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...Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that...
...Jardin des Plantes? Ask Sidney Toledano, president and chief executive of Christian Dior Couture, and he'll tell you: fraternit*. After all, Karl Lagerfeld, another legend who now designs for Chanel, was backstage taking photographs. And John Galliano, Dior's women's designer, was watching with actress Cate Blanchett in tow. "It was a great moment for Paris," Toledano said...
STARRING: Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves DIRECTOR: Sam Raimi OPENS: Dec. 20 in L.A.; wide...
Annie Wilson (Blanchett) is part psychic, part psychiatrist. The locals come to her modest Georgia home less for her readings of the future than for sympathy and counsel. Valerie the battered wife (Hilary Swank) needs to hear she has the courage to leave her brutal husband Donnie (Reeves). Poor afflicted Buddy (Giovanni Ribisi) needs to get those angry voices out of his head. And when prime rich bitch Jessica King (Katie Holmes) goes missing, her grieving fiance (Greg Kinnear) comes to Annie. For though she chats with her dead grandmother, sleeps with a baseball bat beside...
...movie has gone goofily gothic--more Wes Craven than Truman Capote--and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant The Gift to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive, subtle, impeccable. She seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue...