Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar tells the Hollywood Reporter that he's decided against making La Piel Que Habito his next film; instead, he's going to work on Broken Hugs with Volver leading lady Penelope Cruz.... Britain's Mail reports that although the Sex and the City movie won't be out for months, two sequels are already in the planning stages.... Sissy Spacek and Mary Steenburgen will play Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon's respective moms in Four Christmases. — Ben Katner
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Question My friend and I just saw Volver and I hope you can settle an argument I say Penelope Cruz was wearing some kind of butt booster under her clothes and he says she wasnt Whos right GregFlickChick You are In interviews about Volver director Pedro Almod243var has spoken at some length about the way he wanted Penelope Cruz to look for her role as a sexy put-upon working-class housewife He envisioned her character as voluptuous and earthy like Sophia Loren in her prime Though Cruzs bosom made the grade if Almod243var werent openly gay his appreciative remarks about her cleavage would probably be grounds for a sexual harassment suit her backside did not So Cruz was padded The look is exaggerated by the cut of her costumes theyre really really tight Question I recently rented Brick and realized Ive seen Lukas Haas in a music video But I cant remember what it was Do you have any idea AngelaFlickChick Former chil
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Does Melissa Etheridge have it all over Ellen? Does Doogie put Lance to shame? Bravo's OUTzoneTV.com broadband channel is launching a poll on Friday, Dec. 8, seeking to crown the "Sexiest Gay Celebrity of 2007." In addition to the aforementioned foursome, nominees include Project Runway's Tim Gunn, filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, Shortbus driver John Cameron Mitchell, decorator-to-Oprah Nate Berkus, former Bassmaster Reichen Lehmkuhl, Portia de Rossi, and singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Apparently, T.R. Knight will have to rely on the write-in vote.
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Per Variety, Bradley Cooper will topline Clive Barker's Midnight Train, playing a photographer on the trail of a New York City subway-based serial killer.... Jonathan Demme is lensing He Comes in Peace, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, as the former president embarks on a book tour he started last month.... Pedro Almodovar's next film, El Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In) will (surprise!) star Penelope Cruz, and "be totally different from my previous 16 [films]," he tells a Spanish daily. "It's a very tough story about revenge."
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Question: When Pedro Almodovar won the best original screenplay Oscar for Talk to Her (2002), the announcer said as he was walking up to the stage that it was his second nomination, the other being for best director for the same film. But didn't he win an Oscar for All About My Mother (1999) in the foreign-language-film category? I know that the nominees in that category are actually the countries where the films were released and produced, but why does the director get to accept the award, not the producers? Do Oscar winners who are absent the night they win still get to receive their statuettes even if it's long after they won? And finally, what happens if your Oscar is stolen or broken — can you get a new one?
Answer: Wow, you are full of questions! The director gets to accept the award because the Academy say
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