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- NEW ROMANCE, SAME OLD SELLING JOB
- PROFILE: ZIYI ZHANG
- Come together, right now
- COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW LENNON VIGIL AT RISK
- AN 800-POUND GORILLA OF A SALES JOB
- Co-ed team fills Jennings's chair ABC names Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff to co-anchor revamped suppertime newscast
- King Kong's sad face is worth a thousand Darwin exhibits
- God's blockbuster The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is poised at the heavenly gates of box-office supremacy. It's also the latest family movie to be bankrolled by secretive billionaire Philip Anschutz, writes SIMON HOUPT
- Writing around journalistic ethics
- Did you notice their guns? Even New York's finest can miss the crucial details. It's a matter of needing to 'see' better -- a skill they now hone at art class. SIMON HOUPT joins in and discovers why everyone from cops to biologists are taking a close look at the masters
- T.O. play a hit with U.S. critics
- AN 800-POUND GORILLA OF A SALES JOB
- Co-ed team fills Jennings's chair ABC names Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff to co-anchor revamped suppertime newscast
- Tinseltown gives Broadway a boost
- COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW LENNON VIGIL AT RISK
- Come together, right now
- Michelle Williams Born Sept. 9, 1980, Kalispell, Mont. Broke out as the bad girl next door in the teen TV drama Dawson's Creek, then made a legitimate name for herself with a string of indie films (The Station Agent, Me Without You) and off-Broadway roles.
- PROFILE: ZIYI ZHANG
- Met's tempest in a krater
- NEW ROMANCE, SAME OLD SELLING JOB
- Michelle Williams Born Sept. 9, 1980, Kalispell, Mont. Broke out as the bad girl next door in the teen TV drama Dawson's Creek, then made a legitimate name for herself with a string of indie films (The Station Agent, Me Without You) and off-Broadway roles.
- Stern-free FM: less flatulence
- Extra, extra! Get your true lies here
- Camera-toting minorities have to watch their backs in NY
- Tinseltown gives Broadway a boost
- Ivory's imperative Still shaken by the loss of his partner Ismail Merchant, filmmaker James Ivory is determined to continue making movies, writes SIMON HOUPT
- Met's tempest in a krater
- Albert Brooks's peace plan The comic says what Americans need is a Schmooze Corps, writes SIMON HOUPT
- A failed attempt to party in the library
- Albert Brooks's peace plan The comic says what Americans need is a Schmooze Corps, writes SIMON HOUPT
- Students no match for queen of shallow
- Stern-free FM: less flatulence
- Introducing our scientific, never-fail, 100-per-cent correct, critic-free Academy Award predictor*(*SORRY, NO GUARANTEES )
- To make it here, you must first find a stage
- Extra, extra! Get your true lies here
- Homegrown skit is Broadway bound
- Canadian TV? Watch U.S. cable
- Introducing our scientific, never-fail, 100-per-cent correct, critic-free Academy Award predictor*(*SORRY, NO GUARANTEES )
- The curious case of the sanitized kids' films In the book, George is kidnapped. In the movie, he's a stowaway. Why does Hollywood think children can't handle the downbeat and the dark?
- THE DA VINCI CODE, THE MOVIE, CLINGS TO ALBINO VILLAIN STEREOTYPE
- Camera-toting minorities have to watch their backs in NY
- Homegrown skit is Broadway bound
- Who will win?
- Harsh words at the Voice
- The curious case of the sanitized kids' films In the book, George is kidnapped. In the movie, he's a stowaway. Why does Hollywood think children can't handle the downbeat and the dark?
- 'PIMP' GONNA BRING DOWN DA OSCAR HOUSE
- THE DA VINCI CODE, THE MOVIE, CLINGS TO ALBINO VILLAIN STEREOTYPE
- Around the world in 1,000 recipes
- Stone, Sandler tackle the fateful day
- Canadians make a big noise on the Upper North Side
- 'PIMP' GONNA BRING DOWN DA OSCAR HOUSE
- From Queen Street West to the Great White Way
- Around the world in 1,000 recipes
- Stone, Sandler tackle the fateful day
- Oscar smiles on Clooney, Weisz
- On Hollywood's biggest night, London, Ont., director's ensemble drama lassos best-picture prize away from odds-on favourite Brokeback Mountain
- A calm voice in the culture wars
- From Queen Street West to the Great White Way The show: Canadian. The venue: Broadway. The challenge: selling a show almost no one has heard of. SIMON HOUPT reports
- Devil in a blue dress
- Superman's widow was 'brightest light,' friends recall Actress-turned-activist for the disabled Dana Reeve, 44, succumbs to lung cancer
- Whoosh, it's gone Anthony Hopkins is comfortable with his fleeting life. Indeed, SIMON HOUPT finds a more mellow, philosophical actor who readily relates to his latest character, a grandfatherly tinkerer
- ABORT! ABORT! A TALE OF TWO TV VETERANS
- A Jenny Holzer to go, please
- From Queen Street West to the Great White Way The show: Canadian. The venue: Broadway. The challenge: selling a show almost no one has heard of. SIMON HOUPT reports
- Haggis crashes the Oscar party
- On Hollywood's biggest night, London, Ont., director's ensemble drama lassos best-picture prize away from odds-on favourite Brokeback Mountain
- Oscar smiles on Clooney, Weisz
- Devil in a blue dress
- Superman's widow was 'brightest light,' friends recall Actress-turned-activist for the disabled Dana Reeve, 44, succumbs to lung cancer
- Whoosh, it's gone Anthony Hopkins is comfortable with his fleeting life. Indeed, SIMON HOUPT finds a more mellow, philosophical actor who readily relates to his latest character, a grandfatherly tinkerer
- ABORT! ABORT! A TALE OF TWO TV VETERANS
- Rage against the news machine
- To the (Hollywood) manner born
- Smooth, but hardly addictive
- SPIKE LEE
- An urgent plea to go green'The world is watching Canada,' the Australian author of The Weather Makers tells SIMON HOUPT
- To the (Hollywood) manner born
- SPIKE LEE
- Smooth, but hardly addictive
- Sophie's voice With barely 30 public appearances under her belt, a University of Toronto commerce student is up against Paul Anka and Diana Krall at tomorrow night's Junos. SIMON HOUPT catches up with a woman who just might be a legend in the making
- Grow up? They'd rather just play around
- An urgent plea to go green'The world is watching Canada,' the Australian author of The Weather Makers tells SIMON HOUPT
- Sophie's voice
- Sophie's voice With barely 30 public appearances under her belt, a University of Toronto commerce student is up against Paul Anka and Diana Krall at tomorrow night's Junos. SIMON HOUPT catches up with a woman who just might be a legend in the making
- The real scoop on Page Six
- From Page Six to page one
- NOW PLAYING
- NOW PLAYING
- A true impression Jeffrey Archer's latest novel, set in the high-rolling world of fine art, is getting serious notice, perhaps on the strength of his Prison Diaries. He talks to SIMON HOUPT about his collection and about doing hard time
- Broadway tears, fears and crippling pain It was just a small setback. A month before The Drowsy Chaperone's opening, and possibly the leading man was dying, writes SIMON HOUPT
- Flight 93 film takes taut, sober approach
- From Page Six to page one
- NOW PLAYING
- THE FILM NO ONE WANTS TO SEE . . . Although studio executives are framing it as a living memorial to those who died, Hollywood's first feature film about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 faces an uphill battle with American audiences still reeling from the events of that terrible day. SIMON HOUPT talks to the makers of United 93 about their reasons for producing a movie that promises to rip into America's soul
- Broadway tears, fears and crippling pain It was just a small setback. A month before The Drowsy Chaperone's opening, and possibly the leading man was dying, writes SIMON HOUPT
- A true impression Jeffrey Archer's latest novel, set in the high-rolling world of fine art, is getting serious notice, perhaps on the strength of his Prison Diaries. He talks to SIMON HOUPT about his collection and about doing hard time
- In Manhattan, an urban relic becomes a ribbon of green
- Flight 93 film takes taut, sober approach
- NOW PLAYING
- The film no one wants to see...

