Kate Beckinsale and Tim Nasson Click HOLLYWOOD – Dressed in designer jeans, a black halter-top and tasteful gold jewelry, Kate Beckinsale is the picture of an elegant English rose. The brunette beauty is keenly aware of how delicate she appears, but looks can be deceiving. The 32-year-old actress is just hours away from attending the […]
Ben Foster talks to Tim Nasson New York City – He may have one of the smallest roles in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” but twenty-five year-old, Boston native Ben Foster, at the same time, has one of the most memorable. In the third installment of “X-Men,” five foot, nine inch, Ben Foster climbs into the […]
Jean Reno is a Professional in The Da Vinci Code, by Tim Nasson Some actors might be insulted at being compared to a bull. Not Jean Reno. The 57-year-old Moroccan-born French actor was flattered that “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown created the character of Bezu Fache, referred to as “the bull” by his […]
By Tim Nasson Los Angeles – Richard Dreyfuss has the distinction of being first out of the gate this summer as a suicidal gay man on the big screen. You see, it is not just he who gets to play gay and depressed this boffo box office season. Dreyfuss’s competition is “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” Steve […]
By Tim Nasson Hollywood – For all who have followed Philip Seymour Hoffman’s film career, it has been an exciting journey. “Multiply that by one thousand, for me,” says Hoffman, recently, at the Chateau Marmont, when I speak with him after his Oscar win for the mesmerizing and stunning portrayal of the late, effete and […]
By Tim Nasson Los Angeles – Academy Award winning director Ang Lee, the prestigious title only hours old, is a soft-spoken, humble man. An extremely talented and intelligent person, who happens to be a happy husband, (still on his first wife, after nearly twenty-five years of marriage), a terrific father, (two sons, one twenty-two, one sixteen, […]
Tim Nasson Interviews Channing Tatum for She’s The Man Boston – It’s been more than a year since I first interviewed, the now twenty-six year old yet very mature Channing Tatum. That first time was in New York City, about a month before the release of his first major motion picture, Coach Carter. In Coach […]
Picking ten movies from the more than 600 released in theaters during the past year was a hard task. You have your comedies, dramas, romances, action films, foreign films, epics, big budget summer films, Oscar candidates, stinkers and everything in between, from which to choose!
By Tim Nasson New York City – The title alone of Matthew McConaughey’s latest film – Failure to Launch – may give some, including Matthew himself, reason to pause – and laugh! “It has been a while since I have had a hit movie,” he chuckles. The thirty-six year old “Sexiest Man Alive” – yes, […]
Kathy Bates talks to Tim Nasson New York City – She scared the bejesus out of you in her Best Actress, Academy Award winning role as Annie Wilkes in the adaptation of Stephen King’s “Misery.” The next year, Bates was the shoulder that Jessica Tandy’s Ninny Threadgoode could cry on in “Fried Green Tomatoes,” a […]
By Tim Nasson New York City – It’s a crisp New York morning. In fact, it’s the morning that the record breaking blizzard begins to sweep up the east coast and ultimately dumps over two feet of snow in Central Park – a stone’s throw from where Sarah Jessica Parker and I sit to chat […]
Simon Baker Directs Something New, by Tim Nasson There are an endless number of them at the moment – men from Down Under who are climbing to the top, in Hollywood. Add Simon Baker’s name to the list that already includes Academy Award contenders and box office superstars Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Guy Pearce. (Trivia […]
Alfre Woodard talks to Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – Alfre Woodard just may be the most accomplished, best loved (by critics and audiences, alike), and talented of black actresses living today. The Academy Award nominee (“Cross Creek”), and four time Emmy Award winner, (for a special guest appearance on “The Practice,” a special guest appearance […]
Anne Hathaway talks to Tim Nasson 2006 is turning out to be a great year for New York City native, Anne Hathaway, and the first month of the year isn’t even over. The Disney diva who shot to the top of the popularity line with little girls, what with the two “Princess Diaries” movies and […]
Jim Carrey Talks to Tim Nasson about Dick (and Jane) NEW YORK – Jim Carrey saunters into a suite at the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with a big smile on his familiar rubbery face. What’s he so happy about? “I’m happy to be in New York,” he says with a shrug. “I like it here.” Carrey, […]
By Tim Nasson New York City – Heath Ledger, one of the world’s sexiest men (People Magazine), is on top of his game in more ways than one. But more about that in a minute. On a recent chilly, snowy, Sunday morning, I had a chance to sit with Ledger in a suite at one […]
By Tim Nasson Los Angeles – Academy Award winning South African actress Charlize Theron, now thirty-one, has come a long way from her motion picture debut, “Children Of The Corn III.” “Everyone has to start somewhere,” she says, laughing, recently in Los Angeles – a town that has been very good to her. Thankfully, the […]
50 Cent talks to Tim Nasson New York City – 50 Cent, his real name Curtis James Jackson III, just may be the only black gangster, turned superstar rapper who, at once, can endear not only the target rap audience – 11-22 year olds – but also, forty and fifty-something soccer moms. And here’s the […]
Val Kilmer Interview by Tim Nasson Los Angeles – It’s safe to say that Val Kilmer’s star peaked in the early 90s. In a span of five years, Kilmer portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” Elvis Presley in “True Romance,” Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in “Batman Forever,” and one of the […]
By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – If you’re not one of the millions who are devotees of The Food Network, you may not yet know who Paula Deen is. With the release of Cameron Crowe’s latest film, “Elizabethtown,” that is all about to change. The $64,000 question – and longest sentence in this feature – […]
Orlando Bloom Interview Elizabethtown, By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – Orlando Bloom, who has starred in 4 of the highest grossing movies of all time – as Legolas in the “Lord of the Rings Trilogy” and as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean and is just completing work on the two, yes two, sequels […]
Shia LaBeouf and Bill Paxton talk to Tim Nasson The Greatest Game Ever Played may be the greatest family sports film ever made. Or is it? Well, according to Presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton, who hand wrote notes to Walt Disney after screening the movie, thanking them for making and releasing such a heartwarming, touching […]
Reese Witherspoon talks to Tim Nasson Los Angeles – It’s been almost fifteen years since I first sat with, well, a fifteen year old, tomboyish Reese Witherspoon. The setting was an empty theater at Loews Copley Place in Boston, about a half hour before her first movie, “The Man In the Moon,” was to screen […]
Matt Damon talks to Tim Nasson Nearly a decade ago, the now thirty-five year old Cambridge, Massachusetts native, Matt Damon – who recently quit smoking – received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Oscar for writing “Good Will Hunting” – a film – shot in and around Boston – in which […]
Jessica Simpson Is Daisy Duke by Tim Nasson New York City – If you think you know Jessica Simpson – the chaste, blonde singer, teenage role-model, superstar who proudly saved her virginity for her wedding night – think again. The daughter of a preacher is stripping down and baring a lot (not quite all) as […]