When she makes movies (and not oogly-googly noises for her year-old twins), Julia Roberts is filmdom's highest-paid actress. Per the Hollywood Reporter's annual power list, the Pretty Woman now commands $20 million per film, edging out No. 2 on the list, Nicole Kidman (whose ask is as high as $17 mil). Rounding out the Top 10 are Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Jodie Foster (back on the list for the first time since 2002), Charlize Theron and Jennifer Aniston, who's a steal at just $9 million a film.
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Not to sound glib, but Nicole Kidman is nuts about psychiatry. Unlike her crazy-talkin' ex, the Oscar winner says she's a big proponent of shrinkdom. "I have a father who is a psychologist," she told AP Radio. "I think people choose things that they need that are going to help them. And obviously, I've seen my father do some magnificent work." Is there no way we can get Tommy a referral? If not, how about the psychopath who greenlit Bewitched?
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Bravo's back-to-back airing of Kathy's new comedy special and the premiere of her reality series was almost too much of a laugh riot for one person to take. The first words out of her mouth in the special — where she proves that the things that happen in her life would clearly not happen to an A-lister like Nicole Kidman — are "I can't stand that a------ Ryan Seacrest, and here's why...." Turns out, she's actually got a pretty good reason. Her fast-moving rambles then hit upon Dick Clark, Anna Nicole, Oprah, Barbra Streisand and Clay Aiken, whom she dubs Gayken. I swear I almost peed my pants when she described Clay's very fab-u-lous pooch as so gay it was a "fog." Too much, and all I could think the whole time was how mad my mom, a Claymate, would be that I almost fell off the couch giggling about the description of Clay's sexual preferences, which my sweet naïve mom takes offense to — but that still didn't stop me fr
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Nicole Kidman is in talks to make her next film project Invasion, a sci-fi thriller about a mysterious epidemic that alters the behavior of human beings. Kidman's character, a psychiatrist, begins to suspect that the phenomenon's origins are extraterrestrial. Unusual human behavior? Psychiatry? Strange theories about alien beings? The line to write your own Tom Cruise punch line forms here.
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Starting Friday, Nicole Kidman can be seen in Frank Oz and Paul Rudnick's remake of the 1975 cult classic, The Stepford Wives. In this version, Joanna's a powerful TV-network president and Matthew Broderick is the insecure husband who plots not only to alter her hair color — from brunet to blond — but her whole personality! Will she end up a sexy, subservient robot? We won't tell. As for the ex-Mrs. Tom Cruise, she can't understand the desire for a "perfect" mate.
"I don't want perfect," insists the stunning 36-year-old Oscar winner. "Happiness is not found through perfection, or even trying to achieve it. The fun thing is discovering someone — the things that somebody else might think are appalling, you might think are really cute.
"I am nowhere near perfect, and I'm not ever trying to be," she adds. "The thing I find most attractive in people is their flaws. I like the mystery."
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New York's Fashion Week is the perfect time to ditch everyday wear and break out the couture — especially if you can snag invites to those glitzy after-parties that cap off the runway shows. Debutantes, divas and drag queens alike were at the West Village's Ace Gallery to sample the fifth incarnation of Viva Glam. That's MAC's high-shine cosmetic offering, with 100 percent of proceeds going to the MAC AIDS Fund.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's social butterfly, Jai Rodriguez, practiced what he preaches as he worked the room. TV Guide Online spotted him trading hugs and quips with another NBC reality boy, The Apprentice's Kwame Jackson. FYI, the Fab Five has just put out the Queer Eye soundtrack, but Rodriguez plans to do a solo act on his in-the-works debut CD. "It's pop-rock, kind of Anastacia meets Justin Timberlake," h
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Rich and famous though they may be, celebrities always love getting things free! When a Hollywood party runs out of gift bags — since stars only come out for photo ops, free booze and goodies — much grumbling is to be heard. Fortunately, there'll be no lack of freebies at several Tinseltown events happening this week, in anticipation of Sunday's glitzy Golden Globe Awards. Pre-awards pampering is a hot trend for luminaries who wanna get their glam on, gratis.
Luxury LoungeThis weekend, stars from Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Angels in America and other HBO hits will converge on the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. Why? Free stuff to wear on Sunday night! While sipping Moet & Chandon — the official champagne of the Globes — the Sex girls will each snatch up a $3,000 Maurice Lacroix Swiss watch. Sarah Jessica Parker will also get Erica Courtney "fan earrings"
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Are the Golden Globe Awards a prestigious predictor of Oscar winners — or just Hollywood's biggest excuse to dress up and party down? Opinions differed as stars strolled down the red carpet. "This is one of those nights where you go, 'God, all of this hard work is paying off,'" Nicole Kidman (The Hours) told TV Guide Online. "This isn't as big as the Oscars, but it's still really important. You don't have the butterflies as much here. You just go, 'Oh we're going to have fun tonight. We're just going to sit at a table and have some dinner.'" Not to mention some potent cocktails, Nic. "I left that part out!"
Kidman looked luscious in a lavender gown — very Moulin Rougey! But The Practice's
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