Catherine Zeta-Jones, who’s enjoying a mini-comeback with a slate of upcoming films including the musical Rock of Ages, has reportedly been cast as a doctor in Side Effects, an upcoming Steven Soderbergh thriller wherein Blake Lively takes pharmaceuticals to mute the effects of her depression. Ms. Zeta-Jones previously appeared in Mr. Soderbergh’s Traffic and Read More
As we anxiously await the release of Steven Soderbergh’s Che–the four-hour epic begins a limited one week engagement at the Ziegfield starting on December 12th before coming back around in January–isn’t it time we got an update on the craziest/awesomest project that the director has ever come up with? Of course we’re talking about Cleo, Read More
Our brain is simply spinning with the news that Steven Soderbergh is planning on making a 3-D rock musical about Egyptian sexpot ruler Cleopatra. First, the casting: Variety reports today that Mr. Soderbergh is sniffing around Catherine Zeta-Jones to take on the role, previously held by both Claudette Colbert (in 1934) and Elizabeth Taylor Read More
Tamara Mellon‘s ex-husband Matthew Mellon will debut a new collection with his fiancée, designer Nicole Hanley, under the name Mellon-Hanley at the St. Regis hotel next week. [WWD]
Catherine Zeta-Jones buys duplicates of all her clothes and stocks them at her various homes throughout the world so that they all have identical wardrobes. Read More
Monday: Beverly Hills, 90210 Marathon
We regularly tune in to SoapNet—yes, if you didn’t know, there is a cable channel devoted to soaps—on weekend mornings for reruns of Beverly Hills, 90210, that life-lesson-teaching teen drama that accompanied us through high school and college. This has us uniquely prepared for the CW remake (see Tuesday), which Read More
The Weinstein Bros. are in talks with a slate of Hollywood song-and-dance types to star in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Nine.
According to Variety, The Weinstein Company is negotiating with Penelope Cruz, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sophia Loren, Javier Bardem and newcomer Marion Cotillard (who recently played Edith Piaf in the highly-praised biopic, Read More
Forget the bad food metaphors: The most remarkable thing about the romantic comedy No Reservations is actor Aaron Eckhart’s hair, which even manages to upstage the long, flowing dark locks of his gorgeous co-star, Catherine Zeta-Jones. “It was a mop,” said Mr. Eckhart of the multitoned and layered coif, at a lunch in honor of Read More
It’s the end of the world! With last week’s steam pipe going boom and news that Al Qaeda is stronger than ever and a seeming future of endless re-looping Bush and Clinton family presidencies (Hillary; Jeb; Chelsea; George P. Bush … ), you can forgive us for camping out by the AC in close-to-the-edge hysteria.… Read More
NO RESERVATIONS
Running Time 105 minutes
Written By Carol Fuchs and Sandra Nettelbeck
Directed By Scott Hicks
Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin
At the movies, there’s nothing much to write home about, but I enjoyed the embrace of No Reservations, an unnecessary but somewhat charming Read More
The more complex movies become in the commitments they demand of their audience, the harder it becomes to describe them for readers who might want to become potential members of that audience. Clint Eastwood’s challenging and interesting new drama, Mystic River , is a good example. A dark and lurid exploration of violence, retribution and Read More
