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Streep becomes early Oscar favorite
Chalk up another Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep now! Everyone out this way is either talking about, or writing about her performance in "The Devil Wears Prada." The lady's talent seems never ending, and getting bigger with every performance, if that's possible. And what a career she has had. Fortunately, she was never a struggling young actress. Her family was in pharmaceuticals, so there was no money problem. She attended the best schools, Yale and Vassar, and graduated with honors. Today, still happily married to Don Gummer, she has four children: Mary Willa, Grace Jane, Henry and Louisa. She has been known to say that her children have never seen many of her films "because they're too upsetting. Mommy dies."
Samuel L. Jackson's plate is full. His next shoot will be "Jumper," based on the book by S t e v e n G o u l d about a child from a broken home who discovers he has the ability to teleport himself. While searching for the man he believes to have killed his mother, he draws attention from a boy with the same abilities and also the National Security Agency. Jackson plays the NSA agent tracking the boy, and who may have ulterior motives for finding him. His other films are "Snakes on a Plane," "Black Snake Moan" and "Home of the Brave."
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Another big award for Clint Eastwood. Come November he will receive the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Films at a big do at the Los Angeles Century Plaza Hotel. And when you look at Clint's record, you know he deserves this highest honor. Too long to list here, let's just add that at the moment he's working on "Flags of Our Fathers," about the battle of Iwo Jima, to be released in October.
Lucy Liu goes into "Watching the Detectives," a romantic comedy about a "Film Noir" buff whose world is turned upside down when a beautiful, unpredictable femme fatale enters his life. She provides far more experience than he ever expected, and far, far more than he can handle. Cillian Murphy plays the man. Incidentally, did you know Lucy's friends call her Curious George? Don't ask me why. I just heard it in passing. And, she was NOT born in China; Grew up there and attended NYU and the University of Michigan.
Remember little RavenSymone, the adorable little tyke on "The Cosby Show"? Well, she's all grown up now and set to star for the big screen in "Adventures in Babysitting," which fares to be fun. It's about a high-school senior who is babysitting a bunch of youngsters when she gets a call from a friend who is in trouble. Raven has to take the kids with her when she goes to her aid, and we are treated to a night of many misadventures. Sounds like fun.
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BITS 'N' PIECES: Aren't you a bit weary of news about baby Suri, and Star Jones, and Brad and Angelina, and Britney and her baby DON'T hear about keep it all to themselves, so then what would we poor ink-stained wretches have to write about? And so we lope along with the above, hoping they will keep frolicking so we'll have words for these pages. ... And by the time we read this, let us hope all will be well between Tom and Katie, Charles and Camilla, Brad and Angelina, Hilary and Chad, and all the others who have been witnessing a bit of turmoil. ... And Paris? Oh yes! She's still skipping up and down Sunset Boulevard, in and out of eateries and nightspots.
(c) 2006 King Features Synd., Inc.
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