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06 EDITORIAL

08 SNAPSBen, Jen and Violet in Vancouver

10 SHORTSAlexandre Despatie dives into acting

12 SPOTLIGHTPathfinder’s Nathaniel Arcand on hispath to the movies

14 THE BIG PICTURESee The Invisible

36 COMING SOONArrrr matey, prepare yerself for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

38 TRIVIAWhich movie that was directed byRobert Rodriguez had Quentin Tarantinoin a starring role?

40 STYLENeutrals come on strong

42 NAME OF THE GAMEGet the dish on Wii’s new cooking sim,Cooking Mama: Cook Off

44 VIDEO AND DVDTake a peek at Notes on a Scandal orspend a Night at the Museum withoutever leaving home

50 FAMOUS LAST WORDSCelebs tell us how they’re saving theenvironment

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20 CALLING THE SHOTS She’s gone from child star to featurefilmmaker. Actor Sarah Polley talksabout making the transition todirecting with her criticallyacclaimed drama, Away from HerI BY CHRISTOPHER DIRADDO

24 TRICKY DICKYIn The Hoax, Richard Gere playsClifford Irving, the writer whoconned the world into believing heknew recluse Howard Hughes andwas ghostwriting his autobiography.No wonder the Buddhist actor foundthis tale of bad karma impossible toresist I BY EARL DITTMAN

28 SURFING DANGEROUS WATERSHalle Berry enters the risky world ofinternet dating for the thriller Perfect Stranger. Here the Oscar-winner reveals that, surprisingly, thismurder mystery turned out to be oneof the greatest acting challenges ofher career I BY EARL DITTMAN

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Spider-Man 3’s leading man Tobey Maguire, co-stars Kirsten Dunstand James Franco, and director Sam Raimi on why the series’ darkestfilm may be the best yet. And couldit be that some of them are sufferingfrom arachnophobia when it comesto committing to a fourth flick? I BY EARL DITTMAN

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W elcome to the “Summer of Three.”No less than six threequels (thethird film of a franchise) will hit

theatres between now and the beginningof September — Spider-Man 3, Shrek theThird, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’sEnd, Ocean’s Thirteen, Rush Hour 3 andThe Bourne Ultimatum.

So what’s going on? It almost feels as if we’re returning to

the era of serials, those film chapters ofthe 1930s and ’40s that kept audiencescoming back time after time by ending

with the hero facing certain peril. The cliff-hanger (a term actually invented to describe the final

scenes of serials) that ended last year’s Pirates of the Caribbean: DeadMan’s Chest (Captain Jack is swallowed up by a giant sea beast) seemsto support that idea. Had audiences gone into Dead Man’s Chestthinking of it as a serial, that open ending may not have been as vexing.

Consider this, at least one of these franchises is already workingon a fourth installment — Shrek 4 is due out in 2010.

Spider-Man 3 kicks off the “Summer of Three” on May 4th, and onpage 32 you’ll find “The Spin on Spidey,” our interview with directorSam Raimi and actors Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco aboutthis astonishingly successful series and how they all feel about the possibility of coming back for a Spider-Man 4.

At the other end of the spectrum is a film like Away from Her, Canadian actor Sarah Polley’s first feature film as a director.

A small-scale, intimate account of an elderly couple’s struggle withAlzheimer’s, the drama has already screened at a handful of festivalsand has received almost universally rave reviews. On page 20 you canread “Polley’s Unforgettable Debut,” in which she explains why she’smore comfortable talking about this film than any other.

Hollywood’s fascination with billionaire hermit Howard Hughescontinues this month with The Hoax, a retelling of the real-life case ofClifford Irving, a writer/grifter who tried to publish a supposedly authorized biography of Hughes. It wasn’t.

In “Faking It,” page 24, Irving portrayerRichard Gere gives his take on why the infamousconman thought he could get away with it.

And on page 28 we have “Caught in the Web,”our interview with Halle Berry. She plays a jour-nalist who goes undercover to investigate afriend’s murder in Perfect Stranger, and says thethriller is not your typical Halle Berry film, evengoing so far as to call it a risky role. Really? We lether explain why. —MARNI WEISZ

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Ah, the glamorous life of the moviestar. Uma Thurman peruses a craftservices table on the New York set ofThe Accidental Husband. PHOTO BY ARNALDO MAGNANI/GETTY

Finally, proof that Jamie Foxx’s reallife looks like a music video. The buffactor-singer-comedian attracts theattention of buff hangers-on at abeach in Fort Lauderdale. PHOTO BY MAVRIX PHOTO/KEYSTONE

We swear, this is not an ad forCover Girl. It is an actual shot of Drew Barrymore — looking pictureperfect — on her way to do The LateShow with David Letterman. PHOTO BY JAMES DEVANEY/WIREIMAGE

Adorable! George Clooney protectshis noggin with an old-style footballhelmet while shooting the 1920s-setfootball flick Leatherheads in South Carolina. PHOTO BY SPLASH-KEYSTONE

Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner andwee daughter Violet brave the weatheron a March day in Vancouver to seethe sights and get some exercise.Garner was in town working on thedramedy Juno. PHOTO BY BIG PICTURES-KEYSTONE


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From time to time we here at Famousreceive promotional items created by

the studios to keep their films front andcentre in the minds of journalists, andWill Ferrell seems to inspire some of thebest items. We’re still finding fun thingsto do with the Ron Burgundy bobbleheaddoll that was sent to promote Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

And now comes this box of Flakies,“The Breakfast of Winners,” to hypeFerrell and Jon Heder’s Blades of Glory,about a couple of disqualified Men’sfigure skaters who team up to competein the Pairs competition instead.

Much like with a box of Wheaties,“The Breakfast of Champions,” Ferrelland Heder are featured in a triumphantpose on the front of the box, while theside panel features schematic drawingsof the pair’s trademark move, the Iron Lotus, including such stages as thethe Crotch Lift and the Straddle. —MW

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ArtifactThis month’s objet de film: Flakies

Famous Québec editor Mathieu Chantelois reports on the Quebec film scene

Canada’s hottestname in diving has

been making wavessince he was a boy. In1998, at just 13 yearsold, Alexandre Despatiemade an internationalsplash when he took

home the gold in the 10-Metre Platformcompetition at the Kuala LumpurCommonwealth Games. He rode thewinning wave all the way to the 2004Athens Olympics, where he won silver inthe Men’s Three-Metre Springboard event.

Throughout the years, Despatie hasprofessed his passion for cinema. Simplyput, the guy wants to be in pictures.Considering his celebrity and pin-up goodlooks, it was only a matter of time beforeproducers came knocking. Quebecfilmmaker Frédérik D’Amours was first athis door, offering the diving hero a role in the French-language feature

À vos marques… Party!The Mean Girls-esque comedy opened in

Québec March 30th with Despatie playing— you guessed it — an Olympic diver.

Even Despatie admits he’s perfectlycast. “It doesn’t make me shy to play a boy toy and to appear bare-chested oncamera. I’ve lived my life in a Speedosince I was five years old.”

As an actor, Despatie uses many of thetechniques that have served him as anathlete, like ignoring his surroundings inorder to focus. “I had two months of [acting]coaching before we started shooting, andI’m used to just doing what I’m told,” saysthe 21-year-old. “I find a lot of similaritiesbetween my sport and acting.”

His next challenge? The 2008 BeijingOlympics. “After that I’ll take some timeoff to think about my future.”

Whether Despatie surfaces in the wateror on the silver screen remains to be seen,but regardless, he has no shortage ofconfidence. “Whatever I throw myself into,the sky’s the limit,” he says. “I’d love toact in the U.S., in France. I refuse to putbarriers on myself.”

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SPARK.Nathaniel Arcand plays a native warrior in this month's historical action pic Pathfinder, but his own personal path into acting included a few rocky detours.

The 36-year-old Plains Cree native was born and raised in Edmonton,and was barely out of diapers when he knew he wanted to act.

"I was five when I watched Bruce Lee on the big screen at adrive-in theatre," he says on the line from his home inEdmonton. "I started mocking him and I told my mom Iwanted to be an actor, but she just dismissed it.

"Then you get caught up in the teenage worldand it feels like you lose your dream for 10 or 15years before you reach your adulthood and go, 'Hey,I thought I had a dream there once.'"

So how did he grab hold of that dream once more?"Well, I had to do it the hard way. I went to jail,"

he says frankly."I started hanging around with the wrong crowd at a

young age and I found myself in youth detentions, andwhen I turned 18 I went to real jail and I realized at thatpoint it was not for me. I really felt like I hit rock bottom atthat point and I felt there was no place to go but up. I thought, 'Let's get my education back,' so I got my GED — that took a while — and in the meantime I was building myself back up, I was working, looking for whatever jobs I could."

It was while he was waiting for his friend, actor Dakota House,to have his headshots taken at a photography studio that atalent agent saw him and asked if he was interested in acting.

"I said, 'Yeah, sure!' So right there and then I signed up withmy agent, Darryl Mork. The first three years of my career I dida few things here and there, a movie with Graham Greene, butit was so slow and I was on the verge of quitting. But Darrylsaid, 'Don't do it man, hang in there, we'll find you something.'"

That "something" was the TV series North of 60, on which Arcandplayed the show's troublemaker, William MacNeil. He's been workingsteadily ever since, landing gigs on such TV shows as Smallville and Da Vinci's City Hall, and in films like American Outlaws, Elektra and Pathfinder.

Pathfinder, set sometime around 900 A.D. in the wilds of North America,casts Arcand as Wind in Tree, a warrior facing a Viking invasion that'sbeing repelled by Ghost (Karl Urban), a Viking child who was raised bynatives. The role didn't allow Arcand the chance to showcase hisextensive martial arts skills (remember he's a Bruce Lee fanatic),but he did demonstrate another type of athletic ability.

"Mostly, you'll see me dancing. I got to show off my traditionaldancing skills," he says proudly. "You had four different types ofnatives in our tribe in the movie — Salish, Lakota, Plains Creeand some natives from the U.S. — so it was, 'Okay, what danceare we going to use?' We decided we'd each use our owndance from our own culture and I'll tell you, we all look pretty good." —INGRID RANDOJA

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FIREHOUSE DOGWHO’S IN IT? Josh Hutcherson, Bruce GreenwoodWHO DIRECTED? Todd Holland (Kippendorf’s Tribe)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Canine action starRexxx’s latest big-screen stunt backfires,leaving the pooch stranded in a small townwhere he finds a home with the localfirefighting squad.

ARE WE DONE YET?WHO’S IN IT? Ice Cube, Nia LongWHO DIRECTED? Steve Carr (Rebound)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In this sequel to Are We There Yet?, Nick (Ice Cube),Suzanne (Long) and their two kids moveinto a rundown house in the country wherethey discover Nick is no handyman and thecontractor (John C. McGinley) they hire tocomplete the work is even less skilled.

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THE HOAXWHO’S IN IT? Richard Gere, Alfred MolinaWHO DIRECTED? Lasse Hallström (Chocolat)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It’s 1970 and novelistClifford Irving (Gere) and his pal writerRichard Suskind (Molina) concoct a planto write Howard Hughes’ autobiography

believing the reclusive Hughes will neverappear in public to dispute the book. Theyeven manage to get McGraw-Hill to paythem almost $1-million in advance for thetome. But there’s only so long this hoaxcan go undiscovered. See Richard Gere interview, page 24.

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GRINDHOUSE WHO’S IN IT? Kurt Russell, Rose McGowanWHO DIRECTED? Quentin Tarantino, Robert RodriguezWHAT’S IT ABOUT? Movie aficionadosTarantino and Rodriguez join forces topay tribute to ’70s horror/sexploitationflicks with this “twofer” — two films forthe price of one — a format that waspopular in the era’s down and dirtytheatres called “grindhouses.”Tarantino’s contribution, Death Proof,stars Russell as a stuntman who offswomen with his car, while Rodriquez’seffort, Planet Terror, pits a woman(McGowan) — sporting a rapid-fire gunin place of her missing leg — against ahorde of zombies.� HITS THEATRES APRIL 6

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THE REAPINGWHO’S IN IT? Hilary Swank, Idris ElbaWHO DIRECTED? Stephen Hopkins (Under Suspicion)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Katherine Winter(Swank) makes it her business to discreditreligious phenomena, but she’s more thana little mystified when she arrives in aswampy Louisiana town that’s been hit byBiblical-style plagues caused, seemingly,by a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl(AnnaSophia Robb).

YOUNG TRIFFIEWHO’S IN IT? Fred Ewanuick, Mary WalshWHO DIRECTED? Mary Walsh (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Set in Newfoundland,circa 1948, this comic murder-mysterystars Ewanuick as a gullible ranger sent tothe remote outpost of Swyer’s Harbour toinvestigate a case of sheep mutilation. Butit’s humans, not sheep, that are beingkilled and the town’s wacky inhabitants areall suspects.

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DISTURBIAWHO’S IN IT? Shia LaBeouf, Sarah RoemerWHO DIRECTED? D.J. Caruso (Two for the Money)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Kale (LaBeouf) issentenced to three months house arrest,which means the inquisitive teen has awhole lot of time to spy on his neighbours.And wouldn’t ya know it, he begins tosuspect the man living across the street(David Morse) is a killer. Carrie-Anne Mosspops up as Kale’s mom, sending thepresident of The Matrix’s “Trinity Rocks MyWorld” fan club into a severe depression.

YEAR OF THE DOGWHO’S IN IT? Molly Shannon, Peter SarsgaardWHO DIRECTED? Mike White (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Screenwriter White(Orange County, School of Rock, Nacho Libre) makes his directorial debutwith this comedy about a secretary(Shannon) whose life is turned upsidedown when her dog, Pencil, suddenly dies.

PERFECT STRANGERWHO’S IN IT? Halle Berry, Bruce WillisWHO DIRECTED? James Foley (Confidence)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Every so often Bruce Willis says yes to a smirky villain role(Mortal Thoughts, The Jackal) and deliversa devilishly delightful performance. Here,

he plays a married ad executive who picksup women online. When Ro’s (Berry) friendis murdered, she goes to work undercoverin his company to find out if the cheater isalso a killer. See Halle Berry interview,page 28.

SLOW BURNWHO’S IN IT? Ray Liotta, Jolene BlalockWHO DIRECTED? Wayne Beach (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This twist-filledthriller/drama stars Liotta as district attorneyFord Cole, who must decide if his assistantDA (Blalock) killed a man, or if she’s beingset up by gang members who want her tostay out of their business.

PATHFINDERWHO’S IN IT? Karl Urban, Nathaniel ArcandWHO DIRECTED? Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Sometime around 1000 A.D., a shipload of Vikings set foot on North American soil, massacre thehelpless natives living there and leavebehind a small boy. He is adopted by thesurviving natives and proves to be their

saviour when the marauding Norsemenreturn 15 years later. See Nathaniel Arcandinterview, page 12.

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FRACTUREWHO’S IN IT? Ryan Gosling, Anthony HopkinsWHO DIRECTED? Gregory Hoblit (Hart’s War)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Prosecutor Willy Beachum(Gosling) boasts a 97% conviction rate.However, that number takes a hit when aman (Hopkins) who tried to kill his wife isfreed on a technicality. So disgruntledWilly sets out to right that wrong.


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HOT FUZZWHO’S IN IT? Simon Pegg, Nick FrostWHO DIRECTED? Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? From the team behindShaun of the Dead comes this comedy abouta hotshot London cop (Pegg) who’s shippedoff to a sleepy village and saddled with adim-witted partner (Frost). However, hissuperior police skills come in handy when heconfronts a series of suspicious deaths.

KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOLWHO’S IN IT? Jamie Kennedy, Vivica A. FoxWHO DIRECTED? Harvey Glazer (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In 1986, Justin(Kennedy) suffers a tragic breakdancingaccident that leaves him comatose. When hesuddenly wakes up 20 years later he faces aworld in which Molly Ringwald is no longer

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IN THE LAND OF WOMENWHO’S IN IT? Adam Brody, Meg RyanWHO DIRECTED? Jon Kasden (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A TV writer (Brody) getsdumped by his girlfriend and flees sunnyCalifornia for chilly Michigan, where hecares for his ailing grandmother (OlympiaDukakis) and becomes caught up in thedaily drama of the family across the street.

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THE INVISIBLE WHO’S IN IT? Justin Chatwin, Margarita LevievaWHO DIRECTED? Dave S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? After a teenager(Chatwin) is attacked and left for dead hefinds himself in limbo, invisible to theliving and racing against time to find hisbody before he truly perishes.

NEXTWHO’S IN IT? Nicolas Cage, Julianne MooreWHO DIRECTED? Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Cris Johnson (Cage) was born with the ability to see two minutes into the future, which issomething FBI agent Callie Ferris (Moore)thinks could be useful when a terroristgroup threatens to nuke Los Angeles.Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1954 short story “The Golden Man.”

THE CONDEMNEDWHO’S IN IT? Steve Austin, Vinnie JonesWHO DIRECTED? Scott Wiper (A Better Way to Die)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Former WWE wrestlerAustin teams with former British soccerstar Jones in this testosterone-fuelled taleof 10 condemned killers let loose on aremote island where they’re forced to fightone another.

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AWAY FROM HERWHO’S IN IT? Julie Christie, Gordon PinsentWHO DIRECTED? Sarah Polley (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Awww, our little girl is all grown up. Sarah Polly, the child-star-turned-actor makes her feature filmdirectorial debut with this sensitive study of aging couple Fiona and Grant(Christie, Pinsent), who must come toterms with Fiona’s advancing Alzheimer’s.See Sarah Polley and Julie Christieinterviews, page 20.

SPIDER-MAN 3WHO’S IN IT? Tobey Maguire, Kirsten DunstWHO DIRECTED? Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 2)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spidey(Maguire), plans to marry M.J. (Dunst), butthe wedding will have to wait while he battlesthree villains — Sandman (Thomas HadenChurch), Venom (Topher Grace) and a newGreen Goblin (James Franco) — copes with an alien infection that’s turned hispersonality dark and brooding, and deals withthe emergence of another love interest (BryceDallas Howard). Whew! See interview withSam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, James Francoand Kirsten Dunst, page 32.

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interview | SARAH POLLEY

Sarah Polley walks into the Café Mélies dressed in blackfrom head to toe, except for a bright pink scarf. Theyoung filmmaker is in Montreal doing interviews for her

big-screen directorial debut, Away from Her, and is happy to finally be asked questions she feels she can capably answer.

“[Doing interviews] used to be a really agonizing part of theprocess for me, and it isn’t any more,” she confides, smiling.“It’s liberating to really know what you’re talking about andhave a lot to say…. It’s so much more comfortable.”

At 28 years old, Polley is one of Canada’s best-known talents.With two Genies and two Geminis under her belt, she has alreadyhad a long and varied career as an actor and has worked withsome of the country’s greatest directors, including Atom Egoyan(The Sweet Hereafter) and David Cronenberg (eXistenZ).

Now she can officially count herself among their ranks.Based on the short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain by

famed Canadian writer Alice Munro, Away from Her tells of oneman’s love for his fading wife and the lengths he’s willing to goto for her happiness.

Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) are a childless couple in their golden years. Their bliss, however,erodes as Fiona begins to misplace things. The couple nervouslyjokes about her absent-mindedness, but it’s soon apparent thatFiona is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s. Or, as Fiona puts it, “I think I may be beginning to disappear.” The couple reluctantly places Fiona in a retirement home, an action that willultimately take her further and further from her husband.

The film is beautifully shot, faithful to the original work, andfeatures powerful performances by Pinsent and Christie. Polleysays she first had the idea to adapt the short story after readingit on a flight back from shooting the 2001 film No Such Luck inIceland with actor Julie Christie.

“I was so unbelievably moved by the story. I had just finishedworking with Julie Christie, and as I read I kept seeing Julie’sface in the character of Fiona.”

Polley began to cast the rest of the film in her head, but took twoyears before she actually committed herself to the project.

In adapting a classic Canadian story about a woman losing her mind to Alzheimer’s,

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interview | SARAH POLLEY“I was definitely nervous because [Alice Munro] is

somebody who I am quite reverential of myself and I know thatwhenever anyone else has adapted her work, I’ve been overlycritical of it. So it wasn’t something I took lightly.”

This isn’t the first time that Polley has brought one of Canada’s great storytellers to the screen. In 2004, she adapted,and directed, a Carol Shields story for TV’s The Shields Stories.

“I think it is important, culturally, to be telling indigenous stories wherever you happen to be from,” she says, quite proudly.“I’m from Ontario and I feel that it’s good to adapt an Ontariowriter. It’s what I know.”

Polley doesn’t see her filmmaking choices as political, buteven so, her big-screen directing debut does speak to her personal politics. Throughout her career Polley has been verycritical of the Hollywood machine. She has turned down manyplum roles in order to appear in independent and locally pro-duced work. Away from Her seems to be an extension of that.

In addition to being based on a Canadian short story, the filmwas shot in Ontario with a cast that includes many Canadians.The film also features excerpted work by other Canadian

authors (Michael Ondaatje and Alistair MacLeod), and big-name Canadian recording artists (k.d. lang and Neil Young) appear on the soundtrack. It would seem, at its heart, Away from Her is an inherently Canadian picture.

“In a strange way I think we go so out of our way to disguiseour identity when we’re making films,” says Polley, adding thatshe thought the film would be much more interesting if it wasspecific to the place in which it was set. “It comes across as a bitof a political statement but, in fact, I think there’s just no will onmy part to disguise the film or make it too universal…. I just didn’t try to hide where we were.”

Having enjoyed successful screenings at such prestigious filmfestivals as Sundance, the Berlin International Film Festival andthe Toronto International Film Festival, Away from Her is set toopen across Canada on May 4th.

“I feel like everything that could have possibly happened tothe film has happened and way more,” says Polley, “so at thispoint I’m thrilled.”

Christopher DiRaddo is a Montreal-based freelance writer.

Julie Christie is a reluctantactress. “I don’t like making

films very much,” she says wryly,during an interview at the 2006Toronto International Film Festival.“It interrupts my life. I have a lackof desire to create except what Iwant to create, be it a garden or apiece of writing.”

In fact, over the course of hercareer Christie has built areputation for turning down roles,and turning her back on Hollywood.The actress lit up the screens inthe 1960s, most famously as Larain Dr. Zhivago, and has spent thebetter part of three decadeseschewing fame, and choosing herroles carefully. So how did Sarah Polley convince her to playFiona in Away from Her? It helpedthat the two are friends havingmade two films together, 2001’sNo Such Thing and 2005’s The Secret Life of Words.

“Sarah was embarrassed toask me because she knows me,and she knows my lack ofambition. But she persisted andpersisted, and I resisted andresisted. Eventually I thought, ‘If Idon’t do this, someone else isgoing to have the experience ofSarah’s first film,’” Christie says.“I was becoming jealous of that

other person who would behaving that closeness to Sarah,having that experience of one ofthe most important things in yourfriend’s life,” she says.

When Christie chooses a role,there is a long list of criteria thatneed to be met. “I look at the scriptand think: Is the writing good?Does it make sense? Has it gotintegrity? Is it intelligent?”

According to Christie, Awayfrom Her received ticks in all theboxes. “It is a terribly, terribly goodscript. But I didn’t realize that untilI saw the film. The first time I sawthe film I thought, ‘My God, thiswoman’s a filmmaker.’ And I don’tthink that about many filmmakers.But Sarah has it in her gut.”

Christie says doing Away fromHer was “absolutely the rightdecision,” adding that, though shemight not enjoy celebrity, film is adifferent matter.

“Film is a wonderful media, andI’m flabbergasted by good actors.Gordon [Pinsent], Michael[Murphy], Olympia [Dukakis]…areall wonderful actors doing thismagic. You are given enormouspleasure with acting, as you arewith painting or music. I wouldnever underestimate the arts. Theyfeed the soul.” —Erin Phelan

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In December 1971, publishing houseMcGraw-Hill announced that the autobiography of Howard Hughes

would snake through its massive printingpresses sometime the following year.

The tome about the once-great aviationgenius, Hollywood mogul and billionaireplayboy who turned into an obsessive-compulsive recluse was expected to beone of the literary landmarks of the 20th century.

“Howard Hughes was still a big deal inthose days, and his whereabouts was afavourite with the tabloids and even themainstream press,” explains Richard Gereduring a recent interview in New York.Gere, now 57, was in his early 20s whenthat press release was sent out. “Even a lot of younger people knew who he was. No one could escape all the constantheadlines of him supposedly in hiding,becoming a hermit and travelling incog-nito all the time. People wanted to knowwhat was up with the guy.”

That’s exactly what the folks at McGraw-Hill were banking on. A writer named Clifford Irving had handed them a trio of

letters in which Hughes claimed he wanted to write his memoirto clear up any misconceptions about of his life. It was also expected that the book would be a kiss-and-tell about his affairswith iconic actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Hughes had only one stipulation. Irving — who said he wasin contact with the recluse because Hughes was a fan of one ofhis books — would have to ghostwrite the autobiography.

Hughes agreed that, through a series of taped, in-person interviews with Irving, he would recall his entire life in returnfor $750,000 (U.S.), $100,000 of which would go to Irving.

(During negotiations, Irving also askedthat his journalist friend Dick Suskind behired on as a fact checker.)

While McGraw-Hill initially balked atthe steep price, handwriting expertsproved the skeptics wrong by authenti-cating Hughes’ signatures on the lettersand contracts, and the publishers agreed,figuring they would make a mint on whatshould be the best-selling autobiographyof the century.

But there was one tiny secret that Irving had kept to himself.

“It was completely bogus, probably thebiggest scam anyone has ever tried to pulloff, and no one wanted to or had thebrains to figure it out,” explains Gere, who plays Irving in The Hoax, directorLasse Hallström’s take on the incident.

“You can call it my Buddhist beliefs orwhatever you want, but whatever goesaround, comes around. And that’s justwhat happened. The more I found out

about him, I learned he was a very complex and confident man,and he was pretty sure he was going to pull it off. He just wasn’tcounting on the one most unlikely thing to happen to prove itfalse. Fate came calling.”

Actually, it was Hughes. After remaining out of sight for more than 14 years, not just

to the media, but to employees, family members and what fewfriends he still had, Howard Hughes set up a telephone conference call with seven handpicked journalists. He toldthem he knew nothing about the book and had absolutely noidea who Clifford Irving was. The entire interview was televised.

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interview |RICHARD GEREinsist that the project was genuine. But when McGraw-Hill

refused to publish the book, Irving, his wife Edith Irving (whohad cashed the $750,000 worth of cheques that had been madeout to H.R. Hughes) and Suskind confessed to the fraud.

The trio was charged with a total of 14 criminal offenses, including grand larceny, perjury and conspiracy, possession offorged documents, intent to defraud and mail fraud. Their trialsmade front-page news in major dailies across North America.

Unintentionally, Clifford Irving had become a media star.“Usually, I just try to create a character from within,”

explains Gere, grabbing a bottle of mineral water from atable in his Big Apple hotel. “Some prosthetics and toomuch makeup can be a distraction, but since Clifford Irvinghas continued to be a media figure since the HowardHughes fiasco, I felt like I should at least try to look a littlelike him.” So Gere permed his hair, shaved back his hairline and wore a prosthetic nose.

Edith Irving (played here by Marcia Gay Harden)would do two months in jail, and Suskind (Alfred Molina)did five months. But Irving ended up with considerablymore time in the slammer, 17 months to be exact. The upside was that he was finally able write his book aboutHoward Hughes, The Hoax, which chronicles the events of thescam and was the basis for this film’s screenplay.

“Expect a lot of action,” says Gere. “I would guess we improviseda third of the movie, maybe more, but we also had a very goodscript to start from. Lasse would just say, ‘Okay, let’s now shake itup and just improvise a whole different thing and make it rock.’”

After a week spent filming in Puerto Rico (a stand-in for the Bahamas), the better part of The Hoax was filmed in New York City and Upstate New York, another reason Gere wasenticed to make the film. With wife Carey Lowell (a Law & Orderalumnus), their seven-year-old son, Homer, and Lowell’s 17-year-old daughter, Hannah, from a previous marriage, Gere is a full-fledged family man who tries to work as close to home as possible.

“I’ve gotten to the point where I’ll make a decision to do amovie based on how long we will be apart, so, certainly, the location is an influence,” he says. “It doesn’t always matter whenyou film in places like Toronto or New York, but if I have to goto Europe for a long time, I probably will turn down the project.”

Unlike most parents, Gere hopes his children don’t follow inhis footsteps. “I don’t know anyone who’s an actor that wouldever want their kids to act,” he says with a heavy sigh. “That’sbecause there’s one, maybe half-a-percent of actors that actually work. There’s such an enormous amount of rejectionfrom the beginning, but it doesn’t stop. There’s an enormousamount of focus on external factors, and none of these thingsare particularly healthy for anyone.”

“I think that there are healthier ways for people to live,” he continues. “The cliché is true. If there’s anything else that you cando besides acting, do that. If this is all you can do and you’re totally focused on it, then great. Fine. My stepdaughter, for instance, is totally focused on this. There’s no way of dissuadingher from this. There is no way. This is where she’s going, andthat’s fine. She does the school plays, does her voice lessons…andthat’s that. That came from her even with all the dissuading, withall of the ‘Please don’t do this. Don’t you want to be somethingelse?’ ‘No, this is it.’ So that, you can’t argue with.”

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

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No wonder Howard Hughescontinues to fascinatefilmmakers. He’s rememberedmost famously for his lateryears as a drug-addicted, germ-phobic, billionairerecluse, but he also spent 25 years in Hollywood as adashing producer, director and,eventually, studio owner (RKO).

Here’s a recap of his real-lifemovie achievements and a lookat how Hollywood has portrayedthe man who had everything.

PRODUCER:Hughes produced 17 films, hisfinest being Two ArabianKnights (1927), The Front Page(1931) and Scarface (1932).

DIRECTOR:Hell’s Angels (1930), The Outlaw (1943) andVendetta (1950). Hughes’notable contribution as adirector is the invention of thepush-up bra worn by The Outlaw’sJane Russell. The film wasbanned in Maryland where ajudge ruled Russell’s largebreasts dominated the film “likea thunderstorm spread over alandscape.”

PORTRAYED ON CELLULOID:� THE AVIATOR (2005):In the only Hughes bio-pic

made to date, Leonardo DiCaprioplays a charismatic Hughesfrom his arrival in Hollywood inthe 1920s to the improbableflight of his Spruce Gooseairplane in 1947.

� MELVIN AND HOWARD(1980): Director JonathanDemme’s acclaimed filmrecounts the alleged 1967meeting between gas-stationowner Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat) and a disheveledHughes (Jason Robards), whoDummar found lying alongside a Nevada highway.

� THE ROCKETEER (1991):This homage to 1930s serialfilms focuses on a rocket packprototype invented by Hughes(Terry O’Quinn), who wantsheroic young pilot Cliff Secord(Billy Campbell) to keep it safe from Nazi spies.

� TUCKER: A MAN AND HISDREAMS (1988): This story of maverick car designerPreston Tucker (Jeff Bridges)includes a small appearance byHughes (Dean Stockwell) insidethe hangar housing his belovedSpruce Goose. —IR

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When producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas prefaced herpitch for Perfect Stranger to Halle Berry by warning herit was not a typical “Halle Berry vehicle,” Berry’s interest

was immediately piqued. “I knew it was one of those risky parts a lot of actors would

be scared to take,” says Berry, who turned 40 last summer. “Itseemed so unlikely for me to even consider.”

Directed by James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross), Perfect Strangerstars Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi in a twisted taleabout internet hookups and murder. Berry plays journalistRowena Price, whose friend Grace (Nicki Aycox) meets one ofthe biggest advertising executives in New York, Harrison Hill(Willis), online, has an affair with him, and then goes missing.

When Grace is found dead, Rowena suspects Harrison,who’s married and known for going to great lengths to cover uphis affairs. So she goes undercover as a temp at his ad agency toinvestigate, where she both flirts with him in person and createsan alter ego to flirt with him online. Ribisi plays an IT tech whohelps Rowena track Harrison through cyberspace.

Exciting, perhaps. But is it really that risky a choice for the Oscar-winning actor? In a recent Beverly Hills interview, Berry explained.

Why do you consider Perfect Stranger a risky film? “Because it’s allabout the acting. Actually, it was one of the most formidable acting jobs I’ve ever had. Myself, Bruce and Giovanni had tomake our characters seem real or the story would have fallenapart and been a disaster. I had to lose myself in the character,and that’s not always easy. From the moment you see my face onthe screen you have to believe that I’m a journalist and not Halle Berry playing one. I have to make sure people don’t evennotice Halle Berry for them to really get into this movie.”

And the internet is an important element in the story? “Well, in orderto find the reason her friend was murdered, she discovers thatshe has to go into the threatening and mysterious side of the internet — where no one really is who they say they are…. Sheends up piddling around in this dark side and she realizes thatthe internet was really the cause of her friend’s death. But she’ssure that Bruce’s character, the ad agency owner, is the personwho murdered her friend, and she tries to prove it. She sort offigures it all out bit by bit, but it gets pretty racy, dangerous andterrifying at times.”

So it’s not exactly a relaxing movie to watch. “It is the kind offilm that is going to really shock people, because I was freakedout doing it. You take a big chance by tackling a role like this,but that’s what makes this job worth doing. I’m too old to be doing movies that are considered safe for my career.”

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How do you feel about turning 40? “I feel good about it. Ithink that what doesn’t feel good about it is when everyone says,‘Oh my God!’ Then I don’t feel so good about it. But, left to myown devices, I don’t even know what 40 is, and I don’t knowwhat it’s supposed to mean. I just feel great and happy right now with life.”

In the past,you’ve said you might adopt a child,do you still feel that way?“Well, the funny thing is that you say something one time — youhave a thought — and then it becomes like your mission. I saidthat because I don’t know what’s going to happen. I can tell youwhat I do know. I’m moving, as I move into my 40s, the desireto have something in my life that’s more meaningful thanmovies…is becoming really, really real.”

You’ve been married twice,would you get married again to have a baby?“Oh, God. No. It won’t come in the form of that…. I no longerhave the need to be someone’s wife, and I no longer have the

need to feel validated through marriage. I want kids, and as I’vegrown and evolved I now know that I’m okay by myself and itdoesn’t affect my sense of self or value or self-worth. I oncethought that I needed that to feel whole and good. I just don’tneed that anymore.”

So you would be comfortable having a child without being married?“Yeah, and I hope that I can have a child of my own with a guythat could be the father and have a lovely committed relationshipwith me. Someone who would be in my life without the legalpiece of paper that says, ‘Okay, if you divorce you get this andyou get that.’ And you fight, fight, fight and end up hating eachother. I hope that I could just walk away and say, ‘Okay. Thisdoesn’t work anymore. Let’s just say bye.’”

Why don’t you do more dramas like Monster’s Ball? “I hear that a lot,that people want me to do more drama, but it’s not that easy. Iknow that things have changed for women of colour, but it’s stilla struggle.”

Do you think it’s a colour issue more than a female issue? “I thinkthat it’s hard for a woman. I mean, there are so many great actresses and there should be a lot of great parts, but those partsare really few and far between, and then being a woman ofcolour kind of compounds the issue. I mean, sometimes whenI think that there is a great part that I want to audition for I stillhear, ‘Well, Halle is great, but we don’t want this character to beblack. She’s married to a guy who is white.’ And it’s like, ‘What’swrong with that? I have a white mother and a black father.’‘Well, then it makes the family look funny and we have these issues. We just don’t want to deal with that.’”

Did a lot of the perceptions about you change when you won the Oscarfor Monster’s Ball? “Yeah, but what you also realize is that that wasa moment in time, and that moment is long past…. Do you remember who won three or four years ago even? The heat ofwinning wanes because every year someone else wins. So it’swhat you do with that and how you use that to further your career that’s really important.”

So what’s next? “I did a really great movie with Benicio Del Torothat’s a small feeling movie that’s about relationships and people — a little slice of life. It’s called Things We Lost in the Fire.It’s a drama. It’s a little art-house type movie. It deals with someheavy issues. My character loses her husband, and she’s dealingwith life without him and two little kids. Benicio is a heroin addict and their lives intersect. It’s about how these two helpeach other grow and become better. It’s not tied up in a prettybow. It’s kind of messy.”

Does Catwoman still haunt you? “Since I’m no longer afraid totake risks with the roles I take, I thought Catwoman was a chancefor a female heroine to helm her own movie, and hopefully become a franchise, and what great things that would do for awoman. But it missed. So you just put on your big-girl pantiesand deal with it. You say, ‘Okay, I’m moving on.’ But it’s abouttaking the risk. That’s what my career is about for me and that’swhat drives me and excites me. Sometimes it’ll work and sometimes it won’t.”

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

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You’ve heard of method acting — anactor goes through intense prepara-tion to virtually become the character

he or she portrays. But is it possible thatthere’s a form of method directing as well?If so, Sam Raimi may be a follower. Havinghelmed all three Spider-Man movies, aswell as contributing to their stories, Raimiis the one man who may be closer toSpidey than actor Tobey Maguire himself.

“I know him like a good friend,” Raimisays of the Marvel Comics superhero during an interview in L.A., “or maybecloser than a good friend, since I’vespent so much time getting into his head,wondering how I might react here andthere, pretending to be Peter Parker[Spidey’s photojournalist alter ego].”

For a long time the 47-year-old directorwas best known as the mind behind thetwo Evil Dead movies, the 1981 cult-classiczombie flick and its 1987 sequel. Butsince the 2002 release of Spider-Man,there’s been a new star of his filmography.That film broke a record by earning$114-million (U.S.) in its opening weekend, and its successor,2004’s Spider-Man 2, kept pace by earning $115-million in itsfirst few days. But never mind the money, not all films that breakbox-office records are good. These two, however, earned criticalacclaim to match their earnings.

Raimi’s happy the third movie got the green light not only because of such crass incentives as money and acclaim, but because that’s the only way he’d know the fate of his pal Peter.“After finishing the second one,” says Raimi, “the question

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that kept popping up in my mindwas, ‘What will happen to Peter next?’”

Yes, what will happen to Peter next?It seems Peter’s problems (and arch-

enemies) start popping up like weeds. After Flint Marko (Thomas HadenChurch), who killed Peter’s Uncle Ben,gets out of prison, an industrial accidenttransforms him into Sandman, a shape-shifting sand creature. But while at thesite of that accident, Peter comes intocontact with a mysterious black substancethat turns his suit black, enhancingSpidey’s powers, but also bringing out adarker side of his personality. This drasticmood change makes Peter ignore thoseclosest to him, a group that now includesGwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), thepolice chief’s beautiful daughter whofalls for Peter, understandably annoyingMary Jane (Kirsten Dunst).

Then the black substance transfers itself from Spider-Man to Eddie Brock(Topher Grace), an investigative reporterhired by Peter’s editor, J. Jonah Jameson(J.K. Simmons), to dig up dirt on Peter

after Mary Jane dumps Jameson’s son todate him. Once Eddie’s infected he transforms into the supervillain Venom.

And what of Peter’s old friend HarryOsborn (James Franco), son of the now-deceased Green Goblin? Having vowedto kill Spider-Man at the end of the firstmovie, it looks as if Harry may finally takeup his father’s mantle, adding anothercomplication to Parker’s muddled life.

That’s a lot of information — but ittook a long time to be revealed, especiallyfor fans who’d been waiting for the newvillains to be announced since Spider-Man 2was in theatres.

Co-star Dunst even got in some troublefor unintentionally jumping the gun lastyear and confirming internet rumoursthat Sandman and Venom would beSpidey’s new foes. “I never know what tosay and what not to say when they ask meabout a Spider-Man that I’m making,” the25-year-old Dunst admits while doing aninterview for Marie Antoinette last year. “Iwas in a room with a bunch of journalists,and they mentioned who was playing

certain villains, and I had seen it on the Internet Movie Database. I asked my publicistif it was out and he said it was….

“It turned out to be a big deal, but theyshould’ve [explained] what they wantedto be kept secret,” argues Dunst. “No onecommunicated to us about that. I mean,to me, I thought that it was out. It kind ofwas, but I guess that it just hadn’t been directly confirmed by anyone.”

But enough about the villains, ulti-mately it’s Spider-Man we care about. Sowhat’s Maguire’s take on his less-kind,less-gentle superhero this time around?

“Peter Parker is in a different place inhis life. It was wearing on him being Spider-Man and not having a life of hisown,” says Maguire during an L.A. inter-view. Maguire’s own life now includes being a dad to five-month-old Ruby, hisdaughter with girlfriend Jennifer Meyer.

“I always thought that it was peculiarthat he couldn’t see how he could justhave a little balance in his life and thingswould be a little better for him, but thereare complications for that which I can understand. But he now feels some bal-ance in his life, but he also has these giftsand wants to use them responsibly.”

Which gets harder to do when a mys-terious black entity puts you in a reallybad mood. Maguire says it was importantto keep that character-shift in check, andnot play it too over-the-top.

“We had to keep the essence of who Peter Parker is in the character, becausehe’s still Peter,” Maguire explains. “How-ever, we see him behave different and gointo different areas of himself, and it wassomething that we had to work out. Samand I, in particular, were trying to findthe right balance.”

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One more thing we can assume aboutthis movie is that — one way or another— Spidey will still be standing at the end.After all, talk of a fourth installment hasalready begun.

Since many of the principal playerswere only contracted for three films, several have doubts about whether they’llreturn for a fourth.

“I’ve had a great time with Sam, andthere is part of me that would miss working with him and Tobey, but I thinkit’s time for me to move on,” Franco admits during an interview at a tony hotelin L.A.’s Westwood neighbourhood. “Youknow, it is funny, because when we bothsigned on to do the first one, Tobey andI had done great projects but we wereboth still kind of new to the stardomthing. We’ve gone through a lot together,and I will miss him, but I think I’m readyto try something different.”

As for Raimi, he’s much less committal:“I can’t imagine that I’d have the strengthto direct another one after this third one.My job is done, but you never say never.Maybe it’s time to give another director atry or just let it live on as a trilogy.”

And if Raimi doesn’t return, don’t expect to see Dunst either. “I wouldn’t doanother one without Sam because he’sthe heart of the films. No way,” she says.

However, Maguire — the most impor-tant piece of the puzzle — has said conflicting things in the media aboutwhether or not he’ll be back. When wespoke, it sounded as if he hadn’t closedthe door on Spider-Man 4 just yet.

“I think that with this film we’ve donea pretty good job, or at least from my perspective, I felt like we’ve had really interesting stories to tell, new and freshstories while keeping the continuity ofthe characters,” Maguire says. “In thismovie we will be tying up some storylinesthat have been open for the first coupleof movies. So there will be some conclu-sions, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarilythe end. I think that we’re going to leaveit open-ended and say that we’re notquite sure what’s going to happen. Ifthere are stories worth telling, then wewill tell them.”

Earl Dittman is an entertainment writerbased in Houston, Texas.

Sam Raimi is a creature of habit. Thedirector of all three Spider-Man movies isknown for his cinematic trademarks; littlethings he includes in his films that, if youwatch closely, you should be able to spot.Here are some of his trademarks usedin the first two Spider-Man flicks thatmay very well show up in Spider-Man 3.

• HIS CAR: Raimi owns a 1973 yellowOldsmobile Delta 88, which he’snicknamed “The Classic,” and whichhe’s included in all of his films exceptThe Quick and the Dead. It’s used asUncle Ben’s car in Spider-Man, and inthe second film it’s seen sitting in Aunt May’s driveway.

• HIS BROTHER: Actor Ted Raimi is Sam’syounger brother, and he pops up inmost of his movies. In the Spider-Manseries he plays Hoffman, J. JonahJameson’s beleaguered sidekick.

• HIS DRINK: There’s often a bottle ofMaker’s Mark Whiskey lying about.

• HIS SHOT: Raimi loves to include a shottaken from the point of a view of a fast-moving object. In Spider-Man thecamera rides alongside whizzingprojectiles fired by the Green Goblintoward Spidey, and in Spider-Man 2there’s a shot from the point of view ofDoc Ock’s tentacles as they reach outtoward doctors operating on him.Raimi dubbed the shot “Octovision.”

• HIS PROP: Look for mirrors that capturethe duality of a character, as seen inSpider-Man when Norman Osbornlooks into a mirror and sees bothhimself and his alter ego, The GreenGoblin. Since Spider-Man 3 focuses onPeter Parker dealing with his dark sidemirrors will surely be present. —IR

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But this spring the classic colour of chinos hasbeen given a makeover and is now sitting at the coolkids’ table with not a single polyester flap pocket insight. If you’re looking to lighten up after a winterof sombre greys, khaki, taupe or café au lait tonesare a great way to ease yourself into lighter springshades and not as hard to wear as white, which cancast a harsh glare onto a pale, post-winter visage.

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MLB '07: THE SHOW PS3In Sony's first next-generation baseballtitle gamers create a ball player fromscratch and struggle through the minorleagues until they reach The Show. Oncethere, they face a full season of hitting andfielding and, for the first time, onlineleagues for up to 30 teams.

New features focus heavily on pitching,with detailed grips, arm angles and

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MONSTER MADNESS: BATTLEFOR SUBURBIA PC, XBOX 360 With mom and dad away one Friday night,Zack has high hopes for his "study date"with Goth girl Carrie, at least until hisskater pal Andy shows up with that stuck-up cheerleader Jennifer. But before Zackcan get his social life sorted out, somethingalmost as upsetting happens — a mob of

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FREEDOM WRITERSSTARS: Hilary Swank, Patrick DempseyDIRECTOR: Richard LaGravenese (Living Out Loud)STORY: In the tradition of Music of theHeart and Take the Lead, Swank plays areal-life teacher — in this case a womannamed Erin Gruwell — who tries to changethe lives of inner-city students by showingthem there are alternatives to violence. Inparticular, she uses journal writing, andthe real-life collection of the students’journal entries served as the jumping-offpoint for the film’s script. DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, photo gallery,“Making a Dream,” “Freedom Writers: The Story Behind the Story”

THE LAST KING OFSCOTLANDSTARS: Forest Whitaker,James McAvoy DIRECTOR: KevinMacdonald(Touching the Void)STORY: Whitaker’s

Oscar-winning performance is the reasonto see this largely fictional account of therelationship between Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Whitaker) and his Scottishdoctor (McAvoy). Largely fictional becausethat doctor never existed. The rest of thenarrative take similar liberties to paint apicture of the brutal leader. DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, castingsession, director commentary, “Capturing Idi Amin”


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THE QUEEN STARS: Helen Mirren, Michael SheenDIRECTOR: Stephen Frears (High Fidelity)STORY: Bedroom chats and private phoneconversations are used to recall Queen Elizabeth’s (Best Actress Mirren)steely reaction to Princess Diana’s death.Just how much of it is actually true is leftfor the audience to ponder. Sheen playsPrime Minister Tony Blair (Sheen), whobegs Elizabeth to show more compassion.

LITTLE CHILDREN STARS: Kate Winslet, Patrick WilsonDIRECTOR: Todd Field (In the Bedroom)STORY: Director Field once again probes the damaged underbelly ofsuburban life as unsatisfied wife Sarah(Winslet) begins an extramarital affair with Brad (Wilson), who also feels trappedand bored by his relationship. Meanwhile,the community of young families in which they live is brought together by the return home of a convicted sex offender (Jackie Earle Haley).

DÉJÀ VUSTARS: Denzel Washington, Paula PattonDIRECTOR: Tony Scott (Domino)STORY: Washington plays agent Doug Carlin,investigating an explosion that destroyed aship carrying hundreds of U.S. sailors inNew Orleans. But when Carlin goes to thehome of a victim (Patton) who may havebeen tied to the bomber, he hears his own voice on her answering machine. What follows involves time bending andwormholes as Carlin tries to stop theexplosion from happening in the first place.

A P R I L 1 7NOTES ON A SCANDAL ($43)Many missed this gem in thetheatres, either because of itslimited release or because goodword of mouth led to a lot of sell outs, so it should be a hotcommodity on DVD.

Based on the novel by Zoë Heller and directed byRichard Eyre (Iris), the story istold through the eyes of Barbara(Judi Dench), a lonely teacherwho’s closing in on retirement.When a vibrant, younger pottery teacher named Sheba (Cate Blanchett) comes to workat her school, Barbara sees apotential friend and sets out tomake Sheba a confidante.

And Sheba has a lot toconfide. Despite being marriedwith two children, she is having

an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. But when Sheba doesn’t confideenough in Barbara, the elderwoman turns on her.

The DVD includes the

featurettes “The Story of TwoObsessions,” “In Character:Cate Blanchett,” a directorcommentary, plus a bunch ofinterviews that first appearedon the film’s official website.

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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM ($46)The surprise hit of last year’sholiday season, Night at theMuseum stars Ben Stiller asdown-and-out inventor Larry Daley. About to lose hisapartment, Larry takes a job asa night watchman at New York’sMuseum of Natural History.

But a lonely guy with his feetup reading the paper all nightwouldn’t make much of a movie,so this museum is stricken witha curse that brings the exhibits

to life after sundown. Dinosaursplay catch and cowboys fight withSpartans, putting the museum,and Larry’s job, in jeopardy. So,Larry enlists the help ofreanimated Teddy Roosevelt(Robin Williams) to keep theother historical figures in check.

A two-disc Special EditionDVD sports an impressive slateof bonus features, including theDVD-ROM game “Reunite withRexy,” an alternate opening, gagreel, deleted scenes, “Directing101,” “Bringing the Museum toLife,” “Monkey Business,”“Building the Museum” (which,by the way, was done on aVancouver soundstage),commentaries and more.

A single-disc not-so-specialedition is also available, butpriced at just three dollars less,it’s not much of a choice.

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Cate Blanchett (left) and Judi Denchin Notes on a Scandal

Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum

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