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France's first lady has agreed to be in a Woody Allen film. She's such an obvious choice, we should have predicted it Carla Bruni is the classic unattainable woman from a golden-age Woody Allen film.

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Look out! He's about to twinkle! NATHANIEL ROGERS Nathaniel would live inside the movie theater but for the poor internet reception.

Penlope Cruz became an actor because of Pedro Almodvar - twice. The first time was in 1990, when Cruz was a young girl growing up in Alcobendas, just outside of Madrid, and happened upon the director's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," a wacky love story about a former porn star and her kidnapper.

Penelope Cruz it seems can currently do little wrong in Hollywood, with her face currently all over the television and magazine covers.

Penelope Cruz became an actor because of Pedro Almodovar - twice. The first time was in 1990, when Cruz was a young girl growing up in Alcobendas, just outside of Madrid, and happened upon the director's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," a wacky love story about a former porn star and her kidnapper.

Penelope Cruz feels uncomfortable talking about nude scenes and says she has "an allergy to labels," but she becomes effusive when discussing her "dream year" with two special films about to hit theaters.

Could Carla Bruni and Woody Allen have something in common? I guess you know both of them.

Pedro Almodovar's fourth film with Penelope Cruz isn't his finest work, but he brings his signature visual brilliance to this noirish tale, and the cast turns in some first-class performances.

So in honor of the end of 2009, this is a look at some of the sexiest actresses of the decade.

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SITTING in an East Side hotel suite in early October, across from the writer-director Pedro Almodovar , Penelope Cruz picked up a glossy, oversized magazine and gazed admiringly at the cover photograph of Uma Thurman .

Jim Hill knew the fourth floor of his North Ocean Boulevard house would be reserved for the family's media room.

Actress Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.

So much for his return to New York: After biting into the Big Apple for "Whatever Works," Woody Allen is headed back across the Atlantic for his next.

Antena 3 Films, the film production arm of Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, will co-produce Woody Allen's London-set movie, the now titled "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger." "Stranger" has become a 50/50 co-production between Mediapro and Antena 3 Films, said A3F CEO Mercedes Gamero.

Orange's credo is to provide content anywhere, anytime, and it backs that up by spending a few hundred million euros a year on content and rights.

It might not be a complete Who's Who of Hollywood actress royalty, but it's a darn good effort.

Following the success of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Woody Allen will make Rio de Janeiro the setting for his next movie -- and he apparently wants supermodel Adriana Lima as his muse.

Chris Messina has been cast in the lead role of the Dowdle Brothers' horror-thriller film Devil .