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Henry Seltzer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:27:59 -0400

Katie Holmes Less Popular Than Nicole Kidman on Broadway

Alissa R — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:22:55 -0400

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Her stage debut All My Sons has reportedly sold less than $1 million in advance tickets

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Advance ticket sales for Katie Holmes' Broadway debut in All My Sons are far below those for Nicole Kidman's 1998 run in The Blue Room, the New York Post reports.

Less than $1 million in tickets for All My Sons — which begins previews in September – have been sold compared to $4 million for Kidman's Broadway stint, according to the paper.

"I've bought 1,000 tickets to the show," a broker told the Post. "I still have them."

(Neither of Tom Cruise's women topped tickets for Julia
Roberts' 2006 show Three Days of Rain, which sold out in one day, the Post reports.)

A show rep tells Usmagazine.com: “We don’t discuss advance sales.”

Furthermore, tickets to see Kidman — who briefly appeared nude in the show — went as high as $700 while premium tickets for Holmes' show are netting $300.

"I think if she takes off her clothes, she may catch up!" a Broadway insider joked to the Post.

(See pics of Katie's hair transformation.)

The paper blames lackluster sales on Cruise's declining popularity since the 1990s. Kidman's debut on Broadway coincided with the release of their controversial flick Eyes Wide Shut and he was touted on mag covers as
the biggest movie star in the world.

"People aren't shelling out $110 for a play anymore," a broker told the Post. "It doesn't matter who's in it."

(See pics of Tom & Katie's daughter Suri.)

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Henry Seltzer — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:20:10 -0400

Pregnant Nicole Kidman: "I Started Crying" When I Saw My Ultrasound

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"I didn’t think I’d get to experience that in my lifetime," she tells Vogue

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Nicole Kidman is opening up in July's Vogue about expecting her first child with husband Keith Urban.

After suffering two miscarriages with ex Tom Cruise, the 40-year-old actress (who is due in July) said she cried when she saw the ultrasound.

"I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime," she admits. "I like the unpredictable nature of it. To feel life growing with you is something very, very special, and I'm going to embrace that completely."

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Kidman — who has two adopted children, Connor, 13, and Isabella, 15, from her marriage to Cruise — also sounded off on:

Being happy and pregnant:
"My sister has had four kids, and she says that when you're pregnant you draw people to you who are genuinely happy. She's right. It taps into that thing in human nature that is universal and collective and beautiful."

Life in Tennessee:
"I've been in Tennessee, just sitting. We have a farm there, and I have an organic vegetable garden. This is a path I'd not taken before. My mum's always gardened. My sister gardens. And I've now conformed to the Kidman women's hobby of gardening. And it is just a hobby. I'm not feeding the troops. There's a softness to the Tennessee landscape that I just love. It's very beautiful out there. We have deer and wild turkeys."

Keith Urban's battle with addiction:
"I'm so committed to this relationship, and so is he. I don't have addiction problems, but love is a very powerful force in my life. It's my fatal flaw and my virtue."

New appreciation of life:
"You can fight life. You can wriggle and squirm and say, 'This isn't right.' But I'm glad I've learned to let things flow. I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way. So to be given the blessing of a child at this stage of my life, you just say, 'Wow, this was meant to be.' "

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PLUS: Nicole Kidman is "so excited about this pregnancy," Kristin Chenoweth says

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What are Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal like as a couple?

"Perfect!" Witherspoon's Four Christmases co-star Kristin Chenoweth told Usmagazine.com at the Tony Awards in NYC Sunday.

Chenoweth is a big fan of Witherspoon.

"We played sisters," she says. "I loved it!"

Off-set, the petite Broadway star says she'd happily double date with Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal.

"It'd be fun!" she says.

(See 12 pics of Reese and Jake.)

Chenoweth also spoke about her Bewitched co-star Nicole Kidman.

"I want her to have an easy delivery [and] a healthy baby," she said. "I know she's so excited about this pregnancy. So good, warm wishes.

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Chenoweth revealed she's been dating Charlie McDowell — the writer/director son of Mary Steenburgen — for "two months, three months.”

"She did a film with my mother, so we met on set," McDowell told Us. "I kept asking her out and then it finally worked."

(Check out pics of other Spring Flings.)

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Pregnant Nicole Kidman: "I Feel Good!"

Lindsay Powers — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:06:20 -0400

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Nicole Kidman isn't letting her bump slow her down.

"I feel good," Kidman, 40, told Usmagazine.com at the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night.

The seven-months pregnant star, 40, donned YSL to walk the red carpet with husband Keith Urban.

(See the night's other best dressed stars here.)

So are they excited for the baby, due in July?

"Well, God, yeah!" Urban, 40, told Us.

As for names, the couple of about two years is keeping mum.

"We got a few in mind," Urban hinted. "We will see."

Also at the Las Vegas show were Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney, who won entertainer of the year for the fourth straight year!

Here's a complete list of winners:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
* Kenny Chesney

TOP MALE VOCALIST
* Brad Paisley

TOP FEMALE VOCALIST
* Carrie Underwood

TOP VOCAL GROUP
* Rascal Flatts

TOP VOCAL DUO
* Brooks & Dunn

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Tom Cruise to Oprah: I Have Been "Misunderstood"

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:17:46 -0400

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He also takes on rumors that his marriage to Katie Holmes is fake

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In the first part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey (airing Friday), Tom Cruise reveals that he jumped on her couch in 2005 because he was so in love with Katie Holmes and couldn't contain himself.

Winfrey confessed that the incident caught her by surprise.

"When we finished that show with you jumping up on the sofa, I was like, 'Wow. What was that?'" she tells him in an interview in his Telluride, Colo., home. "I had no idea it was going to turn into an international brouhaha, as I'm sure you did not either."

She even confesses, "I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident."

Cruise tells Winfrey, "I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her.

"I can't even articulate it, to be honest," he adds. "That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me."

Of the negative response to his couch jumping, Cruise says, "It just kind of kept going.

"Those things I kind of go, 'You just have to take in stride.' It just kind of became a confluence of things."

ON ATTACKING MATT LAUER

He also opened up about his 2005 interview with Matt Lauer (Cruise attacked the anchor, calling him "glib" during a chat about psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs).

"I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer," Cruise says. "For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It's not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this."

(Cruise now says of medicating children, "I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision.")

ON SLAMMING BROOKE SHIELDS

He says his comments on post-partum depression "came out wrong." (He slammed Brooke Shields in the same 2005 interview for taking Paxil to treat post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan.)

"What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way," Cruise says.

He says the incident has brought the two of them "closer" (Shields attended his 2006 wedding to Holmes.)

ON BEING A SCIENTOLOGIST

Cruise dodges Winfrey's question about whether he feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement.

"It's a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it]," he says. "I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.

"The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others," Cruise adds. "That's part of being a Scientologist, and that's who I am as a person."

In January, videos leaked online of Cruise at Scientology events discussing the religion. He says the footage "was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I'm actually talking to my congregation."

"It's [taken] totally out of context," he adds.

ON BUYING A SONOGRAM MACHINE FOR HOLMES DURING HER PREGNANCY

Cruise says he and Holmes took great pains to keep her pregnancy private. "We went in the middle of the night, and we were very excited -- this is such a private moment," he says.

"My life was already a zoo," he says. When news leaked, "it was off the charts."

As for purchasing a sonogram machine for Holmes, Cruise explains, "When you're having a baby, you just want it to be as safe and as easy as possible."

ON KEEPING SURI HIDDEN FOR SO LONG

Lots of rumors spread about their daughter, Suri, because the couple kept her hidden after she was born. Some blogs speculated that the child was deformed. That talk, Cruise says, was "hard to hear.

"We just want to have our baby, have the kids and everyone get to know Suri, get the family up here and just chill and have that time that you never get back," he explains. "You don't ever get those moments back."

On waiting three months to publish her photo in Vanity Fair in 2006, Cruise says, "Kate and I didn't feel any need to [rush] it. We said, 'Why? It's our family.' We just were on Suri time."

ON DAUGHTER SURI

"She's spectacular," he says. "She really is just magic."

His two children with ex Nicole Kidman, Connor and Isabella, "were really excited."

ON HIS MARRIAGE WITH HOLMES BEING FAKE

"That's laughable to me," Cruise says. 'You just know that they're trying to sell it and spin it."

He says Holmes' Catholic family has welcomed him.

"They're amazing. I love them," Cruise says. "You see why Kate is such an amazing woman -- incredible integrity and strength. They're family."

ON RUMORS THAT HE HAS PUSHED NICOLE KIDMAN OUT OF THEIR KIDS' LIVES

"No, that's ridiculous," he says. "We share custody. That's what it is."

ON HIS REPUTATION

"Listen I, I feel like definitely things have been misunderstood, and there are things I could have done better," Cruise admits. "But then there's also that world where you go, 'Oh, it's been spun to such an extent that ... that's a truth also.'

He continues, "Knowing when and where to communicate, I think that's important.

"A lot of times I was nervous giving interviews. Or I wasn't sometimes as comfortable about things. And I realized that it's okay.

"There's stuff you have to just let go," Cruise adds. "I just have to do the best I can."

Part two of Oprah's interview airs Monday (check your local listings).

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Nicole Kidman "Really Excited" for Son Connor's Movie Debut

Lindsay Powers — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:39:38 -0400

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He shot his role as a young Will Smith more than a month ago

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Nicole Kidman couldn't be prouder that her 13-year-old son Connor is following in her famous footsteps.

The pregnant actress, 40, is “really excited for Connor,” her rep tells Usmagazine.com.

Connor, 13, landed a minor, non-speaking role as a young Will Smith in the drama Seven Pounds.

He shot his part over two days more than a month ago, the Associated Press reports. The movie — about a man who affects the lives of seven strangers — co-stars Rosario Dawson.

Kidman adopted Connor and her other daughter, Isabella, 15, with ex Tom Cruise.

She is expecting her first child with husband Keith Urban this summer. See more star bumps here.

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Nicole Kidman Wants House Near Pal Naomi Watts

Lindsay Powers — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:32:13 -0400

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"Her favorite home is within walking distance" of Watts, a source tells Us

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Nicole Kidman is on the hunt for a new home, Us Weekly reports in its newest issue on stands now.

No. 1 on Kidman’s real estate checklist: proximity to her BFF, fellow Aussie Naomi Watts, 39.

On March 15, the pregnant actress, 40, did some househunting after spending quality time with her kids with ex Tom Cruise — son Connor, 13, and daughter Isabella, 15 — at Watts’ L.A. pad.

(Kidman’s hubby, Keith Urban, was on tour.)

“Nicole had her people call Naomi’s next-door neighbors to ask if they would be interested in selling their house — even though it wasn’t on the market,” a source says of the bicoastal star, who often stays at Watts’ house.

The neighbors turned down the offer, but Kidman, who next costars with Hugh Jackman in Australia, out later this year, hasn’t lost hope and has continued looking at properties in the $8 million range (two other requirements on her checklist: good views and long driveways).

Adds the source, “Her favorite property so far is a Nantucket-style home. Although the home is not on Naomi’s block, it is within walking distance.”

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