Since the dawn of the American cinematic blockbuster in the late 1970s and early 1980s, moviegoers have eagerly waited for May - the unofficial beginning of summertime. This summer is no different. Films, and most popular media, are social mirrors, and this summer season supports that. The large box office contenders all deal with very similar themes: escapism and the support of the lone, outlaw hero figure (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Up, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Inglourious Basterds, et...

Ray star Kerry Washington has topped a new online list of 2007 femme fatales.

Washington's portrayal of a vixen trying to break up Chris Rock's marriage in I Think I Love My Wife landed the actress the top spot on FilmStew.com's list of hot girls - ahead of Christina Ricci's starring role in Black Snake Moan.

The top 10 femme fatales also includes Winona Ryder in The Ten, Saffron Burrows in Reign Over Me and Kate Winslet in Romance And Cigarettes.

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Actor-director John Turturro will distribute his movie Romance & Cigarettes with his own money, after a studio takeover left it on the scrap-heap. The musical was made in 2004 with an ensemble cast including James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi and Christopher Walken.

Its future was thrown into jeopardy before it could be released when MGM was bought by a consortium headed by Sony in 2005. It was released in the U.K. in 2006, but has been left in limbo in the U.S. as the filmmakers attempt to unravel a legal mess so the film can be seen by the American public....

John Turturro begged Kate Winslet not to slim for her role in Romance And Cigarettes because her post-pregnancy curves were perfect for the part. Turturro was initially concerned Winslet was too lean to play sexy Tula, as she lacked the sensuality he wanted for the character. But once the British beauty and her director husband Sam Mendes had baby Joe in 2003, her curves returned and Turturro was delighted.

He says, "When I met her she was very thin. She'd read the script and she liked it, but I thought, 'There's nothing here, she's so small.' Then she got pregnant, and she was upset...

Kate Winslet once hired a "random driver" to ferry her breast milk home to her hungry infant son. The stunning actress had just given birth to baby Joe when she went back to work, to film 'Romance and Cigarettes', but she was determined to still feed him naturally. So she expressed her milk in between takes so that when she got home she could give it to him.

However, filming ran late one day and Kate had to take drastic action in order for baby Joe to get his dinner. She told Sunday Times newspaper: "I would literally feed him, throw on a tracksuit and lump my way into work with massiv...

James Gandolfini uses his art to stand up for the working class because he feels they are badly treated. The star, 44, particularly enjoyed researching for his role as Nick Murder in new romantic comedy Romance And Cigarettes because his character is a normal man affected by every day issues.

He says, "People really interest me, especially the way things affect them. It's basically why I became an actor: I have this big passion for the lower-middle class and the blue-collar guy - it's how I was brought up, and I don't like the way our country treats them. By becoming an actor; well,...

James Gandolfini was shocked by his latest co-star Kate Winslet's foul's mouth because it contradicted her image as an English rose. The New Jersey actor, famous for his role as mob father Tony Soprano, insists the actress soon became his swearing rival on the set of musical comedy Romance And Cigarettes.

He says, "Kate's great. She can sing, she's so funny. And yeah, she can swear. People think I can swear. But she can really swear. Yeah, I was impressed."

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A study released today in the journal Pediatrics shows a direct link between viewing smoking in movies and adolescents who then choose to start smoking. Conducted by Dr. James Sargent at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, and funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study, Exposure to Movie Smoking: Its Relation to Smoking Initiation Among U.S. Adolescents, is the first national study to indicate that young people have a higher risk of lighting up as their exposure to movie smoking increases. Sargent also works in cooperation with the American Legacy Found...