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21 INSIDE OSCAR
Get the scoop on the 80th
Academy Awards with our look at
Oscar fashions, trivia, host
Jon Stewart and critics picks.
Plus, a handy take-home ballot
34 FEELING JUMPY
It may seem like Samuel L. Jackson
is always working, but hes actually
very discerning about choosing his
roles. He agreed to star in the sci-fi
Jumper because, as he puts it, Id
pay money to see it with me in it
I BY BOB STRAUSS
36 THE MATCHMAKER
British actor David Morrissey on
his role as a royal matchmaker for
Scarlett Johansson and Natalie
Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl
I BY JIM SLOTEK
38 THE ZEN OF ZEGERS

Normals Kevin Zegers on acting
I BY NATALIA WYSOCKA
DEPARTMENTS
44
06 EDITORIAL
08 SNAPS
Katherine Heigl returns a
paparazzis shoe; Maggie
Gyllenhaal takes the subway
10 SHORTS
Orlando Bloom makes a run for
it in Nepal; when Spider Pigs fly; an
invitation to write for Famous
14 SPOTLIGHT
Shawn Roberts lands Jumper
16 THE BIG PICTURE

Vantage Point keeps you guessing;
Vince Vaughns Wild West Comedy Show
comes to your town
44 STYLE
Valentines Day Gift Guide
46 LINER NOTES
k.d. lang produces her
watershed album
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48 ON DVD
Go get Gone Baby Gone
50 HOROSCOPE
Learn to let go, Aquarius
COVER STORY
40 THE SPORTING LIFE
Will Ferrell is the franchise player of
sports comedies, making four in four
years. The funnymans latest is the
basketball flick Semi-Pro, and while
even he admits its time to hang up
his movie sneakers, Ferrell says he
couldnt help but be drawn to
Semi-Pros tale of misfit athletes
I BY BOB STRAUSS
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OUR ISSUE
HAS ISSUES
A
s we go to press with this, our

Oscar issue, we have no idea whether
the Oscars will even take place.
WHATS
With the writers strike stretching
on, the fate of the 80th annual
Academy Awards has become as shaky as
Ferrells
GAME PLAN?
the plot of a Jerry Bruckheimer film.
The programs producer, Gil Cates,
DAVID
MORRISSEY
insists
the show will go on but when
Oscar
issue:
WHY SAM
asked
how
thatll happen should the
JACKSON
Writers Guild of America (WGA) not have
a new contract by February 24th, hes
cagey. Giving it away, he says, would put their plan in jeopardy.
Those comments inspired wild, and humorous, speculation about
the lengths Oscars producers would go to in order to keep the show
alive. Guesses ranged from producing a cartoon version of the show,
since animation isnt covered by the WGA contract, to producing the
show with Team America: World Police-style puppets filling in for actors
not willing to cross the picket line. Too bad Matt Damons not hosting.
Famous offers a few more suggestions.
Hand the awards out on a first-come, first-served basis, weakening
the actors resolve not to cross the picket line, and adding the hairpulling, shirt-ripping, oh-no-you-dint excitement of a Thanksgiving
sale at J.C. Penney.
Hire Quebecois master impressionist Andr-Philippe Gagnon to
impersonate every single winner and presenter. The man best known
for providing all 18 celebrity voices in his own version of We are the
World is in no position to turn down such a gig strike or not.
Turn the show over to a high school drama class, with students
writing the script and playing the parts of host Jon Stewart, the
presenters, winners and nominees. At times like these, we really
should think of the children.
Whatever happens, we hope you enjoy the Academy Awards Section
weve put together. It all starts on page 21, and, hey, it may be the
only hit of Oscar glitz you get this year.
Our cover boy Will Ferrell has a new movie that, like most of his
films, has no Oscar aspirations whatsoever. And thats exactly why we
love him. In Good Sport, page 40, Ferrell swears Semi-Pro, about a
ragtag basketball team, will be his last sports movie for a while.
Samuel L. Jackson is certainly not the type of actor who makes his
decisions based on what the Academy will enjoy. He likes to work.
And to have fun. And to have fun working. The latest result of that
positive attitude to making movies is the sci-fi
Jumper. To find out why he chose this particular
role turn to In Hot Pursuit, page 34.
And finally, British actor David Morrissey
plays uncle to Scarlett Johansson and
Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl.
In All in the Family, page 36, Morrissey
explains why he thinks of his character as a
Tudor-era Dick Cheney. MARNI WEISZ
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at the DMV renewing her
license when a paparazzi
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3 Amanda Bynes visits

the 2008 World Experience
DPA Gift Lounge in
Beverly Hills. Planned as
part of the Golden Globes,
the freebie fest went ahead
despite the shows
cancellation. And no, they
werent giving away
puppies, Bynes brought
little Charlie with her.
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camera, and Ill look away.
Itll make a great shot.
Angelina Jolie and
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welterweight showdown
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Floyd Mayweather in
Las Vegas.
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Friends Mark Ruffalo (left)
and Ethan Hawke take a
stroll through New York
with Ruffalos baby girl,
Odette.
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The Simpsons Movie, a giant, inflatable
Spider Pig flies over Battersea Power Station
in London, England. In the film, Homer
adopts the swine and its the pigs poop
that ultimately throws Springfield into
environmental chaos. But the flight of
the Spider Pig had special significance
for Londoners as it paid homage to
another floating pig in the citys history. In 1977,
while shooting the cover for the album Animals
(inset picture), Pink Floyd floated an inflatable pig
over Battersea. To everyones horror, that pig broke
loose and ascended to 20,000 feet where it was
spotted by airline pilots. It then passed Heathrow
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not sure whether theyre after the cutie-pie
celebrity or his supercool bubble gun.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star was in
Nepal as an international ambassador for
UNICEF. He follows in the footsteps of fellow
celebs Lucy Liu, Shakira and Clay Aiken, all
of whom have made recent trips to war-torn
or poverty-stricken areas for UNICEF to bring
attention to the plights of their people.
Nepal is struggling with many problems,
including malnutrition, high infant-mortality
rates, terrible working conditions for women
and the aftermath of a decade-long civil war.
Bloom was given the red tikka mark
on his forehead and the garland of flowers
by local women in the village of Kalika,
another stop on his four-day tour of
UNICEF program sites in the countrys
western districts.
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Cozy and modern, the alley is just one part of a multifaceted
entertainment area called The Backlot located inside the
45,000 square-foot complex. Aside from the six premium lanes,
The Backlot boasts a licensed lounge offering drinks and
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are exclusive to moviegoers 19 years and older. Inside, guests will
enjoy premium seats, which can be reserved ahead of time, and
An old flame, someone new or no one at all?
can order drinks and appetizers right from their seats.
As for the movie-watching experience, nine of the cinemas 12
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The Movie who would Carrie end up with?
the most digital projectors in any one place in Canada.
(If its someone new, feel free to cast the part.)
Cineplex is treating the SilverCity Oakville as a prototype,
Look for the answers to this question in the April issue.
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hawn Roberts savoured his chance

to tear a strip off Darth Vader, a.k.a.
Hayden Christensen, in this months
sci-fi action pic Jumper.
Im in a bar, hitting on a girl when
Hayden Christensen comes in and we
have a little bit of a conflict, a vocal fight,
as it were, says Roberts on the line from

his sisters home in Hamilton, Ontario,
where the handsome 23-year-old actor is
crashing at the moment. Im all over the
place L.A. Toronto, Vancouver so
this is the easiest place for me to call
my home base, he explains.
Roberts, originally from Stratford,

Ontario, has been acting professionally
since he landed his first audition as a
12-year-old, playing Emilys love interest
in the TV series Emily of New Moon.
His small-screen rsum includes
appearances on Degrassi: The Next
Generation and La Femme Nikita,
while his movie credits include roles in
X-Men, Skinwalkers and the horror pic
Diary of the Dead, which also opens,
albeit in limited release, this month.
Jumper, about a man (Christensen)
who discovers he can teleport, is helmed
by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith), a filmmaker known for
his chaotic sets and demanding nature
(he likes to shoot and shoot and shoot,
which drives movie studios crazy). How
did Roberts find working with him?
I can definitely see why some people
might say hes different, but hes a
visionary genius is what he is. Hes
coming off of making Mr. & Mrs. Smith,
which I thought was awesome.... I mean,
hes a very intense guy, but welcoming
and all that, so it was great.
A big-budget action flick like Jumper
could jump-start Roberts career, but the
actor isnt waiting around for his
cellphone to ring. Although hes only 23,
Roberts has decided he needs to start
producing movies himself in order to
take control of his career.
You can only go out for other peoples
projects for so long until you say, You
know what, I really want to do something
thats mine.
And this past year has been kinda
slow, and with the writers strike its
really made the industry a bit unsteady,
unstable. So whatya do when things are
unstable? You think, Okay, what can I
do to better my situation? This is the
next logical step.
With that in mind, Roberts is off to
this months Sundance Film Festival
to support Diary of the Dead, which
is screening at the fest, and to make
a few movie connections of his own.
Its time to shake hands and kiss
babies, he says with a laugh.
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THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES

WHOS IN IT? Freddie Highmore,
Sarah Bolger
WHO DIRECTED? Mark Waters
(Just Like Heaven)
WHATS IT ABOUT? The Grace family
mom and her three kids, Jared, Simon
and Mallory move into the Spiderwick
estate where Jared stumbles across a
book titled Arthur Spiderwick's Field
Guide. The tome describes the various
fairies, ogres and magical beings that
exist in the invisible world around the
estate, and when Jared opens the book
he is able to see the creatures, which
makes some of them very, very angry.
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WHOS IN IT? Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers

WHO DIRECTED? Carl Bessai (Emile)
WHATS IT ABOUT? After a teenage boy is
killed in a car crash, a driver involved in the
accident (Callum Keith Rennie), the boys
mother (Moss) and his best friend (Zegers)
deal with the aftermath. See Kevin Zegers
interview, page 38.
STRANGE WILDERNESS
WHOS IN IT? Steve Zahn, Justin Long
WHO DIRECTED? Fred Wolf (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? When his crappy
wilderness TV show is about to be
cancelled, host Peter Gaulke (Zahn)
and his crew set out to find, and film,
the elusive Bigfoot.
HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 1
FEBRUARY 1
HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS:
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT
TOUR
WHOS IN IT? Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers
WHO DIRECTED? Bruce Hendricks (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? For those who didnt sell
an organ to pay for a ticket to see teen
singing sensation Cyrus in concert, heres
your chance to check out her gig, in 3-D no
less. However, its only playing in theatres
for a single week so dont dawdle.
THE EYE
WHOS IN IT? Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola
WHO DIRECTED? David Moreau,
Xavier Palud
WHATS IT ABOUT? This remake of the
Hong Kong horror flick Jian gui casts Alba
as a blind woman who regains her sight
when she receives an eye transplant.
However, her new eyes seem to be playing
tricks on her when she glimpses
supernatural beings and strange events.
OVER HER DEAD BODY

WHOS IN IT? Eva Longoria Parker, Lake Bell
WHO DIRECTED? Jeff Lowell (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Chloe (Lindsay Sloane)
is dating Henry (Paul Rudd), who believes
hes being haunted by his dead fiance,
Kate (Parker). So Chloe hires phony
psychic Ashley (Bell) to pretend to chase
away the ghost. Things get really
complicated when Ashley falls for Henry
and actually starts to communicate with
Kate, a very jealous spirit whos
determined to ruin any budding romance
involving Henry.
FEBRUARY 8
WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS
WHOS IN IT? Martin Lawrence,
Cedric the Entertainer
WHO DIRECTED? Malcolm D. Lee
(Roll Bounce)
WHATS IT ABOUT? R.J. Stevens (Lawrence)
is an L.A. talk-show host who conveniently
forgot all about his country roots when he
made it big in showbiz. He reluctantly
agrees to return home to Georgia to attend
his parents' 50th wedding anniversary, and
you just know his down-home family is
going to show uppity R.J. some special
southern hospitality.
VINCE VAUGHNS WILD WEST

COMEDY SHOW
WHOS IN IT? Vince Vaughn, Ahmed Ahmed
WHO DIRECTED? Ari Sandel (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Vaughn and four stand-up
comedians Ahmed, Bret Ernst, John
Caparulo and Sebastian Maniscalco hit
the road and travel 6,000 miles across
America to perform 30 shows in 30 nights.
IN BRUGES
WHOS IN IT? Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson
WHO DIRECTED? Martin McDonagh (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Two Irish hitmen
(Farrell, Gleeson) are instructed to lay low
in the picturesque Belgium city of Bruges.
But their under-the-radar existence is
spoiled when nutbar Harry (Ralph Fiennes)
shows up wanting to kill them both.
FOOLS GOLD
WHOS IN IT? Matthew McConaughey,
Kate Hudson
WHO DIRECTED? Andy Tennant (Hitch)
WHATS IT ABOUT? What could rekindle an
estranged couples passion? Why sunken
treasure, of course. McConaughey plays a
beach bum/treasure hunter who convinces
his ex-wife (Hudson) to help him search for
the fabled Queens Dowry 40 chests of
18th-century Spanish gold and jewels.
EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC
WHOS IN IT? Susan Sarandon, Max von Sydow
WHO DIRECTED? Paolo Barzman
(Time is Money)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Its 1945 and
Jakob Bronski, a prisoner inside a Nazi
detention centre, finds himself caring for
two orphaned children Melanie and
Christopher. Flash forward to the mid-1980s
when the now mature Melanie (Sarandon)
discovers Jakob (von Sydow) is alive
and invites him to live with her and
her family in Canada.
FEBRUARY 13
phenomenon continues on screen with this

sequel to the 2006 dance flick Step Up.
This time around a feisty street dancer
named Andie (Evigan) enrolls in the
Maryland School of the Arts and catches the
eye of Chase (Hoffman), the schools hottest
hunk and best hoofer.
JUMPER
WHOS IN IT? Hayden Christensen,
Samuel L. Jackson
WHO DIRECTED? Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Davey (Christensen)
foolishly believes hes the only person in the
world who possesses the ability to transport
himself through time and space. He
eventually realizes there are others like him,
in fact, theres a war going on between the
jumpers and the people who want to stop
them, including a government operative
(Jackson). See Samuel L. Jackson interview,
page 34.
DEFINITELY, MAYBE
FEBRUARY 22
BE KIND REWIND
WHOS IN IT? Jack Black, Mos Def
WHO DIRECTED? Michel Gondry
(The Science of Sleep)
WHATS IT ABOUT? You know what a pain it is
when you demagnetize one of your credit
cards. Imagine the pain Mike (Def) feels
when his pal Jerry (Black) demagnetizes
every VHS cassette in his small video store.
To keep his most loyal customer happy
a woman (Mia Farrow) suffering from
dementia the pair decides to re-enact her
favourite films, including Ghostbusters,
RoboCop and Driving Miss Daisy.
POSSESSION
WHOS IN IT? Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace
WHO DIRECTED? Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist
WHATS IT ABOUT? This remake of the
Korean thriller Jungdok (Addicted) stars
Gellar as Jess, a woman married to

NORMAL
WHOS IN IT? Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin

WHO DIRECTED? Adam Brooks (Almost You)
WHATS IT ABOUT? The soon-to-be-divorced
Will Hayes (Reynolds) recounts the history
of his love life to his 11-year-old daughter
(Breslin), who is curious to know the
identity of her biological mother, a secret
Will wont divulge.
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FEBRUARY 14
WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW
Encore performance: Saturday,

February 9, 1:30 p.m. EST
STEP UP 2 TO THE STREETS
The WWE heads to Las Vegas for its annual

February bust-up. Check www.cineplex.com
for a list of theatres where you can watch it
live, and to buy tickets.
MANON LESCAUT (PUCCINI)
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
WHOS IN IT? Jude Law, Norah Jones
WHO DIRECTED? Kar Wai Wong (2046)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Singer Jones makes
her big-screen debut in this moody and
romantic study of a woman (Jones) who
travels across America and encounters
an array of fascinating characters.
WHOS IN IT? Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan

WHO DIRECTED? Jon M. Chu (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? The step-dancing
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the sweet-natured Ryan (Michael

Landes), whos the complete opposite of his
troubled brother Roman (Pace). A car
accident leaves both brothers comatose, and
its Roman who wakes up believing hes Ryan
and possessing his brothers memories.
THE BANDS VISIT

WHOS IN IT? Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz
WHO DIRECTED? Eran Kolirin (Tzur Hadassim)
WHATS IT ABOUT? This sweet, feel-good
comedy finds an Egyptian police band
travelling to Israel to play at an Arab
cultural centre. However, a travel mix-up
strands them in a remote small town where
they awkwardly mingle with the locals.
LGE DES TNBRES

WHOS IN IT? Marc Lebrche, Diane Kruger
WHO DIRECTED? Denys Arcand
(The Barbarian Invasions)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Arcand paints a bleak
picture of life in the modern world with this
tale of a bored Qubcois civil servant
(Lebrche) who slips into elaborate
fantasies to escape his dull life.
CHARLIE BARTLETT
WHOS IN IT? Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr.
WHO DIRECTED? Jon Poll (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Rich kid Charlie Bartlett
(Yelchin) is having trouble fitting into his
new high school. But his charm and keen
powers of observation serve him well, and
before you know it Charlie has become the
schools unofficial guidance counsellor and
therapist, even doling out advice to the
schools passive principal (Downey Jr.).
THE SIGNAL
WHOS IN IT? A.J. Bowen, Anessa Ramsey
WHO DIRECTED? David Bruckner, Dan Bush,
Jacob Gentry
WHATS IT ABOUT? On New Years Eve, a
mysterious signal is suddenly transmitted
into every TV, radio and cellphone, causing
people to become violent toward one
another. This horror pic is unique in that
the story is told from the perspectives of
three characters, and their tales are
directed by three different filmmakers.
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SEMI-PRO
WHOS IN IT? Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox

WHO DIRECTED? Pete Travis (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Seeing is not necessarily
believing when it comes to this thriller about
eight people who witness an assassination
attempt on the U.S. President (William Hurt)
during an anti-terrorist conference in Spain.
Eye-witness accounts of two secret service
agents (Quaid, Fox), an American tourist
(Forest Whitaker) and a TV news producer
(Sigourney Weaver), among others, are used
to piece together what happened.
WHOS IN IT? Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson

WHO DIRECTED? Kent Alterman (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Basketball in the 70s was
defined by short-shorts, tube socks, guys
with big afros and an upstart league called
the ABA, which challenged the established
NBA and looked to add fun slam dunks!
into the game. This comedys about the
last-place ABA Flint Tropics, led by ownerplayer-coach Jackie Moon (Ferrell), who
needs to turn their game around if theyre
to be one of the teams that merge with the
NBA. See Will Ferrell interview, page 40.
WITLESS PROTECTION
WHOS IN IT? Larry the Cable Guy, Eric Roberts
WHO DIRECTED? Charles Robert Carner (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Larry the Cable Guy plays
a small-town sheriff protecting a whistleblowing witness on her way to a big-city trial.
THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS

WHOS IN IT? Jeanne Balibar,
Guillaume Depardieu
WHO DIRECTED? Jacques Rivette (Va savoir)
WHATS IT ABOUT? The 79-year-old Rivette
adapts Balzacs 19th-century novella about

the doomed love affair between an arrogant
soldier and a coquettish Duchess.
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

WHOS IN IT? Natalie Portman,
Scarlett Johansson
WHO DIRECTED? Justin Chadwick
(Sleeping with the Fishes)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Philippa Gregorys
historically flawed but oh-so juicy pageturner becomes a Hollywood drama starring
Portman as Anne Boleyn and Johansson
as Mary Boleyn, two sisters vying for the
attention of randy King Henry VIII
(Eric Bana). Guided by their crafty uncle
(David Morrissey), the sisters jump in and
out of Henrys bed until one finally marries
the King, and then the real rivalry begins.
See David Morrissey interview, page 36.
PENELOPE
WHOS IN IT? Christina Ricci, James McAvoy

WHO DIRECTED? Mark Palansky (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Penelope Wilhern (Ricci)
carries the mark of her familys curse
she was born with a pigs nose. Kept in the
family mansion her whole life, Penelope
does the unthinkable and runs away.
WHOS IN IT? Jessica Lange, Joan Allen

WHO DIRECTED? Christopher N. Rowley (debut)
WHATS IT ABOUT? Three old friends
Lange, Allen and Kathy Bates hop in a
convertible and head out on a road trip to
scatter one of their husbands ashes.
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NHL team in action on the big screen
and in high definition. For game dates, a
list of participating theatres, and to buy
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Ultimate quote challenge
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Critics picks
Oscar-pool ballot
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LOVE
HIM
OR
HATE
HIM
JON STEWARTS TOP-10 OSCAR JOKES

10
If theres anyone out there
involved in illegal movie
piracy, dont do it. Take a good
look at these people. These are
the people youre stealing from.
Look at them! Face what youve
done! There are women here who
could barely afford enough gown
to cover their breasts.
I have to say congratulations

to The Chronicles of Narnia
[winner for Best Makeup]. Im a
little surprised Cinderella Man
didnt win that category. I just
think, you know, imagine the
difficulty in making Russell Crowe
look like he got into a fight.
Capote was a groundbreaking

film that broke taboos, that
showed America not all gay
people are virile cowboys.

Some are actually effete
New York intellectuals.
A lot of people say this town

is too liberal. Out of touch
with mainstream America.
An atheistic pleasure dome.
A modern-day beachfront Sodom
and Gomorrah. A moral black
hole. Where innocence is
obliterated in an endless orgy of
sexual gratification and greed. I
dont really have a joke here. I
just thought you should know a lot
of people are saying that.
On the unending procession

of movie montages: I cant
wait until later, when we see
Oscars salute to montages! Holy
crap, we are out of clips! We are
literally out of film clips! If you

have film clips, send them,
please. We have another three
hours, I dont care if theyre on
Beta, just send them.
nominee. Two of the nominations

for Good Night, and Good Luck.,
which is not just Edward R.
Murrows sign-off, its also how
Mr. Clooney ends all his dates.
After a self-congratulatory
montage about the tough
issues tackled by Hollywood
movies: And none of those issues
were ever a problem again.
The theme of the award

show tonight is a return to
glamour. And thank goodness,
because for too long Hollywood
has done without.
There are a lot of really big

stars here tonight. Its really
exciting. Weve got the man,
Mr. George Clooney, triple
Upon returning to The Daily

Show, Stewarts reaction to
the conflicting reviews he
received: I sucked, and was
great! I was a painfully smug and
unfunny heir to Johnny Carson.
In a statement released by
the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences,
after he was announced as this
years host: Im thrilled to be
asked to host the Academy
Awards for the second time
because, as they say, the third
times a charm.
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Some people were shocked when The Daily Shows

Jon Stewart was announced as this years Oscar host. Others not at all.
Which comes as no surprise since his stint hosting the 2006 Oscars
received the same bipolar reception.
Time magazines James Poniewozik put it best when he wrote on his
blog, Stewart, it turned out, was not a very good Oscar host. But he was
a great anti-host. In other words, if you like watching the awards, but
only ironically, Stewarts not-letting-them-get-away-with-anything style was
an enjoyable salve. We loved it, but judge for yourself.
We take you back to the year of Brokeback Mountain, Cinderella Man and Crash,
for a list of Stewarts 10 best jokes. Oh, and for good measure, we threw in a couple of
the self-deprecating comedians evaluations of his own performance. Marni Weisz
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OUT OF THE MOUTH OF
OSCAR
This Oscar quiz is all about quotes. Were saluting the
memorable lines, quirky dialogue and witty quips from
Oscar-winning pictures, and the Oscar-winning actors
and actresses who transformed inky squiggles on a page
into movie magic I BY INGRID RANDOJA
Oscar Fresh Vanilla

INDULGE IN A SENSUAL
FUSION OF EXOTIC NOTES.
Gladiators Russell Crowe
Vivien Leigh won a Best Actress statue

for playing feisty Scarlett OHara in the
Best Picture winner Gone with the Wind.
Which of the following is one of her most
famous lines from the film?
A) As God is my witness, youll never
kiss me Rhett Butler.
B) As God is my witness, Ill never
be hungry again.
C) As God is my witness, Tara wont
burn while I breathe.
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett OHara
in Gone with the Wind
Which Best Picture winner ends with

the line I love you?
A) Terms of Endearment
B) Rocky
C) The English Patient
Which character from Best Picture
winner The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King speaks the line
The power of the Three Rings has ended.
The time has come for the dominion of Men.
A) Galadriel B) Gandalf C) Aragorn
The line Sam, I thought I told

you never to play... is from which
Best Picture-winning film?
Tom Hanks won a Best Actor Oscar for

which movie that includes the line Im
not a smart man...but I know what love is.
A) Philadelphia B) Forrest Gump
C) Cast Away
Which Best Actress winner utters

this line of dialogue: Im going to be
a great film star! That is, if booze and
sex dont get me first?
A) Liza Minnelli in Cabaret
B) Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago
C) Sissy Spacek in Coal Miners Daughter
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Such things you wrote. Special

things. Secret things. Best
Supporting Actor winner Jim Broadbent
lovingly repeats that line in Iris. Name
the actress whom hes addressing with
those words.
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Just moments before she won her

Best Actress Oscar, whose mother
turned to her and said, You havent got a
snowballs chance in hell?
A) Cher
B) Julia Roberts
C) Emma Thompson
16
Gladiators Best Actor winner Russell

Crowe eggs on Romes Colosseum
crowd with the line Are you not
entertained? Is this not why you are here?
What is his characters name?
A) Septimus
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Maximus
12
Youve probably heard the phrase He

aint heavy, hes my brother. It was
first spoken in which Oscar-winning film?
A) Boys Town
B) Stagecoach
C) The Best Years of Our Lives
17
Three women have won Best Actress

Oscars playing waitresses. Which one
uttered the line We all have these terrible
stories to get over?
A) Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce
B) Ellen Burnstyn in Alice Doesnt Live Here
Anymore
C) Helen Hunt in As Good as it Gets
13
You can never, never ask me to stop

drinking. Do you understand? is said
by which Best Actor winner in which movie?
A) Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
B) Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
C) Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
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14
Im gonna make him an offer he

cant refuse is one of Oscar-winner
Marlon Brandos best known lines from
The Godfather. But who is Don Corleone
making an offer to, and why?
A) Captain McCluskey, a corrupt cop who
Corleone wants to bribe
B) Jack Woltz, head of a Hollywood studio to
get him to cast Johnny Fontane in a movie
C) Don Barzini, a rival Don who operates a
drug ring that Corleone wants to take over
Silence of the Lambs ranks as a rare

horror/thriller to win the Best Picture
Oscar. Whose name is missing from the
following quote from the film?
If I help you, _______________, it will be
turns with us too. Quid pro quo.
19
Barbra Streisand, playing vaudeville

star Fanny Brice in Funny Girl,
purred the opening line Hello gorgeous
on her way to a Best Actress win. However,
Brices daughter didnt want Streisand to
play her mother. Which actress did she

want for the role?
A) Carol Burnett
B) Martha Raye
C) Carol Channing
20
Which Best Picture winner uses the

word f--k a record 237 times?
A) Crash
B) The Godfather
C) The Departed
ANSWERS:
L.A. Confidentials Kim Basinger earned

a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her
portrayal of an escort who looks like a
famous movie star. Can you fill in the
missing stars name in this Basinger quote:
Youre the first man in five years who didnt
tell me I look like ___________ _________
inside of a minute.
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These simple, poignant four words

The list is life are from which
Best Picture-winning film?
Which Best Supporting Actor winner

said after his victory, It couldnt have
happened to an older guy?
A) Jack Palance for City Slickers
B) Melvyn Douglas for Being There
C) George Burns for The Sunshine Boys
1. Richard Dreyfuss for The Goodbye Girl

2. Veronica Lake
3. b
4. c
5. b
6. a
7. Casablanca
8. b
9. a
10. Schindlers List
11. c. Emma Thompsons mother, actor
Phyllida Law, made the remark before
Thompson won for her performance in
Howards End
12. a
13. a
14. b
15. Judi Dench, who won the Best Actress
Oscar for her portrayal of Alzheimers
stricken author Iris Murdoch.
16. c
17. c
18. Clarice. The line is spoken by Hannibal
Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to FBI agent
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster).
19. a
20. c
Whose reading of the line I...dont...

like...the...panties...hanging...on...the...
rod! helped him earn a Best Actor Oscar?
Marlon Brando in The Godfather
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LAST YEARSLOOKSS
We hand out the awards for 2007s Oscar fashionss
The Cleans Up Well Award goes toSacha Baron Cohen

(seen here with his always-cleaned up wife Isla Fisher)
The Looks Most Like ann

Awards-Show Statuette Award
ward
goes toGwyneth Paltrow
ow
The Remind Me Never to be Styled by

Andr Leon Talley Award goes toJennifer Hudson
The Most Original Lapel Pin Award goes toDjimon Hounsou

(the red teardrop was worn to raise awareness of
diamond mining in war zones)
S
The Sweet
as Banana Cream Pie
Awa goes toNaomi Watts
Award
The Bjork Memorial Award for Proper Use

of Feathers goes toPenlope Cruz
The Person Who Looks Most Like Helena Christensen When they
Dye their Hair Brown Award goes toCameron Diaz
PHOTOS AND OSCAR IMAGE A.MP.A.S.
The Takes Our Breath Away in

an Old-School Hollywood Kind of Way
Award goes toMaggie Gyllenhaal
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Sound Choice for the 2008
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Grammy Awards
When someone refers to an Oscar movie, theyre usually talking about a film that won an
Academy Award. But there are also movies where the Oscars provide a major plot point. Here
are five films that wouldnt be the same without Oscar I BY MARNI WEISZ
Rap and R&B

From braggadocious street poetry to soul-stirring balladry to party-starting floor-fillers and all points in between, this year's hip-hop and
R&B nominees have all the angles covered.
How Oscar Figures In:

Judy Garland plays
Esther Blodgett, an
up-and-coming singer who
gets involved with fading,
alcoholic actor Norman
Maine (James Mason).
With Maines help, she
changes her name to
Vicki Lester and finds
success in motion pictures.
As Lesters star rises,
Maines plummets and
his jealousy comes to a
peak during the Academy
Awards just after shes
won Best Actress. Drunk,
he dramatically interrupts
the ceremony to beg for a
job, accidentally slapping
Lester in the face.
Trivia: While in the movie
its James Masons
character dealing with
substance abuse, it was
Garland who died of a
drug overdose 15 years
later. Mason (with whom
shed had an affair)
delivered her eulogy.
Oscar Worthy? It didnt
win any, but was
nominated for six
Best Actor (Mason),
Best Actress (Garland),
Art/Set Decoration,
Costume Design, Original
Song and Score
For Your
Consideration
(2006)
Naked Gun 33 1/3:

The Final Insult
(1994)

On the set of a terrible
indie drama about a
Jewish family celebrating
Purim, a ridiculous
rumour starts about
Oscar buzz surrounding
fading star Marilyn Hacks
(Catherine OHara)
performance.
Trivia: The story was
inspired by a movie
that writer and director
Christopher Guest worked
on early in his career.
Just a few days into
shooting, someone told
the cinematographer to
prepare for an Oscar
nomination.
Oscar Worthy? No
Academy Awards, no
nominations. And those
who honestly suggested
that OHara might be
nominated should feel a
bit self-conscious.

Seven years before 9/11
necessitated a dramatic
increase in security at
the Oscars, this third
Naked Gun movie
has Lt. Frank Drebin
(Leslie Nielsen) trying to
stop a group of terrorists
from detonating a bomb
at the Academy Awards.
Trivia: The film co-stars
two actors who later
became infamous for other
things O.J. Simpson
and Anna Nicole Smith.
Both won Razzie Awards
for their performances,
Simpson for Worst
Supporting Actor and
Smith for Worst New Star.
Oscar Worthy? Um, no.
California Suite
(1978)
In & Out
(1997)

Based on the Neil Simon
play, the movie
intertwines the stories of
four sets of people staying
at the same Los Angeles
hotel. One of those sets is
British actor Diana Barrie
(Maggie Smith) and her
husband Sidney Cochran
(Michael Caine), who
have come to L.A.
because shes been
nominated for an Oscar.
Trivia: Smith and Caines
scenes outside the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
were filmed before the
50th Academy Awards.
Richard Burton, who was
nominated that year, can
be seen in one shot.
Oscar Worthy?
Maggie Smith won for
Best Supporting Actress.
The film was also
nominated for Art/Set
Decoration and Adapted
Screenplay.

When actor Cameron Drake
(Matt Dillon) wins an
Oscar for playing a gay
soldier he thanks his
high school teacher
Howard Brackett (Kevin
Kline) for being his
inspiration in playing a
gay character. Problem is,
Bracketts not out of the
closet, hes not even sure
he is gay. After all, hes
engaged to a woman.
Trivia: Inspired by
Tom Hanks acceptance
speech for Philadelphia
in which he thanked a gay
teacher. Although the
teacher was openly gay,
many in his life had
no idea about his sexual
orientation.
Oscar Worthy?
Joan Cusack received a
Best Supporting Actress
nomination for her
performance as
Bracketts fiance.
Rihanna
Good Girl Gone Bad
The Bajan born pop princess has delivered her best album yet
with Good Girl Gone Bad, stacked full of pop hits infused with
R&B, reggae and her signature dancehall sound. Includes the
hits "Umbrella," and the new smash Hate That I Love You
featuring Ne-Yo!
6 Nominations! Song Of the Year and Record Of the Year - "Umbrella" with Jay-Z, Best Rap/Sung
Collaboration, Best Dance Recording - "Please Don't Stop The Music", Best R&B Vocal Performance
By A Duo or A Group and Best R&B Song - "Hate That I Love You" with Ne-Yo
Alicia Keys
As I Am
Promising a fresh and new direction for her third studio outing, Alicia
Keys delivers with the spectacular pop-soul crossover of As I Am. In
addition to hit singles No One and Superwoman, songwriter Linda
Perry lends a hand to The Thing About Love, and guitarist John
Mayer makes an appearance on Lesson Learned.
From one of HipHop's most influential artists comes Graduation,

Kanye West's third instalment in the groundbreaking series that
started with College Dropout and Late Registration. Once again,
Kanye challenges boundaries and raises the bar with his inventive
style, as seen on the single Stronger. Graduation features special
guests Mos Def, T-Pain, Daft Punk and Coldplay's Chris Martin.
Includes the new single Good Life.
8 Nominations! Album of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo
Performance - Stronger, Best Rap Song - Cant Tell Me Nothin,
Best Rap Song - Good Life, Best Rap Collaboration - Good Life,
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - Better Than Ive Ever
Been with Nas (released as a charity single), Rakim and KRS-One
and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - Southside with
Common (from Commons album Finding Forever)
A Star Is Born
(1954)
2 Nominations! Best Female R&B Vocal Performance No One" and Best R&B song - No One
Mary J. Blige
Growing Pains
Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige's 8th
studio album Growing Pains features production by Timbaland and
Tricky Stewart who produced the first single Just Fine. The
Queen Of Hip Hop Soul has firmly established herself as an icon as
well as one of the best selling recording artists of our time.
2 Nominations! Best Female R&B Vocal Performance - "Just Fine" and Best R&B Performance By A
Duo Or Group With Vocals - "Disrespectful" (from Chaka Khans album Funk This)
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AWARDS
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WRAP
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men

Best Director: Julian Schnabel,
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: Frank Langella,
Starting Out in the Evening
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard,
La Vie en rose
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem,
No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan,
Gone Baby Gone
Toronto Film Critics Association
San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen,
Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen,
Eastern Promises
Best Actress: (tie) Julie Christie,
Away from Her and Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett,
Im Not There
Best Picture: The Assassination of Jesse James

by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck,
The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
Gone Baby Gone
New York Film Critics Circle
Chicago Film Critics Association

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis,
There Will Be Blood
Gone Baby Gone

There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actor:
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Im Not There
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Washington Film Critics Association
No Country for Old Mens

Javier Bardem

Best Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Coward Robert Ford
Gone Baby Gone
Boston Society of Film Critics
Handicapping the Oscars is a whole lot easier

when you know which films, actors and directors
the critics think are the best of the best. Heres a
handy summary of Oscar-worthy candidates, as
chosen by critics from across North America.
Best Picture: There Will Be Blood

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson,
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose
Best Supporting Actor: Vlad Ivanov,
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
Gone Baby Gone
The golden
National Board of Review

Gone Baby Gone
GLOBES
Atonement
The writers strike landed a body

blow to the Hollywood Foreign Press
Associations annual Golden Globes,
although it didnt knock the awards
show off the air entirely. Reduced
from a three-hour, celebrity-filled
glitzy dinner and prize giveaway to a
half-hour televised news conference,
the GGs were a muted affair. However,
that doesnt change the fact they
kick-start the awards season, and
people pay very close attention to the
Golden Globes when it comes time to
picking Oscar winners.
HERE ARE THIS YEARS WINNERS.

Best Picture (Drama):
Atonement
Best Picture (Comedy or Musical):
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street
Best Director:
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly
Best Actor (Drama):
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actor (Comedy or Musical):
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actress (Drama):
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Actress (Comedy or Musical):
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose
Best Supporting Actor:
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, Im Not There
National Society of Film Critics

Best Picture: There Will Be Blood
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson,
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood
Coward Robert Ford
Im Not There
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NOMINEES
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BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will be Blood
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney,
Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis,
There Will be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones,
In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen,
Eastern Promises
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett,
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Casey Affleck,
The Assassination of Jesse James
Javier Bardem,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Charlie Wilsons War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Im Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saorise Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Julian Schnabel,
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen,
Paul Thomas Anderson,
There Will be Blood
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surfs Up
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
La Vie en rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean:
At Worlds End
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION

American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
of Fleet Street
There Will be Blood
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James
Atonement
There Will be Blood
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN

Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en rose
of Fleet Street
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing
the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Saris Mother
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING

The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and
the Butterfly
Into the Wild
There Will be Blood
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyn, Poland
12, Russia
Mongol, Kazakhstan
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Falling Slowly, Once
Happy Working Song,
Enchanted
Raise it Up, August Rush
So Close, Enchanted
Thats How You Know,
Enchanted
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Mme Les Pigeons Vont au
Paradis (Even Pigeons
go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

At Night
Tanghi Argentini
Il Supplente
(The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
(The Mozart of Pickpockets)
The Tonto Woman
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING

Ratatouille
There Will be Blood
Transformers
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING

Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS

The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean:
At Worlds End
Transformers
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Atonement,
Christopher Hampton
Away from Her,
Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,
Ronald Harwood
No Country for Old Men,
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
There Will be Blood,
Paul Thomas Anderson
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Juno, Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl,
Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton,
Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille, Brad Bird
The Savages,
Tamara Jenkins
THE
interview | SAMUEL L. JACKSON
When in Rome
tell, or something that I saw growing up that made me
excited and all of a sudden I can do it! Yknow, I dont have to
go home and describe it for my friends. Im actually in
something where people teleport and I get to chase em,
yeah! I cant do it, but I can chase em. And when I catch em,
I get to beat em up!
DONT TOUCH
ANYTHING
Jumper has a bigger budget than most of the movies youve been
making. Do you try to do a certain number of those to subsidize your
artier or more outlandish efforts like Black Snake Moan? Theres no
plan for a big studio movie right here and an independent
movie there, because movies are ready to go when theyre ready
to go. Like, Jumper is a big studio sci-fi movie, the one I did
before it, Resurrecting the Champ, was a small indie I made in
Calgary. You just never know.
IN
HOT
PURSUIT
Samuel L. Jackson hunts down his old Star Wars foe Hayden Christensen in Jumper I BY BOB STRAUSS
amuel L. Jackson appeared in four movies last year and

will probably clock at least the same number in 2008. First
up is Jumper, a sci-fi thriller by the eclectic and always
interesting director Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne
Identity, Swingers), which pits Jackson against his old Star Wars
co-star Hayden Christensen.
Then theres the comic book adaptation Iron Man, the racial
drama Lakeview Terrace, the murder mystery Cleaner
Somehow, no matter how overexposed he may seem, we
never grow tired of Jackson. Maybe its the marvelous array of
inventive hairdos (in Jumper, its a shocking white cut). Maybe
its because we can rely on him to cuss spectacularly most times
out. Likely, we recognize that hes a consummate actor whose
own enjoyment of any movie hes in yes, even Snakes on a Plane
is infectious.
And if that wasnt so, hed probably scare all of us to death.
Jackson was in L.A. when we spoke about his latest movie and
his busy schedule.
You carry a painful-looking harpoon-type thing in Jumper. Safe to say

youre playing another mean badass? Its a film about kids who
can teleport. I play a government agent thats sort of chasing
them and killing them. He kind of hates kids who can do that
because they leave these interesting rips in the atmosphere
when they do it. That annoys him.
Youre considered a first-class actor, but youre drawn to a lot of genre
stuff like this and 1408. How do you choose between these popcorn
pics and more serious work, such as Resurrecting the Champ and
your upcoming Lakeview Terrace? Sometimes I just want to be in
the kind of movie thats entertaining and fun and great for
somebodys Saturday afternoon escapism. Then theres the
great story that comes along that you want to tell with the great
character in it, and thats fun and fine to do too as an actor, to
stretch yourself and give yourself a challenge. And thats all that
Im really trying to do.
Its always something that moves me, or a story I want to
You work so much, weve gotta ask: Do you ever turn anything down?
I turn down movies all the time. I cant do everything! But I do
the things that are meant for me to do and the things that
appeal to me in a specific kind of way. And yknow, there are
actually movies that I want to do that I dont do. That happens,
cant get everything. But Im really happy with the things that I
do, and that Im able to make choices and continue to work,
because I enjoy it.
So whats your criteria for the movies you do pick? I know what I
want to see if Im an audience member. So when I look at a
script I always say, Would I pay my money to see this? And then
I say, Would I pay money to see this with me in it? And if the
answer is yes, then I do it.
Next logical question: Are you ever not working? There are times
when my agents and managers tell me that I need a break and
they enforce it by not letting me go to work or making sure that
my next job is, like, three months away. But I like to kind of
know what Im doing three pictures down the line. I guess I get
bored. I golf every day when Im not working, but I miss being
part of the creative process.
Unlike a lot of stars and, more particularly, a lot of AfricanAmerican stars you dont seem to be very cause conscious. Ive
always spoken my mind. I talk about my life and I talk about who
I am honestly and openly I guess everybody kinda knows that
I was kinda drug-addicted way back when and I dont know
if its gonna help people or not. A lot of times people say, youve
overcome this and youve overcome that, you should go out and
talk to kids. I just dont feel like I need to do that. I can say what
happened to me, how I got through it and Im glad Im on the
other side of it, but yknow, thats all.
Anything youve overcome recently that youd like to share? Quit
smoking! I actually went to this doctor in New York who uses
sodium pentothal. Judge Judy turned me onto him, she used
him to quit. I have no idea what he did, I just know I dont
smoke. Which is kinda cool.
Jumper stars Torontos own Hayden Christensen (above) as

David, a young man from an abusive household whose genetic
abnormality allows him to teleport around the world in the
blink of an eye.
For the films cast and crew, that meant shooting in a slew
of exotic locales, from Egypt and the Far East to Mexico City.
We got to travel all over the world. Rome, Tokyo, Mexicoit
was a lot of fun, says Christensen in a recent New York
interview. Having grown up in the Toronto suburb of Markham,
the actor best known for playing the young Darth Vader in the
Star Wars movies still lives in Toronto part-time.
But the most amazing location of all may have been Romes
famed Colosseum. Amazing because Romes mayor and
film buff Walter Veltroni gave Jumpers crew access to the
ancient landmark. HBOs Rome and Ridley Scotts Gladiator
were both denied the privilege.
The crew for Jumper did have some serious ground rules for
shooting inside the 1st-century structure. They had to keep all
equipment off the ground. Filming was limited to three days,
and could only be done using natural light. And they could
only shoot between 6:30 and 8:30 a.m., and then between
3:30 and 5:30 p.m. to avoid disturbing the tourists.
The rest of Jumper was filmed in a much more familiar
environment for Christensen, Southern Ontario Toronto
and Peterborough to be precise.
It was a blast, says Christensen. Most of the movie was
filmed in Toronto, where Im from, so I was around the corner
from my friends and family. Ken Linton
Bob Strauss is an L.A.-based writer.

interview | DAVID MORRISSEY

David Morrissey with
Natalie Portman in
The Other Boleyn Girl
Inset: Sister Act. Portman
and Scarlett Johansson
get close
All in the
FAMILY
Y
T
he Other Boleyn Girl is more than the tale of Henry

VIIIs doomed wife Anne with an extra Boleyn, her
sister Mary, thrown in. Its got adultery, incest, samesex affairs and impotence that decides the fate of nations.
Its the political story we all know and love with a lot of
sex in it, brilliantly told, says David Morrissey, who plays the
Duke of Norfolk, the Tudor court powerbroker he describes
as Henrys Dick Cheney.
None of the sex involves Norfolk though, which really pissed
me off, Liverpool native Morrissey quips in a recent L.A.
interview. And yknow what? Eric Bana [who plays King Henry]
had a codpiece that was much bigger than mine. You could
hang your coat off it!
Scripted by Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland)
and based on the best-selling book of the same name by
Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl stars Natalie Portman
as Henry VIIIs second wife Anne the one for whom he
started his own church and Scarlett Johansson as Mary, the
forgotten sister who was the mistress of two monarchs (Henry
and the King of France).
Awash in soap opera, Gregorys book complete with a
chapter of academic sources has dismayed historians even as
PHOTO BY MARIO ANZUONI/CORBIS
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson star as two sisters who share King Henry VIIIs bed in
The Other Boleyn Girl. But its British actor David Morrissey, as the girls scheming uncle, who
plays matchmaker I BY JIM SLOTEK
it has sold a million-plus copies. It is what Stephen Colbert

would call a work of truthiness with its gossipy treatment of
real figures. (Did Henry VIII sire a male heir by his wifes sister?
Was one of his children a product of incest?) At the very least,
it is movie-worthy intrigue of the sort that the claustrophobic
court of the Tudors would have produced.
Henry had his affair with Annes sister who was married
before Anne was even on the scene, and there was a rumour
she bore him a son, Morrissey says. And, of course, Henry
was married [at the time] to Catherine of Aragon and was
part of the Catholic Church. Then all of a sudden he meets
Anne Boleyn, he starts thinking with his d--k and the rules are
out the window.
In the movie, Anne is a schemer who uses the occasion of
her sisters pregnancy to make her own move on the monarch.
Norfolk is in a position to see it all happen, being related to
seemingly everybody. The Duke of Norfolk was Anne Boleyn
and Mary Boleyns uncle. He was also Catherine Howards
uncle and she lost her head as well, Morrissey says, adding with
a chuckle, He gave great Christmas presents, but you know
what? There was a downside.
Morrissey sees his character as an operator, describing him as
the power behind the throne. Sort of Henry VIIIs Cheney in
the way everyone went to him to get to the King, he says.
Anne Boleyn was not only devastatingly attractive, but she
was an operator, a political mind, Morrissey continues. She
was a force to be reckoned with as far as Norfolk was concerned,
and those politics are kind of what the film is about.

What she finally realizes is that once she couldnt give Henry
a male heir, she didnt have a leg to stand on and suddenly all
her friends start disappearing into the wallpaper. My
character actually sets her up to be Queen, and once she
becomes Queen she says, Im sorry, I do this now, not you.
And when she gets into crisis, I just step back.
With Morgans imprimatur and, as Morrissey puts it, a great
cast to work with, The Other Boleyn Girl is a bona fide prestige
picture which, for the actor, makes quite the contrast from
two years ago. At that time, the film hed hoped would vault him
into the ranks of Hollywood leading man Basic Instinct 2
with Sharon Stone was greeted with a fistful of Worst
nominations from the Oscars evil twin, the Razzies.
Hes philosophical about that experience.
You dont work any less hard [on movies that bomb], he
says. Part of being an actor is you stand up there and say, This
is me, what do you think? You cant get too upset when people
say, You know what I think? I think its rubbish.
Jim Slotek writes about movies for the Toronto Sun.
interview | KEVIN ZEGERS
FIVE
QUESTIONS
WITH
KEVIN
ZEGERS
I BY NATALIA WYSOCKA
Did you start to get good scripts

instantly after Transamerica?
It happened pretty quick, I was surprised
as soon as people feel like they dont
need to challenge you to act, they just
know youre good, and capable.
Like Transamerica, Normal is about

difficult family relationships. Is that a
subject that appeals to you?
"I think I play, sort of, somebody who has
something going on in their head for a
while. I do that well. Theres something
tragic about me, thats what Carl said
when he hired me.
And I dont know what it is, I feel like
Ive had a pretty good life, but I feel like
Im able to do a lot without saying a lot,
dont have to say a bunch of dialogue to
get the story across. And pain, and all that
stuff, is so much easier to play just with
your eyes and your face.
So your acting process is more

emotional than physical?
Yes. I dont go over the lines a hundred
times to get it perfect. But the tone of
your voice, the way you move your body,
all these things, you can drastically
change somebody. Even if its just a little
thing, if somebody notices something, a
reaction to somebody touching you, its

sort of minor but I think audiences
notice that we have these reactions.
Where do you get your inspiration?

I go sit in the park and just watch
people, and then I can use little bits from
my friends, from things they do. It just
works for me.
People have been calling you the
new Tobey Maguire. How do you
feel about that?
Everyone keeps saying all this stuff! Its
great if people are talking about me, its
good for me, they must see something. I
dont know exactly what it is, obviously.
Im bringing something to their table
that they like, they enjoy watching. Im
just gonna try not to mess it up, Im
gonna keep working hard.
Natalia Wysocka is the deputy editor
of Famous Qubec.
PHOTO BY JOCELYN MICHEL
hances are you first saw Woodstock,

Ontarios Kevin Zegers travelling
across the States as the estranged
son of a transsexual (Felicity Huffman)
in 2005s indie hit Transamerica.
This month the 23-year-old plays Jordie
in director Carl Bessais Normal. The film
takes place two years after Jordie was
behind the wheel of a stolen car when it
crashed, killing his best friend Nicky.
Jordie, Nickys mom (Carrie-Anne Moss)
and a professor involved in the accident
(Callum Keith Rennie) are still trying to
come to terms with what happened.
Zegers was at last Septembers Toronto
International Film Festival when he
answered these five questions.
cover | story | WILL FERRELL
GOOD
SPORT
Will Ferrells fourth sports movie in four years has him playing a
70s basketball player with a big fro. Funny, yes. But the amiable actor swears
this will be his last movie about athletes for a while I BY BOB STRAUSS
are great is because theres already a built-in arc. It
kind of tackles all of those big issues of winning and
losing and friendship and things like that. So its a
great world to create a story in. And then when you
add that youre going to be funny about it, you can
make fun of real sports movies at the same time and,
obviously, poke fun at the game.
Sometimes, though, that kind of comedy can feel
bittersweet to a true athletic supporter. After training
with some of the best competitive skaters for Blades of
Glory, for example, the actor felt guilty deriding the
absurdities of such a difficult though admittedly,
often ridiculous sport.

ill Ferrell has a degree in sports information

from the University of Southern California.
Recently, hes made a big part of his career
out of what could be called sports disinformation.
Following the soccer comedy Kicking & Screaming,
the NASCAR comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of
Ricky Bobby and the figure skating comedy Blades of
Glory comes Semi-Pro, a basketball comedy and
Ferrells fourth athlete spoof in as many years.
The 40-year-old actor, who spent many a season on
Saturday Night Live playing a wannabe cheerleader,
says its a kind of best-of-both-worlds situation.
I wont be allowed to make a sports movie ever
again, Ferrell cracks, with the perfect timing thats
helped turn him into one of the most successful
comedy stars working today. Its funny how it just
kind of lined up that way. And yet, Im a huge sports
fan. I love sports, so its been really kind of wonderful to get to infuse my two great loves, comedy and
sports, together.
In Semi-Pro, Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, ownercoach-player-sweaty-sex-symbol of the Flint, Michigan,
Tropics. Never heard of them? Thats because
theyre a minor (and fictional) team from the 1970s
short-lived American Basketball Association, which
explains the frizzed-out afro on Ferrells head during
interviews at L.A.s Four Seasons Hotel.
Moon is a typical Ferrell doofus, a guy who has
more confidence in his abilities and appeal
than he probably should, and who is over the moon
when word comes that the NBA will absorb some of
the lesser leagues teams. So he has to figure out how
to make his misfit-manned Tropics attractive to the
bigger, better-established organization.
The ABA was kind of a stepchild/sister basketball
league to the NBA in the 70s that had all of these
outlandish characters and crazy, small-market teams,
Ferrell explains. Another reason why sports movies
Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell)

concentrates on making a
free throw in Semi-Pro
Inset: Dick Pepperfield
(Andrew Daly) interviews
Jackie Moon
cover | story | WILL FERRELL

Ferrell felt much more at home on

hardwood than he did in rinks.
Its a lot more comfortable than ice
skating, Ferrell admits. I played a lot of
basketball in high school, and on and
off since.
These days, when hes not training to
trash a chosen sport, the Orange County,
California, native mostly keeps in semishape by jogging. (Ferrell and his Swedish
wife, Viveca, have run in the New York
and Boston Marathons). Then there are
two young sons that keep him on his toes.
Im trying to work at home a lot, says
Ferrell, meaning L.A. Semi-Pro was shot
up near Dodger Stadium, which is 15 minutes from my house. So were managing
to keep everything somewhat balanced.
Wacky as he often acts, Ferrell appears
to be pretty even-keeled for someone in

the crazy-making world of showbiz. Some
credit for that goes to the example set by
his father, Lee, who played saxophone and
keyboards for The Righteous Brothers
but raised his children under conventional suburban circumstances.
Ferrell was funny growing up, but didnt
think seriously about pursuing comedy
until after college.
I was pretty comfortable making an
ass of myself from the get-go, he admits.
But Im kind of atypical, in that I was
never the class clown kind of guy who
needed the attention. At the same time,
if someone dared me to do something
outlandish, I was like, Well, whats the
big deal? Yeah, I can do that. And the
next thing you know, Id be running
around in my underwear somewhere.

After college, Ferrell joined the L.A.
improv troupe The Groundlings, and like
many of its members eventually graduated to an SNL spot. Not considered much
special when he started on the show in
1995, hed become its highest paid and
most versatile Not Ready for Primetime
Player by the time he left seven years later.
Ferrell didnt exactly follow the Eddie
Murphy trajectory from SNL to instant
movie success, either, struggling in such
underwhelming films as A Night at the
Roxbury, Superstar and Boat Trip before
hitting it big as the over-age frat boy in
2003s Old School.
Ferrells hits since then, from Elf and
Anchorman on, have required him to act
similarly stupid. Yet hes found quite a
range of behaviours and fresh humour

within that deceptively narrow definition.
Although it may look like it on the surface,
Ferrell claims that he doesnt pander to
any kind of core audience.
Im very thankful that Ive had some
success and I have some fans, he says.
But in a weird way, Im never trying to
please them. Im just trying to do what I
think is funny. Because if you start making
decisions based on demographics, youre
just going to have these homogenized
things that dont really work for anyone.
One area where Ferrell is thinking outside of the box is on the outrageous Funny
or Die website (funnyordie.com), where
hes appeared in subversive (and popular)
video vignettes involving drunk baby landlords and violent environmental zealots.
Hes also not shy about making cameo
appearances in movies starring other
comedians (Wedding Crashers, Starsky &
Hutch, The Wendell Baker Story), thereby
cementing his status as a member of
the Frat Pack, that loose conglomeration
of the eras hottest comic actors which
includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn,
Owen Wilson and Jack Black.
But what about breaking out of the
funny end of the business? Ferrell sort of
tried it a few years back with Winter Passing
and Stranger than Fiction, which earned
him solid critical acclaim but fewer paying
customers than his laugh riots usually do.
Well, Im actually not going back to
drama or comedy. Im going into Mexican
soap opera. Thats my next move, Ferrell
cracks.
I mean, comedy will be the thing that
I probably ultimately and predominantly
do. In fact, Im really not getting sent any
more dramatic scripts since Stranger than
Fiction. To tell the truth, I havent been
getting sent any. I still mostly just get
comedies, and I never want to force that
issue. Id like to continue to do some of
that stuff, but well just see what happens.
As for sports comedies, even their
biggest fan seems to understand when
enough is enough.
Is there any sport that Im not going
to make a comedy out of, Ferrell asks
rhetorically. I knew that would be a
question. Its kind of a shame that Ive
made so many. It will be now written
that theres a Will Ferrell sports movie
anthology in the works. But no, there
arent any more on the horizon.
Bob Strauss is an L.A.-based
entertainment writer.
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2
4
3
SUITING UP
Each of Will Ferrells

sports films requires
the flamboyant
actor to don
the appropriate
athletic apparel.
Heres a look at his
outlandish outfits
1 Ferrell went with the double

blue tiger stripes as coach of a
Little League soccer team in
Kicking & Screaming.
2 Check out the fire-retardant
jumpsuit complete with
Wonder Bread logo in
Talladega Nights: The Ballad
of Ricky Bobby.
3 Blades of Glory had Ferrell
burning up the ice in this flaming
spandex and sequins number.
4 Ferrells short-shorts, tube socks
and old-school Adidas sneakers
scream 1976, the year in which
the basketball flick Semi-Pro is set.
style |
Valentines rules
r
A little guidance to help you indulge without the guilt I BY LIZA HERZ
s a kid, your chances for a happy February 14th rested

on how many valentines youd get from your classmates
a popularity contest swathed in red lace. But as an
adult you are free to reinvent the holiday as you wish, keeping
in mind a few rules.
RULE NUMBER ONE: WILLFULLY IGNORE THE WEATHER
The ability to ignore reality is one of our best assets as

Canadians. Snow, what snow? Denial can be an important
part of maintaining your mental health. So is pretty, albeit
entirely impractical, lacy underwear. Get some now.
RULE NUMBER TWO: PLEASURE ABOVE ALL ELSE
Valentines Day should be about fun, but our puritanical

culture is suspicious of pleasure for pleasures sake. It either
rejects it outright as dirty, or transforms it into a chase for
status a kind of consumerist competition that effectively
sucks the joy out of a good, soul-restoring,

expensive purchase. Think pleasure and ignore
the price tags both large and small.
PERFORM A RANDOM ACT OF FLIRTATION
If there is no official boyfriend or girlfriend to give a big,
red, heart-shaped card, send one anonymously to your latest
crush. A little heart-pounding nervousness will add colour to
your cheeks and a bit of flush is sexy.
4 It takes 144,000 rose petals to

make one bottle of Ren Moroccan
Rose Otto Bath Oil ($50, 140 ml,
Delineation [delineation.ca]),
which works out to roughly 5,000
rich fragrant petals per bath.
RULE NUMBER FOUR: SPOIL YOURSELF

Ditch the idea of romance and just get yourself something
nice. Lingerie, chocolates, jewellery, an intoxicating bath oil
made from the essence of a hundred thousand rose petals, or a
provocative fragrance that you apply sparingly to wear to dreary
meetings just for your own pleasure. Pleasure can be secret too.
5 Green & Blacks Organic Miniature

Bar Collection ($12, grocery and
natural food stores) pairs intensely
flavoured chocolate with such flavours
as ginger and sour cherry to treat any
surprise Valentines guests.
6 Studded with blood-red crystals,
the Eros stylized Heart Pendant from
Swarovski ($65, www.swarovski.com
for stores) on a silk cord is sparkly
and modern.
2 With spring fashions already

trickling into stores, satisfy your
craving for something new with this
Glossy Red Leather Tote ($150, Aldo).
3 Agent Provocateurs Matresse eau
de Parfum ($100, 50 ml, Holt Renfrew)
is subtly seductive, with a delicate
water lily top note slowly revealing a
rich beating heart of rose and jasmine
underneath.
RULE NUMBER THREE:
1 Play a subtle game of peekaboo

with the decorative, beribboned
shoulder straps of this Lace Underwire
Bra and Briefs from WonderBra Me
($34 for bra [model #1675], $18
for briefs [model #1695], Sears).
7 Fake that first flush of love with

Benefits Rush Hour ($24, Shoppers
Beauty Boutique), a totally wearable
shade of soft blooming colour for lips
and cheeks.
8 Smooth and soften hair for a

glassy shine, and protect your pricy
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k.d. langs
I BY INGRID RANDOJA
WATERSHED MOMENT
k.d. lang has been waiting for
this moment for 25 years no,

not the chance to speak with
Famous magazine, but to talk
about an album she produced.
The 46-year-old Alberta native
with the pitch-perfect voice has
released 13 albums, won eight
Junos and four Grammys, but
has never produced any of her
albums entirely on her own,
that is until watershed
(available February 5th).
I had been producing for 25
years, but just never solo...its
my Amelia Earhart moment, but

that didnt turn out so good,
lang says with a laugh during
a recent interview in Toronto.
In the back of my mind it
was there. Its something I
always wanted to do, but it was
something I was afraid to do.
I was writing a lot, and the
bar had been set incredibly,
dauntingly high with hymns of
the 49th parallel, she says of
her critically acclaimed 2004
CD of songs by Canadian singersongwriters. But in a way that
was completely emancipating

because it shifted what was
important to me and what felt
natural and what felt good.
The 11 songs on watershed
are unadorned musings that
lang admits are autobiographical
nuggets about love, loss and
finding pleasure in lifes quieter
moments. And its a record
about facing her fears.
reintarnation [langs 2006
compilation CD featuring her
best country songs] gave me a
lot of confidence, cause I really
loved myself in the beginning,

I just loved that unbridled,
unrestrained...I was just so not
afraid of anything back then.
I just thought, You are the
same person, so, just do it.
watershed is about looking
at myself, looking at my fears,
looking at how I am stagnant
because of my habitual
patterns, and how I should go
around an obstacle like water
flowing around an object.
Some of the songs were
recorded in one take, and when
you hear the elegiac shadow
and the frame its hard to
believe its the first time lang
ever sang the song out loud.
It was done in my living room
and there was a lot of noise, you
could hear me moving papers,
and I tried singing it again
and I wont say Ill never sing it
that good again but there was
something about the first time
you had to walk away from and
not touch.
lang has always strived to
take the theatrics out of her
performances and simply let her
voice carry a song. So is she
dispirited at the American Idolinspired trilling and emoting that
plagues many of todays singers?
You know, that singing is
basically a characterization of
something that is real. But I
dont despair because there are
so many great singers. I think
Christina Aguilera is a really good
singer, I think Amy Winehouse
is a fantastic singer, I do. Im
just different.
KEEPING IT SIMPLE
Montreals Simple Plan made pop-punk noise back in 2002 with its debut release
No Pads, No Helmet...Just Balls, and while critics may have shrugged their shoulders,
fans went wild for the bands hardcore, teen-angst rock, as evidenced by the fact the
group has sold more than six million records worldwide.
With the release of their self-titled third CD, Simple Plan (available February 12th),
the band stretches its wings, but not enough to fly the rock-anthem coop. Simple Plan is
still writing songs about young love (I Can Wait Forever) and young love on the run
(Take My Hand), but they surprise with neat little touches an Oasis-like vibe in
Love is a Lie and the use of a luscious string section in the pedal-to-the-metal What If.
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GO HOME WITH THE BRAVE ONE, AMERICAN GANGSTER OR THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB I BY MARNI WEISZ
FEBRUARY 5
ACROSS THE
UNIVERSE
STARS: Evan Rachel Wood,
Jim Sturgess
DIRECTOR: Julie Taymor
(Frida)
STORY: Taymor fought
hard to preserve her vision of this modern
musical in which the lead actors sing
Beatles tunes. The story follows British
dockworker Jude (Sturgess) who travels
to the States to find his dad and falls in
love with lovely Lucy (Wood) along the way.
DVD EXTRAS: two-disc Special Edition DVD
features eight extended musical
performances, five featurettes, director
commentary
THE JANE AUSTEN

BOOK CLUB
STARS: Emily Blunt,
Kathy Baker
DIRECTOR: Robin Swicord
(debut)
STORY: Five women and
one man form a book club to discuss
Jane Austens works and are surprised how
much the 200-year-old stories reflect their
own complicated love lives. DVD EXTRAS:
seven deleted scenes, commentary track,
Character Deconstruction, The Life of
Jane Austen
THE BRAVE ONE

STARS: Jodie Foster,
Terrence Howard
DIRECTOR: Neil Jordan
(Breakfast on Pluto)
STORY: A radio-show host
(Foster) turns vigilante
after being attacked in the park and
watching as her fianc is beaten
to death by thugs. After learning
to use a gun she seeks out dangerous
situations and lets her trigger finger
mete out justice.
FEBRUARY 12
BECOMING JANE
STARS: Anne Hathaway,
James McAvoy
DIRECTOR: Julian Jarrold
(Kinky Boots)
STORY: Jane Austen fans
will have fun trying to spot
the events that influenced her books in this
biography of the early 19th-century writer.
Hathaway plays the title role with McAvoy
stepping in as her dangerous but devoted
suitor Tom Lefroy, whose countenance
bears a striking resemblance to a certain
Mr. Darcy. DVD EXTRAS: Discovering the
Real Jane Austen, pop-up facts and
footnotes, deleted scenes, director
commentary
WE OWN THE NIGHT

STARS: Joaquin Phoenix,
Mark Wahlberg
DIRECTOR: James Gray
(The Yards)
STORY: In 1980s New York,
a nightclub manager
(Phoenix) has to choose between the
drug-dealing gangsters who frequent his
business and his brother and father, both
cops, who want him to help bring the
criminals down. DVD EXTRAS: Police
Action: Filming Cops, Cars and Chaos,
A Moment in Crime: Creating Late
80s Brooklyn
NO RESERVATIONS
STARS: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart
DIRECTOR: Scott Hicks (Hearts in Atlantis)
STORY: Kate (Zeta-Jones) is a top chef at a
trendy Manhattan restaurant. Shes also a
perfectionist who likes things done a
certain way. Then two things happen to
shake up her well-controlled life. Her sister
dies in a car accident and leaves her
daughter (Abigail Breslin) in Kates care,
and a rival chef with a completey different
attitude (Eckhart) comes to work for her.
FEBRUARY 19
IN THE VALLEY
OF ELAH
STARS: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron

DIRECTOR: Paul Haggis (Crash)
STORY: When a soldier just back from Iraq
disappears from his New Mexico army
base, his father, a Vietnam vet (Jones),
takes it upon himself to investigate.
RENDITION
STARS: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon
DIRECTOR: Gavin Hood (Tsotsi)
STORY: After her Egyptian-born husband
(Omar Metwally) goes missing on a flight
home from South Africa, a heavily pregnant
woman (Witherspoon) frantically searches
for answers, discovering that the CIA
believes he has terrorist links.
AMERICAN GANGSTER
STARS: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott (A Good Year)
STORY: Inspired by an article in New York
Magazine, this bio-pic traces the rise and
fall of Frank Lucas, an African-American
drug dealer whos best known for
smuggling heroin into the States in the
coffins of Vietnam soldiers. Russell plays
detective Richie Roberts, trying to make
a case against Lucas.
FEBRUARY 26
THE DARJEELING
LIMITED
STARS: Owen Wilson,
Adrien Brody
DIRECTOR: Wes Anderson
(The Royal Tenenbaums)
STORY: After their father
dies, three brothers (Wilson, Brody,
Jason Schwartzman) bond on a train trip
through India. Along the way they nearly
kill each other and have a life-changing
experience in a small village. DVD EXTRAS:
featurettes, Hotel Chevalier short film
Spotlight
GONE BABY GONE
FEBRUARY 12
Well, he showed them.
Gone Baby Gone director
Ben Affleck has already been
tapped as 2007s most
promising new director by
the National Board of Review,
Chicago Film Critics and
Boston Film Critics.
Ben can thank his little
brother Casey Affleck for
contributing to those accolades
via his understated performance
as private investigator
Patrick Kenzie, whos struggling
to keep his head above water
after being given the toughest
case of his career.
When a four-year-old girl is
seemingly snatched from her
bed in a down-and-out suburb
of Boston, the girls aunt
(Amy Madigan) hires Kenzie
and his partner Angie Gennaro
(Michelle Monaghan) to
coax information out of the
neighbourhoods cop-shy
toughs. The little girls mother
(Amy Ryan) is a drug runner
and an addict with a long list
of acquaintances capable
of harming her daughter.
Morgan Freeman plays the
police detective in charge
of the investigation, while
Ed Harris is a cop assigned
to liaise with Kenzie.
The script is based on a
Dennis Lehane novel, and the
movie has much in common
with that other movie based
Casey Affleck as private

investigator Patrick Kenzie
Below: Morgan Freeman (left)
with Ben Affleck
on a Lehane story, director

Clint Eastwoods Mystic River.
Theyre both tense, grimy,
twisty crime pics that take
place in Bostons underbelly,
but Afflecks pic has an
intimacy and authenticity that
THE ASSASSINATION OF
JESSE JAMES BY THE
COWARD ROBERT FORD
STARS: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck
DIRECTOR: Andrew Dominik (Chopper)
STORY: The newest member of Jesse James
(Pitt) band of outlaws is Robert Ford
(Affleck), a young crook who idolizes the
legendary hold-up man, perhaps even
even Eastwoods cant match

probably because Affleck is
from Boston.
In fact, the DVDs bonus
material kicks off with Going
Home: Behind the Scenes with
Ben Affleck, a featurette that
wants to be him. Eventually, and inevitably,

their story rolls toward the fulfillment of
the films title as Ford seeks to have Jamestype fame the only way he knows how.
30 DAYS OF NIGHT
STARS: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George
DIRECTOR: David Slade (Hard Candy)
STORY: If you were a vampire, where would
includes a conversation with

both of the Affleck brothers.
Plus, there are the requisite
deleted scenes and Ben Affleck
teams with screenwriter
Aaron Stockard to provide
an audio commentary.
you go? To deepest, darkest Alaska, of

course, where for 30 straight days in winter
there is absolutely no daylight. Hartnett
plays the sheriff of Barrow, Alaska, charged
with saving his town from the descending
bloodsuckers. George plays his ex-wife, who
has to help him with the fight. DVD EXTRAS:
The Vampire, Building Barrow,
The Look, Night Shoots
star | gazing |
FEBRUARY
2008
HOROSCOPE | BY DAN LIEBMAN
Aquarius
January 21
February 19
You tend to fine-tune ideas too much, but

this month you learn sometimes the
hard way when to let go. After the 15th,
your calming effect helps settle a family
crisis. Discoveries abound, so check your
pockets for everything from lottery tickets
to old bills.
Pisces
February 20
March 20
Pisces usually needs periods of solitude,

but there wont be many in February.
With your fresh ideas and charismatic
personality, everyone wants you on their
team. Youre attracted to people who are
quite different from yourself. One of them
returns the attraction.
Aries
March 21
April 20
Although your ruling planet is Mars, this

month youre more pussycat than warrior
willing to play by the rules and defer to
others. Of course, this is part of a strategy to
win support. Squeeze in time for a workout,
no matter how busy you think you are.
Taurus
May 22
April 21
Its a month of negotiations with crotchety

people. If you dont let yourself get
cornered, youll wind up with what you
want. Watch out for a late-month stingy
streak and pick up the occasional cheque.
June 21
Youre a wizard at bringing together

interesting people. Meetings or parties
that you arrange are sure to become the
talk of the town. A family responsibility
restricts some of the freedom you need,
but by months end a major obligation
will be shared.
Cancer
June 22
July 22
With so many offers coming up, you feel

like youre in a multiplex. The key is to
BEST ACTRESS
make up your own mind not always so

simple this month. You feel less alone and
more at ease confiding in others. People who
werent available are suddenly ready to help.
Leo
July 23
GLENN CLOSE
August 22
Your talent as a writer shines and can lead

to recognition. As a reader, its another
matter check directions before baking
or assembling anything. Youre on the
road to romantic recovery. The speed
limits arent posted, and youll need to
be more patient.
Virgo
August 23
September 22
Someone who has been aloof is now

receptive to your feelings. After the 9th,
theres greater harmony in personal and
professional relationships. Being a pack
rat has advantages as you produce an
object that people are willing to pay or
trade for.
Libra
September 23
October 22
You and a romantic partner are on different

wavelengths one is spontaneous, the
other methodical but thats a good
thing. Look for new sources of information
about your family tree. And try different
fitness strategies anything from salsa
dancing to yoga.
Scorpio
October 23
November 21
Be selective this month. Its one thing to

extend yourself, but another to volunteer
for every job offered. Surroundings are
serene after the 11th, when an unwelcome
guest leaves. Think twice before playing
hooky. You could miss out on a very good
opportunity.
killer lega l t h r iller

Detroit Free Press
Sagittarius
November 22
Gemini
May 23
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER
December 22
Theres greater harmony at work after the

11th when an instigator steps out of the
picture. If given the choice, youd rather
have knowledge over possessions, but this
month is an exception. Youre acquiring
items, both luxurious and practical.
Capricorn
December 23
January 20
Youre intuitive right now aware of

changes before they occur and sensitive to
the moods of a loved one. You also have
good instincts about predicting things, like
the Academy Awards.
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