In sitting down with Rose Byrne recently, the Australian star of Damages and Fox Searchlight’s Adam, we couldn’t resist asking about her involvement in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, in which she played Dormé — the only of Princess Amidala’s handmaidens who survives past the first scene. And having broken news about it before, we thought we’d press her a little further for details about the live-action Star Wars TV series that’s long been buried under a Jedi cloak of secrecy — and we’re glad we did! The conversation is after the jump:
I read somewhere that most of your fan mail addresses a small part in a George Lucas movie?
Yeah! It’s incredible. You get fan mail for Damages, but it’s almost all Star Wars people. It’s amazing. Just because my role is so small — I’m literally like an extra in that film. But the fanbase is just out of this world. No pun intended. But it’s mind-boggling, myself not knowing the feeling of having such a fanship of something, I suppose.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In cinemas July 15 in the US and UK. Go to http://harrypotter.com and http://www.harrypotter.co.uk. Global release dates: http://harrypotter.warnerbros.co.uk/releasedates/
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The amazing commercial success of Michael Moore's “Fahrenheit 9/11” (almost $120 million in domestic box office, unheard of for a documentary) made many people, mainly the right-wing elites, very uncomfortable.
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As a follow up to our “Are You Using E-Commerce Yet?” post, we’d like to urge all of our readers to follow the SMART Ecommerce Blog at http://www.smartecommerceblog.com/. Once there, you’ll find a collection of ecommerce-specific blog posts that will prove to be a valuable resource for everyone who owns an online store. Setting up an online store is the easy part; attracting customers and making sales, however, is another story. The folks at SMART Ecommerce Blog have made it their mission to help all ecommerce users find solutions to their most demanding problems, and with the upcoming holiday season looming, we can use all the ecommerce advice we can get.
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Colleen Padilla, a 33-year-old mother of two who lives in suburban Philadelphia, has reviewed nearly 1,500 products, including baby clothes, microwave dinners and the Nintendo Wii, on her popular Web site Classymommy.com. Her site attracts 60,000 unique visitors every month, and Ms. Padilla attracts something else: free items from companies eager to promote their products to her readers.