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...CATHERINE ZETA-JONES and MICHAEL DOUGLAS are going to have their picture taken by complete strangers, they would at least like to get some cash for their trouble. When the couple married in 2000, they sold the exclusive rights to photograph the affair to British magazine OK! for $1.6 million. OK! rival, the equally punctuation-happy Hello!, decided to run pictures anyway and hit newsstands three days before OK!. Now the couple are suing Hello! and will appear in a London court at the end of January. They are expected to describe how their privacy was violated, how the unauthorized...
...musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Die-hard Bob Fosse fans may leave screaming in disgust, but fortunately for the rest of us director Rob Marshall knows the difference between film and theater...
Zellweger stars as Roxie Hart--a doe-eyed jazz-age babe who goes on trial for killing her extramarital lover and becomes a media darling in the process. And, yes, she can sing--and so can her unlikely co-stars. Catherine Zeta-Jones' sultry Welsh purr masks a singing voice that is pure Broadway belt, and the moment she opens her mouth with the familiar first song, All That Jazz, the movie takes flight. Richard Gere seems more awake than he has in years as Billy Flynn, the slick lawyer who in one number plays puppet master to a chorus...
...fact, Zeta-Jones got her start in the musical theater, appearing in London's West End in both Annie and 42nd Street. "She's a gypsy," says director Rob Marshall. "Those are her roots." Same with Gere, who appeared in rock musicals early in his career and was an understudy in the original Broadway production of Grease. Still, Gere had to gear up for Chicago. "I was a rock musician and a blues guy," he says, "so for this film, I had to find another place in my voice. It was work." Zellweger endured the most intense vocal training...
After Madonna and Goldie and just before the casting search got around to Britney and Christina, Chicago has finally become a movie--the first one with two stars whose surnames begin with Z, as in pizazz, for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger are perfectly paired as show-biz archetypes. Velma (Zeta-Jones) is the born entertainer, oozing charisma. Roxie (Zellweger) is the rest of us: the type with no gifts but an almost obscene ambition to make...