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FACES TO WATCH IN 2008:
Dear Readers: It’s time to meet a few celebrities you'll hear about
in the new year and reacquaint yourself with favorites who
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Lovely Bones, due in March 2009, and she stars in
City of Ember, due next October, with Bill Murray.
►► Another name to know
next year and beyond: Ben
Bames. The young Brit. 26,
snagged the title role in The
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian (May 16) and report
edly will do two sequels.
►► Also, remember Carice van Houten, 31. The B
Dutch beauty, who is a star at home, is in up- H
coming movies opposite leading men. She’s MB
with Tom Cruise in Valkyrie, Leonardo Di- BS
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USA WEEKEND • Dec 28-30,2007
By LORRIE LYNCH
Learn to pro
nounce this name:
Saoirse (SEER-sha)
Ronan. She’s the ac
tress, 13, w-ho shows
such great depth and
range in Atonement.
But don’t just take /
my word for it. *
Know- that Oscar
winning director Pe-
ter Jackson already has
cast the Irish lass in The
BARNES
DO NOT MISS:
► Mike Myers as Pitka in
The Love Guru. You’ve
heard him as Shrek, but it
has been four years since
Myers, 44, has appeared
in a movie. Pitka is his
new character, a love
guru and philosopher
of Eastern religion.
► Scully and Mulder
redux. Rumor has it
i Gillian Anderson, 39,
and David Duchovny,
i 47, take their
' partnership to new
territory in summer's
To ask a question, e-mail whosnews@usaweekend.com or click on “Contact Columnists" at our website. Include name, city, state.
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Gay will go
for the gold
in Beijing.
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I ►► More Olympians: Logan Tom,
mm 26, a volleyball legend, gets that
m people think she’s attractive but
m tells us “there is more to me than
W my looks.” She grew-up in Salt Lake
V City and is a Stanford student who
will finish her degree “when things
slow down.” She’s balancing pro ball in
HF Europe with favorite pas-
W times like cooking. She ,
r says she likes to “bake for
my teammates treats and
things they like to eat.”
►► Gymnast Shawn Johnson, 15 and only
4-foot-8, is the new Mary Lou (as
in Retton); she’s a pint-sized power- _
house from lowa.
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The X-Files movie.
Unfortunately,
no one is leaking
specific spoilers
yet because the
cast and crew
members just
arrived on the set
this month.
DUCHOVNY
► Heath Ledgeras the Joker
in the newest Batman,
The Dark Knight. Ledger, 28,
got so into playing Jack
Nicholson's old role that he
kept a diary filled with images,
thoughts and a list of things
For daily behind-the-scenes tidbits, check out Lome’s new Who’s News Blog at
@ blogs.usaweekend.com
Sprinter Tyson Gay,
named World Athlete of
the Year in November, is
25, handsome and tech
sawy. His website is a
multimedia experience,
L and he blogs from
competitions across
■ the world, although
■.m he jokes that “1
|7 don’t write as fast as
I run.” He revs up
V for races by listening
■ to mellow or spiritual
Y tunes on his iPod. He
runs the 100-meter dash
in 9.84 seconds.
Johnson
c jumps for
V joy and
more.
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►►
that the Joker would
find funny.
► Pierce Brosnan, 54,
singing. ABBA songs,
no less, opposite
Meryl Streep in
Mamma Mia!, the
movie. "What a kick
in the pants to be able to go
spend some time with Meryl
on some Greek island,
singing ABBA songs," the
actor told Variety.
► Winona Ryder, 36, playing
Spock's mother in the current
Star Trek movie.
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Ford Built tough, as Indy
►► Indiana Jones, I mean Har
rison Ford, returns in May after
19 years. Yes, he has been gone
too long, but let’s just embrace the
fact that he’s back, even if he’s
a bit craggier or more taciturn.
Ford, 65, once told me that he
never aspired to direct or to be
one of those multiple-movies-a
year guys. He just likes making
them. And we like watching them.
►► I think Serena Ryder, 24,
sounds like Alanis Morissette.
My daughter, Alicia, says she’s
more Joan Baez. Either way,
Ryder, from Canada, is an im
portant fixture on the music
m scene there. She
will be here, as
well, when her
U.S. debut CD drops
in the spring.
Three hitmakers are turning into country' girls.
Jewel, 33, made five of her six albums in Nashville and
says she’s always wanted to make a country CD, but
her label was afraid. She will put one out in j
the spring with the aid of John Rich, of:
k. the duo Big & Rich. Jessica Simpson, 27, :
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Jewel will become
a country force.
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Tiger Woods 32
Tracey Ullman 48
MattLauer 50
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JoeyMdntyre 35
Li Gong 42
Val Kilmer 48
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Frank Langella 68
13.08
Kate Bosworth 25
Taye Diggs 36
Christy Turlington 39
Cuba Gooding Jr. 40
13.08
Danica McKellar 33
Mel Gibson 53
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Julia Ormond 43
Michael Stipe 48
Patty Loveless 51
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Diane Keaton 62
Robert Duvall 77
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