All smiles
- but it'll all end in tears
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It's Tom and
Nicole's marriage breakdown - only on a much wider scale.
Nigel
Bell
Celebrities are big business. You only have to look at Hello and
OK magazines to see that.
When big marriages
break-up, it means big circulation bonuses for those publications.
Whether the
public's genuinely worried about the future of stars like Tom Cruise
and Nicole Kidman is debatable but that's the premise of America's
Sweethearts.
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| So, do
I get to present next year's Oscars or not? |
Eddie and Gwen
(Cusack and Zeta-Jones) are the Hollywood showbiz pairing who's
marriage suddenly hits the rocks.
Trouble is,
when their vows are broken the public turn on them. Their popularity
tumbles and that's the clarion call for the film studio to hire
a publicist (Crystal) to try and get them back together (therefore
stopping their movies being flops).
It's no easy
fix. Gwen is useless at doing anything without her sister Kiki (Roberts)
and Eddie's cracking up.
There are also
other romances which help cloud the situation.
It's a tale
with much potential and, given that interest in movie stars, a potentially
big audience.
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| If I don't
get more screen time than Catherine I'll scream and scream |
Sad then that
the host of big names doesn't mix with a mundane script.
For many of
the stars it's acting by numbers. There are one of two funny moments
but the premise promised much more.
Still, it's
nice to see Catherine Zeta-Jones continuing with her Hollywood high
life after years in the doldrums following Darling Buds of May.
Let's just hope
her marriage to Michael Douglas doesn't end up reflecting the storyline
of America's Sweethearts.
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