Friday, August 26, 2005

Entertainment Weekly: Checking in with stars from the 90's

Entertainment Weekly has a column on their site featuring career updates with stars from the 90's. Joshua is featured this week:

Joshua Jackson
THEN Our weekly fix of adolescent angst on 'Dawson's Creek'


Want to talk hockey? Milan Kundera? The tragedy of genocide in Sudan? Former Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson is happy to oblige. No topic is out-of-bounds, save the love life of his ex, Katie Holmes (''I do care deeply,'' says Jackson, 27, ''but I can't talk about it''). Rolling in from clearing brush around his L.A. canyon home (the staunch liberal quickly changes ''clearing brush'' to ''gardening'' to avoid presidential comparisons), he narrates his last two years, spent shooting Americano, with Dennis Hopper; Aurora Borealis, costarring Donald Sutherland; and Shadows in the Sun, opposite Harvey Keitel. ''They're all about guys going through that crisis 20s moment of, All the doors are open - which one am I supposed to step through?''

One door Jackson opened took him to London's West End in February for his professional stage debut alongside Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's A Life in the Theater; exhilarated by the experience, he's looking for a play to do in NYC this fall. ''It's the only medium where it's my performance, for better and for worse,'' he says. As for Dawson's? ''God, that was so long ago,'' he says. ''It's how people must feel about college.'' Now, Jackson is spazzing out about the return of the NHL (''It's like food'') and looking forward to the next acting gig: ''Over 17 years, I've played hockey, learned to row, I've been a dog, got blown up.... It satisfies the 5-year-old intellectual curiosity, you know? Where I can do anything for six months and then move on.''

-by Whitney Pastorek


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"Americano" at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

According to an article in The Birmingham News, Americano will be one of the films in competition this year at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival . The festival is from Sept. 23-25 in downtown Birmingham.

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Video of Josh at Brothers Grimm Premiere

LULOP.com has video of Josh arriving at the premiere of "Brothers Grimm" on August 8th. Simply click flash preview to have the video pop up. Josh made a pretty quick entrance!

Thanks to kat14 for posting this on our board!

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Josh Makes Top 100 Hunks

Joshua was #85 on the Top 100 Hunks poll in the UK.

A series of bad haircuts has not put us off the actor who dated Katie Holmes (on and off the "Dawson Creek" set) and stole our hearts away from earnest Dawson, who was - we realise now - very dull indeed.




Thanks to Frankie for letting us know!

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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Josh Attends Brothers Grimm After Party

Once upon a premiere in Los Angeles
By William Keck, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Garner and Michelle Williams treated their soon-to-be-born babies to grim bedtime stories Monday night at the Los Angeles premiere of The Brothers Grimm, a dark comedy rated PG-13 for violence, frightening sequences and brief suggestive material.

Garner, husband Ben Affleck and brother-in-law Casey Affleck attended to support family friend Matt Damon, who stars with Williams' boyfriend, Heath Ledger, as fairy-tale publishers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm.

Wolfgang Puck catered the Directors Guild Theatre after-party, where Garner, wearing a loose-fitting printed top over a pair of jeans, chatted up Damon's girlfriend, Luciana Barroso. Ben became quite the protective papa bear whenever reporters approached his pregnant bride.

Williams, wearing a burgundy with black lace gown by Alessandro Dell'Acqua, remained at a table, occasionally chatting up ex-Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson.

But with such dark elements as child abduction and witchcraft, is The Brothers Grimm (in theaters Aug. 26) suitable for the prenatal crowd? Papa Ledger believes so, and he has every intention of exposing his baby to such Grimm tales as Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel & Gretel.

"Absolutely," he said. "I think they're very important in today's society. They inspire the imagination in children."

Plus, Ledger still warmly recalls "the familiarity of hearing my own mother's voice sending me off to sleep."

But Damon's future children will hear highly sanitized versions of the Grimm classics. He said he's still recovering from when his mother read him the fairy tales as a young boy growing up in Massachusetts.

"While we were making the movie, my mother actually showed up on set with my little hardcover (Grimm's Fairy Tales) book," said Damon. "Looking back, the stories are a lot more macabre than I remember. And there's some pretty racy stuff, too."

Ledger dodged questions about a possible proposal to Williams. The Brothers Grimm, he said, taught him a most valuable lesson that helps him survive Hollywood: "Stay the (blank) away from wolves."

Source: USA Today

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Sunday, August 07, 2005

"I Love Your Work" Release Date

According to THINKFilm "I Love Your Work" will be released in November 2005. Hopefully a more concrete date will become available.

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