Julia Roberts Will Star in Fireflies in the Garden

Ryan Reynolds already has his Truman Show. It's called The Nines, and it will change his profile in the industry dramatically (you might say).

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Ryan Reynolds certainly has the potential to be a leading man. Yes, he's done mostly toilet-humor type roles, but I think he could handle a dramatic role quite nicely. He certainly has the looks. Best of luck to him...

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I think there's a point when comedic actors want to take on the more serious role and I love that. At the end of "Just Friends"... there was a serious moment there with Ryan Reynold's character and he actually had a few tears in his eyes :) I think it's doable... they are actors; it's their job to be able to be serious.. funny.. weird, likeable, hated. I'm looking forward to it :)

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Ryan Reynolds has my vote for a leading man. I think he will do his roll justice. Ju8lia Roberts is also a fine actress. I try to see all her movies

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I'm glad to hear Julia Roberts is getting back to work. I've always enjoyed her movies and her "girl next door" charm. It's nice she took time off for her babies, but it's going to be nice to see her back in the theatre, too! I wish her luck!

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Julia Roberts is one of the least talented actress's in films. Her rise to stardom was the begining of a trend that rewards untalented, mediocre looking people with star status.

In the future, media historians will study this trend, and call it what it is. A reflection of the way society has become so bland, banal, and boring.

Real talents, like Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, and Kate Hepburn set standards so high, none of these wanabes can fill their shoes.

Thus, we get very poor imitations and posers.

The public has no idea how badly they are being cheated.

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>>Real talents, like Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, and Kate Hepburn

While I agree Hollywood is filled with talentless pigs these days, I disagree that they're ALL talentless and/or mediocre. I'm old enough to remember "the oldies", and while I still enjoy some of their work, "talent" like Richard Burton or Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart that only surfaced after swigging down a few bottles of gin is over-rated IMHO.

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I freaks me out to think that any actress today can bring to the screen, and sorry to say include Meryl Streep, the feelings we all felt when the big guns were on the screen and the Movie magazines were in every teenagers room, cut outs of their favorite stars and pasted on their walls. All that comedy and dreama was given to us to love and we treasured it without having to hear one dirty word, any sex or nudity,and no pyro graphics needed. You were up front and personal even though the stars had a private life, they were really concerned that their fans only know them from the screen or from receiving an autograph, but we really did not need to hear about them throwing up in the toilet, taking laxatives, going to rehab, and falling down drunk in their designer clothes. That is why Hollywood WAS so romantic, because we felt their power to seduce us on the screen by sheer acting, and we wanted that. It was never about money, drugs, or sex. What the hell happened? There is no one left but maybe Gena Rolands, who is still terrific today, and has maintained her beauty. No scandal, no drugs just pure acting. Sorry Meryl, you were never bigger than life to me up there on the screen. You are not in the same seat that was driven by the big guns. I sure miss a really great movie with really great acting. As a matter to consider, the best movies coming out today where there is some teeth in the acting and some teeth in the story is coming from England, France, Irland, Italy, India, Mexico, Spain, Africa, and everywhere else but here. The Hollywood sign is the only reminder of what was. What is now, is the lost land of Hollywood, and Paris Hilton. Ugh!! I would pay any amount for a new actor to come out of Hollywood and entertain us. We really need the old Hollywood back. It was our only was to escape. We went out to the movie theater, rain, snow, sleet or heel, because we love sitting with stranger who liked the same movie we did and look up at that screen and laugh and cry with the story. Then we went out to dinner and talked about what we just saw, and how terrific the acting of Bette Davis, Lana Turner and all of the great dead actors were and how terrific we felt talking and eating dinner with our finds or on a date. It was so powerful. Now we don't need to be in a room with stranger who like the films we like, so we went out and bought ourselves these monster television, and created a monster entertainment room, and we watch it from home and then go to sleep. Watching real acting should be done with a lot of people who you know or don't know and going into the beautiful theatre's and waiting for the movie to start like our children did when we took them to watch Cinderella, or Peter Pan. Their eyes just lite up like a Christmas tree, and we knew how they felt because we had the same experience when we were small like them. For goodness shake get some brain back in Hollywood and have him give us back what was taken from us. The best time in our lives.

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yuck! All the great actors are dead. No one can bring back the dead. All the acting you see is done by people who act like they are dead. No real feelings coming out to touch us. Just reading lines and having great hair and teeth. What is missing is the truth. Their are no good or great actors to entertain us anymore. Mr. Scorsese, Mr. Tarantino, Mr Spielberg as good a Director you may be, you cannot really earn your keep until you bring us the actors Alfred Hitchcock help create. You failed us with popcorn, and soda, but you did not fill us with real acting. I really think Mr. Eastwood may have something close to what we had in great directors and actors, but violence and more violence is made for the drive-in movies. Sorry, that my opinion and I'm sticking to it. With all due respect.

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Well, Jesus, terri, if all modern movies and all modern actors, without exception, suck so much, why the hell are you hanging out on a movie news web site?

Excluding cannibals and some serial killers, you sound like the least fun person to hang around with I can possibly imagine.

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