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THE OSCARS...
It's sad and very disappointing that Dennis was not nominated for an Oscar...but, he still has fans who believe in him and his talent which means he's still #1 to us.
Below is a listing of all who were nominated... let's just hope Far From Heaven is given the respect it deserved.
Lizzy
Best Picture
'Chicago'
'The Hours'
'Gangs of New York'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'The Pianist'
Best Actor
Adrien Brody, 'The Pianist'
Michael Caine, 'The Quiet American'
Nicolas Cage, 'Adaptation'
Daniel Day-Lewis, 'Gangs of New York'
Jack Nicholson, 'About Schmidt'
Best Actress
Salma Hayek, 'Frida'
Nicole Kidman, 'The Hours'
Diane Lane, 'Unfaithful'
*Julianne Moore, 'Far From Heaven'
Renee Zellweger, 'Chicago'
Best Supporting Actor
Chris Cooper, 'Adaptation'
Ed Harris, 'The Hours'
Paul Newman, 'Road to Perdition'
John C. Reilly, 'Chicago'
Christopher Walken, 'Catch Me If You Can'
Best Supporting Actress
Kathy Bates, 'About Schmidt'
Julianne Moore, 'The Hours'
Queen Latifah, 'Chicago'
Meryl Streep, 'Adaptation'
Catherine Zeta-Jones, 'Chicago'
Best Director
Pedro Almodvar, 'Talk to Her'
Stephen Daldry, 'The Hours'
Rob Marshall, 'Chicago'
Roman Polanski, 'The Pianist'
Martin Scorsese, 'Gangs of New York'
Best Original Screenplay
Pedro Almodvar, 'Talk to Her'
Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan, 'Gangs of New York'
Alfonso and Carlos Cuaran, 'Y tu Mama Tambien'
*Todd Haynes, 'Far From Heaven'
Nia Vardalos, 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'
Best Adapted Screenplay
Bill Condon, 'Chicago'
David Hare, 'The Hours'
Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, 'About a Boy'
Charlie and Donald Kaufman, 'Adaptation'
Ronald Harwood, 'The Pianist'
Best Animated Feature Film
'Ice Age'
'Lilo and Stitch'
'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'
'Spirited Away'
'Treasure Planet'
Best Foreign Language Film
'The Crime of Father Amaro' ('El Crimen del Padre Amaro'), Mexico
'Hero', People's Republic of China
'Nowhere in Africa', Germany
'The Man Without a Past', Finland
'Zus & Zo', the Netherlands
Art Direction
'Chicago'
'Frida'
'Gangs of New York'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'Road to Perdition'
Cinematography
'Chicago'
*'Far From Heaven'
'Gangs of New York'
'The Pianist'
'Road to Perdition'
Costume Design
'Chicago'
'Frida'
'Gangs of New York'
'The Hours'
'The Pianist'
Documentary Feature
'Bowling For Columbine'
'Daughter From Danang'
'Prisoner of Paradise'
'Spellbound'
'Winged Migration'
Documentary Short Subject
'The Collector of Bedford Street'
'Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks'
'Twin Towers'
'Why Can't We Be a Family Again?'
Film Editing
'Chicago'
'Gangs of New York'
'The Hours'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'The Pianist'
Makeup
'Frida'
'The Time Machine'
Music (Score)
'Catch Me If You Can'
*'Far From Heaven'
'Frida'
'The Hours'
'Road to Perdition'
Music (Song)
'I Move On' from Chicago'
'Lose Yourself' from '8 Mile'
'Burn It Blue' from 'Frida'
'The Hands That Built America' from 'Gangs of New York'
'Father and Daughter' from 'The Wild Thornberrys Movie'
Short Film (Animated)
'The Cathedral'
'The Chubbchubbs!'
'Das Rad'
'Mike's New Car'
'Mt. Head'
Short Film (Live Action)
'Fair D'Hiver'
'I'll Wait for the Next One ...' ('J'attendrai le Suivant...')
'Inja' ('Dog')
'Johnny Flynton
'This Charming Man' ('Der er en Yndig Mand')
Sound
'Chicago'
'Gangs of New York'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'Road to Perdition'
'Spider-Man'
Sound Editing
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'Minority Report'
'Road to Perdition'
Visual Effects
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'Spider-Man'
'Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones'
All about the Academy Awards from EW.com
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Golden Globe Thoughts
The Golden Globe Awards did not favor Dennis Quaid tonight, but he is still a winner as far as DQC is concerned. All of us have seen Far From Heaven and know a superb performance when we see it. Dennis is just too talented to be ignored by the Oscars. Julianne also deserves the award, and hopefully they both will get it. We at DQC wish them all the best of luck. Also, Dennis is up for the Independent Spirit Award and hope he can take that home. We think the best is yet to come.
Thanks to Cupid for her wonderful insite and all her hardwork on DQC. I don't know what I would do without you... your the best! Lizzy
The beginning of a great new TEXAS tradition...
THE DENNIS QUAID CHARITY CLASSIC
Quaid's tournament to tee off in Austin
Matt Hudgins Austin Business Journal Staff
Actor Dennis Quaid is assembling a celebrity golf tournament for charity that will bring about 40 stars to Austin next June and shine the spotlight on Central Texas' burgeoning golf business.
"The people of Austin are going to have a really good time and see an event that will make me proud to be a Texan," Quaid says. "I've invited all of my friends with whom I've played golf and music over the years, and I'm expecting an excellent turnout."
Representatives from Valencia, Calif.-based Zaring-Cioffi Entertainment LLC were expected to announce plans for the Dennis Quaid Charity Classic during the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce's fourth-quarter economic forum and breakfast Dec. 6.
Avery Ranch Golf Club will host the nationally televised Dennis Quaid Charity Classic on June 19-22, beginning one year to the day after the public course opened off Parmer Lane north of RR 620 in Far Northwest Austin.
While the golf tournament is intended to benefit charities, it should provide a boost to the local economy, says Cynthia Darwin, executive director of the Greater Austin Sports Association. Although the association hasn't devised a formula to calculate the economic effect of golf tournaments, golfers and golf fans probably will spend more and spend on higher-priced activities than those who arrive for other sporting events, she says.
"It attracts golfers who are viewing the coverage and it also encourages the people who have played in the event to come back to Austin, and to promote Austin to their fellow golfers," Darwin says. "Austin is quietly getting that reputation as a golf destination."
Jim Thompson, president and CEO of Austin-based golf equipment retailer Golfsmith International Inc., says the celebrity gathering will be good for all the golf courses and golf-related businesses here. Austin and surrounding communities have at least 27 public courses and about two dozen private ones. Some clubs have more than one course.
"Anytime there's a tournament that's coming to Austin, that's good news. It speaks volumes as to the quality of the courses here and to the popularity of the game amongst Austinites," Thompson says.
Another big-time golf tournament also is set for next year in Austin. The PGA Tour and Dallas-based Kinko's Inc. are sponsoring the Kinko's Classic of Austin, a new senior golfers' tournament scheduled for May 5-11 at The Hills Country Club.
Quaid is a Houston native who says he considers Austin his second home. Quaid stars in the recently released film "Far From Heaven" and is an avid golfer who plays the game daily when not working on films or traveling with his rock band, Dennis Quaid and the Sharks. Some of Quaid's movies have been filmed in and around Austin, including "The Rookie," released this year, and "Flesh and Bone," released in 1993.
Planned as an annual gathering, the tournament will raise funds for three local charities and the International Hospital for Children. Local beneficiaries will be Any Baby Can, the Children's Hospital of Austin and the Austin Children's Shelter.
Quaid serves on the board of the New Orleans-based International Children's Hospital, a group that brings child patients from other countries to the United States for treatment. Quaid has donated use of his personal jet to bring children here in the past.
John Zaring, president and CEO of Zaring-Cioffi Entertainment, says much of the celebrity roster, sponsors and other components of the tournament still are being worked out. He says Quaid came up with the idea about three months ago and the program is coming together quickly.
"The event will be underwritten by the sponsorships that we're procuring now," Zaring says.
American Airlines has signed up as the tournament's official airline and the Renaissance Austin Hotel is the official tournament hotel. A potential major underwriter is Round Rock-based Dell Computer Corp., which still is pondering a sponsorship.
Because celebrities will be donating their time, changing work schedules and other demands might change the list of notables. But Zaring says Quaid already has reached out to several famous friends, including President Bill Clinton, Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia, James Woods, Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Duvall, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Ray Romano.
Avery Ranch Golf Club co-owner and general manager Bob Wunsch says celebrity athletes will be invited as well, including San Diego Chargers players with Austin ties such as Drew Brees, Quentin Jammer and LaDainian Tomlinson. Other sources say University of Texas baseball head coach Augie Garrido another of Quaid's friends is a likely participant, as well as UT football coach Mack Brown.
Wunsch says having so many luminaries will extend the event's appeal. "It will bring a whole variety of people, not just people who want to watch a golf tournament," he says.
Play begins June 19 with a corporate challenge of sponsoring companies. June 20 will be celebrity/amateur rounds, with teams of four amateurs and a celebrity captain. The first two days of the tournament won't be open to spectators, but the next two days will.
June 21 and 22 will feature celebrity play. Austin ABC affiliate KVUE-TV, Channel 24, has agreed to broadcast a portion of the tournament, and organizers have a tentative agreement for national coverage by The Golf Channel.
Zaring says spectator tickets for the last two days will be for adults, for teenagers and senior citizens, and free for children 12 or younger.
Doak Fairey, director of media strategy and planning at Zaring-Cioffi Entertainment, says his company limits its work to producing the event and leaves fundraising to the charities that will benefit. That means every dollar spent on tickets or to buy items at a celebrity auction June 22 will go to those charities.
Dennis Quaid and the Sharks are scheduled to perform June 20 in a benefit concert at Antone's, one of his frequent venues. At a gala and auction the following evening, the band will play again along with other top acts.
DENNIS QUAID'S SECOND REEL: THE COMEBACK
Rick Lyman The New York Times
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
LOS ANGELES Dennis Quaid scooted through the kitchen of his house in this city's Brentwood neighborhood, a bottle of water clasped in one hand, as he tried to corner three yapping border terriers toward the door. "C'mon, you're in the way," he said. "Try to behave.".
With that same galvanic grin that made him one of the top movie stars of the 1980s in such films as "The Right Stuff" and "The Big Easy," Quaid plopped down on a well-grooved sofa and gestured sheepishly to a basketball-size ink stain on an adjacent love seat. "It's a little messy around here," he said. "We've been busy.".
It is a welcome change. He spent a decade in the Hollywood wilderness following a struggle with cocaine addiction and more recently a spate of tabloid misery caused by the slow-motion breakup of his 10-year marriage to the actress Meg Ryan and her brief, gossip-generating romance with the actor Russell Crowe..
"I feel like I am in the best place I've been for 13 or 14 years, really," Quaid said, taking a pull from the water bottle and pushing aside a silver scooter that his 10-year-old son, Jack, had left on the sofa. "I think there's ebbs and flows and cycles to every career. Back in the late '80s I was the hot guy there for a while. And now I feel like I'm getting back there again.".
He is 48 now. The elfin grin and the quick, eye-crinkling laugh are still there. But the lines are carved a little deeper in his chiseled face, the square jaw line is more gaunt with age and the gaze a little more wary. "I don't think I appreciated it as much as I should have back then," Quaid said. "I don't think I nurtured it. I think I kind of took it for granted.".
It is often hard to tell exactly when a comeback began. Perhaps it was his lead role in the critically praised "Frequency" in 2000, about a firefighter whose ham radio allows him to converse across time with his grown son. Or perhaps his supporting performance the same year as a sleazy drug lawyer in the Oscar-winning "Traffic.".
Certainly it has all come together this year. First he starred as a middle-aged baseball pitcher in "The Rookie," a well-regarded family film from Disney. More recently his name has been mentioned as a possible Oscar nominee for his supporting role in "Far From Heaven," the director Todd Haynes's critically praised homage to the lush, emotional films of the 1950s director Douglas Sirk. Quaid plays a middle-class husband struggling to repress his homosexuality..
"I finally think, when I did 'The Rookie' that things really started to bear fruit," Quaid said. "It's not like I was living in a desert or anything like that. But all of a sudden again the scripts have started arriving at the door.".
Julianne Moore, Quaid's co-star in "Far From Heaven," said she "fell in love with him to a rapturous degree" while recently watching "Everybody's All-American," a 1988 drama in which Quaid played a football star who must come to terms with disappointing middle age. "The thing about Dennis is that he has a period feel to him at times, and a very easy and assured masculinity," Moore said. "There's a classic-ness to Dennis that would not be at odds with one of those 1950s type of actors.".
When describing why he chose Quaid for the role, Haynes also mentioned the actor's effortless masculinity. "He's getting a lot of great notices for this film, which makes me happy," Haynes said. "Sometimes I get the sense that this surprises people. But I think the evidence is already there in his earlier films. I think the problem is that he hasn't really positioned himself as first and foremost a serious actor, but he really is one.".
Quaid, who was born in Houston, credits his years as a drama student at the University of Houston with inspiring him to take up acting, and when his older brother, Randy Quaid, came to Hollywood to work in the mid-1970s, Dennis followed..
His breakthrough movie was "Breaking Away" in 1979, in which he played the angriest of a group of working-class townies who take on the university snobs in a bicycle race. After "The Right Stuff" he found himself in a string of major studio films, including "Innerspace" (1987), "Suspect" (1987) and "Great Balls of Fire!" (1989)..
What people did not realize, he said, was that he was also slipping into cocaine addiction at the time. He said he drew on that experience in playing Frank, the repressed homosexual in "Far From Heaven.".
"I used it to find a path into this guy's life and what he was feeling," Quaid said. "I have had gay friends who tried to live a secret life, and that was essentially what I was doing when I was on cocaine. You know, there's this feeling of shame, when you're trying to hide something like that, something that can't be uttered.".
In the film, Frank sometimes lashes out angrily at his wife and others. Did Quaid's shame about his addiction also turn into anger?.
"Well, I never struck anybody," he said. "No. Mostly, I was mad at God, you know? Why was I in this predicament? I knew it was all my own fault, but at the same time I wasn't thinking straight. I was caught in a place, living a life that I didn't want to live but couldn't escape.".
Not until the period just before his marriage to Ryan and the birth of their son did he decide he had to get a grip on the situation..
"I got into rehab, and I got over it," Quaid said. "I took a year off to get my life back together. And when it came time to find a movie, it took me another year to find one." During that two-year hiatus Hollywood had to some extent forgotten him..
"Hollywood has a very short memory," Quaid said. "If you're not out there in the marketplace, they move on. And so I was surprised to find it really tough going. In a way I had to start over.".
There were other disappointments. He managed to land the lead in "Come See the Paradise," in 1990, an Alan Parker drama about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, which was released on the day that the Gulf War started. Movie audiences were in no mood to watch a film about America confessing its sins, Quaid said. Then a highly praised turn as Doc Holliday in "Wyatt Earp" in 1994 was lost in the movie's box-office failure..
By 1998, though, he was beginning to get a second foothold. He starred in the successful remake of Disney's "Parent Trap" in 1998 and as an aging quarterback in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday" in 1999. Those roles led directly to "Frequency," "Traffic" and this year's twin successes..
"It's been a slow build," he said..
Quaid said he and Ryan shared custody of their son and lived not far from each other, eager to keep things as normal as possible for Jack. That certainly was not the situation a year and a half ago, when the well-publicized split made the couple regulars in gossip columns, celebrity magazines and tabloid television shows..
"This was my first taste of anything like that," Quaid said. "It was no fun." One day, he said, he heard a noise outside his house and discovered a van filled with cameras and recording equipment parked at the curb. Often, he said, tag-team cars of paparazzi would follow him around town. Eventually, he said, the tabloid furor died down and the followers and the vans moved on. "They're working on Winona Ryder now," he said..
Quaid was at home in Brentwood with just a few days between films. He had just finished a thriller called "Cold Creek Manor" outside Toronto and was set to leave for Montreal, where he was to begin work on "Tomorrow," a big-budget summer blockbuster for 20th Century Fox from the director Roland Emmerich about weather chaos caused by global warming..
"It's got hurricanes, flash freezes, tidal waves, tornadoes and hailstones the size of bowling balls," he said. "It's exactly the kind of movie I want to do now. Just a big, popcorn disaster movie. Just the kind of movie I like to go and see with my 10-year-old son.".
Jack came slowly into the room. "Have you seen my scooter?" he asked. "You mean this one?" Quaid replied, picking it up from the cushion beside him. "I'll be done in a few minutes, and we can go out and do something.".
Quaid said he sometimes wondered why he - apart from so many of the other young actors who came to Hollywood in the 1970s - had been able to persevere. He grinned, a little ruefully..
"You have to have a lot of tenacity," he said. "And a very large capacity for rejection."
http://www.iht.com/articles/77483.htm
Thanks to Rosie for this wonderful and insiteful article on Dennis and his career. Lizzy
The ALAMO - stays in TEXAS!The Alamo
http://austin.about.com/library/weekly/aa070102a.htm
The Alamo will stay in Texas. Shooting on the film, The Alamo, is tentatively scheduled to begin this December near Dripping Springs, south of Austin. The announcement ended months of speculation and apprehension. Even before any official word came down, set-building was underway near Hamiliton Pool.
Update: Latest news is that Ron Howard is out as director but will likely still be involved in the production in some capacity.
Since plans for the movie first caught the public's ear it has garnered much attention from Texas historians, Alamo buffs, and the Texas film community. The retelling of the story of the Alamo even warranted a visit by Howard with Texas Governor Rick Perry. Locales outside Texas, including Canada, had been discussed but Texas won out.
History, Heroes, and Myth
Keeping the movie-making in Texas, Howard has overcome one hurtle he'll face with Texans when this film finally hits the big screen, possibly in Summer 2003. But the story itself is the biggest hurtle. This will be the first Hollywood retelling of the battle at the Alamo since 1960's epic starring John Wayne. A popular but historically inaccurate tale, there is much concern over how well Howard (or whoever the director may ultimately be) will be able to mix historical truth with time-honored and almost sacred legend that might not be exactly the way it was. Texans are quite protective of the Alamo, its history, heroes, and myths.
The basic story is well-known. On March 6, 1836 approximately 200 Texians and Tejanos succumbed to an assault by Mexican General Santa Ana and his forces after a 13-day siege. Though defeated, the battle of the Alamo became synonymous with a will to fight for one's country even to the death against insurmountable odds.
The most familiar names of the Alamo defenders are commander of the Alamo, William B. Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett. It is primarily their exploits that have been used to tell the tale of the Alamo. It is believed that this film version will include more on the Mexican point of view as well as some of the less attractive truths about Travis, Bowie, and Crockett that other Alamo stories omitted.
Get In On the Action
Although there have been rumours from the beginning about Russell Crowe in a starring role, no primary cast has been announced. But you don't have to be a Hollywood mega-star to be in the movie. Ordinary folks can join the battle as minor cast and extras. Due to some casting issues filming that was to start in September is pushed back to December. Now, the casting call for extras planned for the end of June may not occur until July or later. So, there's still time to get in on the action. Interested in being part of the cast, crew, or extras? Check here for updates.
Star Watch: I haven't traveled out there myself (yet) but if you're wanting to sneak at peak at the activities and maybe spot a celebrity or two, aim for the the vicinity of Hamilton Pool. Located in western Travis County just north of Dripping Springs (which is in Hays County) you can get there by taking U.S. 290 southwest to State Highway 71 then left on FM 3238. Perhaps this Fall you'll be able to spot a cast member or Opie himself hanging out at the local establishments both in Dripping Springs and Austin.
Synopsis: The story of the legendary 1836 battle where 187 Americans and Texans braved the onslaught of a massive Mexican army of 7,000 while holed up in a San Antonio fort. The battle, although a valiant losing effort, eventually became a crucial spark in the fight for Texas' independence.
Newcomer Patrick Wilson has been cast to play Army commander William Travis
in Disney's "The Alamo." Patrick joins Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton,
who'll play Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, respectively. Ethan Hawke was
originally expected to fill Wilson's role before Ron Howard quit as director in
a budget dispute and was replaced by John Lee Hancock, who directed Quaid in
"The Rookie." Hancock has completed a rewrite and is fast filling out the
ensemble. After drawing Tony nominations for stage turns in"Oklahoma!" and "The
Full Monty," Wilson is starring in HBO's six-hour miniseries adaptation of
"Angels in America." He will then strap on the six guns right after he
completes "Angels." "The Alamo" will begin filming in late January in Austin,
Texas, where Disney has built a 40-acre replica of the Alamo and outlying town
of Bexar. The PG-13-rated film will be released around Christmas next year.
UPDATE...
Jason Patric, drawing critical acclaim as a tough cop in "Narc," has signed
to play famed frontiersman Jim Bowie in "The Alamo." Patric joins Dennis Quaid,
Billy Bob Thornton and newcomer Patrick Wilson in the Disney picture's four
meatiest roles. The John Lee Hancock-directed drama will be released around
Christmas. Shooting begins late this month on a 40-acre replica of the Alamo in
Austin. Patric, 36, has come a long way toward becoming a central player in the
Texan tale. He was touted for stardom after playing the brooding bloodsucker in
1987's "The Lost Boys" and proved his acting chops in films like 1991's "Rush."
He was Mel Gibson's first choice to play William Wallace in "Braveheart," until
Gibson discovered he could get financing only if the director doubled as star.
Patric was temporarily undone by poor choices, including 1993's "Geronimo: An
American Legend" and 1997's "Speed 2: Cruise Control." He co-stars with Ray
Liotta in writer/director Joe Carnahan's "Narc," which has been playing in
limited release for three weeks.
Thanks to Penn and Rosie for these updates... keep up the good work gals! Lizzy
Update: DQ info in Montreal Gazette 12/31/02
Tokyo, Quebec: Dennis Quaid and the rest of the crew on the weather-gone-awry multimillion-dollar epic film Tomorrow are taking a well-deserved two weeks off for Christmas after finishing some very exhausting scenes of New York going to hell in a handbasket.
The fun picks up again on Jan. 6, when everyone is scheduled to meet at Studio G in Mel's Technoparc facility.
"New York is shot, now they need to do Tokyo," said Michel Trudel, a partner at Mel's. Trudel said some people in the art and construction department are still busy putting the finishing touches on the huge 15,000-square-foot studio to make it look like the downtown of the Japanese city - which will promptly be destroyed by a huge storm.
From Toronto Sun 12-17-2002
HEAVEN IS N.Y. CRITICS PICK
FAR FROM HEAVEN, TODD HAYNES
sumptuous homage to the Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, was the big
winner yesterday at the New York film Critics Circle Awards, taking
honours for best film and best director.
The movie also won in the categories of best supporting actor (Dennis
Quaid) best supporting actress {Patricia Clarkson} and cinematography
Edward Lachman}
"Two Towers" Online Crits' Fave
by Lia Haberman
Jan 6, 2002, 3:30 PM PT
The countdown to Oscar continues.
The Online Film Critics Society is the latest group of pundits to release its best-of picks, and the Web geeks have anointed The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as 2002's top flick.
Proof that sequels don't always suck, the record-breaking second installment of The Lord of the Rings was tapped as Best Film by the Web-based society, which is comprised of 132 critics and cinema journalists whose work is featured on the Internet.
In addition, Kiwi director Peter Jackson was named Best Director, and the movie's Middle Earthlings won kudos for Best Ensemble. The movie also took home technical awards for editing, sound and visual effects.
But Lord of the Rings wasn't the only movie to sweep Monday's hit list.The online critics found Far from Heaven divine: Julianne Moore's turn as lonely 1950s housewife earned her Best Actress, while Dennis Quaid's portrayal of her conflicted husband won him Best Supporting Actor.
The movie, a critical favorite about forbidden love in suburban 1950s Connecticut, earned a total of six awards, including Best Original Screenplay for writer-director Todd Haynes and honors for original score, cinematography and art direction.
The online critics also picked Daniel Day-Lewis as Best Actor for his portrayal of ruthless Bill "the Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York.
Steven Spielberg's underappreciated Minority Report was honored with a surprising Best Supporting Actress nod to Samantha Morton.
Newbie Maggie Gyllenhaal was cited for Best Breakthrough Performance for her role in the slap-happy Secretary, while Mark Romanek scored Best Breakthrough Filmmaker for his thriller One Hour Photo. And Charlie Kaufman and his fictitious twin brother, Donald, took home the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay for Adaptation.
Monday's awards mark the third time this season The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has scored critical accolades. The picture received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Drama and Director. The Broadcast Film Critics Association nominated the Tolkien adaptation for Best Film and Best Digital Performance (for Gollum) and the movie was also named one of the best of 2002 by the American Film Institute.
Still, while the Two Towers lords over the box office, the movie isn't leading the early Oscar derby. The New York Film Critics pegged Far from Heaven as their favorite, awarding the drama top honors in five categories, including Best Film.
Heaven also received a Best Actress trophy for Julianne Moore from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The L.A. critics backed About Schmidt as favorite film of 2002.
Proving that this year could be wide open, Chicago, shut out by the online crits, brought the house down at the Golden Globes with eight nominations.
The Oscar guessing game won't be settled until nominations are announced February 11.
Meantime, here's a complete rundown of the Online Film Critics Society 2002 awards list:
Best Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York
Best Actress: Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven
****Best Supporting Actor: Dennis Quaid, Far from Heaven
Best Supporting Actress: Samantha Morton, Minority Report
Best Ensemble: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Breakthrough Performance: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
Best Director: Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Breakthrough Filmmaker: Mark Romanek, One Hour Photo
Best Screenplay: Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven
Best Adapted Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman, Adaptation
Best Foreign Film: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Best Documentary: Bowling for Columbine
Best Animated Feature: Spirited Away
Best Editing: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Sound: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Visual Effects: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Original Score: Far from Heaven
Best Cinematography: Far from Heaven
Best Art Direction: Far from Heaven
Thanks to Rosie and Kap for this wonderful news!
Lizzy
News all over the internet, LA papers and Entertainment on E' Online and this morning on CNN-John Lee Hancock has tap Dennis Quaid to play Sam Houston in new film The Alamo to start filming in January on an million budget. It is not surprising that Disney and Hancock would cast Quaid in the part after such success in their last film The Rookie. Dennis with his recent career surge, he is generating strong critical buzz for Far From Heaven, Also just finished Devil;s Throat (Cold Creek Canyon) and filming at this time in Montreal Day After Tomorrow
Quaid gunning for the 'Alamo'
Thesp joins Thornton in role originally meant for Crowe
By MICHAEL FLEMING
In what amounts to a reteam of "The Rookie," director John Lee Hancock has tapped Dennis Quaid to play Sam Houston in "The Alamo" for Disney. The film will begin shooting in January in hopes of a holiday 2003 release.
Houston is considered to be among the showiest roles in an ensemble full of flawed characters who prove heroic in the Alamo battle and its aftermath. Houston was an ex-governor of Tennessee who led troops to avenge the Alamo and defeat Mexican leader Santa Ana.
When "The Alamo" was originally conceived as a directing vehicle for Ron Howard, Russell Crowe had rearranged his schedule to play the Houston role and reteam with his "A Beautiful Mind" helmer. Howard ankled over the film's potential million cost and rating, and studio chairman Dick Cook and Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group prexy Nina Jacobson brought in Hancock to reconceive it as an million PG-13 effort. Crowe ankled with Howard.
It is not surprising that Disney and Hancock would cast Quaid, who joins Billy Bob Thornton in the film. Quaid's recent career surge -- he's generating strong critical buzz for "Far From Heaven" -- began with his work in "The Rookie," a film which also proved a profitable shot in the arm for the studio's live-action division.
Since then, Disney set Quaid to topline the Mike Figgis-directed "Cold Creek Manor," and the studio is closing a deal to make a "Rookie"-flavored film about NASCAR legend Richard Petty that Quaid will produce with Dan Halsted. The WMA-repped Quaid will play Petty's father, Lee, in that John Warren-scripted film.
Quaid is about to start work starring in the Roland Emmerich-directed sci-fi pic "The Day After Tomorrow" for Fox.
Date in print: Tue., Nov. 19, 2002, Los Angeles
Update: The Day After Tomorrow:
'Sprinter' has a pretty cool report from the set of the Roland Emmerich sci-fi thriller: "I'm from Montreal and filming here will take place from November 7th to March. They are using Mel's Studios, the most prominent film studios in Montreal, and have a budget of around million. In total there are to be 155 filming days. I looked up at the wardrobe section and their schedule and saw some set location details - a NASA refugee camp is being considered, Wall Street and Times Square will all be frozen over for other scenes. CGI wise they will either be using an outside source or local talent. Roland Emmerich (very cool dude) and his wife have both arrived in Montreal and are excited to start filming. On the posterboard of the production company several interesting pictures were up. One caught my eye was a CGI effect of the Statue of Liberty encased with CGI ice".
Thanks Rosie for this great update on Day after Tomorrow...keep that info coming. Lizzy
Ok Gang Thanks to Cupid we have some fun DQ Trivia, Let's see how you do. (Answers below...no cheating!)
TRIVIA QUESTIONS
Each question worth 5 points. Question #2 gets 1/2 point per right answer.
No Brainers:
1. What is Dennis' older brother's name?
2. What state was he born in?
3. What studio produced the Rookie?
4. What color are his eyes?
5. What is the name of his band?
Personal questions:
1. What is Dennis' father's occupation?
2. What was the name of the college professor who got him interested in acting?
3. His ranch is located near what town in Montana?
4. His present dog is? What are the names of his two previous dogs? (1/2 point for each dog)
5. What hospital was Jack born in?
Movie Trivia:
1. How many of his movies were Westerns? (1/2
point)
2. Part 1 - Meg Ryan appeared in 3 of Dennis' movies, name them.
What other actors appeared with Dennis in movies more than once? How many times, and name the movies.
3. There was a mother and daughter(both actresses) who appeared(separately) in 2 of Dennis' movies. What are there names? Which movies? (1/2 point each)
4. In how many movies did Dennis play a father?
1/2 point for each answer.
5. Dennis appeared in two movies with actresses who were also singers. What were there names and the movies.(1/2 point each)
Bonus: Dennis was on Saturday Night Live in what year and what singing group was on the show that day? (10 points)
25-28: Oscar Winner: 4 star Dennis Quaid fan
21-24: Superstar Dennis Quaid fan
17-20: Major League Dennis Quaid fan
13-16: Minor League Dennis Quaid fan
9-12: Rookie Dennis Quaid fan
5-8: Dennis Quaid fan in training
Under 5: Need to watch more Dennis Quaid movies
Answers: No Brainers:
1. Randy
2. Texas
3. Disney
4. Blue
5. Sharks
Answers: Personal questions:
1. electrician
2. Cecil Pickett
3. Livingston
4. Clyde, Maggie & Jessie(1/2 point for each dog)
5. St. John's, Santa Monica, California
Answers: Movie Trivia:
1. Two: Wyatt Earp, Long Riders(1/2
point)
2. Part 1:
Innerspace, D.O.A. and Flesh and Bone.
Part 2:
Daniel Stern: 2 times: Breaking Away, D.O.A.
John Goodman: 2 times: Everybody's All American, Big Easy
Richard Thomas: 2 times: 9-30-55, Johnny Belinda
Rosanna Arquette: 2 times: Gorp, Johnny Belinda
JIm Caviezel: 2 times: Wyatt Earp, Frequency
Mickey Rooney: 2 times: Bill, Bill:On His Own
Gene Hackman: All Night Long, Wyatt Earp
Mare Winningham was in Wyatt Earp and Everything That Rises.
3. Blythe Danner: Are You In The House Alone?
Gwyneth Paltrow: Flesh & Bone(1/2 point each)
4. Parent Trap, Frequency, Everybody's All American, Come See The Paradise, Tough Enough, Something To Talk About, Savior, Everything That Rises, Switchback, The Rookie, Undercover Blues. 1/2 point for each answer.
5. (1/2 point each)
Barbra Streisand: All Night Long
Cher: Suspect.
Bonus: 1990; Neville Brothers. (10 points)
How do you measure up???
25-28: Oscar Winner: 4 star Dennis Quaid fan
21-24: Superstar Dennis Quaid fan
17-20: Major League Dennis Quaid fan
13-16: Minor League Dennis Quaid fan
9-12: Rookie Dennis Quaid fan
5-8: Dennis Quaid fan in training
Under 5: Need to watch more Dennis Quaid movies
Dennis Quaid has a great reputation with employees at the clubs where his band, The Sharks, plays and for good reason. Unlike SOME performers, down-to-earth Dennis doesn't expect drinks on the house just because he's a big star. And he always picks up the tab for his group. It's particularly commendable because Quaid, who's divorced from Meg Ryan, usually drinks water or tea, but his band-mates and entourage like to indulge, so, he's often left with a tab in the hundreds.
-STAR Magazine...June 13, 2002
Latest info on "Cold Creek Manor" - the title of the movie has been changed to The Devil's Throat.
The Devil's Throat (2003)
Release Date: TBA 2003
Title Note: (7/23/02) This project has been known as "Cold Creek Manor" throughout its development, but the title has now been changed to the more threatening "The Devil's Throat."
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
Production Company: Red Mullet Productions (Mike Figgis' production company)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff; other cast not announced yet.
Director: Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code, Internal Affairs, One Night Stand, The Loss of Sexual Innocence; he's also got Hotel coming)
Screenwriter: Richard Jefferies (1992's The Vagrant; he's also working on drafts of 'The Silver Surfer' and 'Tron 2.0', in development; preview pages coming soon)
Premise: A couple (Quaid, Stone) and their family relocates from the city to the country, where they discover that their dream home, a sprawling farmhouse, is more of a nightmare, as the previous owner (Dorff) returns from prison... and wants his home back. Badly.
Filming: Production is scheduled to start on August 6th, 2002 in Toronto.
Genre: Thriller
Baseball allows Mouse Major League DVD add-on
By Scott Hettrick
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Maybe that Disney synergy works sometimes after all.
The company that owns ESPN, which has a deal with Major League Baseball, was granted unusual cooperation in filming shots of actor Dennis Quaid on the pitcher's mound while a game was in progress.
Now Major League Baseball has granted rare, if not unprecedented permission for Disney to include footage from a Major League Baseball game in the extra features section of the DVD version of the recent surprise G-rated box office and critically acclaimed hit "The Rookie."
The DVD version of the movie, which ranked among the top 10 films for nearly two months until Memorial Day weekend, includes footage from the game dramatized in the movie in which the real high school coach, Jim Morris, made his fairy tale-like big-league debut with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999 after getting sidetracked by an injury for more than 10 years.
VHS and DVD versions of the movie will be released Aug. 27.
In addition to deleted scenes and audio commentary by Quaid and director John Lee Hancock, other extra features on the DVD include real coaches providing tips on pitching and hitting, and a featurette on the real Jim Morris.
Morris, who has been a motivational speaker since ending his brief baseball career in 2001, told Daily Variety he is looking forward to owning a video copy of the film on which he was a consultant and participated in DVD interviews.
"Having Disney behind it and having someone like Dennis play me, everything that happens just keeps getting better and better," he said.
*Note: We will be posting the cover so stay tuned!
ESPN.com - Page2 - 'The Rookie' in reel life
Dennis Quaid
Page 2 staff
Dennis Quaid is a cinema sports regular, having starred as an aging quarterback in "Any Given Sunday," a running back in "Everybody's All-American" and a cyclist in "Breaking Away." Now he is playing former Tampa Bay Devil Rays pitcher Jim Morris in Disney's "The Rookie," which opened in theaters Friday. (Disney is the parent company of ESPN and ESPN.com.)
Dennis Quaid admires the drama of sports roles.
Page 2 caught up with the actor and threw our 10 best Burning Questions at him. We never laid a glove on him.
1. Page 2: What is it that draws you to roles in all these sports movies?
Dennis Quaid: They were all very good stories, No. 1. Drama is inherent in sports, and I think that's what draws me to these films. Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.
2. How accomplished was your real-life athletic career? How good an athlete are you now?
Quaid: My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
What positions?
Quaid: First base, pitcher, left field. I tried out for the football team in high school, but the coach told me I was too small.
Did that break your heart?
Quaid: Not at all. I hate getting hit.
Then why did you want to play?
Quaid: Well, playing football is a rite of passage in Texas. But I'm a pretty good golfer. I play every day. My handicap is a 5. I'm trying to get to scratch. I'm in-between movies, so I've got a good chance.
How long have you been playing?
Quaid: Ten years.
What actors/other celebrity-types do you play with?
Quaid: Greg Kinnear and I play a lot, and Jimmy Woods, too.
Despite his experience in "Kingpin," big brother Randy Quaid wouldn't beat Randy on the lanes.
Who wins between you and Kinnear?
Quaid: I kick his ass. Jimmy's a really good player for his handicap ... which is about a 17 or 18.
3. Your brother Randy was a bowler in "Kingpin," starred in two baseball movies -- "Major League II" and "The Slugger's Wife" -- plus "Caddyshack II" and "Days of Thunder." So who would win the Quaid family pentathlon, consisting of bowling, one-on-one basketball, golf, ultimate fighting and baseball throw for distance?
Quaid: I'd kick his ass, but he'd tell you different. I'd win in bowling. I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
Did you have your own shoes?
Quaid: Oh yeah. I had shoes, my own ball.
But you didn't have one of those wrist guards, did you?
Quaid: Oh, yeah. I had the wrist guard. You've got to get all the equipment. That's what it's all about. You've got to have the equipment so you can look cool. There's nothing cooler than bowlers.
Golf? That'd be close. It would depend on who's working at the time -- meaning, whoever has time to be out playing would probably win. He's about a 5-handicap, as well.
He'd kick my ass in basketball. He's 6-5. He'd beat me in boxing, too. And wrestling, I know he'd beat me. He's still my big brother. Plus, being older, he's got that whole psychological edge.
Fulfilling near-impossible dreams make "The Rookie" the favorite sports film in Quaid's filmography.
4. What's the best non-Quaid sports movie ever? The best Quaid sports movie? How 'bout the worst of each?
Quaid: Best non-sports movie: "The Right Stuff." I just love it. I grew up in Houston, Bay City, and Gordon Cooper was my favorite astronaut, and I got to play him. And I got my pilot's license. It's a classic.
Best sports movie: This one. The thing I like about it is that it's not a sports movie, even though it's about sports. It's just a great story about unfilled dreams. It's very fulfilling. "Everybody's All-American" was about a guy who peaked early and spent the rest of his life trying to recapture that. This one's really about unfulfilled dreams, which we all have. This guy got a chance to do it in real life. It's a beautiful tale.
Worst movie: "Jaws 3-D."
Why?
Quaid: It's Jaws. Sharks. In 3-D. But it's my son's favorite movie. He hauls it out about every other month or so.
Do you watch it with him?
Quaid: No.
Worst sports movie: I don't have one. I really like all of them.
Do you watch your movies, the finished product? A lot of actors say they don't.
Quaid: Oh sure, I watch them. They're lying. Sooner or later, you get curious. I watch them. But when they come on TV, I sort of, like, flip the channels. I'll watch for a couple minutes, and turn on something else. After seeing it about three or four times, that's what you do. But you see it when it's finished. You see it, then go to the premiere screening.
Quaid admired Payne Stewart, knickers and all.
5. Who's your favorite golfer?
Quaid: Well, we all like Tiger Woods. And I really love Payne Stewart. I love that guy. I kinda knew him a little bit, met him a couple times. He was a fine person.
Is there a golfer who you might say reminds us how you play?
Quaid: Well, maybe how I want to play. I'd love to play like Payne Stewart.
What about the garb? Would you be caught in the getup?
Quaid: I wouldn't mind it.
Even the knickers?
Quaid: Yeah. That thing was pretty cool.
6. Who would you start at quarterback for the big playoff game: Dennis Quaid or Jamie Foxx? And how many takes did Al Pacino need for his terrific speech at the end of "Any Given Sunday"?
Quaid: Oh, definitely me. He's faster, but I have a better spiral than he does.
As for Pacino, the very first one.
Quaid, right, could out-throw Jamie Foxx, left. But Al Pacino really nailed it in "Any Given Sunday."
No way.
Quaid: Oh, yeah. He's really prepared. Of course, they shot it from several different angles. He had it nailed right from the beginning. Not a stutter.
OK, backing up ... you said you hate getting hit, but in "Any Given Sunday," what did you do, just grin and bear it?
Quaid: You know, it was ... ouch. In "Everybody's All-American," I broke my collarbone. It was the very last hit I had to take, and I was going out of bounds. It was supposed to be ... I guess Roger Staubach got his helmet knocked off one time when he was going out of bounds. They wanted to re-create that.
7. Jim Morris can bring it in the high 90s. How much heat can you bring?
Quaid: I never put myself on a radar gun, because I didn't want to be disappointed. I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. I wanted to get the motion down and everything to really look like I knew what I was doing. I didn't want to look like Anthony Perkins in "Fear Strikes Out."
Morris was a high-school physics teacher. What's more of a stretch: Dennis Quaid throwing in the majors or Dennis Quaid teaching high-school physics?
Quaid's not really a pitcher; he just plays one in the movies.
Quaid: Pitching in the majors. I could do the classroom thing. I was pretty good at physics. I could be in the classroom in six months.
What were your best topics in high school?
Quaid: English. Science. Geometry. I liked that.
Morris' story is about pursuing dreams. What were your dreams as a kid, and what the one dream you've still yet to chase?
Quaid: I wanted to be a veterinarian. That was my big dream as a kid. I loved animals.
What kinds?
Quaid: All animals. I still do. I still might become a veterinarian when all this is done.
8. What type of research did you do for the role ... and did you have to attend an actual Tampa Bay Devil Rays game in person?
Quaid: I'd throw pitches in my front yard every other day. Fifty to 75 every other day.
How long did you do this?
Quaid: For four months before we started shooting. Then, once a week, I'd go to Dodgers Stadium and throw on the mound there so I could get used to throwing on the mound.
9. Rumor has it, you often perform with your shoes off. Why is that? Ever get any complaints?
Quaid: I feel like I'm at home in my living room. But I don't do it all the time. Like when my feet hurt.
10. If you could win an Oscar, a Grammy, a World Series or a Super Bowl, which one would you take and why?
Quaid: An Oscar. It's what I do.
DENNIS QUAID
MY FIRST ROAD TRIP AS A BOY was driving up from Houston to see my grandfather in East Texas. We'd stay at his house, and we'd take trips to places like Elk for dances at people's farms or to swim in the tanks. Later, my grandfather and I would drive around Jacksonville, Frankston, and up toward Tyler in his 1961 Ford. He had been a guard at an insane asylum, but he inherited some land where they discovered oil, and he went from rags to riches. We'd drive around on his leases. As I got older, one of my favorite trips was Houston to Austin on Texas Highway 71 back then it was a pretty drive, just two lanes. I had friends who were going to college in Austin, and I loved it. I had the feeling of freedom, of really busting out. My first car was a '64 Ford Fairlane, and then I had a 1967 green Duster and it was always breaking down somewhere.
I remember cruising down the road listening to Jerry Jeff Walker, Joe Ely, Michael Murphey, Waylon Jennings. Once a year my high school buddies and I would drive to Big Bend and camp out there for four or five days. Of course, when I left home at 21, I made that drive from Houston to L.A. You get to El Paso and you think, "I'm only halfway there."
Even today I like to get off the interstate and drive the blue highways. One day when I was shooting The Rookie in Texas last year, I had to go from Austin to Dallas. I got off I-35 in Waco and took a back road to Hubbard, where my mom's from. I went to see my grandfather's grave, he's buried there. And I went to the Dairy Queen. Did you know that I'm the quality-control guy for Dairy Queen?
Houston native Dennis Quaid has appeared in more than fifty films, includingTraffic and The Big Easy. His latest, The Rookie, arrived in theaters in late March.
- Texas Monthly - May 2002
Quaid signs on to play Lee Petty
Movie about racing family planned
From Wire Reports The star of "The Rookie" is slated to be father of "The King" of NASCAR in an upcoming movie. Dennis Quaid has pledged to play Lee Petty in an untitled movie chronicling the racing careers of Lee and Richard Petty in the late 1950s and '60s. Richard Petty is NASCAR's all-time winningest driver with 200 victories. The movie will focus on the father-son relationship, as Richard struggles to meet the high expectations Lee had for him. "It's not as much about the grinding of the wheels as it is the relationship of the two best racers in NASCAR," John O'Hurley, executive producer of the upcoming film, said Wednesday in Greensboro. The actor to play Richard Petty hasn't been finalized. The movie has gotten a thumbs-up from Richard Petty and Petty Enterprises, said Bill Scott, executive vice president of Petty Enterprises in Level Cross south of Greensboro. Lee Petty died in April 2000.
North Texas with its "Celebrity Motorsports Classic" from 3 to 10 p.m. on May 5th,2002, at the Tevas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Live concert by movie star Dennis Quaid and his band "The Sharks". Fresh on the heels of his hit movie, "The Rookie", Dennis Quaid will bring his band, Dennis Quaid and The Sharks, to headline the charity event, the group is a true rock band led by exuberant Dennis Quaid. The Concert will begin
at 6 P.M. on Sunday evening The event will raise money to fight the debilitating illness of Alzheimer's Disease. Enjoy Dennis Quaid's rock amd roll. It'll be a family affair. A great time for racing fans to see all the great drivers and take rides with them in their race cars.
Pitcher Perfect
Dennis Quaid brings the heat in ''The Rookie.'' Read an excerpt of EW's article about how a family-friendly baseball flick revived the hard-living star's leading man status by Dave Karger
SCARED STRAIGHT Sobriety has helped Quaid act with restraint. Building on the ensemble successes of 2000's ''Traffic'' and last year's HBO drama ''Dinner With Friends,'' Dennis Quaid, 48, has earned some of his most glowing reviews with a beautifully underplayed title performance in ''The Rookie,'' the true story of Texas science teacher Jim Morris, a former big-league hopeful who, at age 35, finally achieved his dream of pitching for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The million film, Quaid's 40th, cracked a million opening weekend, making it a personal best for the actor.
Quaid remembers catching a 1999 TV news story about Morris, who was then hurling in the minors. ''I thought it'd make a good movie, but I didn't even put a thought to me being in it,'' he says, snacking on sesame wafers and Gatorade on the stone porch of his Emigrant, Mont., ranch. ''When the offer came I said, 'Are you sure I'm not too old for this?''' ''Rookie'' director John Lee Hancock had no such concerns: ''Dennis looks better than any 35-year-old in Big Lake, Tex., I can promise you that.''
No argument there, but give the guy credit for learning a lot along the way. After two decades of showy roles, Quaid knew that this time, it was important to keep the character's emotional trials internal. ''You start out as an actor and you want to do a lot,'' he says. ''And you just learn how to lop it all off. You can say a lot more by doing less.''
Perhaps that realization stems from his first trip above the title. ''Around the time of [1987's] ''The Big Easy'' and [1989's] ''Great Balls of Fire!'' there was all this heat and attention around me,'' he says, puffing on a Marlboro Light. ''I expected it to get more and more, but I went into rehab and took two years off, and the scripts didn't come. I got taught humility. And that's a hard lesson to learn in life. And I will say that being with Meg and things happening so well for her at the time, it made the lesson for me even harder, the struggle even tougher.'' Says Philip Kaufman, who directed Quaid in 1983's ''The Right Stuff'': ''He's come through in a way where you feel that all the experiences he's [had], both on screen and off, have made him a strong man. He's been able to retain a lot of that same stuff that I saw 20 years ago.''
Rooting for him hasn't always been so easy. Several of Quaid's tough-sell projects, notably the medieval thriller ''Dragonheart'' and the pyromaniacal romance ''Wilder Napalm,'' were inaccessible to even hardcore supporters (and disappointments at the box office). ''I try to do as many different characters as I can, and I think that's one of my strengths as an actor,'' he says. ''But maybe it's a weakness, because people don't know what to expect. Actors are like candy wrappers -- you buy a candy bar, you want to know what you're going to get. I've been there before when the movie comes out and there's that Saturday phone call with the funereal voice on the other end [saying] that it's already over.''
He certainly wasn't encouraged when he learned ''The Rookie'' had earned a potentially audience-limiting G rating. ''I said, 'Can't we get a PG?''' he remembers. ''I go to a lot of G-rated movies because I've got a 10-year-old. And I usually have a nice nap. They don't speak to me, you know? I mean, 'Jimmy Neutron'?''
While he may not care for family films, family ties are a theme that will run through Quaid's upcoming work as well. This fall he stars opposite Julianne Moore in the drama ''Far From Heaven,'' playing a husband hiding his homosexuality. And since he owns the movie rights to the life story of stock-car-racing legend Richard Petty, he plans on portraying Petty's dad, Lee. ''They used to race in the same races together and his father one time [protested Richard's victory] so that he could win the race,'' Quaid marvels. ''He was that competitive.''
With ''The Rookie,'' Quaid's back on the fast track. Says Hancock: ''I told Dennis, 'Anytime in the next few weeks, if you're having a bad day, just slip into a theater for the last 20 minutes of this movie and listen to the sustained applause.''' Too bad the movie isn't playing anywhere within 40 miles of Emigrant. But even in the middle of nowhere, Quaid is still enjoying the high. ''I feel a lot of goodwill going on,'' he says, looking toward the limitless sky. ''Jimmy Morris did me a big favor.''
(Posted:04/15/02)Entertainment Weekly
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Thanks Cupid this is fun...Anyone else have something they would like on the site is welcome any little fun thing for Dennis is welcome, but please no gossip. Thanks! Send it to me at Jazz2BM@aol.com Thanks, Lizzy
DQ Trivia and Fun Stuff...
Finally a 12 step program for DQ fans
My Twelve-Step Program to Cure a Dennis addiction:
STEP ONE: Admit you have an addiction.
STEP TWO: Take it one step at a time.
STEP THREE: Understand why obsessing over Dennis is not healthy. (Feel free to take your time)
STEP FOUR: Avoid eye contact with Dennis at all times. (But feel free to look elsewhere)
STEP FIVE: Avoid daydreaming about Dennis Quaid all day. (That leaves all night wide open, though)
STEP SIX: Feel free to carry a pic of Dennis on your purse at all times to help you though the rough times, just don't drool his face away.
STEP SEVEN: Avoid kissing the movie screen every time Dennis appears. (This does, however, leave gawking wide open)
STEP EIGHT: Avoid renting movies with Dennis Quaid in them, unless he has more than a 5 minute role.
STEP NINE: Avoid naming multiple children/pets after Dennis or anything Dennis related. (One is the limit!)
STEP TEN: Limit the use of *his* name to under 50 times a day.
STEP ELEVEN: Sleeping with Dennis' picture is out of the question. (But feel free to kiss it goodnight!)
STEP TWELVE: Remember, overcoming your obsessions won't kill you. But it is well worth "fighting" for!
Remember: We are here to help you!
27 August: The ROOKIE DVD is available in stores everywhere...go get your own copy TODAY!
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