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Streep Nom #9 and Act III: Funny Lady

10 July 2009 10:38 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Streep at 60: We've been looking at each Meryl Streep Oscar nod and its competition. Previously 78, 79, 81, 82 and 83, 85, 87 and 88

I believe that Meryl Streep's film career can be divided into five chapters or acts (thus far).

Act I (Liberated Lady) 1977-1981Act II (Chamaeleonidae Erotica) 1981-1988Act III (Funny Lady) 1989-1992Act IV (???) 1993-2001Act V (The Great Entertainer) 2002-presentAfter the High Drama years it came as a shock to many when Meryl was suddenly making comedies. Some felt it was a career crisis and there was some backlash going on. This is possibly hard to comprehend for her new young fans but great success always leads to it and many people were sick of Streep's total dominance as the Eighties wound down. It was somewhat common wisdom at the time that her run at the top was ending, having turned 40 in 1989. Several younger stars were coming into their own

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'Yes! Yes! Yes!' No, No, No: Katherine Heigl Schooled in Movie Orgasms

8 July 2009 4:45 PM, PDT | From Movieline | See recent Movieline news

The Frisky is on to something in its new collection of great cinema orgasms, invoking Katherine Heigl's skeevy, child-induced, vibrating-panties scene in The Ugly Truth as a huge backward leap of the form. But their superior selections aren't really doing it either, with the obvious exception of Meg Ryan's When Harry Met Sally pseudorgasm and the Orgsamatron sex surrogate from Sleeper. But Swordfish? American Pie? Hellooo? Hasn't anyone seen Team America? Click ahead for the video -- and your own ecstatic contributions.

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[DVD Review] Inkheart

30 June 2009 6:05 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Of the entire imagined-shit-coming-to-life-and-causing-chaos sub genre that has bombarded the family friendly calendar slots in the last year or so (Bedtime Stories, Night At The Museum, Imagine That) Inkheart is certainly the best. But honestly that’s not saying much. Perhaps better to say it has the most ambition because easily digestible escapism for grandma and all the kids it most certainly isn’t.

About fifteen minutes in, after Brendan Fraser’s antique book dealer Mo (about as convincing as Meg Ryan as a helicopter pilot) has dragged her around yet another dusty store, pocketed a tome of apparent rarity, and been accosted by a weird, scarred man with fire coming out of his hands, daughter Meggie (Bennett) turns to her dad and demands to be told what the hell is going on. It’s a feeling you’ll most definitely share, as it’s a question that sadly persists

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Contrary to what some might say, Kristen Stewart's popularity will transcend Twilight

26 June 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news

Kristen Stewart, lead actress in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and, now, The Runaways, has a lot of good cinematic material under her belt. Back in 2007, Kate Bosworth predicted that the star was certain to make it big, and she's worked alongside actors such as Meg Ryan, Dakota Fanning, James Gandolfini, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis, Robin Wright Penn, William Hurt, Maria Bello, Virginia Madsen, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Dylan McDermott, Tim Robbins, Diane Lane, Jodie Foster, Donald Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney, Elizabeth Perkins, Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, and Glenn Close (to name a few)...

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When Larry Met Sally!

21 June 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Meg Ryan is to join the cast of funnyman Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm comedy show.

The actress will guest star in an upcoming episode of the cult show, according to EW.com.

The star-studded new season of the show also features a multi-episode storyline which reunites the Seinfeld cast.

David was a co-creator of Seinfeld.

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Buzz Break: The Sorceror's Bodice

19 June 2009 1:15 PM, PDT | From Movieline | See recent Movieline news

· The first shots of Monica Belluci in The Sorceror's Apprentice have been leaked, and she is really nailing that abject fear of automobiles required of her character.

· It looks like Neve Campbell won't be returning to Kevin Williamson's Scream 4, because she's busy doing...I dunno, guys. Help me out.

· Susan Boyle pulled out of another concert after she was seen shouting "I want my cat! I need my cat!" Good job on this one, world!

· Meg Ryan will be giving Larry David some lip on the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

· "Pouring rain and sticky humidity still do not make Angelina Jolie have a bad hair day," gushed the Today Show's Ann Curry in her blog. Ann, give it a rest -- she doesn't adopt in your age range.

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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 06.19.09

19 June 2009 9:21 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

The Proposal Studio: Touchstone Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, nudity and language. Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and Betty White Directed by: Anne Fletcher What it’s about: High-powered book editor Margaret Page (Sandra Bullock) learns that her work visa has expired, and she’s about to be deported to Canada. In order to save her job, she forces her assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. Then, to prove it’s not a sham wedding, the two must travel to Alaska so Margaret can meet Andrew’s family and announce their engagement. What I liked: Unlike many critics out there, I do like a good romantic comedy when it comes along. And this is exactly what you get with The Proposal. It’s a good romantic comedy. It’s not a great romantic comedy, nor is it a great film. However, it works for what it is. The

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Who Are the Actors and Actresses You Had to Warm Up To?

18 June 2009 3:15 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Like most of you Cinematical readers, I'll watch just about any movie. I try not to hold cinematic grudges, and I try to separate the art from the artist. But it's human nature to have some kind of bias, and I often find that there are actors and actresses that I'll hold very unfair grudges against.

One of these is Liev Schreiber. He's on my "must-watch" list because he rarely turns in a bad performance, even though he's been in some real clunkers. But liking him has been some kind of gradual and snotty process that I can trace back to having first encountered his ugly side in Scream and Ransom. I had him pigeonholed as a nasty ass thug for a long time. It wasn't until A Walk on the Moon that I started to come around, but even then I was rooting for Diane Lane to leave him for Viggo Mortensen.

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Top 10 Most Creative People in Movies and Television

18 June 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news

1. Rich Ross, President, Disney Channels Worldwide A lifelong TV addict, Ross has expanded Disney's channels beyond the box into film, radio, mobile, and online. But he'll be remembered most for unleashing Hannah Montana and High School Musical on the world.

2. James Schamus, Chief executive officer, Focus Features In addition to being a CEO, he's a veteran screenwriter, Columbia University film professor, producer, marketer, distributor, and sometime composer. Schamus, 49, cofounded Focus in 2002, which has produced Oscar winners Milk and Lost in Translation. Coming soon: Taking Woodstock, Schamus's latest screenplay for director Ang Lee.

3. Jj Abrams, Founder, Bad Robot Productions Star Trek is winning the summer box office race, thanks to Abrams' ability to warp time at will. Past, present, and future coexist as a kind of fluid that cannot be contained in his movies and TV shows. The camera jumps back and forth in time. Characters age and grow younger again.

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Ryan Dating Longtime Friend And Film Producer King

10 June 2009 3:05 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood actress Meg Ryan has found love with movie producer Graham King, according to reports.

The Sleepless In Seattle star, 47, is alleged to have taken her longtime friendship with King - the producer of Leonardo DiCaprio's films The Departed, The Aviator and Blood Diamond - to the next level and embarked on a "serious" love affair, according to Us Weekly magazine.

A source says, "It's very serious. They were recently in New York City for a lovers' getaway.

"They love travelling together. And they have been friends for years."

Ryan was previously married to Dennis Quaid and has been romantically linked to Russell Crowe and Matthew Perry.

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L.A. School Complains Over Paparazzi Intrusion

10 June 2009 5:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Parents at the school in Los Angeles attended by Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's young daughter have complained to authorities over the constant presence of photographers.

Garner and Affleck's three-year-old girl, Violet, attends the First Presbyterian Nursery School in Santa Monica, California, along with Meg Ryan's adopted daughter, Daisy.

But other parents have become concerned about snappers hanging around the school gates as they scramble to take pictures of the celebrity mums and dads picking their kids up.

More than 30 concerned parents have now taken action, writing to Californian authorities asking them to curb the activities of paparazzi around the school - claiming the snappers increase traffic congestion and create a frightening atmosphere for the young pupils.

Local councilman Richard Bloom has visited the school and assured worried families that city officials will investigate any "intrusive and invasive" behaviour.

He says, "Celebrities may not like it but they get that this is something they have to accept and live with. I think there are limits as to what somebody should have to experience in this situation, but for the parents and children of the school, it's a very intolerable situation.

"Inside the school, there were parents who felt trapped. It has reached the point at this particular school where these folks feel strongly enough about it to contact a council member and ask if something could be done."

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Pretty Woman Voted Top Movie Scene

9 June 2009 9:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

A scene from Julia Roberts' classic film Pretty Woman has been voted Britain's favourite movie moment of all time.

The 1990 picture won Roberts a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination and now the classic scene has seen off competition from other films to top the survey by the Turner Classic Movies Channel.

Movie fans voted Roberts into first place for the moment her prostitute character, Vivienne, confronts a shop assistant in a luxury store, after the woman previously refused to serve her.

In second place was Meg Ryan in 1989's When Harry Met Sally, which saw the actress fake an orgasm in the middle of a busy New York deli.

Jack Nicholson chopping down a door with an axe and screaming "Here's Johnny!" in 1980's The Shining came in third, while Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous "I'll be back" line in The Terminator polled at number four.

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Pretty Woman shopping scene named nation's top movie moment

9 June 2009 3:01 AM, PDT | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

“I was in here yesterday,” says Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) to the snooty store assistant in modern fairytale Pretty Woman. “You wouldn’t wait on me. You people work on commission, right?” The shamed clerk at the exclusive Rodeo Drive shop mumbles in agreement. “Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go shopping now.” And with that Vivian, dressed head to toe in swanky designer labels and completely transformed from her streetwalker roots sweeps confidently out of the shop, that soon-to-be familiar Roberts grin (this was 1990) spread across her face. It was the moment that a star was born, catapulting Roberts to mega-stardom and giving ‘the little person’ victory over those that look down on them and 19 years later remains so popular that it’s been voted the UK’s favourite movie moment in a new poll.

Essentially it’s a revenge scene, but performed so sweetly and with such

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List This: Top Ten Sci-Fi Comedies

6 June 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

In spite of the some rather negative early reviews, I plan on plunking down my cash to see Land of the Lost this weekend. It's a silly move, but I can't help myself; I blame my addiction to Danny McBride. Plus, I wasn't around for the original series, so it's not like Ferrell can mess up any childhood memories. But it did get me thinking; sci-fi and comedy are two genres that usually work pretty well together, right? So what does any movie geek do in this situation? That's right, we make a list. So now I present in no particular order, my top ten sci-fi comedies:

1. Hellboy

So technically, maybe not a pure sci-fi flick (it has gadgets...does that count?). But you definitely can't argue with funny; and it made for a nice departure for those of us tired of seeing our heroes 'brood' all the time.

2. Innerspace

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Cruise! Diaz! Spy Comedy! 'Wichita' (?!)

28 May 2009 2:35 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Don't hold your breath, but Tommy Boy may have chosen his next project. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz "are in advanced negotiations" to star in an action comedy currently titled Wichita, according to Variety. Cruise is notoriously indecisive cautious, though, so it's not a go until the cameras start rolling.

If all goes well for 20th Century Fox, the idea is to throw the movie into the summer 2010 maelstrom. Fox already has The A-Team, Gulliver's Travels, and Predator set for the season. The bigger question is how Cruise would handle the role. The character he would play is described as "a secret agent who pops in and out of the life of a single woman." The movie is described as having "several action scenes," so it sounds like it would lean more on comedy and romance. The sole time Cruise has tried to be funny and romantic was his Academy

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Ta Talks Back: Falling In Love With A Character

20 May 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news

Ta member Edelacruz talks about being in love with a tale a movie or a characternbspFalling in love with a character by Ta Member edelacruzIn the movie Sleepless in Seattle Annie played by Meg Ryan looks for love advice from her favorite romantic movie An Affair to Remember. It is at that pivotal moment in the film that her best friend Becky played by Rosie ODonnell says to her Thats your problem. You dont want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. The question is is Becky right?As women we are constantly pining for that perfect love that onceinalifetime realityaltering storybook love. Thanks to the mind of Stephenie Meyer fans have found someone that fulfills this desire fictionally speaking of course. Meyer created a man that is so unbelievably beautiful that almost every woman finds herself falling in love for the very first time or falling in loveagain.

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Ta Talks Back: Falling In Love With A Character

20 May 2009 12:27 PM, PDT | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news

Ta member Edelacruz talks about being in love with a tale a movie or a characternbspFalling in love with a character by Ta Member edelacruzIn the movie Sleepless in Seattle Annie played by Meg Ryan looks for love advice from her favorite romantic movie An Affair to Remember. It is at that pivotal moment in the film that her best friend Becky played by Rosie ODonnell says to her Thats your problem. You dont want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. The question is is Becky right?As women we are constantly pining for that perfect love that onceinalifetime realityaltering storybook love. Thanks to the mind of Stephenie Meyer fans have found someone that fulfills this desire fictionally speaking of course. Meyer created a man that is so unbelievably beautiful that almost every woman finds herself falling in love for the very first time or falling in loveagain.

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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship

7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,

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Tribeca Film Festival 2009 - Celebrity Photo Gallery

1 May 2009 7:00 PM, PDT | From amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals | See recent amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals news

With Woody Allen and Larry David in attendance for the premiere of Whatever Works, and Spike Lee (Kobe Doin' Work), Meg Ryan (Serious Moonlight), and Kevin Kline (Queen to Play) also making the rounds for their respective films, there was no shortage of big-screen faces this year at Tribeca. Check out the photo gallery to see who else rocked the red carpet this time around.

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Mary-Kate Makes Time For All the Parties

1 May 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | From Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news

Mary-Kate Olsen and Debra Messing teamed up for the second time yesterday to attend the Tribeca Film Festival's Awards Night party in NYC. As a juror, Mary-Kate has been busy all week attending cinema-related events, but she's still made time to hang out with her fashion friends. She moved on from the bash with Debra to another one with Madonna, Jesus Luz, and her own boyfriend Nate. It's usually Mary-Kate who makes the headlines in their relationship, but unfortunately Nate recently made waves with an ill-received piece of art. Even if Nate's subject to a little bad press, Mary-Kate still seems happy to be right by his side. View 10 Photos › To see more Mko just read more. View 10 Photos › Images include: Debra Messing, Meg Ryan, Mary-Kate Olsen www.gettyimages.com

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