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Tom Cniise and Nicole Kidman are no longer Hollywoorft power couple. Cruise filed
for (fivorce on Wednesday, dting'irreconcilable differences.'
Cruise, Kidman
conflict shocks all
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES -Tom Cruise
filed for divorce Wednesday, citing
irreconcilable differences as the
reason for splitting with actress
Nicole Kidman after 10 years of
marriage.
The Superior Court petition,
filed two days after the couple dis
closed their separation, said they
will share custody of their adopted
children Conor, 6, and Isabella, 8.
"It is Tom Cruise’s desire that
the dissolution of the marriage be
handled amicably,” attorney
Dennis Wasser said. "His major
concern is the welfare of the par
ties’children.”
The couple separated in
December, the filing said. On
Monday, the couple blamed “diffi
culties inherent in divergent
careers” for keeping them con
stantly apart
Publicists said the actors
would have no additional com
ment
Itis the second failed marriage
for Cruise, who divorced Mimi
Rogers in 1990 after three years.
That same year, Kidman and
Cruise met on the set of "Days of
Thunder” and were married that
Christmas Eve inltelluride, Colo.
Cruise, 38, has starred in a
number ofhigh-grossing and crit
ically acclaimed films, including
“Born on the Fourth of July,” "A
Few Good Men,” “Jerry Maguire,”
"Mission: Impossible,” "Rain
Man,” “Tbp Gun” and “Magnolia.”
Kidman, 33, spent three
months in Spain last fall filming
“The Others,” and Cruise was one
of the executive producers. Her
movie credits include “Batman
Forever,” “Malice” and “To Die
For”
The couple also starred
together in the films “Far and
Away" and 1998's “Eyes Wide
Shut,” the erotic final film of
Stanley Kubrick.
The couple divided their time
between homes in New York, Los
Angeles, Colorado and Kidman’s
native Australia, where news of
the breakup hit hard. A front-page
headline Wednesday in The
Australian read: “Ibm and Nicole
admit it's mission impossible.”
The couple were the toast of
Sydney last year, living in a sprawl
ing mansion while filming sepa
rate projects. They appeared regu
larly at social functions and Cruise
won the hearts of sports fans by
throwing his support behind a
local rugby league team.
Ros Reines, a gossip columnist
with the tabloid Sunday
Telegraph, said she was shocked.
“They were the Hollywood
dream couple - our Nic and Tom,”
she said.
However, not all papers were
sympathetic.
“Balancing work and family
life is a formidable challenge for
us all, but Tom and Nicole are
among those best-equipped to do
it,” The Australian said, pointing
out the couple was worth an esti
mated $250million. “Who do Tom
and Nicole think they’re kidding?”
Mylow brings energy
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night has been a thrill for Stump.
“It's like being Batman/
Stump says.
Mylow performs a high-ener
gy live set, drawing off of the
dynamics of the crowd. The set list
of each show is determined as the
performance progresses, creating
a spontaneous feel for the band as
well as the crowd.
Mylow strives to send listeners
away happy and believes they hit
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“They leave feeling like valued
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Although Thursday nights at
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fold the weekly commitment to
playing is like an added rehearsal
Mylow thinks that the Grove’s
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draw a larger crowd, offering 10
cent draws from 9 to 10 pjn.
Lloyd says, “If you’ve got a
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highly suggest you have your
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Having played with various
groups like Grasshopper
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ing their sound to various audi
ences and invites promising local
acts to join them every Thursday
at the Grove. This week, Common
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ing band
Myiow is putting foe finishing
touches on their first full-length
album, “On This Side.” They plan
to send foe album to record labels
around foe country and sell them
at their shows.
Lloyd, Stump and Lahman are
ready to take their sound to a larg
er audience. Although, Stump
points out that its rare to be a pro
fessional musician “as long as B.B.
King’s been at it,” Lloyd says he's
willing “to do this as long as they
let me”
'Hannibal'adds new flavor to tale
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Imagine that
your favorite restaurant has
reopened under new manage
ment The cuisine is different the
hostess unfamiliar and the decor
a litde exotic.
You miss the old place, until
you notice that the same old chef
is behind the stove, simmering
and grilling, and your favorite
waiter ambles over with a
crooked smile.
Now it might seem rude to
flee.
In a similar way, the produc
ers of "Hannibal” also hope you’ll
stay.
Their sequel to “The Silence of
the Lambs” has a new director,
screenwriter and female lead, but
they hope you’ll sample the fare
nonetheless.
This time, director Jonathan
Demme, screenwriter Ted Tally
and Jodie Foster are out.
Replacing them are director
Ridley Scott, screenwriters Steven
Zaillian and David Mamet, and
Julianne Moore as FBI agent
Clarice Starling.
But two key ingredients
remain: Thomas Harris, who pro
vided a new menu with his best
selling follow-up novel, and
Anthony Hopkins, who’s back for
another feast as the urbane can
nibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
“I know the expectations of
die audience,” says Hopkins, who
won the 1991 best-actor Academy
Award for playing Lecter and sent
theatergoers into the night mak
ing fava bean and Chianti jokes.
"I did make a conscious deci
sion not to repeat the same tricks
of‘The Silence of the Lambs’ - to
introduce bits and pieces of his
character, but not to go on play
ing the same old, ‘Ahhh, Clarice
he says, momentarily slipping
into character.
Moore, on the other hand,
faced a different dilemma. Her
character had already been bro
ken in by another actress who had
done such a good job that she’d
also been rewarded with an
Oscar.
“My biggest concern always,
whenever I take any kind of role, is
am I going to be able to do the
part justice?” Moore says. “That
was particularly the case with this
because it was played to perfec
tion by Jodie Fbster.”
TWo others who weren't in the
original also grabbed meaty
parts: Gary Oldman, as a former
victim of Letter's, and Ray Liotta,
who plays Starling's boss.
liotta got the job after button
holing the director outside a Los
Angeles gym.
“To work with Anthony
Hopkins playing this part is like
working with Martin Scorsese
doing a Mafia movie,” says liotta,
who starred in Scorsese’s mobster
masterpiece “Goodfellas.” “It’s
their forte. What can be better
than that?"
The new $80 million movie
begins 10 years after Starling and
Lecter last battled wits. He’s laying
low in Italy, while she is souring
on the FBI and its bureaucracy.
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