By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – I recently spent a morning with Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, the day before she appeared on Oprah along with Jude Law, her co-star in the new film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Paltrow has come a long way from her days spent in a specially constructed, […]
By Tim Nasson Meryl Streep: The name is synonymous with flawless acting. Not just in tearjerker dramas like The Bridges of Madison County and Angels in America. Don’t forget the comedic side of Meryl Streep in Defending Your Life, She-Devil and Death Becomes Her. It’s not hard to figure out why many bestow the title […]
By Tim Nasson New York City—OK. The Stepford Wives circa 1975 is already a cult classic. So why remake it? Well, Frank Oz, the man behind the camera for this, the 2004 version, take umbrage when I ask him the question recently during a morning I spent intermittently speaking to virtually the whole cast. “This […]
By Tim Nasson When one thinks of an image to go along with the name Brad Pitt the word middle-aged hardly crosses one’s mind. Instead, the thought of ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ may come to the fore. (And Pitt lays claim to being the only person named ‘Sexiest’ twice, 1994 and 2000, by People Magazine.) Believe […]
By Tim Nasson Forty-two-year-old Julianne Moore has been busy. Very busy. An actor is usually lucky to be considered at year’s end for one Academy Award nomination. It’s very unusual for an actor to be nominated for performances in two movies in one year. This seems to be Julianne’s year. Don’t be shocked to see […]
By Tim Nasson If memory serves me correctly, it was more than half a lifetime ago, during the winter of 1985, that I shirked the responsibility of shoveling my Nana’s front stairs and porch, and snuck off to the local eight-screen multiplex, alone, to see Enemy Mine. That was the first time that my eyes […]
By Tim Nasson Actor Heath Ledger is not quite as famous as I thought. Heath admitted during our breakfast sit-down together that not too many people other than his friends, colleagues and family know who he is. At the moment, that’s not surprising, since he currently sports a nearly shaved head for a role in […]
By Tim Nasson Ben Stiller has Met the Parents and found that there was Something about Mary. In the process, he has become one of the big screen’s most valuable comedic assets. No big surprise, since his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who have been married for 47 years, raised him in an entertainment-filled […]
By Tim Nasson Actress Pam Grier marches across the planet Mars 200 mm years in the future as Commander Helena Braddock in John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. Adorned in leather army fatigues, a fabulous long, black wig, not one but two machine guns, and professing her love towards colleague Lt. Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge), Grier […]
By Tim Nasson LOS ANGELES — Sean Hayes, the truly gifted comedian and actor, has shown in three short years that he is around to stay. The 31-year-old native of Chicago took Hollywood by storm in his first role on screen: Hayes as the suffering gay boy in love with his straight friend in “Billy’s […]
By Tim Nasson Paul Walker: ‘Racing is so sexual. How can it not be?’ Universal Studios, Universal City, CA – Those familiar with the gorgeous man’s man Paul Walker know that his greatest passion in life is surfing. Since none of the movies he has starred in so far (The Skulls, Varsity Blues, She’s All […]
By Tim Nasson LOS ANGELES — “I am a size 36C in real life,” Angelina Jolie says, laughing hard. Why, you may ask, is she revealing her `real’ breast size? Because in her new movie, “Tomb Raider,” Jolie explains that there are many special effects, one of them being the size 38D her breasts become. […]
By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills — Though “A Knight’s Tale” is only the third film 21-year-old Perth, Australia, native Heath Ledger has starred in, it seems that he’s everywhere lately and is following in the heels of some other very successful Aussie movie heroes gone American. “It’s not as amazing as it seems,” says Ledger […]
By Tim Nasson While the big news about The Tailor of Panama should be that the impeccably styled Pierce Brosnan is poking fun at himself by playing a cynical, rotten, ruthless British secret agent, totally the opposite of the role he plays in the Bond films, the biggest story behind the movie is that it […]
By Tim Nasson LOS ANGELES — Tony Soprano: One of the most feared, respected and admired characters on television today. Forty-year-old James Gandolfini has helped make “The Sopranos” HBO’s highest rated show ever. And he’s earned not only the admiration of the show’s fans, but he’s won numerous awards, including an Emmy. Gandolfini, who rarely […]
By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills, CA – What do a Puerto Rican actress-cum-singer who unsuccessfully attempts an Italian accent in her new role; a Texan who loves to dance around naked in his house smoking marijuana; and a charismatic, queeny Jew from Brentwood who has never made a film before have in common with each […]
By Tim Nasson It’s obvious upon meeting the most envied man in Hollywood, Guy Ritchie, to see why Madonna decided on him for her second husband and father of her second child, Rocco. Four days after moving from London to a home in Beverly Hills, Ritchie sauntered into the Four Seasons in Los Angeles to […]
By Tim Nasson Gloucester, MA — “We kissed each other,” says Mark Wahlberg, referring to a love scene between himself and co-star George Clooney, “but Wolfgang Petersen [the director] cut it out of the final version.” No way, I said, in disbelief. “Actually, I’m kidding,” laughed Wahlberg. “But it does look like there was some […]
By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – The last time I spoke with Angelina Jolie it was halfway through her filming of the movie Girl, Interrupted. She was in LA promoting last year’s bomb Pushing Tin; however, the buzz was already in motion for her role as the teen committed to an insane asylum, and the […]
By Tim Nasson This year brought with it two Joan of Arc films. This past spring, ABC television delivered its rendition with the up-and-coming Leelee Sobieski in the starring role. Now, Columbia Pictures has ushered in a big-screen production of the 550-year-old true story of the martyred teen, The Messenger, The Story of Joan of […]
By Tim Nasson BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “This is going to be the biggest homo movie ever.” That is what Brad Pitt says Fight Club director David Fincher predicted when shooting the film last year. Fincher’s premonition is not far off. While Fight Club is not an out-and-out gay film, it certainly pushes buttons and […]
By Tim Nasson New York City — I was five years old when the first Star Wars film was released in 1977 and finally saw it and its two sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi for the first time last year when they were all re-released. In other words, I am not […]
Franco Zeffirelli talks to Tim Nasson NEW YORK — Long before many actors playing its roles today were born, famed, openly gay director Franco Zeffirelli was reveling in adoration and winning awards for his big screen production of “Romeo and Juliet.” That was 1968. Thirty years later, at the age of 77, (though he admits […]
By Tim Nasson Drew Barrymore has a couple things to get off her chest before we begin talking about her most recent comedy, Never Been Kissed. “Yes, I am going to be starring in a big-screen version of Charlie’s Angels (opposite Cameron Diaz and probably Angelina Jolie),”she says first, when asked. “And no, I won’t be […]
By Tim Nasson Pasadena, CA- More than a decade has passed since Keanu Reeves entertained high school kids throughout the world as half of the comic duo of Bill and Ted in the two Bill and Ted adventures. Before that, Reeves stole The River’s Edge in 1986, and Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, […]