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...AFRAID OF NICOLE KIDMAN...
Zelda Fitzgerald may have aced her on the flat-out-crazy part, but few literary women of the 1920s were as miserable as Virginia Woolf, who ultimately drowned herself to get rid of the voices in her head. That doesn't bother NICOLE KIDMAN, who has donned loads of makeup and a dour countenance to play Woolf in an adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, due out at the end of the year. "I'm having a lot of fun," says Kidman. "The theme of The Hours is the way in which Woolf's writing Mrs. Dalloway affects other...
...Kidman certainly is. Her next project could be a film for Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark). She'll also appear, opposite Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore, as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, an adaptation of the Michael Cunningham novel directed by Billy Elliot's Stephen Daldry. Asked if her choices will change now that she's on her own, she laughs. "Now that I've got to support myself? No," she says. "I love theater. I love art films. Now I have the freedom to go to Denmark and work with Lars. Different things are available...
...near future, Kidman, who has been living in the Pacific Palisades home she shared with Cruise, will spend a lot of time hunkered down with her divorce attorney, William Beslow, whose past clients include Sarah Ferguson, the renegade Duchess of York. (With some $250 million at stake, Cruise has his own big gun, Dennis Wasser, who also represented James Woods in a divorce case.) Once that is settled, Kidman will probably spend more time in Australia, where her parents and sister still live...
...August, however, Kidman and Cruise will find themselves back in business, at least professionally. In The Others, Kidman stars as a 1940s British war widow with two children in a haunted country manor. Cruise doesn't co-star, but he is a producer on the movie. "I feel like I bled for that film," says Kidman, who shot it right after Moulin Rouge. "It burned me out. I hope it's good." Chilling and elegant, The Others will remind you that Cruise and Kidman can still make beautiful (if creepy) music together. Meanwhile, Moulin Rouge will show that Kidman...