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In 2005, Lucille Ball plays the part of Herself in the video release of Back Drop.
Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Herself in the 2004 feature Bazuka.
Lucille Ball plays Annabel Allison in the 1968 production of The Beatles Mod Odyssey.
In 1914, she plays Herself in the movie The Cowboy's Chicken Dinner.
In 2002, she stars as Herself in the movie American Mod.
In 2002, she plays Herself in the movie Farewell Hong Kong.
For the 2007 video release of The Crave, Lucille Ball stars as Annabel Allison.
In 2003, she stars as Jean Russell in the movie Enter the Grill Master.
For the 1985 release of Anbin Mugavari, Lucille Ball plays Herself.
In 1943, Lucille Ball plays the part of Gloria Lyons in the feature Cowboy in Manhattan.
In 1998, she plays Herself in the show Artemis.
In 2001, Lucille Ball plays Miss Rosie Kelly in the movie China: The Panda Adventure.
In 1998, she stars as Herself in the show Black Olung.
For the 2005 show As Is: A Downsized Life, Lucille Ball plays Herself.
Lucille Ball's character is Lillian Temple in the 1996 movie The Beatnicks.
For the 1915 movie The Dude Raffle, she is cast in the role of Herself.
In 2006, she plays the part of Angela Ballantine in the show All Out for India.
For the 2001 video release of 18 and Nasty 25, Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Bubbles.
For the 1987 movie Bir kirik bebek, Lucille Ball plays the part of Kathleen.
For the 1962 release of D.T.R, she plays the part of Ann 'Annie' Howell.
She plays the part of May Daly/Madame Du Barry in the 1984 release of Darkness Amongst Friends.
For the 1972 show Comme avant, mieux qu'avant, she plays Actress.
She takes the role of Anne, Lenahan's Secretary in the 2005 production of 180.
Lucille Ball's character is Gladys Benton in the 2004 video release of By Invitation Only.
For the 1953 movie Black Orchid, she takes the role of Herself.
In 1984, Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Kitty Weaver in the release of Curse of the Wicked Wife.
For the 1965 feature Ab urbe condita, she stars as Agatha Floud.
In 1991, Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Gloria Wilson in the movie 3 Joes.
Lucille Ball stars as Peggy Nolan in the 2001 movie Chavela.
For the 1999 production Bag om Svendsen, Lucille Ball stars as Kitty Collins.
In 1914, Lucille Ball plays Susan Vega in the production of As It Might Have Been.
She plays the part of Beauty operator in the 1998 show Als das Feuer vom Himmel fiel.
She plays the part of Sally Elliot in the 1998 release of 2 minuten stilte a.u.b..
For the 1909 show Beethoven, Lucille Ball's character is Herself.
In 1953, she plays the part of Dorothy 'Dot'/'Spindle' Duncan in the feature The Fighting Lawman.
She stars as Carol Meely in the 1960 movie The Beatniks.
She is cast in the role of Technical Adviser (Mrs. Joe X) in the 1958 release of The Black Orchid.
In 2003, she stars as Herself in the Harry's Girl.
Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Herself in the 1921 movie The Cat and the Monkey.
For the 2001 video Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera', Lucille Ball plays Miriam 'Screwball'.
For the 1999 video Electra Girl Saves the World, Lucille Ball plays Margaret Weldon.
In 1971, Lucille Ball plays Girl in the feature Crisis on the Campus.
Lucille Ball plays the part of Herself in the 2006 video Back Seat Bangers Vol. 7.
In 2005, Lucille Ball stars as Gwendolyn Dilley, Tourist in the video Behind the Line.
For the 1998 feature As Life, As Pangcah, Lucille Ball plays Lucy Ricardo.
She stars as Lucille in the 1923 movie Adventures in the Far North.
For the 1970 production of Black Out, she plays Herself.
She stars as Herself in the 1970 show Alli siopi, I.
For the 2004 release Butts 2 Nuts, she is cast in the role of Salina.
For the 1985 show 'Master Harold'... and the Boys, she takes the role of Herself (Honoree).
For the 1998 show As Long As He Lives, she plays Tacy Bolton - Collini.
For the 2005 production of Aunt Rose, she plays Julie Patterson.
Lucille Ball plays Kay Williams in the 2004 feature 30 hari mencari cinta.
For the 1987 show Harry's Hong Kong, Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Whittaker.
She stars as Host/Herself in the 1978 tv series Elfriede.
In 1974, she stars as Herself in the release of Ciak, si muore.
In 1972, Lucille Ball plays Sandra Carpenter in the production Beberi mezurneebi.
For the 2006 video Anatomy of a Stunt: Tank vs. Perrier, Lucille Ball plays the part of Princess Narah.
She stars as Mame Dennis in the 2006 release Big Wet Asses 9.
In 1925, she stars as Joan Grant in the movie Dangerous Peach, A.
For the 1991 video 'Doctor Who': The Tom Baker Years, Lucille Ball plays Julie Hampton.
For the 1979 show Akh, vodevil, vodevil..., Lucille Ball plays Peggy.
For the 2006 show Cowboy Junction, Lucille Ball plays Ellen Grant.
In 1926, Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Chorus Girl in the release of Balletterzherzog. Ein Wiener Spiel von Tanz und Liebe, Der.
For the 1945 show The Agitator, Lucille Ball stars as Nancy Crocker Fleming.
In 1912, Lucille Ball plays Maxine in the movie The Desert Trail.
In 1902, she takes the role of Lucy in the movie Bostock's Educated Chimpanzee.
In 1954, she stars as Christine in the movie 3 Sisters.
Lucille Ball stars as Herself in the 1915 feature Emmy of Stork's Nest.
In 1918, she plays the part of Terrence 'Terry' Havalok-Allen in the movie Ambrose's Icy Love.
For the 1996 show Dr. Younamis' Couch, she plays the part of Sally Curtis.
She is cast in the role of Gladys O'Neill in the 2002 production of Chapandaz.
In 1938, she stars as Judy Canfield in the production Farewell Supper, A.
Lucille Ball plays Herself in the 1955 feature As Long as They're Happy.
In 1965, she stars as Florabelle in the movie Cocenel.
Lucille Ball plays Voice of Statue of Liberty in the 1968 movie Black Panthers.
In 2002, Lucille Ball's character is Claire Williams in the video Behind the Scenes of 'Dripping Wet Sex'.
She is cast in the role of Sandra Sand in the 2003 video release of Black Anal Machine.
Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Cameo appearance in the 1997 video By Overwhelming Demand.
In 1943, she takes the role of Daisy Simms in the movie Dikshul.
For the 1993 release of As Long As You're Alive, Lucille Ball plays Consuelo 'Connie' Casey.
For the 2002 feature Blue Hope, Herself.
In 1973, Lucille Ball's character is Paula Sanders in the movie Agnathavasam.
In 1998, she stars as Ricki Woodner in the show The Day the Guns Fell Silent.
She plays Herself in the 1910 release of The Blue Horse Mine.
For the 1997 movie Big in Belgium, Lucille Ball plays Christine Larson.
Lucille Ball plays the part of Kitty Trimble in the 1933 feature Busy Bodies.
For the 2005 movie Blue Hour, she plays Herself.
Lucille Ball is cast in the role of Clara Fields Hinklin/Mercedes Vasquez in the 1989 release of Chueokui ileumeuro.
For the 1961 movie Amrit Manthan, Lucille Ball plays Helen North Beardsley.
In 2007, Lucille Ball plays Specialty in the show Ashes Fall.
In 1988, she takes the role of Co-host - part II in the show 60 Grad mit Schleudern.
Lucille Ball plays Lucille Carter in the 1915 production of As in the Days of Old.
In 1917, she takes the role of Lucy Esmeralda MacGillicuddy Ricardo in the show As Luck Would Have It.
She takes the role of Lucy Barker in the 1934 show Alte Recht, Das.
In 1957, she is cast in the role of Lucy Carmichael in the feature Dos diablillos en apuros.
For the 2003 feature As Luck Would Have It, she stars as Lucy Ricardo (1957-60).
Lucille Ball plays Narrator in the 1994 feature Gorki.
For the 1965 movie Gorki deo reke, Lucille Ball plays the part of Herself.
In 1966, Lucille Ball plays Norma Michaels in the feature Gorkie zyorna.
In 1997, she takes the role of Lucy Ricardo/Herself in the release of Gorkiy dym oseni.
For the 1985 movie Gorkiy mozhzhevel'nik, Lucille Ball plays Lucy Ricardo.
For the 1998 movie Gorko, Lucille Ball's character is Lucy Lopez.
She plays the part of Lucille Ball/Bonnie Blakely in the 1983 show Gorky Park.
In 1981, she plays Lucy Collins in the feature Gorleben: Der Traum von einer Sache.
In 1995, Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carmichael in the movie Gornaya progulka v kompanii nastoyashchikh mushchin.
In 2004, she stars as Archive footage in the production of Gorno: An American Tragedy.
In 1990, Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carmichael in the release of Gorod.
Actor Jan Leighton Dies
Leighton - who impersonated historical figures including William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and late Hollywood actor Clark Gable on U.S. television and film - died on 16 November (09) of complications after a stroke.He made his Broadway debut along
on 2009-11-30 04:47:10Scarlett and Samuel Are Like Ricky and Lucy in Spirit
Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson stopped by The Today Show this morning to help promote The Spirit. Over the weekend the costars gave a press conference in NYC, where they jokingly pushed and teased each other while talking about what it was like
on 2008-12-16 04:54:54Lucille Ball's Daughter: 'Memba Her?!
Filed under: TV, Beauty, 'Memba Them?!Lucie Arnaz became famous for being the celebuspawn of TV legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Guess what she looks like now!...Permalink
on 2008-11-23 04:46:31Look Folks -- The Guy from That Bus Movie
The Hollywood tour bus driver who was probably pointing out homes where Lucille Ball never really lived got lucky yesterday when Keanu Reeves swept in on a chopper.And look closely ... only in Hollywood ... the tour bus is a Mercedes!
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on 2008-10-27 04:48:13Little Ricky from "I Love Lucy": 'Memba Him?!
Filed under: Beauty, 'Memba Them?!Keith Thibodeaux became somewhat famous for playing Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's son, Little Ricky, on the classic '50s TV series "I Love Lucy." Guess what he looks like now!...Permalink
on 2008-09-20 05:01:24Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz's children sought out to prove paternity claims
Legendary comedians Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have returned to the spotlight following a resurgence of rumours the couple fathered an unknown child. Madeline "Linda" Jane Dee was allegedly given up for adoption by Ball in 1947 amid fears a baby would im
on 2008-09-04 04:52:29Woman Says She's Secret Granddaughter of Lucille Ball
A woman has come forward saying she believes she's the granddaughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz — and that her mother was adopted in 1947 for fear that a baby would derail Ball's plans for stardom, the New York Post reports.
on 2008-09-03 04:51:00The stuff of Bob Hope to be auctioned in October
(AP)
AP - A foot-high cowboy hat from the movie "Paleface." An autographed photo of Lucille Ball with some teeth blackened out. A money clip from Jack Benny. These were a few of Bob Hope's favorite things.
on 2008-05-19 16:48:04The stuff of Bob Hope to be auctioned in October
(AP)
AP - A foot-high cowboy hat from the movie "Paleface." An autographed photo of Lucille Ball with some teeth blackened out. A money clip from Jack Benny. These were a few of Bob Hope's favorite things.
on 2008-05-19 16:47:10Bob Hope's favorite things to be auctioned in Oct.
(AP)
AP - A foot-high cowboy hat from the movie "Paleface." An autographed photo of Lucille Ball with some teeth blackened out. A money clip from Jack Benny. These were a few of Bob Hope's favorite things.
on 2008-05-19 16:46:55STICKY 'BARBER'
A half-hour late start - scenery trouble! - a tenor craving a certain indulgence for a cold, a smashing Met debut from Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca, who looks a bit like Lucille Ball and has much of her comic timing, a rather listless account...
on 2008-01-14 04:45:38-
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Oh gawd what an image to recall...
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> It's in the Village, on Bleecker near W. 11th.
Across from the park where Lucille Ball played homeless in "Stone Pillow."
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> "Rick in Oz" wrote in
> news:3sjgf.248$3Q5.5672@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au:
> brilliant. But who did the Megan Mullaley impression, Dratch? That was
> so
> good I couldn't tell who the actress was.
The same one who did the Judy Garland'>Judy Garland impersonation. A new player. I do
not know her name.
On another note, Teri Hatcher when asked about the skit said she would think
that was old news and they could have done a skit on a more current event.
She said she did not see it.
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in
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> http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-11-21/
> Fair
> cover shoot spat on America's Saturday Night Live on Saturday by
> playing a scene-stealing Teri Hatcher. Longoria recalled the photo
> shoot, which turned disastrous when Hatcher allegedly started sobbing
> when her cast mates insisted she wasn't positioned to look like the
> star of the show. And while SNL regular Rachel Dratch played Longoria,
> the lovely Latina played Hatcher, who was always vying to stand in the
> centre of the group shot. The hilarious skit also poked fun at fellow
> Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan's manly qualities - she
> was played by comedian Seth Meyers and refused to sit in the front of
> the shot for fear of revealing her "package." The spoof shoot turned
> chaotic when a publicist revealed that Longoria couldn't sit next to
> Felicity Huffman because Huffman was allergic to her perfume and
> Hatcher couldn't stand next to Marcia Cross because the actress feared
> her head looked too small compared to Cross'. Longoria's debut as an
> SNL host was a big hit - she also played a mohican-haired dance music
> star called Ms. Drama Martinez; Helga Englehart, the leader of a
> German oompah band; a character in R Kelly's "In The Closet" video;
> and she recreated beloved TV star Lucille Ball for a Thanksgiving Day
> special spoof.
The impressions of Vincent Price, Alfred Hitchcock and Judy Garland were
brilliant. But who did the Megan Mullaley impression, Dratch? That was so
good I couldn't tell who the actress was.
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http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-11-21/
Longoria Pokes Fun at Cover Shoot
Eva Longoria poked fun at the infamous Desperate Housewives Vanity Fair
cover shoot spat on America's Saturday Night Live on Saturday by playing a
scene-stealing Teri Hatcher. Longoria recalled the photo shoot, which turned
disastrous when Hatcher allegedly started sobbing when her cast mates
insisted she wasn't positioned to look like the star of the show. And while
SNL regular Rachel Dratch played Longoria, the lovely Latina played Hatcher,
who was always vying to stand in the centre of the group shot. The hilarious
skit also poked fun at fellow Desperate Housewives star Nicollette
Sheridan's manly qualities - she was played by comedian Seth Meyers and
refused to sit in the front of the shot for fear of revealing her "package."
The spoof shoot turned chaotic when a publicist revealed that Longoria
couldn't sit next to Felicity Huffman because Huffman was allergic to her
perfume and Hatcher couldn't stand next to Marcia Cross because the actress
feared her head looked too small compared to Cross'. Longoria's debut as an
SNL host was a big hit - she also played a mohican-haired dance music star
called Ms. Drama Martinez; Helga Englehart, the leader of a German oompah
band; a character in R Kelly's "In The Closet" video; and she recreated
beloved TV star Lucille Ball for a Thanksgiving Day special spoof.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/338821p-289317c.html
This year's fall and winter movie season looks fantastic.
That doesn't mean it's going to be particularly good, just that there
are so many ... fantasies.
There are children's fantasies like "Zathura" and "The Chronicles of
Narnia"; gravity-defying fantasies like "The Legend of Zorro" and "Aeon
Flux"; the animated fantasies "Chicken Little," "Tim Burton's Corpse
Bride" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit"; sci-fi
adventures "Serenity," "Doom" and "A Sound of Thunder"; the fourth
Harry Potter movie, and Peter Jackson's remake of the ultimate
fantasy-adventure, "King Kong."
We begin our preview at the end of August, but the string of fantasies
gets an early start on Friday with Terry Gilliam's galloping "The
Brothers Grimm," which has more references to classic fairy tale
characters than all the other coming fantasies combined.
Some analysts may attribute the rash of fantasy films to the escapism
that comes with war, and that may play a role. But it seems just as
likely that fantasy reigns because the ability to create incredible
images today makes the genre irresistible to storytellers.
The trailers for all of the above movies are linked on the Web sites
www.apple.com/trailers and www.imdb.com. Take a look and you'll agree:
They look fantastic.
Fall/winter is also Oscar season, and there are plenty of potential
contenders. The high-profile films with awards ambitions include Steven
Spielberg's "Munich," a drama based on the search for the planners of
the assault on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games; Rob
Marshall's "Memoirs of a Geisha," based on Arthur Golden's acclaimed
novel about a woman who spends her life in the high art of pleasing,
and Terrence Malick's "The New World," an epic account of the first
Virginia colony and the meeting of John Smith and Pocahontas.
Recent Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski returns with a new version
of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," and Marc Forster'>Marc Forster ("Finding
Neverland") turns to drama with "Stay," the story of a psychiatrist's
efforts to stop a patient from carrying out a suicide threat.
Two Broadway musicals make the transition to the screen. Susan Stroman,
who directed "The Producers" on stage, handles the film adaptation as
well, while Chris Columbus directs "Rent."
A few laughs
Comedies abound. Among them are: "Rumor Has It," starring Jennifer
Aniston as a female version of "The Graduate's" Benjamin Braddock; "The
Man," a buddy film featuring unlikely chemistry between Samuel L.
Jackson and Eugene Levy; "The Weather Man," starring Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage as a
TV weather guy who wears his bad forecasts on his shoulders, and a pair
of old-fashioned family films about families that are too big - "Yours,
Mine, and Ours" and "Cheaper by the Dozen 2."
The following schedule may have changed by the time the ink was dry on
this newspaper. But the great majority of films listed are locked in to
those dates.
Every New Film
AUG. 31
The Constant Gardener Brazil's Fernando Meirelles ("City of God")
directs Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz in an adaptation of John
LeCarre's thriller about a British diplomat rousted from his Nairobi
garden to investigate the murder of his activist wife.
Games of Love and Chance Abdel Kechiche directs the Cesar-winning drama
about a group of French students coming of age in a political pressure
cooker of a French project.
William Eggleston in the Real World Director Michael Almereyada
followed the 65-year-old avant garde photographer, musician, draftsman
and videographer across country for this intimate documentary portrait.
SEPT. 2
The Underclassman Action-comedy starring Nick Cannon ("Drumline") as a
young L.A. detective who goes undercover at a posh prep school to break
up a stolen car ring. Directed by Marcos Siega ("Pretty Persuasion").
A Sound of Thunder Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley'>Ben Kingsley and Catherine McCormack
star in an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story about a group of people
who travel back to the dinosaur era and cause a chain reaction that
alters the future to which they return. Directed by Peter Hyams
("Timecop").
The Transporter 2 Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, a man who
delivers anonymous packages to anonymous clients, no questions asked.
Inevitably, the packages get him into trouble, this time with a
gun-toting blonde (Amber Valletta).
SEPT. 7
Touch the Sound Documentary about symphony percussionist Evelyn
Glennie, a child prodigy from Scotland who lost her hearing at age 12
but didn't miss a beat. At 40, she's still performing.
SEPT. 9
The Exorcism of Emily Rose Laura Linney plays a lawyer defending a
priest (Tom Wilkinson) accused of murder after his exorcism of a
possessed woman leaves her dead. With Campbell Scott.
The Man Comedy of mistaken identity starring Samuel L. Jackson as a
special agent whose search for his partner's killer leads him to a
dorky salesman (Eugene Levy). Directed by Les Mayfield ("Encino Man").
Curandero "Sin City's" Robert Rodriguez wrote the for this
horror movie about a man caught up in black magic in Mexico City.
Director Eduardo Rodriguez is apparently no relation.
An Unfinished Life Lasse Hallstr=F6m's sentimental drama brings the
unlikely pairing of uptight rancher Robert Redford and emotional single
mom Jennifer Lopez. Don't expect sparks, though: he's a grieving
father, and she's the woman who married, and then accidentally killed,
his son. Can her preteen daughter unite them, or will she become just
another wedge in their long-simmering enmity? More important, will
Lopez benefit from a boost in her lukewarm screen career, or has the
shelf-life on this much delayed movie already expired?
Steal Me A 15-year-old boy abandoned by his mother befriends another
boy his age and moves in with his family, soon developing a crush on
both his friend's mother and the sexy older woman living next door.
Keane Lodge Kerrigan ("Claire Dolan") directs Damian Lewis
("Dreamcatcher") in a psychological drama about a man haunted by the
disappearance of his 6-year-old daughter at Manhattan's Port Authority
Bus Terminal - or was it all in his head?
The Outsiders - The Complete Novel Francis Coppola's elongated
version of his 1983 adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel. The DVD goes
on sale immediately after the release.
Cote d'Azur French comedy about a family whose seaside vacation gets a
little foamy when the couple's daughter takes up with a biker and their
son drifts off with his best friend, who is secretly in love with him.
Walking on the Sky A group of six New York friends have to wrestle with
the new dynamics in their relationships when another member of their
circle kills himself and leaves behind a revealing diary. Directed by
and starring New York native Carl T. Evans.
Green Street Hooligans Elijah Wood plays a wrongly expelled Harvard
student who moves to London, where he is instantly drawn into the
violent subculture of soccer hooliganism. With Charlie Hunnam, Claire
Forlani.
Music From the Inside Out Daniel Anker documentary weaving together a
mosaic of the stories, ideas and experiences of the 105 members of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, a musical institution that hasn't participated
in a film since "Fantasia."
Answering the Call Documentary honoring the people who answered
emergency calls on 9/11.
SEPT. 14
The Future of Food Documentary about genetically engineered products
that have become part of the U.S. food chain - whether they're good
for us or not. Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, widow of Jerry Garcia.
SEPT. 16
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Big-fee action screenwriter Shane Black ("Lethal
Weapon") makes his directing debut with his own about a New York
actor (Robert Downey, Jr.) who impersonates a detective and gets
himself in all sorts of trouble. With Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan.
Lord of War Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage is an international gun dealer in Andrew
Niccol's topical black comedy, which co-stars Ethan Hawke as an
Interpol agent intent on bringing him down. With Donald Sutherland, Ian
Holm, Jared Leto.
Just Like Heaven "Mean Girls"' Mark Waters directs Mark Ruffalo and
Reese Witherspoon in a romantic fantasy about a young man and the
spirit of a comatose doctor who fall in love while sharing an
apartment. Once they're over their, uh, dimensional differences, the
race is on to keep her body from being taken off life support.
Proof Last time director John Madden and Gwyneth Paltrow worked
together, she landed herself an Oscar. Though more erudite and intimate
than "Shakespeare in Love," Madden's adaptation of David Auburn's
Pulitzer Prize-winning play might just catch the eyes of Academy's
voters, too. Reprising a role she has already tackled on the London
stage, Paltrow plays an overwhelmed young woman rapidly losing her grip
after the death of her father (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant math
professor. Hovering around the edges are her concerned support system:
brainy admirer Jake Gyllenhaal'>Jake Gyllenhaal and coldly practical sister Hope Davis.
The Woods Psychological horror film about the students of an all-girl
boarding school who begin to go missing in the surrounding woods.
Patricia Clarkson is the headmistress and Agnes Bruckner'>Agnes Bruckner is the new
student caught up in the mystery.
Separate Lies It's been a while since we were faced with the sight of
middle-class Brits keeping a stiff upper lip while suppressing
dangerous secrets. Fortunately, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson are
always willing to suffer stoically for our entertainment. "Gosford
Park" screenwriter Julian Fellowes makes his directorial debut, while
Watson and Wilkinson play a long-married couple who are still quite
happy together (aside from the passionate affair and possible homicide
she's hiding).
Venom Jim Gillespie ("I Know What You Did Last Summer") directs another
teens-in-trouble horror picture, this one involving voodoo in the
bayous of Louisiana. With Agnes Bruckner'>Agnes Bruckner (poor thing), Bijou Phillips.
The Libertine Johnny Depp takes on the role of notorious 17th-century
poet, derelict and debaucher John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester and
grand embarrassment of Charles II (John Malkovich). Samantha Morton is
the actress who comes under Wilmot's shaky tutelage.
Adapted from his play by Stephen Jeffreys and directed by first-timer
Laurence Dunmore.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Another day, another Johnny Depp-Tim Burton
collaboration. Not that we're feeling cavalier about it: These two have
given us some of the most unusual movies in recent years. Since
Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant
Peach" are among them, we have high hopes for this latest stop-motion
animated fantasy, which is based on an old Russian folk tale about a
young groom (voiced by Depp) who inadvertently finds himself with two
wives (he could do worse than Helena Bonham Carter'>Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson).
Thumbsucker Offbeat comedy about a 17-year-old boy whose infantile
habit of sucking his thumb makes him the subject of ridicule and
isolation even in his own home. But the people trying to help him kick
the habit are even stranger. With Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio,
Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn. It's the first feature directed by Mike
Mills, maker of the well-received short "Paperboys."
Everything Is Illuminated Actor Liev Schreiber makes his writing and
directing debut with his adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's darkly
comic best seller about a young American Jew who travels to Russia to
find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. With Elijah
Wood.
One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern
Documentary about the 1972 presidential campaign and political
humiliation of the idealistic former South Dakota senator.
Cry Wolf A high-school prank turns lethal when classmates listed on a
joke Web site as the next victims of a serial killer start turning up
dead. With Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father Greek drama about a lonely boy who has to rely
on his imagination when the father with whom he'd shared a passion for
outer space does not come home.
The Thing About My Folks Paul Reiser wrote this film and co-stars in it
with Peter Falk as a son and father rediscovering the bond between them
on a cross-country trip in a restored '36 Ford. Directed by Raymond De
Felitta ("Two Family House").
The Weeping Meadow The first film in a planned trilogy by Greek master
Theo Angelopoulos follows a pair of refugee children as they come of
age in the small Greek village they are brought to after the Russian
Revolution.
SEPT. 23
A History of Violence With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock's "wrong man"
theme and Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs," David Cronenberg's latest film
stars Viggo Mortensen as a small-town family man whose celebrated
heroism in thwarting and killing two thugs in his diner draws gangsters
to town. The one with the deformed face (Ed Harris) claims he knew the
hero years before and he has come for some payback. Despite his
denials, Mortensen's character ends up having to fight violence with
violence. With Maria Bello, William Hurt.
Oliver Twist If ever there were a story that suited Roman Polanski's
dark sensibilities, it's Charles Dickens' classic saga of an orphan
whose fate falls and rises at the mercy of others. The screenplay was
written by Ronald Harwood, Polanski's partner on their Oscar-winning
"Pianist," so it is always possible that this artistically acclaimed
pair aims to entertain adults and youngsters alike, while
simultaneously approaching the Academy with a respectful request: "May
we have some more?" With Barney Clark as Oliver, Ben Kingsley'>Ben Kingsley as Fagin
and Jamie Foreman as Bill Sykes.
Flightplan In her first starring role in three years, Jodie Foster
plays a recently widowed woman whose 6-year-old daughter disappears in
the middle of a trans-continental flight from Berlin to New York. Since
no one else on the plane remembers seeing the girl, they question
whether she was there only in her mother's mind.
Daltry Calhoun Johnny Knoxville returns to his hometown as a roustabout
and would-be golf magnate whose ex-wife (Elizabeth Banks) throws a
twist into his life by dropping their 14-year-old daughter at his door.
Roll Bounce Nick Cannon, Bow Wow and Mike Epps star for "The Best Man"
director Malcolm D. Lee in this comedy-drama about a group of hip-hop
roller skaters preparing for a competition on the other side of 1970s
Chicago.
Dear Wendy Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, two of the founders of
the Danish film collective Dogme 95, team up as writer (von Trier) and
director (Vinterberg) of this parable about America's contradictory gun
culture. It follows a group of teenage outcasts in a fictional mining
town who form a secret club known as "The Dandies." Their purpose -
to love and admire guns but never use them on anybody - soon goes out
the window.
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Tom Hanks produced and
narrates this 3-D IMAX film that re-creates for the audience what the
12 astronauts who have walked on the moon experienced.
Into the Fire Drama about a troubled NYPD harbor cop who freezes during
a rescue attempt of a drowning woman and tries to make peace with his
conscience and the victim's identical twin. With Sean Patrick Flanery
and Melina Kanakaredes from TV's "Providence."
Dorian Blues Coming-out story about a young man who, on the cusp of
moving to New York, begins showing his preference for men, much to the
dismay of his right-wing father and his jock brother.
7 Dias Mexican film about a U2 super fan determined to raise the
half-million dollars it would cost to bring the band to his country.
Dirty Love Jenny McCarthy wrote this comedy and co-stars in it with
Carmen Electra. It's about a jilted woman who sees a psychic to find
out where she should search for true love.
Occupation: Dreamland Documentary focusing on the men of the 82nd
Airborne in Iraq and on the Army's recruitment tactics.
SEPT. 28
Forty Shades of Blue Rip Torn plays a legendary (and doesn't he know
it) Memphis music producer whose comfy existence is shaken when his
young Russian trophy wife (Dina Korzun) falls in love with his
estranged son.
SEPT. 30
Capote The estimable Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the late novelist and
social gadfly Truman Capote. It's not a conventional biopic, but an
account of the writer's research for "In Cold Blood," his classic
"nonfiction novel" about the murders of a Kansas farm family and the
subsequent trials and executions of their killers. Catherine Keener is
Harper Lee, Capote's young associate (and future author of "To Kill a
Mockingbird") and Clifton Collins Jr. plays the killer Perry Smith,
with whom Capote developed a strong relationship. Bennett Miller is the
first-time director.
The Greatest Game Ever Played Shia LaBeouf ("Holes") stars for director
Bill Paxton in the dramatization of 20-year-old American amateur golfer
Francis Ouimet's legendary victory at the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline,
Mass. Stephen Dillane plays Harry Vardon, the cocky British champion
who was humbled before the golfing world.
Into the Blue "Blue Crush" director John Stockwell goes back to the
water for this thriller about a group of buff young divers who find a
fortune in the cargo bay of a sunken airplane and make the mistake of
keeping it. With Paul Walker and Jessica Alba.
MirrorMask British fantasy about a 15-year-old circus entertainer whose
guilt over her mother's illness sends her into an alternative universe
of contrasting light and dark kingdoms.
Serenity Feature-length finale to Joss Whedon's 13-episode sci-fi TV
series "Firefly," about a group of adventurers aboard a space
transporter 500 years in the future. Here, Capt. Mal Reynolds (Nathan
Fillion) and his crew are being chased by the galaxy-ruling Alliance,
which wants to reclaim the telepathic fugitive River (Summer Glau)
traveling with them.
Little Manhattan Mark Levin, a story editor for "The Wonder Years,"
makes his directing debut with this tale of first love between two
12-year-olds.
The War Within Drama about a Pakistani engineering student who is
mistaken for a terrorist and placed in confinement.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio Julianne Moore is a mother of 10
helping her luckless husband (Woody Harrelson) make ends meet by
entering - and winning - jingles contests in the 1950s. Adapted
from the memoir of Terry Ryan, whose mother did such things.
Going Shopping Henry Jaglom directs his wife, Victoria Foyt, in a story
about a clothing boutique owner's wild experiences during a Mother's
Day weekend sale.
OCT. 5
The Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach, son of former Village Voice film
critic Georgia Brown, wrote and directs a loosely autobiographical
drama about two brothers dealing with their parents' divorce in 1980s
Brooklyn. With Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney.
OCT. 7
Goodnight, and Good Luck This drama, directed by George Clooney, is
built around the public fight between legendary broadcast journalist
Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. In the
1950s, McCarthy was the most visible member of the witch-hunting House
UnAmerican Activities Committee, which destroyed the careers of
innocent people from all walks of life by associating them with
Communists. Murrow led the reaction to McCarthy and got labeled a
Communist for his trouble. CBS News stuck with Murrow despite the
pressure, and McCarthy's power began to fade. Clooney co-stars as CBS
news producer Fred Friendly and Frank Langella plays the corporation's
chief, William Paley.
In Her Shoes Curtis Hanson ("L.A. Confidential") goes all soft on us
with this story about two estranged sisters (Cameron Diaz and Toni
Collette) who are reconciled by the grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) they
never knew they had.
Two for the Money Matthew McConaughey is a former college football star
whose track record for handicapping sporting events draws him into the
world of high stakes gambling, where nothing short of his life will be
at stake. With Al Pacino as the betting agency mogul who comes to rely
on and dominate him. Directed by D.J. Caruso ("The Salton Sea").
The Gospel An R&B star (Clifton Powell) faces a spiritual crisis when
he returns home on learning of the illness of his father, a church
bishop, and his boyhood rival's plans to take over the church. With
Omar Gooding.
Before the Fall German drama about a young boxing prospect whose
repulsion over Nazi atrocities sets him against the biggest opponent of
all.
Waiting An "American Pie"-style comedy about the crude and rude
employees of a restaurant whose name - Shenanigans - describes
their behavior. With Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit What are the odds we'd
have two stop-motion movies to look forward to this season? (Strangely
enough, Helena Bonham Carter'>Helena Bonham Carter lends her voice to both.) Already the
subject of three Oscar-nominated shorts, inventor Wallace and his dog
Gromit make their feature debut in a comedy about a mysterious monster
who's destroying the garden plots of an English village. Naturally,
it's up to our intrepid heroes to stop him. "Chicken Run," the last
import from the inspired minds at Aardman Animation, was a surprise
smash. Wallace and Gromit deserve nothing less.
Dandelion A coming of age story about a 16-year-old boy and how his
search for his identity is connected with the various forms of love
that are missing from his life.
OCT. 12
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque Documentary about the film
archivist who inspired French New Wave directors Godard, Truffaut,
Rohmer and Chabrol.
OCT. 14
Nine Lives Rodrigo Garcia directs a series of nine vignettes about
women getting on with their lives in Los Angeles. Each segment is done
as a single 10-minute take. With Sissy Spacek, Robin Wright Penn, Glenn
Close and Holly Hunter.
Elizabethtown Orlando Bloom is an industrial designer hit with three
pieces of devastating news: his girlfriend (Jessica Biel) is breaking
up with him; he has lost his job because of a disastrous mistake, and
his father has died. On the plus side, he meets an irrepressible flight
attendant (Kirsten Dunst) traveling to his father's funeral in Kentucky
and realizes that his life may get better - if it doesn't get worse.
Written and directed by Cameron Crowe ("Almost Famous").
North Country Oscar-winner Charlize Theron'>Charlize Theron ("Monster") stars in a
fictionalized account of the landmark 1984 sexual harassment case
involving a woman working in the Minnesota mining industry and her male
co-workers. With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson. Directed by Niki
Caro ("Whale Rider").
Domino Keira Knightley'>Keira Knightley assumes the title role in Tony Scott's highly
exaggerated account of the adventures of British actor Laurence
Harvey's daughter, who turned her back on a modeling and potential
acting career to become a bounty hunter; she died at age 35 in June.
With Mena Suvari, Mickey Rourke.
Where the Truth Lies Atom Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") adapts Rupert
Holmes' novel about a young journalist (Alison Lohman) probing for the
truth of a 15-year-old scandal that destroyed the careers of a revered
showbiz duo (Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth).
The Fog Rupert Wainwright ("Stigmata") directs the remake of John
Carpenter's 1980 horror film about the ghosts of long-buried lepers who
rise on a dense fog surrounding a coastal California town. Selma Blair
and Maggie Grace are among the terrorized.
Loggerheads Three interwoven stories about a young gay man (Kip
Pardue), his biological mother (Bonnie Hunt) and his adoptive parents
(Chris Sarandon and Tess Harper).
Innocent Voices Based on screenwriter Oscar Torres' childhood
experience, this is the story of a 12-year-old boy who is automatically
enlisted in the army in 1980s El Salvador. Directed by Luis Mandoki
("Message in a Bottle").
OCT. 19
Ushpizin Drama about the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning,
living and loving in modern-day Israel.
OCT. 21
Shopgirl Steve Martin'>Steve Martin adapted his slight novella and co-stars with
Claire Danes in a story about a salesclerk at a Beverly Hills
department store who gets involved with a middle-age sugar daddy.
Barely Legal Three high-school sophomores try to make a porno movie in
their basement while their parents are at work. The results are
disastrous, especially when a school bully wants to participate in the
film.
Stay Marc Forster'>Marc Forster ("Finding Neverland," "Monster's Ball") directs Ewan
McGregor and Naomi Watts'>Naomi Watts in a thriller about a psychiatrist's
nightmarish effort to prevent a patient from carrying out his threat to
kill himself in three days.
Kids in America At fictional Booker High in Brooklyn, a group of
politically active students joins forces with a fired teacher on a film
documenting their campaign against the repressive school principal.
Dreamer A "Seabiscuit"-like "underhorse" story about a filly who breaks
her leg and is nursed back to health by her trainer (Kurt Russell) at
the insistence of his daughter (Dakota Fanning). The horse then returns
to the track to try and win the Breeder's Cup.
After Innocence Documentary about the reentry into society of seven men
released from prison after DNA evidence proved they were innocent of
the crimes for which they were sent away for decades.
Protocols of Zion Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin takes his camera to
the streets of New York to learn from passing anti-Semites why they
hate Jews.
Doom The Rock stars in Andrzej Bartkowiak's feature version of the
super-hot '90s video game about Marines taking on invading monsters on
their base on a moon of Mars in the year 2145.
Innocence This Belgian-French film is based on an 1888 Gothic novella
about young girls growing up in a subterranean boarding school beneath
an isolated wood.
The Ordeal Belgian psychological drama about a singer who ends up in a
creepy, out-of-the-way motel after his car breaks down in the night.
Derailed Adapted from James Siegel's heralded first novel, this
thriller stars Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston as illicit Manhattan
lovers trying to outwit a violent blackmailer who is much smarter than
they are. With Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, RZA, Tom Conti, Xzibit,
Giancarlo Esposito.
White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Documentary about the brutality of
a jungle gulag created by Belgium's King Leopold II in the colonial
Congo in 1885.
OCT. 26
Ballets Russes Documentary about the famed ballet company, which is
about to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
OCT. 28
The Legend of Zorro The sequel to the 1998 "Mask of Zorro" traces how
Antonio Banderas' Don Alejandro is forced to put on the mask and take
up the sword several years after marrying the lovely Elena (Catherine
Zeta-Jones) and having a son. The boy is now 10 and unaware of dad's
outlaw fame, but he will soon learn as the mark of Zorro begins
appearing anew on the landscape and on the bodies of baddies in Old
California. Returning director is Martin Campbell.
Prime What's a girl (Uma Thurman) to do when she learns that the
psychotherapist to whom she's told the most intimate details of her sex
life is her boyfriend's mother? For that matter, what's the shrink to
do? A comedy by writer-director Ben Younger.
Three ... Extremes A pan-Asian sampler of 30-minute horror shorts from
China's Fruit Chan, Japan's Takashi Miike and South Korea's Chan-wook
Park.
The Dying Gaul A grieving gay screenwriter (Peter Sarsgaard) has a shot
at selling his about his relationship with his late lover and
agent, but there's a Faustian catch: He has to change it to a
heterosexual relationship. With Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott.
Craig Lucas (writer of "Long Time Companion") directs his own .
Saw II The serial killer known as Jigsaw returns to terrorize eight
more strangers with his murderous game playing in the sequel to last
year's Halloween hit.
Paradise Now A drama about two Palestinian boyhood friends spending
their last day together before going off on suicide bombing missions in
Tel Aviv.
The Weather Man Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage is a Chicago TV weatherman, family man and
neurotic whose decision to take a job in New York puts all of his roles
at risk in this offbeat comedy. With Hope Davis, Michael Caine.
Directed by Gore Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean").
Blackmail Boy A blackmail scheme leads to murder in a small Greek town.
NOV. 4
Jarhead Jake Gyllenhaal'>Jake Gyllenhaal is a young Marine forced to grow up fast during
Desert Storm. Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003
best-seller. With Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black. Directed by Sam Mendes
("American Beauty").
NY Doll This documentary about the late Arthur Kane, bassist with the
New York Dolls, centers on the notorious glam-punk band's 2004 reunion.
The Matador In writer-director Richard Shepard's black comedy, Pierce
Brosnan plays an international hit man who, on assignment in Mexico
City, befriends, then enlists, a woebegone businessman (Greg Kinnear)
as a partner in crime. With Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story British comedy actor Steve
Coogan ("24 Hour Party People") plays the title character in Michael
Winterbottom's audacious adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel
"Tristram Shandy," about an egocentric country gentleman sharing his
views with readers, when not digressing about his family.
Chicken Little This non-Pixar CGI cartoon from Disney stars Zach Braff
as the voice of Chicken Little, a vigilant sky watcher who proves he
isn't always wrong when he says "the sky is falling." Joan Cusack, Don
Knotts, Fred Willard and Amy Sedaris also lend their voices.
The Family Stone A romantic comedy about a family that circles the
wagons when Ben Stone (Luke Wilson) brings home an uptight woman
(Claire Danes) he intends to marry. Facing a cold reception, she calls
in her sister (Sarah Jessica Parker) for support, then things get
really bad.
Summer Storm German coming-out story about a camping trip during which
one of two best friends discovers he wants more than friendship.
NOV. 9
The New World Terrence Malick ("The Thin Red Line") wrote and directed
this historical epic about the arrival of British colonists on the
coast of North America and their conflicts with the natives they found
there. It's the story of John Smith, Pocahontas and John Rolfe, and of
the teenage Pocahontas' role in saving the white colonists from her
tribe's warriors, and of her subsequent trip to England. Colin Farrell
plays Smith, Christian Bale is Rolfe and 15-year-old German-born
Q'Orianka Kilcher, partly descended from native South Americans, is
Pocahontas.
Pulse Remake of a Japanese horror film about a computer virus or
supernatural force that turns viewers into suicidal depressives. With
Kristen Bell (from TV's "Veronica Mars").
The Swenkas In South Africa, flamboyant, stylish - and straight -
blue-collar Zulu men replace their overalls with colorful designer
suits to compete in fashion shows of their own making, in a ritual
called "swanking."
NOV. 11
Bee Season Fans of Myla Goldberg's best seller ought to be happy with
the team behind this adaptation: Directors Scott McGehee and David
Siegel did a nice job exploring family tensions in "The Deep End." And
if any actor can handle the story's spiritual twists and turns, it's
surely the Dalai Lama's No. 1 fan, Richard Gere. He plays a theology
professor convinced his young daughter (Flora Cross) has a divine
connection to another plane. Meanwhile, his teenage son (Max Minghella)
and mentally ill wife (Juliette Binoche) are floundering right here on
Earth.
Take My Eyes Acclaimed Spanish drama about a woman who takes her son
and leaves the abusive husband she still loves.
Ellie Parker In this low-budget indie comedy, which originated as a
2001 short film project, Naomi Watts'>Naomi Watts plays what she once was, an
Australian actress trying to get traction in Hollywood. With Chevy
Chase as her manager and writer-director Scott Coffey as her boyfriend.
Get Rich or Die Tryin' Taking its cue from "8 Mile," this urban drama
is a loosely autobiographical tale about an inner-city thief and drug
dealer who leaves prison determined to become a rap star. He's played
by - and inspired by - Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The director is
Jim Sheridan ("In America").
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic The raw standup comic expounds on
politics, race, sex and religion.
Cape of Good Hope South African drama about three women whose lives
intersect at an animal rescue shelter, to their lasting good.
Zathura Less a sequel to 1995's "Jumanji" than another wild game. In
this one, directed by Jon Favreau ("Elf"), two young brothers find a
space adventure board game in the attic of their California bungalow
and are soon hoist - house and all - into the galaxy. Tim Robbins
plays their befuddled father. The screenplay by David Koepp and John
Kamps was based, like "Jumanji" and "Polar Express," on a book by Chris
Van Allsburg.
NOV. 16
The Syrian Bride Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis' drama about a Syrian
woman who, in her bridal outfit, is steps away from crossing the border
into Israel to meet her groom when politics stops her in her tracks.
NOV. 18
Walk the Line James Mangold ("Identity") directs Joaquin Phoenix in
this Johnny Cash biopic. Reese Witherspoon plays his wife, June Carter.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire In the fourth part of the series,
Harry, Ron and Hermione face down Voldemort's Death Eaters. There have
been some grumblings that Mike Newell, the director of "Four Weddings
and a Funeral," will not stay true to the daringly dark tone set by his
predecessor, Alfonso Cuar=F3n. As Dumbledore tells Harry, "We must all
face the choice between what is right and what is easy." Here's hoping
Newell chose wisely.
Pride & Prejudice A new adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about the
five Bennet sisters in Georgian England. Keira Knightley'>Keira Knightley is Elizabeth,
the most self-determined of the girls, and Matthew MacFadyen is Darcy,
the snob whom love will tame.
Breakfast on Pluto Director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game") takes up
with another transvestite character in his adaptation of Pat McCabe's
novel about an Irish cabaret singer and prostitute who is wrongly
accused of planting a bomb in a 1970s London club. With Cillian Murphy
("Red Eye") and Liam Neeson.
Wolf Creek Australian horror movie about three young people who follow
their spring break with a trip to the outback, where somebody intends
to have fun at their expense.
NOV. 21
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things A Southern Gothic movie about a
boy learning about the seedy sides of the world while on the road with
his impulsive young mother (played by actress-director Asia Argento).
With cameos by Winona Ryder, Marilyn Manson and Peter Fonda, among
others.
NOV. 23
Syriana George Clooney stars in the biographical drama of Robert Baer,
a 20-year veteran of the CIA, who worked undercover studying terrorists
in the Middle East and became fed up with the growing weakness of the
agency and the cozy relationship between the oil-hungry West and a
certain government (hint: Saudi Arabia). With Matt Damon, Amanda Peet.
Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan.
Rent Chris Columbus, director of the first two Harry Potter movies,
helms the screen version of Jonathan Larson's Tony- and Pulitzer
Prize-winning rock opera about a group of bohemians struggling with
life in the East Village. It stars Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs and
several members of the original Broadway cast.
The Ice Harvest "Groundhog Day's" Harold Ramis directs John Cusack and
Billy Bob Thornton in a comedy about two guys who embezzle $2 million
from corrupt Wichita businessmen and are set to make a clean Christmas
Eve getaway until an ice storm arrives.
Yours, Mine and Ours Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo take over for Henry
Fonda and Lucille Ball in the remake of the 1968 comedy about a man
with 8 kids who marries a woman with 10.
The White Countess The final Merchant-Ivory production (Ismail Merchant
died in May) is set in late-1930s Shanghai, where a blind,
disillusioned American diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) is making a careful
study of the decadent city's rankest bars with the idea of building the
perfect dive. Natasha Richardson plays the Russian taxi dancer who
catches the diplomat's eye and is recruited as the centerpiece of the
club.
Dying For Dolly After saving a mafioso's life, a young African-American
(R&B star Usher) is rewarded with a job in the mob and puts it in
jeopardy by falling in love with the boss' daughter. With Chazz
Palminteri, Emmanuelle Chriqui.
NOV. 30
The Boys of Baraka Documentary about the experience of a group of
Baltimore 12-year-olds sent to an experimental boarding school in
Kenya.
DEC. 2
Transamerica "Desperate Housewives'" Felicity Huffman plays a pre-op
he-to-she transsexual whose plans for the life-changing surgery are
disrupted by the discovery of a son (Kevin Zegers) fathered 20 years
before.
Aeon Flux Charlize Theron'>Charlize Theron has the title role in this adaptation of the
cult MTV action series about a physically agile heroine working as a
rebel operative in a walled city run by scientists 400 years in the
future. With Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo.
Be Here to Love Me Documentary about the late, hard-living songwriter
Townes Van Zandt, with appearances by fans Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett,
Steve Earle and Kris Kristofferson.
The Kid and I California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his first
post-inauguration movie appearance in a comedy about a 17-year-old boy
with cerebral palsy whose wealthy father (Joe Mantegna) decides to
grant his wish by financing an action movie for him to star in.
First Descent A documentary about snowboarding.
DEC. 9
Memoirs of a Geisha Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh, three of the
most beautiful Asian actresses, star in the adaptation of Arthur
Golden's epic novel about a peasant girl who is sold by her father to a
geisha house in 1920s Japan. As she flowers into adulthood, she becomes
the most desired geisha in the popular Gion district, and learns not
only the nuances of her profession but about human nature. With Ken
Watanabe. The director is "Chicago" Oscar nominee Rob Marshall.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe What,
you thought there was room for only one series of CGI-heavy epics made
in New Zealand from an Oxford don's quasi-religious, mythical stories
of good and evil ? Whether "Shrek" director Andrew Adamson can do as
well by C.S. Lewis as Peter Jackson did by J.R.R. Tolkien remains to be
seen, but this tale of four children who discover the land of Narnia
and fight the evil white witch (Tilda Swinton) holds even more
box-office promise. While "The Lord of the Rings" had three parts,
"Narnia" has seven.
Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") directs
Jake Gyllenhaal'>Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in an adaptation of Annie Proulx's
short story about two ranch hands who - to their great surprise -
fall in love in 1963 Wyoming. With Michelle Williams.
DEC. 14
King Kong Why, you ask, do we need another version of the 1933 classic?
Because the 1976 remake with Jessica Lange was awful and the special
effects in the black-and-white original are a bit too rudimentary for
today's audiences. Besides, Peter Jackson, hot off the "Lord of the
Rings" trilogy, was willing to do it. Unlike the '76 movie, Jackson's
film is faithful to the Depression period and to the original story.
Naomi Watts'>Naomi Watts is in for Fay Wray as heroine Ann Darrow, Jack Black is
obsessed filmmaker Carl Denham, and Oscar-winner Adrien Brody ("The
Pianist") plays Watts' love interest, Jack Driscoll. Andy Serkis, who
did the body-motion performance for the computer-animated Gollum in
"Rings," does the same for Kong and also gets a role of his own, as
Lumpy the Cook.
The Grace Lee Project An Asian-American documentary filmmaker with the
extremely common name of Grace Lee sets out to learn what she can about
other Grace Lees current and past, and comes to some conclusions about
Asian stereotypes.
DEC. 16
All the King's Men Sean Penn stars in Steven Zaillian's new version of
Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning political satire about
a populist Southern governor (a thinly-veiled Huey Long) who becomes
intoxicated with power. A 1949 adaptation directed by Robert Rossen won
Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actor (Broderick Crawford). Jude Law
is Jack Burden, the journalist who unwittingly aids the cause of Penn's
Willie Stark, and Kate Winslet is Anne Stanton, the governor's niece
and Jack's girlfriend.
The Promise Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine") directs this romantic
fantasy about a royal concubine in love with a slave.
DEC. 21
The Producers: The Movie Musical At last, the film version of the stage
musical of Mel Brooks' 1968 film arrives! Nathan Lane and Matthew
Broderick reprise their roles of Max Bialy=ADstock and Leo Bloom. The
only actors not from the Broadway production are Uma Thurman, as
Swedish secretary Ulla, and Will Ferrell, as retro Nazi Franz Liebkind.
Susan Stroman, director of the stage hit, makes her film-directing
debut, a stint that prompted rumors that Brooks stepped in to direct
some of the nonmusical scenes. The film was shot in the new Steiner
Studios in Brooklyn.
Fun With Dick and Jane The year's umpteenth remake stars Jim Carrey and
T=E9a Leoni in the roles played by George Segal and Jane Fonda in a 1977
comedy about a quiet suburban couple who moonlight as hooded robbers.
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 Steve Martin'>Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return for the
sequel to the 2003 remake of a 1950 comedy about a couple with an
oversized brood. Here, the Bakers find themselves in competition with a
family of eight children while on vacation. With Eugene Levy.
DEC. 23
Munich Steven Spielberg follows "War of the Worlds" with a true story
about a squad of Israeli secret agents assigned to track down and kill
the terrorists who engineered the plot against Israeli athletes at the
1972 Olympics in Munich. Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team
were killed along with all of their Palestinian captors in a failed
rescue mission. Eric Bana plays the Mossad agent in charge of the
post-Munich search. With Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush.
The Ringer Black comedy (you may prefer the word "sick") starring
Johnny Knoxville as a nonhandicapped athlete who infiltrates the
Special Olympics with hopes of dethroning the champion.
Hard Candy When a 32-year-old man brings home a 14-year-old girl he met
on the Internet, things don't go as well as he'd hoped. With Patrick
Wilson and Ellen Page.
Cach=E9 A TV book critic (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife (Juliette
Binoche) have their lives turned upside-down by an increasingly
intimate and anonymously sent stream of videos and drawings depicting
the family in alarming situations.
When the Sea Rises French film starring Yolande Moreau as a married
actress and mother whose out-of-town tour with her one-woman show is
spiced up by her impetuous romance with a parade float conductor.
DEC. 25
Casanova What happens when the legendary seducer meets a Venetian
beauty immune to his charms? Why, he falls in love. With Heath Ledger,
Sienna Miller. Directed by Lasse Hallstr=F6m.
Rumor Has It Rob Reiner is back in "When Harry Met Sally ..." country
with this romantic comedy about a young woman (Jennifer Aniston) who
puts off her engagement (to Mark Ruffalo) when she discovers that her
grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) was the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson in
"The Graduate." When she meets an older man (Kevin Costner) who has
slept with both her mother and her grandmother, she begins to believe
she is reliving the experiences of Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin Braddock.
Match Point Woody Allen abandons Manhattan to direct this English
tragicomedy about a former tennis pro who has an affair with the former
girlfriend of his wife's brother. With Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett
Johansson, Emily Mortimer. It was acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival
in May.
Mrs. Henderson Presents Judi Dench stars in the biographical story of a
society matron who bought an old London theater with hopes of drawing
back audiences that had been lured away by talking pictures. Her
roaring success was an all-nude revue. With Christopher Guest, Bob
Hoskins. Directed by Stephen Frears.
Hoodwinked CGI-animated spoof of "Little Red Riding Hood," involving
cops sent from the animal world to investigate disturbances at Granny's
house. Voices of Andy Dick, Sally Struthers, David Ogden Stiers.
DEC. 28
My Name Was Sabina Spielrein Documentary about a Russian Jewish woman
who became Carl Jung's first patient in 1904, then began a long
correspondence with Sigmund Freud and ended up a renowned psychoanalyst
in her own right.
DEC. 31
In the Land of Women After being dumped by his actress girlfriend, a
young Hollywood screenwriter (Adam Brody) goes home to Michigan to ease
his pain and spend time with his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis). While
there, he starts up a relationship with a family across the street that
will change all of their lives. With Meg Ryan, Kristen Stewart.
Compiled and written by Jack Mathews and Elizabeth Weitzman
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RichA wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:51:02 -0400, holefamily1@webtv.net (Mr. Pope
> John Hole III) wrote:
> -Rich
Great, so by the time she hits 30, she'll have a nice Lucille Ball face
and voice when she was 70 or so.
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By William Keck, USA TODAY
Thu May 26, 6:40 AM ET
You know what they say about mixing business with pleasure.
Critics are calling Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's new reality
show, Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, career suicide for Spears. (The
one-hour opener repeats tonight on MTV; new episodes air Tuesdays on
UPN.)
But more than five decades ago, Lucille Ball was told the very same
thing when she put her career on the line to star in a TV series with
her real-life, lesser-known husband, Desi Arnaz. Although I Love
Lucy goes down in history books as an all-time TV favorite, Ball and
Arnaz's marriage went down the drain.
That's why Lionel Richie is discouraging his reality-star daughter,
Nicole, from allowing Fox to document her road to the altar with
fianc=E9 Adam Goldstein. "A Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz thing for her would
be hilarious," the protective papa says. "But I'm a little concerned,
because marriage is a tough institution by itself. Put a camera in
front of that bad boy, and I just don't know."
Here's an overview of how popular Hollywood couples fared in their
marriages and careers after teaming on TV.
Lucille Balle and Desi Arnez
Pleasure: The popular movie actress married the lesser-known Cuban
conga player in 1940.
Business: Formed Desilu Productions. Ball cast Arnaz as her TV spouse
in I Love Lucy (1951-57).
Fallout: The couple called it quits after they wrapped production on
The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour (1957-60). Arnaz rarely acted again, but,
through Desilu, he went on to produce Ball's follow-up sitcom, The Lucy
Show. She continued to work in television. The exes remained friends,
and their sitcom forever exists as a TV classic.
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
Pleasure: The pop princess married the unknown dancer in September 2004
after meeting at an L.A. supper club.
Business: She invited him to join her on her short-lived Onyx Hotel
tour. Behind the scenes footage of the couple now airs as a reality
show, Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. Topics discussed so far include passing
gas and favorite sexual positions.
Fallout: Premiere episode was slammed by critics and lured only 3.66
million viewers. Still married and expecting their first child
together.
Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold
Pleasure: The reigning sitcom queen (Roseanne) married her longtime
comedy-circuit pal in 1990.
Business: In 1989, she created a recurring role for him on her then-
successful show. After their wedding, he was named executive producer.
Fallout: They divorced in 1994. After the sitcom's cancellation in
1997, Roseanne attempted unsuccessful TV comebacks in talk, reality and
cooking shows. She also voiced a cow in last year's underperforming
Home on the Range. Arnold regularly finds work in TV and film.
Liza Minnelli and David Gest
Pleasure:The New York, New York legend married the lesser-known music
producer in 2002 in a lavish wedding attended by stars galore.
Business: The couple sold their wedding photos and signed a deal with
VH1 to star in a reality series, Liza and David, which was canceled
before it aired.
Fallout: They split after 16 months. Gest filed a $10 million lawsuit
against Minnelli, saying she beat him during alcohol-induced rages.
Minnelli has denied the abuse.
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
Pleasure: After a long courtship and a brief separation, the blond
Texas pop star married the 98 Degrees boy-band singer in 2002.
Business: The couple allowed MTV into their home to document their
marriage in the 2003-05 reality series Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica.
Fallout: She has an upcoming role as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of
Hazzard. He had a role on Charmed, cameos in Bewitched and is set to
star in his own MTV reality series, which will focus on the making of
his next album. The couple affirm the strength of the marriage, despite
published reports to the contrary.
Cher and Sonny Bono
Pleasure: The leggy exotic beauty married the short, mustachioed hippie
in 1964.
Business: They brought their singing act to television in the popular
variety show The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1971-74).
Fallout: They divorced in 1975, with each attempting their own spinoff
shows. In 1976, they reunited for The Sonny and Cher Show, but the
magic was gone. Their relationship remained cordial as she became an
icon and he became a U.S. congressman. Cher delivered the eulogy at his
1998 funeral.
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We dont want to read no articles...how about some nude photos?!
"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
news:Rqf%d.714$M17.20020@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/B/Bullock_Sandra/2005/03/19/966616.html
> love. Her beau of one year is Jesse James, 35, the much-tattooed host of
> Discovery Channel's Monster Garage.
> her previous relationships with pretty-boy actors Tate Donovan and Matthew
> McConaughey and blues guitarist Guy Forsythe.
> cousin, has a collection of motorcycles, skulls, pet sharks and pit bulls.
> Bullock says of James, cautiously adding, "In America, we judge people
based
> on colour, name and religious choices. We don't judge people as human
beings
> because we can't. We don't get to know everyone well enough to do that."
> have been offended by some of the stories that have appeared recently in
the
> supermarket tabs.
> "When your films make money, this is what you have to allow those
> publications to do," she says. "I know the rules now and am fine with
them.
> Sometimes, I actually find it all kind of funny."
> appetite of the paparazzi press for demeaning photos of celebrities.
> and a sweatshirt that has dog hair all over it and I don't brush my hair,"
> she says. "I'm not going to become one of those people who gets all
dressed
> up to leave the house just in case a photographer is hiding in some
bushes."
> sees her picture on a magazine at the supermarket checkout.
look
> worse. And it's always women. They don't do this to Harrison Ford. Then
> again, he doesn't run around in a Speedo. Therein lies the genius of
> Harrison Ford."
> much a theme in her new movie, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous --
> the sequel to her surprise 2000 hit that returned a worldwide gross of
$213
> million US on a $45 million budget.
> inner femininity so she could go undercover at a beauty pageant. This
turned
> Gracie into a media sensation.
> ruins the career that means so much to her. In essence, Gracie has to
learn
> what Bullock has since Speed made her a major star.
> because they happen to be famous," Bullock says. " 'He may have been in a
> hit-and-run but that's all right. They're famous. He was drinking. That's
> okay.'
> have to live your life by example."
> laughing but also realizing, as Gracie does, "You have to stay exactly who
> you are. You have to enjoy your uniqueness. You can't try to conform to
> someone else's standards."
> hopes there will be more.
onto
> little Gracie is awesome."
says.
> "The guys get them all the time. Jerry Lewis got to do them.
> there to be an allowance for this kind of movie for women but that won't
> happen if there is not an audience for them. As long as people want them,
> I'll make them."
She
> is awaiting the release of the gritty ensemble drama Crash she made with
> Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton and Tony Danza for filmmaker Paul
> Haggis.
> Harper Lee, and has signed to team with her Speed co-star Keanu Reeves for
> the romantic drama Mare II.
> years," Bullock says. "We had a great deal of fun working on Speed. We
were
> always there for each other and you don't always find that in your
> co-stars."
they
> just have to watch all the big action sequences.
> seemed to be air rushing up threatening to lift my dress over my head.
He
> was thinking about me, not himself, and that's what you want in a
co-star."
> Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
>
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Sandra Bullock fab at 40
By LOUIS B. HOBSON -- Calgary Sun
For Sandra Bullock, life at 40 couldn't be more fabulous.
She's one of Hollywood's busiest A-list actresses, happy, healthy and in
love. Her beau of one year is Jesse James, 35, the much-tattooed host of
Discovery Channel's Monster Garage.
The tabloids have had a field day with the affair, drawing comparisons to
her previous relationships with pretty-boy actors Tate Donovan and Matthew
McConaughey and blues guitarist Guy Forsythe.
James, who claims his great-great-grandfather was the famous outlaw's
cousin, has a collection of motorcycles, skulls, pet sharks and pit bulls.
"No one knows at all what someone is like based on outward appearance,"
Bullock says of James, cautiously adding, "In America, we judge people based
on colour, name and religious choices. We don't judge people as human beings
because we can't. We don't get to know everyone well enough to do that."
Bullock admits there was a time much earlier in her career when she would
have been offended by some of the stories that have appeared recently in the
supermarket tabs.
"When your films make money, this is what you have to allow those
publications to do," she says. "I know the rules now and am fine with them.
Sometimes, I actually find it all kind of funny."
Bullock says she has found a way to buy into the seemingly insatiable
appetite of the paparazzi press for demeaning photos of celebrities.
"If I'm rushing out for something, I wear pants that make my butt look big
and a sweatshirt that has dog hair all over it and I don't brush my hair,"
she says. "I'm not going to become one of those people who gets all dressed
up to leave the house just in case a photographer is hiding in some bushes."
All this brave talk doesn't mean Bullock doesn't shrink a little when she
sees her picture on a magazine at the supermarket checkout.
"It hurts because many of those photos have been doctored to make women look
worse. And it's always women. They don't do this to Harrison Ford. Then
again, he doesn't run around in a Speedo. Therein lies the genius of
Harrison Ford."
Bullock is rambling about the misgivings of celebrity because it is very
much a theme in her new movie, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous --
the sequel to her surprise 2000 hit that returned a worldwide gross of $213
million US on a $45 million budget.
In the original, Bullock's tom-boy FBI agent Gracie Hart had to find her
inner femininity so she could go undercover at a beauty pageant. This turned
Gracie into a media sensation.
In Armed And Fabulous, she falls prey to her celebrity image and it almost
ruins the career that means so much to her. In essence, Gracie has to learn
what Bullock has since Speed made her a major star.
"In the entertainment business, we forgive so many people's behaviour
because they happen to be famous," Bullock says. " 'He may have been in a
hit-and-run but that's all right. They're famous. He was drinking. That's
okay.'
"It's not okay. It's never okay and that's the message of the movie. You
have to live your life by example."
She says she wants people to come away from Armed And Fabulous sore from
laughing but also realizing, as Gracie does, "You have to stay exactly who
you are. You have to enjoy your uniqueness. You can't try to conform to
someone else's standards."
Bullock says she has had so much fun making her two Congeniality films she
hopes there will be more.
"The thought of making that film in which grandma Hart passes the torch onto
little Gracie is awesome."
She calls the Congeniality films her guilty pleasures.
"Women comedians don't often get to do these over-the-top films," she says.
"The guys get them all the time. Jerry Lewis got to do them.
"Fortunately for all of us, so did Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball. I want
there to be an allowance for this kind of movie for women but that won't
happen if there is not an audience for them. As long as people want them,
I'll make them."
Slapstick comedies are far from the only projects on Bullock's calendar. She
is awaiting the release of the gritty ensemble drama Crash she made with
Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton and Tony Danza for filmmaker Paul
Haggis.
She is currently filming Every Word Is True, in which she plays author
Harper Lee, and has signed to team with her Speed co-star Keanu Reeves for
the romantic drama Mare II.
"Keanu and I have been talking about doing another movie together for
years," Bullock says. "We had a great deal of fun working on Speed. We were
always there for each other and you don't always find that in your
co-stars."
Bullock says if people want to see just what a huge support Reeves was, they
just have to watch all the big action sequences.
"Keanu is always reaching over and holding my dress down. There always
seemed to be air rushing up threatening to lift my dress over my head.
"Notice where his hands are in those scenes. He's holding my dress down. He
was thinking about me, not himself, and that's what you want in a co-star."
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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On 24 Feb 2005 13:55:50 -0800, "bodi" wrote:
>comedy performance. She was like the Lucille Ball of that movie.
Oh, she's one of the females in "Chasing Papi"? I bought a previewed
copy at Blockbuster last summer -- primarily because of Eduardo
Verastegui.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0895150/
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"makanamess" wrote:
> bodi wrote:
> comedy performance. She was like the Lucille Ball of that movie.
> damn, what a knockout. and, she's talented, too? beard or not, props to
> cruise.
It doesn't matter if she's a purple heart winning mensa member with the
world's greatest rack - she'll be doing Scientology courses within the
month or she'll be out the door.
eggs.
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Rent the movie "Chasing Papi" if you want to see her do a standout
comedy performance. She was like the Lucille Ball of that movie.
Wayno
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StuffFinder wrote:
> HOT NEW LATIN DISH HE HAS.
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bodi wrote:
>Rent the movie "Chasing Papi" if you want to see her do a standout
comedy performance. She was like the Lucille Ball of that movie.
> Wayno
> http://www.nstmyosenji.org
> StuffFinder wrote:
damn, what a knockout. and, she's talented, too? beard or not, props to
cruise.
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> In article
> ,
> TranslucentAmoebae wrote:
possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/
responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/
> difference?
He can't tell you...too drunk.
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AP
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - He was a cowboy, a Green Beret, a jet pilot and a
detective during his long acting career. Now, John Wayne will grace a postage
stamp. The United States Postal Service unveiled its annual "Legends of
Hollywood" commemorative postage stamp Saturday night at a private fund-raiser.
The fund-raiser was for the John Wayne Cancer Institute and was held at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel.
This is not the first time Wayne's likeness has appeared on a stamp. In 1990,
he was pictured on one of four 25-cent U.S. commemorative postage stamps
honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp featured Wayne as the Ringo
Kid in "Stagecoach."
Previous honorees in the "Legends of Hollywood" series including Marilyn Monroe
(1995), James Dean (1996), Humphrey Bogart (1997), Alfred Hitchcock (1998),
James Cagney (1999), Edward G. Robinson (2000), Lucille Ball (2001), Cary Grant
(2002) and Audrey Hepburn (2003).
"He would be glad to know he will be visiting the homes and businesses of
millions of his fans every day," said Ethan Wayne, one of the Duke's seven
children.
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Ablang wrote in message news:...
> Gifts for star-struck friends
> Cruise in a big, red bow. Unfortunately for her, they're not for sale. But
> you can get a piece of them online -- and help a good cause at the same
> time.
> Whether you want to get something tangible for your money or just make a
> donation in someone's name, why not follow in a favorite star's footsteps?
> Here's how some stars are helping and how you can do the same.
> Ebay Charity Fundraising has several ongoing auctions benefiting charity --
> many featuring celebrity items.
> Antonio Banderas, Eric Clapton, Conan O'Brien, Sarah Michelle Gellar and
> Gwyneth Paltrow, who joined with other celebrities to raise money for the
> National Hemophilia Foundation. Many of the items auctioned in the past
> have intrinsic value -- other than being autographed by someone famous --
> like Jon Bon Jovi's autographed Stratocaster guitar and LeAnn Rimes'
> personal velvet dress.
> added regularly. If you don't see anything from a particular celebrity or
> cause, keep checking.
> If you don't have the cash to back the hefty price of some celebrity
> auctions, make a buy at their favorite charity. Most offer more than just a
> coffee mug.
> Newman sells Newman's Own salsa, steak sauce, and salad dressing to benefit
> various charities, including affordable housing, elderly groups and hunger
> relief. Harrison Ford fans can buy coffee to benefit Conservation
> International -- where Ford is a vice chair. Lucille Ball memorabilia at
> Lucy Library benefits the Pediatric AIDS foundation. A favorite of
> Sigourney Weaver, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, sells hand-
> sewn wall hangings and other crafts made in Rwanda.
>
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AP
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - He was a cowboy, a Green Beret, a jet pilot and a
detective during his long acting career. Now, John Wayne will grace a postage
stamp. The United States Postal Service unveiled its annual "Legends of
Hollywood" commemorative postage stamp Saturday night at a private fund-raiser.
The fund-raiser was for the John Wayne Cancer Institute and was held at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel.
This is not the first time Wayne's likeness has appeared on a stamp. In 1990,
he was pictured on one of four 25-cent U.S. commemorative postage stamps
honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp featured Wayne as the Ringo
Kid in "Stagecoach."
Previous honorees in the "Legends of Hollywood" series including Marilyn Monroe
(1995), James Dean (1996), Humphrey Bogart (1997), Alfred Hitchcock (1998),
James Cagney (1999), Edward G. Robinson (2000), Lucille Ball (2001), Cary Grant
(2002) and Audrey Hepburn (2003).
"He would be glad to know he will be visiting the homes and businesses of
millions of his fans every day," said Ethan Wayne, one of the Duke's seven
children.
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Favorite:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Liz Taylor and Richard Burton
Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner
Least favorite:
Ben and Jen
Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers
(naming MJ with Lisa Marie or anyone is waaaay to easy)
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Gifts for star-struck friends
By Amy C. Fleitas • Bankrate.com
So your sister says all she wants for Christmas is Antonio Banderas or Tom
Cruise in a big, red bow. Unfortunately for her, they're not for sale. But
you can get a piece of them online -- and help a good cause at the same
time.
Whether you want to get something tangible for your money or just make a
donation in someone's name, why not follow in a favorite star's footsteps?
Here's how some stars are helping and how you can do the same.
Buy a bit of fame
Ebay Charity Fundraising has several ongoing auctions benefiting charity --
many featuring celebrity items.
Recently on the auction block were blue jeans signed by Sir Ian McKellan,
Antonio Banderas, Eric Clapton, Conan O'Brien, Sarah Michelle Gellar and
Gwyneth Paltrow, who joined with other celebrities to raise money for the
National Hemophilia Foundation. Many of the items auctioned in the past
have intrinsic value -- other than being autographed by someone famous --
like Jon Bon Jovi's autographed Stratocaster guitar and LeAnn Rimes'
personal velvet dress.
Celebrity auction items move quickly on and off the block with new items
added regularly. If you don't see anything from a particular celebrity or
cause, keep checking.
Small gifts, big support
If you don't have the cash to back the hefty price of some celebrity
auctions, make a buy at their favorite charity. Most offer more than just a
coffee mug.
Jimmy Buffett's Save the Manatee Club offers manatee socks for $3.95. Paul
Newman sells Newman's Own salsa, steak sauce, and salad dressing to benefit
various charities, including affordable housing, elderly groups and hunger
relief. Harrison Ford fans can buy coffee to benefit Conservation
International -- where Ford is a vice chair. Lucille Ball memorabilia at
Lucy Library benefits the Pediatric AIDS foundation. A favorite of
Sigourney Weaver, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, sells hand-
sewn wall hangings and other crafts made in Rwanda.
Star-created charities
Some celebrities, such as Paul Newman and Oprah Winfrey, go one step
further when giving back to the less fortunate: They launch their very own
charities to raise funds for causes dear to their hearts.
Rather than buy a piece of memorabilia for a friend, help them mimic their
favorite star's actions by donating to the star's charities.
When Princess Diana walked through a land mine-infested field, the footage
was broadcast worldwide, bringing public awareness to land mine victims and
forcing governments to explain, if not change, their positions on land mine
use. Since her death, the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund continues
to support those suffering from AIDS, leprosy and land mines.
Oprah Winfrey, one of America's favorite talk-show hosts, created Oprah's
Angel Network to encourage her fans to reach out to those in need. One
hundred percent of the donations go directly to the various charities she
supports.
If you're shopping for an NFL fan, you might want to contribute to the
Walter and Connie Payton Foundation. This foundation gives financial and
motivational support to at-risk children. Their biggest event of the year,
Annual Holiday Spectacular, gives Christmas presents to the abused and
neglected children of Illinois.
Another sports star, NASCAR's Kyle Petty, co-founded The Victory Junction
Gang Camp with his wife and Paul Newman to give seriously ill children the
opportunity to go camping.
Do you know a baseball fan? You can share the love of America's game with
at-risk kids by donating to the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation. And for the
tennis fan, check out the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation which provides
recreation and education for at-risk children.
Country music fans will appreciate a donation to support literacy through
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Dolly's charity makes sure that every
child in participating communities receives a new hardcover book each month
from birth to age 5. Garth Brook's Teammates for Kids Foundation provides
financial assistance to children's charities.
For urban music fans, Barenaked Ladies, Harry Connick Jr., Garbage, Kid
Rock, Metallica and Santana all support RAINN, the nation's largest anti-
sexual assault organization.
Hollywood favorites
If you can't find a charity supported by a particular celebrity, check out
one of the star-studded favorites, such as People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the American
Foundation for AIDS Research and the Make a Wish Foundation.
P.E.T.A. is an animal rights foundation whose most notable celebrity
supporters are actress Pamela Anderson and Pearl Jam's lead vocalist Eddie
Vedder.
Looking for a better bank? Check for the best deal your area.
The Pediatric AIDS Foundation funds research of diseases affecting children
and is supported by virtually all of Hollywood through its many fundraisers
attended by actors from Angela Bassett and Tom Cruise to Natalie Portman
and David Duchovny.
AmFAR supports AIDS research and prevention. It is also supported by many
celebrities including Sharon Stone, Rosie O'Donnell, Bruce Willis,
Elizabeth Taylor, Jerry Seinfeld and Prince Albert of Monaco.
The Make a Wish Foundation is now famous itself with heart-wrenching
stories of sick children's wishes. Many stars have supported Make a Wish,
either by a one-time handshake or continual volunteer work and donations.
Country star Vince Gill, professional wrestler The Rock, Food TV's Iron
Chef Morimoto, music group O-Town, singer Nick Lachey of the band 98
Degrees and NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon are consistent supporters of Make A
Wish.
A membership, event ticket or donation to any of these charities would make
an excellent gift for any star's fan. And though it may not be as exciting
as receiving a gift-wrapped Keifer Sutherland, a donation to charity would
do the world a lot more good than a hardback copy of another exclusive,
unauthorized biography.
-- Updated: Dec. 2, 2003
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20021115a.asp
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Hilary Duff is America's Sweetheart & an international HeartBreaker.
"FAILING = Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth" -- Gary
Busey
- Celebrity Gossip
- Though she is unquestionably the most beloved comedienne of her time, that success came to Lucille Ball after 20 years of largely unrewarding work in Hollywood and it came not in movies, but on TV. She started out as a Goldwyn Girl, visible in the chorus of such Eddie Cantor films as Roman Scandals (1933) and Kid Millions (1934), and worked her way up to bits in everything from Top Hat (1935) to a Three Stooges short, Three Little Pigskins (also 1935). She raised eyebrows as one of the wisecracking actresses in Stage Door (1937), and RKO, by then her home studio, promoted her to starring parts in a variety of comedies and dramas over the next five years. Most were grade-B potboilers like The Affairs of Annabel, Next Time I Marry, Annabel Takes a Tour (all 1938), Beauty for the Asking, Panama Lady (1939), and You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940).
Ball often played quick-witted, sharp-tongued characters in this period; she was sufficiently beautiful to be a leading lady but could just as easily be cast as a scheming harpy. She had a thankless role in The Marx Brothers' Room Service (1938), but fared better in the exceptional adventure yarn Five Came Back (1939), as a burlesque star in Dance,Girl,Dance (1940), in the Broadway musical adaptation Too Many Girls (also 1940), where she met a conga player named Desi Arnaz, and in the melodramatic leading role of The Big Street (1942).
She then moved to MGM and decorated such musicals and comedies as Du Barry Was a Lady, Best Foot Forward (both 1943), Without Love (1945), Easy to Wed and Ziegfeld Follies (both 1946). But her best opportunities came elsewhere, in such late 1940s dramas as The Dark Corner (1946), Lured (1947), and Easy Living (1949), and in the comedies Sorrowful Jones, Miss Grant Takes Richmond (both 1949), Fancy Pants and The Fuller Brush Girl (both 1950), which anticipated her slapstick antics on TV.
In 1951, she and Arnaz formed a production company, Desilu, to produce their own starring TV series, "I Love Lucy." Lucy revealed to an astonished Hollywood-and a huge viewing audience-her heretofore overlooked gifts as a physical comedienne. Ball won two Emmys and captivated the nation as the wacky housewife desperate to enter show business. During its run, she and Arnaz also starred in two tailor-made features, The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and Forever Darling (1956). Desilu also became a major supplier of TV programs; in 1957 the company bought the defunct RKO studios, where Lucy had toiled for so many years. When she and Arnaz divorced in 1960, she ran the studio herself until selling it to Paramount in 1968, and kept busy with her own sitcom, which in various forms ran another 12 years and earned her another two Emmys.
In the early 1960s she starred with Bob Hope in two films, the "adult" comedies The Facts of Life (1960) and Critic's Choice (1963). She later took a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man (1967), but starred in only two more movies, the agreeable family comedy Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) and the ill-advised musical Mame (1974), for which she was, sadly, too old by then. Her two children by Arnaz, Lucie and Desi Jr., both appeared on her later sitcom and went on to their own careers, he as a rock star and sometime actor, she in such Broadway musical hits as "They're Playing Our Song."
- (About her meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time): "It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes."
- "In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
- "A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright"
- "I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."
- "Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
- "I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
- "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- "I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
- "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself."
- "I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
- Measurements: 33-22 1/2 -34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Filed for a divorce from husband Desi Arnaz, the day following the last day of filming "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour". [3 March 1960]
- Stricken by rheumatoid arthritis early in her modeling career and spent 2 years re-learning how to walk.
- One of her last television appearances was in 1989 on the 62nd Accademy Awards, with Bob Hope, announcing the nominations and winner of Best Picture.
- Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
- Lucille Ball's favorite movie she made was The Big Street. Up to her dying day, Lucille resented AMPAS for not recognizing her performance in the movie by including her for Academy Award nomination.
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2002.
- Pictured on a 34¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 6 August 2001.
- Was known for a while as Dianne Belmont back W_hen she was a model.
- For many years durring their marriage Lucy and Desi hid the fact that she was six years older then him by splitting the difference in their ages. She (born in 1911) said she was born in 1914 and he (born in 1917) also said he was born in 1914.
- Second cousin of actress Suzan Ball.
- Born at 5:00 pm
- Was one of the 20 original 'Goldwyn Girls', along with Virginia Bruce, Ann Dvorak, Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable.
- TV Guide picked her as the greatest TV star of all time.
- She put her Chesterfield cigarettes in a Phillip Morris package to please her sponsor (of the I Love Lucy show).
- She was fired from working at an ice cream store because she kept forgetting to put bananas in banana splits.
- Lucy and Desi began "I Love Lucy" in the hopes of saving their crumbling marriage.
- Before her movie career, Lucille was a model at Hattie Carnegie's in New York. She mainly modeled heavy fur coats, because she was startlingly thin as a young lady.
- During the 1933 filming of Roman Scandals (1933), young Lucille Ball, portraying a slave girl, needed to have her eyebrows entirely shaved off. They never grew back.
- Died on April 26, 1989, which was the 56th birthday of her friend, Carol Burnett.
- Lucy and her son Desi Arnaz IV appeared together on the very first cover of 'TV Guide' magazine in 1953.
- Once registered as a voter for the Communist party as a favor to her grandfather.
- She signed her first promotional agreement with Max Factor in 1935, and again in 1942. Of all the stars, she had the longest association with the Factor company.
- Born a brunette.
- Was the first woman to own her own film studio.
- During a Barbara Walter's interview, Jane Fonda claims that her father, Henry Fonda was deeply in love with Lucille Ball and that the two were "very close" during the filming of "Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)"
- Mother of Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr..
- Ball and Barbara Pepper met early in their careers W_hen they were both "Goldwyn Girls" and remained lifelong friends.
- A comment from a member of the preview audience of Follow the Fleet (1936) about bit-player Ball: "You might give the tall gum chewing blonde more parts and see if she can't make the grade - a good gamble."
- Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, Columbarium of Radiant Dawn, Court of Remembrance.
- Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award posthumously in 1990.
- The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked several jobs, so she and her younger brother were raised by their grandparents. Always willing to take responsibility for her brother and young cousins, she was a restless teenager who yearned to "make some noise". She entered a dramatic school in New York, but while her classmate Bette Davis received all the raves, she was sent home; "too shy." She found some work modeling for Hattie Carnegie's, and in 1933 was chosen to be a Goldwyn Girl and appear in the film Roman Scandals (1933).
She was put under contract to RKO and several small roles, including one in Top Hat (1935), followed. Eventually, she received starring roles in B-pictures, and occasionally a good role in an A-picture, like in Stage Door (1937) or 0034514. While filming Too Many Girls (1940), she met and fell madly in love with a young Cuban actor-musician named 'Desi Arnaz'. Despite different personalities, lifestyles, religions, and ages (He was six years younger), he fell hard, too, and after a passionate romance, they eloped and were married in November, 1940. Lucy soon switched to MGM, where she got better roles in films such as Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Best Foot Forward (1943), the Hepburn-Tracy vehicle Without Love (1945). In 1948, she took a starring role in the radio comedy My Favorite Husband, in which she played the scatterbrained wife of a Midwestern banker. In 1950, CBS came knocking with the offer of turning it into a TV series. After convincing the network brass to let Desi play her husband and to sign over the rights to and creative control over the series to them, work began on the most popular and universally beloved sitcom of all time.
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