- Title: USA: Jennifer Aniston's new film "Rumor Has it" makes fun of gossip
- Date: 29th December 2005
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS SHIRLEY MACLAINE WHO PORTRAYS 'KATHERINE HUTTINGER' IN FILM SAYING: "Because I loved the examination of old money in Pasadena (California) and I loved that this woman (Jennifer Aniston's character) from a background that was sculpted in Pasadena has been in New York she is about to get
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- Story Text: You have heard all the rumors about Jennifer Aniston this year but the cast of her new film "Rumor Has It" have nothing but kind words about each other while filming. "He (Rob Reiner) has been around he has directed some of my favorite favorite movies and he is you know my favorite television show and he is a big sweetheart a big softy, funny funny. So got so many you got Shirley MacLaine you got Rob Reiner you sit there and you pinch yourself constantly, is this real?" Aniston told Reuters in Pasadena, California.
Aniston, who has kept busy filming back to back movies, has been the subject of a tabloid frenzy since her split with husband Brad Pitt earlier this year. Aniston and Pitt's five year marriage ended while she was on set unbeknownst to her co-stars. Mark Ruffalo said that he did not know she was getting a divorce until after filming wrapped.
"It is really about Jennifer Aniston's character Sarah Huttinger and her journey to self discovery it is all about her trying to figure out who she is so that she can give herself over to the man she loves she is not going to make meaningful relationship unless she has a good purchase on who she is so that is really what it is about now we use "The Graduate" as kind of a springboard and we say that when the movie came out there were rumors it was based on real people, we pause at the notion that these are the real people that "The Graduate" was based on," said the film's Director Rob Reiner famous for hits as "Sleepless In Seattle".
The film tells the story of a woman (Aniston) who plays a young journalist whose career has hit a dead end in New York. She returns to her hometown suburb of of Pasadena, California along with her devoted fiance, Jeff (Ruffalo), to attend the wedding of her sister Annie (Mena Suvari). Almost immediately, she learns that the movie (and novel) "The Graduate" might be based on her family and that her acid-tongued grandmother Katharine (MacLaine) could be the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson. Why this hasn't come up before in her 30-plus years is a puzzle, but the secret certainly becomes her obsession now. She tracks down an old classmate of her parents, one Beau Burroughs (Costner), now an Internet billionaire living in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Incidentally, the movie is set in 1997 to keep "The Graduate" and the characters' ages in sync.) Even as she is posing the question to him, she falls under the spell that apparently affected both her mother and grandmother.
"I loved the examination of old money in Pasadena (California) and I loved that this woman (Jennifer Aniston's character) from a background that was sculpted in Pasadena has been in New York she is about to get married she comes back looks at what she came from and is so appalled and astonished and I am the grandmother who is the only one she can talk to and the only one in Pasadena who is basically talking the truth," MacLaine said about the film. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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