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Julia Roberts Videos: Interview In Her Home: There is a room upstairs in Julia Roberts’s home in Malibu that she calls her “little quiet room”. It is there that she keeps her personal oddments, sewing machine, her knitting basket and where she retreats from the world when she feels the need.

But, she says with a laugh, she doesn’t spend much time up there nowadays; being a housewife and mother, as well as continuing to act when the script appeals to her, takes up all her time.

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To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom unlike all the other, higher-quality moms won't let me go near." While we're on the defensive, why should I? She hates dolls, and I creeped out by row upon row of homogenized mannequins with staring Stepford Wife eyes and designer threads get nauseous within 50 feet of that posh emporium, which peddles multiculti feminism with an outrageous price tag.

Such are the cultural contradictions of corporate capitalism: As Disney is to tales of plucky small-town proles hurdling adversity through hard work and decency, so the American Girl franchise, a subsidiary of that mom-and-pop outfit Mattel, is to our nation of happy rainbow families, celebrating our shared values while honoring our differences. Could be worse, I guess, but with their sturdy ethnic heroines African-American, Native American, and every other American you can think of overcoming poverty and discrimination, the American Girl books are as predictable as they are proto-feminist and inclusive.

A trial balloon sent up to test the ether for extending the franchise, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is no exception. Based on several American Girl stories about a 1930s cub reporter in Cincinnati, this dull theatrical debut especially disappoints because I'm usually fond of square, sepia-toned, period-costumed kids' movies (like Fly Away Home) that go nowhere at the box office. This one could go somewhere: As the opening weekend of Sex and the City showed, gee whiz, there's a distaff market out there, so why not tap the little ones?

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Katherine Heigl has graduated from the romantic comedy portion of her Julia Roberts-paved career and is moving swiftly into her Erin Brockovich period.

According to Variety, the Grey's Anatomy thesp has signed on to star in and produce a big-screen adaptation of Escape, the best-selling memoir of Carolyn Jessop.

Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and was forced to marry a man 32 years her senior before ultimately fleeing the sect with her eight children. Her testimony later led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

Filming on the drama will begin once Heigl completes work on her lighter-fared effort The Ugly Truth.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie aren’t just inspirations to regular ol’ folk around the world. The A-list duo has the same impact on their superstar friends!

Taking a page out of her Ocean’s 11 co-star’s global child-rearing book, Julia Roberts is hoping to fill her children’s passports with as many stamps as possible as well.

“Julia wants them to be culture,” the actress’ pal tells OK!. “She and [husband] Danny [Moder] are looking into lessons for them to start speaking a second language.”
So far this year, the Moder family, which includes twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 3, and baby Henry, 23 months, has compiled a hefty number of mileages. Shooting her flick Duplicity which re-pairs her with Closer co-star Clive Owen alone has taken the clan to New York, the Bahamas and Rome.

But before they head elsewhere, Julia, 40, wants to spend some much-needed down time back home in Malibu.

“Julia loves traveling, but sometimes she says it’s good to be home in your own bed!” the friend says.

Actress Julia Roberts will host the annual fund-raising gala for Westport Country Playhouse on Monday, Sept. 15, it was announced today. 

The evening’s entertainment, “Footlights and Film: A Celebration of the Great Musicals from Stage and Screen,” will feature star-studded performances by talents to be announced, the Playhouse said. 

“We are thrilled that a star of Julia Roberts’ magnitude will host an array of premier artists from stage and screen to benefit the historic Westport Country Playhouse,” said Anne Keefe, Playhouse artistic director. “This will be a one-of-a-kind entertainment and social event that is not to be missed.”

Beginning at 6 p.m., the celebratory evening will include a cocktail reception, a star-studded musical performance in the Playhouse’s Jason Robards Theatre, dinner with celebrity guests and silent auction, the announcement said. 

Posh Spice Victoria Beckham has admitted that she was so in awe of Hollywood star Julia Roberts that she did a curtsy when she met her.

According to The Mirror, Beckham said that she views the actress as a "legend" and was thrilled to meet her.

"What do you do when you meet someone like Julia Roberts? She's a legend," Beckham said.

"There was a red carpet lineup and as I came to greet her, I found myself bending to curtsy."

"Incredibly, she knew who David and I were and we got on really well. She's very down to earth. We're both mums with young children, so we had a lot to talk about," she said.

"We've swapped numbers and I'm looking forward to catching up with her again."

Victoria Beckham was star-struck when she met Julia Roberts The former Spice Girl was a "quivering wreck" when she was introduced to the actress at a Giorgio Armani party in New York last week.

She told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "What do you do when you meet someone like Julia Roberts? She's a legend. There was a red carpet line-up and as I came to greet her, I found myself bending to curtsy. I was like, 'F**k that's Julia Roberts!' "Incredibly, she knew who David and I were and we got on really well. She's very down-to earth. We're both mothers with young children, so we had a lot to talk about." Victoria, who has three sons with soccer star husband David, plans to meet up with the 'Pretty Woman' star - who also has three children.

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Julia Roberts flashed that famous smile on the set of Duplicity in NYC yesterday while her co-star Clive Owen showed off how he makes stern look hot. Clive's got no problem with gaining female fans, but last year it wasn't enough to score him a coveted spot on the PopSugar 100, which means you've got some work to do if you want to see him make the cut this time around. Julia came in at No. 8, so something tells us she has nothing to worry about in keeping a place on the list.

In order to help move the needle, make sure to check out the celebrity profile pages and become a fan and vote on the 5 factors: likability, talent, looks, class and style. Then stay tuned to see where they land on the 2nd Annual PopSugar 100!

The ever charming Julia Roberts wore a platinum Giorgio Armani Privé gown at the 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, on Monday, May 5. Julia was a co-host at the event along with George Clooney, who was also outfitted by Giorgio Armani.
Her floor length custom designed gown had a soft draped neckline accented by an antique brooch. The gown had intricate beading on a mesh overlay. Julia, a red carpet pro, showed old Hollywood glamour with her hair swept up in a high bun and the soft bangs falling sideways on her forehead.

"I wore the dress because he made it for me," said Roberts, who gave the designer a hug. Giorgio Armani sponsored the evening with Vogue magazine.

The night's theme was "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy".

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most important art museums, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, United States.

Its Costume Institute contains more than 80,000 costumes and accessories. Due to the fragile nature of the items in the collection, the Costume Institute does not maintain a permanent installation. Instead, every year it holds two separate shows in the Met's galleries using costumes from its collection, with each show centering on a specific designer or theme. 

OK, OK, Hollywood Reporter we get it. The trade paper today took 1,600 words, three pie charts, two line graphs, and a half-dozen adorable floating-head info boxes to confirm the long-suspected word on the street that are you ready? the star system is dying. Jim Carrey can't open! Brad Pitt's last film did $4 million! Julia Roberts hasn't broken $70 million since 2001! Shriek!

What's replacing them isn't that surprising either, but the mind reels nevertheless when we see it in print:

There's a sense now evident in multiple boxoffice metrics and comments uttered privately by the dozens of agents, managers and producers interviewed for this report that the interplay among consumers, celebrities and entertainment dollars is changing. The new dynamics are a challenge the next generation of up-and-comers Shia LaBeouf, Seth Rogen, Emile Hirsch and Katherine Heigl often are cited could face.
"As audiences get younger, they don't care about movie stars in the same way," Sony Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper says. "The idea of seeing a beautiful movie star on the big screen just isn't the same to them."

Yikes! Katherine Heigl will pretend she didn't hear Culpepper the man responsible for the recent no-name hit revival of Prom Night, incidentally just say that. Meanwhile, we're looking at Speed Racer's sluggish tracking and wondering if fledgling leading man Emile Hirsch isn't facing that challenge as we speak. On the bright side, his generation already has Orlando Bloom, so he doesn't have to worry about plunging into that niche. Sky's the limit, kid.