Alfie

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In the movies
Touch a crystal ball that came straight from Hogwarts, sit at the
bar where Charlie’s Angels get tipsy or tinker with the tools in
Van Helsing’s laboratory.
It’s all a part of “The Secret Life of Sets: Set Directors at Work,”
an interactive exhibition at the CN Tower from now until January
2nd, 2005. Originating at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences in Beverly Hills this past summer, the show is now on the
road, with Toronto being its only Canadian stop before heading
back to the States for stays in Chicago and New York.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-Man 2,
Van Helsing, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, The Cat in the Hat,
The Haunted Mansion and
Down with Love are among
the films brought back to life
via sets, props, sketches,
photos and video featuring
set decorators explaining
their craft.
The exhibit is free with
admission to the tower ($19 for
adults, $14 for kids), or with a
meal at the 360 Restaurant.
For more information call
416.868.6937. —MW
Nicole Kidman Julianne Moore Rebecca Romijn-Stamos Uma Thurman
Mom overboard
portrays a woman who develops a maternal
relationship with a 10-year-old boy who
has a crush on her (Cameron Bright).
Things get creepy when we discover he
Gee, thanks Hollywood, it’s not as if mother’s love a little too far cloning her may actually be the reincarnated soul of
modern-day moms aren’t already deceased child in Godsend, and in last her dead husband. This film, which has
stressed to the breaking point. Now you month’s The Forgotten Julianne Moore been called a public relations nightmare,
come along and ratchet up their paranoia went cuckoo questioning the very exis- has tongues wagging as the final cut may
with your latest genre of films that we tence of her dead child. And then there’s include a few provocative scenes between
fondly refer to as “the unhinged-mommy Flight Plan, due out next year, starring Kidman and Bright.
movie.” It seems dramas about women Jodie Foster as a widowed woman who There was a time for female actors
who kill for, clone or conjure up imaginary freaks out when her daughter mysteriously when being cast as “the mom” was like
kids are all the rage, and you know what, disappears in the middle of a transat- being cast as “extra #1 with breasts.”
Hollywood’s biggest female stars are lantic flight. Weird thing is, no one But with parts as juicy as these whacked-
lining up to star in ’em.
aboard the plane ever saw the girl. out moms being shopped around, it’s no
Uma Thurman wiped out a small army In next month’s Birth, Nicole Kidman wonder female stars are signing on the
to get a hold of her rug rat in the Kill Bill (who already played the quintessential dotted line.
flicks. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos took her maniacal mother in 2001’s The Others)
—IR
famous 12 | october 2004
THE SET DECORATORS.
Clockwise from top: Stephanie
MacMillan in her Harry Potter set;
Lauri Gaffin at the Charlie’s
Angels bar; Rosemary Brandenburg
in The Haunted Mansion’s library