I’ve been planning to change the news system for months now, and after sorting some stuff out, I decided now was the time to do it, especially as it’s the start of a new month! You probably won’t notice much difference with this news system at the moment, but it is much easier and more flexible for me. I still need to convert the old news over to this format – that will take some time, but you can still browse them in our Archives. Once that news is converted you will be able to browse the news archives so much easier – by month, by category and by using a search box. So I will work on converting all that asap.

If things look a bit messy on this main page and with the new news page then I’m sorry! I’m working on setting it all up, tweaking things and making it work properly. Please bear with me on this If you come across any errors – broken links, extra large fonts etc. – then please please let me know.

You can still comment here, so don’t be shy :p

The Academy award-winning actor Nicole Kidman used an appearance before the US Congress to accuse Hollywood of contributing to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects.

Kidman was speaking yesterday in her role as a UN ambassador to a House foreign affairs subcommittee that is considering legislation to tackle violence against women overseas.

When asked by Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher whether the film industry “played a bad role” in the way it portrayed women, Kidman replied “Probably”, before going on to say that she refused to take roles that portrayed women as weak sex objects. “I can’t be responsible for all of Hollywood, but I can certainly be responsible for my own career.”

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I have my computer back finally, so updates can resume! Today I’ve been catching up with the latest photos and will add those candids asap this week.

For now though, I’ve added screencaps from Skin Deep – this was an Aussie TV movie about the ups and downs of the world of fashion and modelling, and, depending on exact dates, was possibly Nicole’s very first appearance on screen! As you can see she is instantly recognisable with that mane of hair Thanks so much to NikolaKenne for finding the footage of this – in the 7 1/2 years this site has been online I’ve never seen or heard anything concrete about this appearance, so it’s incredibly rare, and great to now see something from it. You can watch the video in the forum and see the screencaps in the Gallery. Enjoy!!

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Those of you that check our Twitter regularly will have read that I’ve been having some computer problems recently and am unable to use my computer – this is why there haven’t been any updates for a few weeks! I am so sorry about this, but there’s really nothing I can do about it. I just have my fingers crossed that it will be fixed soon and I can resume updating.

It feels like I haven’t updated this site properly in a long time and I’m sorry about that. I have so much to do here, and once I get everything fixed I plan to make a dedicated attempt to work on getting lots of new stuff up.

And remember to follow Nicole’s Magic on Twitter as that is the best way to get the latest news and updates, as well as at our forum.

“Let the Right One In” helmer Tomas Alfredson will direct Nicole Kidman in true-life sex-change drama “The Danish Girl.”

Lucinda Coxon penned the script based on David Ebershoff’s novel about Danish painter Einar Wegener (Kidman), who in 1931 became the first person to go through a sex-change operation to become a woman.

However, Charlize Theron, who had been attached to play Wegener’s wife, Gerda, has left the production.

Pic will be produced by Kidman and Per Saari, head of Kidman’s Fox-based Blossom Films shingle, along with Anne Harrison, Gail Mutrux and Linda Reisman.

“We have been in talks for close to a year, and we are soon going into production,” Alfredson told Daily Variety.

Alfredson said he planned to shoot “The Danish Girl” before his previously announced John le Carre adaptation, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” for Working Title.

The Rabbit Hole article below was accompanied by the first 2 stills from the movie, and I have added them to our Gallery! This movie looks like it’s going to be really intense and emotional … although on a much lighter note, I think we’re all really excited to see Nic’s red hair back

Thanks to Lewton for posting the article and photos at the forum.

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WATCHING Nicole Kidman stroll unencumbered through the streets of Queens is like seeing an out-of-place apparition, Marilyn Monroe on the subway platform instead of on the grate above. Yet there she was, walking down Bell Boulevard in Bayside in a long flax-colored cardigan, hardly noticed by the locals one bright morning this summer.

No, Ms. Kidman doesn’t come to Queens often. But she gladly spent a few weeks around the borough filming “Rabbit Hole,” an adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer prize-winning drama about a fraying family. In the film version Douglaston stands in for Westchester, and Ms. Kidman toned down her glamour to play a suburban mother dealing with the loss of a child.

She took on another demanding new role as well, as a producer of the movie, the first from her production company, Blossom Films. With a modest budget of less than $10 million, a brisk 28-day shoot, a surprising director in John Cameron Mitchell, few frills (no trailers for the stars) and many interns, “Rabbit Hole” is more like an indie than a Hollywood production. Make no mistake: it was Ms. Kidman’s wattage that got it made, and quickly. But it does not yet have distribution.

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Can lightning strike twice? Rob Marshall, who took the seemingly unfilmable Broadway musical “Chicago” to Oscar-winning heights in 2002, is expected by many to do the same for “Nine,” the Tony-winning musical adaptation of Federico Fellini’s semiautobiographical “8½.”

“Nine,” slated for a November release, stars Daniel Day-Lewis as fictional ’60s Italian cinema icon Guido Contini in the throes of midlife crisis, along with a bevy of Oscar-winning actresses who alternately attract and plague him, including Marion Cotillard (his wife), Penelope Cruz (his mistress), Judi Dench (his producer), Nicole Kidman (his star) and Sophia Loren (his mother). Kate Hudson (an American journalist) rounds out the cast.

“Nine” composer-lyricist Maury Yeston was realistic about handing his baby over to the movies. “It was incredibly important to understand that film is a director’s art, that (Marshall) be able to adapt this stage musical and make a film independent of an overcontrolling Broadway author looking over his shoulder,” he concedes. “That’s the very first thing I said to Rob.”

Still, the film offered Yeston another chance to extend his lifelong obsession with Fellini’s classic. He began working on the musical in 1973, won a Tony for its score in 1982 and tinkered with it for the 2003 Broadway revival. Having worked with Raul Julia in the original and Antonio Banderas in the revival, he was especially aware of “the impact of what some of the casting choices might be on the score.”

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Thanks to Lea for this article.

Nicole Kidman is no Victoria Beckham — at least when it comes to appearing on Project Runway.

While the Spice Girl enjoyed a lengthy appearance during the season four finale of the hit Lifetime show, Runway’s co-host Tim Gunn tells OK! that Nicole’s appearance on Thursday night’s Project Runway: All-Star Challenge will be rather brief.

“Let me put it this way, yes, she makes an appearance,” Tim coyly told OK! when asked about the Oscar-winner’s role on the special, which sees eight designers from from previous seasons return to compete against each other. “She’s one of the reigning royal figures in Hollywood so we were thrilled to have her on the show in any capacity.”

Looks like it’s true! Click ‘…continue’ to read a couple more articles. This show airs this Thursday (20th) at 8 p.m EDT in the US. If anyone can contribute a video to Nicole’s Magic then please let me know!

Nicole Kidman has been hailed as a style icon and now the actress is set to help the contestants on “Project Runway: All Star Challenge” “make it work” with a cameo on the upcoming Lifetime special.

A source close to the show revealed exclusively to Access Hollywood that Nicole will be making a guest appearance on the design special. The source told Access that Nicole will help set up one of the challenges for the contestants.

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, some of the most talented and controversial stars of the sewing room are back for a two-hour special that will air immediately preceding the highly anticipated premiere of the sixth season of “Runway.”

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