Tom & Katie’s Trip to Washington DC

Robert Redford (who also directed), Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep might just as well have appeared on-screen for a couple of minutes with signs that said, ‘War is bad,’ and been done with it. Saves everyone the cost of a ticket.
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Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic

For all its passion and topical currency, the movie plays too often like a college colloquium.
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Ann Hornaday
Washington PostRedford is surely smart enough to realize, as the professor turns his ire on those who merely chatter while Rome burns, that his movie is itself no better, or more morally effective, than high-concept Hollywood fiddling.
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Anthony Lane
New YorkerA shallow tar pit cluttered with skeletal ideas.
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Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street JournalRedford confounds expectations, not politically but dramatically.
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Michael Phillips
Chicago TribuneLambs is utterly lacking in any kind of recognizable cinematic arc, convincing logic, coherent narrative or persuasive political viewpoint.
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Katie is so beautiful and a role model to many of the wrecks in Hollywood and some lowlives around here. Have a great weekend,J.

Thanks for posting this pictorials.

Some of the movies that do well in cinemas actually do get some bad reviews ..However in those cases, the lead actor has to be well liked and box office dream like Will Smith… ..Tom cruise never really got good acting reviews simply that he was well liked at a time when his madness was well covered by Pat, his publicist….Now its all out in the open, TOM cruise is mad..

Not that there is anything with being mad, just that if you dont accept it and seek treatment you are a nuisance to society who stands to be ridiculed…

This is why the MAD sceintologist he seeks refuge in an organization that encourages madness without intervention and prey on their sorry **** minds to enslave the victims…

Tom cruise is MAD as hell and he knows it..also behaves as a standard emotional abuser

Some of you fool scientologist leave such brainless posts its so hilarious just to read them…I guess after a heavy dose of Niacin and Oil and e-metering with high doses of brain wash , you can only FOLLOW stupidly like the RoBoHo.

Many great films are not often seen by the public but await on DVD and especially war-Iraq-911 and western productions dont appeal to the crowd unlike superhero franchises,horror films and comedies.Even cartoons,chick flicks and family movies do better.

I like Rendition,Mighty Heart,Constant Gardener,United,World Trade Center,Good Shephard,Syrianna by Clooney,I love Foxx and Garner in the Kingdom by Peter Berg but the crowd didnt care for them. My fave films are even Flags of our Fathers and Black Hawk down and again it didnt do well at the B.O.

Overall brave and dignified move by Tom. Better greenlighting films for MGM and U.A. like MI-4,Terminator and other sequels.

Katie and Tom are looking radiant.

What a beautiful girl that’s why Suri is a doll.Tom is really lucky. You’re onto something flyby because I happen to love Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgard in Jarhead but it didnt greatly likewise with James Franco in Annapolis and Flyboys.
My other dream guy aside from Tom Cruise is Bale but Rescue Dawn a Vietnam movie didnt do well including 3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe. Im watching Lions for Lambs for Cruise,Streep and Robert but its also something personal for me because my grandpa is a Veteran and my uncle resigned his Wall Street prestigious job joining the Army in Afghanistan. Its really so noble and such a big sacrifice that so many Americans ignore.

“There is a reason why the GMD and his Robobride have been hustling so hard on the MiniVan Majority, because aside from a few famous friends who have ulterior motives themselves, Tom Cruise doesn’t appear to have many fans in hollywood. And especially not heavyweights Robert Redford and Meryl Streep”.

This is the HUGE diference between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt; because Brad Pitt has MANY FANS IN HOLLYWOOD!! Yeah, Brad has the Respect of MANY Hollywood Heavyweights!! The attacks in the tabloids DON’T matter to this Hollywood Heavyweights; because as long as they like you and Respect you… you will be okey!! And that is why… Brad and Angelina’s will be okey; because they are very much respected in the Hollywood community!!

The ones who needs to be worry is Tom Cruise and Jennifer Aniston; because they DON’T have that many friends or fans in the Hollywood community!!!!

hahah..I beg to differ but Jolie is dead meat in Hollywood..she stepped on some serious heavyweight during her first marriage..Billy Bob was living with DIANE KEATON daughter, whose father is another Hollywood A-lister..then she went for BRAD whose wife is tight buddies to a Hollywood clan the arquettes…again..JOlie isolates her family with constant travel from place to place..neither kids not partner have had the time to make friends in an one place they stopped at…they look to Jolie for guidance in everything,.again that kind of isolation can be termed as emotional abuse from mothers…I am the only one who can make things better….They have been unable to live in brad house in LA..she constantly runs away form LA…her feud with her father doesnt not do much for her either..without having him as a father , her academey award would not have come so easily..you can disagree….But as sameul L jackson says, he votes for any friend on the list… It will be a while before either of them win anything in la la land.

Brad still remind friends with clooney even though I guess they see each other every year in Canne..ahahha’
Brad pitt will wake one day and wonder what the hell happened to his life pre jolie and also the kids will wonder why on earth they are so isolated….the idea of her traveling orphanage is juat a sure way to buy more friends for her kids and more people to rely on her..

That girl has emotional issues, all I can is that for noe Brad and those kids are keeping her a bit normal , but when she derails it wont be pretty… I am not overly impressed with her charity , I live int hat world and many have come and gone doing this except its not broadcast in every news media..ask Mis Farrow where she and her son have been in the last 6 months??

Mommy dearest here I came or Zee will do a Soon Yi on her a-r-se..

poor Lainey worshipping Fox News Roger Friedman who is heartbroken that Tom and Katie never gives him interviews but always prioritizes Barbara Walters,Oprah,People and Vanity Fair.
He was all kissy assy to Katie at the Pre Oscar night and begging to have an interview with him.
His angelic facade changed once he saw his other rival networks and magazines reporters in Katie’s van.

Why dont you read about Redford’s defense of Tom Cruise?
Do you also want my copy of Time Magazine of Hollywood’s Top Guns Tom,Meryl and Redford in it?
Maybe you prefer reading low class gossip blogs and the National Enquirer
over real news.

Or better yet do you have the copy of Variety’s report THAT ALL A LISTERS SUFFER AT THE BOX OFFICE?
ALSO the NY DAILY NEWS OF REDSTONE APOLOGIZING AGAIN to Tom,his daughter and Geffen-Spielberg of Dreamworks.

Bravo to Katie for looking so modest,classy,proper and chic on this event. My favorite female Senators were there and even my Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter. This isnt MTV awards folks but Washington D.C.

Unfortunately for scientologist, Friedman is the one who give a good analysis of the sick relationship between these two, he was first to ask why she dissapeared for two weeks and why she got rid of her friend…sceintologists are so stupid that they dont even bother to look at the matierail but rage on how the writer is so terrible because he doesnt follow thier lulalalal madness

I will take friedman over a psycho like hubbard and two uneducated gay midgets anyday…they are even an insult to gay and midgets…two little aliens might fit…

Washington DC folk ate no better than MTV folk..the difference is that even though they all love the show…MTV folk actually earn their money and senators spend OUR money getting fat and stupid..

Lora..make your assumptions for yourself..if you get your imformatin from tabliods, and be happy to limit your assumptions to yourself not others..besides I Have no wish to interact with you..if you are a clam, go back and get into your Niacin and olive oil
and thanks for the correction on the two Dianne’s

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Maybe the excerpt below will qualify as tabliod, but hey I dont know billy bob in person and I never heard they were engaged, just living together, If you live to worship Jolie thats your problem, she can mange her own PR without your help.
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Excerpt form Dern Biography:
Also making an appearance in that legendary episode of Ellen was the red-hot Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton. Her relationship with Goldblum now over, she accepted Thornton’s invitation to appear in a rock video he was making in Little Rock, Arkansas, for Widespread Panic. The tabloids were already claiming the pair were having an affair, and were further fuelled by the fact that Thornton’s fourth wife filed for divorce on the very day Dern travelled to see him. But the affair actually began during the shoot, and the couple were eventually engaged in early 1999. Thornton even wrote Dern an extended Valentine, the film Daddy And Them, where the pair play Claude and Ruby Montgomery, trying to help out murder-charged uncle, Jim Varney. Dern would excel as the supremely jealous Ruby, going hilariously barmy when her husband is seriously injured in a car crash and is attended to by an overly pretty ambulance driver.

Then disaster struck. As Dern put it: “I left our home to go and make a movie, and while I was away my boyfriend got married, and I never heard from him again”. Suddenly, Thornton had fallen for Angelina Jolie and the couple were bragging about their sexual exploits at every opportunity - which Dern must surely have enjoyed immensely. Describing the split as being “like sudden death”, she sought comfort by staying with Rossellini, and talking it over with best friend Meg Ryan. And indeed it would be Ryan who, a year or so later, introduced Dern to her next love - rock star Ben Harper, then himself in the throes of divorce. This relationship would last, son Ellery Walker being born in 2001 and daughter Jaya three years later. Dern and Harper would marry in 2005.

2001 proved to be a great year for Laura, possibly her best yet. She warmed up for it with Robert Altman’s Dr T And The Women, where Richard Gere would play a rich Dallas gynaecologist whose life beguns to crumble when his wife Farrah Fawcett is committed and he falls for golf pro Helen Hunt, all while daughter Kate Hudson plans a spectacular wedding. Dern would show as Gere’s alcoholic and freshly-divorced sister-in-law, adding yet more female complication when she crashes in Gere’s house with her three spoilt children.

Following the finally-released Daddy And Them and a monster hit with Jurassic Park III, Dern would return to TV for Within These Walls, another politically motivated piece. Here she’d play a nun who hopes to rehabilitate women prisoners by teaching them to train dogs, and has to convince a tough warden and tougher jailbirds like Ellen Burstyn. Following this would come Novocaine where dentist Steve Martin was drawn into a seedy underworld of drugs and deception by femme fatale Helena Bonham Carter. Dern would play Martin’s apparently perfect partner, aiding him in his business, vampishly servicing him yet all the while betraying him, added comedy coming from her admirably straight-faced martial arts routines. Next would be Focus, concerning growing tensions between Jews and anti-Semites in Brooklyn towards the end of WW2, William H. Macy playing a good guy who’s afraid to make a stand against burly, crazy Jew-haters like Meat Loaf. But he’s forced to step forward when he marries Laura’s Gertrude, a woman who’s mistakenly thought to be Jewish herself. The movie was chilling, truly intense.

After this - in true Dern fashion - came another movie with a big, big heart. This was I Am Sam, where an Oscar-nominated Sean Penn played a man with a mental age of 7, whose child, Dakota Fanning, is taken from him and handed to foster parents. In desperation, he hires beastly, hard-nosed lawyer, Michelle Pfeiffer, the film’s emotional weight lying in Pfeiffer’s and foster mother Dern’s gradual realisation that Penn and Fanning are indeed an effective family. There’d also be a high-profile TV role, when she’d play US Poet Laureate Tabatha Fortis, causing a stir when she visits the White House in huge hit The West Wing.

2002 would see Dern continue on her crusading way when she reunited with mum Diane Ladd for Damaged Care. Here’d she’d play real-life campaigner Linda Peeno, a doctor in the managed care industry who blew the whistle when she saw medical treatment being denied to those who couldn’t afford it. Meanwhile, her cheating husband James LeGros causes her home life to crash down around her. And there’d be plenty more infidelity in her next cinematic release, We Don’t Live Here Anymore. Based on two short stories by Andre Dubus (In The Bedroom had been based on another), this saw Mark Ruffalo and Peter Krause as small-town college professors, married to Dern and Naomi Watts respectively. When Ruffalo begins an affair with Watts, Dern is pushed into a half-hearted tryst with serial womaniser Krause, real love seeming absent from all their lives. It was painful viewing, particularly as there were kids involved, and Dern was excellent as the hard-drinking Terry, especially intense in her arguments with Ruffalo.

American ennui and emotional confusion would also play a large part in Dern’s next project, Happy Endings, an intriguing piece which mixed several stories of gay lover, blackmail and pregnancy. In one, gay Steve Coogan would obsess over the parentage of a child born to his lesbian friends, Dern and Sarah Clarke. Following this would come The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio, written by Jane Anderson who’d earlier penned Dern’s 1999 outing, The Baby Dance. Set in the 1950s, this would see Julianne Moore raising ten kids on the money she makes from competitions to provide jingles and slogans for commercial products. Trapped in a marriage to drunken, jealous Woody Harrelson, she dreams of visiting Goshen, Indiana, where famed competition winner Dern runs a Contestor Club, Dern’s appearance being brief but, as ever, charming.

There’d be another bit part in Lonely Hearts, where Dern would bring joy back into the life of jaded detective John Travolta as he grieves over his suicide wife and hunts the real-life Lonely Hearts killers in the 1940s. Then Dern would produce some of her most satisfying work in years when reuniting with David Lynch and Diane Ladd for Inland Empire. Here Dern would star as an actress hired by director Jeremy Irons and conducting an affair with co-star Justin Theroux. Now things get strange as her life begins to blend with that of her character, the two realities merging in a most menacing fashion. Strange Poles and weird rabbits (one being played by recent co-star Naomi Watts) would appear as Dern, both a spectator and protagonist, would be taunted, threatened and driven to paranoia. Even by Lynch’s standards, it was highly experimental stuff and was only kept from collapse by a stunning performance by Dern, who was in almost every scene of this three-hour movie.

The next year, 2007, would see Dern join a cast of eccentrics in Year Of The Dog, where a lonely Molly Shannon would suffer the death of her beloved beagle and attempt to fill the void in her life with human rather than canine contact. Useless advice would be given by Dern, playing Shannon’s sister-in-law, a super-mum ludicrously over-protective of her daughter, as the film slipped between comedy and tragedy - as you’d expect from director and writer Mike White, who’d earlier penned The Good Girl. Year Of The Dog would be followed by the psychological thriller Tenderness, where cop Russell Crowe would seek to prove that a teenager just released from jail was a raging psycho and a terrible threat to a runaway girl who’s attracted to him. Dern would play the girl’s alcoholic mother, whose string of annoying boyfriends helps to drive the girl into the arms of the suspected loon.

Dern is still growing - practising yoga, studying theology. She could go anywhere. Perhaps she’ll direct. While filming A Perfect World, she made a 30 minute short called The Gift, about a woman enduring terrible self-examination after a Thornton-like split, and starring Isabella Rossellini. Maybe she’ll try the theatre - in 1990 she starred with Glenn Close in Brooklyn Laundry, one of a few stage roles. Far more likely, you’ll see her continue to switch between major studio movies and small, heartfelt works dealing with social injustice. Her dad killed John Wayne, after all, and Laura Dern is set on making things a-right.

Dominic Wills

Then disaster struck. As Dern put it: “I left our home to go and make a movie, and while I was away my boyfriend got married, and I never heard from him again”. Suddenly, Thornton had fallen for Angelina Jolie and the couple were bragging about their sexual exploits at every opportunity - which Dern must surely have enjoyed immensely. Describing the split as being “like sudden death”, she sought comfort by staying with Rossellini, and talking it over with best friend Meg Ryan. And indeed it would be Ryan who, a year or so later, introduced Dern to her next love - rock star Ben Harper, then himself in the throes of divorce. This relationship would last, son Ellery Walker being born in 2001 and daughter Jaya three years later. Dern and Harper would marry in 2005.