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...table slaps and shrieks. Alas, this is about the only point in the show that matches the verve and vivacity of the original. You can see how it must have looked on paper. Take a dialogue-heavy, witty film (written by the urbane Nora Ephron) and cast aging teen heartthrob Luke Perry across from in-vogue Hannigan in a stage version. Financially, the combination is almost sure to succeed - Perry still has a cult following from his stint in the '90s TV soap Beverly Hills 90210, and Hannigan has guaranteed youth market appeal after American Pie and her lead role...
...spin-offs of his father’s “adult” volumes. Both in interviews and on his father’s show, Jay is charismatic, confident, and cute (in a wacky self-helper kind of way). He’s even a bit of a heartthrob, having been featured in last year’s People Magazine list of most eligible bachelors...
...rising faster than his. Of course the boy from Canterbury, England, has worked hard to propel it. He's had a packed shooting schedule during the past two years, as his role as the elf Legolas in The Lord of the Rings has turned him into a teen heartthrob and a sure-fire box-office draw. And in the next nine months, audiences will get to see the latest results of his relentless workload. First up is the well-reviewed Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which opens across Europe this month. Then comes the Aussie...
...Although Kabuki is an insular and conservative culture, it isn't the artistic trap it might seem. In fact, it's recently become a fertile breeding ground for film and TV talent. Twenty-five-year-old Shinnosuke Ichikawa cultivates a parallel career as a TV-drama heartthrob, and 20-year-old rising star Shichinosuke Nakamura landed a supporting role in this year's Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai. Tokyo's Asakusa Kokaido theater has capitalized on the trend by staging Kabuki plays showcasing younger actors. "They realize that people like Shido are the key to Kabuki's future," says...
DIED. HORST BUCHHOLZ, 69, German-born film star, best known to American audiences as one of the seven cowboys in the 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven and as a communist heartthrob in Billy Wilder's 1961 cold-war comedy One, Two, Three; of pneumonia; in Berlin...