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...going to do theater in London"--she will star in the play Proof--and then "I'd like to live in Europe for a while, in Berlin or Paris." She could just be making nice to Europeans, but she also sent a rocket back home: "The fact is, Hollywood is a male-dominated world." That doesn't seem to have hurt her career so far, though maybe an Oscar nod for The Royal Tenenbaums would have helped...
...ever for an animated film (after Monsters, Inc.'s $63 million). Its mammoth debut was a thundering surprise, not just because the PG-rated film came from 20th Century Fox, a studio with a dismal animation track record, but also because a curious 30% of the audience was what Hollywood calls "nonfamily" moviegoers. In other words, the audience was not just moms and dads and kids--they are to be expected--but also young adults and teens, including the species Homo adolescence, teenage boys who usually avoid anything without action-adventure or Adam Sandler...
...seeing a marriage of the old and the new. DreamWorks co-owner Jeffrey Katzenberg concedes that "if we stayed stuck in the 20th century with the same look and style, it would be rejected--and it has been rejected." But he doesn't blame the audience; he blames Hollywood. Tarzan, he says, referring to Disney's 1999 hit movie, "was the last really great story done in 2-D." He's hoping to change that with Spirit, a horse adventure opening May 24 with both hand- and computer-drawn images. Plus, it should be noted, there is a scene...
...frets. "This is the Fozzie Bear verdict all over again.") But Wednesday, like its title, isn't clever enough to earn its self-satisfied tone. (We're spoofing TV! On TV!) Starring a wooden Ivan Sergei as an exec at the struggling IBS network, it is a rehash of Hollywood Babylon cliches. One "provocative" plot--should IBS air an execution for ratings?--is as old as TV itself. Producer Peter Tolan, who set the TV-satire standard with The Larry Sanders Show, should know better. Never send a man to do a bunny...
...DIED. BILLY WILDER, 95, sharply satirical screenwriter, prolific filmmaker and winner of six Academy Awards; in Los Angeles. Born in a village in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wilder landed in Hollywood in 1934 as part of an influx of German EmigrEs fleeing Hitler's accession. Nominated for 12 Oscars as a writer, Wilder is best remembered for films like Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. DIED. MILTON BERLE, 93, towering personality of the small screen who traded a life in vaudeville to become TV's first star with his 1948 debut in Texaco...