NICOLE KIDMAN was disappointed with the poor reviews her movie BEWITCHED received, because she hoped to make some sequels.

The film – an adaptation of the 1960s TV series – was welcomed with lukewarm critical response on its release last year (05) and failed to set the box office alight.

Kidman says, “I fancied making a few more of those, but the critics killed that idea.”

Mr Blackwell’s annual Best and Worst Dressed list is addictively, almost shockingly unkind, and this year’s version is no different. “From overexposed, underdressed and over-the-top Pop Tarts to the beyond-bad bling-blind brigade, the fashion landscape was littered with a litany of taste-free terrors,” the famously direct style commentator said, before singling out 23-year-old Britney Spears as 2005′s worst fashion criminal: “When it comes to couture chaos, this tacky terror should take a bow – looks like an over-the-hill Lolita. From the princess of pop to the ultimate fashion flop.” Next up was Mary-Kate Olsen: “In bag lady rags that look depressingly decayed – forget the accessories and buy some Raid.” The top ten of sartorially challenged stars included Jessica Simpson, Eva Longoria, Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton, regular Blackwell-lister Anna Nicole Smith (“Queen Kong in cheap lingerie”), Shakira, Lindsay Lohan and Renee Zellweger (see the full extent of their low fashion grades below), while Fabulous Fashion Independents of 2005 included Reese Witherspoon, Kirsten Dunst, Kathy Hilton, Dionne Warwick, Ginny Mancini, Nicole Kidman, Caroline Herrera, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Moss and Natalie Portman. “These women are a welcome sight as they glow and blossom with effortless beauty and memorable style,” says Blackwell.

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This year, as Wong’s first English-language feature, “The Lady from Shanghai,” begins shooting, Chang will pour Nicole Kidman into his film noir vision of the “Paris of the East” in its heyday. “Actually, I don’t like period that much, but I can do it,” he said with a laugh. His secrets: research on eBay and watching old films on local television and the Turner Classic Movies cable channel. For ideas, he said, “I just walk around, watch TV, just live and let things come.” He doesn’t think his work has a signature, saying, “If you can tell that it is mine, then I should stop. Each time, I have to have moved on.”

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NICOLE KIDMAN has sparked speculation she could be heading down the aisle with boyfriend KEITH URBAN, after being photographed with a diamond ring on her engagement finger.

The actress has yet to confirm she is even dating country star and fellow Australian Urban, but friends say the pair have become closer and closer since they were first spotted together last year (05).

Kidman flashed the ring as the pair left a New York hotel together on Thursday (05JAN06).

The couple, who are both 38, have been spending New Year in the Big Apple after enjoying Christmas with Urban’s family in Nashville, Tennessee.

FOR once there was no sign of Nicole Kidman’s constant companion. But Keith Urban’s ring was clearly visible on the actor’s left hand in New York yesterday, as she presented News Corp chairman and chief executive officer Rupert Murdoch with a humanitarian award.

“As you are probably aware we are both from a place we call ‘Down Under’,” Kidman said, explaining why she had been chosen to present the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Humanitarian Laureate Award to Mr Murdoch.

The award recognised Mr Murdoch’s support for Israel. He thanked his “real friend and great sport” for agreeing to present it.

Kidman was clearly the night’s star attraction. Every glimpse of the ring on her wedding finger was greeted with scores of rapid-fire camera flashes from assembled paparazzi.

Kidman’s dinner conversation with Mr Murdoch and his wife Wendy Deng was interrupted by bursts of flash each time she lifted her fork to her mouth and exposed the ring to the photographers’ lenses.

Despite the ring, the actor has not confirmed whether she is engaged, let alone addressed the marriage rumours that have dogged her since she spent Christmas at Urban’s Nashville home.

Ms Kidman had spent the past few weeks holidaying with Urban in America after wrapping up filming of The Visiting. The pair has been photographed in Los Angeles, Nashville, Las Vegas and New York.

She appears to be uncomfortable with the constant attention generated by her romance with the country singer.

The pair fled trendy NYC nightclub Bungalow 8 just minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, after clubgoers started taking photos of the pair with mobile phone cameras.

They had spent less than two minutes inside the club.

Daniel Craig heads off to the Czech Republic this month to shoot Casino Royale, his debut as the sixth actor to play James Bond 007. You might think he’d be over the moon about his newfound fortune – reports USA Today.

But on this sunny day in the Capital City, he is all business. And the business at hand is playing Nicole Kidman’s love interest in the alien thriller The Visiting, a reworking of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It’s directed by Germany’s Oliver Hirschbiegel, who caused a sensation with a humanized Hitler in Downfall.

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“I am in a very level place at the moment because I’m doing this,” he says, referring to The Visiting. “And I’m very much concentrating on doing this.” About Bond, he says, “As much as it’s a huge thing, it’s just another job at the moment.”

Kidman is confident her co-star will triumph as Bond.

“I think Daniel will just smoke in it,” she says. “He is such an accomplished actor. Stephen Daldry (who directed Kidman in The Hours and Craig on the London stage) said to me, ‘He is the best actor in England, and if you get a chance to work with him, do it.’ ”

Suggest to Craig that it is good that audiences will get to know him first in such movies as Munich, in which he plays an Israeli assassin, and The Visiting, due in August, and he shifts in his chair.

He is slightly more keen on chatting about his first sci-fi feature. He says he agreed to do The Visiting because “Nicole was doing it. And Oliver is doing it. I think Downfall is one of the best films in the past couple years.”

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Naomi Watts thanks best friend Nicole Kidman for her Hollywood career.

The King Kong actress claims that Nicole’s inspiration helped her to succeed.

She told the Daily Star, “If it wasn’t for Nicole providing so much inspiration, I might have packed up and gone home.”