The NY Daily News published it's Fall Movie Preview today (8/24), and it had a few blurbs about TSD and PoA. It looks like both movies will open on October 17th, in limited release.. Drama, war, lust & pixie dust Your guide to the major films opening this season By JAMI BERNARD, JACK MATHEWS and ELIZABETH WEITZMAN --------------------------------- THE SINGING DETECTIVE Opens Oct. 17 Robert Downey Jr. stars as crime novelist Dan Dark in the late Dennis Potter's adaptation of his six-part miniseries, which aired in the U.S. in 1988. Like Potter's earlier BBC series "Pennies From Heaven," which was adapted as a movie by Herb Ross in 1981, "The Singing Detective" often pauses in its drama for some stylized lip-synching to catchy period standards. Keith Gordon directs. Potter relocated the novelist from London to Chicago where he's bedridden with a debilitating skin disease and passes time fantasizing himself as one of his fictional characters, a detective who moonlights as a band singer. Mel Gibson, bald and wearing Coke-bottle glasses, plays Dark's shrink. Katie Holmes is his nurse, Adrien Brody is a thug chasing him in his fantasy, and Robin Wright Penn triples up as the women in Dark's real and imaginary lives. The film received mixed reviews at its Sundance premiere, but is still one of the fall's event movies. J.M. Link to article --------------------------------- Getting their feet wet Stars take risks in indies BY ELIZABETH WEITZMAN ....Katie Holmes will probably be satisfied if "Pieces of April," in which her character tries to reunite her family over Thanksgiving dinner, allows her to leave "Dawson's Creek" behind for good, Link to article Katie's film Wonder Boys is mentioned in the following article: Some good films are even better lierature (sic) 3. "Wonder Boys" -- Michael Chabon's 1995 novel charts the (mis)adventures of Pittsburgh university Professor Grady Tripp over the course of a weekend. Screenwriter Steve Kloves faithfully adapted this darkly comic story that is punctuated with a great performance by Michael Douglas. Featuring a top-notch supporting cast including Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand and Katie Holmes, this is one film (and novel) that will only get better with age. Todd: I didn't read this book either, but the movie was wonderfully off-the-wall, that I'm interested in checking it out Thought I posted this already, but anyway, Oakland A's pitcher Barry Zito shows he has good taste :) From last weeks USA Weekend Magazine: Dream date: Katie Holmes

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