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20 MISSION STATEMENT In taking on the role of M:i:III’svillain, consummate character actorand Oscar-winner Philip SeymourHoffman lets audiences know he’s upfor anything, especially tormentingTom Cruise I BY EARL DITTMAN

26 HE SHOOTS, HE SCORESThe Rocket marks the third time inhis career that Roy Dupuis has lacedup to play Montreal Canadienslegend Maurice Richard, and theQuébécois star boasts he wassteadier on his skates than his NHLco-stars I BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LÉGARÉ

28 MOL SKINSlim, blond Gretchen Mol may seemlike an odd choice to play curvy,dark-haired pin-up Bettie Page. ButThe Notorious Bettie Page’s starsays she felt a kinship with thefifties’ naughtiest model I BY BOB STRAUSS

C O V E R S T O R Y32 FARIS IS BURNING

She scored critical points for herwork in Lost in Translation andBrokeback Mountain, and now thesuddenly hot Anna Faris reprises her signature role as Cindy Campbellin Scary Movie 4. Here the savvyactor talks about the art of makingpeople laugh I BY EARL DITTMANCOVER PHOTO: ROGER ERIKSON / ICON PHOTO

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Did you recognize Anna Faris on thecover of this magazine? Chancesare you have seen at least one of

her films. With her Scary Movie franchisealready past the $640-million (U.S.)mark (the fourth one comes out thismonth) there aren’t too many peoplewho haven’t watched at least one of her turns as the oft-frightened Cindy Campbell in the popular spoof series.

And those who wouldn’t be caughtdead at a Scary Movie are just the demo-

graphic that would have enjoyed Faris as a spoiled starlet in 2003’s nuanced Lost in Translation, or in last year’s tragic Brokeback Mountain.What? You didn’t recognize her in Brokeback Mountain? Don’t be embarrassed, neither did I until the credits rolled. She was the yappyhousewife who danced with Jack Twist at the country club — stick apuffy bleached wig on her head and she’s unrecognizable.

In “Anna Faris Just Won’t Die,” page 32, the actor says herchameleon-like abilities have helped her carve out a pretty interestingcareer — much more interesting than most of her blond-haired Hollywood peers anyway.

Speaking of chameleons, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who many consider to be the best character actor of his generation, made thesomewhat surprising choice to play the villain in next month’s blockbuster Mission: Impossible III. In “Big, Bad Hoffman,” page 20,Hoffman admits that some of his actor friends have kidded him aboutgoing mainstream. No worries, the thrill of getting to beat up on Tom Cruise made it all worthwhile.

Would you believe that Quebec superstar Roy Dupuis has now played Maurice “Rocket” Richard three times? The latest is the firstfeature-length film of the trio. Titled simply The Rocket, the moviecomes after Dupuis played the iconic Montreal Canadien in a Heritage Minute and a TV series. In “Hat Trick,” page 26, Dupuis triesto explain why Richard was so important to Quebecers.

The Notorious Bettie Page isn’t likely to play in every theatre across the country, but if it comes to yours check it out just to witness Gretchen Mol’s transformation from fair-haired,girl-next-door type to the originator of the smoldering, brunette pin-up — Bettie Page. Molshares her makeover secrets in “Paging GretchenMol,” page 28. —MARNI WEISZ

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WHO’S THE FARISONE OF ALL?

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CAUGHT ON FILMKERI RUSSELL, MILLA JOVOVICH, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, KATE WINSLET, JOAQUIN PHOENIX

On a snowy day, Kate Winslet givesher two-year-old son Joe a ride home after atrip to New York’s Chelsea Market.

Is that how a nice young lady excusesherself? Dustin Hoffman helps hisdaughter Ally get out of her seat by

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Keri Russell adjusts her fake pregnant belly on the New York City set of August Rush.Russell’s career seemed to be onpause after TV’s Felicity wascancelled. But now she has rolesin next month’s Mission:Impossible III and this quirkydrama about an orphaned musicprodigy trying to find his parents(one of whom is played by Russell).

Wow, and you thoughtJohnny Cash was dark. JoaquinPhoenix looks as if he’s allergic tothe light at a Hollywood luncheonto celebrate the Cash bio-picWalk the Line.

Ultraviolet heroine MillaJovovich looks as though she’sbeen plucked from a

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Canadian men: GET ’EM WHILE THEY’RE HOTAfew years ago it was The Barenaked Ladies, before that it was

Roots. But if you wanna know what the hottest Canadian export isthese days, look no further than the arms of some of celebritydom’scharter members. It’s younger men.

Elton John was the first star to scoop up a young Canuck mate —Scarborough, Ontario, born and bred David Furnish is 16 years hisjunior. But the two are now married, and therefore old news.

Sultry Kim Cattrall, 49, who played Samantha on Sex and the City,is dating chef Alan Wyse, 28, who hails from Toronto and is a deadringer for Smith Jerrod, Samantha’s boyfriend onthe last season of Sex. They met while she was inToronto shooting Ice Princess a couple of years ago.

And 39-year-old Halle Berry hooked up with 30-year-old Montreal model Gabriel Aubry (who’sdone print for Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss, andwalked the runway for Ralph Lauren and Gucci) onthe set of a Versace ad campaign last November.

So if you happen to be an established celebrity inthe market for a hot, young, Canadian man (SharonStone, we’re looking at you) we humbly suggest 27-year-old Luke Kirby, the Hamilton-born star ofMambo Italiano; 26-year-old Montreal actor/directorJacob Tierney (directed Twist, appeared in Blood);or 22-year-old Montrealer Marc André Grondin,nominated for a Genie this year for C.R.A.Z.Y.

We have no idea whether they’re single, butthey’re cute and could use the publicity. —MW

As usual, this year’s Oscarnominees were inundated

with gift bags and baskets, including one from M&M’s thatcontained personalized candies— the nominee’s name and a congratulatory message wereprinted right onto the shells.Puh-lease.

So it’s with a sense of poeticjustice that we report Americancelebs have to claim their swagto the IRS, which treats the giftsas taxable items. Yes, the starshave to pay tax on their loot,which could turn out to be a sizeable sum.

In fact, the official gift basketsgiven out to Oscar-night presenterswere worth about $100,000, andincluded a $7,000 Victoria’s Secret outfit and a coupon forlaser eye surgery. That translatesto about $30,000 in taxes.

Here in Canada, at last month’sGenie Awards, Canadian celebswere also presented with goodiesbackstage. Inside the Genies giftbags items such as Fossil watchesand spa getaways were up forgrabs. But do Canadian starshave to pay the taxman?

“We cannot provide informationon specific cases,” says CanadaRevenue Agency spokesman Sam Papadopoulos. “However, in general, if gifts are provided asa form of compensation, thenthey are considered to be taxable.”

In other words, the tax folksaren’t quite sure what to make ofthe gift bag phenemenon. It tookthem a few days of diggingaround just to come up with theirmaybe/maybe not answer, whichmay make last month’s Geniecelebs a wee bit nervous. —IR

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thing she’d have to do is dial a cellphone.No, the 20-year-old, Montreal-born actor

had the good fortune to snag the part of Joannein the gymnastics dramedy Stick It, whichstars fellow Canadian Missy Peregrym as a rebellious teen whose disruptive presenceaffects team chemistry at an elite gymnasticsacademy run by coach Jeff Bridges.

“Joanne is quite the be-atch, as they saynowadays,” remarks Lengies on the line from her home in L.A. “She’s very angry and vulnerable at the same time, and you hate herat first but then you see she’s more normalthan you thought.”

Lengies began her career at age six doingvoice-overs, and worked steadily in CanadianTV (Popular Mechanics for Kids) until herbreakthrough role in the acclaimed U.S. TV

series American Dreams. The series broughther movie work, you may have seen her in The Perfect Man and most recently the comedy Waiting. But nothing prepared herfor the physical demands of Stick It.

“We trained every day for about five hours,for three months,” she says. “We had 45minutes of cardio, about an hour’s worth ofstretching for flexibility, then we had weighttraining for arms, legs and stomach, and thenwe’d work on our vault, bar and our beamskills. It was really about getting the rightmuscles to look like gymnasts and gettingcomfortable on the equipment so we didn’tlook like we were thrown up there for the firsttime, because if gymnasts are good they’vebeen doing it since they were two.”

Body doubles were used for the extendedgymnastics sequences, and Lengies says audiences are going to love what first-time director Jessica Bendinger came up with.

“I think gymnastics is something that’s really hard to portray in a way that kids will beinterested in watching. But I was blown awaywhen I saw the movie. It was so frickin’ cool...the gymnastics scenes are totally inventive andfresh, something no one’s ever done before.”

After surviving Stick It, Lengies is now busyauditioning for upcoming TV shows.

“It’s pilot season and geez, it’s crazy outhere,” she says with a laugh. “I’m looking atthis big pile of scripts right now while I’mtalking to you and it’s absolutely insane. Ihave two auditions today, one that is ninepages long and one that is 11 pages long.

“But I like auditioning, people think I’mcrazy ’cause I like it. I like it because I get tobe someone new, even if I don’t get the part.It’s such great training. It’s like, okay, in fiveminutes you have to be the shyest girl inschool with a terrible secret that you’re hiding… Go.” —INGRID RANDOJA

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PHAT GIRLZWHO’S IN IT? Mo’Nique, Jimmy Jean-LouisWHO DIRECTED? Nnegest Likké (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A plus-size woman andaspiring fashion designer (Mo’Nique) findslove in the form of an African man (Haitianmodel Jean-Louis) who reveres the largefemale form.

TAKE THE LEADWHO’S IN IT? Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard WHO DIRECTED? Liz Friedlander (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Professional dancer PierreDulaine (Banderas) volunteers to teachtroubled New York City high schoolers the artof ballroom dancing. Look for these badasskids with hearts of gold to give the elegantendeavour an urban edge. Filmed in Toronto.

THE BENCHWARMERSWHO’S IN IT? David Spade, Rob SchneiderWHO DIRECTED? Dennis Dugan (National Security)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This comedy is aimed at allthose whose memories of playing sports as akid bring on post-traumatic stress syndromerather than reverie. Spade, Schneider andJon Heder star as three grown nerds whodecide to reclaim their childhood by playingbaseball against little league teams. Theproblem is, they still suck.

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SCARY MOVIE 4WHO’S IN IT? Anna Faris, Craig BierkoWHO DIRECTED? David Zucker (Scary Movie 3)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The continued box-office

success of horror films means the ScaryMovie franchise has fresh fodder to feed on.Flicks such as The Village, Saw, The Grudgeand War of the Worlds are lampooned, as isTom Cruise’s now legendary Oprah couch-jumping episode. See Anna Faris interview, page TK.

THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGEWHO’S IN IT? Gretchen Mol, David StrathairnWHO DIRECTED? Mary Harron (American Psycho)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Sweet-natured Bettie Page(Mol) made the most of her silky black hair, curvy figure and playful spirit tobecome the 1950s most famous pin-upmodel. She was known for posing in skimpytiger-print outfits and two-piece bathingsuits, but it was her bondage pics

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LUCKY NUMBER SLEVINWHO’S IN IT? Josh Hartnett, Lucy LiuWHO DIRECTED? Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Wicker Park’s director and star — McGuigan and Hartnett — reunite forthis stylish thriller about an ordinary guy named Slevin (Hartnett) who is mistaken for ahigh-rolling gambler by two rival gangsters (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman). Themobsters threaten to do very bad things to the mystified Slevin unless he agrees to act as ahitman for them both. Liu is the gambler’s next-door neighbour.• HITS THEATRES APRIL 7

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(somewhat tame by today’s standards) thatmade her “notorious” and caught theattention of the U.S. government.See Gretchen Mol interview, page TK.

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HOOTWHO’S IN IT? Logan Lerman, Luke WilsonWHO DIRECTED? Wil Shriner (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Best-selling author CarlHiaasen (Striptease, Sick Puppy) surprisedsome of his fans when he penned the young-adult novel Hoot, which focuses on teenagerRoy Eberhardt, who moves from Montana tothe Florida Everglades and becomesinvolved in a plot to save an owl habitat fromdevelopers. This movie version stars Lerman(TV’s Jack and Bobby) as Roy, Wilson as abumbling cop, and singer Jimmy Buffett asa high school science teacher.

SILENT HILLWHO’S IN IT? Radha Mitchell, Sean BeanWHO DIRECTED? Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf)

WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In the hopes of saving herdisturbed daughter Sharon frominstitutionalization, Rose (Mitchell) takesher to Silent Hill, a deserted town that issomehow connected to Sharon’s illness. But the fog-enshrouded town isn’t deserted, it’s crawling with demons, spirits and other nasty creatures who want to claim Sharon as their own.

THE ROCKETWHO’S IN IT? Roy Dupuis, Julie LeBretonWHO DIRECTED? Charles Binamé (Séraphin: Heart of Stone)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In the same way African-Americans revere Muhammed Ali,Québécois idolize Maurice “Rocket”

Richard, one of hockey’s greatest players.Dupuis stars as the fiercely competitiveRichard, who, during the ’40s and up untilthe mid-’50s, rewrote the NHL record bookdespite the fact his beloved MontrealCanadiens organization treated him, and allthe francophone players, shabbily (theyweren’t allowed to speak French on thebench or in the dressing room). Look forpresent-day NHL stars Vincent Lecavalieras the gentlemanly Jean Béliveau andColorado Avalanche’s Ian Laperrière asBernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion. See Roy Dupuis interview, page TK.

STICK ITWHO’S IN IT? Jeff Bridges, Missy PeregrymWHO DIRECTED? Jessica Bendinger (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Teenage rebel HaleyGraham (Peregrym) is forced to return to her former school — an elite gymnasticsacademy — and it doesn’t take long beforeshe infuriates her by-the-book coach(Bridges) and alienates her uptightteammates, including the catty Joanneplayed by Montreal’s own Vanessa Lengies.See Vanessa Lengies interview, page TK.

THE WILDVOICES? Kiefer Sutherland, James BelushiWHO DIRECTED? Steven “Spaz” Williams (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When a young zoo lion(Sutherland) is mistakenly shipped to the wildsof Africa, his dad, a giraffe, squirrel, koalabear and snake join forces to rescue him. • HITS THEATRES APRIL21

THE SENTINELWHO’S IN IT? Michael Douglas, Kiefer SutherlandWHO DIRECTED? Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T.)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A veteran Secret Serviceagent (Douglas) is accused of conspiring toassassinate the American President. Nowhe has to find out who framed him beforethe real killer strikes. Filmed in Hogtown,Torontonians will get a kick out of seeinglandmarks such as Nathan Phillips Squarefigure prominently in the action.• HITS THEATRES APRIL21

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RVWHO’S IN IT? Robin Williams, Cheryl HinesWHO DIRECTED? Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black II)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In an effort to reconnectwith his wife and two kids, Bob Munro(Williams) rents a monster RV and takes hisfamily on a road trip through the Rockies.

UNITED 93WHO’S IN IT? David Rasche, Chip ZienWHO DIRECTED? Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Relying on 30 minutes ofcockpit voice recordings and the two-dozen

phone calls from trapped passengers, thisreal-time drama recounts the fatal journey of United’s Flight 93, the final planehijacked on 9/11, which crashed in aPennsylvania field after the passengersconfronted their hijackers. The film wasmade with the blessing of the victims’families and with a mostly British cast.

AKEELAH AND THE BEEWHO’S IN IT? Keke Palmer, Angela BassettWHO DIRECTED? Doug Atchison (The Pornographer)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Eleven-year-old Akeelah(Palmer) discovers she has a knack forspelling, and with the help of a no-nonsenseteacher (Laurence Fishburne) has the

chance to reach the National Spelling Bee.But will her protective mom (Bassett) allowAkeelah to compete?

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE IIIWHO’S IN IT? Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman WHO DIRECTED? J.J. Abrams (debut)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? We don’t know much aboutthe third Mission: Impossible flick exceptsuperagent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) doessomething to really p-o the film’s villain,played by the gleefully nasty Hoffman. Up-and-coming beauty Michelle Monaghan(The Bourne Supremacy, Kiss Kiss, BangBang) checks in as Hunt’s special lady. See Philip Seymour Hoffman interview, page 20.

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AMERICAN DREAMZWHO’S IN IT? Hugh Grant, Dennis QuaidWHO DIRECTED? Paul Weitz (In Good Company)WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Paul Weitz (About a Boy, In Good Company) should solidify his place asHollywood’s sharpest satirical writer/director with this comedy starring Grant as the boredand self-loathing host of an American Idol-type TV show who manages to get the mentallyfragile U.S. President (Quaid) to act as one of the show’s judges. Arab terrorists get wind ofthe gig and send in the singing/dancing Omer to try to make it to the finale where he’s toblow things up real good.• HITS THEATRES APRIL 21


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THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976)PREMISE: A washed-up, beer-guzzling ex-baseball player(Walter Matthau) takes over ateam of misfit little leaguers.

TEAM NERD INCLUDES:a nose-pickin’ outfielder, ashort-sighted pitcher, a racistshortstop, an overweight catcherand a juvenile delinquent

OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS: thedreaded Yankees, a team justas arrogant as theirprofessional namesakes

FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE:Tanner Boyle (the mouthyshortstop): “Hey Yankees...youcan take your apology and yourtrophy and shove ’em straightup your a--!”

FINAL SCORE: 8 out of 10.Foul-mouthed children,morally questionable parentswho abuse their offspring and a cranky coach whoactually splashes beer in akid’s face — a rough gemhiding in a PC world.

THE MIGHTY DUCKS (1992)PREMISE: A disgracedMinnesota lawyer (EmilioEstevez) is court-ordered to coach a losing peeweehockey team.

TEAM NERD INCLUDES:a scaredy-cat goalie, a figure-skating princess, a silentwinger and an ankle-skatingforward with a wicked shot

OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS:The Hawks, coached by the evil Jack Reilly, and we knowhe’s a jerk since he runs upscores and calls his players“ladies.” Boo-hiss

FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE: TheMighty Ducks: “Quack! Quack!Quack! Quack! GOOOOOOODUCKS!” (It doesn’t get anynerdier than that.)

FINAL SCORE: 5 out of 10.Hockey is a sacred sport here in Canada, so to see a moviescrew up basic stuff such as,um, the rules (!) doesn’t scorethe filmmakers many points.

LITTLE GIANTS (1994)PREMISE: The younger brother(Rick Moranis) of a football stardecides to coach a team ofalso-ran peewee players, takingon his brother’s all-star team inthe process.

TEAM NERD INCLUDES: a fat kidwith a gas problem, a clumsywide receiver and a math nerdwho designs the plays

OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS:the smartly attired Cowboys,led by the helmet-smashinglinebacker Spike

FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE:Hanson (the pathetic receiver talking to his hands):“Why do you do this to me,fellas? I cut your nails, washyou, put gloves on you whenyou’re cold...”

FINAL SCORE: 6 out of 10.While the plot is ho-hum, therelationship between Moranisand his older brother (EdO’Neill) is surprisingly complexand overshadows the misfits’on-field heroics.

DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY (2005)PREMISE: To save their rundowngym a bunch of non-jocks, led by Vince Vaughn, enter a dodge ball tournament.

TEAM NERD INCLUDES:a lackadaisical gym owner, a failed male high schoolcheerleader, a slob and a pirate

OBNOXIOUS OPPONENTS:Team Globo Gym, whichincludes pumped-up jocks and a woman with a unibrow

FAVOURITE NERD QUOTE: PeterLa Fleur (Vince Vaughn): “Ifound that if you have a goal,that you might not reach it. Butif you do not have one you arenever disappointed. And I gottatell you, it feels phenomenal!”

FINAL SCORE: 9 out of 10.Straight man Vaughn and Ben Stiller (in full ’roid rage)lovingly lampoon sports clichés,and what’s not to love about amovie that sees guys gettingsmacked in the groin with bigrubber balls?

The Benchwarmers opens this month, and it isn’t just another sports movie — it’s a nerdsports movie! David Spade, Jon Heder and Rob Schneider star as three grown losers

who take on arrogant, and often downright mean, little league squads to prove nerdshave got game too. Hollywood loves a misfits vs. jocks sports flick, and if you considerthat a lot of Hollywood types were probably geeky kids, well, you can understand whythese movies keep getting made. So, to celebrate the uncoordinated spaz in all of us,

we break down Hollywood’s best-known nerd sports flicks I BY INGRID RANDOJA

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“I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you do not have one you arenever disappointed. And I gotta tell you, it feels phenomenal!” —Vince Vaughn, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

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interview | PHILIP SEYMOUR H0FFMAN

Before this year, Philip SeymourHoffman was highly regarded byfilm aficionados and his peers as

“an actor’s actor” thanks to nuanced, andincredibly varied, performances in filmslike The Talented Mr. Ripley (upper-crustcad), Happiness (socially inept stalker),Flawless (drag queen) and Boogie Nights(porn film crew member) — yet the 38-year-old from Fairport, New York, wasn’t exactly a household name.

But with his Academy Award-winningperformance as the late, openly gaywriter/celeb-at-large Truman Capote inCapote (which also earned him statuesfrom the Screen Actors Guild, GoldenGlobes and the British Academy of Filmand Television Arts) Hoffman should nowbe recognizable. If not, his role oppositeTom Cruise in next month’s Mission: Impossible III (a.k.a. M:i:III) will certainlypick up any lost sections of the population.

Decked out in a baggy, light brown suit,T-shirt and sneakers at a New York Cityhotel, Hoffman admits he’s been razzedby some of his acting friends for taking arole in M:i:III. “I’ve done a number of bigstudio films, but my heart really lies in theindependent filmmaking world, andmost people know it, so doing a film likeMission: Impossible gets me a few ‘sell-out’jokes from some of my buddies — butthey’re just jealous,” Hoffman says with alaugh. The real draw, he explains, was thechance to play the archenemy of Cruise’ssegret agent Ethan Hunt.

“I love playing bad guys, and when Iknow I’m out to kill somebody like Tom Cruise, it makes it that much sweeter,”Hoffman jokes.

His character’s plot to find and killHunt is practically the only story elementthat has leaked from writer/director J.J. Abrams’ (creator of Lost and Alias) top-

secret set. Much like its two predecessors,M:i:III’s plot has been shrouded in mystery, with a copy of the screenplay asimpossible to find as the Holy Grail. “It’smore exciting when you sit in your theatreseat and don’t know everything about themovie before it even starts,” says Hoffman.“It’s like acting, the less you know about theactors playing the part, the easier it is to believe the performances.”

You’ve played some nasty bad guys, butnever an action villain. How do you avoidturning him into just a caricature?“You are right, they can be. I mean, this isa different thing than that, but ultimatelyif you are doing Mission: Impossible, what-ever you are doing, you want to find somemoment, something that, in the end, theaudience — hopefully — will buy you.Then that just sucks a person more intothe film. And, even though he’s a villain in

If you’re surprised to see Philip Seymour Hoffmanas the villain in Mission: Impossible III, don’t be.

The Oscar-winning actor has nothing againstblockbusters…and admits the opportunity to beat

up on Tom Cruise made the role “that much sweeter” I BY EARL DITTMAN

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an action film, you still have to do yourhomework. You have to get into this guy’shead. You have to ask questions like, ‘Whatis it that makes this guy tick and what isthe interesting thing about this guy?’”

You worked with Tom Cruise on Magnolia,one of his most-acclaimed roles. Howwould you compare the performances?“In both films, he worked his butt off. InMagnolia, he had a tough part. He had togo in there and do all this emotionalpurging. If there were a title for hisscene, it would be ‘The EmotionalPurge.’ And he did it, time and timeagain. It was amazing. With Mission: Impossible, not only does he have toughemotional scenes, but he’s got thesecrazy, wild, physical stunts that he alwayswants to perform himself. With me, if iteven looks a tiny bit dangerous, I’mscreaming for my stunt double [laughs].”

Most people don’t know you have a child,Cooper Alexander [with girlfriend MimiO´Donnell], and you kicked a substance-abuse problem when you were around 22.Are you a private person by nature, or do youjust hate seeing your name in the tabloids?“Well, I certainly don’t believe in the oldsaying that ‘all publicity is good publicity.’I’m pretty private, and I don’t believe that

just because you make movies and obtaina certain amount of success that your private life is automatically an open bookof any kind. I mean, there are things Idon’t want anyone to know, much lesssome person on the west coast, reading itin a tabloid, who I don’t even know…. Iknow some actors think there’s a trade-off, but I refuse to let the fact that I makemovies rule what I will or won’t say to promote those movies. So, yeah, I guessyou could call me private.”

When did you start to get your choice of projects? “I’ve been choosing scripts for a while,since I was like 30, maybe, and I’m 38now. I don’t know how many scripts areout there, and what kind of scripts I amgetting comparatively to everybody else,but I’ve been basically trying to chooseamongst offers.”

So, why Capote?“It was really the story that was the mostattractive thing. The story of writing In Cold Blood, and his life story. The ideaof the technical stuff of playing him, thatwasn’t the thing that attracted me to it….What I was drawn to was the tragic tale.This classic, tragic tale. Something beinginevitable, something playing itself outand no one could stop it. There wassomething about that which was very interesting to me and compelling.”

Capote was filmed in Winnipeg. With the comparative isolation ofWinnipeg in North America, was there aparallel to Capote’s journey to a smallKansas community?“Actually, Winnipeg is fantastic. You see itin the film, it does capture the Midwest inthat period very well, actually. I don’tknow if there were any other parallels….If there was a sense of isolation it reallywas after the fact, looking back, it was dur-ing the cold season, it was very, very cold.It was isolated, I had never been there before and another thing that happenedwas that I slowly started becoming veryfriendly with the people in the town. Onmy days off I’d have to get out of where Iwas staying and I’d go to these sameplaces… There was a similarity in that aspect of just kind of starting to live in thetown and the people in it, like Capote did.”

Where did you go?“There is this place, this great Germancoffee shop/restaurant that I used � �

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to go to, I can’t remember what streetit was on. It was very much this Starbuckskind of area, with this wonderful Germanowner, I’d go there all the time. He waslike selfless, I’d go and chat with him fortwo hours, and eat his pastries.”

You have no problem taking on gay roles,which still seems taboo for some actors.Are we at a point where actors can take ongay roles with no bad career aftereffects? “It’s a tricky thing, isn’t it? I still think it’stricky, I think it will always be a tricky thing.It’s never been a tricky thing for me, andI don’t think that makes me a better person or anything like that. I just thinkthat, early on, I just kind of played char-acters that I’ve wanted to play and some ofthem have been gay and some not, someof them transsexuals. Again, the story is the thing that pulls you in, and I think thatthe biggest honour you can pay to playinga character whose sexual identity is in theminority is to not make it about that, tomake it about them, their lives, the people,the fact they’re struggling — obviouslytheir struggles are going to pertain to thatissue — but I really am wary of pointingout the fact of their sexuality in these filmsbecause it’s more about, like everyone, thedrama is in their lives.”

You’ve directed several stage plays. Do youwant to direct films?“No, no. Maybe when I’m older.”

Why not?“Because I don’t think I know how to dothat. I mean, you have people directingfilms that are so God-awful that I knowmy little brother could have done that.There are a lot of people out there thatshould not be directing films. You have somany of these guys going around saying,‘I’m a film director.’ I’m like, ‘How canyou call yourself a film director? Youdon’t even know what a damn f-stop is!’And I know that I don’t know how to seethings visually through a camera. I’m notgoing to make one until I know I’mready or I go to film school.”

Is this the best period of your career?“Is it the best period in my career? I don’tknow, I haven’t lived any more of it, somaybe it might get better, hopefully. Or itmight get worse, and that might be agood time, too.”

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IMPOSSIBLE (1996)THE MISSION: You’d think it would be against a spy agency’s better judgment to putthe real identities of all of America’s doubleagents into one computer file, but darn it (!)that’s what some pea brains decided to doand now a bad guy’s trying to steal it. Secretagent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is brought innot only to stop the crook, but to take picturesof him nabbing the file, and then follow himuntil he hands it off to the Big Bad.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? The plot had asmany holes as a football jersey, but directorBrian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables)used his own style of subterfuge — stunningstunt sequences, bullet-paced action andface-peeling special effects — to distractfrom the storyline’s flaws.

TRIVIA: It was the first film to be shown in more than 3,000 U.S. cinemas.

PAYOFF: It has grossed $456-million (U.S.)on an $80-million budget.

MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE II (2000)THE MISSION: It’s the classic good-guy-turned-bad scenario, with former secretagent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) plottingto steal samples of both a killer virus and itsantidote. You see where this one is going…After Ambrose leaks the nasty bug on thestreets of Sydney, Australia, he’ll sell thecure to the highest bidder. And it’s EthanHunt’s job to stop the scoundrel! ThandieNewton plays Bond Girl to Cruise’s hero,helping him to find her ex-boyfriend Ambroseand falling for Hunt amidst the action.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? A morestreamlined plot is artfully directed by John Woo (Face/Off, Once a Thief), who uses many of his trademarks — flying doves,slow motion and double-handed gun action — to keep the viewer occupied.

TRIVIA: When he delivers the line, “Mr. Hunt, this isn’t mission difficult, it’smission impossible. ‘Difficult’ should be awalk in the park for you,” Anthony Hopkins(as Mission Commander Swanbeck) becomesthe first person to utter the phrase “missionimpossible” in any of the movies, or the TVseries that inspired them.

PAYOFF: It has grossed $546-million on a$125-million budget. —MW

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M:i:III | timeline |

n an ideal world, Mission: Impossible IIIwould already be ancient history.

After the astonishing success of thefirst two movies — $456-million (U.S.)for 1996’s Mission: Impossible and $546-million for 2000’s Mission: Impossible II —Paramount bigwigs were eager to getmoving on the third installment.

FINDING A DIRECTORAs early as 2001, the production teamstarts their search for a new director. It’snot that they don’t like how Brian De Palmahandled the first movie, or what JohnWoo has done with the sequel. They aresimply looking for a change. In fact, it’sstar Tom Cruise, also one of the franchise’sproducers, who insists on having a new director for each movie so that each onewill have a different atmosphere and tone.

At one point the buzz is that OliverStone will direct, at another the rumoursare about Ang Lee. But the man who finally signs on is David Fincher, directorof Seven and Fight Club. It’s 2002 whenFincher agrees to shoot the film in 2003with a 2004 release date in mind.

LOSING A DIRECTORMonths pass while Tom Cruise finishesshooting The Last Samurai. In the mean-time, Fincher keeps busy by working onthe skateboard flick Lords of Dogtown. ButFincher and Cruise’s schedules becomeincreasingly incompatible and eventuallyFincher has to quit the mission. In theend Fincher doesn’t even direct Lords ofDogtown. As soon as he quits M:i:III,

Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) is signedto direct Dogtown and Fincher merely endsup with an executive producer credit.

FINDING A NEW DIRECTORFincher’s director’s chair is still warmwhen Paramount signs Joe Carnahan toreplace him. The little-known filmmakerwrote and directed Narc, a thriller abouta narcotics officer investigating a copkilling, which just happened to be exec-utive produced by Tom Cruise. After thequick switch, shooting is expected tostart right away.

That’s when Collateral comes along andmesses everything up. Cruise decides toplay the brutal hitman in Michael Mann’sthriller (and rightly so, it earns him hisbest reviews since Magnolia), so M:i:III’sstart date is once again up in the air.

Carnahan is patient until the summerof 2004, but one month before shootingis to begin, another surprise. He dumpsthe project, claiming “artistic differences.”As everything is put back on hold Cruisesqueezes in Steven Spielberg’s update ofWar of the Worlds.

ANOTHER NEW DIRECTOR J.J. Abrams, who created the ground-breaking TV shows Lost and Alias, is handed the reigns despite the fact he hasnever directed a feature. No matter. TomCruise is a big Alias fan, and that’s enough.

SIGNING THE ACTORSIf you think listing all of M:i:III’s directorsis a big job, try cataloguing the stars who

were, at one point or another, associatedwith the film. Combine their busy skedswith each director’s vision of who shouldbe in the film and you end up with moreturnover than a bad fast-food restaurant.

Take the star of Lost in Translation, Scarlett Johansson. In the beginning, thebeautiful blonde is supposed to beM:i:III’s leading lady, but because of themany delays she can’t do it. (There arealso rumours Cruise tried to “educate”Johansson about Scientology — an education the sure-minded starlet reportedly did not appreciate.)

Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branaghwas set to play the villain, but is droppedwhen one of the revolving directors decides Branagh doesn’t have the rightlook for the part, which eventually goesto Philip Seymour Hoffman.

For Canadian Carrie-Anne Moss, getting cut is simply a case of bad luck, asAbrams and his new writers trim her

We chronicle the nearly impossible task of getting M:i:III to the big screen I BY MARTIN GRENIER

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character from the script. Then there’s Lindsay Lohan. While

reports that she was to replace Johanssonzoom around the internet, in the end, thestory is never confirmed and Lohan hasno role. Instead, Abrams gives the part toone of his protégés, Keri Russell, the 30-year-old actor best-known as theangst-filled title character on TV’s Felicity,yet another series created by Abrams.

CAMERAS ROLL July 2005: Two years after M:i:III was sup-posed to start shooting, the cameras finally roll. Cast and crew fly to Italy with a$150-million budget that will also be spenton sets throughout the U.S. and China.

THE TOM CRUISE FACTORAnd, of course, there is the situation sur-rounding Tom Cruise. By the time Mission:Impossible III starts shooting, much of theworld has tired of seeing his face. Just eight

months before, he’d jumped the couchon Oprah and, after what seemed like aninstant engagement to Dawson’s Creekstar Katie Holmes, used the presence ofany camera (and there were many, as hewas travelling the globe promoting War of the Worlds) as an opportunity to dip,and suck face with, his new leading lady.

Cruise had also angered a lot of peopleby bashing the entire field of psychiatryon Today with Matt Lauer, and by takinga shot at Brooke Shields after she talkedabout using antidepressants to deal withher post-partum depression.

Even today the 43-year-old actor’s behaviour is watched with raised eye-brows. Despite the fact that Holmes isnow pregnant, many still suspect their relationship is primarily a publicity stunt.The most cynical conspiracy theoristshave even noticed that their baby is duein May, about the same time M:i:III will finally be released.

Clockwise from left: Tom Cruise assegret agent Ethan Hunt; Cruise with co-star Michelle Monaghan; Tom “The Running Man” Cruise gets some exercise

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hen it comes to Maurice“Rocket” Richard, Roy Dupuisknows what he’s talking about.For the third time in his career,

the 42-year-old actor plays the French-Canadian hockey icon, this time in The Rocket, a feature-length bio-pic aboutthe Montreal Canadiens’ legendarynumber nine.

The relationship between Dupuis andRichard began in 1997, when the actorplayed the Rocket in a Heritage Minute.Two years later, Dupuis was back on the icestarring in a TV series called The MauriceRocket Richard Story.

“After I watched the TV show, I knewwe had to make a movie out of it,” explainsDupuis, who met Richard several timesbefore the hard-hitting right winger diedin 2000.

In fact, Dupuis would even suggestchanges to the TV series when he feltsomething wasn’t right. “But it only hap -pened a few times,” says the Quebec-bornactor, one of the most popular celebritiesin his home province.

Written by Ken Scott (who directed Seducing Doctor Lewis) and directed byCharles Binamé (Séraphin: Heart of Stone),The Rocket opens with the infamous 1955riots, when angry Richard supporterstook to Montreal’s streets to protest theNHL’s decision to suspend the Rocket

for making contact with a referee. Formany historians, the event is consideredto be a key catalyst in Quebec’s imminentQuiet Revolution.

“Not only was he a great athlete, butMaurice also showed Quebecers thatthey could be the best at anything theywanted,” says Dupuis.

To bring the Rocket back to life, Oscar-winning producers Denise Robert andDaniel Louis (The Barbarian Invasions)raised $8-million, the biggest budgetever for any entirely Quebec-made film. With that money, the productionteam was able to stage several on-ice

sequences, all based on archival footagefrom the ’40s and ’50s.

To add more credibility, filmmakerseven cast a number of present-day NHLplayers in supporting roles, includingVincent Lecavalier, Sean Avery and therecently retired Stéphane Quintal.

Dupuis, himself a long-time hockeyfan, says he wasn’t nervous about skatingwith real players. In fact, the professionalathletes had more trouble on the icethan Dupuis. “I have been playing sinceI was three years old,” says the actor, “soit was easier for me to adapt to the old-style skates.”

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aven’t seen much of Gretchen Mollately? Don’t blame yourself. Or her.The actress has been doing note -

worthy work, but much of it has been onthe New York and London stage. Shewas Roxie Hart in the Broadway revivalof Chicago, and appeared in productionsof Neil LaBute’s caustic The Shape ofThings on both sides of the Atlantic, aswell as the acclaimed, but spottily dis-tributed, movie version. So don’t feel toobad if you’ve lost track of her.

Yes, things have changed from 1998,when the then-25-year-old starlet was Vanity Fair’s Next Big Thing cover girl andco-starring with the hottest screen hunksaround — Matt Damon in Rounders,Jude Law in Music from Another Room andLeonardo DiCaprio in Woody Allen’sCelebrity. But few went to those movies,and since then it’s mainly been small indie flicks, interesting TV and live proj-ects, with a little time off to marry directorTod Williams (The Door in the Floor).

Get ready, though, to see more of Molthan you ever have before. And, yes, wedo mean that in a nudge-nudge way.

As The Notorious Bettie Page, the actordoes bare all. Had to; Page was America’sfirst nude supermodel, and her vintage1950s glamour photos (and rougherstuff) still make hearts beat faster.

But it was capturing the sunny, play-fully kinky spirit of the deeply religiousand somehow kind-of-innocent Ms. Pagethat made the role a serious above-the-neck exercise as well.

“I had heard of her and seen photo-graphs of her, but I didn’t know muchabout her,” Mol admits over the phonefrom New York. “I had sort of an image ofthe leopard bikini and the whip and theblack bangs, and I had seen pieces of an

E! True Hollywood Story on her. At the veryend of that, she was interviewed very briefly— all blacked out, she didn’t want to beseen — and her voice had this very gritty,earthy, Southern country accent. So I setabout trying to track that thing down.

“I didn’t know if anyone would eversee me as this character, so I just gave itmy all and had a good time. I did seesomething in her photographs, though,that I felt a sort of kinship with. She wasjust so alive and unselfconscious in frontof the camera. The way she kind of invited

people in, without judgment, was to methe thing to capture. It just was so joyful.All those photographs, even when shewas doing the dominatrix thing, she always had a little bit of a wink going on.”

The film is directed by Canadian Mary Harron (the daughter of entertainerDon Harron, a.k.a. Charlie Farquharson),whose previous movies include AmericanPsycho and I Shot Andy Warhol. Harronquickly understood that the slim, blondMol could nail the essence of thecurvaceous, jet-haired temptress.

After being out of the limelight for years, fair-hairedGretchen Mol makes a surprising return as Bettie Page, the dark,

smoldering pin-up girl of the 1950s I BY BOB STRAUSS

GRETCHEN MOL

“She was just so alive and unselfconscious infront of the camera,” says Mol. “The way she kind

of invited people in, without judgement”

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Money people, perhaps wary of Mol’sformer flavour-of-the-month status, wereadmittedly harder to convince.

“It was a long process, trying to get it going, trying to find people who wouldmake it with me,” Mol says. “But when wefinally got to it, it ended up being a reallywonderful, wonderful experience.”

Even the scenes we’re all nudge-nudgey about?

“I felt safe with Mary, I believed in hertake on Bettie and the film as a whole,”Mol says. “Really, [the nudity] wasn’t as difficult as some of the other scenes. Inher younger days, there was some sexualabuse. It’s very subtle in the movie, but justsome of her psychology, I’d say, was themost difficult part.”

The real test still lays ahead: convincingthose Bettie fans out there, who — we’llmake an educated guess — must be mightyparticular about how their dream queen ispresented.

“It was, maybe, a little bit easier than ifI had been asked to portray, say, JuneCarter, somebody who people have astrong image of,” Mol reckons. “But Ithink you’ll just have to see the movie anddecide for yourself. For me, look, I’mnever going to have her exact figure. Butnot every curve has to be the exact same curve. Hopefully, we captured theessence of her, and that helps you see thefull character rather than a carbon copyof someone who looks just like her.

“But I definitely studied her poses andworked on that as if it was choreography in a dance recital or something. And it’s interesting what the undergarments of the ’50s and a black wig can do!”

Bob Strauss is an L.A. entertainment writer.


Gretchen Mol as Bettie PageRight: Mol “au naturel” at the

2005 CFDA Awards

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famous | fun |

Working titles:

1. Class Action

2. Somebody Loves You

3. El Maninator

4. If Only It Were True

5. Hating Her

6. The Last First Kiss

7. The Crusades

8. Something Borrowed

9. The Great Vegetable Plot

10. The Emperor’s Journey

11. Rage Control

12. Wild Life

13. Otherwise Engaged

14. Jumanji 2

15. Locked and Loaded

Final movie titles:

A. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

B. Get Rich or Die Tryin’

C. The Family Stone

D. Hitch

E. Kingdom of Heaven

F. March of the Penguins

G. Rebound

H. Rumor Has It…

I. The Wedding Date

J. Zathura

K. The Man

L. Just Like Heaven

M. Where the Truth Lies

N. North Country

O. Madagascar

ANSWERS: 1. N; 2. M; 3. K; 4. L; 5. C; 6. D; 7. E; 8. I; 9. A; 10. F; 11. G; 12. O; 13. H; 14. J; 15. B

There are lots of reasons a movie may start its life with one title and end with

another. Perhaps the tone of the moviechanged during the course of production, and

the old title just doesn’t fit anymore. Maybethat original title just sucked to begin with. Orsometimes — especially when you’re dealing

with a high-profile project — a fake title ispurposely used to throw off the

paparazzi or curious fans.

HERE ARE 15 RECENT FILMS THAT WERE CALLEDSOMETHING ELSE BEFORE THEY WERE RELEASED.SEE HOW MANY YOU CAN FIGURE OUT.

WORKINGtitlesThe Man

Wallace & Gromit

North Country

Hitch

Madagascar

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cover | story | ANNA FARIS

People are always a little shockedwhen they find out that I’ve been inother movies besides the Scary Movie

films. I guess they think I come out of mycave every two or three years to star inthem and then go back and hibernate,”jokes Anna Faris, star of Scary Movie 1, 2, 3and this month’s fourth edition of thehorror/teen/action-spoof franchise.

Truth is, the 30-year-old natural blonde(her hair was dyed black for Scary Movieand the first sequel) boasts a rather well-rounded résumé that not only includesthe starring role in one of the highest-grossing film franchises on DVD (“Withthe fourth Scary Movie, I think we’ll evenbeat out The Matrix series,” she says witha laugh), but a recurring role on the lastseason of Friends, and supporting parts insuch acclaimed films as Lost in Translation(the ditzy starlet staying at the hotel) andBrokeback Mountain (the chatterboxhousewife at the country club).

“In a lot of ways, the Scary Movie filmshave been great for my career,” Faris insists in a recent interview at a BeverlyHills hotel. “Since I started out with darkhair in the Scary Movie series, I wasn’ttypecast as a dumb blonde, which was ablessing at auditions. Automatically, the

casting agents realized I could look different, and once I’d read for them, theyknew I could do more than just comedy.”

Each Scary Movie has followed prettymuch the same conceit — scenes frompopular movies of the day are aped in anover-the-top manner for comedic effect,with Faris’s Cindy Campbell characterthe butt of many of the jokes. In the firstmovie, the Halloween and Scream movieswere the targets, the second branchedout to lampoon teen movies like Dude,Where’s My Car? and Save the Last Dance,while the third took advantage of Signs,The Sixth Sense, The Matrix and Eight Mile.This time around it’s War of the Worlds,Million Dollar Baby, The Village and theSaw movies (in one very satisfying sceneDr. Phil McGraw saws off his foot, thenrealizes it was the wrong one) that seemto get it the worst. And Campbell — whohas evolved from high school student in1 to college student in 2 to young reporter in 3 — is now a caretaker forsomething called “Grudge House.” Ohyeah, add The Grudge to that list.

While Keenen Ivory Wayans directedand produced the first movie, since thenthe series has been helmed by a man withconsiderable spoof experience, David

Zucker, director of Airplane!, Top Secret!and the Naked Gun movies.

Surprisingly, Faris never thought of herself as a comic actor before landing thepart. “I didn’t think I could be funny — itwas with the first Scary Movie that peoplestarted to consider me a comedienne,”she admits. She credits Wayans and Zucker with teaching her how to make anaudience laugh without really trying.

“The secret to being funny in the Scary Movie films is to play each scene asif it is a drama, that’s what David Zuckertold me, and believe me it’s certainly fareasier on your nerves than to actually tryto be funny,” says Faris.

“Keenen Ivory Wayans actually taughtme the same thing, but without actuallysaying it. I was doing a scene in which thekiller was in the house, and I was trying tobe very scared. He started laughing out

Back for her fourth turn as the unkillable Cindy Campbell in theScary Movie franchise, the emerging actor says she’s learned toappreciate her trademark role I BY EARL DITTMAN

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loud. I was mortified because I thought Iwas really bad. When my friends saw thefilm they started laughing, and I was mor-tified all over again until they told methey never thought I could be so funny.”

Coincidentally, her first major gig aftermoving to Los Angeles in 1999 from hernative Seattle, Washington, was also ahorror film that got laughs, althoughFaris says it wasn’t supposed to.

“Right after graduation I was in this really awful, low-budget horror filmcalled Lover’s Lane,” recalls Faris, who wasa member of The Seattle Repertory Theatre, and a commercial spokes-woman before heading for Hollywood. “Iplayed this cheerleader who gets gutted,and some people in the audiencethought it was hilarious. I guess that’spart of the reason I have a soft spot forthe Scary Movie movies. I kinda got � �

“The secret tobeing funny in theScary Movie films

is to play eachscene as if it is a

drama...andbelieve me, it’s

certainly fareasier on yournerves than toactually try to

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my start in bad horror. But the absolute best part about doing thatmovie is that it’s where I met my husbandBen Indra. He proposed to me on the setof Lover’s Lane, we got married in 2004,and we’re still in love.”

The very next script Faris read was forScary Movie. “The managers that I hadmet in Los Angeles gave me the sides[pages from the script] to audition forthis movie called Scream if You Know WhatI Did Last Halloween, which ended up being Scary Movie,” Faris recalls. “I madea tape in the basement of my house, infront of the fireplace, with my mom reading the other part. I was terrible. Shewas terrible. The tape was terrible. I hopethey destroyed it. I hope it never appearsin public to embarrass me. But Keenenand everyone else involved in Scary Moviesaid they saw something special in my audition. That made me realize that Icould act, even under the worst condi-tions. I felt really, really confident whenKeenen told me he had found a star.”

When the movie was a hit, Faris waspresented with a lucrative offer to head-upany future installments. How could sherefuse? “I thought we’d probably do one sequel and that would be it,” Faris remembers. “But that just wasn’t thecase, people loved every movie. Therewas a time while we were making thethird movie where I felt grateful for being able to do the films and the profilethey’d given me but, creatively, I felt likeI was at a standstill with them. That’swhen I told myself, ‘If you want to be doing different types of movies, get outthere and start making it happen.’”

Faris began making the rounds in Hollywood, and soon landed a plum part as Kelly, a self-absorbed starlet, inwriter/director Sofia Coppola’s Lost inTranslation. Best known for her spoofingabilities, many who saw the film thoughtFaris was doing a perfect parody of actorCameron Diaz, a notion that still makesher laugh.

“I never thought of her a single timewhile I was filming the movie,” she says.“When I first got the role, Sofia and Italked more about the kind of actress shewanted me to play rather than any spe-cific actress. Honestly, there were somenames that came up, but Cameron’s wasnever one of them. I swear. My characteris more of a combination of several ‘it’s allabout me’ kind of actresses. If you spendany time at all in L.A. you meet them. Theylive on a different plane than real people.”

Her Lost in Translation performancecaught the attention of Friends cast mem-ber Matthew Perry, who thought she was agood fit for a part in the last few episodesof that show’s final season. And, beforeshe knew it, Faris was playing the birthmom for Chandler and Monica’s baby.

“I still feel like I dreamed that wholetime on Friends,” Faris says with a smile.“I’d never done a sitcom before and hereI was being offered a part on one of thebiggest shows on TV. It was an incredibletime for me.”

It also made her realize that doing theScary Movie sequels wasn’t a curse.“There’s so many great actors out therewho aren’t working, and here I am whining,” she says. “I would have nevergotten a role in a film like BrokebackMountain without having made a name

for myself with the Scary Movie series.”Next up for Faris is the “best-friend

role” in the romantic comedy My SuperEx-Girlfriend with Luke Wilson and UmaThurman. Wilson plays an everyday kindof guy who breaks up with his girlfriend(Thurman) because she’s too clingy, only to discover she has superpowers andwill use them to seek abnormally epic revenge on him.

And then, can we expect to see Faris ina Scary Movie 5 or 6?

“You bet,” she says enthusiastically. “Letme tell you, they’re stuck with me now.And I would sign on for five or six or even10 more sequels if audiences wantedthem. I am Cindy Campbell!”

Earl Dittman is a Houston-based entertainment writer.


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BIO LOGICALCONNECTIONIf you’ve spent any time on the web’s indispensable film portal, the Internet MovieDatabase (imdb.com), you’re familiar with the “Mini Biographies” written about actorsand directors. They’re usually penned by semi-professional writers, writer wannabesor even fans. Anna Faris’s biography, however, was the first time we noticed a bio co-written by a star’s mom. But who else would know that when she put on neighbourhoodplays, young Anna was “always encouraged with the emphasis that she wasn’t just‘pretending’ but rather being an unpaid producer, director, writer and actor”?

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Nacho Libre (June) In all honesty, wehave no idea whether this comedy starringJack Black as a Mexican priest/wrestler willbe any good, but we really wanted to showyou this picture.

Black’s clergyman, Nacho, moonlights as aluchador in the Lucha Libre — which basicallymeans he’s a wrestler in Mexico’s version ofthe WWE — in order to raise money for anorphanage. Jared Hess, who directed 2004’snerdy cult fave Napoleon Dynamite is behindthe camera and shares the writing credit withSchool of Rock scribe Mike White. That shouldgive you an idea of the film’s direction.

CD NOWAVAILABLEHear them now @

emimusic.ca/thelittlewillies

Lee AlexanderJim Campilongo

Norah JonesRichard Julian

Dan Rieser

X-Men: The Last Stand (May)So far, the X-Men series has proved thatcasting great actors (Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman) can make ahuge difference when trying to stay afloatin a sea of comic book adaptations. Thefirst movie was good, the second evenbetter, so what of the third?

One of the new additions to the cast isBen Foster, who is best-known as Claire’sfriend and fellow art student Russell in Six Feet Under. Foster plays the newmutant Warren Worthington, a.k.a. Angel,thus named for reasons obvious in thispicture. Another addition is Frasier starKelsey Grammer as The Beast, a big, furry,blue guy with superhuman endurance,strength and speed.

Stewart, McKellen, Jackman, Halle Berry,Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen and RebeccaRomijn all reprise their roles for this thirdgo-around in which a cure has been foundfor mutant-ism. But when you don’t feel

like you have a disease, you’re not likely towant to be cured.

One concern is that Bryan Singer, whodirected not only the first two X-Menmovies, but brilliant pics like The UsualSuspects and Apt Pupil, opted to doSuperman Returns instead of this movieand was replaced by Brett Ratner, he of After the Sunset and the Rush Hour movies.

BRIEFLY…JUNEThe Lake House — In this spooky story, aman living in a lake house (Keanu Reeves)and its former occupant (Sandra Bullock)become pen pals, only to realize that they’reseparated in time by two years.

JUNE The Omen — One of the creepiest movies ofthe 1970s gets a remake with Liev Schreiberand Julia Stiles as a young couple who adopta boy who may just be the devil. Ooops.

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1 In Take the Lead, Antonio Banderas plays a former professional dancer who teaches kids at a New York City public school how to ballroom dance.Name last year’s surprise-hit documentary that told a similar story.

Singer Jimmy Buffett plays a science teacher in the kids’ movie Hoot. Canyou name Buffett’s most famous song? Clue: It’s likely to make you thirsty.

What is the new horror movie Silent Hill based upon — a 1970s John Carpenter film, a song by Metallica, a Konami videogame or a story by Edgar Allan Poe?

Jeff Bridges plays a gymnastics coach in the comedy Stick It. On what1950s TV show, which starred his father Lloyd, did Bridges make hisscreen-acting debut?

For which movie did The Sentinel star KimBasinger win an Oscar?

Which star of the baseballcomedy The Benchwarmerswas attacked by his personalassistant with a stun gunand then robbed in 2000?

Eric Bana, who plays atroubled poker player inthis fall’s Lucky You, wasborn in Australia, where hestarted his career in theearly 1990s. Did he beginas a singer, comic, painter,playwright, magician orsoap opera star?

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WILLIAMS FOR PRESIDENTIn an odd bit of casting Robin Williams will play an American president in notone, but two, upcoming films. He’s currently in Toronto making Man of theYear, the Barry Levinson-directed comedy in which he plays a late-nightpolitical talk show host who runs for president, and wins. He has also signedon to star in Night at the Museum as Teddy Roosevelt, the corpulent prez whofounded New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The comedy starsBen Stiller as a night watchman at the museum who discovers that a spell onan ancient Egyptian tablet awakens many exotic exhibits at night, includingthe one featuring Roosevelt. Look for Ricky Gervais as an uptight museumdirector, and rare appearances from Hollywood veterans Mickey Rooney andDick Van Dyke as Stiller’s aged co-workers. 10

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� David Strathairn will play Ryan Gosling’s boss in Fracture, athriller that stars Gosling as a lawyer seeking vengeance againstkiller Anthony Hopkins, who is released on a legal technicality.

� Mandy Moore and James McAvoy star as a couple responsiblefor a deadly hit-and-run in Twist of Fate.

� Will Ferrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) team up forthe comedic figure skating flick Blades.

� Look for Chloë Sevigny as Catherine the Great in an upcomingbio-pic about the ruler from Polish director Agnieszka Holland.

Hugh Grant began his career as a dramatic actor in films such as Maurice,White Mischief and Remains of the Day. But it’s romantic comedies thatpaved his road, and no one plays self-deprecating British gentleman in lovebetter than Grant. He picks up the rom-com torch once again with Music andLyrics By, in which he plays a songwriter who falls for his collaborator, thecomely Drew Barrymore. The movie is being helmed by writer/director Marc Lawrence, who guided Grant through the 2002 hit Two Weeks Notice.

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ZOOEY MOVES TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASSShe’s likable, she’s got that slightly sultry, slightlykooky thing going for her, and she can act.

Zooey Deschanel, who appeared in last month’sFailure to Launch, and who cranked heads with hercharming turn as a sweet department store elf in Elf, is moving up the Hollywood ladder. The 26-year-oldbrunette just finished filming the much-hyped Brad Pitt western The Assassination of Jesse James by theCoward Robert Ford, in which she plays Robert Ford’s (Casey Affleck) love interest, and she’s currently doingvoice work for the animated penguin flick Surf’s Up(penguins are sooo hot in Hollywood these days). Thenshe’s off to New Zealand to start filming Bridge toTerabithia, the big-budget, Disney adventure based onthe children’s book about two misfit kids who create animaginary kingdom in their minds. Deschanel plays thekids’ sympathetic teacher.

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things |

Layering is the key to wearing spring threads when it doesn’tfeel much like spring I BY LIZA HERZ

There’s nothing like a littleglobal warming to messup your wardrobe plans.

There used to be actual seasons in clothing. Spring/Summer ushered in lightcolours and light fabricswhile Fall/Winter meantdark, fuzzy warm things.

But that was before wesucker-punched our climate,leaving a huge hole in theozone layer and creatingsuch havoc that predictableweather patterns became athing of the past. Okay, okay,we realize most scientists feelthis wonky weather is moreof a short-term anomaly thanthe effects of actual globalwarming, but there’scertainly something amiss.

Now, the climate’s effectson fashion may be the lastthing on the minds of envi -ron mental scientists, butthere’s no denying thesartorial fallout. What we’resaying here is: You don’t haveto be a meteorological geniusto know that checking thecalendar is a faulty way ofdeciding what to wear.

Adding to this state ofwardrobe flux is theprofusion of grocery storetabloids showing skimpilydressed stars sipping theiriced lattes in sunny L.A.while here in the north weface the horrors of anotherspring squall. Who canblame us for adopting aposture of denial? Or for

wanting to wear our summerclothes RIGHT NOW?

“We’re in a buy now, wearnow culture,” retail analystMarshal Cohen recently toldthe New York Times. In otherwords, if you’ve just bought a pair of strappy floral shoes(they are in-store after all)then dammit, you’re goingto wear them, steppingcarefully to avoid the mudpuddles, of course.

Besides, given how quicklyfashion turns over, whywould anyone want to wait?Today’s store-window fetishitem is tomorrow’s sale rackhas-been. Remember theponcho? The tiered skirt?

For those of us who insiston wearing our summerpurchases before the weatherhas decided to cooperate, theobvious solution is layering.

Cover that frothy summerdress with a cashmerecardigan or, better still, atrench coat. It’s the perfectstylish shell, invoking Kate Moss at her mostanonymous chic.

And if bare legs are toochill-inducing, make apractical solution chic byadding black opaque tights.

BRIGHT HERE,

Any one of the bright elements inthis ensemble from Canadian

designer Cheri Milaney (Shawl,$190, Two-Piece Outfit, $400)

will inject seasonal zip into yourwardrobe. And together they make

a citrusy, spring-like statement.

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Men need colour too. The crisppattern and cheery colour of thisBen Sherman Shirt ($240,bensherman.com for stores)partners well with jeans, khakis and your overall optimism thatspring is here.

The wicked stilettoskeep these Strappy

Sandals ($100, Aldo)chic, not cloyingly

sweet, while subtlefloral accents add a

cheering note to eventhe most neutral

wardrobe.

The delicate paisleypattern of this SlipDress ($50,Winners) shouldwarm your heartand make the goosebumps worth it.(Add a cashmerecardigan if you’rereally cold.)

Nars Orgasm LipGloss ($28, Holt

Renfrew) is auniversally flattering,

spring colour withsubtle shimmer. And if the name

makes you blush,well that will just put an attractive

flush in your cheeks.

Prep your skin for that pre-summerreveal. St. Ives 2 in 1 ShowerCleanser/Masque ($6, drugstores)gives you the deep cleansing benefitsof a clay mask with an invigoratingcitrus kick all in about a minute.

Creamsicle-coloured with a zingy orangefragrance, SatsumaBody Butter ($18,The Body Shop)hydrates normalskin and preventsdryness withoutever feeling greasy.

Think Catherine Deneuvein the film Belle de Jour

(sexy, secret double-life)to keep your Trench Coat

($375, RK) lookingParisian chic, nothousewife frumpy.

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White LaceWhether macramé, crochet, or out-and-out lace, frilly, white see-through pieces are the ultimatelook this summer. At Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld used a laser to cutdoilies right into his cotton dresses.Chloé and Emilio Pucci drew on little girls’ confirmation dresses forinspiration, and Diane Von Furstenberg(seen here) matched eyelet shortswith an eyelet top for a sweet, oh-so young look.

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Dress ShirtForget the power suit, thissummer a men’s shirt is allyou need to feel like apowerful woman. At Hermes,Jean Paul Gaultier made anasymmetrical shirt out ofpoplin, while VivienneWestwood matched hermodel’s top with a belt in thesame shade to define thewaist. Stella McCartney (seenhere) simply took an oversizedmen’s tuxedo dress shirt andput it on a woman, worn at theknee for a chic effect.PHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE

Popular PrintsWhether inspired by Bauhausarchitecture or African themes,prints are bigger than ever, bothin popularity and proportion.Christian Lacroix and AlbertaFerretti explored tribal prints,while Phi and AlexandreHerchcovitch went withpsychedelic designs pluckedfrom the 1960s. Green —especially in the form of leavesand flowers — are also huge. In Milan, Gucci, Valentino andVersace (seen here) werepositively in bloom.PHOTO: STUART GRIMWOOD / WIREIMAGE

Sex SellsA lot of designers seemed to be inspired by the “pornochic” style Tom Ford developedat Yves Saint-Laurent, and alsoby Gianni Versace, with manypieces sporting asymmetricallooks. Alexander McQueen(shown here) did a sensualdress that looks more like arobe — very sexy, and verysimple. Marc Jacobs, on theother hand, offered a brightpink cocktail dress for LouisVuitton that was completelyunstructured and open at justthe right places.PHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE

Turning Japanese This season, everyone’s crazy about the kimono. Paco Rabanne designerPatrick Robinson must have been thinking about Memoirs of a Geisha when hetransformed vintage kimonosinto beautiful, moderndresses that are both chicand sleek. And Diesel’sRenzo Rosso (seen here)accentuates the waist of awhite pencil skirt with a widered sash and tops it all with amodern Asian blouse.PHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE

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Men in WhiteWhat colour matches best withwhite? More white. AlessandroDell’Acqua dressed models inwhite suits from head to toeevoking the 1930s, while Guccicame up with a great pair ofwhite pants in a slightly glossyfabric that would look greatpaired with Lacoste’s V-necksweater (seen here).

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SurprisingSuspendersIt’s been a long time since your grandfather was as in ashe is this season. That’s right,suspenders are all the rage.The idea is to mix them with a very low-waisted pair ofpants to create a little-boylook. You can either scroungethrough grandpa’s attic, orinvest in a new pair, like these ones from Diesel.PHOTO: BIASION STUDIO / WIREIMAGE


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BATTLESTATIONS: MIDWAYPC, PS2, XBOXBattlestations: Midway has you playing an American naval officer battling throughthe Pacific theatre of the Second World War,starting with the chaos of Pearl Harbor andculminating at the decisive battle off thetiny atoll of Midway.

The game’s claim to originality comesfrom mashing two of the most popular war-game genres — real-time strategy andthird-person action — into a singleexperience. In each of the 11 ambitiousmissions you deploy your battleships, subs,carriers, fighters and bombers, chart courses

and select targets on an overview map. Onceyour basic strategy is outlined, you lead theassault against the Japanese by jumping intoa plane for some fierce dogfighting ormanning the big guns on one of your ships.

BAD DAY L.A.PC, XBOXFrom riots to earthquakes to Eddie Murphy’srecent career, Los Angeles has seen itsshare of disasters, but it’s never sufferedthrough 24 hours like this.

A third-person action title, Bad Day L.A.takes a satirical jab at America’s currentculture of fear by unleashing everyimaginable disaster — including abioterrorist attack, meteor showers, azombie infestation and what appears to be a very angry, six-storey tall walkinghamburger — on the beleaguered city.

Through it all you play Anthony Williams,a crazy, cynical homeless man turnedreluctant hero who uses his street smarts,combined with weapons like nail clippersand a fire extinguisher, to rescue his fellow Angelinos. The game also features a distinctive visual style reminiscent of aSaturday morning cartoon, but in full 3D.

ROGUE TROOPERPC, PS2, XBOX He’s big, bad and blue — he’s the RogueTrooper, a genetically altered supersoldierrun amok in this third-person shooter. Basedon a U.K. comic book series, the game takesplace on Nu Earth, a post-apocalypticlandscape gripped by an endless war.

Aligned with neither side, Rogue Trooperpursues his own agenda: hunting down themilitary traitor who killed his entire regiment.Helping RT are a few bits of military hardware— his gun, helmet and backpack — thatare actually sentient, having been implantedwith bio-chips preserving the personalitiesof three of his fallen squadmates, and RTinteracts with them as if they were alive. 10

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TOMB RAIDER: LEGENDPC, PS2, PSP, XBOX,XBOX 360In 1996 Tomb Raider debuted onPlayStation with a canny mix ofexploring, action and adventureset in groundbreaking 3D envi-ronments. It also introduced the

world to the improbably propor-tioned Lara Croft, archeologist,treasure hunter and all-aroundbutt-kicking babe. Lara would,of course, eventually go on tobig-screen fame and be por-trayed by the equally improbablyproportioned Angelina Jolie.

The original Tomb Raider wasa multimillion-selling global hit,but, perhaps taking a cue fromHollywood, it spawned half-a-dozen sequels of steadily deteri-orating quality. The graphicsmay have improved over theyears, but the storylines sufferedand gameplay remained strangelyunevolved. Tomb Raider: Legend,however, breathes new life intothis once-tired franchise.

For starters, Legend takes theseries back to its roots of actualtomb raiding. That means ourbuxom adventuress is once againexploring archeological sites inexotic jungles instead of skulkingaround cities and breaking intomilitary bases. Expect lots ofpuzzles and gun action as Laraencounters mystical creaturesand corrupt, competing raiders.

As for plot, Lara’s search for aSouth American relic takes a

turn for the unexpected when sheencounters a dangerous figurefrom her past. Her hunt leads tothe Himalayas where a more personal part of Lara’s story willbe revealed — the circumstancesthat made her the tough-as-nailsadventurer she is today.

Lara will have lots of toys —a grappling hook, binoculars,frag grenades and communica-tions gear, plus her trademarkpistols. But perhaps the bestnew toy of all is Lara’s vastly improved physicality. Her rangeof movement has been increased,and she’s now a nimbler, moreathletic heroine.

That’s all very well, say thefanboys, but what does the newLara look like. Great. She’s a lotmore realistic and detailed, andthat flawless face even showsexpressions now, making herless of a pneumatic cartoon.

LARA DIGS DEEP The latestTomb Raider title,Legend, promises to reveal much more of Lara Croft I BY SCOTT GARDNER

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I f you are so over Arcade Fire,and have cooled on the ArcticMonkeys, then you’re primed

for Margot and the Nuclear Soand So’s, an eight-member outfithailing from the rock ’n’ rollhotspot of Indianapolis, Indiana.

On the band’s just-releaseddebut CD, Dust of Regret you’llhear the requisite guitars, bassand drums, but also a cello,melodeon, trumpet and a varietyof household items, all workingtogether to make mesmerizing

and aching pop tunes.Margot’s heart and soul

resides within Richard Edwards,the band’s 22-year-old lead vocalist and tunesmith. He’s the one who named the band after Gwyneth Paltrow’s characterin director Wes Anderson’s filmThe Royal Tenenbaums. Edwards’ first band, which he started as a teenager, wasnamed Archer Avenue, the fictional street on which theTenenbaums live.

“I think me liking Wes Anderson comes from me liking Woody Allen when I wasyounger,” says the very laid-backEdwards on his cellphone fromIndianapolis. “Wes is our gener-ation’s Woody Allen.”

Edwards was considered a sort of rock prodigy in Indianapolis, a kid who wrotetons of sad, complicated songsand who started a band beforehe could drive. When ArcherAvenue disbanded there was a

slew of local musicians whowanted to work with Edwards,and thus Margot was born.

And it wasn’t just that theband members — seven guysand one gal — wanted to playtogether, in 2004 they decidedto dedicate themselves to thecause by moving into a housetogether. Bedrooms were split intwo, drywall applied, and themusicians were stuffed intosmall rooms, some no biggerthan closets. It’s been intense.

“Yeah, we live together rightnow,” explains Edwards, “but Ithink that’ll probably change inthe next few months. Personally,I’m leaving as soon as I can,” he states without a hint ofamusement.

The fact that Margot recentlysigned with a larger record labeland has toured most of the lastyear should enable Edwards tomake the move. And he needsto, ’cause it’s hard to write greatsongs when you’re living andworking with the same eightpeople 24/7.

“I don’t write very much onthe road, I need to be alone andhome,” he says. “I have to havea very specific setting, and ithas to be real quiet.”

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VINES COME BACKTO LIFEMany thought The Vines hadwithered; that their days as apowerhouse rock band — whichexploded out of Australia in 2002 — were over. In 2004 lead singer andwild child Craig Nicholls, who had recently been charged with assault,discovered he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome, a mild form of autism.With the proper diagnosis and treatment Nicholls was saved from self-destruction, and now two years later the band’s third CD, Vision Valley, hits shelves (April 4th). And what a comeback. Their garage-band sound is alive and well on tracks such as “Gross Out” and “F*k Yeh,” but they’ve also perfected the art of the Beach Boys-esque pop tune with “Candy Daze” and “Take Me Back.”

OUT THIS MONTHPINKI’m Not Dead >> April 4Pink returns to a-s-kicking form with her newest CD thatincludes the tee-hee send-up song “Stupid Girls” — are youlistening Paris, Jessica?

SOUL ASYLUMCrazy Mixed Up World >> April 4It’s been eight years since the popular alt-band fromMinneapolis released a studio CD, and almost one year sincethe death of bassist Karl Mueller from throat cancer. However,Mueller was fit enough in 2004 to record with the band andcan be heard on this album.

SAM ROBERTSChemical City >> April 11Canuck rocker Roberts finally drops the long-awaited follow-up album to his 2003 disc We Were Born in Flames.

Richard Edwards (left) fronts Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s

MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S EXPLODE I BY INGRID RANDOJA

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FUN WITH DICK AND JANEStars: Jim Carrey, Téa LeoniDirector: Dean Parisot(Galaxy Quest)Story: When Dick (Carrey)loses his job as VP of

Communications for an Enron-esque company, he assumes he’ll get anothersoon enough. Easier said than done. Thefact that his wife Jane (Leoni) just quit hergig as a travel agent leaves the couple in adesperate situation — which they rectify byturning to armed robbery.

THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYEDStars: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen DillaneDirector: Bill Paxton (Frailty)Story: In 1913, Francis Ouimet (LaBeouf), apoor 20-year-old who grew up across from agolf course and with oodles of natural ability,defeats reigning champion Harry Vardon(Dillane) at the U.S. Open. Based on a truestory. DVD Extras: featurettes on the realpeople who inspired the movie, interviewwith Francis Ouimet

AN UNFINISHED LIFEStars: Robert Redford, Jennifer LopezDirector: Lasse Hallström(The Cider House Rules)Story: A decade after hisson’s accidental death,

Wyoming rancher Einar Gilkyson (Redford)gets an unexpected visit from his daughter-in-law Jean (Lopez) and the granddaughterhe never knew he had. DVD Extras: directorcommentary, making-of featurette, still gallery

WOLF CREEKStars: John Jarratt, Cassandra MagrathDirector: Greg McLean (debut)Story: A gruesome horror about a group ofkids on a road trip through the Australianoutback. Note: not for people who dislike

watching really bad things happen primarilyto women. DVD Extras: director and castcommentary, interview with John Jarratt,making-of featurette

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BREAKFAST ONPLUTOStars: Cillian Murphy,Stephen ReaDirector: Neil Jordan (The Crying Game)Story: In this dreamy drama

that was a favourite on the festival circuit,an orphaned Irish boy (Murphy) reinventshimself as Kitten, a sweet-natured trans-vestite who makes his way through life alternately as a rock singer, a magician’sassistant and a streetwalker, all the whiletrying to find the mother who abandonedhim on the steps of a church. DVD Extras:commentary by Jordan and Murphy, behind-the-scenes featurette

MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTSStars: Judi Dench, Bob HoskinsDirector: Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things)Story: A bored widow (Dench) in wartimeEngland buys a theatre and, with the helpof a very proper producer (Hoskins),mounts a round-the-clock revue that doesvery well at first. But when their successspawns copycats that suck audiences outtheir door, they step it up a notch by havingthe showgirls go nude. Based on a true story. DVD Extras: directory commentary,making-of featurette

HOSTELStars: Jay Hernandez, Derek RichardsonDirector: Eli Roth (Cabin Fever)Story: This slasher moviemade headlines early in

January when it won its opening weekendat the box office (over blockbusters likeNarnia and King Kong, in their waning

days) despite being made for only a fewmillion dollars. A couple of Americanbackpackers making their way through Europe get a tip about a killer hostel inBratislava. Unfortunately, a lot of theguests actually get killed.

THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES OFGUY TERRIFICOStars: Matt Murphy, Kris KristoffersonDirector: Michael Mabbott (debut)Story: Real-life country stars such as Kristofferson and Merle Haggard chime infor this mockumentary about the life of1970s country singer Guy Terrifico.

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AEON FLUXStars: Charlize Theron,Frances McDormandDirector: Karyn Kusama(Girlfight)Story: Four centuries after avirus kills 99 percent of thepopulation, most of the survivors have retreated to

the apparently utopian walled city of Bregna.But all is not as it seems, and after herpeaceful sister is killed, Aeon Flux (Theron)turns mercenary. Based on a series of animated shorts that ran on MTV. DVD Extras:featurettes on locations, stunts and costume design, commentary by Theron

CASANOVAStars: Heath Ledger, Sienna MillerDirector: Lasse Hallström (Chocolat)Story: Legendary lover Casanova (Ledger)sets out to win the heart of the one woman(Miller) who wants nothing to do with him.DVD Extras: extended scene, featurettes oncostumes and location

MATCH POINTStars: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys MeyersDirector: Woody Allen (Manhattan)Story: What’s this? A Woody Allen movie

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that stars neither Allen nor someone doingtheir best impression of him? In what’swidely considered to be Allen’s best film inyears, Johansson stars as an American inLondon, who falls for her boyfriend’s sister’s boyfriend (Rhys Meyers), a formercompetitive tennis player. There are nogood guys or bad guys in this movie, justpeople with varying attachments to lustand greed.

SHOPGIRLStars: Steve Martin, Claire DanesDirector: Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie)Story: A wealthy, olderman (Martin) charms asmart, younger woman

(Danes) into dating him despite their agedifference. And all those presents andnice dinners don’t hurt. Based on Martin’snovella of the same name. DVD Extras:“Evolution of a Novella: The Making ofShopgirl,” deleted scenes, commentary by Tucker

TRISTAN & ISOLDEStars: James Franco, Sophia MylesDirector: Kevin Reynolds (The Count ofMonte Cristo)Story: It’s 600 AD and Tristan (Franco), theadopted son of an English ruler, falls forthe Irish princess Isolde, who saves his lifeafter he’s presumed dead. Romantic, yes,but complicated too, as this all happens ata time when the English and Irish arefighting over England.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe (APRIL 4)World War Two is raging and the Pevensie kids — Lucy (GeorgieHenley), Edmund (Skander Keynes), Peter (William Moseley) andSusan (Anna Popplewell) — are waiting it out in an eccentric professor’s old country house. One day the youngest, Lucy, crawlsinto a wardrobe during a game of hide-and-seek and discovers itcontains a portal to a frozen parallel universe full of wonderful andawful things. The kids quickly learn that a despotic witch (TildaSwinton) has cast a spell resulting in permanent winter, and they

are destined to remove her from power with the help of a benevolent Jesus figure in the formof a computer-generated lion.

If you attributed the similarities between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy to the fact that both were shot in New Zealand, andboth owed their looks to the hot special-effects company Weta Workshop, you might want todig a little deeper.

Their authors — Lord of the Rings’ J.R.R. Tolkien and Narnia’s C.S. Lewis — taught at Oxford at the same time, and were intimately acquainted with each other’s fantasy worlds,both of which are about good battling evil in unusual woodlands. But where Jackson’s Ringstrilogy was off-limits for the under-12 set, Narnia, directed by Shrek helmer Andrew Adamson,ducks in under that line, despite a few frightful scenes near the end.

You can opt for a single-disc DVD ($38), which still comes with lots of bonuses, or thetwo-disc Collector’s Edition ($45), which has almost 10 hours of added features. Producersobviously had the DVD in mind from the project’s embryonic stage, as featurettes follow thefour freakishly mature child actors (particularly that Georgie Henley) from their first auditions.We also see how much the kids grew over the seven-month shoot — Georgie shot up four-and-a-half inches, andthey actually had tostop shooting at onepoint because of thegrowing pains in the little actor’s legs. Thediscs also boast a feature-length pop-upcommentary with factssupplied by co-producerDouglas Gresham,Lewis’s stepson.

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AriesMarch 21 � April 20 You take small, but fascinating, detours as you advance toward a professional goalthis month. If entering into a situationinvolving shared finances, be certain your partner is up-front and responsible.Look for ways to pamper yourself withoutspending lavishly.

TaurusApril 21 � May 22 This is an ideal month to fulfill a personaldream — whether it’s performing on stage,writing a book or learning a new skill.Ordinary tasks become more enjoyablearound the 19th. There are unpredictableevents late in the month, but stability returns by the 30th.

GeminiMay 23 � June 21You’re in motion this month — zipping back and forth to visit friends, tend to tasksand oversee various projects. Resist atemptation to take on superiors during the weeks of the 17th and 24th. The lastweek of the month is a good time to speakfrom your heart.

CancerJune 22 � July 22Release bottled-up tensions and then look forward to a time of accomplishment.Mid-April will be all about experimentationand surprise. You’ll whip up gourmet meals,try new art forms or entertain at least oneunexpected houseguest.

LeoJuly 23 � August 22It’s time to let someone else take charge in a family situation. There’s a last-minutefeeling to the month. A travel opportunityunexpectedly opens up, or perhaps you’resuddenly called to an interview. Around the25th, someone shares a major secret.

VirgoAugust 23 � September 22You’re articulate and diplomatic. It’s anexcellent time to lead a group or presentideas. Enjoy an opportunity to take on

projects that allow you freedom. When anold friend contacts you around the 21st, you set off on an interesting stroll downmemory lane.

LibraSeptember 23 � October 22April is a month of extremes. You spend partof your time in quiet reflection, and anotherpart surrounded by huge crowds. In the areasof diet and health, work to find a middleground. If you need to ask tough questions,wait till the 20th and don’t mince words.

ScorpioOctober 23 � November 21 Spend less time solving other people’sproblems and more time sorting out yourown stressful situation. A new form ofrelaxation — guitar playing perhaps — could do the trick. Someone you once treated well does you a huge favour during the last week.

SagittariusNovember 22 � December 22The first half of April involves professionaland personal tasks that require attention to detail. Your priorities change through the month as you find yourself moreconnected to spiritual matters thanmaterialistic ones. At the same time, your confidence level peaks.

CapricornDecember 23 � January 20Casual comments made during the week of the 17th could be taken out of context,so choose your words thoughtfully. Surround yourself with people whoseglasses are half full. They’ll encourage and inspire you to do something that can make a real difference.

AquariusJanuary 21 � February 19 Someone’s trying to stir up trouble on andoff this month — but avoid a showdown atall costs. Focus on improving your body,your mind or both. And, especially aroundthe 20th, don’t hesitate to express your realfeelings to a person you care about.

PiscesFebruary 20 � March 20Friends are easier to reach and more in tunewith your interests. Relatives give you morebreathing space. Try new and even offbeatstrategies if requesting favours or goingafter a raise. Travel-related information isless than reliable and needs clarification.

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MARIEL HEMINGWAY“Yoga is the best way to find outwhat your body is. It’s almost likebeing your own sculptor. You’reusing your breath, which is almostlike your chisel, and you sculpt outthe body you were given. It alsoenables you to accept the body youwere given, whatever shape that is.”

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GWYNETH PALTROW “I’ve learned to let go of the patterns and things thatheld me back in a feedback loop ofdiscontentedness — and yoga was a part of that. And my yoga instructor introducedme to macrobiotic eating which has givenme a tremendous amount of energy.”

COURTENEY COX “I take classes inpower-yoga. It’s great. You’re continuouslymoving, working up a great sweat. I alsotake Pilates classes. That’s anotherstrenuous form of yoga.”

MEG RYAN “It not only keeps me inshape but it helps me feel calm andcentred. You suddenly know what peace-of-mind might be like. You get this floatafterward that is so incredible.”

DEMI MOORE “Yoga is very important to me for a leaner, more flexible body, stronger muscles and a clearer mind. Once people begin to understand the mind-body-spiritconnection, they’re hooked.”

SARAH JESSICA PARKER “Pilates is aform of yoga that I have come to really relyon for a flat stomach, among other things.In 10 sessions, you feel the difference. In 20, you see the difference. I do bothPilates and yoga with a trainer.”

CHRISTY TURLINGTON “I was reallygangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn’t even do a cartwheel. Yogachanged me in every way — physically,emotionally and spiritually.”

RACHEL GRIFFITHS “In Los Angeles,I’ve got this great yoga guy named Mark Blanchard. You’ll go to his class and see 16 girls with the most amazingarms. He’s not a yoga Nazi. You take things at your own pace and get there when you get there.”

ROSANNA ARQUETTE “I try to doPilates three times a week and yoga twice aweek. That’s so much better than aerobicsand that fat-burning thing.”

MICHELLE PFEIFFER “I hate yoga! I hate yoga! It hurts and your body isn’tsupposed to bend like that. Forget it. It’s not natural.”

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