By Tim Nasson New York City – It’s a crisp New York morning. In fact, it’s the morning that the record breaking blizzard begins to sweep up the east coast and ultimately dumps over two feet of snow in Central Park – a stone’s throw from where Sarah Jessica Parker and I sit to chat […]
Simon Baker Directs Something New, by Tim Nasson There are an endless number of them at the moment – men from Down Under who are climbing to the top, in Hollywood. Add Simon Baker’s name to the list that already includes Academy Award contenders and box office superstars Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Guy Pearce. (Trivia […]
Alfre Woodard talks to Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – Alfre Woodard just may be the most accomplished, best loved (by critics and audiences, alike), and talented of black actresses living today. The Academy Award nominee (“Cross Creek”), and four time Emmy Award winner, (for a special guest appearance on “The Practice,” a special guest appearance […]
Anne Hathaway talks to Tim Nasson 2006 is turning out to be a great year for New York City native, Anne Hathaway, and the first month of the year isn’t even over. The Disney diva who shot to the top of the popularity line with little girls, what with the two “Princess Diaries” movies and […]
Jim Carrey Talks to Tim Nasson about Dick (and Jane) NEW YORK – Jim Carrey saunters into a suite at the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with a big smile on his familiar rubbery face. What’s he so happy about? “I’m happy to be in New York,” he says with a shrug. “I like it here.” Carrey, […]
By Tim Nasson New York City – Heath Ledger, one of the world’s sexiest men (People Magazine), is on top of his game in more ways than one. But more about that in a minute. On a recent chilly, snowy, Sunday morning, I had a chance to sit with Ledger in a suite at one […]
By Tim Nasson Los Angeles – Academy Award winning South African actress Charlize Theron, now thirty-one, has come a long way from her motion picture debut, “Children Of The Corn III.” “Everyone has to start somewhere,” she says, laughing, recently in Los Angeles – a town that has been very good to her. Thankfully, the […]
50 Cent talks to Tim Nasson New York City – 50 Cent, his real name Curtis James Jackson III, just may be the only black gangster, turned superstar rapper who, at once, can endear not only the target rap audience – 11-22 year olds – but also, forty and fifty-something soccer moms. And here’s the […]
Val Kilmer Interview by Tim Nasson Los Angeles – It’s safe to say that Val Kilmer’s star peaked in the early 90s. In a span of five years, Kilmer portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” Elvis Presley in “True Romance,” Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in “Batman Forever,” and one of the […]
By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – If you’re not one of the millions who are devotees of The Food Network, you may not yet know who Paula Deen is. With the release of Cameron Crowe’s latest film, “Elizabethtown,” that is all about to change. The $64,000 question – and longest sentence in this feature – […]
Orlando Bloom Interview Elizabethtown, By Tim Nasson Beverly Hills – Orlando Bloom, who has starred in 4 of the highest grossing movies of all time – as Legolas in the “Lord of the Rings Trilogy” and as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean and is just completing work on the two, yes two, sequels […]
Shia LaBeouf and Bill Paxton talk to Tim Nasson The Greatest Game Ever Played may be the greatest family sports film ever made. Or is it? Well, according to Presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton, who hand wrote notes to Walt Disney after screening the movie, thanking them for making and releasing such a heartwarming, touching […]
Reese Witherspoon talks to Tim Nasson Los Angeles – It’s been almost fifteen years since I first sat with, well, a fifteen year old, tomboyish Reese Witherspoon. The setting was an empty theater at Loews Copley Place in Boston, about a half hour before her first movie, “The Man In the Moon,” was to screen […]
Matt Damon talks to Tim Nasson Nearly a decade ago, the now thirty-five year old Cambridge, Massachusetts native, Matt Damon – who recently quit smoking – received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Oscar for writing “Good Will Hunting” – a film – shot in and around Boston – in which […]
Jessica Simpson Is Daisy Duke by Tim Nasson New York City – If you think you know Jessica Simpson – the chaste, blonde singer, teenage role-model, superstar who proudly saved her virginity for her wedding night – think again. The daughter of a preacher is stripping down and baring a lot (not quite all) as […]
Jennifer Carpenter talks to Tim Nasson about Emily Rose “I’m addicted to dresses now – I didn’t even know I liked them,” says Carpenter. “I thought I’d live in my jeans and T-shirts forever.” Carpenter, 25, dolled up for the premieres of “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” last week at the Venice Film Festival and […]
Terrance Howard Talks Hustle and Flow to Tim Nasson New York City – This just may be thirty-six year old, six foot, two inch Terrance Dashon Howard’s (yes, he now uses his middle name) best year; professionally, at least. The dashing actor, who got his start in film more than a decade ago in “Mr. […]
Johnny Depp is Willy Wonka by Tim Nasson With “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Johnny Depp marks his fourth outing with director Tim Burton. His first, the classic 1990 film “Edward Scissorhands,” until now, was his best. “Ed Wood,” the autobiographical film, in which he donned a wig and heelswas great but more of an […]
by Tim Nasson Dakota Fanning may be eleven years old, but her peers, mostly actors twice her age or older, and anyone who has met her, know her to be more of a young lady than a little girl. And if Dakota has her way, she is on her way to becoming this generation’s Jodie […]
by Tim Nasson New York City – It has been a year, almost to the week, that I sat down with Tom Cruise to discuss Collateral – one of last summer’s biggest box office hits. That Tom Cruise, the one I had met many times before – beginning in 1993 when he was in Boston […]
Justin Chatwin talks to Tim Nasson New York City – Every summer delivers to the multiplex near you a new and promising “Rising Star.” Hmmm. Let’s back up a few years. 2000! The seventeen year old star (at the time) of “Almost Famous,” Patrick Fugit. Who? OK. Let’s try 2002 and 2004! He had two […]
Garrett Hedlund talks to Tim Nasson New York City – Garrett Hedlund has only three movies under his belt. And one of them hasn’t even opened in theaters yet. But at twenty years old, and six feet, three inches on either side of that belt, Hedlund’s blonde hair and blue-eyed charm is enough to make […]
Mark Wahlberg Talks to Tim Nasson about Four Brothers New York City – It was thirty-four years ago, June 5th, 1971, to be exact, that Mark Wahlberg was born in the poor, working class section of Boston known as Dorchester. Wahlberg was the last of nine kids, (six boys, and three girls), his mother would […]
Andre 3000 Four Brothers Interview, by Tim Nasson NYC- If you have heard of Andre 3000, it is more likely that you have “heard him.” Unless you’re ninety years old and never watch TV, or listen to the radio, you would be hard pressed to have never heard of “Outkast.” “Outkast,” you know, is a […]
Danny Huston Interview The Proposition, By Tim Nasson If you’re one of the throngs who think the great art house film has gone the way of the Galapagos Flightless Cormorant, you would be correct. When one that is worth paying the price of admission does come into view, it is a rare treat, indeed. It […]