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FEATURES
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14 SUMMER PREVIEW
Don’t plan your vacation without our
look ahead to the big summer movies.
From May through August, from
The Mummy Returns to American Pie 2,
our special summer preview has the
low-down on all the new releases
26 TAGAWA’S WAR
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa always hated
movies about Pearl Harbor. So why
did the Japanese-American actor
agree to play the enemy in Michael
Bay’s multimillion-dollar war movie?
By Earl Dittman
28 IN THE PICTURE
Photographer Gail Harvey tells you
about snapping Mel Gibson, Liz Talyor
and Jason Biggs
C O V E R S T O R Y
32 BRENDAN’S BACK
He’s no fan of sequels, but Brendan
Fraser just couldn’t stay away from
another Mummy movie. Here the
Canadian-raised actor talks about the
sand-choked action picture and his
not-quite-a-fight scene with WWF
heavy The Rock By Earl Dittman
ON THE COVER Brendan Fraser
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DEPARTMENTS
06 EDITORIAL
10 SHORTS
Film fests, Famous Players’ All-Nighter
and movies being shot in Canada
22 THE PLAYERS
What’s the deal with Cameron Diaz,
Martin Lawrence and Kate Beckinsale?
34 TRIVIA
35 ON THE SLATE
Gwyneth Paltrow, Goldie Hawn and
George Clooney take on new projects
36 CUI-SEEN
Lara Flynn Boyle fills up on ribs.
No, really
42 FIVE FAVOURITE FILMS
Ed the Sock makes his picks
43 ON VIDEO
Best in Show, Miss Congeniality and
Traffic make it to the small screen
44 HOROSCOPE
Sagittarius, someone’s snooping on you
46 FAMOUS LAST WORDS
What’s it like being a Stallone,
a Crosby or even a Carradine?
famous 5 may 2001
Famous | volume 2 | number 5 |
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COLUMNS
08 HEARSAY
Carla Collins on Brando, Cruise
and Schiffer
37 PULP AND PAPER
Tomb Raider and Pearl Harbor books
38 BIT STREAMING
Fight for your right to domain names
39 LINER NOTES
What’ve the Beach Boys done for us
lately?
40 NAME OF THE GAME
Videogames: our newest export?
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