Anne Hathaway

"One Day" seemed so promising given its pedigree — lovely and sensitive actors Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess at the forefront; Lone Scherfig, a master of intimacy in the director's chair; and David Nicholls adapting his own bestselling romance novel. But as so often happens with love, what you hope for is not even close to what you get, and in this case we are left with a heartbreaking disappointment of a film. It starts off in Edinburgh, Scotland, one day in 1988, July 15 to be exact, when Emma (Hathaway)

Jim Sturgess first met Anne Hathaway at what is known in Hollywood as a chemistry read, an audition to test two actors' shared magnetism. Hathaway had already been cast as Emma Morley, the bookish protagonist of the English love story "One Day," and Sturgess had made it through two rounds of auditions for the part of Dexter Mayhew, Emma's roguish best friend and the object of nearly two decades of her longing. "It's kind of weird to meet for the first time," said Sturgess, who turned up for an early August interview in Beverly Hills with two days' worth of stubble and a garment bag slung over his shoulder.

Some people will do anything for a photograph. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a man believed to be a paparazzo pedaled his bicycle into the side of a car owned by actress Anne Hathaway in an apparent effort to take a photo of the performer. The Oscar-nominated actress was in an Audi driven by boyfriend Adam Shulman when the collision occurred shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday near Westbourne Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

"One Day" seemed so promising given its pedigree — lovely and sensitive actors Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess at the forefront; Lone Scherfig, a master of intimacy in the director's chair; and David Nicholls adapting his own bestselling romance novel. But as so often happens with love, what you hope for is not even close to what you get, and in this case we are left with a heartbreaking disappointment of a film. It starts off in Edinburgh, Scotland, one day in 1988, July 15 to be exact, when Emma (Hathaway)

Jim Sturgess first met Anne Hathaway at what is known in Hollywood as a chemistry read, an audition to test two actors' shared magnetism. Hathaway had already been cast as Emma Morley, the bookish protagonist of the English love story "One Day," and Sturgess had made it through two rounds of auditions for the part of Dexter Mayhew, Emma's roguish best friend and the object of nearly two decades of her longing. "It's kind of weird to meet for the first time," said Sturgess, who turned up for an early August interview in Beverly Hills with two days' worth of stubble and a garment bag slung over his shoulder.

It's a little disconcerting to hear Anne Hathaway talk dirty. Huddled in an office cubicle on the set of the new romantic comedy, "Valentine's Day," Hathaway, she of the pearly white skin, the doe-like eyes, the fantasy pedigree in the "Princess Diaries" movies, is purring lasciviously and furtively into the phone, lines like "I'm going to show you the wildest ride," and "I don't mind the fetishists." Puckishly presiding over the tweaking of her wholesome image is "Valentine's Day" director Garry Marshall, who a decade ago put the tiara on Hathaway's head by casting her in the first "Princess" film.

To reinvent the madcap look of "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, Tim Burton turned to longtime collaborator Colleen Atwood. The costume designer, nominated eight times in the Academy Awards, took time out from working in Venice on her next film, "The Tourist," to talk about how she re-dressed the characters (the cast is led by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowska and Anne Hathaway) in the early Victorian tale, starting with Alice and her famous blue frock. The new Alice is 19 years old, and she's not the typical frilly Disney character.

There's a strange lack of funny in this year's Academy Awards hosts: Sure, James Franco may be pulling one over on everyone with some of his more fringe projects ("Three's Company, the Drama," anyone?), and yes, Anne Hathaway has been amusing in films like "The Devil Wears Prada. " But the last time the Oscars went on without a straight-up comedian in the hosting ranks was 1973 ? and you know how that turned out: A streaker took the stage! So perhaps there is a hidden master plan from the lead actor nominee (Franco)

Much has been said of the sad, dark performance of Anne Hathaway as the addict let out of rehab for the weekend to attend her sister's wedding in "Rachel Getting Married," and the film is worth recommending just for that. But in all the swirl of notice around director Jonathan Demme's latest offering -- with Hathaway's against type, raw and rebellious Kym riding the critical and awards wave -- it's easy to overlook the many smaller, finely drawn performances.

UNDERRATED "Wonders of the Universe" with Brian Cox : Unlike other topic-specific networks like MTV and History Channel, the Science Channel is building a roster of quality shows true to its name. Examining the cosmos in a manner akin to the network's "Through the Wormhole," this engrossing documentary series gains a boost in the stylish Cox, a U.K. physicist who can break down the universe's vastness and inevitable demise with a genial serenity that borders on perverse.

UNDERRATED "Wonders of the Universe" with Brian Cox : Unlike other topic-specific networks like MTV and History Channel, the Science Channel is building a roster of quality shows true to its name. Examining the cosmos in a manner akin to the network's "Through the Wormhole," this engrossing documentary series gains a boost in the stylish Cox, a U.K. physicist who can break down the universe's vastness and inevitable demise with a genial serenity that borders on perverse.

"Rio," a 3-D animated film about tropical birds, should soar to the top of the box office this weekend. The movie, with feathered protagonists voiced by Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, is expected to gross $35 million to $40 million in its first weekend, according to people who have seen pre-release audience surveys. The weekend's other new wide release, the horror film "Scream 4," is likely to collect about $27million. "Rio," the latest release from 20th Century Fox-owned animation company Blue Sky Studios, cost about $90 million to produce after tax incentives.

They played it safe, and who could blame them? The 83rd Academy Awards opened with hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco taking an "Inception"-inspired journey through the dreams of former host Alec Baldwin, dreams that turned out to be clips from nominated films into which Hathaway and Franco were inserted, in a rather astonishingly seamless way. The jokes ranged from the sublime ? "I loved you in 'Tron,'" Franco tells Jeff Bridges in "True Grit" ? to the ridiculous ? Hathaway's "dance of the brown duck" in front of "Black Swan's" Natalie Portman.

There's a strange lack of funny in this year's Academy Awards hosts: Sure, James Franco may be pulling one over on everyone with some of his more fringe projects ("Three's Company, the Drama," anyone?), and yes, Anne Hathaway has been amusing in films like "The Devil Wears Prada. " But the last time the Oscars went on without a straight-up comedian in the hosting ranks was 1973 ? and you know how that turned out: A streaker took the stage! So perhaps there is a hidden master plan from the lead actor nominee (Franco)

ANNE HATHAWAY "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) Christopher Nolan's take on the Batman saga has made for thrilling filmmaking and boffo box office ? but the legend has faltered in the past when Catwoman slinks in. Hathaway needs to tone down the sunny smile and get feline ? fast. "One Day" (2011) David Nicholls' book (and now screen adaptation) should get a pleasant feminine edge with Lone Scherfig ("An Education") at the helm, while Hathaway plays half of a duo whose relationship spans the years ?

If it's good enough for "Saturday Night Live," it's good enough for ? the Academy Awards? That's the hope, anyway, of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which announced Monday that James Franco and Anne Hathaway will be co-hosting the 83rd Academy Awards. With respective ages of 32 and 28, the two actors are among the youngest hosts for the iconic award show. While both are accomplished, adventurous and well-regarded actors, their primary job qualification for hosting a live variety show is their experience toplining "SNL.

Anne Hathaway seemed immensely proud of herself but also reluctant, initially, to make too big a deal of her experience filming the family dramedy "Rachel Getting Married." The loosely staged movie -- which follows a New England family over the course of an emotionally wrought weekend of nuptial revelry -- came out last month and has been generating the earliest of early Oscar buzz for Hathaway ever since.

Three years ago, gawky, misfit teen Mia Thermopolis made her royal debut as princess of Genovia in the surprise $108-million-grossing hit "The Princess Diaries" -- and the actress who played her, Anne Hathaway, was making a debut (on the big screen) of her own. Suddenly, Hathaway had a new pal in co-star Julie Andrews, an enthusiastic schoolgirl following, and repeated comparisons from director Garry Marshall to no less than Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn and Judy Garland.

Finally, after years of suffering through Hollywood's predictable pap, sentimental mush, boring bromances and mean girl clichés, comes a love story that is actually worth falling for, with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal excellent at steaming up the screen in "Love & Other Drugs. " The trick is that in director Ed Zwick's world, love hurts. It may be funny, charming, poignant and sexy, and "Love & Other Drugs" is all that too, but at some point it stings like astringent on a fresh scrape.

Anne Hathaway vividly recalls the first time she made out with Jake Gyllenhaal: It was on the set of 2005's "Brokeback Mountain," in which the actress played the neglected wife to Gyllenhaal's smitten cowboy, and they were filming a steamy tryst in the back seat of a car. FOR THE RECORD: "Love & Other Drugs": An article in the Nov. 21 Calendar section about Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway's love scenes in "Love & Other Drugs" said the movie...