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Editor’s Note

10 years after

Happy anniversary to us. We launched Famous in November 1999, 10 years ago this month.

 

Our first cover featured Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. Ah, I remember it well. But if you think I’m about to get all weepy, and tell you about the joy I feel every time a new issue (this is our 119th) comes back from the printer — like giving birth to a baby after a long, hard labour — you’re wrong. And not just because that would be painfully cliché.

 

Here’s how I feel. The magazine arrives at our office, I take a quick look at the cover, say, “Oh, that looks good.” Flip through the pages quickly to make sure none of them are blank, and then go back to working on our next issue.

 

Why? Fear. Although we’ve fact-checked, copy-edited, proofread and re-proofread the issue about 16 times by that stage, once it goes to print we’ve passed the point of no return. So if I open that magazine and find a mistake — ah! Fortunately, it rarely happens. Honestly. But I’m sure that November 1999 issue was instrumental in creating my phobia.

 

Okay, I’ll let you in on my secret. There was a spelling mistake on that very first cover. Nicolas Cage was misspelled “Nicholas Cage.” I’m so sorry Nicolas, it’s haunted me all these years. What can I say? I was young, stressed, and you spell your name weird. But that’s no excuse. At journalism school, if you spelled one name wrong, you failed that assignment. I failed you, Nic. And I can assure you that we haven’t misspelled a name since — at least on the cover.

 

Fortunately, I have a chance to make it up to Mr. Cage in this issue. Ten years after my biggest shame, I interviewed Nicolas Cage about his new movie Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. And the story, “This is Not a Remake,” appears with Mr. Cage’s name spelled correctly throughout. I saw the movie; it’s really, really good…and I’m not just saying that out of guilt.

 

George Clooney’s Up in the Air is also supposed to be a great movie. I haven’t seen it, but the buzz at the Toronto fest was phenomenal. The movie hits theatres next month, but you can read about it in this issue by checking out “Life on Standby.”

 

We also have “Rock and Role,” an interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman about playing a wild deejay in the 1960s-set Pirate Radio.

 

And our 119th cover, just like our first, features a couple of hot young actors in a stylish fantasy about supernatural creatures first conceived in a book. Instead of a headless horseman, the Twilight sequel New Moon is all about vampires and werewolves. But, unlike Ichabod Crane, New Moon’s protagonist, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), isn’t afraid of those supernatural creatures — she adores them. Read “Why Can’t She Find a Nice Human Boy?,” our chat with Stewart and Taylor Lautner.


Marni Weisz, editor

 


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