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...Nicole Kidman stars as Paris' most seductive courtesan in the postmodern musical Moulin Rouge. Kate Hudson is the heart and soul of Cameron Crowe's coming-of-age movie Almost Famous (Sept. 15), an ode to '70s rock that's already gathering momentum in this year's Oscar race. Helen Hunt is unstoppable this season, romancing Richard Gere in Dr. T & the Women (Oct. 13), starring opposite Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment in Pay It Forward (Oct. 20) and teaching Mel Gibson What Women Want...
...movie-into-opera custom conversion jobs designed to tantalize non-operagoers who don't know Rigoletto from rigatoni. Two years ago, it was A Streetcar Named Desire, with superstar soprano Renee Fleming as Blanche Dubois; now it's Dead Man Walking, with superstar mezzo Susan Graham as Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion...
...With reporting by Helen Gibson/London, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Yuri Zarakhovich/Murmansk
...marriage of actors MACAULAY CULKIN and RACHEL MINER has hit a snag. The couple, who wed when both were 17, have announced a temporary and "amicable" separation. Maybe they'll be comforted to know stars almost 20 years older don't find the love-honor-cherish thing any easier. HELEN HUNT and HANK AZARIA, married only half as long but dating since 1994, have also announced a split. They too "are still very good friends." Both couples are apparently too chummy to talk divorce...
...brilliantly reckless investigative style. Though she's a good six inches shorter than everyone else, Knapp fills out the personality of her great character and controls the stage. The audience hangs on her next action, and one hopes that no one from the BBC sees this performance lest Helen Miren should find herself...