By BARBARA VANCHERI, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Filming 'Narnia' a hairy experience for actor Peter Dinklage
NEW YORK -- Jeff Bridges from "Iron Man" isn't the only actor who lost his locks for the sake of Summer of 2008. Peter Dinklage sacrificed his mop of dark hair to play Trumpkin the Red Dwarf in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian."
British actor Ben Barnes revels in 'Narnia' role
NEW YORK -- When Ben Barnes was cast as Prince Caspian in the second "Chronicles of Narnia" movie, he got the first film and hungrily watched the DVD extras on "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
'Narnia' cast chronicles its tight bond
NEW YORK -- The sales clerk in a Manhattan department store asked Georgie Henley's mother if she wanted to try a new eye cream, and then she looked at the 12-year-old shopper with her."Are you the little girl from 'Narnia'? You have grown so much!"
Monaghan's own wedding reflected film
Like her character in "Made of Honor," Michelle Monaghan had a male maid of honor and a destination wedding.
Jeff Bridges goes bald for role in 'Iron Man'
The dude -- actually, the Dude -- was lost.Actor Jeff Bridges had been talking on a cell phone, missed his exit and was doing another long-distance interview while trying to return to Santa Barbara, Calif. Now, he sounded like a refugee from "The Big Lebowski" or his reclusive penguin surfer in last summer's animated "Surf's Up."
Everyman actor gets top billing
Strangers know Richard Jenkins from everywhere and nowhere. Sometimes they think they went to school with the 60-year-old actor or they quiz him, "Where do I know you from? What have I seen you in?"
Chronicling group's climb of Everest in the dark
It wasn't the darkness Erik Weihenmayer feared most as a 15-year-old going blind."I was afraid to be swept to the sidelines and forgotten. To be obsolete," he says in the movie "Blindsight." Weihenmayer has been anything but.
Test your Apatow aptitude
Summer school is almost in session and it's time for your AAT, or Apatow Aptitude Test.Writer-director-producer Judd Apatow has recast the rules for romantic comedies, the latest of which just arrived. Apatow produced "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," written by actor Jason Segel and directed by Nicholas Stoller.
Young actor can't get to heart of 'Paranoid Park'
"Paranoid Park" opens a window on how teens think, but the glass is smudged, and the frame has to be propped up with a block of wood.The movie from director Gus Van Sant is about a teen-age skateboarder named Alex (first-time actor Gabe Nevins) who is questioned by police about the death of a security guard not far from Paranoid Park in Portland, Ore.
Christina Ricci reaches inside another outsider role
A funny thing happened when Christina Ricci appeared on the set of "Penelope" without the pig nose and ears that were a key part of her costume.
