FEATURES
May 2, 2008
Next Friday MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS -- (Weinstein Co.) Director Wong Kar Wai makes his English-language debut with the story of a young woman (Norah Jones) who suffers a bad breakup and then works her way across the U.S. as a waitress. With Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn. MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD -- (THINKFilm) Two brothers from a small Italian town develop passionate, polarizing ideas about politics with a woman caught in the middle. With Riccardo Scamarcio, Elio Germano and Diane Fleri.
NEWS
By Chris Kaltenbach | August 26, 2008
Bickering but incredibly photogenic couple Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher find themselves unexpectedly married after a night of binge-drinking. But before they can make things right again, the disputed rights to a $3 million jackpot - one newlywed won using the other's quarter - makes disconnecting a little harder. It's all formulaic, but Diaz and Kutcher display an easy chemistry. Easy on the eyes, if not on the sensibilities. An "extended jackpot edition" ($34.98) includes some two hours of deleted scenes, outtakes and interviews.
FEATURES
October 23, 2009
Paris *** ( 3 STARS) Juliette Binoche and Paris - what more do you want? In this multicharacter cinematic tapestry of the City of Light, Binoche plays the social-worker sister of an ailing former chorus boy. She cares for him while he waits to get the call for a heart transplant. They provide the core story for a film that fans out to embrace diverse locations as well as vividly contrasting characters such as hearty produce vendors and neurotic academics. It's overlong and erratic, but it's filled with perfect moments, including a confrontation between Binoche and her co-workers that provides a rare cinematic reflection of the potential tyranny of egalitarianism.
ENTERTAINMENT
By KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | December 7, 2003
He can sing. He can dance. He can do color commentary for the NBA, shill for McDonald's and suck face with Cameron Diaz at the same time. He's Justin Timberlake. And he's unbearably annoying. At 22, Timberlake is the most sought-after American music act of the moment. We're not sure why, but we do know that it's really hard to take seriously a former Mouseketeer turned curly-haired homey. Rumor, in the form of In Touch magazine, has it that Timberlake is threatening to auction off love letters from ex-girlfriend Britney Spears and donate the profits to charity.
FEATURES
By ORLANDO SENTINEL | March 21, 2003
View From the Top is soooooo not funny. Set up as a mild send-up of small-town girls pursuing the "glamour" of careers as flight attendants, it never comes to life. It rarely even reaches the level of cute. Gwyneth Paltrow never seems quite dumb enough to be the rube from Silver Springs, Nev., who dreams of the jet-set and that dream route, "Paris, International, First Class." Christina Applegate, cast because of what she did for Cameron Diaz in The Sweetest Thing, has the thankless role of sidekick, a fellow stewardess on the "full, upright and locked" career track.
NEWS
By EDWARD WYATT and EDWARD WYATT,New York Times News Service | March 11, 2007
LOS ANGELES -- Parents looking for role models for teenage daughters: Finally there is a show for you. Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll, which made its premiere last week on the CW network, may look like just another reality show with attractive, slinkily dressed women preening for the camera in the hope of a shot at stardom. But Pussycat Dolls Present is about female empowerment, the show's producers explained to television writers here in January. "Everything the Pussycat Dolls are is everything that I've developed myself into being," said rap star Lil' Kim, who is a judge on the show and who served a prison sentence for lying to a federal grand jury about a shooting outside a radio station.
NEWS
By TRICIA BISHOP and TRICIA BISHOP,SUN STAFF | January 7, 2001
Ever wonder where celebrities get their chic shades? More and more, the hip (and sometimes edgy) frame designs of Paris-based Frederic Beausoleil are showing up on the noses of Hollywood's elite. Here are some you might have seen: * Michael Douglas' professorial reading glasses in "Wonder Boys" (style No. 104 070) * Julia Roberts' cat-like shades in "Erin Brockovich" (style No. 26 293) * Sandra Bullock's sun-blocking hangover helpers in "28 Days" (style No. 171 300) Lucy Liu also wore them in "Charlie's Angels," Cameron Diaz in both "Any Given Sunday" and "Being John Malkovich," and Matt Damon in "Legend of Bagger Vance."
SPORTS
By Matt Vensel | April 26, 2011
When he wasn't busy hitting grand slams and chowing down unsatisfactory meals at P.F. Chang's with Cameron Diaz , Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez found some time during his recent weekend getaway in Baltimore to discuss shortstop Manny Machado , the Orioles' top minor-league prospect. "If I was an Orioles fan, I would be really excited to see what this kid has to offer for the next -- at least for the next -- decade or so," Rodriguez told MLB.com. "It's going to be very exciting.
FEATURES
By Liz Smith and Liz Smith,Tribune Media Services | June 25, 2007
Good Lord! You use e-mail?" This is what the popular and good-looking Elizabeth Saltzman of Vanity Fair was overheard saying to the queen of England at a recent garden party in honor of the Household Cavalry. Elizabeth II had just said to Ms. S. "We must keep in touch; let me give you my e-mail address." The queen had added as an aside that she does use e-mail. "But I don't write them myself. I dictate them." The queen is surprisingly agile when it comes to the 21st century. She is known to use a mobile phone given to her by Prince Andrew, and she also has an iPod.