Jodie Foster

Actress Jodie Foster has listed her Beverly Hills compound for sale at $9,975,000, the Multiple Listing Service shows. The main house, with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, was built in 1949. Climbing vines and red brick accents give the home an East Coast vibe. Encompassing nearly an acre of land, the compound includes a tennis court, a swimming pool and a guesthouse. Foster, 48, began working in commercials and television as a child. The actress-producer-director won Oscars for her roles in "The Accused" (1988)

Actress-producer Jodie Foster has sold her gated Beverly Hills estate for $8.3 million, public records show. Climbing roses and red brick accents give the seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom compound an East Coast vibe. The listing described the style as Cape Cod and Connecticut. On nearly an acre, the compound contains the 1949 main house, a two-bedroom guesthouse, a tennis court and a swimming pool. No panic room, however — to borrow the title of her 2002 film. Foster, 49, stars in the recently released film "Carnage.

As she has crisscrossed the country tirelessly promoting her latest directorial effort, "The Beaver," Jodie Foster has been keeping in touch via text with Mel Gibson. When the star of your film is also your close friend and Hollywood's leading persona non grata, the messages can get a tad awkward. "Mel said, 'I will be dragged through gravel for you,'" Foster said in Beverly Hills. "He's been in Costa Rica. I texted him back, 'I don't want you to be dragged through gravel for me. Please do not.'" Left hanging in the air is what, if anything, Foster does want from Gibson at this point.

There are all kinds of problems with "The Beaver. " Ironically, Mel Gibson isn't one of them. So for those inclined to set aside the actor's alcoholic, anti-Semitic rants and his no-contest plea to domestic abuse (and I'm not arguing for that), there is a sensitive performance to be found, with Gibson creating a sad, sobering portrait of depression. Being sold in ads as a whimsical, poignant family drama from director-actor Jodie Foster, the film is more a torrential downpour of pain.

Actress-producer Jodie Foster has sold her gated Beverly Hills estate for $8.3 million, public records show. Climbing roses and red brick accents give the seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom compound an East Coast vibe. The listing described the style as Cape Cod and Connecticut. Including nearly an acre of land, the compound contains the 1949 main house, a two-bedroom guesthouse, a tennis court and a swimming pool. Foster, 49, stars in the recently released film "Carnage. " She also starred in and directed "The Beaver" this year.

Actress Jodie Foster has settled her lawsuit against European entertainment giant PolyGram, where she has a production deal, involving a dispute over whether she would star in a film called "The Game." In a joint statement, both sides said they regret that the fight ended up in court. Foster said she and her Egg Pictures will continue their PolyGram association.

In a bitter feud between two business partners, Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster is suing European entertainment giant PolyGram for more than $10 million, alleging the company broke an agreement calling for her to star in a movie called "The Game." The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is unusual because Foster and her Egg Pictures have been in business with PolyGram since 1992 and continue to be partners.

Comedy loves misery, and few things manufacture discontent as efficiently as ritualized family gatherings. "Home for the Holidays" hopes to find the laughs in the mad chaos of one miserable Thanksgiving, but like many holiday wishes it doesn't quite get fulfilled. Directed by Jodie Foster and written by W.D. Richter, "Holidays" isn't able to differentiate between reproducing the insanity of a Thanksgiving run amok and making that nightmare amusing.

Deep in rural North Carolina, in a secluded cabin hidden away in an especially remote corner of the Great Smoky Mountains, a singular young woman is discovered, someone who has lived her entire life without making contact with the forces of society. Uneasy around other people, speaking a unique language, this person inhabits a universe all her own. So the quandary for her discoverers becomes how best to integrate those special qualities with what the workaday world has to offer.

Jodie FOSTER is perfectly aware that in reality women don't kill strangers. "They kill their husbands and their children and themselves," said the 44-year-old actress matter-of-factly. "That's how women handle rage and abuse. Men are able to push outwards and are able to say, 'I'm hurt so there must be something wrong with you.' "Let's say there is one that is," she continued. A woman who does expel her anger outwards, that is. And let's say she's played by the two-time Oscar winner.

Actress Jodie Foster has listed her Beverly Hills compound for sale at $9,975,000, the Multiple Listing Service shows. The main house, with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, was built in 1949. Climbing vines and red brick accents give the home an East Coast vibe. Encompassing nearly an acre of land, the compound includes a tennis court, a swimming pool and a guesthouse. Foster, 48, began working in commercials and television as a child. The actress-producer-director won Oscars for her roles in "The Accused" (1988)

As she has crisscrossed the country tirelessly promoting her latest directorial effort, "The Beaver," Jodie Foster has been keeping in touch via text with Mel Gibson. When the star of your film is also your close friend and Hollywood's leading persona non grata, the messages can get a tad awkward. "Mel said, 'I will be dragged through gravel for you,'" Foster said in Beverly Hills. "He's been in Costa Rica. I texted him back, 'I don't want you to be dragged through gravel for me. Please do not.'" Left hanging in the air is what, if anything, Foster does want from Gibson at this point.

There was a moment during the first public screening of her new film, "The Beaver," when Jodie Foster finally felt she could exhale. The drama, starring Mel Gibson as a depressed father who reinvents himself with the help of a furry hand puppet, deals with tough subject matter that is uncomfortably close its star's very public meltdown. After a mostly comic first hour, Gibson's character reveals the depth of his depression and anger by turning his rage against himself. "There's one scene in the movie where it takes this turn and where Mel hits himself, and if people are laughing there, then we're like, 'This is bad. This is not good,' " Foster said in an interview the morning after "The Beaver's" sold-out premiere at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival here this week.

1. Will Smith is apparently pleased with the self-portrait he took on the red carpet for the premiere in Japan of "I Am Legend." Smith has plenty of company, unlike his film character, the last human survivor in New York. 2. From one musical artist to another, Johnny Depp, left, who has the musical "Sweeney Todd" under his belt, and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, at the New York premiere for the film. 3.

KUDOS to Kenneth Turan for his funny and spot-on review of "The Brave One" ["Making Strange Bedfellows," Sept. 14]. It is hard to believe that Jodie Foster felt she was creating a thoughtful and sensitive character. Erica Bain's perfunctory vomiting doesn't even occur until after she's stacked up her third corpse.

This time it was the woman with a gun who took control. The revenge thriller "The Brave One," starring Jodie Foster as a vigilante killer on the streets of New York, knocked the Russell Crowe western "3:10 to Yuma" out of first place at the box office over the weekend, grossing an estimated $14 million in the United States and Canada. "Women are really responding to the movie even though it has its violent moments," said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros.

There are all kinds of problems with "The Beaver. " Ironically, Mel Gibson isn't one of them. So for those inclined to set aside the actor's alcoholic, anti-Semitic rants and his no-contest plea to domestic abuse (and I'm not arguing for that), there is a sensitive performance to be found, with Gibson creating a sad, sobering portrait of depression. Being sold in ads as a whimsical, poignant family drama from director-actor Jodie Foster, the film is more a torrential downpour of pain.

It was the 62nd Academy Awards. But it looked like a Giorgio Armani fashion show. Jessica Lange, Jodie Foster and Julia Roberts all wore creations by the Milanese designer. And not to be left out, the night's host, Billy Crystal, sported a custom-designed Armani shawl-collared tuxedo. Foster, last year's best actress who made a return engagement this year to present the best actor award, looked very soignee in a black Armani silk suit with a white chiffon blouse.