Sunday, September 23, 2007

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"She said 'They keep saying to me that we don't need to rehearse.' That day I showed up, her eyes were this big, her hair was out to here, and she had just learned the fight. She said ‘this is unlike anything we have ever, ever done.' It turned out to be an amazingly real scrabble."

Plus, Ben Affleck, Garner's famous husband, happened to be on the set the day that fight was shooting.

"He was visiting the set the day that we shot that fight scene. I thought it would have made him a little bit nervous to see them chucking me against the wall, harder and harder with every take," she laughed. "He was a little too calm about it, between us, I felt like he could have been a little bit more ‘My wife, you better be careful with her.' That wasn't it, he was just like ‘Go, go for it babe. Harder!'"

Garner, whose daughter Violet turns two in December, admitted that getting back into the hardcore action genre did take some getting used to; so much so that the 36-year-old ended up in the hospital during the shoot, much of which took place in the desert heat.

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Los Angeles - She's not on television as Sidney Bristow in "Alias" any more and she's given birth to a baby girl, but that doesn't mean that actress Jennifer Garner has forgotten how to kick butt. Garner proved that once again at Monday night's premiere of "The Kingdom," the new action film that premiered at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood. Garner plays one of a group of elite FBI agents (Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Chris Cooper, who all walked the red carpet along with her) sent into Saudi Arabia to find a terrorist bomber.

The ensuing flick, directed by Peter Berg, is jam-packed with action, and Garner is in the heart of many of the sequences, fights that unexpectedly taxed the veteran action heroine.

"I thought it wasn't going to be much of anything. I kept saying to my stunt double, Shauna Duggins, who I've worked with for six years. I said ‘When are we going to have rehearsals for this fight scene?' We go in 110 percent prepared. I mean I could still do the fights from ‘Daredevil' in my sleep, and a bunch of the ‘Alias' ones," Garner told reporters earlier at a press conference in Beverly Hills.

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His best looks were cable sweaters with Indie album blazers, parachute silk parkas and tops with appliqué flowers. It was a collection of polish and poise and eminently wearable for both first date and lazy weekend.

Plus, the architectural tour that is any good season took a great tangent today in the Art Deco 1929 cantilevered Lawrence Hall, where Smith turned the enormous back-drop into the an artists loft, smartly reworking one of Europe's greatest concrete spaces.

Paul's shows are generally the most professionally staged in London; yet somehow today's show felt, ahem, tired; a designer going through the paces, a talent lacking a viscerally punchy theme, i.e. a slick 30 minutes with no soul.

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This July in Paris, the inspiration for Sir Paul's very fine men's collection was the Yorkshire painter, whose love of cheerful stripes, Pop Art ties and youthful round spectacles dominated the runway.

Today in London, the same ideas ran both through the women's collection and down the splendid catwalk of the superb faded expanse of the Great Horticultural Halls. Bottle-top glasses in swimming pool blue hues; satin piped cricket blazers and rugby sweater columns all had that sunny Californian view of Britain.

His best looks were cable sweaters with Indie album blazers, parachute silk parkas and tops with appliqué flowers. It was a collection of polish and poise and eminently wearable for both first date and lazy weekend

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