Keanu Reeves admits to being a big science
fiction fan, so when offered the chance to play an alien for new movie
"The Day the Earth Stood Still," Reeves said he jumped at it.
But before his fans think the "Matrix" star has signed on for just
another big-budget space flick that is long on action but has little to
say, Reeves wants them to know this remake of a 1951 cult classic
speaks to today's audiences.
The movie is released in U.S. theaters on Friday.
"It's about the world we live in and the destructive nature of man,
so it gives you a lot to think about," Reeves told Reuters. "It's very
timely."
Growing up in the 1970s, the Canadian-born Reeves, 44, said he loved
the "Stars Wars" movies and read books like "1984" and
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Chris Baker, Travis Barker's assistant, died after a September plane crash.
The
widow of Chris Baker, Travis Barker's assistant who was killed in a
September plane crash, has slapped a tire and aviation company with a
wrongful death lawsuit.
Otilia Villar Baker and her son Sebastian claim that the pilots
"negligently decided to abort and/or reject the takeoff," TMZ.com
reports, meaning that they knew the tires were faulty but went ahead
with the flight anyway.
L.A. County Superior Courts will rule on the suit, which asserts
that Baker suffered "severe pre and post-im
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Tom Cruise, publicly maligned for
over-the-top behavior in two TV interviews, has admitted to People
magazine he could have "handled things better" and even joked about his
couch-jumping antics on Oprah Winfrey's talk show.
Cruise's admission comes three years after he leapt onto a couch on
Winfrey's daytime chat show in front of millions of viewers and
proclaimed his love for then-girlfriend Katie Holmes. In a separate
incident, Cruise got into a testy exchange over psychiatry with Matt
Lauer on "The Today Show."
"I think I could have handled things better," Cruise told the magazine in an interview for its December 22 issue.
Cruise called the incident on Winfrey's show, "My year of jumping
dangerously," in a comedic reference to "The Year of Living
Dangerously," a novel turned into a 1982 movie.
Benicio Del Toro has made a career of playing men on society's outskirts. Now as the revolutionary 'Che,' he shows his power.
In films as varied as "The Usual Suspects," "Basquiat," "Fear and
Loathing In Las Vegas," "Traffic" and "Things We Lost in The Fire,"
Benicio Del Toro seems drawn to play the eccentric outsider.
Now in director Steven Soderbergh's "Che" -- which opens for a one-week
run on Friday in Los Angeles and New York -- Del Toro plays 1950s and
'60s revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Following Guevara from
Mexico to Cuba to New York to Bolivia, the film -- which will screen as
a single 4-hour unit during its short run, and be broken into two
separate films for the wider release in January -- has a broad sweep,
but also an eye for the speci
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Britney Spears' Circus has restored her
as a star attraction less than a year after a downward spiral of
personal troubles threatened to end her career.
The singer's sixth studio album, released on her 27th birthday Dec. 2, sold 505,000 copies and is her fifth No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart. Circus' totals, the seventh-highest of 2008, dwarf sales of Spears' 2007 Blackout, which moved 289,000 copies in its first week and has sold only 926,000.
Two top 10 pop singles —Womanizer and Circus— and a spate of positive news have helped fuel the turnaround.
"People are just loving how she is doing right now," says Barry Weiss, chairman and
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The gates of Michael Jackson's famed
Neverland Ranch and one of the white gloves first unveiled in his 1983
"Billie Jean" video are going up for auction in a 2,000-item sale
organized by the self-styled King of Pop.
Auctioneer Darren Julien said Wednesday that Jackson was sorting
through thousands of personal items and his vast art collection from
the abandoned Neverland Ranch and other places.
He said the five-day auction in Beverly Hills, scheduled for April
21-25, will be the first organized by Jackson, who has been living as a
virtual recluse since his acquittal in 2005 on child sex abuse charges.
"He has never had one (an auction)," Julien said. "We have been
working closely with him for five months and he is in complete control
of this."
