"She is that rare thing: a wonderful actress, a wonderful soul possessed of that skinlessness that
the camera is greedy for, which allows us to glimpse all of her frailties, her sorrows, her joys,
her good heart. She manages all of those things with grace, style and an astonishing work ethic."
- Anthony Minghella on Nicole Kidman
Our Nicole was out on official duties today, attending the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Installation Luncheon in Beverley Hills. Nicole looked pretty in a green dress with her classic red curls. She was pictured having what appears to be a rather lively chat with Glee‘s queen of mean Sue Sylvester herself (for those not familar with the show, that’s wonderful actress Jane Lynch ), as well as talking to Eva Longoria and Annette Benning. The first few HQs have been added to the Gallery, and many more photos will be added later today/tomorrow.
Running from September 9 to 19, the Toronto International Film Festival has announced a partial line up of 15 Galas and 35 Special Presentations including 25 World Premieres. In its 35th year, the festival has cineastes the world over rubbing their hands together at the exciting selection of films on offer.
The 11 day event is set to ‘drop the puck’ with a premiere screening of Score: A Hockey Musical, written and directed by Michael McGowan, starring Australian musical icon Olivia Newton-John. Following this very Canadian opener, the festival will feature premieres of films from Denmark, France, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Darren Aronofsky, Francois Ozon, Robert Redford, Mark Romanek, Michael Winterbottom, Julian Schnabel, John Cameron Mitchell, and Woody Allen will join an impressive assembly of renowned directors whose works will feature at the festival.
A couple of the most hotly anticipated movies include John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole, which features Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan starring Natalie Portman as a jealous ballerina.
The program, announced so far, also includes Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies, John Curran’s Stone, Francois Ozon’s Potiche, Ben Affleck’s The Town, Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Alain Corneau’s Love Crime, Julian Schnabel’s Miral, Mike Mills’ Beginners, Rowan Joffe’s Brighton Rock, Tony Goldwyn’s Conviction, Susanne Im Sang-Soo’s The Housemaid, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, and Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip.
Director and CEO of TIFF, Piers Handling, says the festival is thrilled at the selection of films. “The richness and diversity of this year’s Galas and Special Presentations programmes reflect the abundance of exciting works from established and emerging filmmakers in the world of cinema,” he says.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 9 to 19. For more information, visit the festival website.
Just a quick note to let you all know that forum registration is open again! I’m so sorry it’s been closed so long, and I’m sorry to those of that have emailed me and asked about it! I hope those of you that did email are still interested in joining. Forum registration is only closed because of spam posters, and the fact that controlling and stopping all the spam is hard. But we LOVE meeting new Nicole fans there, so pay us a visit, register and say hi!
EDIT: Forgot to add, registrations need to be approved by me before you can post. So you can register straight away, and I will approve your account asap. I’ll be approving accounts every couple of days.
Nicole’s new official site! Knowing the internet, I’m always very wary of sites claiming to be official, but this looks to be real – don’t you think? It looks to be mainly to promote her work with UNIFEM, and she’s left a couple of messages there encouraging people to sign the Say No – Unite To End Violence Against Women petition. There’s also an accompanying Facebook page. So make sure you visit the site (which you obviously will) to hear from Nicole, and to support her and her work with UNIFEM!
I have another big update for you today, Nicole fans, and again it features some fantastic stuff! To start with, I’ve added over 40 new HQs from the 2003 Costume Institute Gala, most of which are gorgeous close-ups of an animated Nicole talking to the press – don’t miss these! Then, I’ve added lots more HQs from Nicole’s recent appearances in Hong Kong to promote Omega – she looks really stunning and statuesque in the Charity Gala ones, and there are some cute pics of her cheering along with the event. Oh, and there are also some more beautiful close-ups from this event which are worth a mention!
Moving on from appearance photos, but still with Omega, we have a couple of new/old Omega ads, plus a rather photoshopped new promotional photo for the brand that appeared during that recent visit to Hong Kong. Nicole posed for some portrait photoshoot pictures in Hong Kong, and this all-new photoshoot has been added to our Gallery too.
Various other new photos have been added, including an old and rare photo of Nicole and her ex-husband with Charlie Sheen, possibly taken in 2000. Finally, we have 3 new sets of scans from an In Style (thanks Carla!), Emporium Traveller (thanks Ella!), and TV Movie (thanks Ann).
A big thanks goes to some of our forum members for some of these photos – Emma (nickufan) for half of the Omega Boutique photos, Lica for the Omega Japan photoshoot, nueng0908 for the new Omega photoshoot, and Carla and Ella for scans.
The main new additions are listed below, but visit the Last Uploads page to see everything. And I apologise for the extra long lines of previews below, but some of these pics are just too good to not show off!
Country singer Keith Urban sacrificed a Father’s Day celebration on Sunday – because the holiday falls on his wife Nicole Kidman’s birthday.
The Moulin Rouge! actress turned 43 on Sunday and her husband decided to dedicate the weekend to her, rather than make any special plans for himself.
But Urban, who shares daughter Sunday Rose with Kidman, insists the Antipodeans will be celebrating Father’s Day in September – when Australians observe the annual event.
Nicole Kidman and Gillian Anderson are set to appear in rival films about war correspondent and novelist Martha Gellhorn.
Oscar-winner Nicole has just been signed up along with Clive Owen to star in Hemingway And Gellhorn about one of American literature’s most famous couples, Deadline Hollywood reveals.
X Files star Gillian’s company bought the rights to Caroline Moorehead’s biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life in 2008 and hired Sharman Macdonald to write a feature adaptation for Gillian to star in as Gellhorn.
James Gandolfini is producing Hemingway And Gellhorn, which he has been working on for six years now and was originally attached to star in himself.
Philip Kaufman will direct from a script by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl and filming is due to start in Northern California next year.
I have a fantastic update for you today! I’ve added some really old and really rare treats! These are photos from various small appearances in Australia in the late 1980′s, plus some photoshoots from the same time. Included are photos from a press conference for Dead Calm on a wharf in Sydney and a photoshoot taken to promote Emerald City. I’d never seen these photos/events before, so I hope these are new to you too!
And jumping from the 1980′s to the late 2000′s, I’ve also added a new and unseen photoshoot that was probably taken around 2006-2007. This is courtesy of Lea, so a big thank you goes to her. Lea and I + some of our other awesome forum members think this looks like it was taken around the time of The Invasion, based on her hairstyle and that grey jumper. It’s a really gorgeous photo.
These photos are exclusive to Nicole’s Magic so I ask that you please do not re-post them elsewhere. And also … enjoy the rare Nicole goodies!!
Today, June 20th, is our beloved Nicole’s birthday! She turns 43 today. So on behalf of all her fans here at Nicole’s Magic, I’d like to wish her a very Happy Birthday! Nicole, we hope you have a very special day spent with your loved ones, and that the year ahead brings you everything you wish for. Thank you for being such an inspiration and for sharing your talents with us.
Leave your birthday wishes for Nicole by posting a comment here, or in the birthday thread at the forum. If you’ve made some birthday fanart to celebrate Nicole’s day then feel free to share that too, and I will display it here on the site!
To celebrate our Nic’s birthday, I’m planning to update the Gallery with as much as I can fit in today. So keep checking back throughout the day for new additions in the Gallery, and this post will be edited as they are added. To start with, I’ve added some gorgeous scans from a couple of older Italian Vanity Fair magazines, thanks to the lovely Martina. I particularly love the November 2005 photos (previously seen in French Vogue in 2005), Nicole looks kind of ethereal in them!
The Gallery update for today is complete! I’ve added a bunch of photos for you, including pictures from the set of Nine (finally!), some old and rare appearance hqs and some more recent appearance hqs and more here and there. Don’t miss the beautiful photos of Nic with Dylan Hartung, and the early Oscar photos!
I’ve finally finished and ‘opened’ June’s Movie Of The Month! I’m sorry it’s taken so long, I’ve just been so busy with other stuff and haven’t had time to write the feature. This month’s Movie Of The Month is Vietnam, Nicole’s much acclaimed 1987 tv mini-series. It’s one of my absolute favourite Nicole projects and definitely one of her best performances. So go and read all about it, and enjoy the feature
I’ve also updated the Featured Photo on the sidebar. I will try to get caught up with new photos asap, please bear with me as things are still busy for me and will be for a few more weeks
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), as well as talking to Eva Longoria and Annette Benning. The first few HQs have been added to the Gallery, and many more photos will be added later today/tomorrow.
Happy Birthday Nicole!! 
