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Annette Bening on Teen Pregnancy, Being Mrs. Beatty and Becoming a Movie Star

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted May 7th 2010 5:05PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews
Annette BeningAnnette Bening is perhaps the most celebrated celebrity mom in Hollywood -- having raised four children with Mr. Hollywood himself, Warren Beatty. Bening, however, takes motherhood in stride, preferring to be recognized as doing the best she can to teach her children well.

She plays a mother of a more complicated sort in 'Mother and Child' as Karen, a woman who gave her baby up for adoption at 14 years old. In this exclusive interview with Moviefone, Bening shares how 'Mother and Child' personally affected her and reminded her of her own teenage years, the nerves she felt the first time she stepped onto a movie set, and how the mania of the paparazzi dissipated when she began a family with Beatty.
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'Paper Man' Star Emma Stone on Being Fearless, but Cautious

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted Apr 22nd 2010 6:37PM
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Emma Stone stars in the quirky comedy 'Paper Man' as a high schooler who loves to set trash cans on fire and who befriends a failed novelist (Jeff Daniels) with an imaginary friend.

The good and sane news is that Stone shares none of those eccentric qualities. The 21-year-old actually preferred to be homeschooled, never played with fire, and acts out fantasy friends rather than imagining them.

Despite having a personality she describes as cautious, she was fearless enough to jump into the frigid waters of Montauk in the middle of November for a scene in the film. But Stone's ultimate risk was seven years ago, when she presented her parents with a Power Point pitch to move to Hollywood.

Read the interview after the jump.
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'Runaways' Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart Talk Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted Mar 18th 2010 1:00PM
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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is a lot for any 15-year-old to handle, but for Joan Jett and Cherie Currie of The Runaways, it became a lifestyle.

In the new biopic 'The Runaways,' stars Dakota Fanning (as Currie) and Kristen Stewart (as Jett) portray these young rock icons with fierceness and honesty. It was a filming experience that both say they will never forget.

Fanning felt a kindred spirit to Currie, being 15 herself at the time the movie was made, and wanting to prove that despite growing up on the big screen, she has the maturity to take on controversial subject matter and nail it. Stewart, a self-professed tomboy at 15, related to Jett's relentless battle against the stigma of being a female guitarist in a macho music business.
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EXCLUSIVE: Guitarist Steve Conte Is Rock Guru for Zach Galifianakis Flick

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted Feb 12th 2010 4:59PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Movie News
Steve ConteNew York-based musician Steve Conte has had a well-rounded career in his 20-plus years working in the music business. He's enjoyed an on-going gig as guitarist for the New York Dolls and his own bluesy rock outfit Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth; but he never expected to get the call to be a rock 'n' roll guru for 'It's Kind of a Funny Story,' featuring 'The Hangover's Zach Galifianakis.

"I got a call to be a rock 'n' roll guru for the cast of this movie," Conte said. "It stars Emma Roberts and Zach and Kier Gilchrist. There's one scene in the movie where they're in a mental hospital like Bellevue and there's a fantasy scene where they all fantasize about being on stage and being in this rock band and playing this song 'Under Pressure' by Queen and David Bowie." Read
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To 'Paris' And Back With Stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted Feb 3rd 2010 7:00PM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Video

John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers wouldn't seem like your typical buddy pairing, but they become thick as thieves in 'From Paris With Love.'

Directed by 'Taken' helmer Pierre Morel and based on a story by Luc Besson, the thriller stars Travolta as a gun-wielding heavy on a covert mission to uncover a terrorist plot in Paris. Rhys-Meyers is the straight-laced government aide moonlighting as a start-up CIA agent who teams up with Travolta, the unlikely duo quickly becoming brothers-in-arms to save Paris.

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'Creation' Roles Bled Into Home Life for Married Stars Bettany and Connelly

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted Jan 15th 2010 5:15PM
Filed under: Movie News

Married movie stars Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly have a short-hand to playing husband and wife Charles and Emma Darwin on the big screen in the new drama 'Creation,' taking some of those "Darwinisms" home with them.

Connelly says their spousal relationship at home is far removed from the real Mr. and Mrs. Darwin, but did reveal how some of their research bled into their home life. "We have very little in common with the Darwins I must say," Connelly told Moviefone. "We loved doing it to the extent we'd come home from work and talk about what we were doing because we're obsessive actors together about the movie. We didn't stay in character, although Paul was eating a lot of cheese all the time because he was really trying to feel a different body type than his own and I was obsessively working on the piano."

The actress needed to work especially hard on her fine-tuning her musical skills, given Emma Darwin was an accomplished pianist who even studied with Chopin. "I was often up late at night playing piano while he was reading science journals and eating cheese," Connelly said. "It was very romantic! "

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Helen Mirren Faces Down Armed Russian Bodyguards

By Robin Milling (Subscribe to Robin Milling's posts), Posted Jan 11th 2010 5:45PM
Filed under: Movie News
Helen Mirren Faces Down Armed Russian BodyguardsHelen Mirren's Russian ancestry brought her and her sister face-to-face with the business end of loaded Kalishnokov assault rifles on a recent trip to her relatives' ancestral land.

It's a little-known fact that the actress -- who plays the Countess Sofya Tolstoy, the wife and muse of the eccentric author Leo Tolstoy, in the upcoming 'The Last Station' -- grew up in her working class British household hearing stories of her Russian grandfather and her family's Eastern European roots.
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