Nicole Kidman makes her Broadway debut in a play called Blue Room in which she plays several roles and appears totally nude briefly. Expecting arrivals of her and hubby Tom Cruise and also clips of the play (no nudity, though)

TAPE: EF01/0702 IN_TIME: 13:42:58 DURATION: 2:56 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: London, 3rd October 2001 SHOTLIST 1. WS Elle Macpherson at signing desk 2. MS Elle Macpherson signing 3. CU backshot signing poster 4. WS queue 5. MS side of Elle Macpherson 6. SOT Macpherson - on underwear - "We've taken things a step further and tried to make it more exciting, more liberating and the idea that it could be worn as inner wear or outer wear. People seem to be warming to it which is really good." 7. Pan from Elle Macpherson sign to bras 8. Tilt down from one bra rack to the next 9. SOT MacpPherson - on underwear - "Everything that is here is stuff that I have designed because I needed it for myself and even now I was speaking to one of my head designers and I said you know I don't really have a really good white lace bra, I want to wear one and I don't have it so lets do it. So we go and do it and we see if we want stretch lace... but.... I've learned a lot over the time that I have been doing this and it is so fun to show it to the UK." 10. GVs BTS on 'South Kensington' with Elle Macpherson and Rupert Everett 11. SOT Elle Macpherson - on getting naked in 'The Blue Room' - "You don't necessarily have to be naked in 'The Blue Room'. I intend to discuss it with my director and decide what we feel. I saw it with Nicole and I didn't even know she was naked. First of all she had a body stocking on and second you could really tell, it was the illusion of being naked. Beside a girl like that we might decide to have it not naked at all or we might be completely naked all the way through. I think we are going to work together and decide what will be appropriate in each scene." 12. File footage of Nicole Kidman from AMFAR at Venice Film Festival (31/08/01) 13. SOT Elle Macpherson - on Nicole Kidman - "I think she was brilliant in it and she is fantastic in 'Moulin Rouge' and I'm flattered and excited to be chosen to do 'Blue Room'. I said no in the beginning because I didn't think I was up to it and it's a lot of work and I thought I don't want to be compared to Nicole but ultimately I have decided that we are going to do a different production and people will see it through different eyes." 14. Pull out from Macpherson to reveal ELLE MACPHERSON GETS INTIMATE Elle Macpherson launched her lingere range 'Intimates', in the UK yesterday with a personal appearance in Selfridges department store, London. The underwear line was first introduced in 1989. It is now worth an estimated $10 million and is already Australia and New Zealand's most recognised lingerie brand. The UK launch is seen as a test market for a possible expansion of the brand into Europe. The 38 year old beauty had this to say about it: 'Everything that is here is stuff that I have designed because I needed it for myself and even now I was speaking to one of my head designers and I said you know I don't really have a really good white lace bra, I want to wear one and I don't have it so lets do it. So we go and do it and we see if we want stretch lace... but.... I've learned a lot over the time that I have been doing this and it is so fun to show it to the UK' Aside from her clothing lines Elle is also expanding her acting repertoire. She is to make her theatrical debut at Sydney's Theatre Royal next February. She will follow in fellow-Australian Nicole Kidman's footsteps by appearing in sexy stage show 'The Blue Room'. 'Paradise Road' actor Paul Bishop is set to star opposite the supermodel. Elle has already acheived success in films, starring in movies such as 'Sirens' alongside Hugh Grant and 'The Edge' with Anthony Hopkins. More recently Elle has had a regular guest slot on hit TV sitcom 'Friends'. In her next screen project, 'First Victims' she is to play the battered wife of an American President who finds love in the arms of her husband's press secretary. It will be the 38-year-old's 14th film role. Of all the world's supermodels, Macpherson is the most financially successful. A 1997 estimate placed her net assets at $40.3 million, making her the richest supermodel. Cindy Crawford was second with $37.7 million. Macpherson is also wildly popular in her home country of Australia. The Australian Tourist Commission made her an honorary ambassador. On March 21st, 1999, she became the first living Australian entertainer to be put on a postage stamp. CATEGORY: CELEBRITY

00:00:00:00 - Nicole Kidman makes her Broadway debut in "The Blue Room". The play is sold out for its limited Broadway run. Kidman takes it all off in one scene. We get arrivals, curtain call at The Blue Room play, starring Nicole Kidman. (0:00)/

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TAPE: EF03/0129 IN_TIME: 21:16:45 DURATION: 12:44 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film clips without clearance DATELINE: 11th February 2003, London SHOTLIST press conference, London 11th February 2003 1. Nicole Kidman arrives 2. Steven Daldry arrives 3. MS Nicole Kidman 4. SOT Steven Daldry: "You don't know how things are going to go down, I think that it's always a surprise. We are genuinely surprised." 5. SOT Nicole Kidman: "Yes" 6. cutaway press 7. SOT Nicole Kidman - "Julianne and also I just did a film with Renee Zellweger, we did Cold Mountain together. Renee and I spent 5 months in the mud and the dirt together and we said gosh... I've got to call her actually because it'd be quite nice to spend that night with her. It's lovely that I do actually know all of the other girls, women that I am nominated with and that's nice." 8. SOT Nicole Kidman: 'Is it your first?' 8. SOT David Hare: "I didn't write it for Nicole, I wrote The Blue Room for Nicole but I wrote this without knowing who it was going to be for. I think that it has caught on in the most extraordinary way its very rare for a British film that is mostly intended at the beginning at an art house audience, for it to break out and cross over like this, it's a long time since a British film that was aimed at art houses has actually moved out like this and for us it is very exciting. Everything that has happened to it in the last few months has just been a bonus for us." 9. press cutaway 10. SOT Nicole Kidman: "I hope it's not over shadowed by that, I am baffled by that, but anyway." 11. press cutaway 12. Kidman leaves press conference APTN interviews, London 11th February 2003 13. SOT Nicole Kidman: 'It was nice to be here and to find out here, particularly because we shot it here and you are British and I am Australian, it was a nice thing to be in this country and find out in this country." 14. film clip 'The Hours' 15. SOT Nicole Kidman: 'Would it be the first Australian actress? Oh my gosh, I didn't realise that. Oh dear, pressure. In terms of... you would be so proud to win an academy award. Russell Crowe and I remember when he won and I was up in Santa Barbra and I called him and I was in tears because it was... I have known him for a long time and it was a very big thing. And I thought he gave a gorgeous speech. It's nice to be included." 16. film clip 'The Hours' 17. SOT Nicole Kidman: 'Thank god she got she nominated for Adaptation and she should have got dual nominated, she really should of. She has given magnificent performances this year and every year. The standard for Meryl, because she is so good is so high. She never lets you down, that's what extraordinary about here." 18. film clip 'Adaptation' 19. SOT Nicolas Cage: 'I don't think anybody involved in this movie made the movie thinking they could go to the Oscars. I think the idea was make the movie and try and do the best job that you can. Creating something that was organic in some way. In any event it is very nice to be notice and acknowledged and I am very happy for Chris and Meryl, not only are they brilliant actors but they strike me as being very decent people. I didn't have much to do with them but I would like to work with them again." 20. film clip 'Adaptation' 21. SOT Nicolas Cage: 'It feels great, I'm happy to be included in a group with some of my favourite actors so it was nice to hear." 22. film clip 'Adaptation' 23. SOT Nicolas Cage: 'I think in the right state of mind it is. I guess from my understanding in the old days the Oscars were really about friends that knew each other in the business saying great job and really not trying to look at it as a race or political campaign. How can you do that with art. It's not like the Olympics where one person is running through a tape because these are all very different performances and I think if you look at it more like a salon where everyone would go and talk, if you can do that then it could be a really fun night. I'm not saying it is easy to do that but it would be great if you could." 24.Film clip 'Chicago' APTN interview, Berlin, 10th February 2003 25. SOT John C Reilly: "Chicago really is very special to me because I grew up in Chicago, I grew up doing musicals and this was a really cathatic experience for me, getting back in to it, being challenged in that way and using all those different parts to myself to portray my character. It would be extra special to be acknowledged for Chicago but anything can happen. The great thing this year is that there are so many great performances and great films that it is a very competitive field for that kind of acknowledgement. " 26. film clip 'Far From Heaven' APTN Beverly Hills, California USA February 11, 2003 27. SOT: (English) Julianne Moore "It was great. It's been a great morning. It's been a really fantastic, exciting, tremendous day. I have to say! (What went through your head when you heard the news?) I was just - I was stunned. I was absolutely stunned. They announced the first nomination and my phone rang and I picked it up and then they announced the second nomination and my other phone rang and so I had my cellphones in one hand and my other phone in the other hand and it was great! I'm very excited." 28. film clip 'The Pianist' 29. SOT: (English) Adrien Brody "I wasn't necessarily expecting it, I was aware that there was a possibility but I was probably most excited about the fact that Roman got a nomination , the film got a nomination, the key people involved with the film were nominated as well. I'm obviously honoured and I feel tremendously honoured to be mentioned with actors whom I admire so greatly - but it's really the story that's so important." 30. Wide shot Marisa Tomei and Frank Pierson 31. Crowd clapping 32. Marisa Tomei posing for cameras 33. Various: journalists doing stand-ups 34. SOT: (English) Jeanne Wolf, Reporter-at-Large US Magazine "It's a wonderful year because there were too many good choices. Usually people are groaning over their ballots. 'What do I think deserves a nomination?' Chicago is the one that everyone's in love with. I keep saying that Chicago's the guy you want to sneak out with in the middle of the night and The Hours and Gangs of New York and some of the other movies are the ones your parents want you to marry. I think this morning - someone like Salma Hayek must just be in heaven. She single-handedly made that movie happen so I promise you, she wasn't laughing, she was sitting on the edge of her bed weeping because this nomination was so meaningful to her." 40. Press cutaway 41. SOT: (English) Mitch Catlin, Entertainment Reporter "I think Adaptation was a bit of a surprise that it wasn't in there. There were eight movies vying for five spots so it's pretty hard - and About Schmidt which also missed out - but picked up the acting awards and Far From Heaven which was another good movie, but again missed out. Pretty good year, because there was a very big mix - so it's not surprising that some missed out." 42. Wide shot Academy Stage STARS REACT TO OSCAR NOMINATIONS Following today's Oscar nominations, APTN caught up with some of this year's contenders to hear their reactions to the news every filmmaker and star hopes to get. Fresh from the UK premiere last night Nicole Kidman and Stephen Daldry were all smiles today as 'The Hours' received 9 nods. Nicole Kidman has been nominated in the Best Actress category for her role as author Virginia Woolf in the movie, a performance which has already won her a Golden Globe. She will go up against Salma Hayek as Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo in 'Frida'; Diane Lane as an adulterous wife in 'Unfaithful', Julianne Moore ('Far From Heaven') and Renee Zellweger ('Chicago'), at the March 23rd ceremony. Julianne Moore gets her second nomination for her role as a despondent housewife in 'The Hours' as Best Supporting Actress, with Ed Harris receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the same movie. Stephen Daldry was recognised in the Best Director category (following a similar nod for his last film, 'Billy Elliot', in 2001), in which he will have to beat off competition from Rob Marshall for 'Chicago', Martin Scorsese for 'Gangs of New York', Roman Polanski for 'The Pianist' and Pedro Almodovar for 'Talk to Her'. Kidman and Daldry also gave a press conference today for the gathered journalists at which Nicole was again confronted with questions about her reported affair with actor Jude Law. Another Hollywood star keen to express his pleasure following today's announcements was Nicolas Cage. Cage was nominated for the Best Actor oscar for his dual role as a neurotic screenwriter and his oafish twin brother in 'Adaptation'. Other Best Actor nominees were Adrien Brody as a Jewish musician hiding out in Nazi-occupied Poland in 'The Pianist'; Michael Caine as a British journalist in the 1950s Vietnam tale 'The Quiet American'; Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthlessly charming crime boss in the 1860s vengeance epic 'Gangs of New York'; and Jack Nicholson as a widower examining his dreary life in 'About Schmidt'. Although happy to be included in the nominations, Cage was less enthused about the Oscars ceremony itself: 'I think in the right state of mind it is. I guess from my understanding in the old days the Oscars were really about friends that knew each other in the business saying great job and really not trying to look at it as a race or political campaign. How can you do that with art. It's not like the Olympics where one person is running through a tape because these are all very different performances and I think if you look at it more like a salon where everyone would go and talk, if you can do that then it could be a really fun night. I'm not saying it is easy to do that but it would be great if you could." On the other side of the atlantic Julianne Moore and Adrien Brody were able to tell of their delight to be nominated. Moore earned two acting nominations: best actress for the 1950s-set melodrama 'Far From Heaven', as a woman whose marriage disintegrates after her husband begins an affair with another man, and supporting actress as a despondent housewife in 'The Hours'. Adrien Brody received a best actor nomination for 'The Pianist', which is also up for Best picture with Roman Polanski in the best director category. CLEARANCE DETAILS The Hours Miramax 212 941 3800 Adaptation Sony 1 310 244 4000 Chicago Miramax 44 (0) 20 7535 8300 1 212 941 3800

00:00:00:00 - Nicole Kidman makes her Broadway debut in "The Blue Room". The play is sold out for its limited Broadway run. Kidman takes it all off in one scene. We get arrivals, curtain call at The Blue Room play, starring Nicole Kidman. (0:00)/

TAPE_NUMBER: EN9927 IN_TIME: 11:16:25 LENGTH: 02:40 SOURCES: LNN RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video clips without clearance, No access Internet LNN = No Access UK/Internet FEED: SCRIPT: xfa STORY: CHARLTON HESTON LOCATION: LONDON DATE: 6 JULY 1999 Screen legend CHARLTON HESTON took to the West End stage in London yesterday, in a revival of a play he originally toured with two years ago. LOVE LETTERS is a poignant tale of the bond between two people who cannot live with or without each other and is told through their recounted letters. The play by American playwright A.R. GURNEY has enjoyed great success since it was first performed in New York in 1989. It has also enjoyed many a celebrity cast, from the original performers KATHLEEN TURNER and JOHN RUBINSTEIN to PAUL NEWMAN and his wife JOANNE WOODWARD and now Heston and his co-star wife LYDIA CLARKE HESTON. The husband and wife team are part of a continuing influx of major Hollywood Stars performing in the heart of London's Theatre-land. Recently NICOLE KIDMAN drew packed audiences as she appeared in 'The Blue Room' at London's Donmar Wharehouse. 'The Usual Suspects' star KEVIN SPACEY has also just finished a run on a London stage in Eugene O'Neil's 'The Iceman Cometh'. Heston has enjoyed two very rare things in the movie industry; firstly a long career and secondly, a successful marriage. Perhaps still best remembered for his role in 'Ben Hur', the former rugged action hero is now enjoying a gentle semi-retirement with these two treasured possessions. SHOTLIST: CLIP FROM 'BEN HUR' ; CHARLTON HESTON AND WIFE LYDIA CLARKE HESTON ARRIVE AT PRESS CONFERENCE ; CA PRESS ; GVS HESTON AND WIFE ; WS PRESSER ; HESTON AND WIFE LYDIA CLARKE PERFORM EXTRACT FROM PLAY ; SOT HESTON ; CU HESTONS IN PLAY ; BACKSHOT PLAY PERFORMANCE ; SOT LYDIA CLARKE HESTON (ON SECRET OF THEIR LONG MARRIAGE) ; POSTER FOR PLAY ; GVS THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET ; HESTON AND WIFE WALK IN PARK ; CLIP 'TOUCH OF EVIL' ?

TAPE: EF01/0630 IN_TIME: 17:37:43 DURATION: 11:20 SOURCES: APTN/Tele??? RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: 31/08/01 to 02/09/01 SHOTLIST APTN Material - SEPT 1ST 1. GV men carrying AMFAR's red carpet in from rain 2. CU AMFAR sign with rain pouring over it 3. Dr Matilda Krim with Portia de Rossi 4. MS Krim with de Rossi 5. Tilt up Claudia Schiffer 6. Pull focus CU jewelled necklace 7. SOT Claudia Schiffer (German): "It happens very often in my life because I am working in the couture business and a lot of people which I have known die because of Aids, for example make-up artists, photographers, hairdressers I worked very close with. That's why I hope they find a vaccination against Aids pretty soon." 8. WS arrival Nicole Kidman 9. MS Kidman 10. MS Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend 11. Arrival Elizabeth Taylor 12. SOT Elizabeth Taylor: (Reporter: "Do you feel there's a danger with the young today that they are too blaise about it and not safe enough?") "I absolutely do. Because they don't like to use condoms because it doesn't feel as good but death feels much worse." 13. MS Elizabeth Taylor 14. Pan of dining room 15. MS Charlize Theron in a passionate embrace with her beau 16. WS Nicole Kidman walks to table 17. WS Elizabeth Taylor gets up and walks to stage 18. C/a diners 19. SOT Elizabeth Taylor: "Tonight at AMFAR we come to you with commitment and a vision. Please, please would you meet our vision with your money." 20. WS auctioneer starting bidding with Claudia Schiffer 21. GV necklace is sold to Francesco Lombardi (ex-boyfriend of Charlize Theron, Italian Miramax) APTN Material 22. GVs Nicole Kidman arriving at Casino Tele Material 23. WS presser 24. MS Kidman 25. SOT reporter: "One hero in a Chekhov play states that she likes tall men, apple pie, and the name Roland. What would you like?"" 26. SOT Nicole Kidman: "I'll take a tall man!" 27. Film Clip 'The Others' (Courtesy - Studio Canal Material) Tele Material 28. SOT Kidman (English) : "A week before we were about to start I asked Alejandro to let me not do the movie because I was scared to do it because I'd come off 'Moulin Rouge' which was a love story that was very light and it was operatic but it was heightened reality and this meant that I was going into this dark psychological place and I didn't want to do it." 29. C/a audience 30. SOT Kidman (English): "You know who Robbie Williams is here. Probably not. Yeah, we did 'Something Stupid', the Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra cover of that song. It was fun." APTN Material 31. GVs Martin Scorsese arriving at Casino Tele Material 32. GVs photocall for 'Monsoon Wedding' 33. Film clip 'Monsoon Wedding' (Courtesy Orfeo Films International material) APTN Material 34. SOT Mira Nair (English): "India is like that. It's all about density and layering and I love to do that cinematically, to layer and pack the frame in with all this stuff. To tell five interwoven stories was our agenda and to give people, I hope, a grand time, we wanted to really make a meditation on aspects of love, abusive love, dysfunctional love, old shoes love, the love of being married to a man for 25 years who doesn't want to sleep with you any more and then telling him quietly from the female angle." 35. GVs 'Monsoon' Wedding party 36 . Film clip 'Waking Life' (Courtesy 20th Century Fox) APTN Material 37. SOT Bob Sabiston (artistic director): "For me it's really the result of this technique I've been developing with the rotoscoping and it's just a continuation of these short films I've been making where you're animating from real life and taking the traditions of painting into the film world." 36. Film clip 'Waking Life' (Courtesy 20th Century Fox) APTN Material 37. SOT Richard Linklater (director): "I like characters in this case that are no less intelligent than an audience member so you have to meet them on their own terms. It sounds challenging but we do that all the time when we read. It's just in cinema. Why did cinema get so stupid?" 38. Film clip 'Agua e Sal' (Courtesy Gemini Films) APTN Material 39. B-roll Joaquim de Almeida 40. SOT Joaquim de Almeida (English): "Obviously while we were shooting she must have been going through some of the problems what her character was going through." 41. Film trailer 'Bully' (Courtesy Wild Bunch) APTN Material 42. SOT Larry Clark (Director (English): "It seemed like a very American story. It's something that can only happen in America where our children have so much time on their hands. They were middle class kids from good families and they were bored." 43. Film trailer 'Bully' (Courtesy Wild Bunch) APTN Material 44. SOT Brad Renfro (English): "Larry kicks ass. He tells the truth." 45. GVs Michael Cimino doing reading of his book 'Baby Jane' with cast of Bully 46. C/A audience Tele Material 47. GVs Nicole Kidman on Passerelle for premiere of 'The Others' APTN Material 48. Arrival Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington 49. SOT Ethan Hawke: "For me, it's really fun. I'm here with three couldn't be more completely different movies. One big mainstream studio drama, one very experimental movie of just three actors in one room and then one animated movie so it couldn't be more different." 50. Film clip 'Training Day' (Courtesy Warner Bros) APTN Material 51. SOT Denzel Washington (English): "He has to suffer because at one time the studio were like maybe he goes to jail.... And I was like 'no, no, no. I won't do the movie if he does that.' He has to pay in the worst way. " 52. Film clip 'Curse of the Jade Scorpion' (Courtesy Capitol Films) APTN Material 53. SOT Helen Hunt (English): "Any time I had a question or a suggestion he was honestly anxious to know what it was. He counts on the actress he hires will come up with strong ideas." APTN Material 54. GV Venice HOLLYWOOD STARS LIGHT UP DARK VENICE SKY Despite dark skies and torrential rain, the Venice Film Festival was lit up Saturday night (1SEPT01) by Hollywood stars, including Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Taylor and Charlize Theron, who shone brightly for the cause celeb that is the AMFAR Aids charity. Benefits for the The American Foundation For Aids Research, which boasts Elizabeth Taylor as a patron, are an annual event at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals and are guaranteed to bring out the stars. Elizabeth Taylor was quick to warn youngsters about the dangers of being ignorant about Aids, the world's fastest growing disease which has taken many millions of lives around the globe. "They don't like to use condoms," said Taylor on the red carpet, "because it doesn't feel so good. But death feels even worse." Kidman, in an elegant silver-colored and white dress, posed for photographers before joining Taylor's table for dinner. The Australian actress appears in two festival films, Alejandro Amenabar's 'The Others' and Jez Butterworth's out-of-competition 'Birthday Girl.' For Charlize Theron it was another opportunity to show off Irish actor Stuart Townsend, the new man she has been presenting to the paparazzi since touching down at Venice airport. She was also accompanied by her mother. The 26-year-old South African actress stars in Woody Allen's out-of-competition 'The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.' Supermodel Claudia Schiffer stepped up to give a hand with the traditional AMFAR benefit auction, and used all her feminine powers of persuasion to coax bids from the male members of the audience for the jewels on sale. The jewels went for 27,000 dollars - to an old flame of Charlize Theron's. Among other stars who turned out in support of the cause were Ally McBeal star Portia de Rossi, Lady Helen Taylor, Bijou Phillips, and South American singer Alexandre Pires, who performed later on in the evening. Participants paid from 1,500 to 50,000 dollars to attend. THE OTHERS - PRESS CONFERENCE Nicole Kidman continued to be the centre of attention at Venice on Sunday (2SEPT01) when she was pursued by paparazzi to the much anticipated press conference for her competition film 'The Others'. 'The Others' is written and directed by popular Spanish filmmaker, ALEXJANDRO AMEN?BAR ('Open Your Eyes', 'Butterfly Tongues'). The dark film tells the story of a pious English woman whose children suffer from a rare disease which means they can't be exposed to sunlight. Set on the island of Jersey in 1945, Grace's (Kidman) husband has not returned from the front and she is bringing up her children alone in a remote Victorian mansion, within the menacing constraints of her strict religious principles. Her young son and daughter (ALKINA MAN, JAMES BENTLEY, both making their feature film debuts) suffer from the strange illness and when three new servants join the family, they must learn a vital rule: the house must always be kept in semidarkness; no door opened before the previous one is closed. But they fail to stick to Grace's rigorous order, sparking off an unexpected chain reaction. In their isolation, they discover they are not alone: there is a ghostly presence in their house. Although it is set on the British Channel island of Jersey, 'The Others' was filmed in Madrid and Santander, on Spain's northern coast, and cost $20 million to produce. Amenabar has said that the idea for the film was influenced by Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock movies, and he has created a chilling piece of storytelling. Kidman's previous films have included ' Eyes Wide Shut', 'The Peacemaker' and 'Far and Away'. It's the first time Kidman has made a film in this genre, but she was keen to work with the director. Kidman was also asked about her forthcoming roles on the London stage. She is set to return to work with Sam Mendes at the Donmar Wharehouse, where she famously starred nude in 'The Blue Room', as well as teaming up with the director of the UK's National Theatre, Trevor Nunn. But Kidman was unable to reveal any details because, she said, "Sam would kill me!". Nicole Kidman will be in London this evening (3AUG01) for the premiere of Moulin Rouge, directed by Baz Luhrmann. 'The Others' also stars FIONNULA FLANAGAN ('Waking Ned', 'Ulysses'), CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON ('Gone In 60 Seconds', 'Elizabeth') and veteran British performer ERIC SYKES ('Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'). 'The Others' is the American directorial debut for young Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar who was responsible for the acclaimed film 'Open Your Eyes' ('Abre Los Ojos'), which starred Penelope Cruz and has recently been Americanised by director Cameron Crowe as 'Vanilla Sky', starring - yes, you've guessed it, Tom Cruise. MONSOON WEDDING One of the hottest tips to win the main competition is the Indian film 'Monsoon Wedding', which as the title indicates, is about a wedding during the Indian monsoon season, in New Delhi. The story surrounds the Punjabi Verma family as they prepare for a last minute marriage that will also bring together a family scattered across the globe. The movie traces five intersecting stories concerning members of the family with themes ranging from love and class to morality and loyalty. The family's hopes, anxieties and secrets all gush out amid the preparations and when the monsoon rain finally comes, there are even more revelations and romances. According to critics, 'Monsoon Wedding' portrays modern, cosmopolitan India in a way that hasn't been presented to the Western world before. The cast and crew of the film last night celebrated their glowing reviews by throwing a big knees-up at the Excelsior Hotel. MARTIN SCORSESE Legendary director Martin Scorsese was also in Venice Saturday (1SEPT01) promoting his pet project, The Film Foundation, at a press conference at the festival's Casino. The Film Foundation, of which Scorsese is the President, was set up to preserve films from the past that either through time or negligence would otherwise be lost or destroyed. Supporters of the project include Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg. The two films being shown at the festival are rare examples of Italian American movies which were made to make up for the dearth of Italian motion pictures in the States at the beginning of the 1930s. He talked about the project and later on he will be presenting two films from the foundation, CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION The press conference for 'Curse of the Jade Scorpion' followed swiftly on from 'The Others' premiere but, despite marshalling Charlize Theron and Oscar winner Helen Hunt, was somewhat overshadowed by the earlier appearance of Nicole Kidman. And the hype generators where also not helped by the total absence of writer, director and star, Woody Allen. 'The Curse of the Jade Scorpion' takes Allen back to a period he knows well - the 1940s - where he plays CW Briggs, the top insurance investigator in 1940s New York. Or that's what he keeps telling his new colleague, the top efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitz Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt). Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but when a hypnotist waves the precious jewel entitled the Jade Scorpion in front of Briggs, suddenly Briggs' mind is turned into the mind of a thief without his knowledge. Allen has directed and written more than 30 films, at the rate of one a year, and says he always has more ideas for films than he has time to make them. Among his best-known are 'Annie Hall', 'Manhattan', 'Hannah and Her Sisters', 'Broadway Danny Rose', 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' and 'Small Time Crooks'. Winning an Oscar playing opposite Jack Nicholson in 'As Good As It Gets' turned Helen Hunt into one of Hollywood's most sought after actresses. She has since starred opposite Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want', with Tom Hanks in 'Cast Away' and with Richard Gere in Robert Altman's 'Dr T and The Women'. Dan Aykroyd has starred in some of the most popular comedies of the last two decades, including 'Ghostbusters', 'Trading Places' and 'Blues Brothers'. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in 'Driving Miss Daisy'. Charlize Theron most recently appeared in 'The Legend of Bagger Vance', 'Men of Honor' and 'The Yards'. Other credits include 'The Cider House Rules' and 'Mighty Joe Young'. She previously worked with Woody Allen on 'Celebrity'. Actor David Ogden Stiers (TV's 'MASH') has co-starred in several Allen projects, and says he never passes up the opportunity to work with the director. Stretching her acting talents in a new direction, meanwhile, as another cast member of 'Jade Scorpion' is a dressed down Elizabeth Berkley ('Showgirls', 'Any Given Sunday'). WAKING LIFE A refreshing new style of movie hit the festival Sunday (3SEPT01) when one of the darlings of this year's Sundance Film Festival, 'Waking Life', was shown. 'Waking Life' may have been filmed like most movies, but that's because the picture's unique quality was added afterwards - not by the computer special effects boffins at Industrial Light and Magic, but by real artists who painted by hand every frame of film. However, the quirkiness of the film doesn't stop there as the movie is constructed out of small sections of philosophical ideas and metaphysical theories. These sections either stand independent from the main storyline of the film, or they appear in the form of professors, theorists or just passers-by who approach the main character, Wiley Wiggins, as he wanders through the world of his dreams. Wiggins finds himself unable to leave the dream world, raising the questions about whether he is in fact alive or dead - which is another basic philosophical conundrum: how can we ever know that what we experience is real? Richard Linklater, the director of 'Waking Life', was responsible for 'Dazed and Confused', 'Slacker', 'Suburbia', and 'The Newton Boys'. Many of the actors of those films, like Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke appear once again as some of the theorists or philosophical conversationalists - even the main character Wiley Wiggins, which is also the name of the actor, appeared as Mitch Kramer in 'Dazed and Confused'. The painted style of the film is courtesy of computer animation savant Bob Sabiston who created the unique 'interpolated rotoscoping' software that helped the artists create the effects in 'Waking Life'. AGUA E SAL Personal controversy dogged the premiere of 'Agua e Sal' ('Water and Salt') whose Portuguese director, Teresa Villaverde, has been accused by her husband of kidnapping their daughter. Jon Jost, director of 'Frame Up', has demanded that the film, which stars their daughter, be taken out of the Venice lineup and competition. Apparently fearing personal questions, Villaverde canceled an appearance at the film's press conference Friday (31AUG01) at the last minute. Producer Paulo Branco cited personal reasons. "It is essential that her private life be distinct from the professional one," said the press release circulated to journalists around the festival. 'Water and Salt,' Villaverde's fourth feature, is described as a woman's search for herself as she tries to come to terms with the end of her marriage. According to Joaquim de Almeida, who is a close friend of Villaverde, the film was based on the Portuguese director's personal experiences during filming, when she would lose her temper with actress Galatea Ranzi for not portraying the troubled woman Ana as the director had envisioned. Ironically one of the two storylines in 'Agua e Sal' is about Ana's quest to retrieve her kidnapped daughter from her estranged husband (Joaquim de Almeida). BULLY Larry Clark's 'Bully' shocked Venice to its foundations earlier this week with the frank portrayal of a gruesome murder carried out by a group of respectable teenagers in Florida some years ago. The movie tells the story of two good-looking small town slackers, Bobby and Marty (Nick Stahl and Brad Renfro) who have been lifelong friends and who spend their spare time taking drugs, hustling cash from homosexuals and doing dead-end jobs. Bobby treats Marty like a toy, dominating him and destroying his self-esteem, until one day the pair meet up with two beautiful rich girls, Lisa and Ali (Rachel Miner and Bijou Philips) on the beach. They decide to go on a double date together, where Ali is viciously humiliated by Bobby whilst Marty and Lisa begin a relationship. Marty's feelings for Lisa get stronger and when she falls pregnant, Lisa encourages Marty to stand up for himself. She tells friends and aquaintances that Bobby has raped her and consistently abused Marty - and needs to be dealt with. Rather than avoid him, or go to the police, her answer is to plot a murder. She draws six friends and aquaintances into her plan - including sometime teenage prostitute Ali, Ali's boyfriend Donny (Michael Pitt), and a young girl just out of rehab called Heather (Kelli Garner). Lisa and Ali contact a hitman (played by Leo Fitzpatrick - 'Kids') to get them guns. At 23, Fitzpatrick is one of the oldest members of the cast. The film was shot in and around the neighborhoods where Bobby Kent lived and died, and some of the film crew had been at high school with the teens. Stahl explains they took him to the area Bobby had grown up - Broward County, a suburb much like any other. The attack sent ripples through the community, stunning neighbours and crushing parents. Locals say what they found most shocking was that it was a group of middle class, suburban kids who carried out the brutal ambush, pointing to lack of parental guidance, boredom and drugs. 'Bully' isn't the first time a Larry Clark film has created waves - he scooped the Cannes Palme d'Or with his harsh portrayal of street kids living in Manhattan, 'Kids'. Aside from making films, Clark is a photographer, artist and writer, with his focus always being on the youth of America, whether it be teenagers with AIDS, speed freaks, or young criminals. The group involved in the murder or Bobby Kent were convicted, but have never repented for the crime. MICHAEL CIMINO On the avant-garde side of the festival, Oscar winning director Michael Cimino of 'The Deerhunter' fame was here to present his first novel, 'Big Jane'. Cimino paired up on the stage with 'Bully' stars Bijou Philips and Brad Renfro to give a seated reading from his new novel. Set in the 50s, 'Big Jane' tells the adventures of a young woman, 19 year old Jane Kerinan, who Cimino says he based on a real-life Big Jane. In the novel, Jane, together with Billy McBain, a motorcyclist and poet, leaves home and crosses the vast spaces of the Montana and Dakota plains in search of a new life. Cimino has had a career of magnificent ups and terrible downs - his 1978 movie 'The Deerhunter' won 5 Oscars while his 1981 'Heaven's Gate' went hugely over budget and almost bankrupted the production company - but as the author of over 40 screenplays, he has never suffered from writer's block. In fact, he claims that he doesn't follow trends in deciding what stories to tell, and that his aim is to introduce the reader or audience to people they have never met before and to places they have never been. THE OTHERS - PREMIERE Nicole Kidman revelled on the Passerelle Saturday night (1SEPT01) at the premiere of 'The Others' at the Venice Film Festival, spending plenty of time meeting and greeting fans before going in to see the late night screening of the movie. After the screening, the Australian actress unexpectedly turned out at one o'clock in the morning for the party opposite the Des Bains hotel where she chatted with guests until three in the morning. See 'The Others' - Press Conference above for details of the film. TRAINING DAY Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke boosted the star power of Venice as they arrived for the launch of their latest project 'Training Day.' 'Training Day' isn't Ethan Hawke's only film at the festival. There's also the aforementioned 'Waking Life', but the two films couldn't be more different. In 'Waking Life' he appears as a man discussing reincarnation with his lover Julie Delpy (his co-star in the Richard Linklater film 'Before Sunrise'), while 'Training Day' sees him playing a rookie cop called Jake Hoyt who is being escorted around by veteran cop, Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), on his first brutal day with LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit. When Hoyt discovers that Harris is corrupt along with many other members of the unit, he has to decide whether to turn away from the corruption or accept it. 'Training Day' is director Antoine Fuqua's second film. He made his debut with 'Replacement Killers, which starred Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino.

TAPE: EF01/0882 IN_TIME: 14:15:46 DURATION: 7:34 SOURCES: APTN/EMI/YLE RESTRICTIONS: music video/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: December 2001 SHOTLIST 1. Vs Santa Claus (YLE Material) 2. SOT Meg Ryan (Santa) - "I haven't really thought about it but I have just had a really great conversation with my 9 year old about Santa last night, it was tremendous. He was like mum, what's the deal with Santa? He really wanted me to tell it to him straight." 3. SOT Tom Cruise (Christmas plans) - "I'd like a day in front of a fire place, hanging out, that's what I'd like, Just to kick back." SOT Question - "With anyone in particular?" SOT Tom Cruise - "That's beautiful." 4. SOT Question - "Have you bought Tom's present for Christmas, what did you get him?" SOT Penelope Cruz (Tom's Present) - "I can't tell." 5. SOT Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold) - "I'm going to the Caribbean, some people call it the Caribbean, I like to call it the Caribbean." SOT Reporter - "You can have it that way because it's your honeymoon." SOT Hugh - "Because it's my damn honeymoon." 6. SOT Lalia Ali (Christmas wish) - "Christmas wish that my shoulder would hurry up and get better so I can start boxing again, I just had surgery." 7. Vs Santa Claus on his sleigh (YLE Material) 8. SOT Will Smith (favorite Christmas toy) - "The most crazy I went was the Rock em, Sock em robots, remember those. The problem is after a while you would fight with them and their heads would just pop, if you shake it hard enough you can make the other guys head pop up. I always kept the red one because the blue ones head was broken on the other one. My brother was the blue one so I would always win." 9. SOT Hugh Jackman (Christmas plans) - "It's pretty simple for me because I have got an 18 moth baby and so I feel like I am living through all of Christmas again. I've been in New York recently and seeing all the stores and seeing the Rockefeller Plaza, it's magic for me." 10. SOT Glenn Close (favorite present) - "I think it was when I was little and I got this horse and it had a bridle and a saddle that came on and off. I can't remember whether it had a rider but I just remember really loving it." 11. SOT Britney Spears (Christmas plans) - "I have 3 weeks off just to go Christmas shopping and eat a lot of food and ride my four wheelers... so." 12. Video clip Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman 'Something Stupid' 13. SOT Gwyneth Paltrow - "My favourite about the holidays is everybody being together and that kind of closeness and the fire is lit and you are in a room with all the people that you love the most in the world. I really love that feeling, it makes me feel safe and warm and happy." 14. SOT Anna Friel (favourite Christmas present) - "I am very close with my parents and my dad always gives me his own little, individual, special present and one year he got lots of gold and melted it together and got a rock, a big lump of gold and put it in to a little frame, a simple words underneath that said in case of emergency break glass. I thought it was beautiful and sweet and I keep it as my lucky thing." 15. SOT Kian (Westlife) - "I used to share a room with my brother and I remember when I was about 4 he woke me up, he was four years older than me and he said Santa has been, our bedroom used to be next to the hall where the christmas tree was and all the presents were laid out and I remember waking up and going down and seeing all the presents and stuff." SOT Nicky (Westlife) - "I remember getting up at 3 in the morning with my older sister and going down. Then my dad would have to get up at 6 and make us cornflakes and then he would go back to bed." 16. Gv Santa Claus (YLE Material) 17. SOT Patrick Stuart (Christmas wish) - "I think my wishes would probably be very similar to those throughout the nation and in Europe too, that we can find stability in Afghanistan and especially a stability in the eastern Mediterranean, in Israel and Palestine and the near east." 18. SOT Lennox Lewis - "World Peace, there you go." 19. SOT Kevin Spacey - "Well I am going to be home in New York city, a town that I adore and could not think of any where that I would rather be this year and we are going to try and spare a little sunshine, that's all we are going to do." 20. VS Rockefeller Centre 21. SOT Craig David (New Year's Resolution) - "My new years resolution... you know what some times I get clingy on certain words, so I'll say off the hook with everything I say, or it's off the chain, or it's all good. So my thing is to not use a phrase for longer than a month, change it up and make sure that I am always fresh. And not eat too much chocolate." 22. SOT Wycleff Jean (best Christmas present) - "The best Christmas present I have probably had is a G5, Mercedes Benz, 2001, fully loaded." 23. SOT Wheatus (best Christmas present) - "My favorite present was a Voltron doll, because it was heavy and hard." 24. SOT Blue (best present) - "I think it was the Spiderman set when I was younger." "I had the Greystoke castle, He Man." "I had an A-Team, Mr T." 25. SOT Shaggy (best present) - "The best Christmas present I ever had, she was wearing hardly anything." 26. SOT Russell Watson (kiss under mistletoe) - "If I could kiss anyone under the mistletoe, I don't know, Father Christmas." 27. O Town singing 'Silent Night' SANTA, THE STARS AND SOMETHING STUPID When you have more money and success than you know what to do with, what gift can you possibly want for Christmas? Well for TOM CRUISE it is a day off. One day away from planet celebrity, the press pack, the agents, schmoozers and fans, the film sets, the multi-time zone travelling - a day spent doing a glorious nothing in front of a log fire was Tom's wish. For hip-hop innovator WYCLEF JEAN it was a brand new Mercedes and for SHAGGY it was a woman, without any wrapping. Others of their ilk, KEVIN SPACEY, LENNOX LEWIS and PATRICK STEWART are thinking bigger, wishing for peace and goodwill to all. Two stars who look set to receive one massive gift in their silky stockings this year are ROBBIE WILLIAMS and NICOLE KIDMAN who are heading for the tinselled top of the charts with the retro classic. 'Something Stupid.' But for most of the stars interviewed by APTN, Christmas is still about childhood memories, presents and a quick kiss under the mistletoe. MUSIC CLEARANCE DETAILS TITLE: Something Stupid ARTIST: Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman WRITER: Parks PUBLISHER: Chrysalis LABEL: Montclare Music/ EMI

TAPE_NUMBER: EN0004 IN_TIME: 10:19:34 LENGTH: 03:44 SOURCES: EPK/DREAMWORKS RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video clips without clearance, All No access Internet, FEED: SCRIPT: xfa Title: AMERICAN BEAUTY Date: Recent Location: USA Hit movie AMERICAN BEAUTY is being tipped to clean up at this year's round of awards. The darkly comic film has been nominated for six Golden Globes, and is a strong contender for the oscars. It has also impressed a range of smaller award panels including the Los Angeles Film Critics awards, and the National Board of Review Awards. Audiences in the UK, Europe and Australia, are about to get their first chance to see the film, when it opens next week. The movie stars KEVIN SPACEY (Academy Award winner, The Usual Suspects ) as Lester Burnham, a suburban husband and father with a seemingly perfect life. But inside, he is spiralling into depression, desperate to break out of his routine. As he struggles with mid-life crisis, he rebels, turning his family's life into chaos in the process. He leaves his job on impulse and lusts after his daughter's friend - every new move maddening his wife and daughter. Meanwhile his wife caroline, played by ANNETTE BENNING (Oscar nominee, The Grifters) has an affair of her own, and his daughter Jane (THORA BIRCH - Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games) develops a happy friendship with a boy next door whose own family is just as troubled. KEVIN SPACEY was won over to the project by the compelling, quick fire script, by TV Screenplay writer ALAN BALL and stong supporting cast. He was also impressed by director SAM MENDES theatre work. Hot young actress MENA SUVARI plays Jane's jailbait friend who Lester lusts after. AMERICAN BEAUTY marks Mendes' debut as a feature director. He was previously better known for directing the award winning London play THE BLUE ROOM, starring NICOLE KIDMAN. Mendes has more than proved he can handle the big screen, and is being praised to the skies by his cast and critics alike. For more information call DreamWorks on 001 818 733 7000 (LA), 001 212 588 6000 (NY) SHOTLIST: CLIP; SOT KEVIN SPACEY; CLIP; SOT ANNETTE BENNING; B-ROLL PAN FROM CAMERA TO BENNING EXTERIOR, INTERIOR PAN FROM BENNING TO SPACEY; SOT SAM MENDES; B-ROLL ACTORS AND DIRECTOR ON SET, CUTAWAY CHEERLEADERS, DIRECTOR MENDES AT CAMERA; SOT KEVIN SPACEY; CLIP?

TAPE: EF01/0562 IN_TIME: 13:42:25 DURATION: 6:58 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: 24 July 2001 SHOTLIST 1. Pan to hall 2. Camera tracks on dolly 3. Rupert Everett b-roll - walking 4. Ws B-roll Elle Macpherson walking with entourage 5. Elle in wedding dress & Giampaolo Morelli 6. B-Roll Director "South Kensington", Carlo Vanzina 7. Clapper action 8. Sot Carlo Vanzina, Director - on what the film is about (Italian) - "I thought for some strange reason London is back in fashion, everybody is looking at London for the music, for cinema. It's a city in which a lot is happening, it's very lively. Bearing in mind that there are lots of Italians that come to London to work and study English, we decided to tell the story of three or four young Italians that come to London for various reasons and face the English world which is represented by Nick played by Rupert Everett. Who is an aristocrat who in order to pay for his villa, because he is broke, he rents rooms to these young Italians and here begins various adventures and sub plots for the youngsters. It is based on things that really happen, there are many Italians that come here for work, or to learn English or get involved in love." 9. Ms Camera 10. VS - Action on scene with Giampaolo Morelli, Elle Macpherson & Rupert Everett 11. Sot Director - on them speaking italian - "It's not very relaxed, it's very difficult especially for Rupert because he has a lot of lines, he has been working for a month and a half already. Elle can't speak a single word of Italian and we have had to phonetically write out the words and phrases. But both of them are quite skilled. They speak Italian with other Italians but when they meet with English people they speak English." 12. Scene with Elle Macpherson and Giampaolo 13. Sot Elle Macpherson - explains plot - "I'm an English girl and there a group of Italians that are together and I meet an Italian boy and fall in love with him and he doesn't speak English and we communicate through the pigeon Italian that I have learnt from travelling around. We find that I go every year to Chianti and that I have come from a wealthy family and so I have probably travelled a bit. So it's a bit of an Italian with a French accent because that is the way I speak Italian and it's... this is a unique hybrid." 14. B-roll Elle Macpherson roll and Giampaolo kiss 15. Sot Elle Macpherson - on Playing a bride - "So bizarre, I feel a bit scruffy at the moment but it's nice.. take note." Sot Question - "Does it make you feel the need to get married?" Sot Elle Macpherson - "I was already married once and I am in a fantastic relationship with the father of my son and he hasn't asked me yet o.k." 16. Sot Giampaolo Morelli on being married to Elle in film - "Yes it must be nice but luckily it's just a game." 17. B-Roll - Rupert Everett 18. Cutaway - Elle Macpherson and Giampaolo Morelli 19. Cu Rupert Everett 20. Sot Giampaolo Morelli (Italian) - on Rupert Everett - "He's very professional and and pleasant, I like him as an actor, he is very controlled and in Italy he would be compared to Dylan Dog a famous Italian cartoon. It's strange because as if I am dealing with this character that I have known since I was young." 21. Sot Elle - on Rupert Everett - "Rupert is fantastic, he is a dream and wonderfully funny and inventive and generous and I really enjoyed it. We know each other so it is easy to, I'm not intimidated by him and he's not intimidated by me so... he actually convinced me to do the movie." 22. B-Roll dancing scene 23. Sot Elle Macpherson - on doing the Blue Room in Australia - "Well it will be very different , we have a different crew of people doing it and it won't be the same. I don't know if there will be any nudity in this one because I don't think it's necessary but it's an interesting challenge." Sot Question "Have you spoken to Nicole Kidman on tips on..." Sot Elle - "She did a brilliant job and there is only one person that would do it the way that she did it and I'll have to find a different way to do it... my way." 24. B-Roll - more dancing 25. Sot Enrico Brignano (English) - on the worst thing about working in the UK - "It's impossible to find an espresso, why. If an English comes to Italy to shoot a movie, what does he need... tea at 5 o'clock, tea, it's similar, mine is an espresso. Why?" 25. B-Roll Ws Dancing scene 26. Low Angle on Camera 27. B-Roll Elle Macpherson & Giampaolo Morelli kiss END ELLE MACPHERSON AND RUPERT EVERETT BRUSH UP ON THEIR ITALIAN Supermodel turned actress ELLE MACPHERSON joins RUPERT EVERETT to star in an Italian film shooting in London, 'SOUTH KENSINGTON'. The romantic comedy follows a group of young Italians in England, as they fall in and out of love in trendy West London. Director CARLO VANZINA is famous throughout Italy for his romping comedies, with dozens of films under his belt including 'Miliardi' ('Millions'), 'Sapore di mare' ('Time for Loving') and 'I Mitici' ('The Heroes'). This time he's cast Everett as Nick Brett, a 40 year old Englishman with an Italian mother and aristocratic roots. He works for the fashion house Bulgari but still has financial problems, so rents out rooms in his beautiful South Kensington home. Being a friendly soul, he gets to know his house guests well. Two of them are Italian, 30 year old Francesco (Enrico Brignano - pronounced Brie-nia-no) and 32 year old Antonio (Giampaolo Morelli), the latter of whom is in the capital to learn English. All his money is stolen, and he is forced to rely on Nick's kindness. He falls in love with Camilla an unconventional heiress (Elle Macpherson) telling her he owns a luxury hotel back in Italy, when in fact his father owns a simple guest house. Camilla breaks up with him when she finds out, but being free spirited, changes her mind and marries him at her magnificent home instead, despite the reaction from her snobby friends. APTN caught up with the MacPherson on location in Wrotham Park, Barnet, between takes for the wedding scene, where she admitted feeling slightly scruffy in her wedding gown. When asked if playing a bride wanted to make her walk down the ailse herself, she explained she's already been married, and is now in a fantastic relationship with the father of her child, laughing "he hasn't asked me yet, OK?" . Her screen groom Morelli is happy to keep the nuptials ficticious, even if he is standing with a former supermodel in a wedding dress - "Yes it must be nice but luckily it's just a game." Kissing her Italian co-star was hardly the most difficult challenge Elle faced on set - like Everett, the Australian born star had to learn her lines in Italian. The director explains the actress was given her words phonetically to help her along. Macpherson says her character speaks in pidgeon Italian with a French accent, picked up on her holidays with her wealthy family, calling the results a 'unique hybrid'. Vanzino adds "it's very difficult especially for Rupert because he has a lot of lines, he has been working for a month and a half already.".." But both of them are quite skilled. They speak Italian with other Italians but when they meet with English people they speak English." Like her screen lover Gianpaolo Morelli, Elle is full of praise about Rupert Everett. Morelli compares the star of 'The Next Best Thing', 'My Best Friend's Wedding' and 'Dance With a Stranger' to an Italian cartoon character Dylan Dog, while Macpherson calls the British actor fantastic and inventive, and reveals it was he who persuaded her to do the movie. Macpherson's past film credits include 'Sirens', 'Batman and Robin' and 'With Friends Like These'. Her next challenge is to star in the Australian production of 'The Blue Room' - in the role Nicole Kidman made famous on the London stage. She says the play will be different from the British version - for instance she won't be doing any nude scenes like Kidman did. She also has no intention of contacting the screen star for tips, explaining that Nicole did a brilliant job, but she has to find her own way of playing the character. Working abroad can have its disadvantages, at least according to another 'South Kensington' cast member, Enrico Brignano. He has come to London to play Francesco, who's romantic blunders include his boss' daughter after smoking grass at a rock concert, and his real love Susanna, a previous lodger of Nick's. Brignano may be enjoying the role, but not British coffee, complaining "It's impossible to find a good expresso here".

TAPE_NUMBER: EN9937 IN_TIME: 11:13:24 LENGTH: 04:12 SOURCES: APTN/DREAMWORKS RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video clips without clearance, No access Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: xfa AMERICAN BEAUTY PREMIERES AT TORONTO STORY:AMERICAN BEAUTY LOCATION:TORONTO, CANADA DATE: SEPTEMBER 11TH '99 The Toronto Film Festival, now in its 24th year, has established itself as one of the premiere international film festivals. And as such it can now boast of getting some pretty major world premieres opening in the annual Canada film explosion. Film-makers seem to like the Toronto Festival, possibly because it is more thoughtful and respectful of film-makers and likes to think that it takes them seriously. So it was on the weekend, when the festival played host to the world premiere of AMERICAN BEAUTY, the latest movie from the stellar career of KEVIN SPACEY. This film, directed by SAM MENDES, also stars ANNETTE BENING, SCOTT BAKULA, PETER GALLAGHER and AMBER SMITH. Spacey plays an everyman in his 40s whose life is turned upside down by midlife crisis. He decides to remake himself as a teenager, including getting a 'buff' body and developing a crush for his teenage daughter's best friend. Perhaps not surprisingly this does not go down to well at all with his longsuffering wife (Bening). The film also stars THORA BIRCH who plays his daughter, Jane, and MENA SUVARI who plays Angela, the object of Spacey's obsession. The freer he gets, the happier he gets, which is even moremaddening to his wife, Carolyn responds by focusing her attention on real estate colleague Buddy Kane (Gallagher). Compounding the chaos is the arrival next door of an equally turbulent family: strict Marine Col. Fitts (CHRIS COOPER), his vacant wife, Barbara (ALLISON JANNEY), and his distant son, Ricky (WES BENTLEY), who soon develops a fascination with Jane. This dark themed comedy is a radical departure for Spacey, best known for serious roles in LA CONFIDENTIAL and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. Spacey and Mendes brought their new movie to Toronto. Mendes is making his feature film director. But he is an acclaimed theatre director who is responsible for the current Broadway revival of CABERET and the highly revealing BLUE ROOM, which starred NICOLE KIDMAN. The film was written by comedy TV verteran ALAN BALL (CYBILL). SHOTLIST: EXT. CINEMA SHOWING TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL SIGN; C.U. TICKET SIGN AND PAN TO QUEUE OF PEOPLE ; FILM CLIP "AMERICAN BEAUTY" ;PAN OF "AMERICAN BEAUTY" CAST AT PRESS CONFERENCE STARTING WITH MCU KEVIN SPACEY; SOT KEVIN SPACEY; FILM CLIP ;SOT SAM MENDEZ, DIRECTOR; FILM CLIP; ARRIVAL THORA BIRCH (PLAYS THE DAUGHTER) AND MENA SUVARI (PLAYS THE VIXEN) ; B'ROLL KEVIN SPACEY SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS; B'ROLL PETER GALLAGHER ; SOT PETER GALLAGHER;SAM MENDEZ PETER GALLAGHER ONTO STAGE ; SOT SAM MENDEZ ABOUT ANNETTE BENING'S ABSENCE ; W.S.CAST APPLAUDING?

NAME: LA OSCAR FASH 20080225E TAPE: EF08/0216 IN_TIME: 10:19:44:00 DURATION: 00:06:49:08 SOURCES: APTN/AMPAS DATELINE: Los Angeles California February 25 2008 RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details SHOTLIST AP Entertainment Associated Press Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 1. Wide Nicole Kidman with Keith Urban 2. Medium crowd 3. Close-up Kidman tilt up AMPAS 4. Medium Laura Linney 5. Wide Miley Cyrus 6. Close-up Cyrus 7. Wide Jennifer Hudson push in Associated Press Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary Alice Stephenson/ Fashion Expert: "Well there is a lot of gorgeous strapless gowns this year at the Academy Awards. Jessica Alba looking beautiful and pregnant in her Marchesa feathered dress, stunning. We have Laura Linney in a strapless navy blue Michael Kors. We had Amy Adams in a strapless Proenza Schouler. We have Renee Zellweger in an incredible, one of my favourite gowns, Carolina Herrera. A lot of strapless on the red carpet." 9. Wide Alba 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jessica Alba: "This is Marchesa. I actually hosted the Sci Tech Awards for the Oscars and I wore Marchesa. Their season is always beautiful. This season in particular was stunning and perfect for awards season." 11. Medium Alba tilt up 12. Medium Diablo Cody 13. Close-up Cody tattoo 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diablo Cody: "I'm not wearing the fabulous shoes. That was a cheesy publicity stunt that had nothing to do with me. Not true." 15. Medium Saoirse Ronan 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saoirse Ronan: "This is Alberta Feretti. I chose green because I am Irish. I wanted to walk down the red carpet of the Oscars and let everyone know that I am Irish. It is kind of a Celtic thing." 17. Wide Ronan dress zoom in 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary Alice Stephenson/ Fashion Expert: "George Clooney fantastic it was Armani tux. A lot of Armani on the red carpet tonight." 19. Wide Clooney with Sarah Larson zoom in 20. Camera cutaway 21. Close-up Johnny Depp AMPAS 22. Close-up Javier Bardem Associated Press Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 Close-up Daniel Day-Lewis 23. Close-up Tommy Lee Jones 24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary Alice Stephenson/ Fashion Expert: "Jennifer Garner did the opposite and went the traditional route and got it right in a strapless black Oscar de la Renta fantastic dress with 136 carats of Van Cleef jewelry with bracelets on her wrist and an amazing ring all from the archives of Van Cleef and Arpels. An Oscar de la Renta dress to die for." 25. Wide Jennifer Garner 26. Close-up Garner's necklace AMPAS 27. Medium Julia Christie pull out to wide 28. Medium Renee Zellweger 29. Close-up Cameron Diaz pull out to wide 30. Wide Marion Cotillard 31. Close-up Cotillard 32. Medium Katherine Heigl 33. Medium Alba Associated Press Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 34. Medium Garner tilt up 35. Close-up bracelets 36. Medium Adams tilt down 37. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amy Adams: "I met with the designers Proenza Schouler. I've been following them for years. I have been a big fan. They volunteered to design a dress and I have been over the moon about it." 38. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary Alice Stephenson/ Fashion Expert: "There has been a lot of red on the red carpet. John Galliano designed a dress for Heidi Klum. Red, red, red. A lot of red on Heidi Klum. We've also seen the traditional dark colours like navy blue and black and we have seen some dark colours as well." AMPAS 39. Medium Klum Associated Press Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 40. Wide Mirren tilt up 41. SOUNDBITE: (English) Helen Mirren: "I have a lovely stylist who had this dress made for me by Jordan Chopra a Lebanese designer. I didn't know whether it was going to work out or not. There were a couple of beautiful alternatives. I put this on and to me it was dramatic and grand and powerful." 42. Wide Mirren tilt up AMPAS 43. Medium Swank pull out to wide STRAPLESS GOWNS DOMINATED ACADEMY AWARDS FASHION After a fashion deprived awards season, thanks in part to the now settled writer's strike, many worldwide are ready for their fashion fix. What better place to start than the red carpet at the 80th Annual Academy Awards. Fashion Expert Mary Alice Stephenson says the stars wowed on the carpet: "Well there is a lot of gorgeous strapless gowns this year at the Academy Awards. Jessica Alba looking beautiful and pregnant in her Marchesa feathered dress, stunning. We has Laura Linney in a strapless navy blue Michael Kors. We had Amy Adams in a strapless Proenza Schouler. We have Renee Zellweger in an incredible, one of my favourite gowns, Carolina Herrera. A lot of strapless on the red carpet." Best actress winner Marion Cotillard looked stunning in a skin-tight white beaded gown accompanied by a Swarovski designed white crystal leather clutch. Nicole Kidman proudly showed her baby bump under a black fitted gown. Miley Cyrus made the jump from rocker to red carpet glam wearing a red Valentino chiffon gown with bow detailing. Laura Linney followed the strapless trend of the night accompanied by Cathy Waterman jewels. Diablo Cody was slated to wear the million dollar shoes designed by Stuart Weitzman. Cody says she didn't know she was supposed to be the spokesperson for the shoes, so she opted not to wear them. "I'm not wearing the fabulous shoes," Cody told AP Television. "That was a cheesy publicity stunt that had nothing to do with me. Not true." While Cody opted for a wild leopard print dress by Dior, Jennifer Garner went opposite. "Jennifer Garner did the opposite and went the traditional route and got it right in a strapless black Oscar de la Renta fantastic dress with 136 carats of Van Cleef jewelry with bracelets on her wrist and an amazing ring all from the archives of Van Cleef and Arpels, an Oscar de la Renta dress to die for," Stephenson said. Armani was the favourite of many of the men on the red carpet including George Clooney. One of the biggest trends on the Oscars red carpet was colour. Heidi Klum, Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz all opted for bright show-stopping dresses. *** RESTRICTIONS*** SOURCE: "Clip Courtesy A.M.P.A.S.? 2008"/SEE RESTRICTIONS BELOW A.M.P.A.S = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS MUST BE RIGIDLY ADHERED TO AS SET OUT BY THE ACADEMY: 1) No portion of the broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation, nor any portion of the broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS pre-ceremony segment, nor any on-stage press photographs of the ACADEMY AWARDS, may be rebroadcast or used in any medium whatsoever, including the internet, prior to the conclusion of the live broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation. 2) No guest arrival audio tape or video footage, whether live or previously taped by any organisation, may be broadcast on television or the internet, during the ACADEMY AWARDS pre-ceremony segment, which starts at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (0100gmt) and continues until the start of the Awards Presentation at 5:30 p.m. (0130gmt). Radio outlets are permitted to broadcast live and taped interviews and commentary during the 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. (0100-0130gmt) period. 3) Any rebroadcast after the conclusion of the live broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation and ACADEMY AWARDS pre-ceremony segment is subject to the current Academy Regulations, including, but not limited to, the following: In accordance with fair use provisions of copyright law, broadcast news programs and services may excerpt portions of the Academy Awards telecast (including pre-ceremony segment material, considered together with the Awards presentation as one property of the academy) for rebroadcast during the seven days following the telecast (up to, and including, the following Sunday), subject to the following conditions: 4) Up to three minutes may be used within the period ending the first day (Monday) following the telecast, up to one minute, not separate from the three minutes above, may be used within the period of the second through seventh days (Tuesday through Sunday) following the telecast, the material may be used only for news reporting purposes directly related to the Awards Presentation as an event, any display, exhibition or performance of the material must be accompanied by the legend "Clip Courtesy A.M.P.A.S.? 2008." 5) No audio or video broadcasts or still photographs from the press rooms may be used in any medium, including the Internet, while the show is in progress except for the four-per-hour one-minute radio announcements. 6) Use of screen grabs from any portion of the broadcast prior to the conclusion of the broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation is expressly prohibited. Use of screen grabs as still images following the broadcast is permissible only with the express written consent of the Academy. Those wishing to use screen grabs following the conclusion of the broadcast may submit the image and a description of its use to the Academy's Communications Department for consideration. 7) Violation of the foregoing may result in the forfeiture of ACADEMY AWARDS press credentials as well as the permanent loss of ACADEMY AWARDS press privileges. Additionally, the Academy reserves the right to pursue all available civil and criminal remedies and penalties. 80th ACADEMY AWARDS ELECTRONIC NEWS COVERAGE AGREEMENT

NAME: LA OSCAR FASH 20080225Ex TAPE: EF08/0216 IN_TIME: 11:21:59:13 DURATION: 00:05:28:06 SOURCES: AP Ents /AMPAS DATELINE: Los Angeles, February 24 2008 RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details SHOTLSIT *** RESTRICTIONS*** SOURCE: "Clip Courtesy A.M.P.A.S.? 2008"/SEE RESTRICTIONS BELOW A.M.P.A.S = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS MUST BE RIGIDLY ADHERED TO AS SET OUT BY THE ACADEMY: 1) No portion of the broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation, nor any portion of the broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS pre-ceremony segment, nor any on-stage press photographs of the ACADEMY AWARDS, may be rebroadcast or used in any medium whatsoever, including the internet, prior to the conclusion of the live broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation. 2) No guest arrival audio tape or video footage, whether live or previously taped by any organisation, may be broadcast on television or the internet, during the ACADEMY AWARDS pre-ceremony segment, which starts at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (0100gmt) and continues until the start of the Awards Presentation at 5:30 p.m. (0130gmt). Radio outlets are permitted to broadcast live and taped interviews and commentary during the 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. (0100-0130gmt) period. 3) Any rebroadcast after the conclusion of the live broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation and ACADEMY AWARDS pre-ceremony segment is subject to the current Academy Regulations, including, but not limited to, the following: In accordance with fair use provisions of copyright law, broadcast news programs and services may excerpt portions of the Academy Awards telecast (including pre-ceremony segment material, considered together with the Awards presentation as one property of the academy) for rebroadcast during the seven days following the telecast (up to, and including, the following Sunday), subject to the following conditions: 4) Up to three minutes may be used within the period ending the first day (Monday) following the telecast, up to one minute, not separate from the three minutes above, may be used within the period of the second through seventh days (Tuesday through Sunday) following the telecast, the material may be used only for news reporting purposes directly related to the Awards Presentation as an event, any display, exhibition or performance of the material must be accompanied by the legend "Clip Courtesy A.M.P.A.S.? 2008." 5) No audio or video broadcasts or still photographs from the press rooms may be used in any medium, including the Internet, while the show is in progress except for the four-per-hour one-minute radio announcements. 6) Use of screen grabs from any portion of the broadcast prior to the conclusion of the broadcast of the ACADEMY AWARDS Presentation is expressly prohibited. Use of screen grabs as still images following the broadcast is permissible only with the express written consent of the Academy. Those wishing to use screen grabs following the conclusion of the broadcast may submit the image and a description of its use to the Academy's Communications Department for consideration. 7) Violation of the foregoing may result in the forfeiture of ACADEMY AWARDS press credentials as well as the permanent loss of ACADEMY AWARDS press privileges. Additionally, the Academy reserves the right to pursue all available civil and criminal remedies and penalties. 80th ACADEMY AWARDS ELECTRONIC NEWS COVERAGE AGREEMENT SHOTLIST (including transcript):- AP Entertainment Los Angeles 24 February 2008 1. Wide Nicole Kidman with Keith Urban 2. Medium crowd 3. Close-up Kidman tilt up AMPAS Los Angeles 24 February 2008 4. Medium Laura Linney 5. Wide Miley Cyrus 6. Close-up Cyrus 7. Wide Jennifer Hudson push in AP Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary Alice Stephenson, fashion expert: "Well there is a lot of gorgeous strapless gowns this year at the Academy Awards. Jessica Alba looking beautiful and pregnant in her Marchesa feathered dress, stunning. We have Laura Linney in a strapless navy blue Michael Kors. We had Amy Adams in a strapless Proenza Schouler. We have Renee Zellweger in an incredible, one of my favourite gowns, Carolina Herrera. A lot of strapless on the red carpet." 9. Wide Alba 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jessica Alba: "This is Marchesa. I actually hosted the Sci Tech Awards for the Oscars and I wore Marchesa. Their season is always beautiful. This season in particular was stunning and perfect for awards season." 11. Medium Alba tilt up 12. Medium Diablo Cody 13. Close-up Cody tattoo 15. Medium Saoirse Ronan 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saoirse Ronan: "This is Alberta Feretti. I chose green because I am Irish." 17. Wide Ronan dress zoom in 19. Wide Clooney with Sarah Larson zoom in 20. Camera cutaway 21. Close-up Johnny Depp AMPAS Los Angeles 24 February 2008 22. Close-up Javier Bardem AP Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 23. Close-up Daniel Day-Lewis 24. Close-up Tommy Lee Jones 25. Wide Jennifer Garner 26. Close-up Garner's necklace AMPAS 27. Medium Julia Christie pull out to wide 28. Medium Renee Zellweger 29. Close-up Cameron Diaz pull out to wide 30. Wide Marion Cotillard 31. Close-up Cotillard 32. Medium Katherine Heigl AP Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 33. Medium Garner tilt up 34. Close-up bracelets 35. Medium Amy Adams tilt down 36. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amy Adams: "I met with the designers Proenza Schouler. I've been following them for years. I have been a big fan. They volunteered to design a dress and I have been over the moon about it." AMPAS Los Angeles 24 February 2008 37. Medium Heidi Klum Associated Press Television Los Angeles 24 February 2008 38. Wide Mirren tilt up 39. SOUNDBITE: (English) Helen Mirren: "I have a lovely stylist who had this dress made for me by Jordan Chopra a Lebanese designer. I didn't know whether it was going to work out or not. There were a couple of beautiful alternatives. I put this on and to me it was dramatic and grand and powerful." 40. Wide Mirren tilt up AMPAS Los Angeles 24 February 2008 41. Medium Swank pull out to wide STRAPLESS GOWNS DOMINATED ACADEMY AWARDS FASHION After a fashion deprived awards season, partly due to the now settled writer's strike, many worldwide are ready for their fashion fix. What better place to start than the red carpet at the 80th Annual Academy Awards. Fashion expert Mary Alice Stephenson says the stars wowed on the carpet: "Well there is a lot of gorgeous strapless gowns this year at the Academy Awards. Jessica Alba looking beautiful and pregnant in her Marchesa feathered dress, stunning. We had Laura Linney in a strapless navy blue Michael Kors. We had Amy Adams in a strapless Proenza Schouler. We have Renee Zellweger in an incredible, one of my favourite gowns, Carolina Herrera. A lot of strapless on the red carpet." Best actress winner Marion Cotillard looked stunning in a skin-tight white beaded gown accompanied by a Swarovski designed white crystal leather clutch. Nicole Kidman proudly showed her baby bump under a black fitted gown. Miley Cyrus made the jump from rocker to red carpet glam wearing a red Valentino chiffon gown with bow detailing. Laura Linney followed the strapless trend of the night accompanied by Cathy Waterman jewels. Diablo Cody was slated to wear the million dollar shoes designed by Stuart Weitzman. Cody says she didn't know she was supposed to be the spokesperson for the shoes, so she opted not to wear them. "I'm not wearing the fabulous shoes," Cody told AP Television. "That was a cheesy publicity stunt that had nothing to do with me. Not true." While Cody opted for a wild leopard print dress by Dior, Jennifer Garner went opposite. "Jennifer Garner did the opposite and went the traditional route and got it right in a strapless black Oscar de la Renta fantastic dress with 136 carats of Van Cleef jewelry with bracelets on her wrist and an amazing ring all from the archives of Van Cleef and Arpels, an Oscar de la Renta dress to die for," Stephenson said. Armani was the favourite of many of the men on the red carpet including George Clooney. One of the biggest trends on the Oscars red carpet was colour. Heidi Klum, Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz all opted for bright show-stopping dresses.

TAPE: EF02/0386 IN_TIME: 20:50:44 DURATION: 5:18 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: 6th May 2002, New York SHOTLIST 1. wide to zoom in of announcements 2. ca cameraman 3. SOT Steven Weber: The nominations for best leading actress of a musical... the best performance by leading actress for a play 4. SOT Jennifer Jason Leigh: The nominations for best performance by a leading actor in a musical...for a leading actor in a play 5. SOT Steven Weber: "The nominations for best play...the nominations for best musical 6. clip 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' 7. SOT Jennifer Jason Leigh: The nominations for best revival of a musical...the nominations for best revival of play 8. ca media 9. SOT Jennifer Jason Leigh: "A special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater will be given to the beloved actress Julie Harris and the legendary broadway producer Robert Whitehead. Ms. Harris holds the record for the performer who has won the most Tony Awards with 5. This will mark her 6th Tony. Mr. Whitehead a 4 time tony award winner has produced a remarkable variety of memorable broadway plays. Thank you." 10. SOT Jennifer Jason Leigh and Steven Weber: "That's it so thank you and watch the Tony's on June 2nd together with Steven!" 11. SOT Steven Weber: "Yes Yeah I certainly going to the theater and having a great time stands in stark relief to what happened in September. But you know theatre is a constant. It's been there, they had theater during the Blitz in London and it's it will always be there no matter what occurs no matter what adversity occurs." 12. clip "The Graduate" 13.SOT David Sheward (Reporter for Backstage Newspaper and President of The Drama Desk): "It got a very mixed press (The Graduate) I mean it is doing very very well at the box office and it's a very fine production of its level but I think it just got edged out by other shows that were more critically well-received. Q Reporter: So not necessarily the actress or the big actor makes the play or the musical anymore? "Not necessarily I mean if it's big names in a show that gets mixed press then that doesn't guarantee an award nomination. A few seasons ago Nicole Kidman got a lot of press for doing the Blue Room and she was totally naked like Kathleen Turner is and she didn't receive a tony nomination either so if you are big star and you're naked it doesn't automatically mean that you are going to receive a tony nomination." 14. pan from cameraman to press conference ending TONY NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED The Tony Award nominations were announced this morning (06APR02) at Sardi's in New York. The announcements were made by two new Broadway stars, JENNIFER JASON LEIGH, currently starring in 'Proof' and STEVEN WEBER, currently starring in 'The Producers'. The new musical 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' starring Sutton Foster a newcomer to Broadway racked up 11 nominations and the musical 'Into the Woods' starring Vanessa Williams racked up 10 including a nomination for Ms. Woods. The surprise upset was a lack of nominations for 'The Graduate'. Plagued by mixed reviews, the play did not receive any nominations. 'Urinetown' tied with 10 nominations as well. Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre will be given to Julie Harris and broadway producer Robert Whitehead The American Theatre Wing's 56th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday June 2nd and will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network 9:00-11:00 (ET/PT) For a list of the Tony Nominations please refer to www.Tonys.org For more information please contact Keith Sherman and Associates 212 764-7900

TAPE: EF03/0403 IN_TIME: 20:50:46 DURATION: 7:35 SOURCES: APTN/Shubert Theatre/Gypsy Publicity Video Package RESTRICTIONS: music/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: New York 1/5/03 SHOTLIST: APTN 1. EXT Shubert Theatre 2. CU marquis 3. WS red carpet 4. setup shot Kate Winslet 5. cutaway media 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Winslet: "It's a fantastic show and it's just exciting for me to see a musical of his (Mendes) because I haven't seen Cabaret and ... he still won't let me see it... he wants to take me, so this is just fun." 7. cutaway Tom Hanks 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Winslet: "He (Mendes) doesn't show stress and when he does get stressed he just talks about it. We've had a lot of big talks... he's a calm person... previews went on forever... so it's exciting it's finally opening." 9. setup shot Mia Farrow with daughter Malone Farrow 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow: "I'm a big Bernadette Peters fan... We have every recording and have seen all of her shows and she's perfect for this because she was a Broadway baby. She's gutsy with a great voice and a great actress." 11. setup shot Sigourney Weaver 12. tilt up Sigourney Weaver 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigourney Weaver: "I did see Angela Lansbury do it and I was once offered a job as one of the strippers in it when I was still in drama school, I should've done it... I think Bernadette's going to be great and Sam Mendes.. I think it's going to be a very human production." 14. pan red carpet 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Erik Preminger: "I think Bernadette is great casting for this part... it's much more to type because my grandmother was small and sweet on the surface... underneath she was dangerous... but she could charm the birds out of the trees." 16. setup shot Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathan Lane: "Well, I saw Angela Lansbury and Tyne Daly who was great..." 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Broderick: "Yeah, and Ethel Merman, you know, but that's a long time ago. We have to let new people do these roles." 19. VOICE UP New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (English): "Tonight we celebrate not only another exciting opening of Gypsy but also the 1404th time this show has been performed on Broadway... therefore I the Mayor of New York do hereby proclaim May 1, 2003 in the city of New York, "Curtain Up on Gypsy Day." Gypsy Publicity Video Package: Boneau/Bryan-Brown (212) 575-3030 20. Montage of performance clips 21. Various performance clips 22. Curtain call BRIT SAM MENDES' OPENS AMERICAN CLASSIC GYPSY ON BROADWAY Gypsy, one of the season's most anticipated musical revivals opened last night (1May03) on Broadway. Celebrities including Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Sigourney Weaver, Matthew Broderick and Mia Farrow were among the stars who turned out to see the $8.5 million production directed by British-born Sam Mendes, winner of an Academy Award directing "American Beauty." Also on the red carpet was were Director Sam Mendes' girlfriend, actress Kate Winslet and Erik Preminger, grandson of the real Gypsy Rose Lee and her lover, the married film mogul Otto Preminger. Thursday's opening night marks Gypsy's fourth Broadway run. Before the curtain was raised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proclaimed May 1, 2003 as "Gypsy Day." He told the audience they were about to see the 1404th Broadway performance of the musical. Two films were also made about the legendary stripper named Gypsy Rose Lee and her relentless stage mother played in this version by Broadway diva Bernadette Peters. Gypsy is portrayed by actress Tammy Blanchard. The show is considered a classic American musical - some think it is the best ever written. The book is by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The original 1959 production starred the legendary Ethel Merman as Rose, the desperate mother who pushes her gawky daughter into becoming one of the most famous strippers of all time, Gypsy Lee Rose. Subsequent revivals starred Angela Lansbury (1974) and Tyne Daly (1984). The show has appeared on Broadway nearly every 15 years to critical acclaim. Lansbury and Daly both won Tony Awards for their performances. Laurent's script was adapted from the1957 memoirs of the real Gypsy Rose Lee who along with her sisters was forced into show business in the waning years of Vaudeville by a pushy stage mother living vicariously through her daughters. Of all the actors who have tackled the notoriously demanding role of Rose, Bernadette Peters may well understand it the best. The New York-born actress began singing lessons at age 3, and by 5 was appearing on television. When she was 13, she toured in a road company of "Gypsy" along with her sister, both accompanied by their mother. This production of Gypsy is director Mendes's first musical since 1997's much-acclaimed "Cabaret". Since then he has left the Donmar, the London theatre he founded which has been widely credited with breathing new life into London's West End. Perhaps most famously it also where he got Nicole Kidman to star, minus her clothes, in "The Blue Room." His version of Gypsy garnered mixed reviews during its preview run which began in March (2003) and some critics have found fault with the casting of Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose. Erik Preminger, the grandson of Gypsy Rose Lee told APTN that he thinks Peters is great for the role different from the actresses who've been cast before, but he said she's much more to type.