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Jennifer
Aniston, Bruce Willis, Jessica Lange and Robin Williams are among
the stars who will have films on display at January's Sundance
Film Festival.
  Photos
from L to R: Jessica Lange, today. #2. Lange in King Kong.
It was announced today in
New York that, Jennifer
Aniston, Bruce Willis, Jessica Lange and Robin Williams are among
the stars who will have films on display at January's Sundance
Film Festival, which announced entries Wednesday for its lineup of
premiering films. Aniston stars with Catherine Keener, Frances
McDormand and Joan Cusack in writer-director Nicole Holofcener's
Friends With Money, a tale of three married women and their lone
single friend. The film is one of 17 playing in the high-profile
premieres lineup at Sundance, the top U.S. showcase for
independent movies. The festival runs Jan. 19-29 in Park City,
Utah. Other premieres include Lucky Number Seven, a mob tale
starring Willis, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Josh Hartnett and
Lucy Liu; Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knocking, with Sam Shephard
starring opposite Lange, Sarah Polley and Tim Roth as a
western-movie star on a road trip trying to reconcile with his
messy past; and The Night Listener, starring Williams and Toni
Collette in the story of a radio talk-show host whose life is in
turmoil.
 Photo:
Jennifer Aniston.
Collette also co-stars with Greg Kinnear and
Steve Carell in Little Miss Sunshine, about a family's road trip to
put their daughter into a beauty pageant. Winona Ryder, Joseph
Fiennes, David Arquette and Juliette Lewis are among the ensemble in
The Darwin Awards, about a forensic detective and an insurance
investigator looking into a potential winner of a prize given to
people who kill themselves in idiotic ways. Aaron Eckhart stars with
Katie Holmes, Maria Bello, William H. Macy and Sam Elliott in Thank
You for Smoking, making its U.S. premiere after an acclaimed debut
at September's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by
Jason Reitman, son of Ghostbusters filmmaker Ivan Reitman, the film
is a satire about a spin doctor for the tobacco industry. Terry
Zwigoff's Art School Confidential features John Malkovich, Jim
Broadbent, Angelica Huston and Max Minghella in the tale of a
talentless wannabe artist caught up in a murder that makes him a
celebrity.
 The Sundance premieres also include two documentaries.
Neil Young: Heart of Gold, directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence
of the Lambs), is a portrait of the venerable rocker performing
along with Emmylou Harris in Nashville. Director Kirby Dick's
documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated delves into Hollywood's
movie-ratings system overseen by the Motion Picture Association of
America. A separate Sundance program also has high-profile
documentaries, among them A Matter of Degrees, Davis Guggenheim's
look at Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming.
Shari Cookson's All Aboard, Rosie's Family Cruise follows a boat
trip Rosie and Kellie O'Donnell organized for 500 gay and lesbian
families. Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out is directed by
Stewart Copeland, who examines his life as drummer for the 1980s
rock band led by singer Sting. -By D. Germen.
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The serious side of
Clooney
His physical nightmare started with the
filming of the controversial scene in which Clooney, in the role of a veteran
CIA agent, is tortured by a Middle Eastern thug. Clooney is strapped to a
chair during the brutal interrogation and at one point jerks it over onto the
floor. That spontaneous gesture was his big mistake. "That's what did it," he
remembers. "And it's my fault. I said, 'Tape me to the chair,' because I
wanted it to look really ugly and bad -- and it did. I sort of flung myself
over, but I obviously couldn't protect myself when I hit the floor." Clooney
was in terrible pain for months until his condition was correctly diagnosed.
It was a big price he had to pay for making a movie in which he passionately
believes. On a lighter note, he admits it was no picnic either gaining 30
pounds in order convey the impression of a CIA operative who has started going
to seed but sees that as a valuable tool in ensuring he won't be noticed.
"I
could not have done the film if I had not done that (gained the weight)
because I thought the character really needed to fit into the idea that he's
not recognizable. But physically, it's a very difficult thing when you're 44
and do it from when you're in your thirties and do it." His body flab is hard
for him to watch on screen, and he jokes that when he watched the scene in the
editing room he would quickly flip it forward. There are two aspects of
Clooney on display today -- the pleasant happy-go-lucky star who's always
ready with a quip and who can be very effective at persuading you that life is
just a lark; and, in contrast, the serious committed artist and political and
social activist represented in recent months by Good Night, And Good Luck,
which he also directed, and by Syriana, a provocative thriller about the
labyrinthine political and economic intrigues snaking through the global oil
industry. Good Night, And Good Luck is a period film, focusing on legendary
CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and his lonely battle against the notorious
witch-hunting demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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