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A: She has two films due for release: the thriller In Bloom<$>, due out in December, and the romantic comedy The Accidental Hund<$>, with Colin Firth, due out next February. She’s also set to start shooting an adaptation of a play about recovering addicts, called My Zinc Bed, foBO.
Q: I thought actress Portia de Rossi was very funny on Arrested Devement. Has she done anything lately? — A.S.
A:<$> Not a lot, but she’s scheduled to appear on the next season of /Tuck<$>, playing a lesbian whose daughter wants to have plastic surgery. In real life, she is, as most people know, the life partner of comedian Ellen DeGeneres.
Q: I haven’t seen actor Russell Crowe in anything in a while. Does he have any new movies coming out? —G.
A:<$> He stars in the Western 3:to Yuma<$>, opposite Christian Bale, due out in October; and in the dramas
Q: I think actor Matt Dillon is really underrated. What will we see him in next? M.P.
A:<$> He’s set to co-star with Robin Williams, John Travolta and Kelly PrestonOld Dogs<$>, about a divorced father of twins trying to cope with child-raising, and to star in the drama Tetro, directed by master director FrancFord Coppola.
Q: Are singer Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel still together? — K.L.
A: At this writing, yes, indeed. Biel and Timberlake have been photographed together in Europe in the past few weeks; she’s been along on his concert tour. And his mother approves — always a positive sign.
Q: What happened to that blo actress from American Beauty#8212; B.G.
A:<$> Mena Suvari, the blonde teen temptress in that film, has been working pretty steadily since. She stars in the upcoming horror filI>Stuck; in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, with Sienna Miller; in another horror film, Day of the Dead; and iet to co-star in The Garden of Eden<$>, based on an unfinished Ernest Hemingway novel.
Q: Is Prince William back together with his girlfriend? I think I read that. — L.V.
A: The 25-year-old heir to the British throne has been seen again with Kate Middleton following their break-up a few months back. The Queen apparently didn’t approve of Kate, thinking her too middle class for royal rank, and William was settling into his army life. She gained points, though, when she turned down interview requests to discuss the Royals following the break-up, and William drifted back. No one knows how perent it is, though.
Q: I just sChildren of Men and thought actor Clive Owen was great. What will he be doing next? — N.R.
A:<$> He stars in a thriller calleI>Shoot ‘Em Up<$>, due out in September; in a historical drama led The Golden Age<$>, co-starring Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I, due out in October, and is scheduled to shoot tsequel Sin City 2, <$>the drama The Boys Are Back in Town, about a sports writer who becs a single parent, and The International, in which he plays an Interpol agent investigating an arms-dealing ring.
Q: I was wondering whether Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese are ever going to make movies together again. They did such great ones. — T.S.
A: Yes, they certainly did — eight of them, actually, luding classics such as Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull. Apparently the old friends have been trying to get a project going together for a while but always get pulled into other projects. They might soon get one done, though: De Niro has the rights to a book aboa retired hit man called The Winter of Frankie Machine, and Scorsese apparently is set to direct.
Q: What is actress Christina Applte up to? — S.W.
A:<$> She’s cently filming The Rocker<$>, witainn Wilson of The Office<$>. It has an intriguing premise: that Pete Best, the drummer famously dumped by The Beatles just before they hit it big, tries again for stardom by joining his nephew’s band. And she’s heading back to series TV with a sitcom foBC called Samantha Be Good<$>, due on the network’s schedule this fall.
