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January 17, 2001 Issue Number 102
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IN THIS ISSUE:

1. Trivia Blitz
2. In The News - Movies & Entertainment
3. Online Celebrity Chat
4. In The News - Television
5. Movie Review - Shadow of the Vampire
6. Celebrity Profile - Willem Dafoe
7. Celebrity Birthdays
8. Trivia Answer

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Hi Movie Fans!

Hang in there, it's almost the weekend! I hope you enjoy today's
issue, and don't be afraid to email us -- We enjoy hearing from
you!

- Bob

It's Showtime!

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1. TRIVIA BLITZ
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What film did Jennifer Aniston not appear?

A. Office Space
B. She's The One
C. Perfect Picture
D. The Pallbearer

¤ Correct answer can be found at the bottom

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2. IN THE NEWS - Movies & Entertainment
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GELLAR IN 'SCOOBY DOO'?
Rumour's have been rampant that Sarah Michelle Gellar would star
in "Scooby Doo," alongside boyfriend Freddie Prinze Jr. Now
according to the BBC's Buffy website she will indeed be in it.
The site had the following posted "We are delighted, however, to
confirm that Sarah has signed on to the project. Buffy the
Vampire Slayer co-producer Doug Petrie today confirmed to the BBC
Buffy site that the production team are working out a schedule
with Sarah to enable her to spend time on both projects during
the coming weeks. Sarah's involvement could mean the end of the
use of the nickname "The Scooby Gang" for Buffy and her
vampire-slaying regulars. "We can't use it any more," explains
Doug, "She is literally part of the Scooby Gang in what I'm sure
will be a hit motion picture, so we're screwed with that!"

WIN A ROLE IN A KEVIN SMITH MOVIE
Last week we passed on some news via AZReporter.com on how you
could win a starring role in the movie "The Art of Trash." This
week they tell us that Kevin Smith is now offering a Movie Role
contest. This will be a Non-Speaking Walk-On Role in his upcoming
movie "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." For full deatails on how
to enter visit..
http://www.azreporter.com/news/01-15-01/kevinsmithmovie.html
I would also like to take this time to thank the folks at
AZReporter for their interest in publishing our Movie &
Entertainment news, which can be found at..
http://www.azreporter.com/infotainment/movienews.html

'APES' FOR LISA MARIE
Variety reports that Lisa Marie will take on the role of a female
ape in Tim Burtons upcoming remake of "Planet of the Apes." It's
a small role, but Lisa Marie has been in every Burton film
starting with "Ed Wood."

'OCEANS ELEVEN' CASTING
Fox 411 reports that Peter Lawford's son, Christopher, is joining
the project and in related news Variety reports that Elliott
Gould has also joined the film's steadily growing cast. Gould is
said to be taking on the role of Ruben Tischkoff, the man who
puts up the money to finance Danny Ocean's big casino heist.

SHYAMALAN WRITING 'INDY 4'?
Though M. Night Shyamalan has not decided yet whether he will
write the script for the fourth installment of the "Indiana
Jones" series, it appears that he has set a personal deadline.
While talking to The Hindu national newspaper of India,
Shyamalan's parents revealed, "He will decide this week." In
regard's to why Shyamalan is having a tough time deciding whether
to helm the project His parents explain, saying, "It is a sequel.
He always wants to write original stuff."

'LOS MUERTOS' CASTING
Cristian de la Fuente (Family Law) has joined the cast of John
Carpenter's "Vampires: Los Muertos" project, which also stars Bon
Jovi and Natasha Gregson Wagner. The film is currently shooting
on location in Mexico City.

DUNCAN JOINS 'SCORPION KING'
Michael Clarke Duncan is the latest addition to join the cast of
"Scorpion King," the prequel to "The Mummy Returns." There's no
word on what role Duncan will be playing in the film, which also
stars wrestler, The Rock.

'ARAC ATTACK' FOR CZUCHRY
Matt Czuchry (Young Americans) has joined David Arquette and Kari
Wuhrer in Centropolis' giant monster action-comedy "Arac Attack."
According to Variety, There's no word on what role the actor will
play in the film.

WHEN SHOULD WE EXPECT 'BOND 20'?
According to Variety, Although the film to come has no script or
director as yet, MGM is said to be eyeing November 2002 as a
release point for the film.

'JAY AND BOB' UPDATES
Kevin Smith revealed some more details on his coming flick, "Jay
and Silent Bob Strike Back" in his regular online column at
Psycomic. This week he he told of Shannon Elizabeth taking on the
role that had originally been offered to Heather Graham, by
saying "Heather, it seems, likes the script and thinks it's
really funny. She won't commit, however, because there's this one
issue nagging her about the flick. Hold onto your socks...
Heather doesn't understand why her character would fall in love
with Jay." Also the role that Will Ferrel will play was initially
offered to Charlie Sheen, who turned it down. The big news
however is that David Duchovny is showing interest in coming
aboard for a small bit. Kevin had the following to say regarding
Duchovny reading the script.."Two days later, he called and said
he laughed out loud reading it, which I took as a compliment,
opting not to dig for further details as to whether he was
laughing at it or with it. Duchov cleared up the mystery by
saying he'd love to come aboard for a small role he fell in love
with in the script."

OFFER MADE FOR 'HANNIBAL 3'?
According to the London Sunday Times, Anthony Hopkins has been
offered in the $20M range to take on the role of Hannibal Lecter
in the remake of "Red Dragon," the story set prior to "Silence of
the Lambs."

THE NEW 'JP3' DINO
Images have turned up online of what could be 'JP3s'
"Spinosaurus." These photo's which can be found here
http://www.chud.com/news/jan01/jan12spine.php3 were sent into the
CHUD site by a vistor claiming that the pics were given to him by
a friend who works in the toy industry.

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MIRAMAX PUTTIN FILM ON 'NET'
A major Hollywood studio will begin an experiment next week
making full-length feature films available for download over
the Internet. On Jan. 22, Miramax will allow its 1999 release
"Guinevere," starring Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea, to be
downloaded for $3.49 for a 24-hour viewing license. The 500
megabyte file will take about 30 minutes to download over a
high-speed Internet connection.

MEMBER OF MTV'S 2GETHER DIES
Michael Cuccione (Jason "Q.T." McKnight ), the youngest of the
five-member boy band spoof 2gether, has died at age 16. "His
lungs just gave out," his uncle, also named Michael Cuccione,
told MTV News on Tuesday. "We weren't really expecting it."
Cuccione died of complications from respiratory failure Saturday
in his hometown of Vancouver, B.C. He had just turned 16 eight
days earlier.

OLIVER STONE COLLECTION HITS SHELVES
Director Oliver Stone is the center of a new home video and DVD
collection that is available in stores Tuesday. The collection
includes enhanced versions of many of his critically acclaimed
films, and a never-seen-before career retrospective is featured
in every gift pack. The collection includes the "Any Given Sunday
Special Edition Director's Cut," "JFK Special Edition Director's
Cut," "Heaven and Earth," "Natural Born Killers," "Talk Radio,"
"Born on The Fourth of July," "Wall Street," "Nixon," "The Doors"
and "U-Turn." Individual titles in the Oliver Stone collection
will also be available for purchase, and most of the collection's
DVD titles include new special features such as commentaries,
rare documentaries, outtakes and extended scenes.

METALLICA BASS PLAYER LEAVING
Citing "the physical damage that I have done to myself ...
playing the music that I love," Metallica bass player Jason
Newsted said on Wednesday he was leaving the Grammy Award-winning
heavy metal band.

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¤ Paul Verhoeven - talk with Hollow Man director Paul Verhoeven
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¤ Robert Englund - Chat with Robert Englund from "Nightmare on
Elm Street" fame about his newly released movie "Python" on
January 24th at 4pm ET.
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4. In The News - Television
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SHATNER TO HOST NEW PROGRAM
William Shatner is returning to television, this time as host of
a potential series to be called William Shatner's Full Moon
Frightshow. According to Variety, the program is being pitched by
Full Moon Universe, the folks behind such feature films as The
Puppet Master series, Subspecies and Trancers. The program will
simply offer up one of the previously released Full Moon features
(though one would assume that they may be edited) with Shatner
acting as the host of the program.

SHEPHERD MAY LEAVE DAYTIME SHOW
Cybill Shepherd may step down as host of the ratings-challenged
freshman syndicated show "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From
Venus." Insiders say while both Shepherd and Columbia TriStar
have been committed to the show and its title, the delivery of
the "Mars" brand and concept could be improved.

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5. MOVIE REVIEW(s)
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Shadow of the Vampire (Rated R)
Starring: : John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes
Release Date: January 19, 2001 (wide)

Review by Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate
http://www.susangranger.com

Without doubt, the most awesome, bizarre, and innovative movie of
the millennium year is Elias Merhige's fanciful, if perverse,
rumination on the making of F.W. Murneau's silent film
"Nosferatu" in 1922. John Malkovich plays the visionary German
film director who cast an obscure actor, Max Schreck, as the
legendary vampire. The clever conceit of Steven Katz's brilliant
screenplay is that Schreck wasn't acting; he was, indeed, a
blood-sucker. Murneau explains his unusual behavior by saying
Schreck was trained by Stanislavsky and uses his "method," which
dictates that he appear at all times in full make-up and costume
and work only at night. The Faustian bargain Murneau strikes with
Schreck is that, after the final shot, the vampire can attack the
beautiful neck of his drug-addicted leading lady, Catherine
McCormack. Inevitably, this concept leads to many allusions about
the price one is willing to pay for one's art, along with
humorous comparisons between a film-maker and the undead. "You
and I are not so different," the vampire observes.

While John Malkovich captures the expressionist director's
obsessive intensity, it's Willem Dafoe's picture, particularly
when he plucks a bat out of the air and devours it or impatiently
clicks his grotesquely long, yellow nails together as he grows
thirsty, yearning, at one point, for the writer. "I am loath to
admit it myself," Murneau demurs, "but the writer is necessary."
Filmed on location in Luxembourg, Elias Merhige has painstakingly
duplicated Murneau's sets and weird atmosphere for the
film-within-a-film and the supporting cast is excellent.

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Shadow of the
Vampire" is an eccentric, enigmatic 8. It's certainly the most
compelling, convincing vampire movie I've seen in years.

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6. CELEBRITY PROFILE
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WILLEM DAFOE
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Willem was born William Dafoe on July 22, 1955 and raised in
Appleton, Wisconsin and is the second-youngest of eight children.
Dafoe's acting career got off to a rather infamous start with an
appearance in a so-called soft-porn video, an endeavor for which
high school disciplinarians rewarded the young "thespian" with a
suspension. Drama courses at the University of Wisconsin failed
to hold his interest, so Dafoe set out for the big city -
Milwaukee, that is - where he joined the avant-garde Theatre X.
Two years of touring with the company showed him the greater part
of the U.S. and Europe. Dafoe's next stopover was Manhattan,
where, in 1977, he landed a promising role in a production with
the Performance Group.

Dafoe and the Performance Group artistic director Elizabeth
LeCompte eventually broke from the Performance Group to become
founding members of the now-celebrated Wooster Group, home also
to offbeat monologist Spalding (Swimming to Cambodia) Gray. The
group's unique multimedia-deconstructionist style of theatre
prepared Dafoe well for some of the more diverse roles he's
played throughout his career.

Willem made his film debut as a featured extra in Michael
Cimino's ill-conceived "Heaven's Gate." Although the film was a
big bomb Dafoe bounced back with his subsequent role as a
poet-biker in Kathryn Bigelow's "The Loveless." He then landed
his first sizable role in William Friedkin's "To Live and Die in
L.A." A year later, he earned a breakthrough (and
Oscar-nominated) role as the messiah-like Sergeant Elias in
Oliver Stone's "Platoon." Non-mainstream performances in
mainstream films followed, such as 1988's "Mississippi Burning,"
"Born on the Fourth of July," and Martin Scorsese's "The Last
Temptation of Christ." The 90's had Dafoe acting in such diverse
films as, "Wild at Heart," "Light Sleeper," "Body of Evidence,"
"English Patient," "Speed 2: Cruise Control," "Affliction," and
"eXistenZ." You can see Willem as Max Schreck in the upcoming
"Shadow of the Vampire."
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Filmography - Most Recent
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Animal Factory (2000)
American Psycho (2000)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
eXistenZ (1999)
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Upcoming Project(s)
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Spider-Man (2002)
Morality Play (2001)
Edges of the Lord (2001)
Bullfighter (2000)
Pavilion of Women (2000)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

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7. CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS - Week of Jan. 17th - Jan. 23rd
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<D>=Deceased

JANUARY 17
Kid Rock (30)
Jim Carrey (39)
Andy Kaufman (52) <D>
Muhammad Ali (59)
Maury Povich (62)
Shari Lewis (68) <D>
James Earl Jones (70)
Betty White (79)

JANUARY 18
Kevin Costner (46)
Danny Kaye (88) <D>
Cary Grant (97) <D>

JANUARY 19
Shawn Wayans (30)
Desi Arnaz Jr. (48)
Dolly Parton (55)
Tippi Hedren (70)

JANUARY 20
Melissa Rivers (32)
Stacey Dash (35)
Lorenzo Lamas (43)
Bill Maher (45)
Buzz Aldrin (71)
Rudy Boesch (73)
DeForest Kelley (81) <D>

JANUARY 21
Robby Benson (45)
Jill Eikenberry (54)
Mac Davis (59)
Plácido Domingo (60)
Wolfman Jack (62) <D>
Benny Hill (77) <D>

JANUARY 22
Linda Blair (42)
Bill Bixby (67) <D>

JANUARY 23
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (27)
Princess Caroline of Monaco (44)
Richard Dean Anderson (51)

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8. Answer to this weeks trivia is..

D. The Pallbearer
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