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May 31, 2001 Issue Number 137
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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 - Pearl Harbor
6. Celebrity Profile - Ben Affleck
7. Celebrity Birthdays
8. Trivia Answer

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Hi Movie Fans!

In the last issue I asked those of you who saw Pearl Harbor to
let us know what you thought. Jade W. wrote in and here were her
thoughts..

There are always a few movies each year that the critics rip
apart and I end up thoroughly enjoying. Pearl Harbor is one
of them. I saw the very first showing on Friday morning, and
was completely mesmerized. Like Titanic, Pearl Harbor is a
big movie, filled with romance, attractive and talented actors
and intriguing real life events. The Japanese were well
portrayed as an intelligent and cunning foe. The special effects
were splendid and the historical elements left me terribly
saddened. *** stars out ****

Thanks for sharing that with us Jade!

We also have a review by Susan, as always check it out in the
review section.

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1. TRIVIA BLITZ
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What's the most successful movie in the USA so far starring
Dustin Hoffman?

a) Kramer vs. Kramer
b) Rain Man
c) Tootsie
d) Hook

¤ Correct answer can be found at the bottom

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2. IN THE NEWS - Movies & Entertainment
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'GET SHORTY' SEQUEL NEWS
According to Variety, MGM has exercised its option on the Elmore
Leonard novel "Be Cool," and the studio and Jersey Films partners
Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are moving full
speed toward a sequel to "Get Shorty." Despite recent rumors to
the contrary, the studio priority is to get John Travolta back as
hustler-turned-producer Chili Palmer.

'SHANGHAI' SEQUEL UPDATE
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson have agreed to reunite in a sequel to
their 2000 adventure comedy, "Shanghai Noon," according to
Variety. The new film, "Shanghai Knights," will star Chan and
Wilson as mismatched buddies who travel to turn-of-the-century
London to uncover a worldwide conspiracy to overthrow the Chinese
and British empires. Production is expected to begin in February

WHO WILL PLAY 'WONDER WOMAN'? THE SAGA CONTINUES
The latest actress rumoured to be in the running for the
live-action version of "Wonder Woman," according to the Popcorn
web site, is "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" star Eliza Dushku's. She
joins Sandra Bullock and wrestling star Chyna in the mill.
Recently Bullock spoke of the project saying, she's interested in
the project but has one or two conditions. she explains she is
"not interested" in the character Lynda Carter created in the
1970s TV show. Bullock goes on to say she wouldn't want her
version to be "watered down" like that. Nor would she be happy
about wearing the figure-hugging stars and stripes leotard that
Carter made famous.

MIRIMAX GETS 'CHANCE'
Miramax Films has snagged the feature film rights to the Spanish
comic book Mal Chance. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the
film focuses on Lola, a female Chinese assassin who learns that
her gangster boss has marked her for death. She decides that the
only way to survive is to destroy the boss' crime empire, which
she attempts to do with the aid of an American FBI agent named
Dennis, who doesn't know Lola's true vocation.

KIRKPATRICK TO HELM 'SUPERKID'
Screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick ("Chicken Run," "James and the
Giant Peach") will make his live-action directing debut on
"Superkid." The film is described as a kid-empowerment movie
where a junior high school student is a superhero.

SODERBERGH, CLOONEY STRIKE DEAL WITH WARNER BROS.
Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney have made a deal at Warner
Bros. to develop a feature based on the life story of Garland
Bunting, a wily undercover moonshine revenue agent who became the
scourge of bootleggers in North Carolina during the late 1950s.

DIMENSION TO TAKE ON 'DAGGER'
Dimension Films has signed on to turn Marvel Comics' "Cloak and
Dagger" into a live-action feature. According to Variety, the
comic book series, which debuted in summer 1985, revolves around
a pair of runaways. One's a rich white girl, the other a
streetwise black male. She's able to project a terrifying,
all-encompassing darkness, while he's capable of generating a
blinding bright light. They join forces to protect other kids on
the streets from urban corruption. Dimension is already
developing two other Marvel properties "Ghost Rider" and
"Werewolf by Night."

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 'ONCE UPON A TIME'
Latin pop singer Enrique Iglesias will make his feature acting
debut along side Antonio Banderas and Marco Leonardi in Robert
Rodriguez's "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," according to The
Hollywood Reporter. The film is the third installment in
Rodriguez's trilogy that began with 1992's "El Mariachi" and
continued with 1995's "Desperado." Other cast members include
Quentin Tarantino, Salma Hayek, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Depp,
Willem Dafoe and Eva Mendes.

RAPPER EMINEM GEARING UP FOR FILM
Daily Variety reports that Critically acclaimed film director
Curtis Hanson ("Wonder Boys," "L.A. Confidential") will team up
with rapper Eminem to make a fictional movie about a troubled
hip-hop star. The untitled Universal Pictures project marks
Eminem's acting debut, although the paper said Warner Bros. was
mulling a proposed pairing with rapper DMX in a crime drama
called "Lazarus."

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FAITH HILL EXPECTING THIRD CHILD
Singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw announced on Wednesday that
they were expecting their third child together early next year. A
statement issued by the couple said the baby was due sometime in
January 2002 and will join two sisters, Gracie 4 and Maggie,
nearly 3. {Congratulations Faith and Tim!}

KIDMAN STALKER THREATENS COUNTERSUIT
Matthew Hooker, the man accused of stalking actress Nicole Kidman
was ordered on Wednesday to stay away from her for three years.
Hooker, who says he had always behaved as a proper gentlemen,
wasn't happy with this whole ordeal and has vowed to appeal the
ruling and threatened to countersue Kidman for slander.

ANNE HECHE ENGAGED
E! News Daily reports that Anne Heche, formerly one-half of
Hollywood's most highest-profile lesbian couple, is engaged...to
a man. Less than a year after she and Ellen DeGeneres called it
quits, Heche has accepted a wedding proposal from her boyfriend,
cameraman Coley Laffoon, her manager, Lauren Lloyd, confirmed.
There was no word on a wedding date.

BROOK SHIELDS' FAKE WEDDING
Back in the beginning of April the media (including Movie fever)
reported that Brooke Shields had married Spin City
writer-producer Chris Henchy. Shields' publicist initially
denied, then later confirmed, the actress had eloped, supposedly
tying the knot during an April 4 wedding on Catalina Island. Now
according to Columnist Liz Smith, the island wedding was staged,
complete with mannequins, to throw off stalkers and paparazzi and
that the couple were married this past Saturday.

ROBERT BLAKE OFFERED $100,000
To take a lie detector test that is. I hear that Star magazine,
the supermarket tabloid has offered Robert Blake $100,000 big
ones to take a lie dectector test to prove his innocence or guilt
in the killing of his deceased wife. Blake or his lawyers have
not commented on the offer.

DILLER INVOLVED IN TRAGIC CAR ACCIDENT
Funny lady Phyllis Diller was involved in a tragic car accident
on Monday, according to Canada's Cambridge Reporter newspaper.
While en route to a gig in Ontario, Diller's limousine driver (an
unnamed female) became lost on a rural highway and got out to
seek directions only to have the limo roll backward, crushing her
to death against a tree. The 83-year-old Diller, who was out of
harm's way during the freak mishap was fortunately uninjured.

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3. Online Celebrity Chat
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¤ Amanda - Her debut track You Don't Stand A Chance is featured
on the soundtrack to the movie Rugrats in Paris. This 15 year old
was signed to Madonna's record label, Maverick, in 1999. Her new
single and debut album Everybody Doesn't will be in stores this
summer. Chat with the singer Thursday, May 31st at 7pm ET.
http://chat.yahoo.com/c/events/info/2001/05/31/053101amanda.html

¤ Tonya Mitchell - Discovered at a benefit by 'NSync's Justin
Timberlake's grandfather, this singing sensations song Broken
Promises has hit airwaves and captured the hearts of listeners.
Chat with her on Thursday, June 7th at 7pm ET.
http://chat.yahoo.com/c/events/info/2001/06/07/060701mitchell.htm
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4. In The News - Television
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NEW 'SEX AND THE CITY' ON HBO
"Sex and the City" returns on HBO this Sunday night at 9, with
back-to-back new episodes.

SMILEY INKS DEALS
Tavis Smiley, who was fired as a BET talk show host in March
after selling an exclusive interview with former Symbionese
Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olsen to ABC, is on his way to
becoming a major media personality with broadcast, cable, radio
and print deals in the works. Reuters reports that Smiley has
sealed a deal with ABC News to become an occasional contributor
to "Primetime Live" and "Good Morning America." He also has
pacted with CNN to appear on various shows, including "TalkBack
Live" and "Inside Politics." Also, Disney-owned syndicator Buena
Vista Television is in the early stages of developing a show for
Smiley.

BRUCKHEIMER LANDS TV DEAL
"Pearl Harbor" producer Jerry Bruckheimer has captured an
exclusive, two-year deal at Warner Bros. Television to develop
and produce series television. While best known for his film
work, Bruckheimer is riding a wave of success on the small
screen, starting with last year's CBS hit "CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation."

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5. MOVIE REVIEW(s)
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Pearl Harbor (Rated PG-13)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba
Gooding, Jr., Alec Baldwin.
Release Date: May 25, 2001

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

It's a glossy, three-hour, epic love story about the loss of
innocence, set around the tragedy of "the day which will live in
infamy," according to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon
Voight). And at $140+ million, it's also the most expensive movie
ever made. So, is it a patriotic blockbuster? Yes. Is it an
Oscar-contender, like "Titanic," its obvious inspiration? No.

Written by Randall Wallace ("Braveheart"), directed by Michael
Bay ("Armageddon") and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, "Pearl
Harbor" delivers primarily in the violent, realistic action
sequences: the Japanese sneak attack on the U.S. fleet on the
fateful morning of December 7, 1941. Planes swoop in. Bombs
explode. Battleships sink. Machine guns fire. The
two-pilots-and-a-Navy nurse love story fares less well. Ben
Affleck and Josh Hartnett are boyhood pals who fall in love with
the same woman, Kate Beckinsale. Affleck meets her at an Army
induction center, where she inoculates his bare rump - twice.
Romance ignites and blazes until his plane is shot down in the
Battle of Britain. In Hawaii, Hartnett, delivers the news to
Beckinsale and soon they find passion under the parachutes in an
airfield hangar. But Affleck's not dead, and Beckinsale's
pregnant. If it sounds trite, sappy and prosaic, it is. Without
high drama or sentimentality, there's an emotional detachment,
and it takes Col. James Doolittle's (Alec Baldwin) Tokyo raid,
four months later, to resolve their destiny. But Cuba Gooding Jr
is charismatic as cook who shot down Japanese Zeros and was the
first African-American awarded the Navy Cross; too bad his part
is so truncated.

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Pearl Harbor" is a
stunning, explosive 6. It's a contrived, commercial war movie. If
you want accurate history, rent "Tora, Tora, Tora."

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6. CELEBRITY PROFILE
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BEN AFFLECK
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Birth name: Benjamin Geza Affleck

Born in Berkley California August 15, 1972 to a school teacher
mother who separated from his father shortly after his birth.
Affleck grew-up in Cambridge Massachusetts. A few months later
following his eighth birthday he landed his first acting role as
regular on the PBS series TheVoyage of the MiMi. It was that same
year bosom buddy Matt Damon's family moved just two blocks away.
Damon and Affleck attended classes together at the Cambridge
Latin school the two were deeply involved in the drama program.
Whenever there was a casting call in Boston the two amigos would
be there.

Damon went on to study at Harvard University; Affleck was more
serious about pursuing an acting career. He tried to be more like
his buddy Damon, by attending both the University of Vermont and
California occidental college but his calling was in acting the
temptation of the big screen was unable to be turned-off. Affleck
co-stared in a couple of mini-series such as hands of a stranger,
and Danielle Steele's adaptation Daddy. He also co-starred in A
small role in the drama School Ties alongside Damon, Chris O'
donell and Brendan Fraser. Affleck's career took off when he made
an unforgettable appearance in Dazed and Confuse. He started
working on the production of Dogma following the wrap up of the
summer of 1998' flick Armageddon. Affleck co-starred with
girl-next door Sandra Bullock in the romantic comedy forces of
nature. And heated the screen with Charlize Theron in the John
Frankenheimer film reindeer games.

His high school sweetheart Cheyenne Rothman did not stand a
chance once he crossed the path of Hollywood's "it-girl" Gwyneth
Paltrow. In 1997 the two attended the golden ceremony together as
a couple. That following year the lovers co-starred in
Shakespeare in love for which Paltrow snagged a golden globe and
an Oscar. And with that came the end of their relationship. Ben
has since starred in an average of three movies a year and can be
seen in the movie Pearl Harbor currently in theaters.

biography courtesy of Entertainment Elite
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Filmography - Most Recent
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Pearl Harbor (2001) .... Rafe McCawley
Daddy and Them (2001)
Bounce (2000) .... Buddy Amaral
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) (voice) .... Joseph
Reindeer Games (2000) .... Rudy Duncan
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Changing Lanes (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) .... Holden McNeil/Himself
Third Wheel, The (2001) .... Michael

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7. CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS - Week of May 31st - June 6th
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<D>=Deceased

MAY 31
Brooke Shields (36)
Lea Thompson (40)
Chris Elliott (41)
Gregory Harrison (51)
Tom Berenger (52)
Joe Namath (58)

JUNE 1
Alanis Morissette (27)
Heidi Klum (28)
Adam Garcia (28)
Lisa Hartman (45)
Morgan Freeman (64)
Pat Boone (67)
Marilyn Monroe (75) <D> August 5, 1962
Andy Griffith (75)

JUNE 2
Dana Carvey (46)
Jerry Mathers (53)

JUNE 3
Tony Curtis (76)

JUNE 4
Angelina Jolie (26)
Horatio Sanz (27)
Noah Wyle (30)
Parker Stevenson (49)
Michelle Phillips (57)
Dr. Ruth Westheimer (73)
Dennis Weaver (77)

JUNE 5
Mark Wahlberg (30)
Brian McKnight (32)

JUNE 6
Bob Messinger (celeb in his own mind)
Sandra Bernhard (46)
Robert Englund (52)
Lasse Hallström (55)

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c) Tootsie
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