Greg Kinnear
Although Kinnear initially came to prominence in the early '90s as the sarcastic host of the cable series Talk Soup, a versatile actor lay behind his smarmy smirk. After helming his own eponymous late...
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
06/16/1963
Logansport, IN |
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CANNES: Need Tickets? Good luck
August 16, 2001 10:13am ESTCANNES, May 14, 2000 -- How can the festivities get any hotter than they already are? The weekend has arrived which means there are even more parties and more outfits. And oh, yes, there are now even more hordes of Cannes fans. They start camping out (some of them fully equipped with collapsible benches and gourmet picnics) in front of the red carpeted Palais as the sun comes up and wait more than 12 hours to catch a glimpse of the stars and the auteurs and their muses (if they can get them in.
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CANNES: Drama Queens (and Kings) Reign
August 16, 2001 10:13am ESTCANNES, May 12, 2000 -- Large gray clouds loom over Le Grand Cannes. It adds to the drama, the chaos, the delayed plane flights … But that isn't stopping our favorite heroes -- Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman -- from bursting on the scene today for the out-of-competition screening of "Under Suspicion." Yes, the Cannes Film Festival gets serious today with the unfolding of some tres (there's that French again) tough dramas. A rundown: British director Ken Loach is famous for getting to the emot
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COMMENTARY: Blockbuster's Valentine Blunders
August 16, 2001 10:13am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 14, 2000 -- So, today's Valentine's Day, and there are many reasons to be bitter. (Being single one great reason to be bitter). So, it didn't help that Blockbuster, that rental behemoth, last week released its Top 10 list of the most romantic films of all-time. Of all-time? Oh, really. Consider: 10. "The Wedding Singer" (1998) 9. "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997) 8. "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968) 7. "Jerry Maguire" (1996) 6. "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993) 5. "Ch
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COMING SOON: Madonna, Movie Star (Take 14)
August 16, 2001 10:13am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Acting ability aside, you have to admire Madonna's tenacity when it comes to putting herself time and again in front of the lens, raw and intrepid -- as if she's never heard of seriously bad flicks such as "Body of Evidence," "Who's That Girl" and "Shanghai Express." The list goes on and on. "Next Best Thing" So this Friday finds the M One going at it all over again with "The Next Best Thing" (opening nationwide). In her continual quest to prove that sh
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Carson Daly to host NBC's "Later"
August 15, 2001 12:07pm ESTMTV icon Carson Daly will host NBC's late night talk show Later.
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'Whole Nine Yards' Defeats 'Next Best Thing'
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Despite all the hype, Madonna came in second best at the weekend box office.Studio tracking studies predicting a first-place opening for Paramount's "The Next Best Thing," the romantic comedy/drama teaming the Material Girl with Rupert Everett, were wrong. Instead, top honors went for the third consecutive weekend to Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards."Bruce Willis "Yards," the R-rated hit comedy from Warners, Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures, held str
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'Whole Nine Yards' Continues to Score
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards" easily held on to first place despite tracking studies that had projected Dimension Films' opening of "Reindeer Games" would be the weekend's big winner. "Reindeer Games " Although the tracking data had pointed to an opening of $10 million to $12 million for "Reindeer," no film managed to crack double digits last weekend. "Reindeer" wound up an embarrassed No. 3 for the weekend with a red face and nose. The weekend's
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News Roundup: July 26
July 27, 2001 8:05am ESTNews Roundup: July 26, 2001
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Kinnear, wife lose baby
May 16, 2001 10:09am ESTActor Greg Kinnear and wife Helen Labdon lost the baby they were expecting this summer, a spokeswoman for the couple told USA Today on Wednesday.
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Box Office Analysis 3-25
May 08, 2001 4:19am ESTHeartbreakers takes the weekend box office by storm.
