After canceling this year's shindig because of the writers' strike, Vanity Fair is set to bring back its star-studded Oscar after-party in 2009 — but with less fanfare.
The magazine's editor, Graydon Carter, announced that next year's soiree will be scaled back to create a "much more intimate" atmosphere due to ...
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Snakes-wrangler Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to play the Octopus, a supervillain with a superlethal punim, in The Spirit, Frank Miller's comic-book adaptation about a murdered cop reborn as a masked mystery man.... Jeff Bridges is Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, also starring Kirsten Dunst.... Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) is being eyed for the dramedy Henry Poole Is Here, starring Luke Wilson.... Per Variety, 300's G-e-r-a-r-d Butler will star opposite Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin in Nim's Island.
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