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30 26DEPARTMENTS06 EDITORIAL

08 LETTERS

10 SHORTSCaroline Dhavernas digs WonderFalls

14 SNAPS

16 THE BIG PICTUREPirates of the Caribbean: The Curseof the Black Pearl sails into theatres

18 SPOTLIGHTLearn about T3 star Claire Danes’ so-called life

22 TRIVIA

23 THE HOT SEATTake our hot, sweaty movie quiz

28 COMING SOON

42 FIVE FAVOURITE FILMSGord Downie gets a kick out of Bambi

43 VIDEO AND DVDArarat on the small screen

44 HOROSCOPE

46 FAMOUS LAST WORDSActors talk about directing

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34 THE GOOD THIEFLara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life star Angelina Jolie on why hanging upside down is more fun with a two-year-old watching| By David Giammarco

ON THE COVER:Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft

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40 NAME OF THE GAMESoaring with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

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26 REESE’S REALMReese Witherspoon wants it all. The producer and star of the sequelLegally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde talks about juggling a careerand motherhood | By Earl Dittman

30 SUPER COOPERHe’s a cattle rancher’s son and an Oscar-winning actor, which makes Chris Cooper the perfect choice to play a retired cowboy in Seabiscuit| By Barrett Hooper

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Remember when videogames werethe hot resource being mined bya Hollywood desperately search-

ing for new ideas? This very magazineran a column in the February 2000 issue

about how, after a glut of game-to-filmadaptations like Mortal Kombat and Super MarioBros, there were scores more in the works,including Duke Nukem, Sin, Command &Conquer, Quake, Myst and Half-Life. None ofthem ever made it to theatres.

Now, three years later, there’s but one videogame franchise withclout in Movieland — Tomb Raider. Undoubtedly the most popularand profitable rework of the lot, the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raidersucceeded for at least a couple of reasons. First, its hero, digital babeLara Croft, had a larger following than most organized religions.Second, producers cast the biggest name of any of the videogameadaptations in the lead role. So, even if the plot didn’t grab viewers,watching Angelina Jolie jump around in a tight T-shirt was more thanenough for many.

And now, with the sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life,both the unstoppable character and the actor who portrays herhave grown enormously. In “Rocking the Cradle,” page 34, Jolieexplains why the writers were more comfortable developing Croft’scharacter this time around, and how filming the first movie inCambodia — where she subsequently adopted a baby boy —changed her for the better.

The videogame-to-film trend may be dying down, but Lara CroftTomb Raider: Cradle of Life is also part of a new trend that’s, unfortu-nately, gaining momentum — sequels with unbelievably long titles.Blame it on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, I guess, but it’sgotten to the point where newspaper and magazine editors will soonrevolt, renaming movies on the fly, just so they can fit the rest of thestory on the page. Two of our other interviews in this issue focus onsuch major-mouthful movies — Reese Witherspoon for Legally Blonde2: Red, White & Blonde and Arnold Schwarzenegger for Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines.

Check out “Blonde Ambition,” page 26 to find out what’s makingWitherspoon cry these days, and “Man of Mettle,” on page 20 to seehow Schwarzenegger responds to those who say he only did T3because he’s desperate for a hit.

Hollywood is still making the occasional movie that’s not part of afranchise. And the Tobey Maguire horse-racing drama Seabiscuit justmight be one of the best this summer. In “Lone, Cool Cowboy,” page30, shy, but brilliant, Oscar winner Chris Cooper discusses his pivotalpart in the movie. —Marni Weisz

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HOGAN AT HOGWARTS?HULK HOGAN? HULK HOGAN???Ahhhhh! Sweet lord tell me it’s nottrue! In your May 2003 issue, HulkHogan said in his interview that he wasasked to audition for a role in the nextHarry Potter movie, The Prisoner ofAzkaban. Is this true? What did HarryPotter fans do to deserve this? Let’shope the director, Alfonso Cuaron, justwanted a laugh.

Robin McDonagh — Beaconsfield, Que.

Fear not, Robin. If Hogan did audition, hedidn’t get a role. One recent casting decisionwe are happy about, though, is that GaryOldman will play escaped convict SiriusBlack. That’s pretty cool, no?

HOLY SHIA!I’m really fascinated with the actor ShiaLaBeouf who plays Stanley Yelnats inthe movie Holes. Well, actually, I’m hisbiggest fan. I just don’t know why Ihaven’t seen him in other movies,because he’s a really good actor.Anyways, I was wondering where I cancontact him in person. By the way, keepwriting, I really like Famous magazine.

Carmen Noyola — Toronto, Ont.

Give the guy time, he’s only 17. In fact, ifyou haven’t already seen Charlie’s Angels:Full Throttle and When Harry MetLloyd: Dumb and Dumberer get to thetheatre, because LaBeouf has roles in both.You can write to the native Los Angelinocare of his fan club, P.O. Box 450802,Kissimmee, Fla., 34745-0802, U.S.A.

BUGGED OVER ANTZ ERRORThank you so much for the update onKids in the Hall and especially DaveFoley [April 2003]. I was very happy tosee all were alive and well. The onlycomplaint I have is that Marni Weiszwas incorrect about Foley’s movie credits.Mr. Foley had nothing to do with Antz,it was A Bug’s Life. Aside from all this,great interview with Mr. Foley. Love themagazine, and all the updates. Wouldlove to see something about BruceMcDonald in the next issue!

Katherine Costello — Sudbury, Ont.

Yeah, sorry about that one... About BruceMcDonald, we can only assume you meanthe Canadian director by that name, andnot Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald orBruce McCulloch. Truth is, as far as weknow, the Kingston, Ontario-born filmmaker

behind Roadkill and Hard Core Logohasn’t done much to write about lately. Hewas working on a Juliette Lewis movie,Picture Claire, a while back. But it hovered in a state of production hell for acouple of years before coming out on videothis past spring.

X2 RAISES QUESTIONSI recently watched X2. It was amazingand exceeded the first. I was just wondering who played the part ofNightcrawler. I didn’t recognize hisface and I didn’t stay long enough tosee the cast. I also think the May issueof Famous needed an article on X2,there wasn’t much commentary on it.

Fahad Sperinck — Ottawa, Ont.

That was Alan Cumming, the Scottish actorwho tends to jump back and forth betweenvery British-y roles, like Rev. Elton in Emmaand Mr. Folair in Nicholas Nicklebyto more comic-y roles, like Gazoo in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas,Wyatt Frame in Josie and the Pussycatsand Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids movies.

I was wondering if you can settle a hot,brewing confusion that has been fester-ing within me ever since the opening ofX2. For the life of me, I could not findany information on the name of themutant who could melt into walls orbeds. There’s not one peep about themutant in the X2 website. What gives?

Jeffrey Wei — Burnaby, B.C.

The mutant to whom you are referring isKitty Pryde (also known as Shadow Cat insome exclusive X-Men circles). She wasplayed by 18-year-old Katie Stuart who wasborn not too far from you, in Vancouver,B.C. We’re guessing the website skippedKatie’s character just because there were somany mutants and so little space. It was apretty small role. But she does figure moreprominently in the current issues of theUltimate X-Men comic book, if you’reinterested.

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Buffy’s moved on, Xena exited awhile back and Lara Croftwannabe, The Relic Hunter,lives on only in syndication. Sowho will be TV’s next reigning

feminist hero? That question may beanswered in January when Quebec actorCaroline Dhavernas comes to the smallscreen as Jaye in the new Fox series,WonderFalls. The 25-year-old Dhavernasplays a Niagara Falls souvenir shop clerksaddled with the ability to communicatewith inanimate objects. The talkingtchotchkes want to help people, andthey’re using the surly Jaye to do theirgood works.

“She’s the worst person the universe

could have chosen for the job becauseshe doesn’t want to help,” says Dhavernason the phone from Montreal. “She’s avery narcissistic girl who doesn’t reallycare about anyone but herself. She studiedphilosophy at Brown and she dresses differently from everyone else. When theinanimate objects start talking to her shethinks she’s going crazy. But at one pointshe does what they tell her to do just sothey’ll shut up.”

The show, dubbed “Touched by a CrazyPerson” by its creators Todd Holland andBryan Fuller, cast Dhavernas as a sort ofmodern-day, grrrl version of Joan of Arc.While Dhavernas herself doesn’t hearvoices, she began her career as an eight-


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year-old using her voice, dubbing filmsinto French.

By the time she was a teenager she wasappearing on a variety of teen-oriented TVshows in Quebec. Her big break came in1999 when she landed the role of MarilynBell in the CBC drama Heart: The MarilynBell Story. She’s also appeared in suchfilms as Lost and Delirious and TheBaroness and the Pig.

Acting runs hers blood — both her parents are actors — which makes youwonder just how dramatic the nightly familydinner was in the Dhavernas household.

“We talked about [acting] all thetime,” remembers Dhavernas. “Andthank God my parents understood what Iwas going through. I worked all throughmy teenage years and when I came homeat night they knew how hard I hadworked. Other parents, who don’t knowwhat happens on set, might not havebeen so understanding.”

However, even her parents might notunderstand her latest film role. Justbefore shooting WonderFalls, Dhavernaswrapped production on the first film ofdirector Peter Greenaway’s new trilogy,The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The MoabStory. The British director is known for hisvisceral and controversial films, such asThe Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover,and Dhavernas is thrilled to have earned aspot in the avant-garde director’s movie.

“I have a great part,” says Dhavernas.“I play a character named Passion, aMormon girl from the 1920s. She’syoung, 16 years old, and she falls for themain character, Tulse Luper. But insteadof being sweet, she becomes very manipu-lative and gets him arrested so she can

get him into prison and abuse him sexually.She’s really out there. Just to be a part ofthat movie was fascinating for me.”

With an art house film to her name andthe lead in a promising TV series, Dhavernasis poised for success, a notion that doesn’tfaze the 17-year show-biz veteran.

“All this could change my life,”admitsDhavernas. “And if it does, well, I’mkind of used to it. I used to do a lot ofTV when I was a teenager and I wouldsign autographs, be recognized and dointerviews. So I know what it’s all about,at a smaller level. But if the series doesn’twork out, I’ll just continue what I wasdoing before. I really won’t be thatupset.” —Ingrid Randoja

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news crews from around the world and weekly visits from the airport’s doctor and priest.One of the story’s strangest twists is that in 1999 the French government finally issued

Nasseri a residency permit, which would allow him to live in France or travel anywhere inEurope. Yet he won’t leave. It seems the years have taken a toll on his psyche and thoseclose to him say he is afraid to depart.

You can be sure of two things: the movie version of Nasseri’s life won’t be so depressing(Catherine Zeta-Jones is in talks to star as a love interest) and amidst current political tensions American Hanks will not be playing an Iranian. —IR

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Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks willteam up for the third time this fall tomake Terminal, which focuses on a

man (Hanks) living inside a terminal of aNew York City airport. Sound implausible?Actually, Terminal is based on the real-lifestory of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, who’s beenliving inside Charles de Gaulle airport onthe outskirts of Paris since 1988.

It’s a sad and complicated tale thatbegan when the Iranian-born Nasseri, whohad been expelled from Iran and deemed apolitical refugee, arrived in Paris on hisway to England, where he planned to applyfor citizenship. But while in Paris his brief-case containing his documents was stolen.He boarded a plane to London anyway andwhen he arrived without papers he wassent back to France, where the Frenchauthorities arrested him for illegal entry.

A human rights lawyer pleaded his case,but the French government would not allowNasseri to step on French soil. Yet, sincehe had no passport, they had nowhere todeport him to. So he made the airport hishome, and has been there ever since.

He sleeps in the chairs of Terminal Oneand rises at 5:30 a.m., before travelersarrive, to wash up with an airline travel kit.He doesn’t have any money but airport shop-keepers consider him part of the de Gaullefamily and provide him with food and water.He refuses to accept donations of any kindand is known for his honesty (he’s twiceturned in lost wallets). He receives mail —cards at Christmas and a weekly subscriptionto Time magazine — and visitors, including

Steve Buscemi is steaming mad that New York mayorMichael Bloomberg has closed six firehouses in orderto save $7-million per year. At this press conference,

the 45-year-old star of Reservoir Dogs and Fargo called theclosings “irresponsible” and “dangerous.” A few days later,he and 11 others were arrested and charged with criminaltrespass and disorderly conduct when they rushed Engine204, a Brooklyn firehouse that had just been locked up forthe last time.

What gives Buscemi the right to share his opinion aboutsuch things? Fear not, weary celebrity watchers — theBrooklyn-born star actually has more credibility on this issuethan you might think. From 1980 to 1984 Buscemi was afirefighter with the New York Fire Department’s Engine 55 inLittle Italy. Plus, in what at first seemed like an urban legend, but later turned out to be absolutely true, Buscemieven grabbed his old gear and headed over to Ground Zero onSeptember 11, where he worked side-by-side with firefightersfor the next week, digging through rubble and helping tolocate remains. —MW

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Mark Wahlberg and model Rhea Durham seemedvery much together at the Hollywood premiere ofWahlberg’s latest, The Italian Job. Despite the factthat Durham is set to give birth to Marky Mark’sfirst child this month, reports were the pair hadn’tcommitted to each other in any substantial way.

Julia Stiles was probably rethinking her wardrobe choice during thisimpromptu photo session along the windy Croisette in Cannes (ormaybe she knew exactly what she was doing…). The breezy starletwas at the film festival to promote her romantic comedy The Princeand the Freshman, which is due out sometime next year.

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Actor Renée Zellweger and U2’s Bono share anintimate moment at the opening ceremonies forthe second annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Zellweger’s romantic comedyDown With Love opened the event, and Bono wasthere because, umm…, well, we couldn’t figureout exactly why Bono was there.

Are they back together or not!?! Who cares, what really matters is that the dogs are happy. Leonardo DiCaprio and on-again/off-again squeeze model Gisele Bundchen go for awalk in L.A.

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who recentlysued British magazine Hello! for publishing photos fromtheir wedding, seem to have gotten over their privacyissues. Here they wave a shot of new baby Carys in frontof reporters at the Hollywood premiere of The In-Laws.

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TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINESWho’s In It? Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick StahlWho Directed? Jonathan Mostow (U-571)What’s It About? After years in developmenthell the third Terminator film stalks intotheatres minus Linda Hamilton and EdwardFurlong. This time around Schwarzeneggerplays a shiny new Terminator sent from thefuture to protect John Connor (Stahl) fromthe Terminatrix (Norwegian model KristannaLoken). See interview with ArnoldSchwarzenegger, page 20.

LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE & BLONDEWho’s In It? Reese Witherspoon, Bob NewhartWho Directed? Charles Herman-Wurmfeld(Legally Blonde)What’s It About? This sequel finds lawyerElle Woods (Witherspoon) postponing her wedding to Emmett (Luke Wilson) soshe can head to Washington to lobby an

anti-animal testing bill (it seems her chihuahua’s parents are in peril of becom-ing cosmetic industry casualties). See interview with Reese Witherspoon, page 26.

SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEASVoices: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-JonesWho Directed? Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore What’s It About? Sinbad (Pitt) and his sidekick Marina (Zeta-Jones) battle nastygoddess Chaos (Pfeiffer) on the high seas inthis animated adventure from DreamWorks.

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THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARLWho’s In It? Johnny Depp, Geoffrey RushWho Directed? Gore Verbinski (The Ring)What’s It About? Roguish pirate Depp, looking like he walked straight out of aDisney theme park ride (oh, that’s right, he did), teams up with a comely lass(Keira Knightley) to cross swords with evil skeleton pirates.

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARYGENTLEMEN Who’s In It? Sean Connery, Stuart TownsendWho Directed? Stephen Norrington (Blade)What’s It About? Queen Victoria enlists agaggle of literary characters, includingAllan Quatermain (Connery), Dorian Gray(Townsend) and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (JasonFlemyng), to stop a madman from takingover the world. This is the second film tobe made from an Alan Moore comic book,the first being From Hell.

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HOW TO DEAL Who’s In It? Mandy Moore, Trent FordWho Directed? Clare Kilner (debut)What’s It About? Teen pop star andNeutrogena spokesgal Moore plays a cynical teen who thinks real love doesn’texist, but has her mind changed by Mr. Right (Ford). The West Wing’s AllisonJanney plays Moore’s mom.

THE MAGDALENE SISTERS Who’s In It? Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff Who Directed? Peter Mullan (Orphans)What’s It About? Three “fallen” women areassigned to work in the laundry of theoppressive Magdalene sisterhood asylumoutside Dublin during the ’60s. It surelywon’t be the nuns flying away from thisbrutal place.

BAD BOYS IIWho’s In It? Will Smith, Martin LawrenceWho Directed? Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor)What It’s About? The award for “blowing the crap out of stuff for the sake of blowingthe crap out of stuff” goes to director Bay, who makes sure this Bad Boys sequelhas Miami narcotic cops Lowry and Burnett (Smith and Lawrence) duckingexplosions while trying to nail a drug kingpin (Jordi Molla).

JOHNNY ENGLISH Who’s In It? Rowan Atkinson, NatalieImbrugliaWho Directed? Peter Howitt (Sliding Doors)What’s It About? When her majesty’s crownjewels are nicked by a Frenchman (JohnMalkovich), accident-prone secret agentJohnny English (Atkinson, better known asMr. Bean) and his sidekick (Imbruglia) aresent to recover them.

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I’LL BE THERE Who’s In It? Craig Ferguson, Charlotte ChurchWho Directed? Craig Ferguson (Saving Grace)What’s It About? A screwed-up ’80s rockstar (Ferguson) discovers he has an illegiti-mate teenage daughter (operatic phenomChurch) living in Wales. It just so happensthe kid can sing, and wants to follow indaddy’s footsteps.

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFEWho’s In It? Angelina Jolie, Gerard ButlerWho Directed? Jan De Bont (Twister)What’s It About? A more fully developedLara Croft (Jolie), (no, not that way, character-wise), continues her relic-huntingways searching for the infamous archaeo-logical site known as “The Cradle of Life.”See interview with Angelina Jolie, page 34.

SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVERWho’s In it? Alexa Vega, Daryl SabaraWho Directed? Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids)What’s It About? Juni (Sabara) must find a way to free his sister Carmen (Vega),who’s been sucked into a virtual realitygame created by the evil Toymaker(Sylvester Stallone).

SEABISCUITWho’s In It? Tobey Maguire, Chris CooperWho Directed? Gary Ross (Pleasantville)What’s It About? This feel-good drama,based on real-life events, recounts the riseof a raggedy, Depression-era racehorsewho, with the help of a half-blind jockey(Maguire) and cowboy-turned-trainer(Cooper), is transformed into a winner. See interview with Chris Cooper, page 30.

All release dates are subject to change.Some films play only in major markets.

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NOW APPEARING IN…Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as a medstudent who hooks up with our hero John Connor (played by NickStahl, who takes over the character from Edward Furlong). It’sbeen 10 years since Connor last saved mankind, with the help ofArnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, of course, and now the pairmust do it all over again when a new cyborg (model KristannaLoken) is sent from the future to finish off the human race.

BIO BITS: Claire Danes’ early years would have made a good WBseries: A clever, introspective girl is born in New York City in theebbing moments of the 1970s (April 12, 1979 to be exact) andgrows up in a trendy SoHo loft with her older brother Asa, andher parents, Chris, a contractor, and Carla, who runs a toddler’sschool out of their home. (Danes once described their abode asa “transformer home — preschool by day, home by night.”)

When Danes was five, she caught a glimpse of Madonna onTV and was inspired to become a performer. She started indance, and then moved to acting at the age of 11 when she wasaccepted into the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Itwas around that time that the Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore filmGhost was shooting in her neighbourhood. Being a huge Swayzefan, Danes dragged a friend over to the set to try to meet herhero. But the pair had spent so much time picking out just theright clothes and perfecting their makeup that by the time theygot there Swayze was gone.

Just a couple of years later, when Danes was only 13, she got

her big break when she was cast as 15-year-old Angela Chase onthe smart teen drama My So-Called Life, and the whole Danesclan moved to L.A. Although only 19 episodes of the witty,ahead-of-its-time series were ever made, the show garneredDanes a substantial fan base, one which followed her to the theatre for films like Little Women and Romeo + Juliet.

In 1998 Danes took a semi-break from movies to attend Yale,where she’s been studying English and graphic design. But lastyear she decided to take a year off to stoke her film career, duringwhich she filmed T3, The Hours, Igby Goes Down and the indiemovie It’s All About Love.

SAMPLE ROLES: Julia in The Hours (2002), Sookie in Igby Goes Down (2002), Alice in Brokedown Palace (1999), Julie inThe Mod Squad (1999), Cosette in Les Misérables (1998), Jennyin U Turn (1997), Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (1996), Rachel in To Gillian on her 37th Birthday (1996), Glady Jo in How to Makean American Quilt (1995), Beth in Little Women (1994)

TRIVIA: Her role in T3 was supposed to be played by 19-year-oldSophie Bush, but a month into filming director Jonathan Mostowdecided Bush looked too young to play John Connor’s love interest,so the switch was made. • Schwarzenegger tried to put a stop toDanes’ incessant on-set licorice nibbling, chiding her about thecarbs. • The Southern California punk band The Ataris wrote asong about Danes called “My So-Called Life.”

LOVE LIFE: At 15 she fell in love with musician Andrew Dorff,brother of actor Stephen Dorff. The relationship lasted six monthsand Danes was so devastated when it ended that she sought therapy. • Winona Ryder introduced her to the music of Australiansinger/songwriter Ben Lee, and after Danes had fallen in love withhis tunes, Ryder surprised her by bringing Lee to her 18th birthdayparty. Danes and Lee have been a couple ever since.

ON GETTING HER DEGREE: “Yale is a really healthy environment forme to be in…. I thought I’d seen as much ambition and drive asthere is to be seen in Hollywood, but that’s obliterated by thestudents at Yale. People are very intense about their work, veryserious, and that surprised me.” [B, January 2000] —MW

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Twelve years have passed since the lastTerminator flick, but Arnold Schwarzeneggerswears, at 55 years old, he had no troublegetting back into character or doing thestunts for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

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espite years of legal woes,rabid gossip and false starts,Terminator 3: Rise of theMachines is now a reality.And Arnold Schwarzenegger,the brawny star who made

the T-800 model Terminator into a pop-culture icon with his performancesin Terminator and T2: Judgment Day, isback as the heroic cyborg.

Rumoured to be one of the mostexpensive movies ever made — with areported price tag of $175-million — thefilm’s plot has been one of the best-guarded secrets around Tinsel Town,thanks to Xerox-proof scripts, secrecyagreements and numbered screenplays.But this much we do know: Terminator 3takes place a decade after the events ofT2. Sarah Connor has died, and her son,John (now played by In the Bedroom’s NickStahl instead of Edward Furlong), is inseclusion. The plans to assassinate Johnhave been stepped up, and the machinesof the future send a T-X female cyborg(Kristanna Loken) to finish the job. SoConnor and his girlfriend (ClaireDanes) team up with another Arnold-model Terminator to fight the powerfulTerminatrix. Jonathan Mostow (U-571)takes over directing duties from JamesCameron.

“It took a little tweaking to get itwhere we wanted it, but the screenplayreally works,” says Schwarzenegger,dressed casually in jeans and a tight-fitting T-shirt on this L.A. afternoon.“This is the third Terminator that I'vealways wanted to make.”

Some, however, have speculated thatthe 55-year-old former Mr. Universedid T3 for reasons besides artisticexpression.

[Q] What’s your response to those who sayyou’re doing T3 because your last couple ofmovies (Collateral Damage, End of Days) didpoorly at the box office and you need a hit?[A] “People love to gossip and come upwith negative scenarios, so that doesn’tsurprise me they would say that. Sure,some of my last few movies haven’t hadbig domestic grosses, but they have donevery well overseas. So T3 is not some desperate move on my part to revive mymovie career. My career is doing fine.”

[Q] Why did you want to do this film now, morethan a decade after the last one?[A] “We always planned that there wouldbe a third one. But what you don’t plan

for is how difficult it is to put some-thing together like another Terminator.Different people had ownership over theproperty and they were constantly fighting over it. They simply didn’t getalong. So all of their personal problemscaused a lot of wasted time. Eventually,though, everyone got under one roof,shook hands and said, ‘Let's do it.’”

[Q] Reports are, you’re getting one of thebiggest paycheques in Hollywood history —$30-million plus a share of the profits. That'spretty nice pocket money.[A] “Yeah, but by the time my wife [MariaShriver] gets through with it, trust me, itwon't be that much [laughs].”

[Q] It was common knowledge that yourTerminator and T2 co-star, Linda Hamilton,was never going to do T3. But Edward Furlongwas initially supposed to come back as JohnConnor. What happened?[A] “The director of T3, JonathanMostow, felt that he wanted to look at various other young actors for therole, because the character is older in this movie. He really liked the workthat Nick Stahl had been doing, and he felt like he would make a perfectJohn Connor. It was really an artisticdecision.”

[Q] So Edward wasn't dumped because of hisdrug arrests?[A] “I don’t know if that had anything todo with it. I really don’t.”

[Q] After 12 years, can you just slip back intoTerminator mode?[A] “Oh yeah. I'm not saying it’s easy.Nothing is easy, but I think I’ve had plenty of time to prepare for it. I read thescript, met with the director and specialeffects department and started to get thefeeling of him again. If you talk about itenough, you slowly become the characteragain. I didn't have a problem before.And I don’t have a problem now.”

[Q] C’mon, isn’t it a little harder playing theTerminator now that you’ve gotten older?[A] “Everything is fine as long as I stayaway from my motorcycle crashes[laughs]. I’ve been doing stunts in filmssince T2 with running and crashes. I’vebeen exercising continuously. If Istopped exercising and gained weight I would have a problem. As long as Ikeep my same weight and do my cardio-vascular and stretching exercises andweight training, then I’m fine.”

[Q] Is anything tough for you?[A] “Being patient. It’s hard to have thepatience to put the appliances andmakeup on. When you’re 30, you havemore patience. At my age, it's hard to sitin the makeup chair for five hours. OnBatman & Robin, it was five hours put-ting the skin colour and the eye lenseson. You had to calculate an hour aheadof time when you wanted to go to thebathroom. And someone had to unscrewyou so you could sit down. That getsmore annoying when you get older.”

[Q] What was your favourite part of making thefirst Terminator?[A] “The favourite part of it was justbeing able to work with Jim Cameron.He was at a point where he was consid-ered this little, unimportant, B-director.Then, when I went on the set andworked with him, I realized the guy wasa genius.”

[Q] Well, that leads to the obvious question: Whyisn’t James Cameron directing Terminator 3?[A] “For a lot of reasons, really. Initially,he worked on it a lot, but since wenever knew when the legal problemswould be solved, he needed to move onto other projects. He was tired of waiting. � �

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I mean, he made Titanic while we weretrying to get this movie going….Anyway, Jim and I will be back togetheragain for True Lies II.”

[Q] True Lies II is actually going to see thelight of day? [A] “True Lies II is happening. It’s instone. Jim finished the script a fewmonths ago. But I’m not sure it willshoot this year. I’ve been away for a longtime doing Terminator 3, and it’s not mystyle to go away again so quickly and doanother huge movie. I like to do onemovie a year at the most.”

[Q] Do you think the internet is changing theway movies are made and marketed?[A] “I think that computers are a verypowerful force. We saw that, forinstance, with Collateral Damage. We putall this information up and the firstweekend I think we had something likesix- or seven-million hits. It was extraor-dinary, the interest.”

[Q] Do you think our increasing reliance oncomputers and technology may come back tobite us? I mean, they’ve already developedcomputers capable of artificial intelligence.So how far-fetched is the Terminator storylineof machines trying to replace human beings?[A] “Not far-fetched at all, because it’shappening today, in small ways. We’vedeveloped machines which do tasks thathuman workers used to do. Computersand machines are making some of us

obsolete. In fact, with the way CGI hasbeen developing, you don’t really needlive actors anymore. They could do awhole movie with a CGI version of meand no one would know the difference.I’m close to being out of a job [laughs].”

[Q] Are you strictly a big-budget action star orwould you ever do a little art-house flick?[A] “I’d love to do a small, low-budgetmovie. But we all get so stereotyped inthat we all get the movies that they haveseen us in already…. When I say to a pro-ducer of a smaller film, ‘I would haveloved to have done that,’ they usually say,‘Well, we only had $12-million to shootthe movie and that would have onlytaken care of your first few weeks ofwork.’ But I say, ‘I’d do it for free if yougive me a back-end deal [a share of theprofits]. It makes no difference. I’m notcash-strapped.’ I always say, even withTerminator, ‘Pay me the money later ifyou think you need it now to shoot themovie. I have plenty of cash.’ But whathappens is they don’t like to give it to youlater on because they know if the moviedoes well then it is more money for me.On Twins, I made more money than anyother movie in my career, because I did itfor free and got the back-end.”

[Q] Do you think we’ve come to judge manliness by the standards you've set in your movies?[A] “I hope not, because they are justcharacters. And they are larger-than-lifecharacters. You’re not necessarily a realman just because you can beat up analien or a bad guy. I’d like to think thatI’ve contributed to the re-emergence ofthe hero or the heroic character. But ittakes more to being a man than justbeing overly masculine. A real man issomeone who cares for his family andprovides for them, shows love for hiswife and kids and someone who tries tomake this world a better place to live. Ido those things in my own life, and Ihope that is what influences people, notthe characters I’ve played in my movies.I used to want to be like John Wayne orGary Cooper when I was a kid. But as Igrew older, my idol, or the biggest influ-ence in my life, was my father. I thinkpeople are smart enough to know thedifference between movie charactersand real men. At least, I hope so.”

Earl Dittman is an entertainment writerbased in Houston, Texas.


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Which Terminator 3: Rise of theMachines star was banned fromthe Philippines for makingderogatory remarks about thecountry — Arnold Schwarzenegger,Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken or Nick Stahl?

What TV show did Bad Boys IIstar Will Smith executive produce, star in and compose the theme song for?

In which 1995 film did SeanConnery, who plays AllanQuatermain in The League ofExtraordinary Gentleman, playKing Arthur?

Which one of these actresses — Kelly Lynch, Jennifer Grey,Winona Ryder or Sherilyn Fenn— has not been engaged tohunky Johnny Depp, star of thismonth’s Pirates of the Caribbean:The Curse of the Black Pearl?

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life star Angelina Jolie is thedaughter of which Oscar-winningactor?

On which 1993 film starringRobert De Niro did Seabiscuitlead Tobey Maguire first meet hisbest friend, Leonardo DiCaprio?

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1. In director Spike Lee’s Do the RightThing, the quintessential hot day movie,racial tensions rise with the temperature.Lee plays the main character, whose name is… a) Moodieb) Mookiec) Moochie

2. Which film’s tagline is “Anything canhappen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did”?a) Summer of Samb) Dog Day Afternoonc) The Getaway

3. The steamy Body Heat takes place duringa Florida heat wave and finds KathleenTurner seducing a lawyer to help kill her husband. Who plays the lawyer?a) William Hurtb) Ted Dansonc) Al Pacino

4. “The Heat is On” is the title track to whichvery ’80s film?a) Tango and Cashb) Lethal Weaponc) Beverly Hills Cop

5. Who has the most lines of dialogue in the daddy of all burning building movies, The Towering Inferno? a) Paul Newmanb) Steve McQueenc) They both have exactly the same

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6. Die Hard With a Vengeance is set on abrutally hot New York City day and findsBruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson playinga deadly game of Simon Says with a stam-mering villain. Which of the followingactors plays the villain?

a) Jeremy Ironsb) Gary Oldmanc) Alan Rickman

7. Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif star in thevisually stunning desert epic Lawrence ofArabia. O’Toole hails from Ireland, but inwhich hot country was Sharif born?a) Syriab) Egyptc) Kazakhstan

8. Name the actor who utters the line“Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock isgonna have a real bad day,” in Terminator 2:Judgment Day.a) Arnold Schwarzeneggerb) Edward Furlongc) Linda Hamilton

9. The Big Easy, set in oh-so sticky NewOrleans, stars Dennis Quaid as a cop who hasan oh-so sticky affair with an attorney. Whoplays the sexy lawyer? a) Linda Fiorentinob) Ellen Barkinc) Jamie Lee Curtis

10. It was called “the sweatiest movie evermade” on the first episode of Cheers, andstars Paul Newman. Is it…a) Cool Hand Lukeb) Cat on a Hot Tin Roofc) The Long Hot Summer

11. The sci-fi film Dune is set on the parcheddesert planet Arrakis, the only place in theuniverse where you can find melange. Whatis melange?a) a type of spiceb) a type of metalc) a type of glass

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11a SUMMER’S HERE, SO LET’S TALK HOT MOVIES. NOT HOT, AS IN WHATTURNS YOU ON OR WHAT’S NUMBER ONE AT THE BOX OFFICE, BUTRATHER MOVIES IN WHICH UNBEARABLE HEAT, SUN-BAKED VISTAS ANDSWEATY ACTORS IN DRENCHED UNDERSHIRTS TAKE CENTRE STAGE.WE’RE TALKING ABOUT MOVIES THAT’LL PARCH YOUR LIPS AND BURNTHE BOTTOM OF YOUR FEET JUST BY WATCHING THEM. WE’VE PUTTOGETHER A QUIZ, TESTING YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF SWELTERING CINEMA,THAT JUST MIGHT MAKE YOU SWEAT. | BY INGRID RANDOJA

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It’s been a frenzied week, and itappears to have taken its toll onthe normally calm, cool ReeseWitherspoon — she seems a weebit blue on this sunny Septembermorning. Everything is going

great on the L.A. set of her sequelLegally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde(“I’m having more fun than I did on thefirst one,” she says), and she’s stillmonths away from discovering she’spregnant with her second child withactor/hubby Ryan Phillippe, so it can’tbe morning sickness.

What in the world, then, could havethe terminally cheerful star of Electionand Pleasentville looking and acting so glum?

“Last week, it was back-to-school timefor my daughter Ava, so we’ve beendealing with lunch boxes and ther-moses and tears over the separation —my tears, not hers,” says the Nashvillenative with a teary-eyed laugh. “She’sonly three, so she’s in preschool. She’sonly gone half-a-day, but it’s beentough. I really miss her. A lot of themoms sit outside on the bench and pretend that we’ve gotten in our carsand driven away. But we all sit there andcry. We’re a pathetic sight.”

Witherspoon may be one of the highest-paid performers in Hollywood(reportedly taking home more than$12-million for Legally Blonde 2), and atalented and versatile actress (she just

wrapped the period piece Vanity Fair inEngland), but first and foremost, she’s awife and mother.

“I simply refuse to get caught up in allof the glamour and hype of working inshow business,” Witherspoon says, feelingmore relaxed now that she’s confessedher preschool anxieties. “I love acting,but it’s just my job. I have a husband Ilove very much and a daughter whomeans the world to me. They come first.In the scheme of things, there are moreimportant things in life than worryingabout a bad hair day or making sure youlook good for the paparazzi. It’s calledmarriage and motherhood.”

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LIKE HER DETERMINED CHARACTER ELLE WOODS IN LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE & BLONDE,REESE WITHERSPOON THINKS SHE CAN HAVE IT ALL — A CAREER, A FAMILY, A PRODUCTION COMPANY. IS SHE SEEING THINGS THROUGH ROSE-COLOURED GLASSES? | BY EARL DITTMAN

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a gorgeous Gucci ensemble and withher hair and makeup flawless,Witherspoon doesn’t look much like amember of the PTA.

“Hey, these are my work duds,” shesays with a laugh. “Believe it or not, Ishop a lot at the Gap and Old Navy. Ihave to have clothes that wash easily,that food like peanut butter and jellywon’t stain. Listen, I had to change threetimes before I got here. I was wearing aChloe ensemble until hot chocolatebecame this morning’s disaster. I just figured it wouldn’t look good if the starand producer of a major motion picturemet members of the press in a designeroutfit with hot chocolate all over it. I dowant to have some of kind of decent rep-utation in this town.”

The movie Witherspoon is talkingabout is, of course, Legally Blonde 2: Red,White & Blonde. Aside from being thestar and executive producer, the sequelis the first film made by Witherspoon’sown company, Type A Productions.

Wait a minute…she cries at having toleave her child at preschool, but she’staking on additional responsibilities asthe executive producer of Legally Blonde 2?That’s quite a contradiction.

“I know, it sounds like I’m talking outof both sides of my mouth,” the 27-year-old admits, “but I like what I do, andI’m in a position to choose the thingsthat I want to do. My popularity hasgiven me a chance to create the kind ofopportunities that I’ve always wanted.

Which is great for my career. But I’malso like every other working mother. Ithink you have to learn to balanceschedules. When your kids are inschool, you have to measure every deci-sion that you make professionally,against your personal life. It’s hardsometimes. But when it’s something asimportant as the sequel to my biggestfilm ever [a $96-million domesticgross], you just have to work even harder to make sure everything in yourlife balances out.”

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld,opens with Witherspoon’s character, ElleWoods, happy, engaged to her boyfriendEmmett (Luke Wilson reprising hisLegally Blonde role) and working for aprestigious Boston law firm. Her feelingstoward her workplace begin to change,however, when she discovers that the par-ents of her pet Chihuahua, Bruiser, arebeing experimented on by a cosmeticsconglomerate her firm represents.

“Elle becomes very disenchantedwhen she finds out the company thatshe’s been representing is up to nogood,” Witherspoon explains. “They aredoing some bad things, and when shetells them about it, the firm fires her. SoElle decides to take the issue toWashington to try and get this lawpassed for animal rights. But she knowsnothing about the government. She hasno idea how to get the law passed, butshe’s determined.”

However, Elle has a little trouble balancing her lobbying duties and per-sonal life as she fights to get “Bruiser’sBill” passed.

“She’s trying to plan her weddingand pass a bill, and she thinks she cando it all by May,” Witherspoon addswith a laugh. “She’s like, ‘No, I canhave it all!’ Invariably, like in real life,some of it falls by the wayside. But it’s areally, really inspiring movie. I’m learninga lot about our political system that Ididn’t know.”

While Witherspoon says there are noplans to film a Legally Blonde 3 (“I guessthat will depend on how well Red, White& Blonde does on opening weekend,”she admits), TV viewers could be gettinga weekly dose of Elle and her fish-out-of-water antics if the Legally Blonde pilot(also directed by Herman-Wurmfeld) ispicked up by a network. Although she won’t play Elle on the series,Witherspoon will be able to watch overher trademark film persona since Type

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A is producing the show. “Elle made me fall in love withpink, so I feel like I owe her,” Witherspoon says with a laugh.

Although she had a number of projects planned after thejust-finished Vanity Fair — from the Honey West film (basedon the ’60s action series) to a sports picture about femaletennis players — Witherspoon’s acting commitments arenow on hold due to her pregnancy. Unaware, during ourinterview, that she would be expecting another child (due inDecember), she was quick to admit that she and her husband were anxious to give daughter Ava ElizabethPhillippe a handful of siblings.

“Both Ryan and I absolutely love children, we want to havea ton of them,” she says gleefully. “I love kids, because I thinkthere’s something so great about how honest they are.They’re so innocent, so open and ready to accept things.Children are such a special gift. I’m ready to be a mom when-ever nature decides it’s time.”

And, as they did with Ava, Witherspoon and Phillippe willcontinue to do whatever is necessary to keep making moviesand ensuring their children live as normal a life as possible.

“Whenever Ryan’s working, I am the primary parent, andwhenever I am working, he’s the primary parent, so we alwaystravel together,” Witherspoon explains. “We try to get asmuch normalcy as we can. Whenever we travel abroad, we getan apartment or home where we can cook and our baby cango to play dates or preschool.

“I started making movies when I was sixteen (The Man inthe Moon), so I got to have a normal childhood,” she con-tinues. “I don’t ever want to rob a child of mine of theirs,because childhood is so important to what kind of personthey’ll be in the future. I have great parents and they let mebe who I wanted to be, and I think I did okay. You can doanything you want if you’re willing to work hard enough forit. I want to be an actress and have a wonderful family —and be proud of both of them. I don’t think that’s too muchto ask for.”

Earl Dittman is an entertainment writer based in Houston, Texas.


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AMERICAN WEDDING > > A U G U S TStars: Jason Biggs, Alyson HanniganDirector: Jesse Dylan (How High)Story: American Pie antiheroes Jim (Biggs) and Michelle(Hannigan) are tying the knot, which means American Weddingwill probably be the last in this popular series of wacky-kids-doing-anything-to-get-some flicks — American Infidelity andBitter American Divorce just don’t seem to have as much comicpotential. But rest assured they’ll pack as many panty shots andconsummation jokes as possible into this third film, especially ifStifler (Seann William Scott) can get his hands on the maid ofhonour, Michelle’s super-hot little sister Cadence (January Jones).

THE BIG BOUNCE > > S E P T E M B E RStars: Owen Wilson, Gary SiniseDirector: George Armitage (Grosse Pointe Blank)Story: Based on an early Elmore Leonard novel (Out of Sightand Jackie Brown are among his other books turned into films),this one takes place in beautiful Hawaii where Wilson plays adrifter and small-time crook. The fun begins when he falls inlove with a gorgeous seductress (Sara Foster) who plays on hisswindling tendencies and drags him into a plot to steal a fortunefrom her lover (Sinise). The book was made into a film oncebefore — when Ryan O’Neal gave it a try in 1969. But evenLeonard admits that first attempt was unwatchable.

UNDERWORLD > > S E P T E M B E RStars: Kate Beckinsale, Scott SpeedmanDirector: Len Wiseman (debut)Story: It’s loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,but you’d never know it from the trailer. A slick, dark, rock ’n’roll action pic with a comic-book feel, Underworld takes place in the secret world of warring vampires and werewolves.Beckinsale, formerly the queen of prissy-nice in films like Pearl Harbor and Serendipity, tries to horn in on JenniferGarner/Carrie-Anne Moss territory, dawning a tight, black PVCsuit to play lead vampire Selene. Canadian Scott Speedmanplays her love interest, a human with a rare blood type thatmight be the key to saving the werewolf race.

HIDALGO > > O C T O B E RStars: Viggo Mortensen, Malcolm McDowellDirector: Joe Johnston (Jumanji) Story: Before Lord of the Rings, no one could care less whatViggo Mortensen’s next project would be — G.I. Jane, A Walk inthe Clouds, 28 Days…meh. But since taking on the Rings trilogy’smanliest role of Aragorn, Mortensen has developed a large anddevoted following eager to see him in anything that takes placeoutside Middle-earth. The first chance they’ll get will be Hidalgo,a period piece in which he plays a Pony Express courier whotravels, with his horse, to Saudi Arabia to take part in a danger-ous race. Hmph. Couldn’t be more dangerous than trying to holdback the orcs at Helms Deep.

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om Smith was the kind of man Hollywood used to makemovies about back when GaryCooper would’ve played thelegendary, yet real-life, laconic

cowboy. But it’s only now that Smith isriding across the big screen in thismonth’s Seabiscuit, and it’s with anotherCooper in the saddle — Chris Cooper.

“He’s a real mythic character, so it wasimportant that I convey some of that.But at the same time, as an actor, it’s myjob to play the reality of Smith,” saysCooper. The freshly Oscar-anointedthespian (he won Best Supporting Actorfor his sadly pathetic [and poetic] turnas a toothless orchid thief in last year’sAdaptation) is sitting in a hotel suite over-looking New York’s Central Park on acold December day.

Unfortunately, given that Smith’s lifewas described as having the “etherealquality of hoof prints in windblownsnow,” in Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling novel Seabiscuit: An AmericanLegend, it was often difficult to deter-mine just what the reality of his life was.

Born in the late 1800s, when the westwas still wild, Smith felt more at homeon the open range than in the company

of men, something to which Cooper sayshe can relate. Native Americans calledhim Lone Plainsman, white settlerscalled him Silent Tom, and only horsesknew him well, they said. He herdedcattle and hunted mountain lions andbroke mustangs for the British cavalryduring the Boer War. He was a rodeostar, so the story goes, and an Indianfighter and a bank robber, too.

“It was interesting trying to separatefact from fiction with Smith,” saysCooper.

Fact is, steel and steam robbedSmith of his way of life. And it wasn’tuntil he happened to cross paths witha horse named Seabiscuit, during theGreat Depression, that he did some-thing truly legendary. Thoroughbredracing was in its infancy back then, butit did some growing up when Smithhelped transform the knock-kneednag into the equine equivalent ofMichael Jordan.

Now, 65 years after the horse with thesad little tail and eggbeater gait becamethe biggest newsmaker of the day, withmore headlines in 1938 than Hitler orLou Gehrig or Clark Gable, Hollywoodhas finally gotten around to committing

the story to celluloid. And while it may be called Seabiscuit,

and all the media attention might focuson Tobey Maguire as the half-blind former prize fighter who jockeyedSeabiscuit to the winner’s circle, makeno mistake — this dark horse in thesummer blockbuster derby is just asmuch Smith’s story. Just don’t expectCooper to have a lot of lines of dialogue, talking was never in his character’s nature. And that makesplaying Smith an even bigger chal-lenge. “It’s about achieving a stillnessthat conveys feeling and emotionsunderneath,” says Cooper.

“It’s pretty amazing what Chris does,giving this strong silent type some realdepth,” said Maguire in a phone inter-view a few months earlier. “I think hewould’ve liked to do more riding in thefilm, though. He seems to think I wasthe one having all the fun.”

In Hillenbrand’s novel, on which thefilm is based, she describes Smith as a“pleasingly terrifying” man with a “shovelof a jaw” and a “colourless translucenceabout him that made him seem as if hewere in the earliest stages of progressiveinvisibility.” It wasn’t until Cooper

The fact that Chris Cooper grew up on a cattle ranch isn’t the only thing that makeshim perfect to play real-life cowboy TomSmith in Seabiscuit. Nor is it the fact that hebares a physical resemblance to Smith. It’smore intangible than that — like a sharedtendency to be withdrawn and introverted,even when you’re at the top of your field | BY BARRETT HOOPER

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walked into the room that I understoodwhat she meant.

A stark man, square-built, with a hardmouth and a drift of white hair peakinga broad, pale face, Cooper looks thepart of a horseman. He even walks witha slightly bow-legged swagger. Andwhile he knows his way around horses— he grew up on his father’s Missouricattle ranch and appeared in bothLonesome Dove miniseries — he says hehas too much respect for real cowboysto ever call himself one. “What I do isimportant in it’s own way, but I’m anactor,” he says.

Cooper is hunched forward in hischair, knees together, hands clutched inhis lap, as though he’s trying to makehimself as small as possible. UnlikeSmith, who would often just walk awayfrom reporters’ questions, Cooper

knows that giving interviews comes withthe territory. That’s not to say he’sentirely comfortable with the process,and our conversation is perforated withlong pauses as his mind works over theperfect response to each question.

Cooper’s first exposure to acting wasduring high school in Kansas City whenhe joined the local theatre company asa way of keeping himself out of trouble.

“The guys I was hanging around withwere getting into trouble and I wantedto distance myself from them,” he says.“I loved architecture and I was good atdesigning things so I offered my servicesto build and paint sets.”

The experience turned him onto theidea of becoming an actor. “I got sotired of myself. It was suffocating,”Cooper explains. “So I found a way toexpress myself through theatre. I hadthese things I wanted to say or expressbut I couldn’t do it out there.”

After studying drama at the Universityof Missouri, Cooper moved to New YorkCity and made his Broadway debut inthe 1980 production of Of the FieldsLately. But it would be seven years untilindie director John Sayles recognizedhis talent and cast him in his first movierole, as a union organizer in the coalmining drama Matewan.

“I was foolish enough to think thatgreat things would come from this. Butfeature parts didn’t seem to come my

way after Matewan,” says Cooper. Hespent the next several years playing bitparts on television in things like MiamiVice, and building a résumé of characterparts in features like This Boy’s Life andGuilty by Suspicion. “It was made clear tome how quickly you can be forgotten.So now, I just take things as they come.”

One positive lasting effect ofMatewan was his friendship with Sayles,who wrote the role of Lone Star’s prodi-gal son of a Texas lawman specificallyfor Cooper. “John and I seem to alwaysbe on the same page, but when I readLone Star I was surprised he wanted mefor that part. I couldn’t see myself in it,”says Cooper.

However, the film’s success provedCooper could carry a movie andHollywood started seeing him in all sortsof roles — like Robert Redford’syounger brother in The Horse Whispererand Ethan Hawke’s brother-in-law inGreat Expectations.

In 1999, he was cast as a coalminerwhose son wants to be a rocket scientistin October Sky and then turned in achilling performance as a sexuallyrepressed Marine in American Beauty.“I don’t know why I always get cast as aguy who is emotionally restrained,”Cooper says with a laugh. “If you playtoo many characters who keep tothemselves, people will start to worry.”

And, of course, last year broughtAdaptation, the Charlie Kaufman-penned metamovie with Meryl Streepand Nicolas Cage. Cooper calls the film,which depicts how Kaufman’s failedattempt to adapt the Susan Orleannovel The Orchid Thief into a screenplayresulted in Kaufman inserting himselfand his imaginary twin brother into thefilm, a “screw you statement” toHollywood studios that “only seem toknow how to make formulaic movieswith car chases and guns and drugs.”

“My feelings on that are, for such asupposedly creative community, risk-taking is not a high priority. And I don’tthink the studios know what to do withme,” he continues. “After October Skythey sent me a lot of scripts about meanfathers. After Lone Star they sent me abunch of sheriff scripts. So I depend onindividuals who will take that risk andoffer me the chance to play somethinga little different.”

Barrett Hooper writes about movies for theNational Post.

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Angelina Jolie has always been drawn tothings dark and deadly. Her first crush wason Psycho’s Anthony Perkins, and as a teenshe planned to be a funeral director. She collected daggers and knives (“I have abunch of scars to prove it,” she says), read

books on Vlad the Impaler and has the Japanese word fordeath tattooed on her shoulder. Not to mention that sheused to wear a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood aroundher neck as a symbol of her devotion.

But after a tumultuous last couple years, including thedemise of her marriage to Thornton, it seems AngelinaJolie may have finally found the light. And she attributesit all to the new man in her life, son Maddox.

“I finally feel connected to exactly what I should bedoing in my life and who I really am,” says Jolie, whosetrademark Gothic attire and makeup has been shed infavour of a fresh — dare we say it, wholesome — look thatreflects her much sunnier disposition these days. Thisbreezy summer afternoon she’s on location in Montreal— where she’s shooting Taking Lives, about an FBI profiler— dressed casually in cargo pants and a unique white T-shirt that indicates just what a doting parent she is.Instead of hanging her two-year-old son’s drawings on thefridge, Jolie has them ironed onto her T-shirts. “He didthis one for me at Christmas,” she says, as she points to thecolourful stick-figure collage on her chest. “As you canprobably tell, I’m pretty impressed with his artistic side.”

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SUPERSTAR MOM ANGELINA JOLIE JUMPS FROMCHASING RELICS AROUND THE WORLD TO CHASINGHER NEW BABY AROUND THE SET. HERE THE STAR OFLARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFEREVEALS HOW HER LIFE HAS CHANGED

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She says her transformation was initially sparked, oddly enough, by herhard-hitting 2001 summer blockbusterLara Croft: Tomb Raider. That film, whichbrought videogame vixen Lara Croft tolife, grossed $300-million worldwide andhas now spawned the much-anticipatedsequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradleof Life. As Jolie tells it, shooting the firstTomb Raider in Cambodia, the home-land of her adopted son, opened hereyes to a whole new world. She nowspends much of her time campaigningas a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHigh Commissioner for Refugees.

[Q] How did Tomb Raider bring about thischange in your life?[A] “I remember, when I first went [toCambodia], being completely shockedthat I wasn’t taught about the historyand genocide of that country when Iwas in school. I started to question a lotof things, and when you do that, yousuddenly realize there’s a lot in thisworld that’s not talked about, or peopledon’t think is important because yourcontinents don’t touch. So it was thatshocking revelation, combined withmeeting these people that have gonethrough so much suffering and yet areso kind, and so generous, and so open,that was so unbelievably beautiful tome. When I left the country after filming, I just felt so connected to it andmissed it enormously. I didn’t quiteunderstand it at first, so I went backwith the UN a few times and then I metMaddox. That’s when I really started tolearn more about the people and thecountry, and then decided to adoptfrom that country.”

[Q] What can we expect from Cradle of Life,compared to the first movie?[A] “It’s a little less of a fantasy.… I thinkthe first one was verging on making itreal while still crossing that fantasybridge, and this one is more of a solidaction-adventure. It’s sexier, darker andsmarter, I think. It’s the same LaraCroft, but she’s grown up a bit.”

[Q] Were there certain elements that youwanted to bring to the character that perhapsyou couldn’t in the first one?[A] “Yeah, that was a lot of it for me. Ithink people didn’t want to remove a lotof the videogame aspects…. But now wecan go 100 percent into her, and seesomething unique about her character.

A lot of her personality has finally beenable to come out.”

[Q] Are the stunts more elaborate for this film?[A] “There are some stunts that are quiteextreme. There’s stunts with me andsharks, with bulls, jumping off buildingswith a flight suit on...a lot of big ‘awe’situations. Like, in one scene we have toleave a room by repelling a hundredfeet upside down. There’s also a lot ofmotorcycle stuff.”

[Q] You hurt your ankle doing the last film. Didyou get injured on this one?[A] “[Laughs.] Oh yeah, I sure did.There’s a scene where I’m shooting a target while riding a horse, whichsounded lovely in theory. But it turnedinto riding side-saddle very fast, spin-ning a shot gun, and then shooting thistarget. Well it went well by the end, butit was one of the hardest things I’ve everdone in my life, just because everythinghad to perfectly sync up at exactly theright second. So there I was, trying tostay on this horse sideways, and thehorse wasn’t used to gunfire, which wasmade even worse by the fact that therewas also a helicopter flying over us. So Iended up getting a shotgun shell rightin my eye. It wasn’t pretty. I’m also

missing a bit of my elbow now too. I hada bit of a boat accident when we wereshooting in Greece. I figure that if we domore of these films, by the fourth orfifth one, I’ll be limping to the set missingmost of my limbs. I might just be able tohobble to set as this head with shoes.”

[Q] The first Tomb Raider had the best openingweekend for a film with a female lead. You mustwear that distinction as a badge of honour.[A] “Yeah I do, very much so. Especiallybecause in putting the film together, theywere throwing a lot of money into it, yeteverybody was very, very nervous if itwould have any success. They hadn’t seena certain kind of success with a femalelead unless it was a comedy, or had somesexuality, or science fiction to it. Just astraight action-adventure with a womanhadn’t been successful ever before.”

[Q] What distinguishes this film from all theother action-adventures out there?[A] “Well I guess everyone’s got theirthing, but what I personally liked aboutthis one is it’s high adventure in differentcountries. It’s the only real adventurefilm, ya know? We shot on the tops ofskyscrapers in Hong Kong, in the moun-tains of China, in Africa, on top of livevolcanoes, underwater in Greece.” � �

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DIGGING FOR DATA7: Years it’s been since the first Tomb Raider videogame wasreleased6: Number of games in the series — Tomb Raider, TombRaider II, Tomb Raider III, The Last Revelation, Chroniclesand The Angel of Darkness29-million: Games sold to date

102: Number of sets used for the sequel, Lara Croft TombRaider: The Cradle of Life700: Pieces of breakaway glass needed for a single scene

5: Number of countries in which the sequel was filmed —United Kingdom, Kenya, Tanzania, China and Greece400: Number of people the caterers had to feed every dayin Kenya480: Eggs consumed by those 400 people every day, not tomention 100 chickens and 50 kilograms of beef

34-25-35: Lara Croft’s measurements, according to thebook Lara Croft: The Art of Virtual Seduction34-26-38: Measurements of the woman on which the

videogame’s Lara Croft is presently based, Dutch model Jill de Jong36-25-35: Measurements most fan sites for Angelina Jolie(who plays Croft in the movies) attribute to their idol…butit’s probably wishful thinking29: Inches at which Jolie has estimated her waist

2: Number of times Jolie has been married. Both times toactors — Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton7: Months old Cambodian boy, Maddox, was when Jolie andThornton adopted him9: Months old Maddox was by the time the couple had cutthrough enough red tape to get him to the U.S.10: Months old he was when Jolie and Thornton split

3: Number of months before shooting Lara Croft: TombRaider that Angelina Jolie started her physical training6: Days per week that she trained

1: Number of Y chromosomes possessed by Jolie’s stunt doublefor Cradle of Life. That’s right, he was a man. Apparently, nowoman could approximate Jolie’s buff physique

19 facts about Angelina Jolie and the Lara Croft movies, Tomb Raider and Cradle of Life

[Q] Did you bring Maddox on location?[A] “Oh yeah, he’s with me all thetime. It’s great. I mean, it’s funny forhim, because there are times whereI’m holding him at lunchtime and I’min a silver wetsuit with all theseweapons and knives all over me! Butfor him, lunchtime would be spentgoing in the water of the set at theLuna Temple and hanging out in allthese amazing places. It makes it morefun, and it makes me much more into

her as a character because I have a littleboy, and having his mom jumpingaround and hanging upside down andclimbing the walls is very funny tohim. He gets such a thrill seeing medo that stuff.”

[Q] Do you think he understands yet that thisis mom’s job?[A] “I don’t think he gets it that momdoes films — I think he just gets thatmom dresses a bit weird and jumpsaround a lot.”

[Q] But he probably thinks you’re the coolestmom ever.[A] “Yeah, he thinks I’m pretty funny.But I must admit, it can be hard onhim sometimes because of the jet lag.When we were in Hong Kong, I wouldbe shooting all day, but he had jet lag,so we would be up ’till three in the morning running through the hallways of the hotel because I had ababy with jet lag. But he’s riddencamels in the desert, and he’s riddenelephants in the jungle, and he’s swum in the oceans of Greece — he’sbeen everywhere and he’s only two. I’mreally trying to give him experiences Inever had.”

[Q] There have been a lot of difficulties inyour personal life over the past couple years.Do you feel you’ve matured as a result?[A] “Yeah, I really, really have. Travellingand learning a lot about other coun-tries and other cultures has had quite aprofound effect. Now I don’t forget,every single day, how fortunate I am justto have my family healthy and alive andto be able to give my child what heneeds to eat, ya know? I’ve spent a lotmore time focused on what I think ismore important in this world.”

[Q] You definitely seem much more together.[A] “Yeah, you’re right. I do.… I mean, tobe in Cambodia surrounded by peoplethat are such survivors and have so muchhumanity is just so life-altering. Youknow, when you go to one of those areas,whether it’s a war zone or a camp, andyou see all these volunteers from all partsof the world who have come to this placeto do something good for these peopleand to try and make things better, it’s themost amazing thing. There’s really not amore wonderful place to be, I think.There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”

David Giammarco is an entertainmentwriter based out of Toronto and Los Angeles.

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A STARR IS BORNWho can explain why this country produces such pissed-off girlsingers. We’ve spawned an angry Avril Lavigne, an analyticallyannoyed Alanis Morissette and the groovy, but politically perturbed,Kinnie Starr.

Starr, a Vancouver-based singer who combines trippy, sexy beatswith powerful spoken words and silky hip-hop rhymes, hasn’t brokenthrough to the mainstream like her counterparts Avril and Alanis,but that’s because she walks a far more interesting path.

She’s just released her third CD, Sun Again, which boasts hermost upbeat and catchy songs to date, recently finished a mini-tour, and is preparing for her Cirque du Soleil debut. That’s right,the fiercely independent artist who once dumped a major recordlabel to produce her own music, has been cast in the new Cirque

show, Zumanity, set to open in Las Vegas at the end of this month. But this isn’t your average, all-ages Cirque show.“It’s officially called an erotic cabaret, but it’s a sex show,”

says Starr on the line from Montreal, where she’s been trainingfor her theatrical debut. “It’s a very intimate production withabout 50 people, including the musicians, like me, who are partof the on-stage production.”

Zumanity, which is restricted to those 18 and older, cele-brates sexuality, but exactly how explicit the performers’ actionswill be, and how much nudity will be shown, is still under wraps.We can tell you that Cirque plans to pump spicy fragrances intothe theatre, and seating will range from cabaret stools, to loveseats, to very intimate duo sofas (tickets for which will be pricedat $190 U.S.).

It’s not every day that an indie artist gets an invitation from anentertainment goliath — in this case, one that churns out specta-cles with assembly-line precision.

“They were looking for people who are very sexy and raw,”says Starr. “They’ve cast from a whole range of people — fromstrippers, to professional ballet dancers, to athletes and martialarts people.

“When I first arrived, it was like, ‘Umm, you must be mistaken,I cannot possibly be in this show!’ The cast is stunning. I’m inshape and stuff, but I’m not a supermodel or f-ckin’ coquette. Iwear jeans and runners. But they’re pretty serious about theircasting. They knew what they were doing when they cast me, andnow I’ve come to accept it and trust them.”

She may trust Cirque, but does she feel comfortable invitingher progressive parents (her dad is a criminal defense lawyer andher mom is a psychologist) to the show?

“I’m not sure I want my parents to see it,” Starr says with anamused sigh. “They say they want to see it. I’m like, ‘Ohhh, Idon’t know…’”

TOUR STOPSIf you’re bummed by the fact the mega Aerosmith/Kiss tour is bypassingCanada — thanks a lot Steve and Gene — take heart, there are stillheadliners happy to pocket our Canadian dollars.

Pop fans can drool over the Christina Aguilera/Justin Timberlakepairing in Toronto, July 29th, while devotees of the melodrama that isMariah Carey will beable to see their tragicstar take the stageAugust 9th, in Toronto.

We’re sure the much-maligned Dixie Chickswill get a gracious wel-come in Vancouver onJuly 11th, and Montrealmetalheads will be in nirvana when the SummerSanitarium Tour, featuringMetallica, Linkin Parkand limpbizkit, hits townJuly 20th.

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She’s only 22, but Ashanti’s already a hip-hop diva-in-training,and her second CD kicks off with the single “Rock Wit U (Awww Baby).”

THE CLIENTELEThe Violet Hour >> JULY 22

This brainy London trio produces melancholy and languid popsongs that both wow critics and keep their fans enraptured.What do you expect from a band whose first drummer quit thegroup to finish his PhD on Florentine Renaissance medallions.

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Alt-rock icons Jane’s Addiction release their first studio album in 13 years and join the newly invigorated Lollapalooza tour this summer.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator2004: A Century of Flight>> PCAny historian will tell you that the last cen-tury’s primary defining characteristic wasrapid technological innovation. Within onlya hundred years, humans created everythingfrom cars to nuclear weapons to computers.

But our most dramatic achievement (sym-bolically, at least) had to be Wilbur andOrville Wright’s short flight at Kitty Hawk in1903, which turned the dream of taking tothe skies and soaring with the birds intoreality. And by the end of the century, the Wright brothers’ little prop plane hadspawned the Concorde, intercontinentalflights and the Space Shuttle.

This newest installment of Microsoft’shighly acclaimed Flight Simulator franchiselooks back on the first 100 years of pow-ered flight and celebrates the historicalplanes that blazed the aviation trail. So nowarmchair pilots can ditch their boring oldvirtual fighter jets and take a leisurely spinin the Spirit of St. Louis or the Wright Flyerinstead. But don’t worry — there are stillplenty of modern planes available for thosewho feel the need for speed, including ahelicopter, a tiny Cessna and the mammothBoeing 747.

The Flight Simulator series has earned areputation for realism, and that attention todetail is definitely on display in this latestversion. The older aircrafts have been

painstakingly recreated, the flight physicsare second to none and the graphics (espe-cially in terms of the dynamic weather system) have been greatly improved. So ifyou’ve ever wanted to feel the wind in yourhair at Kitty Hawk, here’s your chance.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic>> XBOXSet 4,000 years before the events of theStar Wars movies, this immense role-playinggame from Bioware (the makers of thegreat Baldur’s Gate series) lets you livethe life of a Jedi knight. Of course, thereal fun comes from deciding what type ofJedi you want to be. Will you be a noblefighter toting around a double-bladedlightsaber, or a sneaky Sith who servesthe Dark Side with stealth and style? Witha great combat system, endless questsand stunning graphics, this could be oneof the best games of the year.

The Italian Job >> GC, PS2, XBOXFinally, a game for all the hatchback driversout there who would rather race a Mini thana Ferrari! In this game — based on therecent remake of the 1969 car-chase classic— you get behind the wheel of a slick Miniand work your way through a number of keyevents from the film. But if you don’t feellike bothering with annoying things like plot

details, you can just fire up any one of thenumerous stunt courses or racing tracks andput the pedal to the metal!

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder >> XBOXSet in a near-future Cuba where Castrohas kicked the bucket, this Tom Clancy-produced shooter puts you in charge of anelite team of Green Berets, who havebeen sent in by the UN to help keep thepeace during the island’s first free electionsin decades. Careful mission planning isthe name of the game — you must useteamwork and tactics to defeat the manyrebel factions who have thrown the entirecountry into turmoil, so make sure youthink before you shoot.

Downhill Domination >> PS2The moronic extreme-sports craze seems tohave finally faded from the public eye, butin the videogame world, big air and sicktricks are still par for the course. Case inpoint: this extreme-themed mountain bikeracing game, in which you zip down hill-sides and through urban environments in aquest to be the fastest thing on two unmotor-ized wheels. The action is fast and furious,and the courses are actually pretty welldesigned, filled as they are with tons of dif-ferent paths and crazy jumps (think SSX, buton a bike). Now if only someone could comeup with a good bungee jumping game…

The Great Escape>> PS2, XBOXThe Cooler King and his buddies have tobust out of a Nazi POW camp, and theyneed you to play the role of head escapeorganizer Big X! In this squad-based game— which is inspired by the classic SteveMcQueen war film — you must use stealth,weapons and clever planning to help yourbrothers in arms escape from the Germans’highest security prison camp.

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Words. Who needs ’em? Especially from those long-winded filmcritics who go on and on about such trivial things as plot, performance and plausibility. If brevity is the soul of wit then thesethree websites, each with its own way of whittling movies down totheir barest essence, are among the wittiest | BY MARNI WEISZ

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FOUR WORD FILM REVIEW www.fwfr.comEven the URL for this site is short. And the name pretty muchtells you everything you need to know, except that the reviews are all contributed by readers just like you. So on to some of thebest… The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: “Shorthero, long movie.” The Sixth Day: “God should have rested.” Men in Black II: “Aliens, Smith and Jones.” How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: “Lost me, 10 minutes.” The Blair Witch Project:“Tense. Intense. In tents.” Boogie Nights: “Marky Demeaned;Reynolds Redeemed.” Maid in Manhattan: “Shouldn’t have beenmaid.” Battlefield Earth: “Low expectations went unfulfilled.”Grease: “Lesson: Guys love sluts.” Legally Blonde: “Surprisinglygood blonde joke.” Star Wars: “Perfection. Sequels/prequels irrel-evant.” Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: “Barris hunts humangame.” Pretty in Pink: “Sixteen Candles, part five.” Airplane!:“Leaves no joke unturned.” Gone with the Wind: “All’s unfair.Love. War.” The Wizard of Oz: “Unintentional Pink Floyd video.”

MOVIE-A-MINUTE http://rinkworks.com/movieaminuteHave you ever come out of a two-hour movie thinking it wouldhave been better if they’d cut out half-an-hour? What if they’d cut out an hour and 59 minutes? The master editors behind thisconcise site have found a way to boil hit movies down to a fewsparse lines of dialogue and stage direction. Here are some of the best. The Lion King: Scar: “You killed your father.” / Simba:(runs away) / Nala: “We need you.” / Simba: (runs back). TheSixth Sense: Haley Joel Osment: “I see dead people.” / BruceWillis: “Try talking to them.” / Haley Joel Osment: “It worked.”The Godfather: Marlon Brando: “Those who cross the family mustbe punished. (almost dies) (dies). / Al Pacino: “I’ll run the familybusiness straight now, after I kill all these people.” Citizen Kane:Orson Welles: “Rosebud (dies).” / Reporter: “What does it mean?”

/ Everybody Else: “We don’t know.” Sleepless inSeattle: Meg Ryan: “I shall find out all I can about Tom Hanks and stalk him.” / Tom Hanks: “Your plan worked. I love you.”

Titanic: Leonardo DiCaprio: “Your social classis stuffy. Let’s dance with the ship’s rats and

have fun.” / Kate Winslet: “You have captured my heart. Let’s run around the ship and

giggle.” (the ship sinks.) / LeonardoDiCaprio: “Never let go.” / Kate Winslet:

“I promise” (lets go).

HAIKU MOVIE REVIEWSwww.igs.net/~mtr/haiku-reviewsAs you’ll remember from grade seven English class, a haiku isa non-rhyming poem constructed of three lines of verse, wherethe first line has five syllables, the second has seven and thethird has five. Eighty-six films get the haiku treatment at thissimple site. Here are some of the best. American Beauty:“Sometimes there is so / much beauty in the world we / forgetour popcorn.” Being John Malkovich: “Malkovich, Lotte: / whichone? Both, together. Ooooh! / What an odd turn-on.” Crash:“People getting off / on car crash fatalities; / Bent, but somehowreal.” Lake Placid: “Ridiculously, / I thought this might be funny./ I was very wrong.” Life is Beautiful: “Do you want to know /how a funny holocaust / flick will make you cry?” South Park:Bigger, Longer and Uncut: “Toilet humour done / intelligently.Quite sick / and oddly touching.” The Sweet Hereafter: “Gentleheartstring pull / Life/death's raw beauty revealed / (Pass me theProzac).” Taxi Driver: “Massive depression / explodes with amassacre. / Think I'll take the bus.” The X Files: “Mulder andScully / unravel syndicate plans. / So what else is new?”


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Billy Wilder. Here’s where we see the writer-as-director at hisbest. Wilder shows an absolute, utter contempt for all actors,except maybe Audrey Hepburn. • Number five would beBambi [1942]. It is just beautiful and dark. I just love thefather figure in that movie, the way Disney handles it. It’s like,‘Your mother will die and your father will be a distant, rarelyappearing stag.’ And that rain shower song [Downie starts tosing], oh, I Iove it. There are a couple of older Disney moviesthat kick the hell out of anything that’s out there now.”

WOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS WATCH BAMBI? IT’S SUCH A TRAUMATIC FILM.

“There are not too many movies I wouldn’t want them tosee. They are still young, but I definitely look forward tosharing that experience with them. From an early age westarted going into the theatre with them, and I can alreadysee that taking root, the love of the dark place.”

IS FIGURING OUT WHAT’S APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS THE BIG PARENTING DILEMMA?

“The thing I worry about is them being scared and sad, andit’s the music that gets them every time. I noticed that whenthey were too young to understand the context of a cartoon,but they understood what the music was saying. I don’t thinkyou ever lose that. It’s the music that nails you. I rememberwhen I first heard the music for Ordinary People, it was amazing. So was the music to The Mission, Run Lola Run, TheSound of Music. There’s a movie that’s so incredible becauseit created in me a total, abject fear of Nazism and fascism.And the idea that a singer can be so subversive is amazing.And that it was okay to take your family and just run.”

ARE THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HIP AS PASSIONATE ABOUT MOVIES AS YOU?

“Yeah, we enjoy movies immensely. If you scratch the surfaceof most rock bands you’ll find many cinephiles and film aficionados. Maybe it’s the films we share together that creates our own fractured language and lexicon.”

IS IT TRUE THAT “PASCAL’S SUBMARINE,” THE FIRST SINGLE FROM YOUR NEW

ALBUM, WAS INSPIRED BY THE NEWS PHOTO OF A MOTHER SCREAMING AT A RUSSIAN

POLITICIAN WHILE HER SON WAS SLOWLY DYING ABOARD A SUNKEN SUB?

“There was a time when there were a couple of imagesappearing in the news that stood out. There was that one,one of a soldier kicking over a snowman that a woman hadbuilt in Tiananmen Square, and one of an anguishedyoung Irish girl walking through a gauntlet while beingpelted with insults. For some odd reason, every once and awhile, you clip out a photo and paste it up and take a lookat it. In the case of “Pascal’s Submarine,” I wrote it prettyfast, it all came out, and you’re loathe to change that.”

DO YOU PERFORM ANY DIFFERENTLY WHEN YOU GO ON STAGE AS A SOLO ARTIST,

RATHER THAN THE FRONT MAN OF THE TRAGICALLY HIP?

“Perhaps. You still approach it the same way, you prepareyour mind, body and spirit to go on stage. But, ultimately,once you step on stage, you’re usually quite shocked andawed by the feelings that surge through you. And you reallywant to chase those feelings, and you want to inhabit themas much as you can. In my case, subtlety is the first casualty,you know? [Laughs.] I often hear a little voice saying, ‘Pullit back, subtlety is cool.’ But I can’t help myself.”

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Being the charismatic front man for The Tragically Hip,arguably the best rock band this country’s ever produced,just isn’t enough for Gord Downie. The singer known forhis distinctive angry goose quiver and full-body twitches,

is also an accomplished poet/solo artist. In 2001 he delivered CokeMachine Glow, his debut solo CD and accompanying book of poetry,and while the CD put the spotlight on Downie’s quieter musical talents,the book showcased his fertile imagination.

Last month Downie released his follow-up CD, Battle of the Nudes,another gem brimming with eclectic musical sounds and meditativelyrics. Famous spoke to the singer/poet from his home in Toronto.

WHAT ARE YOUR FIVE FAVOURITE FILMS?

“Number one would be The Ox-Bow Incident [1943]. It’s a perfect little film directed by William Wellman and starringHenry Fonda. It’s about frontier justice and vigilantism, andwas way ahead of its time in terms of what it was trying to sayabout the great old west. Wellman was a quirky director whoused to obscure people’s faces as they were delivering lines soyou couldn’t see their eyes. • Number two is Spartacus [1960].I could name any number of Stanley Kubrick films, butSpartacus is pretty fantastic; infinitely watchable on a grandscale, and it’s got an incredible cast, starting with KirkDouglas. • Number three is Macbeth [1971], directed byRoman Polanski. It’s goddamn beautiful. It’s just an incredi-ble, rock ’n’ roll rendering of my favourite play. The thingthat Polanski is so great at, which you can see in The Pianist allthese years later, is the idea of the man alone, the exile, theisolated figure. • Number four is The Lost Weekend [1945], by

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— a kung-fu master (Chan) and a stoner-esque cowboy (Wilson) — head to VictorianEngland in search of a murderer. And, iftime allows, a nice pint of bitter.

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ARARATStars: David Alpay, Arsinée KhanjianDirector: Atom Egoyan (Felicia’s Journey)Story: While working on a film about theArmenian holocaust of the early 1900s,a young man (Alpay) learns about hisfamily’s history and the nature of truth.

FINAL DESTINATION 2 Stars: Ali Larter, A.J. CookDirector: David R. Ellis (HomewardBound II)Story: After she sees a vision of a horrificcar crash in her dreams, a young girlsaves herself and others from certaindeath. But now Death is coming to collect what is rightfully his.

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DAREDEVIL Stars: Ben Affleck, Jennifer GarnerDirector: Mark Johnson (Simon Birch)Story: Affleck takes a break from theBen & Jen show to play Daredevil, a

blind comic book hero whose other foursenses are super-heightened. Criminalsand purveyors of sour milk, beware!

THE QUIET AMERICAN Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan FraserDirector: Phillip Noyce (Sliver)Story: The great Caine turns in anotherpitch-perfect performance in this adapta-tion of the Graham Greene novel about alove triangle between a British journalist,an American aid worker and a youngVietnamese woman.

SOLARISStars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhoneDirector: Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)Story: After arriving at a research stationorbiting a gaseous planet, a psychologist(Clooney) is suddenly reunited with whatappears to be his dead wife, in thisintelligent and beautifully shot sci-fiheadscratcher.

SPIDER Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda RichardsonDirector: David Cronenberg (eXistenZ)Story: A troubled schizophrenic movesinto a halfway house in his childhoodneighbourhood, only to find that thepast and present keep overlapping as herecalls his mother’s murder.


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MANHUNTER: RESTORED DIRECTOR’S CUTThe first Hannibal Lecter film wasn’t The Silence of theLambs — it was this thrilling nailbiter, which wasreleased back in 1986. The story follows FBI agent WillGraham (CSI’s William Petersen) as he tries to convincethe recently incarcerated Lecter to help him hunt downa serial killer known as the Tooth Fairy. Sound kindafamiliar? That’s because Manhunter was remade as lastyear’s flaccid Red Dragon. So if you’ve only seen theinferior carbon copy, check out this beautifully restoreddirector’s cut of Hannibal’s original outing.

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GANGS OF NEW YORK Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-LewisDirector: Martin Scorsese (Kundun)Story: Set in the mid-1800s, Marty’s latest epic follows a young lad(DiCaprio) as he tries to get revenge onpsychotic gang leader Bill the Butcher(Day-Lewis) for killing his pappy.

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYSStars: Matthew McConaughey, Kate HudsonDirector: Donald Petrie (Miss Congeniality)Story: A magazine writer (Hudson) setsout to pen a first-person article on howto lose a guy in 10 days, but the guyshe chooses as her subject (McConaughey)made a bet that he could win a girl in 10days! You can see where this is going…

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PHONE BOOTH Stars: Colin Farrell, Forest WhitakerDirector: Joel Schumacher (Bad Company)Story: When a smug New York publicist(Farrell) picks up a ringing pay phone,the voice on the other end tells him notto hang up, or he’ll be shot by a sniper.Now that’s effective telemarketing.

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PINOCCHIOStars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta BraschiDirector: Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)Story: A 50-year-old man with the voiceof Breckin Meyer and an outfit thatlooks like a medieval jester’s pajamaspretends to be an adolescent woodenpuppet. Wonder why the critics hated it?

SHANGHAI KNIGHTS Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen WilsonDirector: David Dobkin (Clay Pigeons)Story: The Wild West’s most unlikely duo

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cancerJune 22 >>> July 22The time is right to outline a set of small,realistic goals that you can achieve by theend of September. A neighbour’s remarkcan set off a chain reaction that only youcan stop.

leoJuly 23 >>> August 22Take money matters seriously all month.You may want to sign up for an investmentcourse, or simply reflect carefully on yourfinancial history. If you don’t respond tomessages as they come in, you could missout on a pleasant late-month experience.

virgoAugust 23 >>> September 22Even if the blunt approach has worked inthe past, it’s critical to measure yourwords with special care. The toughestamong your friends may be unusually sen-sitive. Key people are solidly behind you,but it’s even more important that youbelieve in your own ability.

libraSeptember 23 >>> October 22Don’t take time to seek out praise for yourefforts. It’s important that — for now,anyway — you just keep trudging along.After a bit of uncertainty, you have aclearer picture of where a relationship isheading. A pet project gathers momentumby the end of July.

scorpioOctober 23 >>> November 21A new friendship may evolve into a deeperrelationship. In any group arrangement,you can expect to be the one carrying theteam. Don’t be stingy when it comes togiving second chances.

sagittariusNovember 22 >>> December 22Continue to experiment in the arts. By theend of July you could find the ideal meansof expression. Right now, you’re better atinspiring others than motivating yourself.Whether you’re the host or a guest, youcreate quite a stir at a late-month soirée.

capricornDecember 23 >>> January 20The first thing on your July to-do list is toget rid of the list. Overall, the monthencourages spontaneity — with a mini-mum of organized planning. The new person on the block is not your ordinaryneighbour. Conditions are ripe for hostinga celebration.

aquariusJanuary 21 >>> February 19Your partner may be generous in volun-teering your time to various causes. Butthe heart’s in the right place — andyou’re better off agreeing than being agrump. Meanwhile, you can look forwardto some much-needed relief in a family-or work-related matter.

piscesFebruary 20 >>> March 20A period of change begins with the fullmoon of the 13th. You may notice thatyou’re less set in your ways — and thatothers seem less opinionated.

ariesMarch 21 >>> April 20The operative word is improvement, whichmay be related to work or relationships.You become increasingly involved in partnerships. Stay clear of controversiesafter the 19th.

taurusApril 21 >>> May 22Your spending habits change. If you’vebeen pinching pennies lately, then youfinally indulge on yourself. Devote moretime to personal health and fitness.

geminiMay 23 >>> June 21There’s a brief period of intense competi-tion — likely around the 20th — but,overall, it’s a laidback month. The week ofthe 21st is exceptional for making presen-tations. If traveling, fine tune your plans.

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MATT DILLON “Directing is a great job.You just have to have a cool head andtrust your instincts. When I directed myfirst feature, City of Ghosts, I realizedthere’s a lot of stuff you have to fight for.Constantly. Especially budget and scheduleconstraints. Postproduction was a wholenew ballgame for me. A lot of opinionscame up in the editing room.”

KEVIN COSTNER “My directing experi-ences have been varied — from Danceswith Wolves to Postman. Sometimes youscore, sometimes you strike out, but noneof that matters. What matters is how youplay the game. I love to make moviesthat have a message. When I believe insomething, I stand behind it. Ideally, I’dlike to be a Renaissance man.”

CLINT EASTWOOD “As a matter ofprinciple, I shoot lean and mean, bringingin my pictures on time and under budget.On the other hand, I make sure my actorsand crew are relaxed. That’s important. Idirect because I love being stretched,and I think you learn something on everymovie you make, every single one. That’swhat’s fun about it.”

DANNY DEVITO “Hollywood is a jungle. It’s full of quicksand, vermin and flesh-eating beasts. Making a movieis not a walk in the park. Every movie islike navigating dangerous terrain. What’sbest about being a director is having thefinal say. I like to direct and act in thesame picture. For me, it’s about losingcontrol as an actor — being able to befree — while keeping control as thedirector. It’s schizophrenic, but it’s really good.”

DIANE KEATON “What I loved aboutdirecting Unstrung Heroes and HangingUp was the collaborative process. I love to collaborate. I wouldn’t know how not to. It’s an integral part of thecreative process.”

TOM HANKS “Directing is great — anightmare at the time, but very invigorating.After the Oscar hoopla Jonathan Demmesaid, ‘The most bodacious thing youcould do right now is just screw all thisother stuff and try to write and directyour own movie.’ I screamed, ‘I know!’But that’s what I did with That Thing YouDo! It was a gutsy, risky move on mypart, and I’m proud of it. When I comeup with a good story, I’ll do it again.”

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GEORGE CLOONEY “Directing wasn’tsomething I was eyeballing. I just wantedto see Charlie Kaufman’s Confessions of aDangerous Mind made into a film. I’m intoit now. I like it. A director has to know howto talk to actors. But, let’s face it, that’seasy. The hard part is being prepared.”

SEAN PENN “Directing is my first love.I’d do it exclusively if it paid as well asacting. I’ve directed three films [TheIndian Runner, The Crossing Guard and The Pledge], and I think I’ve gotten better

at the business. I like to direct and towrite. That’s where I feel most useful.”

DENZEL WASHINGTON “WarrenBeatty said it was good that I alsoappeared in Antwone Fisher [Washington’sdirectorial debut] because acting wassomething I was used to. It was a way in.But one of the hardest things was havingto watch myself in the dailies. That tooktime to get used to. I like what TomHanks said about directing: ‘It’s not thestupidest thing I’ve ever done.’”

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