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February 25, 2001

- UK newspaper alert:

Today's News of the World (Jude Law and Sadie Frost on the cover) has a long article on Jude with 11 EATG pics, 2 of them from Joe.

The Independent on Sunday features an interview with Joe Fiennes in its Reality Magazine: one page of text with photo plus full page colour photo plus cover.

- Brief article from Variety:

London stages offer riches of flesh talent Issue: Dec 11, 2000

PETER DARLING, 36, choreographer

Onscreen, he sent Jamie Bell high-kicking his way through England's industrial north and into our hearts in "Billy Elliot"; onstage, he has performed solo for writer-director Robert Lepage (in the "Hamlet" rewrite "Elsinore") only to segue offstage to a career choreographing musicals and plays -- from "Merrily We Roll Along," now at the Donmar Warehouse, to Joseph Fiennes in Marlowe's "Edward II" in the new year.

February 22, 2001

- US TV Alert:

Wednesday, 28 February 2001
10:00 AM (60 min.)
273 BRAVO
Profiles
The Family Fiennes
Actor Ralph Fiennes and his five siblings---including youngest brother Joseph Fiennes ("Shakespeare in Love," "Elizabeth")---recall their childhood and the troubled past of their mother, novelist Jennifer Lash. Included: home movies and family photographs.

Monday, 5 March 2001
10:10 PM (15 min.)
537 SHOWTIME and
Tuesday, 6 March 2001
1:10 AM (15 min.)
540 SHOWTIME
Making of "Enemy at the Gates"
A look at the 2001 WWII drama starring Joseph Fiennes as a Russian political officer who turns a young sharpshooter (Jude Law) into a hero for propaganda purposes. The film costars Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz and Bob Hoskins.

February 21, 2001

- Update information on the USA weekend article:

It is called "Not your average Joe", Joe is on the mag cover with a close-up photo, and the article is said to mention this website here. :)

February 20, 2001

- In some Sunday papers around the US is a weekend magazine called the USA Weekend which according to their website will feature an article on Joe next week. Keep your eyes open!

February 18, 2001

- The Los Angeles Times Calendar section printed a great interview with Chen Kaige, Director of Killing Me Softly. The article quoted Joe about working with Director Kaige:

Joseph Fiennes apologized for not finding words that could adequately convey the experience of working with Chen: "If he asked me to do any role, big or small, anywhere in the world, I'd be off at the drop of a hat. You really feel you're collaborating on something exciting. In every scene he has this extraordinary understanding of human behavior in any given situation."

February 10, 2001

- Mag Alert!

The March issue of Premiere (US) - Penelope Cruz cover - features a great pic of Joe at the top of their "New Releases" section. Pic has him riding a bike, arms aloft in a sort of "look ma, no hands" pose and he is bald - head shaved almost completely smooth. We will post the picture as soon as we have it.

- The EATG release date for the US now seems to be March 16 - which is a week earlier than the last date we heard. I admit I am getting increasingly confused by these release date announcements.

February 9, 2001

- Various sources tell that Joe has not attended the Berlinale as he intended to do, but cancelled last minute. La Stampa, Italy (Feb. 8) for example says: "A streak of red pen crosses out the name of Joseph Fiennes from the placard that announces the people present at the press conference for the Jean-Jacques Annaud movie "Enemy at the Gates", that yesterday night opened the 51st edition of the Berlinale. "He was really sure to come here - explain the people at the press conference widening their arms - then instead he has stayed in Scotland".

- Meanwhile, the reviews for EATG are not very favourable. For online coverage of the Berlinale go their official website which also has some EATG press photos. Another Berlinale link (in German) is Jump-Cut.

February 7, 2001

- ClickTV, lists a program titled "Entertainers" which features an interview with Joe during the week of February 17. Check with them to see when it will be broadcast in your (US, sorry) neighborhood!

February 6, 2001

- According to Ananova:

"Enemy at the Gates to open Bradford Film Festival"

A new film starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes will get its UK premiere at the Bradford Film Festival.

Enemy At The Gates also stars Bob Hoskins and Rachel Weisz.

It will open this year's festival at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television on March 1.

Other highlights include The Contender, a possible Oscar nominee which stars Joan Allen and Gary Oldman, and Men Of Honour which stars Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr.

The festival runs until March 17.

February 3, 2001

- According to Amazon the release date for Forever Mine in the US on DVD & VHS is May 15, 2001.

February 2, 2001

- The Express, Feb. 1, by John McEntee:

Guests at the GBP 500-a-night Savoy Hotel overlooking London's Embankment were startled to spot Joseph Fiennes embroiled in a brutal fist fight. It was, however, purely for the sake of his art for Shakespeare in Love star Joe, 30, was shooting a scene for his new film Killing Me Softly. "He was punching the living daylights out of a skinhead," whispers my man with the First aid box. "It's so far removed from the period drama he's known for. He says it's physically demanding and one of his hardest roles." Although the cul-de-sac was closed for filming, it didn't stop an old lady trying to make a call from a phone box which had found its way there from the props department. Bless.

February 1, 2001

- Total Film Magazine, March 2001

Hard Bay's Knight

Bay and Bruckheimer Gladiatorising King Arthur?
Apparently Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay are planning another retelling of King Arthur and Total Film Mag wrote the following:

"So who to fill the king's regal breeches? Given most American actors' idea of an Unglush Occent begins and ends with Dick Van ..... Dyke, Rough Cut remains resistant to yer DiCaprios, Damons and Afflecks. As, indeed, should Bruckheimer. Close your eyes. Think British. Think beard. Think he who looks good in metal. Think in fact, Joseph Fiennes. And as for Sir Lancelot? Arise, Jude Law. Thy brass trousers await.

The pic showing Joe as King Arthur is here.

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