Mandy Moore, Justin Theroux and Billy Crudup in Park City for Theroux's film 'Dedication.' (photo: Larry Busacca/WireImage.com)

Calming Cattrall

Taking the "Irish Spring" out of Kim's brogue

Joining Emerald Isle natives Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson at the premiere of their western, 'Seraphim Falls,' Kim Cattrall talked about adopting the lilt for her latest film, 'Tiger's Tail,' which she just filmed in Ireland with Brendan Gleeson and Sinéad Cusack. "I played an Irish girl, would you believe?" the half Canadian, half Brit tells Cindy Adams. "I took a language course in order to sound Irish, but it was useless because when I got there they said I sounded like some fake Irish commercial, so they had to calm my accent down." (photo: Phillip Massey/FilmMagic.com)

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Cult Following

Filmmakers give chase at Slamdance

The Slamdance screening of the HBO doc 'Children of God: Lost & Found,' heated up during the Q & A session when members of "the Family," the alleged cult also known as "the Children of God" began protesting the film's depiction of their group — missionaries who have been accused of pedophilia and child abuse. The protesters were escorted out when a mic was spotted on one woman. She ran outside, passed a tape off to six men who bolted down the street with the film's producers Fenton Bailey (second from left) and Randy Barbato (far right, flanking filmmaker Noah Thomson) in pursuit. Apparently the tape was surrendered before Bailey was forced to make a "citizen's arrest." (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

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Momma's Boy

Julito McCullum says he and his character Namond Brice ('The Wire') are different: "I mean, we're similar because we both live in the hood and we both have a very strict mother." But that's where the similarities end for the 16 year old from Canarsie, Brooklyn.

For instance, when he visits schools as spokesperson for the Apollo Theatre, McCullum tells his peers "stay in school and listen to your parents." Adding, "Me, I ain't even gonna lie. How I got this far was from listening to my mom." Namond's mom, on the other hand, is like "the bad stage mother of the drug dealing world," who refuses to acknowledge her son is not cut out to be a hoodlum.

And while his character's big break is to move out and away from his mother's thumb, Julito will use his big break to take his mom with him. "The main thing — is that I want to move my mom out of the hood. That's my New Year's resolution. By the time we're heading into '08, my mother has got to be out of the hood." (photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com)

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Sundance Day 3: Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Scott Sartiano on Main St., Park City, UT. (photo: James Devaney/WireImage.com)

TP Evangelist

Laurie David's plan to wipe out waste

"When I talk about toilet paper and paper towels, which are made of virgin wood, people gasp," Laurie David, producer of 'An Inconvenient Truth' and wife to Larry David, told the Orange County Register. "I tell them, when a 100-year-old tree is cut down ... so that we can have disposable paper products, is this acceptable? Should we still be using virgin trees for this?"

Instead, David is on a mission to wipe out waste, one roll at a time: "If every American household changed just one roll of paper made with virgin wood to one recyclable post-consumer roll, half a million trees would still be standing."

She's doing her share, having made the switch to "post-consumer paper" even though her husband griped about the not-so-soft texture at first. If Larry David can be converted, what's stopping the rest of us? (photo: Chris Weeks/WireImage.com )

[Orange County Register]

Stephen Colbert Gets the Last Laugh

HBO and the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (USCAF) have announced their Person of the Year. Stephen Colbert will be honored at the comedy festival which takes place in Aspen, Colorado, February 28 - March 4.

The Person of the Year Award is given to "the most important contributor to life in America in the past year, having exhibited such great accomplishment that they have affected or made history," festival organizers said in a statement. Responding in his own statement, Colbert said: "I am humbled to be part of the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival's tireless efforts to bring joy to the wealthy." (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com )

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Riding the Atia Bike

She's had a lot of experience playing the cold-blooded seductress (she was an IRA terrorist in 'Patriot Games'), but Polly Walker got cold feet before jumping back into the role of Atia for season two of 'Rome.' "I was kind of nervous to go back to her, actually, because I thought I had forgotten how to act or something," she tells Monsters & Critics. "I was intimidated. But it's such a strong role, so it's like riding a bike, really, and Atia became much more multifaceted this time."

With her alter ego's life becoming more complex, Walker was able to be "much more subtle with her, and she had much more grown-up issues to deal with." Like sticking it to Cleopatra ("Die screaming you pigspawn trollop!").

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Jennifer Garner and Timothy Olyphant at the LA premiere of 'Catch and Release.' (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Harry Potter Goes to College

Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter, will be joining Princeton's class of 2011. The 17 year old is apparently as much of a wizard offscreen as he is on — he was accepted to the Ivy League college as an early-decision candidate. "I am delighted to have been accepted and I look forward to continuing my studies at Princeton," Radcliffe said in a statement. He is finishing up at the City of London School. Meanwhile, he plays a very bad-boy version of himself on this Sunday's new episode of 'Extras' — perhaps explaining why he got that application in early. (photo: Jon Furniss/WireImage.com)

[The Princetonian]

Indie King Strikes Again

Sundance darling Steve Buscemi is in Park City this week with two new films — and a cameo in a third. He directed and stars in 'Interview,' a remake of a film by Theo van Gogh (the Dutch director who was murdered in 2004 by an Islamist extremist). In this two-hander, Buscemi plays a jaded journalist sent to interview a tabloid-taunting actress played by Sienna Miller.

For his role as a paparazzo in Tom DeCillo's 'Delirious' Buscemi learned how to wield a camera and donned a disguise of beret and wig to snap pics at a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. "And as soon as we stepped inside, I heard somebody go, 'Does that look like Buscemi? What's he's doing here?'" he told New York Magazine. But when he had to lay in wait outside in hopes of getting a shot, he got the method experience he'd come for. "I got a little window into how early they have to get there, how long they have to wait. So I understand that if a celebrity comes waltzing through and doesn't stop, you can be like, 'What the f**k?!"

Finally, he was interviewed for Julien Temple's doc 'The Future is Unwritten' about the Clash's Joe Strummer — and may have gotten his son some screen time. Buscemi explains, "while I was doing it, Julien asked my son's band to get their guitars. We were shooting by the Brooklyn Bridge with this bonfire and musicians playing. I don't know how much they're in it, but I'm gonna bring the whole band for the party." (photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

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[New York Magazine]

All Aboard!

Rosie Makes a Splash

Lately Rosie O'Donnell has been making a lot of waves. 'The View' co-host has taken on Donald "You're fired" Trump, the acerbic judges of 'American Idol' and has even taken a swipe at Oprah. But Friday, she really went overboard when she spontaneously gave every member of the studio audience a cruise from R Family Vacations. The gay-friendly sea-faring line is run by her partner, Kelli O'Donnell, and was featured in the HBO Documentary Film 'All Aboard: Rosie's Family Cruise.'

Having given away a free cruise to one viewer, "she felt bad when the audience groaned that they weren't getting a cruise, (too)," explained a source to CBS. Adding, that "the production team had to scramble to get pens, pencils, and organize getting the audience's info at the last minute." So now the lucky audience members get to choose from an all-inclusive (except for alcohol and air-fare) February or July voyage.

Rosie acknowledged, "My wife's going to kill me for this." (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

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Parker Posey and Drea de Matteo hanging out in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival. (photo: George Pimentel/WireImage.com)

Piven's Dating Tips

Jeremy Piven made his dream come true this past weekend — he hosted 'Saturday Night Live' for the first time. In his opening monologue he revealed just how he manages to score dates with all those supermodels. In two minutes flat, he wooed and impregnated a 50+ woman in the audience. Herewith, some of his priceless lines:

"I'm a playful soul, an old soul, I love bamboo...I once made love to a porpoise...It was difficult — porpoises don't have a waist. You have no point of reference; you miss the blow hole. Do you mind if I caress your cheek? Guess what, you're pregnant. I want you to shoot out some fire breathers that look just like me....I would help you raise this child but I have a show to do and...don't call me." (photo: Avik Gilboa/WireImage.com)

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Bittersweet Success

It's a bittersweet Sundance premiere for the cast of 'Waitress' the film written, directed and co-starring Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in her office in New York City on November 1st. The film's producer Michael Roiff said he spoke to Shelly the night before her death, "We talked about what we always talked about, which was the movie, Sundance and whether it would get in," he said.

Keri Russell, who plays the lead role (a pregnant, pie-baking waitress who is plotting her escape from her abusive husband, played by Jeremy Sisto) said: "It is bizarre coming [here] under these circumstances... . Sundance is a raging, nonstop party, a huge celebration, and you feel so lucky to be [here]. This will be very different for all of us, but I have huge affection for her family, and I think all of us believe that this movie deserves every bit of attention it can get." In a show of support, cast members Cheryl Hines (who plays a wise-cracking fellow waitress) and Nathan Fillion along with Sisto and Russell (all pictured here) will join producer Roiff to stand in for Shelly at post-screening Q and A sessions. (photo: George Pimentel/WireImage.com)

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Afterglow

Life after the Globes for Mirren and Irons

The award kudos haven't gone to Helen Mirren's head — she's still the same old level-headed gal, she claims. "I'm an Essex girl," she told Variety. "You know how you know if an Essex girl has an orgasm? She drops her fries." Mirren insists she has no big expectations for what comes next (like Oscar season). "One thing being a little bit older has taught me is you just don't expect anything. Love it when it comes to you, enjoy it, celebrate it, but never expect it."

Meanwhile, her co-star, fellow Golden Globe® winner Jeremy Irons, sees some more contemporary roles in his future — and maybe a shave. "We rely on what people ask us to do. I push a few projects of my own forward, but basically people ask you do to things and you say yes or no. Lately it's been fantasy, or crusaders, or Shakespeare. Maybe it's the beard. Maybe I should take the beard off." (photo: FilmMagic.com)

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Emmanuelle Chriqui and Perry Reeves at HBO's Golden Globe after party. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Queen for President?

HBO's 'Life Support' will be the closing night gala at the Sundance Film Festival which is a week away but the film's exec producer and star Queen Latifah was already speaking out about the issues the film raises at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour. The film is based on the life story of Andrea Williams, the sister of Nelson George — the film's writer and director. Williams, a writer and social-cultural commentator, has been HIV positive for ten years. The film mixes actors with real people from the HIV/AIDS community to tell a tale of healing and forgiveness.

Queen Latifah (who plays the lead character, based on Williams) wowed the crowd with her impassioned opinions on AIDS education, women's self-esteem and sex education in schools prompting one critic to ask whether she'd consider running for office. "I cannot run for office because I did inhale," she responded. (photo: Alexandra Wyman/WireImage.com)

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No Really

Kanye West developing sitcom

Yes it's true. Superstar musician Kanye West (pictured here with Sean Combs) is working with Larry Charles and music producer Rick Rubin on a TV series. But contrary to early reports, their untitled HBO collaboration will not be reality-based, "It's a situational half-hour comedy. It's fictional, and loosely based on my life." Adds West, "I wouldn't do something as clichéd as a reality show. At least give me the credit for being more creative than that..." And for being smart enough to work with comedy giant Charles, executive producer of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' director of 'Borat,' 'Entourage' and 'Seinfeld' collaborator, and Rubin, producer of three of the five Album of the Year Grammy nominations from the Dixie Chicks, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Justin Timberlake. (photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com)

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Nice Work if You Can Get It

Ricky's summer in the City

He wasn't so keen on spending last summer cooped up in a windowless studio all day (it's the only time London sees the sun), but Ricky Gervais can't really complain about shooting the second season of 'Extras.' After all, he got to write a song with David Bowie and sing a duet with Chris Martin...and how many people get to "humiliate heartthrob film stars and Knights of the Realm"? When that wasn't enough to assuage him, there was always "the air-conditioning and tinted moisturizer" to keep him happy. He writes all about it in TV Guide. (photo: Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.com)

[TV Guide]