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Keira Knightley is gonna be starring in a new movie version of King Lear? Not as the king, I hope, but okay. (She’ll be Cordelia, actually, to Anthony Hopkins’ Lear.) I’m starting my Summer of Hamlet, in preparation for my trip to England in the fall to see David Tennant play the mad Dane, as … more…
Apparently it’s almost a done deal: Scottish actor James McAvoy has been tipped to take the lead role in the new movie version of Lord Of The Rings prequel The Hobbit…. Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf and McAvoy is rumoured to be the favourite to take the lead role of hobbit … more…
That little Phoenix thing that just landed on the Red Planet? It took along its own in-flight entertainment: The disc – being described as the first interplanetary library – is made of a special silica glass designed to last hundred, if not thousands, of years into the future. It… holds a collection of Mars-themed artwork, … more…
Sweet: Frank, 100, and Anita, 99, today celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary, equalling the record for England’s longest-ever marriage…. The pair met in 1926 at a YMCA dance in their home town of Plymouth. They married two years later, on May 26, 1928, and after the register office ceremony popped to the cinema to catch … more…
I thought I saw Sydney Pollack recently on the streets of New York. That happens a lot in Manhattan — you pass someone who seems kinda familiar, and then you second-guess yourself. Was that someone I went to high school with? Someone I see at the laudromat once in a while? Or was it that … more…
I so said this, like, four years ago.
Oh noes! Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are in jeopardy… in their own romantic lovenest in the woods! Or something! The Strangers [opens wide May 30] is the first film from writer-director Bryan Bertino, and I have no idea who he is either, or how he managed to get his own script greenlighted by a … more…
My favorite email ever, posted in its entirety because it’s so wonderfully insane. I received this today: Hello dear ladies and gentlemen! I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person, which has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original … more…
They only sent me a screener of the first night of the two-night “event” of the new adaptation of The Andromeda Strain on the cable network A&E, and to the A&E publicity people I say this: Bastards! Why tease me like this? It’s terribly mean. Because that first night — it debuts on cable on … more…
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Like you need me to tell you to go see Indy. Just go, and go again. I went again on Thursday night, at the Ziegfeld in New York — a movie palace made for event movies — and it was packed with a thirtysomething geek crowd. … more…
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