Big thanks to our forum member thehours_fan for the alert to this:

Millennium Entertainment will release Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy theatrically on October 5, the distributor announced today. The erotic thriller stars Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray and John Cusack. The screenplay was written by Pete Dexter and Daniels, based on the novel by Dexter. The movie got decidedly mixed reviews in May when it had its world premiere at Cannes. It revolves around a man (Efron) who tries to help his journalist brother (McConaughey) investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row (Cusack). Kidman co-stars as a Southern tart who likes her men behind bars.

- Deadline.com

While thinking about what goodies I could add to the site today for Nic’s birthday, I remembered I had a large batch of rather pretty press conference HQs waiting to be uploaded. So, here are half of them! I’ve stuck to 2003 for now, and have added over 120 more HQs from the Cold Moutain and The Human Stain press conferences. Nic looks perfectly divine in both sets – so beautiful and full of life – they are by far some of my favourite Nicole photos of all time. Have a look for yourself…!

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To kick off our day of updates, I have added over 30 more gorgeous HQ photos from the Paperboy press conference at Cannes! Some of these are HQ versions of pictures we previously had … fortuntely I’ve been able to replace some of my favourites with HQ versions, and they are even more stunning in HQ I’m still in love with Nicole’s look at the Paperboy press conference/photocall – the hair, make-up and dress are just perfection!

• Cannes Film Festival – “The Paperboy” Press Conference – High Quality x32 more

Our beautiful Nicole celebrates her 45th birthday today, and we would like to wish her a very heartfelt Happy Birthday! Nicole we hope you spend your special day surrounded by the people and things you love, and that the year ahead brings you all you wish for. Thank you for sharing your talents with us and proving time and time again that there is no-one quite like you!

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Birthday updates are a’ comin’…

Nicole Kidman on Martha Gellhorn: She chased tragedies and found love

Nicole Kidman has won an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globes, but she still needs an Emmy on her mantle. That could show up thanks to her role in HBO’s “Hemingway and Gellhorn” as Martha Gellhorn, the daredevil war correspondent who fell in love and married Ernest Hemingway while dodging bombs and bullets in the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

“That’s when they came alive — when they were in turmoil, when they were in chaos,” Kidman tells Gold Derby via webcam about the literary duo who lived and loved so hard. “That’s when Martha was able to be in love.”

In time, the union failed because the couple couldn’t cope with peaceful lulls between wars. “When they were put into a domestic situation, particularly Martha, she didn’t know how to function,” Kidman says. “She didn’t know what to do. because she needed the energy and her work fed her personally as well as professionally.”

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Keith Urban is currently working as a coach on the Australian edition of talent show The Voice. Guess who persuaded him to take the job? The “voice of reason”…

Urban signed on for The Voice at the urging of wife Nicole Kidman.

“It wasn’t so much that she talked me around – it was more her saying, ‘let’s see if we can make the schedule work’ because she loved the US version,” he says.

Is she now telling him, “I told you so”?

“Well, she is the good voice of reason,” he says.

“Put it this way, I probably wouldn’t need to be talked around to do it again. I’d love to do it again.”

- heraldsun.com.au

Earlier today in Sydney, Nic attended the Richard Wilkins 25 Year Anniversary Fundraiser For Down Syndrome at the Fox Studios. Richard Wilkins is the Channel 9 Australia Entertainment Editor, I believe. Nic looked chic in a long black dress and lovely red hair, and was accompanied by her husband.

Pics in the Gallery!

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I’ve found and added some additional photos from the Gold Week Telethon that Nicole took part in earlier this week. A few are some nice shots of her posing with children who have been helped by Sydney Children’s Hospital (which the telethon benefitted), and were found on this Facebook.

There’s another sweet shot of Nic posing with a SCH patient here.

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Le Grand Journal showed some brief footage from inside the Paperboy screening during it’s May 25th show:

THE Sydney Children’s Hospital has just reached its target of $2.2 million in donations for the annual Gold Week telethon.

A $100,000 donation from special guest Nicole Kidman helped smash the target at about 3.30pm this afternoon.

Kidman, an ambassador for the hospital, said she had visited the Randwick centre several times and was always astounded at the strength show by its young patients.

“They are fighting so hard and their families are fighting to keep their family together,” she said.

The morning has included performances from former Australian Idol stars Ricki-Lee Coulter and Damien Leith, who said the hospital needed all the support Sydney could muster.

“I have done a lot of work with the Sydney Children’s Hospital over the last six years so I have got to see first hand all the work that they do and they really need to keep it going – it’s an incredible hospital,” Leith told the Daily Telegraph.

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