It’s a happy birthday to Rachel Nichols, who turns 28 today. And what better way to celebrate, really, than with an espresso-like double shot of the fetching starlet?
I’m a stranger to her work on Alias, alas, but Nichols seems to really have a smart sense of how to play a scene to go along with her Northeastern-esque, Abercrombie & Fitch-style hotness. She first made her mark in 2003’s Dumb & Dumber prequel. Small but memorable turns in The Amityville Horror, Shopgirl, and May director Lucky McKee’s Sick Girl follow-up, 2006’s The Woods, gave way to a slightly larger role in Resurrecting the Champ, a starring role opposite Wes Bentley in the thriller P2, and a bit part in Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War, with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. Too bad, in a way, that she’s been snapped up as part of the ensemble for The Mummy director Stephen Sommers’ update/adaptation of G.I. Joe, planned as Paramount’s summer action tentpole for 2009; it’ll boost her profile, sure, but I’d love to see Nichols instead get the chance to brighten up a romantic comedy.
Daily Archives: January 8, 2008
Golden Globes Are No More
After much haggling and horse-trading in an attempt to salvage some of the celebratory PR value of the when-worlds-collide event, Variety is reporting that the Golden Globe ceremony for next Sunday, January 13, is no more. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 65th annual awards show has been downscaled from a gala dinner ceremony and live
telecast to an hour-long news conference at the Beverly Hilton. Huzzah!
This outcome shouldn’t be that shocking — this is one of the few opportunities the writers have to actually evidence that they collectively have a pair. Back-channel attempts were made to reach an accord that would allow the event to proceed in some fashion without the oh-so-distasteful pictures (and, more importantly, lack of stars) that picketing outside would produce, but now that the studio after-parties have started being canceled, one by one, it’s all over but the hand-wringing and recrimination.
The real question, moving forward, is how this will affect the box office fortunes of movies like Atonement, which led the honored films with seven nominations — including best acting honors for Keira Knightley and James McAvoy — or, for that matter, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s California oil-boom epic There Will Be Blood, which many mainstream audiences still haven’t yet glimpsed. (Hey, not to mention special events like the Globe spin-off screening series at the Aero and Egyptian theaters, for which Marc Forster had already bowed out, given that he’s lensing the 22nd Bond picture.) It’s too bad that caterers will take a seasonal hit — I feel bad for them, at least.