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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 - Enemy at the Gates
6. Celebrity Profile - Jude Law
7. Celebrity Birthdays
8. Trivia Answer

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Hi Movie Fans!

Don't forget..The Oscar's are on Sunday. For those of you who
can't watch it for whatever reason don't worry because in
addition to our regular Sunday newsletter we will be sending out
a special Oscar edition giving you a run down on the evenings
winners. I'm also hoping that Laurie will be able to provide her
thought's on the evenings festivities, but I can't say for sure
cause she didn't answer my email! :-)

As always welcome to our new readers, and welcome back to our
venterans. Hope you all enjoy todays issue!

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1. TRIVIA BLITZ
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In the movie "Gladiator" Maximus tells Lucius that his horses are
called Argento and Scarto. Argento and Scarto are Latin for what?

a) "Ceaser" and "Zues"
b) "Silver" and "Scout"
c) "Laurel" and "Hardy"
d) "Titan" and "Socrates"

¤ Correct answer can be found at the bottom

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2. IN THE NEWS - Movies & Entertainment
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'PULP FICTION' PREQUEL?
According to New York Magazine via NY Daily News John Travolta
and Michael Madsen have committed to a Quentin Tarantino project
titled "The Vega Brothers." If you recall Travolta played Vincent
Vega in "Pulp Fiction" and that Madsen played Vic Vega in
"Reservoir Dogs." The film is said to be on Tarantino's list of
things to do after finishing up "Kill Bill" with Uma Thurman and
"Glorious Bastards."

WHITNEY HOUSTON NEXT 'BOND GIRL'?
Britain's top selling Sun tabloid reported today that Whitney
Houston is being lined up to star in the next James Bond film.
Houston has agreed to appear along side Pierce Bronson, but the
final decision will rest with Dana Broccoli, widow of famous Bond
film producer Albert Broccoli, who has the last word on
everything to do with the 007 franchise.

KIDMAN IN TALKS FOR 'DOGVILLE'
Nicole Kidman is in talks with Danish director Lars von Trier
("Dancer in the Dark") to star in his next picture "Dogville."
The pictures producer, Vibeke Windelov says that the picture is
"a powerful drama" set in a small American town in the 1930s, but
she noted that von Trier does not want to reveal much more about
the storyline.

NEW 'RESIDENT EVIL' PIC
The Constantin Film website posted up a pic giving us the first
look of Milla Jovovich in her Resident Evil role of Alice the
Zombie Hunter in the coming film. check it out at..
<A href="http://www.movie-fever.com/residentevil.shtml"> AOL</a>

BERRY IN 'MONSTER'S BALL'
Halle Berry is in final negotiations to star in Lions Gate Films'
"Monster's Ball" for director Marc Forster, according to the
Hollywood Reporter. The film revolves around Hank (Billy Bob
Thornton), who lives with his aging racist father, Buck, and his
twentysomething son, Sonny (Wes Bentley). Hank and Sonny work for
the local prison, where they are preparing the electric chair for
a black inmate. Hank winds up falling in love with the inmate's
widow, Leticia (Berry), who is unaware that Hank knew her
husband. A diner waitress, Leticia loses not only a husband but
also her car, house and son. Moving in with Hank, she hopes for a
better life, only to discover Hank's connection to her husband.

'HOLLOWEEN 8' GETS DIRECTOR
Rick Rosenthal who directed "Halloween II" has struck a deal to
direct the upcoming "Halloween 8" project according to the
official website. In related new the site also reports that
Producer Paul Freeman spent much of this week location scouting
in Vancouver and "Halloween 4" director Dwight Little was
approached to direct the new film, but turned it down. <a
href="http://www.halloweenmovies.com"> AOL</a>

BURY, DENT JOIN 'MAJESTIC'
Variety reports that Karl Bury ("Freakylinks," "Party of Five")
and Catherine Dent have joined the cast "The Majestic". What role
they would play in the film was not announced.

CLANCY INSPIRED BY AFFLECK
The Popcorn.co.uk site reports that Ben Affleck's performance in
"The Sum Of All Fears" has inspired novelist Tom Clancy to pen a
new series of novels about the Jack Ryan character.

GREEN GOBLIN PICS
SpiderManHype.com has scored some pictures of someone wearing the
Green Goblin costume that we will see in the coming "Spider-Man"
movie. The costume looks to be alot like armor, which doesn't
seem to fit the mold in way of the comic, but what I can see of
the face looks to be pretty good. Check out the pics here..
<a href="http://www.movie-fever.com/redirect.shtml"> AOL</a>

CULP, DUVALL JOIN 'MONSTER'
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Steven Culp ("Thirteen
Days") and Clea DuVall ("Girl, Interrupted") have signed on to
the "How to Make a Monster" project joining Tyler Mane ("X-Men"),
Jason Marsden ("White Squall") and Karim Prince ("FreakyLinks").
"Monster" is about a company man (Culp) who hires three
ex-cons-turned-computer programmers (Mane, Marsden, Prince) to
create a computer game, Evilution, which centers on an evil
monster. The men each have one month to come up with the scariest
monster for the game, with the winner receiving $1 million. In
their quest to win, the men load everything that is evil into the
computer, causing it to overload, which brings the monster to
life. DuVall plays the company's intern.

GALLAGHER, HARRIS JOIN 'DEEDS'
Peter Gallagher has signed on and Jared Harris is in final
negotiations to join Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder in Columbia
Pictures/New Line Cinema's "Deeds" for director Steven Brill. The
film, according to the Hollywood Reporter, pays homage to Frank
Capra's 1936 comedy "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." The updated version
will follow a small-town bumpkin named Deeds (Sandler) who moves
to New York after he inherits a multibillion-dollar international
business from his uncle. The man's small-town values begin to
affect the jaded inhabitants of the Big Apple.

DIMENSION FILMS GETS 'DUKE NUKEM'
Dimension Films has acquired the project "Duke Nukem: The Movie"
from Threshold Entertainment and plans to bring the video game
featuring the gun-toting action hero to the big screen. At this
time the film has no director, script or stars attached, but the
story line is said to follow Duke as he takes on the dangerous
mission of traveling into deep space to intercept an alien ship
on a collision course with Earth.

JUDE LAW TO PLAY HANNIBAL?
There's rumours abound that Jude Law is being considered to play
a young Hannibal Lecter in the prequel to "Silence of the Lambs."
Earlier reports had Anthony Hopkins reprising his role, using
digital enhancements to make him look younger. Hopkins now is
said to have ruled out the possibility of starring in the
prequel. Read todays Celebrity Profile to find out more about
Jude Law.


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TOMMY LEE JONES GETS MARRIED
Actor Tommy Lee Jones has married his long-time sweetheart Dawn
Maria Laurel in a private ceremony in San Antonio. Jones and
Laurel, a photographer, met in 1995 on the set of the film "The
Good Old Boys," which Jones directed.

HOUSE OF EX-SPICE GIRL RANSACKED
British newspapers are reporting today that Burglars ransacked
the London home of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, stealing
possessions worth $114,000 and wrecking her furniture. The
thieves were said to have made off with a new computer, a stereo
and jewelry. One of the jewelry pieces stolen was a necklace once
owned by Elizabeth Taylor, which Halliwell had bought at an
auction.

NEW ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted a number of pop and rock
stars on Monday night. Those inducted were, Michael Jackson and
Paul Simon, '70s rockers Aerosmith and Queen, recent Grammy
winners Steely Dan and former Chuck Berry musical partner Johnnie
Johnson, R&B singer Burke, Ritchie Valens, The Flamingos, Island
Records founder Chris Blackwell (whose discoveries included U2
and Bob Marley) and sideman James Burton, a guitarist who played
on records for Elvis Presley and Gram Parsons, among others.

MTV BANS MADONNA VIDEO
MTV has decided to pull the plug on Madonna's new video "What It
Feels Like for a Girl." In an interview with the New York Daily
News Madonna's rep, Liz Rosenberg said "There is a lot of
violence in the video, It tells the story of a woman who has
probably been abused. It's very strong. It's not the last video
you'd want to see before going to sleep at night." Rosenberg
adds, Madonna plays a woman in a rage, a nihilistic chick who's
pissed off and angry. The clip ends with Madonna in a car crash,
but whether she dies is open to viewer interpretation. The video
is directed by Madonna's hubby, Guy Ritchie and may end up on
HBO, which, like Madonna's label, Warner Bros. Records, is owned
by AOL Time Warner. Not too coincidentally, AOL has already
agreed to make it available on the Internet.

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4. In The News - Television
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BAKULA NEGOTIATING FOR NEXT 'TREK' SERIES?
Trektoday.com reports that TV veteran Scott Bakula is in talks to
take the helm of the latest "Star Trek" series. Bakula, best
known for playing Dr. Sam Beckett on NBC's popular time-travel
series, "Quantum Leap," is negotiating to play Jackson Archer,
the headstrong captain of the newest "Trek" starship.

SPIELBERG, BARKER, KING JOIN SCI-FI LINEUP
Reuters reports that Steven Spielberg, Stephen King and Clive
Barker are putting together original programming for the Sci Fi
Channel. King has written "Firestarter: The Next Chapter," a
four-hour sequel to the novel and movie "Firestarter," picking up
the characters 20 years later. Sci Fi will announce the cast
soon. Barker ("Hellraiser," "Candyman") will produce "Saint
Sinner," his first movie for Sci Fi, about a 19th century monk
who accidentally unleashes two buxom female demons in human form
on the world and has to track them down to contemporary Los
Angeles. Spielberg's 20-hour epic miniseries "Taken," unveiled in
April 1999, is finally going into pre-production. The script
starts with an alien abduction in the late 1940s and spans 50
years in the lives of three extended families.

RINGWALD IN PILOT FOR TNT
Molly Ringwald has been cast cast in the two-hour back pilot
called "Big Time" for TNT. The film tells the story of a fledging
TV network in the early days of the television industry. Ringwald
will play the network head's new bride, who discovers a unique
opportunity for herself in the burgeoning landscape of
television.

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5. MOVIE REVIEW(s)
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Enemy at the Gates (Rated R)
Starring: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris.
Release Date: March 16, 2001

Review by Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate
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Beware of any W.W.II movie in which you find yourself rooting for
the murderous Nazi! Because of unfortunate casting choices,
that's what happens in this otherwise impressive epic set during
the bloody battle of Stalingrad in '42 and '43, the pivotal
confrontation between Hitler's invading troops and the
overpowered, under-equipped Russian Army. When an overwrought
Nikita Krushchev (Bob Hoskins) demands a victory for Stalin, an
enterprising propagandist (Joseph Fiennes) turns a young shepherd
boy-turned-sniper, Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law), into a national
hero, thus changing an atmosphere of hopelessness into optimism.
Vassily has a brief romance with a plucky comrade (Rachel Weisz)
before an expert German marksman, Major Koenig (Ed Harris), is
sent to eliminate him. Pitting the country lad from the Urals
against the aristocratic nobleman is, of course, the essence of
class struggle.

Staging the battle sequences, director Jean-Jacques Annaud and
co-writer Alain Godard lift liberally from the combat-intensity
of Steven Spielberg's Normandy landing in "Saving Private Ryan,"
but their less-than-compelling story is further weakened by
mediocre acting. Jude Law is handsome but vacuous, while Joseph
Fiennes flounders in caricature. Only Ed Harris with his steely
blue eyes and soft speech, smoking gold-tipped cigarettes,
delivers a riveting performance. He's a cruel villain but, with
the protagonists so uninteresting, his dogged persistence ignites
the screen. In addition, the distracting accents of the polyglot
cast are ludicrous and James Horner's blatant musical score is
downright intrusive.

So, on the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Enemy at the Gates"
is a flawed 5. And, if you want to know more about this historic
battle, I suggest renting "Stalingrad."

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6. CELEBRITY PROFILE
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JUDE LAW
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Jude Law was born in London on December 29, 1972. His parents,
Peter and Maggie, reportedly named him after the Beatles' song,
"Hey Jude," or maybe the title character in Thomas Hardy's "Jude
The Obscure" - a title not destined to describe him well. It all
sounds like a typical press release, especially in light of
recent reports (unconfirmed) that Jude's real first name is
actually David (Jude being his middle name).

Jude grew up in Blackhealth, South London and started working at
the National Youth Music Theatre between 1987 and 1990 (one of
his roles while there was the lead in Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat). After landing a role on a television soap
opera (the popular British daytime serial, Families), Law quit
high school just short of graduation at age 17.

Jude Law began his stage career in 1993, touring Italy as Freddie
in a production of Pygmalion, and his theatre work has included
the premieres of The Fastest Clock in the Universe and The Snow
Orchid, the Royal Court revival of Live Like Pigs, and the West
Yorkshire Playhouse production of Death of a Salesman. He
received a Tony nomination and a Theatre World Award for his
performance in the New York production of the National Theatre's
Les Parents Terribles (re-titled Indiscretions for Broadway), a
role which, coupled with his performance as Euripedes' Ion at the
Royal Shakespeare Company, saw him nominated for the Ian
Charleston Award as Best Young Classical Actor, as well as an
Olivier Award.

After playing the lead in The Crane, a short film made for the
British Film Institute, shown at the 1992 London Film Festival,
Law made his feature film debut in 1993 opposite Sadie Frost in
Channel Four Films' Shopping, a story of joy-riding car thieves.
This was followed by I Love You, I Love You Not starring Jeanne
Moreau, shot during the day in New York while appearing nightly
in Indiscretions.

His next film was Andrew Nichol's Gattaca in Los Angeles, with
Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman (Gattaca, released just one week
before I Love You, I Love You Not became Jude's American Film
debut, even though it was completed second). Since then, he has
appeared in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Wilde, Music
From Another Room, eXistenZ, The Talented Mr. Ripley (Oscar,
Golden Globe nominations - Best Supporting Actor, Winner BAFTA
award Best Supporting Actor), The Wisdom of Crocodiles, Final Cut
and Love, Honour and Obey. In January 2000 he began filming Enemy
at the Gates in Germany, and will next star in Steven Spielburg's
AI.

In 1995, he founded the London-based independent production
company, Natural Nylon, with wife Sadie Frost, Ewan McGregor,
Jonny Lee Miller and Sean Pertwee. The enterprising actors have a
roster of films in which they plan to star and produce.

Jude met wife Sadie Frost when they co-starred in Shopping. They
married in 1997 and have a son, Rafferty. Also living with them
in the very "in" Primrose Hill area of London is Sadie's son
Finlay from her previous marriage to Spandeau Ballet singer
Jeremy Kemp.

Jude has two tattoos (that we are aware of). On the inside of his
left forearm are part of the lyrics of the Beatles' Sexy Sadie -
"You came along to turn on everyone Sexy Sadie." A obvious
tribute to his wife. On the inside of his right forearm is a
gothic rendition of his initials "JL", although some have
mistakenly identified it as a "Rorschach butterfly." For several
of Jude's roles, it has been necessary to cover his tattoos with
makeup, but they are visible in Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil.

Jude Law biography courtesy of Jude-Law.net
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Filmography - Most Recent
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Enemy at the Gates (2001) .... Vassily Zaitsev
Love, Honour and Obey (2000) .... Jude
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) .... Dickie Greenleaf
eXistenZ (1999) .... Ted Pikul
The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998) .... Steven Grlscz
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The Road to Perdition (2001) .... Maguire, aka "The Reporter"
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) .... Gigolo Joe

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7. CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS - Week of Mar. 21st - Mar. 27th
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<D>=Deceased

MARCH 21
Matthew Broderick (39)
Rosie O'Donnell (39)
Gary Oldman (43)

MARCH 22
Reese Witherspoon (25)
Matthew Modine (42)
Lena Olin (45)
Bob Costas (49)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (53)
William Shatner (70)

MARCH 23
Keri Russell (25)
Richard Grieco (36)

MARCH 24
Lara Flynn Boyle (31)
Star Jones (39)
Kelly LeBrock (41)
Robert Carradine (47)
Louie Anderson (48)

MARCH 25
Lark Voorhies (26)
Sarah Jessica Parker (36)
Jim Lovell (73)

MARCH 26
Jennifer Grey (41)
Leeza Gibbons (44)
Vicki Lawrence (52)
Steven Tyler (53)
Martin Short (56)
Diana Ross (57)
James Caan (61)
Leonard Nimoy (70)

MARCH 27
Mariah Carey (31)
Quentin Tarantino (38)

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8. Answer to this weeks trivia is..
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b) "Silver" and "Scout"
Argento and Scarto are Latin for Silver and Scout the horses of
the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
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