the long goodbye

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Nicole Kidman Celebrates ‘Australia’ Premiere By Plotting Retirement

1:43AM STV | The first audience to see the finished version of Australia should be drunkenly stumbling out of the afterparty right about now in Sydney, where Baz Luhrmann’s $130 million epic held its world premiere today. Early reviews from the homeland are mixed (”While it will be very popular with many people I think there’s a slight air of disappointment after it all,” notes The Australian), putting Fox on edge for this weekend’s first American press screenings and underscoring downswung star Nicole Kidman’s red-carpet threat to walk away from the whole sordid business: More »
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Revealed! Angelina Jolie’s Bold 30-Year Plan to ‘Fade Away’

4:14AM STV | The BBC on Thursday unveiled quite the scoop in a world-exclusive interview: Angelina Jolie is going to quit acting! Like, soonish. Sort of. Perhaps a few years from now. Or longer. Like decades, if her stream-of-conscious threat to “fade away” is any indication: Maybe a Kung Fu Panda installment here, a Lara Croft sequel there, and gratuitous Oscar bait every five years or so, carefully timed to coincide with the next collection of candid mealtime snapshots issued by Brad Pitt. More »
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