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Mirror Mirror Looks Great, Feels Flat

Matt Cantor — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:40:09 CDT

The latest retelling of Snow White (before June's Snow White and the Huntsman ) is a lot like its vain queen: visually stunning, but kind of shallow. Critics aren't particularly impressed with Mirror Mirror : Though director Tarsem Singh "knows how to make performers and sets look good, he has trouble...

UK Bans 'Too Perfect' Julia Roberts L'Oreal Ad

Rob Quinn — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:19:12 CDT

Julia Roberts looks like she hasn't aged a day in her new makeup ad. Now British advertising authorities have told L'Oreal it went too far touching up Roberts'—and Christy Turlington's—face. The cosmetics firm was ordered to pull two overly airbushed magazine ads featuring the models after the regulator...

Larry Crowne Isn't Really Romantic—or Funny

Tim Karan — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:05:11 CDT

Critics are finding plenty to laugh at in Larry Crowne , just not much of what writer/director/star Tom Hanks planned on. With a 36% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes , the romantic-comedy co-starring Julia Roberts is about a middle-aged man making huge changes, but there's little you haven't seen a thousand times...

Julia Roberts, Clinton: Poor Nations Need Clean Stoves

John Johnson — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:32:59 CDT

Hillary Clinton gets a little star power today in pushing one of her initiatives: She and Julia Roberts team up on a USA Today op-ed highlighting the danger of dirty stoves in the developing world. "Some 3 billion people live in homes where food is cooked on stoves or over...

Toxin Plagues Brockovich Town, Again

Matt Cantor — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:50:46 CST

A toxic plume of chromium continues to trouble the California desert town that Erin Brockovich put on the map—and the pollution is getting worse, reports the AP . High levels of the material, which can cause cancer, have spread through wells near Hinkley. “Because of the widespread nature of the...

Search for Diaz, Biel at Your Own Risk

Emily Rauhala — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:40:53 CDT

Searching for Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, or Jessica Biel is risky business, warns online security company McAfee. The stars top the company's annual list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, the AP reports. The celebs are used as bait by scammers seeking to lure people to malicious...

Eat, Pray, Love, Play Bingo!

M. Morris — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:07:20 CDT

Had enough of Julia Roberts and her latest chick flick? The cure is Eat, Pray, Love bingo. Yes, bingo, Dodai Stewart and Sadie Stein blog for Jezebel . Print out your board, smuggle it into the multiplex, and keep your eyes peeled for monkeys, elephants, crying men, and of course eating,...

Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn

Rob Quinn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:42:00 CDT

Eat, Pray, Love looks lovely but lacks both the spice and the depth of the best-selling memoir it's based on, say critics. Julia Roberts stars as a jaded New York divorcee traveling the world to seek enlightenment. Roberts' Liz says she wants to move outside her comfort zone, writes Kirk...

Over-40 Stars Dominate September Issues

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:00:24 CDT

The September issues—typically the biggest of the year for fashion magazines—are out soon, and many of them showcase a trend: Hot over-40 women. Vogue has Halle Berry, 44 on Saturday; Harper’s Bazaar features Jennifer Aniston, 41; and Elle has Julia Roberts, 42. “I love that they've grown into...