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ACTRESS Nia Vardalos is a shadow of the woman she was - seven years after making her name as the plump star of smash-hit comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Nia Vardalos, the woman behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding , is wrapping up an interview with a columnist at the Carlu in downtown Toronto.

My Life In Ruins ** Oct 2 2009 SHE'S fast becoming the Chesney Hawkes of immediately forgettable romantic comedies as My Big Fat Greek Wedding looks set to remain Nia Vardalos's one and only big fat hit.

In the interim, she wrote and starred in the ill-fated, spin-off television series My Big Fat Greek Life and the hit-and-miss drag queen comedy Connie and Carla, co-starring Toni Collette.

From Gordon and the Whale.com by: Kate Erbland Just yesterday, Wilhem informed us of the blockbuster summer season for the box office - " revenues at $4.17 billion, the biggest season ever, and still with the Labor Day weekend to look forward to.

Although the legions of actors and writers dreaming of their big score won't have much sympathy for Nia Vardalos, her predicament can't be easy.

If there ever was the cinematic equivalent of a one-hit wonder, it's Nia Vardalos.

Only amateurism separates the indie sex comedy Humpday from Hollywood product. Its story of two male BFFs who reunite, still bluffing and challenging each other like schoolboys, turns into a gimmick where they agree to do a porn film in which they have sex with each other.

Ever since her 2002 sleeper romance "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" struck box office gold, screenwriter/actress Nia Vardalos has practically made a side career out of squandering a personal fortune in good will and popularity.

The French actress-turned-director Fanny Ardant, 60, is waiting patiently to run her bag through the security check at Catania Airport in Sicily.

June 25, 2009 by Vernon Parker , published online 06-25-2009 Michael Lembeck was born on June 25, 1948 in Brooklyn, the son of actor Harvey Lembeck.

Home town pride cana t be expressed in simpler terms than the telephone area code : three simple digits one can shout out, literally or otherwise, to sum up how proud you are of your roots.

At some point in life you've been around a toxically cheerful person who tells you to smile, cheer up and just won't leave you alone to wallow in well-deserved self pity.

Don't cry for Nia Vardalos. Just because her new movie tanked at the weekend box office, it does not mean her life is in ruins.The Winnipeg-born-and-raised actress is a feisty gal.

Down on life lately? Dissatisfied with love? Nia Vardalos knows what you're feeling in the new Grecian romcom "My Life in Ruins." Now a svelte, sexier version of the woman who catapulted to fame with 2002's "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," Vardalos gives us a tale of lost passion found in this Mediterranean gambol.

So it's depressing to see it reduced to a touchstone for a measly little picture called M y Life in Ruins .

Substitute "career" for "life" in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you'll have a succinct verdict on My Big Fat Greek Wedding writer/star Nia Vardalos, whose efforts to prove herself more than a one-megahit wonder have been greeted by audiences with an apathy previously reserved for the post- Crocodile Dundee oeuvre of Paul Hogan ...

"My Life in Ruins," Nia Vardalos's first movie in five years, might as well be titled "How Georgia Got Her Kefi Back" - Georgia being Ms.

Nia Vardalos wrote and starred in one of the biggest box-office hits of all time, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." The 2002 sleeper hit, produced for just $5 million, grossed $241 million in the U.S. alone.

Substitute "career" for "life" in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you'll have a succinct verdict on My Big Fat Greek Wedding writer/star Nia Vardalos , whose efforts to prove herself more than a one-megahit wonder have been greeted by audiences with an apathy previously reserved for the post Crocodile Dundee oeuvre of Paul Hogan ...