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Blanchett directing in Austrailia
HOLLYWOOD ... As the hoopla of awards and award shows wanes, Hollywood is back to the business of making more movies to cause more hoopla and awards. Ben Stiller is set to star in "The Marc Pease Experience," about a man 10 years out of high school and still living in the past when he was the star of high-school musicals. Stiller won't play that man. He will be Pease's teacher and mentor. Newcomer Jason Schwartzman plays Pease, and in case you want to know about him, he starred in "Marie Antoinette" and is now in India filming "The Darjeeling Limited." Schwartzman is touted as an upcoming big new star. We'll see.
Diane Keaton is another who "jes keeps on and on." Her latest, "Because I Said So," is the story of an overbearing mom who tries to take over the life of her daughter, played by Mandy Moore. At the after-screening party at the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood, Keaton, in a white suit, looked almost as young as Mandy and had a great time "dishing" with all her friends who turned out to applaud. Then she retired to a private dinner party with a few of her oldest and dearest. How many of you remember that Diane was once linked to Woody Allen. AND, did you know she was born Diane Hall, and when she first started out she used the name Dorrie Hall? And Santa Ana College, which she attended, named a street after her in 2000?
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Cate Blanchett is a very busy lady. She can be seen on the big screen with George Clooney in "The Good German," while in person she's now in Australia making her directorial debut at the Sydney Theater Company, calling the shots on a play titled "A Kind of Alaska." She's also on the screen with Brad Pitt in "Babel," and in the future she's set to reprise her
role as Elizabeth I in "The G o l d e n A g e . " She's so busy that there's no time for fun, but the lady says "her work is her fun." Miss Blanchett has one big fault she tries to hide: She bites her fingernails. I would too if I was that busy.
And another Kate, this one spelled with a "K," next stars in a thriller titled "Whiteout." Kate Beckinsale plays a U.S. marshal assigned to Antarctica to investigate that continent's first murder. She must do this within three days because after that, Antarctica will be plunged into darkness and she would be stranded there with the killer. Filming starts in March in Montreal. La Beckinsale has had and does
have quite a personal life. She suffered a nervous breakdown and anorexia at age 15 and spent several years in analysis. She attended Oxford University majoring in French and Russian. She then dropped out to take up an acting career. She has emetophobia (fear of throwing up) and admits to urinating in the thermos of a director who forced her to do a nude scene in an early film (this from People's Almanac). (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.
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