthed low-life in The Usual Suspects, for which he won the supporting-actor Oscar. Consciously trying to reinvent himself, Spacey took more varied roles with L.A. Confidential, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Negotiator and American Beauty, for which he won the best-actor Oscar as an acerbically funny husband in a mid-life crisis. Spacey filmed a supporting role in the upcoming cop drama Edison, with Justin Timberlake and Morgan Freeman. He also continues overseeing his production company, Trigger Street, which produced such smaller films featuring Spacey as The Big Kahuna, The United States of Leland and Ordinary Decent Criminal. For the foreseeable future, though, Spacey plans to stick largely to the stage. "I'm going to be a theatre rat for a while," Spacey said. "I'll probably do less movies than plays for the next five, six, seven, eight years." Spacey took over this year as artistic director of London's Old Vic theatre and plans to star in two plays there in 2005: Dennis McIntyre's National Anthems and The Philadelphia Story, the basis for the classic film comedy starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. Spacey will play Grant's role as a conniving ex-husband. He got off to a rough start at the Old Vic, where critics trashed his first production this fall, the Dutch drama Cloaca, which Spacey directed. Spacey shrugs off his artistic misfires, including his recent string of film flops, saying he wants to keep his career focus on the long haul. "There were a lot of years when people were really crapping on Paul Simon. Whatever happened to Paul Simon? He used to be good," Spacey said. "Then Graceland came out, and everybody was in love with Paul Simon again. "We live in a very temporal attitude about whether somebody's hot, or in or out, or whether their movies make money or don't. And that's not where my focus is. My focus is on the journey. And at the end of the journey, over a reasonable period of time and a body of work, that's when somebody should be judged." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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  • She was branded "box-office poison" by the nation's exhibitors in 1938, but Katharine Hepburn has come to be regarded as a national treasure. One of the most frequently honored screen actresses (with eight Academy nominations and four Oscars to her credit), Hepburn came to films in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), as John Barrymore's daughter, following a sometimes tempestuous career on stage in amateur theatricals, college shows, stock, and finally on Broadway. Her unusual looks and manner-and her unique New England voice-put off some moviegoers at first, but her endearing performance as a naive, impulsive young actress trying to crash Broadway, in 1933's Morning Glory won her her first Academy Award. Hepburn proved her versatility in such pictures as Little Women (1933), The Little Minister (1934), Alice Adams (1935, for which she received an Oscar nomination), Mary of Scotland (1936), and the wonderful Stage Door (1937, an interesting companion piece to Morning Glory But for every success in her early Hollywood career, there was also a major misfireincluding such all-time oddities as Christopher Strong (1933, in which she played an aviatrix) and Sylvia Scarlett (1935, in which she disguised herself as a boy). By the time she made the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938, for which the understandably nervous actress took comedy "pointers" from veteran screen funnyman Walter Catlett) and the equally delightful comedy-drama Holiday (also 1938), Hepburn's film career was on the skids. (Although it was that same year that Walt Disney immortalized her in cartoon form, as a haughty Little Bo-Peep in his animated short subjectMother Goose Goes Hollywood She returned to Broadway to star as spoiled socialite Tracy Lord in Philip Barry's "The Philadelphia Story," forsaking a huge salary for a percentage of profits and title to the screen rights. Her successful gamble paid off, and led to an equally triumphant return to Hollywood in the 1940 film version, which earned her another Oscar nomina tion. She was nominated again for her next film, Woman of the Year (1942) which cast her as an opinionated newspaper columnist opposite Spencer Tracy (as a down-to-earth sportswriter). It was a match made in movie heaven; the two would star in eight subsequent films over the next 25 years. (They also commenced an offscreen relationship that lasted until his death.) Some of the early Tracy-Hepburn collaborations were heavy dramas such as Keeper of the Flame (1942) and The Sea of Grass (1947). Dramatic fireworks flew as well in State of the Union (1948), but the team is best remembered for its humorous skirmishes in the battle of the sexes with Without Love (1945), Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957). While Hepburn's work in the 1930s and 1940s receives the most attention today, many of the star's peak achievements were realized in the 1950s and 1960s. She picked up Oscar nominations for her work in The African Queen (1951, opposite Humphrey Bogart, as a missionary whose personality she patterned after Eleanor Roosevelt), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, as Elizabeth Taylor's shrewish, sinister aunt), and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). Offscreen for five years, she returned to costar with Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which proved to be his final film; it won her a second Oscar. Hepburn received her third gold statuette the following year for her work in the period drama The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine, which showed the aging actress in full command of her inestimable talent. She followed this triumph by making her Broadway musical debut as couturier Coco Chanel in "Coco." Other films around this time include The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), The Trojan Women (1972), and A Delicate Balance (1973). A much-anticipated pairing of Hepburn with John Wayne yielded disappointing results, as Rooster Cogburn (1975) turned out to be a watered-down retread of The African Queen But her teaming with another screen giant, Henry Fonda, in On Golden Pond (1981), brought her a fourth Best Actress Academy Award, and proved to be her finest latter-day film. Hepburn's TV work has largely been confined to long-form dramas. She received Emmy nominations for Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" (1973), and "The Corn Is Green" (1979), directed by her longtime friend and collaborator, George Cukor. She won an Emmy for "Love Among the Ruins" (1975), also directed by Cukor and costarring Laurence Olivier. Since that time she has starred in several "star-vehicle" TV movies, including Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988), The Man Upstairs (1992), and This Can't Be Love (1994). Her 1991 autobiography, "Me," was a best-seller, as was her more specific 1987 memoir, "The Making of The African Queen or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind." After years away from the big screen, Hepburn was coaxed back to do Love Affair (1994); she provided that film's highlight, as Warren Beatty's aunt.
  • "I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."
  • "I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other."
  • "I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!"
  • "I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
  • "I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition."
  • "Enemies are so stimulating."
  • "If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building."
  • "It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
  • "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
  • "Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."
  • "Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. That's all."
  • "The lack of work destroys people."
  • "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
  • "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."
  • "I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior."
  • "I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or because they're lucky."
  • "Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
  • "Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."
  • "It's a bore - B-O-R-E - W_hen you find you've begun to rot."
  • "Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself."
  • "Only W_hen a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done."
  • "Life is full of censorship. I can't spit in your eye."
  • "I remember as a child going around with Votes For Women balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause."
  • "I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's."
  • "With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable."
  • "At my age, you don't get much variety - usually some old nut who's off her track."
  • On marriage: "It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."
  • "My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all."
  • On fashion: "I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."
  • "Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them."
  • "Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you."
  • "I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win."
  • On Hollywood: "They didn't like me until I got into a leg show."
  • "There are no laurels in life...just new challenges."
  • "Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer."
  • "I've been loved, and I've been in love. There's a big difference."
  • "I often wonder whether men and women really suit eachother. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
  • "Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."
  • "I don't regret anything I've ever done; As long as I enjoyed it at the time."
  • "Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?"
  • "I'm a personality as well as an actress. Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star."
  • "People have grown fond of me, like some old building."
  • Measurements: 34B-22-33 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
  • Her maternal grandfather; her father's brother, Charlie; and her older brother, Tom, all committed suicide. These tragedies were never talked about in her family. Ms. Hepburn said of her parents, "There was nothing to be done about these matters and [my parents] simply did not believe in moaning about anything."
  • Was nominated for 2 Tony Awards. Once for the musical Coco and once for the play West Side Waltz. She lost both times.
  • Her father's name was Thomas and her mother's name was Katharine.
  • As of 2003, "Only Tie in Oscars For Best Actress", Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968) and Katharine Hepburn for _Lion In Winter, The (1968)_ in 1969.
  • Meryl Streep beat her in the number of Oscar nominations, W_hen she received her 13th Oscar nod for Adaptation. (2002). However, Hepburn still reigns as the only 4-time Oscar recipient for acting.
  • On American Film Institute's list of top 100 U.S. love stories, compiled in June 2002, Hepburn led all actresses with six of her films on the list. (actor Cary Grant, co-star with her in two of them, led the male field, also with six films on list). The duo's Philadelphia Story, The (1940) was ranked #44 and their Bringing Up Baby (1938) ranked #51. Hepburn's four other movies on AFI Top 100 love movies list are: #14 African Queen, The (1951) #22 On Golden Pond (1981) #58 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) #74 Woman of the Year (1942)
  • Turned down the role of Marilla in Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV), but recommended her great-neice, Schuyler Grant for the role of Anne. Schuler ended up playing Diana instead.
  • Great-aunt of Schuyler Grant.
  • Is a direct decendant of Britain's King John through one of his illegitimate children.
  • Was admitted to a Hartford hospital for treatment for a urinary infection. Her release was delayed because doctors wanted to monitor her walking. [18 July 2001]
  • Does not suffer from Parkinson's disease. She set the record straight in the 1993 TV documentary Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993) (TV), which she narrated herself. Quote: "Now to squash a rumor. No, I don't have Parkinson's. I inherited my shaking head from my grandfather Hepburn. I discovered that whisky helps stop the shaking. Problem is, if you're not careful, it stops the rest of you too. My head just shakes, but I promise you, it ain't gonna fall off!"
  • Admitted to using her brother's birthdate as her own for years.
  • Aunt of actress Katharine Houghton, who portrayed her character's daughter in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
  • Born at 3:47pm-EST
  • Ranked #68 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
  • Had a relationship with Spencer Tracy from 1940 until his death in 1967.
  • Was a leading choice to play "Scarlett O'Hara" in Gone with the Wind (1939).
  • She was nearly decapitated by an aeroplane propeller W_hen she was rushing about an airport, avoiding the press.
  • Walked around the studio in her underwear in the early 1930s W_hen the costume department stole her slacks from her dressing room. She refused to put anything else on until they were returned.
  • Ranked #1 woman in the AFI's '50 greatest movie legends'. [June 1999]
  • Has never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was Spencer Tracy's last film.
  • Was named Best Classic Actress of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, just barely (21.5% to 20.6%) beating out runner-up Audrey Hepburn. [September 1999]
  • Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1928, with a degree in history and philosophy.
  • Playing strong independent women with minds of their own
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