25th May
2001 - Pearl Harbor Faces Infamy
New film Pearl Harbor (2001) is facing its own bombs - as
American critics viciously turn on it.
Though the $140 million (£115 million) DISNEY flick
is one of Hollywood's most expansive outings ever, the usually
appreciative US press is giving the "schlock" film
a battering.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS describes the popcorn epic as "three
hours of dreck," and chides producer Jerry Bruckheimer
and director Michael Bay for churning out a "dumb, soulless
behemoth that delivers the cinematic equivalent of shell shock".
Invitees to the private screening at the ASTOR PLAZA on Tuesday
(22MAy01) night were just as underwhelmed. Many in the audience
headed for the exits during the picture's final half-hour.
Others broke into laughter during a pivotal scene in which
Kate Beckinsale tells Ben Affleck she had an affair with Josh
Hartnett after Affleck's character was shot down and believed
to be dead.
One dismayed viewer called the flick a "nearly three-hour
video collage of every awful clich‚ you can think of"
and declared, "it is told without emotion, character
or reason. " Another said, "It's really like a giant
cereal commercial - with death raining down. "
23rd May
2001- Beckinsale Turns American
British beauty Kate Beckinsale was "turned American"
by new movie Pearl Harbor (2001), according to her co-star
Ben Affleck.
The pair star in the World War II movie, and Affleck says
he definitely saw Beckinsale change. He says, "She's
almost turning American on us. She's gotten very prudish and
at the same time slightly unpleasant. We're barbarians and
animals here and I don't think she was used to that when we
first started filming. "
5th May
2001 - Kate Beckinsale's Painful Anorexic Past
Ben Affleck's sexy leading lady Kate Beckinsale battled a
deadly eating disorder as a troubled teenage girl. The British
beauty, who plays Affleck's sweetheart in the upcoming movie
epic Pearl Harbor (2001), was once a worryingly thin girl
because of her battle with anorexia nervosa. A former classmate
says, "She was often absent from school, wore baggy clothes
and was very thin. " Kate, 27, believes her problem was
a mental collapse triggered by earlier tragedies. When she
was just six, her actor father RICHARD died of a heart attack
at the age of 31. Three years later, Kate, an only child,
suddenly had to share a house with other children when her
mother moved in with a director who had four sons and a daughter.
Kate adds, "I did mind. I felt invaded. " In her
teen hears, she began showing signs of the disorder. She explains,
"Anorexia is a breakdown. If something traumatic happens
to a child when they're very young, they pick something safer
to worry about. " Kate, who has a two-year-old daughter
with British actor Michael Sheen, was cured of her condition
when after receiving almost five years of therapist treatment
23rd March
2001 - Kate Beckinsale Takes Drastic Revenge
British actress Kate Beckinsale took revenge on a director
who forced her to do a sex scene - by urinating into his thermos
flask.
Kate refuses now to name the director - but feels justice
has been served. The Pearl Harbor (2001) star reveals, "It
made me feel violated and horrible. "I was really disturbed,
and I was kind of in tears and sobbing and begging.
18th February
2001 - Kate Beckinsale Stars in Pearl Harbour For Nothing
British actress KATE BECKINSALE was so determined to star
in DISNEY movie PEARL HARBOR - that she offered to do it for
nothing.
The stunning actress will, however, make a fortune if the
film makes a profit.
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