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Helen Hunt in the Director's Chairnew

After laboring for years both as costar and a producer of Mad About You, she has had a sporadic, post-tube life on the big screen, with 1997's As Good as It Gets the obvious highlight. And almost since then she has been trying to turn Then She Found Me into a movie.

The Georgia Straight | Staff | 04-28-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: comedy, romance, Drama, Helen Hunt, Ben Shankman, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Then She Found Me

Reality TV Grows into Young@Heart's Rock Operanew

When British filmmaker Stephen Walker first agreed to listen to a chorus of retired Americans performing in London, England, he went strictly as a spectator.

The Georgia Straight | Ken Eisner | 04-21-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Bob Cilman, chorus, documentary, senior citizens, Stephen Walker, Young@Heart

Belgian Teen's Death Shaped 'Ben X'new

Belgium's Nic Balthazar was a movie critic before he became a novelist and movie director -- a rather unusual progression, he is the first to admit.

The Georgia Straight | Ken Eisner | 04-21-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: autism, Ben X, Greg Timmermans, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy, Nic Balthazar

It's a Swine Time for Reese Witherspoon in 'Penelope'new

Reese Witherspoon decided early in her acting career that she should be prepared for the possibility that movie offers could eventually stop coming.

The Georgia Straight | Ian Caddell | 03-03-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mark Palansky, Penelope

Tracy Morgan Taps into His Past for 'First Sunday'new

Morgan, a standup comic and co-star of the comedy 30 Rock, was concerned that the audience wouldn't go with him when he was in dramatic scenes.

The Georgia Straight | Ian Caddell | 01-18-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David E. Talbert, First Sunday

Frank Langella Learns Serenity Latenew

He is now in the midst of a comeback that includes a recent Tony for the play Frost/Nixon and a reinvigorated career that will see him star in four movies scheduled for release in 2008.

The Georgia Straight | Ian Caddell | 01-18-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Andrew Wagner, Starting Out in the Evening

Jack Nicholson's Hospital Staynew

A few weeks before Nicholson was supposed to play a dying man who makes a friend in a hospital ward, he became ill and ended up spending eight weeks in a hospital.

The Georgia Straight | Ian Caddell | 01-11-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List

The New Bill Cosby: Ice Cubenew

He may tote a gun as First Sunday's desperate daddy, but Ice Cube saves his gangsta style for the hip-hop side of his career, not his kid-friendly flicks.

The Georgia Straight | Ian Caddell | 01-11-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David E. Talbert, First Sunday

Creator Marjane Satrapi on the Adapted 'Persepolis'new

"I always thought that was the worst idea in the world," Satrapi says with a grin. "To make comics and then to make a movie out of them I still think is not a very good idea."

The Georgia Straight | Mark Leiren-Young | 01-11-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Persepolis

Morgan Freeman on Working with Jack Nicholsonnew

You would not think that after dozens of movies, four Academy Award nominations, and one Oscar win that Morgan Freeman would consider the choice of his costar to be more important than the script.

The Georgia Straight | Ian Caddell | 01-04-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List