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90210's Jessica Stroup Braves One Hell of a Homecoming
17 July 2009 8:04 AM, PDT | From TVGuide.com - Features | See recent TVGuide - Features news
Homecoming</i>" style="margin:0 5px 5px" />Set in the outskirts of a frigid Pittsburgh, the new big-screen thriller Homecoming finds Matt Long (Jack & Bobby) playing Michael, a former high school football hero returning to town with his college girlfriend Elizabeth (90210's Jessica Stroup) in tow. Thing is, local gal Shelby (The O.C. alumna Mischa Barton) fancies herself still attached to Mike — and she is by no means ready to let go, even if it means making like Kathy Bates to cut the competition off at the knees — somewhat figuratively. Stroup shared a look at the making of the frightful film, as well as gave a peek at what's ahead for 90210's Silver.
TVGuide.com: Did you know what you were getting into with this film, or not until you got 20 or so pages into the script?
Jessica Stroup: For sure I did. I had seen Misery with Kathy Bates,
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Matt Mitovich
90210's Jessica Stroup Braves One Hell of a Homecoming
17 July 2009 8:04 AM, PDT | From TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide.com - Breaking News news
Homecoming</i>" style="margin:0 5px 5px" />Set in the outskirts of a frigid Pittsburgh, the new big-screen thriller Homecoming finds Matt Long (Jack & Bobby) playing Michael, a former high school football hero returning to town with his college girlfriend Elizabeth (90210's Jessica Stroup) in tow. Thing is, local gal Shelby (The O.C. alumna Mischa Barton) fancies herself still attached to Mike — and she is by no means ready to let go, even if it means making like Kathy Bates to cut the competition off at the knees — somewhat figuratively. Stroup shared a look at the making of the frightful film, as well as gave a peek at what's ahead for 90210's Silver.
TVGuide.com: Did you know what you were getting into with this film, or not until you got 20 or so pages into the script?
Jessica Stroup: For sure I did. I had seen Misery with Kathy Bates,
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Matt Mitovich
Streep Nom #9 and Act III: Funny Lady
11 July 2009 9:59 AM, 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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NATHANIEL R
August: Osage County (The Movie)
7 July 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news
Cast This!
But before the movie... the tour! It starts in just under three weeks in Denver. I'm not getting paid for this but I'm going to shill because live theater needs to be promoted. It's so much cooler than TV ... even if Corporate America can't profit off of it as much (finite audience = number of seats in house) and thus makes it seem uncool by ignoring it or dismissing it as irrelevant.
Oscar winner Estelle Parsons, 81, headlines the August tour
And given that The Movie -- all caps because if it's any good it'll be Big -- is going to be the subject of much discussion whenever it begins to film and especially once it's in theaters, you'll want to be in the know early on. Even if you're not normally a theater person. If you haven't been following theatrical buzz and awardage these past couple of years, it's
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NATHANIEL R
Review: Chéri
2 July 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
Like its courtesan protagonist, Chéri is a fancy, dolled up affair, a glamorous evocation of the waning days of the Belle Époque, the last period before the grim realities of the contentious 20th century set in for France and the rest of the world. From Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, its narrative features games of the heart and bedroom, not unlike Dangerous Liaisons, their wildly successful first collaboration. Still, there’s no depth to these surface machinations, no sense that the central romance features fully formed individuals connecting on an elemental level. It’s breezy, lightweight stuff that never avoids being inextricably entwined to the meticulously constructed milieu. Pfeiffer plays Lea de Lonval, courtesan to the wealthy and friend to the gregarious society gossip Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates), who asks Lea to take her teenage son Chéri (Rupert Friend) under her wing. Their relationship quickly transforms into a strange, oedipal
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Robert Levin
Night Fever: The World of Obsessive Fan Movies
2 July 2009 7:50 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
A crowd eagerly watches as a man dressed in a white suit performs an elaborate disco routine to the sounds of the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing." Sound familiar? It should; it's the signature sequence from 1977's "Saturday Night Fever." But now the scene belongs to another film as well, "Tony Manero," named after John Travolta's Brooklyn disco king character. In this version, a middle-aged "Fever" fanatic named Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro) appears on a Chilean TV show and reenacts those famous dance moves as part of a contest to determine the country's best Tony Manero impersonator. Raúl's impoverished struggles in late '70s Chile resemble Tony's in late '70s Brooklyn (a reason, no doubt, he responds so strongly to "Saturday Night Fever") with one crucial difference: where Tony strains against obstacles he encounters, Raúl simply removes them. If that obstacle happens to be a person,
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Matt Singer
Cheri
30 June 2009 5:10 PM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
Cheri
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates
Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Plot: A high class prostitute (Pfeiffer) falls in love with Cheri (Friend), the son of her old rival, Madame Peloux (Bates).
Who’s It For? There’s little entertainment value in the film, but those who are really into costuming will get their kicks.
Expectations: From a quick glance, the trailer had me hoping this was going to have the same type of poisonous juiciness that made seemingly stiff period pieces like Dangerous Liaisons delectable. Plus, with the casting on Pfeiffer, one can only really expect cougar hunting.
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Actors:
Michelle Pfeiffer as as Lea de Lonval: It doesn’t take more than a monocle to see that the woman who once zipped up the tight rubber suit of Catwoman has now evolved into a full blown cougar.
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Nick Allen
"Chéri" - New clip added from the Michelle Pfeiffer starrer.
30 June 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news
See a new clip courtesy of Apple from Miramax's "Chéri," starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones, Frances Tomelty, Harriet Walter and Anta Pallenberg. Stephen Frears directs from the writing by Christopher Hampton based on the novel by Colette. Bill Kenwright, Thom Mount and Andras Hamori produce the film. It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The sensational tale begins as the ravishing Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris’s most envied seductress to the rich and famous...
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The Cheatin' Heart of Cheri
29 June 2009 2:53 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
Sex is in the air, what with Governor Sanford going Awol for a cruise with his Argentine hottie (joining the club of Republicans with conservative mouths and liberal dicks). Which brings me to Cheri, Stephen Frears's new film about courtesans of the Belle Epoque who parlayed sexual savoir faire into hefty fortunes. Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates). At fifty-one Michelle Pfeiffer is roughly the same age as Lea. So we could be forgiven for hoping that here at last was an Anglo-Saxon breakthrough flick with a middle-aged woman as object of desire. But in fact, we've been cheated. Except for a final shot...
Erica Abeel
Interview: 'Cheri' Director Stephen Frears
26 June 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Multiple Oscar nominee Stephen Frears is a tough nut to crack. Amiable but terse, his excellent multilayered films do the talking for him, from his first collaboration with Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer on 1998's Dangerous Liaisons to 2007's The Queen. In his latest film, Cheri (read Cinematical's review here), Frears turns his lens onto the cloistered and often duplicitous world of wealthy courtesans. Frears' films often focus on subversive outsiders who must make their own "family," as it were, such as Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, and My Beautiful Laundrette. But Cheri's delicious spin on sex, love, and aging is typical of its source material from author Colette, whose books Cheri and The Last of Cheri present a world of upside-down relationships and self-sufficient, frankly sexual women.
Michelle Pfeiffer leads the cast as the stunning Lea de Lonval, a famous courtesan whose friend Madame Peloux, played with busty abandon by Kathy Bates,
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Jenni Miller
Le Baiser de Noilly
26 June 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news
Have a newsworthy cocktail hour with Vf Daily’s current-events-inspired concoctions. Today’s cocktail was inspired by the late French novelist Colette, who scandalized Paris at the turn of the last century by rollicking around like Lindsay Lohan—sapphic behavior and all. Colette wrote the novel Chéri, which has been adapted into a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, and Rupert Friend. The film opens today. Today’s recipe, Le Baiser (or “The Kiss,”) is in honor of not only the chemistry between Pfeiffer and Friend in the movie but also the onstage kiss that Colette shared with her female lover at the culmination of the author’s pantomime show at the Moulin Rouge back in the day. Le Baiser de Noilly 1 1/4 oz. Noilly Prat vermouth 1 1/4 oz. Bombay Sapphire gin 3/4 oz. fresh pineapple juice 1/4 oz. grenadine 1 twist of pink-grapefruit peel 1 fresh raspberry Shake together liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker,
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HuffPost Review: Cheri
26 June 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news
It's such a pleasure to watch Michelle Pfeiffer hold the screen in a way she hasn't for far too long that one can almost forgive Cheri its flaws. Almost. Based on novels by Colette, Cheri reunites Pfeiffer with director Stephen Frears and writer Christopher Hampton, with whom she worked on Dangerous Liaisons two decades ago. The story is set 150 years later, but the subject is the same: love, lust and the manipulation of both in the name of personal power. Pfeiffer plays Lea de Lonval, a rich, aging Paris courtesan during La Belle Epoque. Enriched by past lovers, she agrees to take the son of a friend -- another wealthy courtesan (Kathy Bates) -- to the south of France to get him away from bad influences in Paris. The boy, known as Cheri (Rupert Friend), is only 19, though he's already developed...
Marshall Fine
Michelle Pfeiffer shows her age beautifully in "Chéri"
26 June 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | From AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news
I need to show y’all something.
This is Michelle Pfeiffer, in 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons.
This is Michelle Pfeiffer in Chéri, which opens today.
In case your math skills are like mine, 21 years have passed between those two pictures. And Pfeiffer is more stunning than ever.
Sure, she may have had a Botox injection or two (she says she hasn’t had plastic surgery — yet), but, face it (sorry), she is one of those women who get better with age. Thank you, Universe.
In Chéri, which is based on the novels of French feminist and bisexual writer Colette, Pfeiffer plays Léa de Lonval, an aging-but-still-breathtaking Parisian courtesan who becomes involved with Chéri (Rupert Friend), a man half her age. (Thanks to Melissa Silverstein for the photo.)
Photos: Bruno Calvo/ Courtesy of Miramax Films
Kathy Bates plays Chéri’s mother Charlotte, herself a retired courtesan, who initially asks Léa to help her son grow up,
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thelinster
Dueling with Stephen Frears
26 June 2009 7:56 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
Stephen Frears burst on the scene in 1985 with his cheeky "My Beautiful Laundrette," igniting a winning streak that included "Prick Up Your Ears," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Grifters" and "The Queen." Though famously hard to pigeonhole, the genre-spanning filmmaker gravitates toward folks struggling on the social margins or engaged in emotional gamesmanship. Frears is also, famously, a royal pain to interview. He almost defies you to extract responses from him, looking simultaneously gleeful and contrite, so you somehow empathize with him. In a sit-down for his new film "Cheri," he was reliably armored -- perhaps because his antennae are exquisitely attuned to pick up what he might call a "dodgy" reaction to his latest project.
More than two decades after "Liaisons," "Cheri" reunites Frears with ace screenwriter Christopher Hampton and Michelle Pfeiffer. Set in Belle Époque Paris, the saucy tragicomedy centers on the sumptuous world of courtesans -- demimondaines -- banned from polite society,
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Erica Abeel
Movie Review: Cheri (2009)
26 June 2009 4:03 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend in Cheri
Photo: Miramax Films Stephen Frears reteams with his Dangerous Liaisons (1988) screenwriter Christopher Hampton and supporting actress Michelle Pfeiffer for Cheri, an adaptation of two novels from Colette, the famed French author whose novel also spawned the 1959 Best Picture winner Gigi. To say expectations for this film were high would be an understatement considering the source material, the three Oscars Liaisons won back in 1989 and the anticipated hope we may see Pfeiffer step back into Oscar-worthy form. Liaisons was the first of three Oscar nominations for Pfeiffer and while her turn here as an aging courtesan of the belle epoque is tasty, it is Rupert Friend as the title character that steals the show in a film that doesn't live up to expectation, but is entirely enjoyable. In describing my feelings for this film to a friend that missed the press screening I found
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Brad Brevet
Movie Review: “Chéri”
26 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news
Seen on: June 19, 2009
The players: Director: Stephen Frears, Writer: Christopher Hampton, Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Bette Bourne, Felicity Jones
Facts of interest: Stephen Frears also directed "The Queen."
The plot: A famous courtesan's plans to reture are shattered when she launches into an affair with a much younger man.
Our thoughts: Director Stephen Frears reunites with his “Dangerous Liaisons” actress Michelle Pfeiffer in his latest drama “Chéri,” based on the popular 1920 novel by French author Colette. The result, though not as intriguing as some of Frears’ other recent works, is certainly watchable, with Pfeiffer and co-actor Rupert Friend delivering a pair of compelling performances.
Franck Tabouring
Cougar Courtesan Stalks Prey
25 June 2009 8:57 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
A radiant Michelle Pfeif fer plays an early 20th-century French cougar -- yes, the concept's been around a while, kids -- in Stephen Frears' slight but highly decorative "Chéri."
The 51-year-old actress -- who hasn't had a lead role in a theatrically released movie in eight years -- is affecting and charming in this reunion with not only the director but also the writer (Christopher Hampton) of "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988).
Based on two early 1920s novels by Colette ("Gigi") -- reportedly inspired by a scandalous
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By LOU LUMENICK
Cheri – Review
25 June 2009 3:29 PM, PDT | From Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news
Cheri is under the impression it’s a play with cameras watching it. Missing are the set changes in favor of editing to the next scene but the exchanges between the characters feel like they’re on stage rather than trying to emulate life on film. Director Stephen Frears brings it in terms of set design and production value, but something feels lost when it comes to the narrative and the acting. The film presents an interesting tale, and it wants to be great but it falls well below it’s goal.
Cheri stars Michelle Pfieffer and while she’s in full Catwoman mode, she gives one of her best performances in a good while. She gives Lea life, and plays her subtly as a woman fearing her latter days where her sex appeal has worn off. She’s takes things as they happen, and Pfieffer hits all the right notes.
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Philip Barrett
Cheri: Rupert Friend
24 June 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | From TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news
Rupert Friend is the handsome young dilettante who catches Michelle Pfeiffer's eye in Stephen Frears' Cheri, opening on Friday, June 26. The film, which also stars Kathy Bates as Friend's mother, is eye candy wrapped in eye candy: set in the drawing rooms, gardens, and boudoirs of 1906 Paris, the sumptuous design is reminiscent of Merchant and Ivory's lovely period pieces. Read more about Cheri here, but in the meantime, here's Friend's roundtable interview, presented in its entirety. How did you like the way you looked in this film? The clothes, the hair? We had a lot of visual ideas about Cheri, one of them being the idea that he was sort of a devil and an angel. Physically he looked like a most angelic, sweet, sort of well-behaved boy, but he actually had the morals of a Lucifer. We also had the idea - Stephen and I - of
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Michelle Pfeiffer Interview for 'Cheri'
24 June 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | From Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news
Michelle Pfeiffer makes a welcome return to the big screen as a retired courtesan in 'Cheri,' a costume drama set in Belle Epoque Paris. After a lifetime of sex as purely a business transaction, her character, Lea de Lonval, finally falls head over heels -- unfortunately, her love is a man 30 years her junior (Rupert Friend) and the son of a former rival prostitute (Kathy Bates).
It's a rare lead performance for the mother of two last seen in 2007's 'Hairspray' and 'Stardust.' In an exclusive interview, the 51-year-old Pfeiffer told us about reuniting with her 'Dangerous Liaisons' director and screenwriter for 'Cheri,' playing Catwoman again and aging gracefully. (Just don't call her a cougar...)Filed under: Celebrity Interviews
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