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  • In 1993, she stars as Nicolette Karas in the production of Absolute Bliss.

  • She plays the part of Daphne in the 1957 production of Alive on Saturday.

  • She stars as Livia in the 1952 production of Corny Casanovas.

  • For the 1990 show Dennis Miller: Black and White, Melina Kanakaredes plays Catrina/Sabrina Hampton.

  • She is cast in the role of Trin in the 1931 release of Akebono no uta.

  • Melina Kanakaredes stars as Herself in the 1992 show Aida.

  • She stars as Herself in the 1996 movie Anastasia and the Queen of Hearts.

  • In 1961, she plays the part of Barbara in the release of A byahme mladi.

  • In 1997, she stars as Rita in the Dog.

  • She plays Det. Stella Bonasera in the 1999 movie The Dream Factory.

  • For the 1972 production Alles, nur nicht heiraten, Melina Kanakaredes plays Eleni Andros Spaulding Cooper #1 (1991-1995).

  • In 1903, she takes the role of Libby Galante in the feature Feeding Hogs.

  • For the 1985 movie Aazhi, she stars as Herself.

  • For the 1998 show Coat Check, Melina Kanakaredes plays Angela Villanova.

  • For the 1998 movie Allison's Boyfriend's Band, Benita Alden (1995).

  • She stars as Marilyn Crenshaw (1998) in the 1995 50 Years of Funny Females.

  • In 1935, Dr. Sydney Hansen in the movie Bharat Ki Beti.

  • Melina Kanakaredes's character is Eurac Officer in the 1986 release of Debbie Goes to College.

  • Melina Kanakaredes's character is Sirena Ammaliatrice in the 2007 publication REPTILES.

  • In 1915, Melina Kanakaredes's character is Maria Malibran in the movie Above Par.

  • In 2003, Gena in the show Cheese Makes You Dream.

  • In 2004, she is cast in the role of Alma in the show Deceit.

  • For the 2005 movie The Boys of Baraka, Mlle Gillou.

  • Melina Kanakaredes plays the part of Chim in the 1983 show Feng sheng shui qi.

  • In 1972, she is cast in the role of Countess Vorontsova in the show Aventures galantes de Zorro, Les.

  • For the 1973 release of Ay, Antonio, Antonio, she stars as Giovane Nuda Sul Letto.

  • She takes the role of Giulia Cairo in the 2004 production Children Full of Life.

  • She stars as Muneca Chavez in the 1940 movie Blondie on a Budget.

  • She plays Paola Ghiglione in the 1990 feature Agni Teertham.

  • In 1988, Melina Kanakaredes stars as Paula in the movie Faceless.

  • For the 2003 release of Biola tak berdawai, she stars as Sylvia Temesvari.

  • In 1933, she plays the part of Herself - Co-presenter: Best Television Seriers [Drama] in the feature The Good Companions.

  • She plays Det. Stella Bonasera in the 1991 feature Hans and the Silver Skates.

  • Melina Kanakaredes plays the part of Elisa in the 2003 show CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards Pre-Party.

  • Wednesday's TV Highlights: A serial killer on 'CSI: NY'

    
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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
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Natural-order/2005/04/02/1112302288342. html?oneclick=true Natural order April 4, 2005 CSI:NY is testing how far the mighty CSI franchise can be stretched. Michael Idato reports from the show's set. With the CSI brand behind it you'd think the success of CSI: NY was a safe bet. The show's executive producer isn't so sure. "Just because we're under the CSI flagship doesn't mean we have this thing licked," says Anthony Zuiker, sitting in the show's Los Angeles production office. "We still have to learn through trial and error what works. We're still learning what this show is and what it isn't." CSI: NY, which airs here on Channel Nine, is the third incarnation of the CSI franchise and stars Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes as detectives Mac Taylor and Stella Bonasera. The cast includes Hill Harper (as medical examiner Dr Sheldon Hawkes), Vanessa Ferlito (as Detective Aiden Burn), Carmine Giovinazzo (as Detective Danny Messer) and Eddie Cahill (as Detective Don Flack). "Our running motto was we needed to find actors who can pick up a piece of evidence and make it interesting," Zuiker says. As with each version of CSI, procedural police work takes star billing. The characters, however, come a close second, which is a first for the brand. "It is still a forensic procedural drama, but we wanted to give it a different personality," Zuiker says. "This show is more character driven, it has shorter s, it plays with more music, it tells the story more cinematically. That's what we're attempting to do and there are a lot of growing pains at this juncture because it is a brand new show." The emphasis on character undoubtedly played a crucial part in securing the services of Sinise, an Oscar nominee who had never worked in series television. Speaking to The Guide on set during a break in production, Sinise says one of the reasons he signed on was his confidence in Zuiker and his vision for the lead role. "We had good meetings, good talks about the character and creatively it sounded like a good thing," Sinise says. As the series unfolds, the back stories of the characters will be developed: Taylor is a former soldier nursing the painful loss of his wife in the World Trade Centre attack, Bonasera is coming to terms with her late father's nefarious business dealings and Hawkes abandoned a surgical career after losing two patients and his confidence. Sinise's other reason for signing up was the success of the franchise. "I knew what I was getting into," he says. "It was a different city, a different cast and a different set of writers, but I knew we were going to build off something that was already successful." Successful is an understatement. In just five years CSI has become one of the most potent TV brands in the world. At a time of heightened insecurity, where the evening news is filled with dark, violent imagery, viewers are tuning to crime dramas in record numbers. In that sense, October 1999 saw Zuiker in the right place at the right time. Invited by producer Jonathan Littman to pitch a series to Jerry Bruckheimer, Zuiker suggested a fictional twist on The New Detectives, a forensic documentary series on the Discovery Channel. CSI was born the next year, followed in 2002 by CSI: Miami and, last year, by CSI: NY. What sets the CSIs apart, Zuiker says, is their visual style, editing, music and pace. "We coined the phrase feature television and that is what we're doing. We're making mini-Bruckheimer movies every week," he says. The various versions of CSI take their distinct feel from the cities in which they are set. "The city is definitely one of the characters," Zuiker says. "You go to Las Vegas to escape, to Miami to be seen and to New York to change. All of the cities are characters in their shows." The location also sets the visual style of the shows. CSI: NY initially took its colour cues from the darker end of the spectrum, its blue and black grains distinct from the bright neon and shadows of the original CSI, while Miami is richer in greens, browns and orange. "Where CSI is colourful and Miami is alive with hot colours, NY is steely and raw and rough, and its colours are more grainy because of the fabric of the city," Zuiker says. Not everyone has been happy with the choice of palette for the latest instalment. "We learned at about eight episodes in that perhaps the show was looking too gloomy," Zuiker concedes. According to US media reports, the CBS network ordered someone to turn up the lights. "We're still monkeying with the light and finding the right colour palette," Zuiker says. What prompted CBS's concern with the look of the show was its softer-than-expected ratings in the US. Channel Nine, facing the same problem here, is undoubtedly watching the numbers closely. Last year, CSI and CSI: Miami were its best performing imported dramas and CSI: NY was expected to join them, but the series was rushed to air with almost no fanfare to counter Seven's blockbuster dramas Lost and Desperate Housewives, and may have suffered from the lack of publicity. Its performance might also suggest the police procedural genre has reached saturation point. Television spin-offs have always been risky ventures, but until now procedural dramas bucked the trend. Law & Order has given birth to three offshoots (Special Victims Unit, Criminal Intent and Trial by Jury) and CSI to two. Television is like the oil business, and eventually the dilemma arises: do you cap the well or pump it dry? The relatively soft ratings in the US for CSI: NY and Law & Order: Trial by Jury could be the first sign that the genre is being pumped too hard. "It might be that nobody knew what the saturation point was for the crime shows," Los Angeles Times TV critic Brian Lowry wrote last year. "Maybe we're seeing the cusp." Even within the CSI family, there has been angst about the risks associated with diluting the franchise. CSI actor Gary Dourdan told US journalists earlier this year that the spin-offs were "just not as good" and "kind of contrived". His co-star, Jorja Fox, was equally disparaging. "They weren't anybody's creative brainchild. They came out of a way to make as much money as quickly as possible," she said. None of this has stopped chatter about CSI: New Orleans (yep, it even has a title), though it's difficult to know whether the whispers are a hangover from aborted plans to make that city the location of the second spin-off or genuine discussions. If there is to be a third, Zuiker says it will be without him. "This is definitely it. We're out of show producers," he says, laughing. "CSI: NY has a long, long way to go and until this show is at a 25-30 per cent share consistently there would be no reason to do another show. If you put another flavour of soda in the refrigerator, eventually people will quench their thirst. You have to watch that." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Left-in-the-dark/2005/03/10/11104175963 87.html Left in the dark March 12, 2005 It'll take more than a little blue torch to shed light on the appeal of forensic television, writes Ruth Ritchie. Thank God they've opened a branch office of CSI in New York. Clearly the previous 74 cop shows set in the Big Apple were rubbish. How did Cagney or Lacey or any of those wise-cracking flat-feet who worked the beat at NYPD Blue ever solve a crime without a little blue torch and a very dark and moody lab? Blue torch TV is very popular. The stupendously silly science of detecting walnut dust on underpants and finding murder weapons eaten by rats has recently replaced the practice of beating suspects with telephone books. Pity really. All those blue torch scenes, all that microscopic detective work, are very samey. From Las Vegas to Miami and now finally New York, the recipe is as predictable and unsatisfying as a Big Mac. Jerry Bruckheimer TV is consistently as bad as any Jerry Bruckheimer movie. The characters all speak in reprehensible sound bites. No wonder they hire good actors. Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes should be paid danger money, not for working in near darkness for the entire series, but for spilling such laughable dialogue with straight and strangely smug faces. CSI: NY (Tuesday, Nine) is not unlike watching Pearl Harbor in horrible one-hour episodes. This version is indistinguishable from any other except that the women have lips and cascading hair. (Traditionally CSI women are lipless - which seems to connote some sober yet groomed commitment to the job.) The women look different, and after the men have uttered each ludicrously trite line, they turn on their little blue torches and shine them on a recognisable New York landmark. When we weren't in a very dark Central Park this week, we were watching Kanakaredes taking a shower. (She was hot, and frustrated. After the shower, the whole team chipped in and found some tree sap that had eluded them. Phew!) Off the big screen, Sinise is just another rat-faced guy on TV. He's a fine choice, but he's no Kiefer Sutherland. He's no Candice Bergen. He's no Patricia Arquette. She is the key ingredient that makes The Medium (Wednesday, Ten) one of the most pleasant surprises of the new season. She plays a sloppy, lazy housewife whose strange psychic powers have her solving a murder a week for the DA's office. Granted, the premise holds less promise than that show where Alan Arkin's son had a wisecracking, talking baby. But the writing is terrific. Her husband looks and acts like somebody's husband. She has big-screen charisma in buckets, and there isn't a little blue torch in sight. This is psychic TV for sceptics. For somebody who always found The X Files pretentious, boring and unbelievable, The Medium is surprisingly convincing. The most refreshing crime-buster of the week managed to solve the case without a blue torch or a crystal ball. We're in a sorry way when Agatha Christie makes refreshing television, but Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (ABC, Sunday) was a hoot. Even for viewers with no interest in the whodunit genre, the casting and production values justified the existence of this fine Sunday night froth. Geraldine McEwan was magnificent sipping scotch and ginger wine, and knitting booties while everyone around her missed the obvious clues. Starting with Angela Lansbury, there is at least a netball team of old ladies who shouldn't do detective work, but McEwan is not one of them. Her sidekick for this outing, the ladylike yet salacious Joanna Lumley, appeared to enjoy every minute of her dizzy role. She behaved like Aunty Mame-by-the-sea in a performance more camp than any on parade at mardi gras. Jack Davenport and Simon Callow delivered definitive Christie characters, savouring every predictable twist and turn along the way. Perhaps it is less the absence of blue torches and more the inclusion of meaty characters that separates Marple from the plethora of Bruckheimer techno-peep shows. In the dramatic world of CSI the torches steal the limelight (pun obvious and intentional) because there are no characters. All the employees of CSI are cool, lipless nocturnes. We don't know if they have lives, and we don't care. They're simply holding the torches. A successful drama lives or dies by the strength of its characters, even a murder mystery. It may take a little old lady in sensible shoes to kill off forensic television. Bruckheimer's crack crew of bores will need more than a few little blue torches to combat such an unlikely opponent. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • Rick in Oz wrote: movie. > The characters all speak in reprehensible sound bites. No wonder they hire > good actors. Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes should be paid danger money, > not for working in near darkness for the entire series, but for spilling > such laughable dialogue with straight and strangely smug faces. > This is one of the main reasons I can't watch any of the CSI franchise. The dialogue makes me cringe.
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  • (July 2003) Starring as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" on Broadway in Studio 54.
  • January 25, 2003 welcomed second daughter karina Eleni in Los Angeles.
  • Was considered for the lead for My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), but was pregnant at the time.
  • Speaks fluent Greek.
  • Graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in theatre from Point Park College in Pittsburgh Family owns and runs a candy factory in Akron.
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