Archives for April 2009

Julia Roberts,  Bruce Springsteen, Charlize Theron, Rita Wilson and other celebrities gather to honor Tom Hanks at Alice Tully Hall on Monday in New York.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick at the premiere of “Wonderful World” during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Monday, also in New York City.

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Duplicity is an interesting movie combination of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Ocean’s Eleven. The film, directed by Tony Gilroys, stars Closer co-stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, who act as corporate spies working a double life. The film received lukewarm reviews — a 66 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a B from Entertainment Weekly.

Duplicity begins in Dubai at a party at an Embassy where Claire Stenwick (Roberts) seduces Ray Koval (Owen), takes him back to his hotel room, drugs him, steals his Egyptian air defense codes, and leaves without a second thought. When they meet again, five years later, Koval confronts Stenwick about the humiliation from that night and they both reveal that they are former government agents.

Koval had enjoyed a 12-year tenure with MI6 as a British government spy, while Stenwick worked as a CIA agent. They’ve both taken similar career paths since then, and are currently working at pharmaceutical companies, Koval at Equikrom and Stenwick at Burkett and Randle.

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Actor Richard Jenkins has been roped in to star opposite Julia Roberts in the new movie ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. The 61-year-old star will help guide Roberts to spiritual enlightenment.

According to Variety, the film, based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling novel, talks about a woman on a journey of self-discovery after divorcing her husband.

The pair meet at a peaceful Hindu community in India after Roberts’ character embarks on a year-long journey around the world to find enlightenment, reports Contactmusic The film is expected to begin in July (09) and shooting will take place in New York, Rome, India and Bali.

Julia Roberts was born in 1967 as Julia Ruberto in Atlanta, GA. After graduating from high school Roberts moved to New York City to live with her sister Lisa and began pursuing her acting career. At this time she changed her name to Julia Roberts.

The actress made her film debut alongside her brother Eric Roberts in 1987’s Blood Red, and the flop Satisfaction. The following year she garnered attention from moviegoers and critics, including.

A nod by People magazine, which names her one of the most-promising newcomers of 1988, with her role as a head-strong waitress in the indie film Mystic Pizza; she also landed parts on popular TV shows like Miami Vice and Sesame Street.

In 1989 at age 22 Roberts gave one of the best performances of her career in the hit drama Steel Magnolias, in which she played a young wife struggling with diabetes and motherhood.

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Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress.  Her parents, at one time, were actors and playwrights who met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces and later co-founded the Atlanta Actors & Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia. Before Julia's birth, her parents also ran an acting school in Decatur.

As a child, Julia wanted to be a veterianarian, but after graduating high school she went to New York to join her sister, Lisa, and pursue a career in acting. Eric Roberts, her brother and sister Lisa Roberts Gillan, are actors.  Julia's niece Emma Roberts, who went on movie sets with her aunt, has also pursued acting.

Roberts made her acting debut, opposite her brother, in the film Blood Red (filmed in 1987 & released in 1989).  Her first television appearance was in Crime Story.

A few of many films to follow were Mystic Pizza, Satisfaction, Steel Magnolias, Flat Liners, Pretty Woman, Hook, Dying Young, Sleeping with.

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Julia Roberts is such a big fan of Barack Obama that she has threatened to fire any staff that says bad things about him while working for her. "Julia thinks Obama is equal to Jesus Christ," an insider told me. "So, insulting him is like insulting Jesus and she will not put up with that."

Julia has a shrine to Obama in her dining room as well as huge pictures of him in all eight of her bedrooms. She plays videos of Obama for her children every day. "Not everyone in her family is a Democrat but they know to keep their feelings inside," the source says.

While I hold nothing against Barack Obama, I am disgusted by the hypocrisy of these liberal celebrities who complain about freedom of speech, but don't seem to want the same freedom when it comes to going against their beliefs. There is always good news: judging from the box office failure of her latest film, Duplicity, perhaps Julia Roberts won't be working much longer.

Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins have signed to play in the filming of Elizabeth Gilbert's international bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love." Directed by Ryan Murphy, the Paramount Production tells the story of the recently divorced author's search for self-discovery during a journey across Italy, India and Bali.

Roberts will play the role of Gilbert, while Jenkins appears as a Texan spiritual seeker Robert's character meets in an Indian ashram.

One third of the story takes place in Bali where the main character finds love, healing and and the mentoring of an aging Balinese guru in Ubud. One of the first-ever Hollywood feature films to be shot in Bali, filming is set to commence in the third quarter of 2009.

Julia Roberts has been stricken from the Fame List, after officially not appearing in any movie, TV show, or giving an interview for 17 months and 13 days.

The official fame cut off point is 17 months and 3 days. After a trial that lasted eight days, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Roberts was officially not famous anymore. Roberts is reportedly devastated at the ruling and intends to appeal.

Her lawyer spoke to E News straight after the event, saying that the ruling was false and unjust. "Julia gave an interview to Hugh Grant's magazine Horse & Hound just five weeks ago - how can they prove without reasonable doubt that she has not done anything famelike for so long when Hugh Grant stood up to testify that the interview took place? It's a travesty of justice!"

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Actor Richard Jenkins has been roped in to star opposite Julia Roberts in the new movie ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. The 61-year-old star will help guide Roberts to spiritual enlightenment. According to Variety, the film, based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling novel, talks about a woman on a journey of self-discovery after divorcing her husband.

The pair meet at a peaceful Hindu community in India after Roberts’ character embarks on a year-long journey around the world to find enlightenment, reports Contactmusic The film is expected to begin in July (09) and shooting will take place in New York, Rome, India and Bali.

Reports say Hollywood actress Julia Roberts' love for peanut butter sandwich left her with a bad breath, making it difficult to shoot love scenes with co-star Clive Owen in 'Duplicity'. The 'Pretty Woman' star and Owen have been very good friends since starring in 2004's Closer, and Roberts insists that it made her more comfortable shooting the saucy scenes in their new movie.

However, she often ate peanut butter sandwiches between takes, which forced her to freshen up before filming the intimate scenes. "At least we could talk to each other and say, 'Honey, do you have a mint? I'm sorry but I just had a peanut butter sandwich,'" Contactmusic quoted her as saying.