Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Jeff us Toronto my Vancouver Las vegas comm Orlando my Jarvai Artanie Mentz by Job Segnani pm bits today on television skating olympic Gold me Datlef Oksana Baihui is among the an an outdoor rink in in too hot to other include Elvis Stojko and i lampoons loaded spoof of cops an robbers flicks stars Emilio Estevez who is assigned with Wes t sat fuel a Ekson to recover microfilm4 that holds the recipe for co6ries out of Jon full Whf Kathy Ireland and also 8 i r today in music history f a Fri stones played their first concert at the marquee club in Lon the lineup for that Date was Lead of Marist Mick guitarists Keith Marai and Brian Dick Taylor and Mick later of the of born this Day Bill 1937 Cheryl 1951 Pierre 1920 Milton 1908 Christine 1943 soundbite i dont care what the correctness people say most people Are always 1 ready to laugh at every incorrect Host Bill Maher on his nodules approach to today tuneup concerts 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Guys red the zoo minus far imps of the perverse and dead saturday free press entertainment jury m tf7234 d i roster risks her career to search for alien life in her role As a scientist in Contact science Foster had to Bone up for Contact role by Linda Rosborough entertainment reporter new York Jodie Foster is no and Shes got a degree from two her own production company and a lifetime of Hollywood Street smarts to prove but Foster has a dark Little intellectual and Shes Only too delighted to reveal she might play a Brainy astronomer on the big screen in the new movie Contact which opened yesterday in but Foster is a science for Sci ence is truly i got to the and i had studied everything that there was on the i knew says clearly relishing the tale of her University biology i got there and they what is a in four words i ripped it i had a Little fit it was the stupid est thing Ive Ever its the Only class i Ever in the very Public life of 34yearold the failures have been she seamlessly made the transition from child Star to adult actor and All the while earn ing Praise and awards for her working with her is a Complete says Contact director Robert who won an Academy award for directing Forrest and likens Foster to Katharine Hep she can make anything you ask her to do in order to make Contact knew she had to buckle Down and do some Long overdue Sci ence i read a lot of baby books for children on Black the solar galaxies and says Fos dressed despite the Manhattan muguiness in a Black sweater set and that was the Only Way i could get through that int to say Foster Hast been thoroughly committed to the lion project during its several years in or that she want inspired by the which is based on the 1985 novel by the late Carl spending time with who died of cancer last year during the filming of the was an important event in Fosters i had one of those amazing one of those moments youll never where you talk about life and humanity and Why you do what you she you All get tears in your it was just a great she left her with a gift the enthusiasm and dreariness with which he approached he was an intensely romantic per that was his relationship to Sci in says Sagans widow and writing partner Ann Foster conveys Many of Sagans qualities in her portrayal of Ellie a woman who risks her promising career to search for extraterrestrial when you look at you dont doubt for a Druyan you completely believe Jodie has the brains and stuff to do like Foster admits she is sceptical about the existence of a question the movie grapples i absolutely believe what Ellie theres no direct How can you ask me to believe in god when theres no evidence i can see she but i do believe in the Beauty and Awe inspiring mys Tery of the science that out the things we Haven this is about As personal As a notoriously private is Likely to she Doest talk about her per Sonal even As she copes with being a Public mention John the Man who shot and wounded the presi Dent Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an Effort to impress and Foster Visi Bly then reaches for a Plas tic bottle of i have no part in she addressing Hinckley recent petition to the courts to allow him Day pass i have no feelings about it was a Long time i feel i comment on something that has nothing to do with nor will she talk about her older who wrote a unauthorized biography called Fos Ter in which he speculates about his Sisters sexual preferences and writes of their California the Foster in a state ment issued in is a cheap cry for attention and Money and that she has scarcely seen her brother in the last two after that her mood brightens instantly when Mel Gibsons name comes famous for his practical jokes on movie is a particular Delight to he cant help she talking about the actors mischievous its a disease with if you see him sitting you know Hes thinking something after doing Maverick together in Foster and Gibson were keen to work together she was the first Choice to play opposite him in the upcoming conspiracy but the role went to Julia Roberts when its shooting schedule conflicted with i would have been Happy to be a production assistant on that Foster lamenting the missed she even spent her Only Day off in los Angeles during the Contact shoot to visit the conspiracy theory in a almost Tomboyish Ges Foster pulls her Sandal led feet up onto the hugging her folded legs to her Hes absolutely a she says eagerly of there Are very few times when that happens in your you get to a certain Point in your life when you dont need any More but the first time i met i knew wed be in addition to her Foster maintains a close relationship with her Mother and two she also picks and chooses her projects care and vows to never again make three movies a Ive been doing it for so Long i know How to turn on the pressure and turn off the says Fos who confesses to keeping her oscars in her bathroom because they match the it can be very confusing for your she Ive just been incredibly and i would not be As Happy if i haunt had this Craft in my 4v i ref i the Foster real name Alicia Christian Foster she was called Jodie after family friend1 Josephine whom everyone called to born in los Angeles education she graduated with a Bache lors degree from Yale University Iri Foster specialized in Africa american career Start at the age of became the famous Coppert the age of she had 40 commercials under her j by taxi Driver Tutor which she received Ari Academy award nominal tool f bugs Maione v the accused for which she Wona actress Oscar the silence of the lambs which earned her second 13 Little Man Tate which also marked her directing debut m Maverick 4 Nell Canadian connection Fosters Tion company egg has the movie rights to Margaret Atwoods bestselling alias Foster left accepts Oscar her role in taxi Driver right won a nomination ill Icli super summer Speedway v e n t i n Centre court a me shopper gwm members can enter to win free tickets to super Speedway at Max from jew is in will he to ruins m he m july w july 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