| A devastating '3 Needles'
Women and children die slowly and miserably, entire populations are at risk of being wiped out. Parents make hugely unsettling sacrifices to protect their offspring. Nuns cut Mephisto-pholean bargains and barely live to see their efforts rewarded. "3 Needles," Thom Fitzgerald's globe-spanning investigation of the effects of AIDS, may ultimately be a call to unity, but there's an extreme amount of despair and misery before we get to hear that trumpet blare. From a rural farming village in China to the sets of Canadian porn films to tribal communities in South Africa, Fitzgerald tracks AIDS to corners of the world where the disease is untreated and often unnamed. Familiar performers like Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis and Lucy Liu appear as periodic tour guides. Just about every character seen in the film is either ill, working with the infected or on the brink.
Lucy Liu Interview, CodeName The Cleaner
We had a chance to talk to the very lovely Lucy Liu about her upcoming role in CodeName The Cleaners. A native New Yorker, Lucy Liu attended NYU and later received a Bachelor of Science degree in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan. During her senior year at Michigan, she auditioned for a student theater production of Andre Gregory's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland." Hoping to be cast in a supporting role, Liu was instead cast as the lead. Her acting career was born. Liu's blossoming film career was thrust into over-drive when she starred with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore in Columbia Tri-Star's blockbuster hit, Charlie's Angels, and its sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Liu's career was further solidified when she starred opposite Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino's critically acclaimed film for Miramax, Kill Bill: Volume I and in the second installment, Kill Bill: Volume II.
LIU SHOCKED BY RIDICULOUS CHINESE AIDS 'CURES'
UNICEF ambassador LUCY LIU felt compelled to play a pregnant Chinese girl with AIDS in new movie 3 NEEDLES after learning of the methods hill tribes use to battle the killer disease. The CHARLIE'S ANGELS star agreed to play JIN PING in the harrowing new film for next to nothing because she felt the world needed to know how the ill-informed indigenous of China and Thailand treat HIV and AIDS. She says, "I learned a lot about the different voodoos and the different ideas that people had about how they could get rid of HIV. "They thought there was a cure in having sex with a virgin or with a baby. "My character, who has the disease, doesn't know what it is and she's pregnant. So when she goes to the doctor she finds out she can't breast feed because that's a way you can give the disease to the baby." .
Depp's mad method
(KP International) - Johnny Depp's method to get into the mindset of his upcoming character Sweeney Todd, the murderous barber, has left all in his wake feeling uneasy, including his longtime partner, and mother of his children, Vanessa Paradis. According to a source from Britain's Daily Express, the 43-year-old actor has been slitting imaginary throats to the tune of the 13th century Latin hymn Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) while preparing for the Sweeney Todd film. "Johnny is always very conscientious in his roles. Now he says he has to get into the mindset of a serial killer. He wants to feel adept with the razor blades, to feel as if they were an extension of his arm," the source said. "But he's terrifying everyone by walking around his home booming out the song - making an arc with his arm when he slits a person's throat.
Kate Hudson Will Never Play a Hooker
The 'You, Me and Dupree' star is very content to continue portraying happy-go-lucky twenty-somethings and has no plans to take on more grittier characters. Kate, 27, told Cosmopolitan magazine: "When you're younger, you play people figuring out who they are - not that dimensional, unless you're playing a drug addict or a hooker. But I'm not really interested in playing a hooker. The hooker with the heart of gold, no thanks!" Kate, whose mother is Goldie Hawn, added: "Of course I want more children. But I don't know how many. There were four of us growing up and it was a really good number. I was the only girl among three boys." (C) BANG Media Internationa
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