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Nicole Kidman and keith Urban carry adorable daughters Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret through the airport to catch a departing flight on Thursday (June 21) in Sydney, Australia.

The Aussie actress celebrated her 45th birthday the day before! Happy belated birthday, Nicole!

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“Just being celebs. Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. Buy me lunch.” Nashville June 24,2012

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KEITH NICOLE AND SUNDAY OUT FOR FROYO June 27,2012 Nashville

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That's Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman!!!!! June 30, 2012 Nashville

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Emmys 2012: Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen celebrate award nods

SOURCE:LATIMES.COM
By Patrick Kevin Day and Amy Kaufman
July 19, 2012, 9:57 a.m.

Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen were together for the lengthy three-and-a-half month San Francisco shoot for the HBO movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn," but on Emmy nomination morning they were worlds apart. Owen was vacationing in the English countryside with his family while Kidman was sweltering at home in the punishing heat of Nashville.

Kidman, who was nominated for lead actress in a miniseries or movie for playing journalist and wife of Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, wasn't expecting the call to tell her about the nomination. In fact, she thought the phone ringing was her publicist calling to tell her that the risque photo shoot she'd done the day before was a mistake.

How risque was the shoot?

"Oh, you know, what's risque for me is probably not risque for the world," she said.

Kidman is currently preparing to travel to the south of France to play Grace Kelly in the film "Grace of Monaco."

Meanwhile, Owen, who received a nomination for lead actor in a miniseries or movie for playing Hemingway, was mostly off the grid at his country home and in a more reflective mood. "I think it’s interesting to think about why [Hemingway]’s such a popular figure," he said. "To some extent, he’s been out of favor for a while. Going back and looking at all his writing, I think time will prove what a force he was."

The HBO film received 15 nominations, including one for outstanding miniseries or movie.

As for celebrations, Owen was with one of his daughters and enjoying his summer off. And Kidman just wanted to beat the heat.

"My husband’s got the day off, so we will go and pick up our daughters from this little kind of preschool thing and then we’ll go get Popsicles," she said. "That sounds cheesy. But it's 90-something degrees out, so that will be our celebration."




Look who I saw at brunch. Didn't go up to them (I respect people) but I pretended like I was texting and took this....
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NICOLE KIDMAN AT THE OLYMPICS

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first day of the olympics and our dave (last on the right) has already met nicole kidman!



Keith and Nicole at the #olympicceremony


From Nicole's facebook

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Nicole Kidman emerges to watch ceremony



SHE'S carefully flown under the radar the past few weeks to weather the divorce storm surrounding ex-husband Tom Cruise, but ageless actress Nicole Kidman returned to the spotlight at the weekend to keep some commitments for the London Olympics.

The immaculate face of Omega watches, the 45-year-old was the star guest at a function for the label after attending the opening ceremony with her musician husband Keith Urban.

There are some strong echoes between Cruise's split with wife Katie Holmes and Kidman's 2001 marriage breakdown with the movie star.

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban plan to join their new apartment to the neighbouring two-storey unit they bought from Mark Bouris in 2009. Picture: Mosman Daily

SOURCE:NEWS.COM.AU

Nicole Kidman buys out neighbours


NICOLE Kidman has bought an apartment next to one she already owns in the Latitude building at Milsons Point in Sydney. Kidman and husband Keith Urban plan to join it to the neighbouring 420sq m two-storey apartment they bought from Mark Bouris in 2009, for close to $6 million.

Property sources said the Kurbans paid just over $7 million for the new 21st-floor property, which shares the same 280-degree views of Sydney and the harbour as the other, but is slightly smaller at 380sq m.
It was transferred on June 21 into the ownership of a company of which Kidman's father, Antony, is listed as a director. That's the same day the couple flew out of Australia following Urban's stint as a judge on television's The Voice.

Last week, the sale was still going through, and the amalgamation of the two apartments was subject to approval by the building's body corporate.
No doubt it will get over the line: having two of the world's biggest stars choose the Latitude high-rise as their Sydney base would not be a bad thing for property values.

Another thumbs up for the building's credentials is that the only other penthouse to share the top level with the Kurbans belongs to real estate expert Graham Mirabito, the property research firm RP Data's managing director.
Kidman sold her three-storey Darling Point house in 2009 for about $13 million. It was often besieged by paparazzi, whereas the Milsons Point block offers a far greater shield from prying eyes, with internal access from a security garage.

Urban and Kidman still own their Southern Highlands retreat, a farm in Tennessee, a house in California's Beverly Hills and another high-rise condo in Manhattan.
Kidman offloaded a property on the south coast, part of her Rosedale retreat bought in 2004, for $800,000 in March.

When the couple bought the first of their Latitude building properties, it was only on the market for about three weeks. It is believed the couple did not inspect the property themselves, but the building’s gym, sauna, spa and pool were drawcards.

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WHILE WATCHING THE LONDON OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONIES


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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman at the Williamson County Fair, Nashville

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Who's waiting in line in front of us at the county fair?



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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman at the fair in Tennessee So jealous @TrevorRipke and @DanceForeverML got to see them

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Downtown Prices Chalk Up Plaudits

SOURCE:WALLSTREETJOURNAL

Actress Nicole Kidman has also found success off the silver screen, selling a three-bedroom apartment in a glass tower overlooking the Hudson River in the West Village for $16 million, one of the highest prices paid for a downtown apartment on a square-foot basis.

In real estate as in the cinema, timing is important. The sale involving 176 Perry St., one of three minimalist glass-wrapped buildings designed by Richard Meier along the river, came amid a flurry of sales, showing a strong downtown market.

A 12th-floor condo on Perry Street with Hudson River views has been sold for $16 million by actress Nicole Kidman amid strength in downtown prices.

The Kidman apartment on the 12th floor has three bedrooms and a 30-foot-wide entrance gallery. The unit had been extensively renovated by Ms. Kidman, who was the first owner of the apartment.

She paid $6.6 million for the condominium in 2002, the year after her well-publicized separation from Tom Cruise. The identity of the buyer wasn't known.

The Kidman apartment sold for $4,227 per square foot, a record price for the Richard Meier Hudson River buildings, brokers said, and the fourth highest sale price per square foot downtown, Michael Vargas, a principal of Vanderbilt Appraisal Co.

The highest downtown price per square foot to date is the $31.5 million penthouse sale at Superior Ink at $4,983 per square foot, Mr. Vargas said.

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Shia LaBeouf and Nicole Kidman Build the Body Heat for Lars Von Trier's "Nymphomania"

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For the love of Lars: Shia LaBeouf and Nicole Kidman (pictured in "Dogville") are set to join "Nymphomania"


Needing a lusty American lad to boost the international sales potential of his upcoming “Nymphomania,” the Danish agent provocateur Lars Von Trier has lighted upon Shia LaBeouf to play, presumably, an object of desire for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s highly promiscuous protagonist. Another American, Willem Dafoe, who starred with Gainsbourg in Von Trier’s controversial “Antichrist,” had already joined the cast.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 26-year-old LaBeouf is currently in talks for the picture. It will also feature Nicole Kidman, who told the French movie magazine Positif that she will do “a few days” filming on the project. Kidman had one of her most arduous experiences working with Von Trier as the sexually enslaved Grace in “Dogville.”


“Nymphomania” is due to start filming in September near Cologne. As previously reported here, the movie will relive the amorous escapades of the Gainsbourg character, from age zero through fifty, as recounted by her to her husband (Stellan Skarsgård).

It will be shot in two feature-length parts. “It is a big operation,” Von Trier’s producer and Zentropa partner Aalbæk Jensen told Screendaily (paywall site) back in April. “I personally hope that we should be ready for Cannes next year. We will shoot both and edit both – and we want to finish both at the same time.” The first part will deal with the main character’s sexuality in childhood and adolescence, the second part will deal with her adulthood.

Von Trier intends to present softcore and hardcore versions of the two-parter. “We will probably blur the central points of the human body for the release worldwide but we will probably make one unblurred that will be for screening, maybe in Cannes,” Jensen said.

It will be shot, like “Melancholia,” “in a mixed style,” Jensen added. “Some will be Dogme hand-held and some will have very carefully made photography, crane shots and beautiful images.”

The casting of Kidman and Dafoe confirms Jensen’s belief that the clumsy “Nazi” remarks Von Trier made (and later retracted) during his 2011 Cannes press conference for “Melancholia” has not diminished his standing with actors. “His value for [them] to work with him has never been better,” Jensen said in the Screendaily interview.

One wonders why Von Trier is restricting the film to two parts. Should he wish to follow Peter Jackson, who is now expanding “The Hobbit” into three movies, he could shoot a third part that follows the “Melancholia” heroine’s life as a “GILF,” in the novelist Martin Amis’s parlance – “G” standing for “grandmother.”

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MORE PICS OF NICOLE KIDMAN AND KEITH URBAN AT THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY FAIR, NASHVILLE

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KEITH AND NICOLE ON THE BEACH OF NAPLES IN JULY 2012

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Nicole Kidman is the second subject in the British Film Institute's 'star study' series



Nicole Kidman, by Pam Cook, Palgave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-84457-448-9, £12.99


Eye For Books
We look at a new star study of Nicole Kidman,by Jennie Kermode

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What makes a movie star? It's a fascinating question and Nicole Kidman makes an interesting choice as the second subject of this BFI series (after Elizabeth Taylor; before Brigitte Bardot and Sabu). Her rise to stardom in the late Eighties and early Nineties, at a time of flux for the international film industry, enables author Pam Cook to use her stoy as a hook for exploring shifting mechanisms of commodificaion and celebrity/public interaction.

It should be said at the start that a star study is not the same thing as a biography. Kidman fans whose primary interest is in stylish images and behind-the-scenes gossip won't find much to appeal to them here. On the other hand, if you already own biographic material and are intersted in deeper analysis, this may well appeal. It will also be of interest to students of the wider celebrity phenomenon and to those seeking to learn from Kidman's performance techniques - which, Cook argues with conviction, the actress uses both onscreen and off.

As with most such analyses, this book has its strong points and points at which it struggles to make its case. Star quality is rarely consistent enough to enable an individual to be neatly reduced to a phenomenon. At times Cook seems to read too much into her subject's choices. Yes, Kidman is recognised as ambitious, but have all her big decisions been primarily strategic? My own experience of stars even big ones, tells me that often they pick roles for very human reasons - because they want to work with somneone they admire, because they want to spend time in an interesting location, or simply because there's nothing more interesting available at the time. In buying into the notion of the constructed star as something more than human, Cook risks losing sight of the fact that there is a human being pulling the strings somewhere behind the curtain.

Like other studies of Kidman's work, the book wastes too much time trying to excuse or redeem Australia and has a curious approach to the race issues that film explores which elides the controversy around its handling of the subject. Whilst musing on Kidman's whiteness it inexplicably ignores the class associations of her paleness and the way that has accordingly been highlighted or hidden in various roles. It also struggles a little when it comes to feminist analysis, trying to give due weight to differing philosophies such that it ends up saying very little of anything. That said, much of Kidman's work speaks for itself in that regard, and Cook is good at drawing this out through the nuances of description. Her film by film analysis of intention and technique works fairly well and it's interesting that she chooses to examine To Die For, often neglected yet pivotal in the actress' career. Her Brechtian interpretation of Kidman's performance therein may help to redeem it in the eyes of fans who struggle to see how it fits within the wider body of the star's work.

Probably the strongest part of this book is Cook's take on Kidman's management of her public image, including her handling of the press and her ventures into other areas of celebrity such as fashion. This is a side of Kidman's work that has received considerably less prior attention and it's interesting to see how it fits into her career path. Here, as in the ensuing exploration of fandom, the book is more interesting as a contribution to wider academic discussion on star status than in terms of what it has to say about Kidman herself, but that's not a bad thing. The shifting nature of the Hollywood system of this juncture means that its insights will likely increase in value over time, as Kidman's journey carries us through from the dominance of a studio-centred age to an era of much more democratically decreed - and therefore vulnerable - star status. In showing how one woman has avoided the pitfalls along this route, Cook has highlighted what may well become the most important aspect of her legacy.

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Nicole Kidman holds onto her belly while entering her hotel following a photo shoot on Monday (August 13) in Paris, France.

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Nicole Kidman & The New York Film Festival: Star Will Be Honored
(As 'The Paperboy' Is Added To Line-Up)

SOURCE: Huffingtonpost.com

John Cusack and Nicole Kidman at a screening of “The Paperboy” at the Cannes film festival in May.

NEW YORK -- Nicole Kidman is being honored by the New York Film Festival in a gala tribute.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Tuesday that Kidman will be celebrated at the 50th-annual New York Film Festival. The festival will also honor its longtime director Richard Pena in a second gala.

The film "The Paperboy" has been added to the festival's slate. It's directed by Lee Daniels and stars Kidman, Zac Efron, John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey.

Pena is also programming director of the film society. He is stepping down from Lincoln Center this year following his 25th festival.

The gala for Kidman will take place Oct. 3, with the Pena event following on Oct. 10. The festival runs Sept. 28 through Oct. 14.

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Some info about the Film Society of Lincoln Center


Film Society of Lincoln Center

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Film Society of Lincoln Center based in New York City, United States, is one of the world's most prominent film presentation organizations. Founded in 1969 by three Lincoln Center executives - William F. May, Martin E. Segal and Schuyler G. Chapin[1] - the film society's focuses is on putting spotlights on American Independent and World Cinema, and to recognize and support new filmmakers.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is one of the twelve resident organizations at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Over the last four decades, the film society has introduced to American audiences the works of many of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers, including names such as: François Truffaut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese.

Each year the organization presents its annual Gala Tribute honoring legendary stars and industry leaders at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center also hosts the annual New York Film Festival; is a co-presenter (with The Museum of Modern Art) of New Directors/New Films; and publishes the bi-monthly film journal Film Comment.

Past honorees of Gala Tribute

2012 Catherine Deneuve
2011 Sidney Poitier
2010 Michael Douglas
2009 Tom Hanks
2008 Meryl Streep
2007 Diane Keaton
2006 Jessica Lange
2005 Dustin Hoffman
2004 Michael Caine
2003 Susan Sarandon
2002 Francis Ford Coppola
2001 Jane Fonda
2000 Al Pacino
1999 Mike Nichols
1998 Martin Scorsese
1997 Sean Connery
1996 Clint Eastwood
1995 Shirley MacLaine
1994 Robert Altman
1993 Jack Lemmon
1992 Gregory Peck
1991 Audrey Hepburn
1990 James Stewart
1989 Bette Davis
1988 Yves Montand
1987 Alec Guinness
1986 Elizabeth Taylor
1985 Federico Fellini
1984 Claudette Colbert
1983 Laurence Olivier
1982 Billy Wilder
1981 Barbara Stanwyck
1980 John Huston
1979 Bob Hope
1978 George Cukor
1975 Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
1974 Alfred Hitchcock
1973 Fred Astaire
1972 Charles Chaplin

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From The Hollywood Reporter

New York Film Festival to Honor Nicole Kidman, Richard Peña



The 50th anniversary edition of the New York Film Festival will fete both Nicole Kidman and Film Society of Lincoln Center program director Richard Peña during its October running.

FSLC announced the news today, gala tributes scheduled for Oct. 3 (Kidman) and Oct. 10 (Peña). Additionally, Kidman's latest starring vehicle, Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, has been added to the festival's main slate after debuting at Cannes earlier this year.


“Nicole Kidman is one of film's finest contemporary actresses," said Peña, who has served as the festival director since 1988. "Since her breakthrough performance in To Die For and her bold and provocative appearances in Lars Von Trier's Dogville, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, as well as her awarding-winning portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, Kidman has insisted on finding roles that are complex, bold and demanding. We are excited to honor her with a tribute at the New York Film Festival.”