This POA, Abandon piece is from Coming Soon! INTERVIEWS: Katie Holmes on Pieces of April Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:59 CDT Katie Holmes' Abandon opens Friday and Chuck the Movieguy caught up with her to talk about another upcoming project for the "Dawson's Creek" star. "It's more of an ensemble movie," she says about Pieces of April. "It was very interesting to work on the movie. I love the story. Peter Hedges wrote it and directed it. Patty Clarkson plays my mom and Oliver Platt plays my dad. We shot it in ten days on digital in Alphabet City, in this old apartment building. And it was the strangest experience because it was a tiny video camera shooting a movie. I was like, 'What is going on?' We shot a whole movie in like ten days, which is crazy but so much fun. And it's this little dramady about a girl and a mother somehow making peace after years of turmoil and the mom is sick but it's okay. The movie isn't too dramatic, or melodramatic. I think it brings some levity to a difficult situation which I enjoyed because I think illness is hard enough." Click here to read rest of article Katie is Featured in Ted Casablanca's E! Online column The Awful Truth this week: Heady Bedding Who needs Benjamin Bratt when you've got Ty Pennington, right? Wrong. Even though that too fab Katie Holmes (sweeter than evah, too!) showed for the Hollywood premiere of Abandon, costar B2 was nowhere in sight. The new papa was no doubt off being beefy elsewhere, shooting 'n' strutting. So, before we get to the lusciousness that is Ms. H. (and her beefcake cohort, Chris Klein), let me give ya a little meaty dish to make up for Benny-boy's absence. Mr. P., who's makin' 'em sweat across the country with his home-improvement show, Trading Spaces, wasn't at Abandon's debut, either. But I simply must tell you what's hot off the pectoral presses: The tradesman's coming out with a book. Hyperion paid T.P. an advance (near seven figures) almost as hunky as his persona, which makes sense. You've heard this guy has to run around his various sets with refuse cans over his puss so as to not be mobbed, haven't you? How fitting. Because I'm told by sources thisclose to the inchoate tome that Mr. P. will be elaborating on what one does not so much on with a hammer but with a mattress. My kinda garbage mouth! For ince, one chapter will be titled "Before You Dim the Lighting, Get It in Writing"--a warning on screwing your carpenter, as it were. Wondering if Ty-cakes got burned that way himself? Me, too. Can't wait to find out. Goodbye Kiss Whew! Enough of these pretenders to the Tinseltown throne. Let's gab with a real Hollywood princess, shall we? Over at the Paramount Theater, Katie H., tall fer days, arrived in head-to-toe black, with beau Chris Klein on her toned arm. (She does a mean jog, you know.) While the delectable duo flashed megawatt smiles for the mass of cameras, they cuddled somethin' fierce--and it didn't look a bit put on to moi. Finally disentangling herself from her hands-on he-man, Katie stopped over for quick chat. Click here to read the rest of the story The New York Daily News has an article on Abandon director Stephen Gaghan that mentions Katie. To read the article, click the link below: NY Daily News Article Coming Soon also has a piece where they interview the Abandon cast on their college experience: INTERVIEWS: The Abandon College Experience Thursday, October 17, 2002 9:56 CDT Abandon is a psychological thriller set against the pressures of graduate students finishing their theses. Things become even more complicated when the investigation of a missing student is reopened, suggesting the past is not buried. The stars of the thriller shared their thoughts on the Hollywood college experience and their real life experiences: Katie Holmes - "I haven't been to college. I took a photography class at Columbia University and that's the extent of my knowledge of the college experience aside from stories from my friends from home. But I do keep finding myself in these roles that take place on college campuses, and I think a large part of that is obvious. I mean, I'm 23 years old and most people that age are in college. That makes sense. But I think what was fascinating about this picture was it's a psychological thriller on a college campus where everyone's stressed out, everyone's paranoid, everyone's competing, trying to get the grade, get the job. Then you have this disappearance. People often suddenly step outside themselves. And I don't know. I just thought this was a layered script, a lot of smart characters and just this group of kids is a great group of kids, going to go and have great jobs and great lives and they work hard and they know how to party but they're smart. They're cool." To read the rest of the article, click the link below: Coming Soon Article

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