Naomi Watts reportedly expecting second baby Jul 4, 2008
Actress and boyfriend Liev Schreiber welcomed first son in July 2007 ... LOS ANGELES - Naomi Watts and boyfriend Liev Schreiber are expecting their second child together, according to Us Weekly. (MSNBC -- News)
Westpac fault ends in payment chaos Jul 4, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Paul Bibby and Danny JohnJuly 4, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Minister bemoans cost of states Jul 4, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Too many the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, with the premiers, chief ministers and a local government representative at the Council of Australian Governments meeting yesterday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Leaders back national child protection Jul 4, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Squalid scene the Canberra house from which four children who were found home alone were removed last month. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Westpac fault ends in payment chaos Jul 4, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Paul Bibby and Danny JohnJuly 4, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Uranium tests kept secret, inquiry hears Jul 4, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Alexandra SmithJuly 4, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Second poll likely to choose president Jul 4, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Jose Ramos-Horta, 57, is mobbed by the press as he arrives at a polling station to cast his vote. (Yahoo News -- East Timor)
Naomi Watts pregnant Jul 4, 2008
The actress who gave birth to first son, Alexander, last July and partner Liev Schreiber are "thrilled" to be adding to their family and Naomi is keen to take a break from acting so she can concentrate on motherhood. A source said: "Naomi and her family are thrilled. She is not working on a movie right now and won't be working on one for the next year, as she wants to devote some time to her family.". (iAfrica.com)
Naomi Watts is pregnant: report Jul 3, 2008
AUSTRALIAN actress Naomi Watts is reportedly pregnant again - her second child to Hollywood actor and long-term partner Liev Schreiber. Us Weekly had an "exclusive", saying Watts, 39, was four months pregnant. (NEWS.com.au)
Federer and Nadal edge closer to showdown Jul 3, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. July 3, 2008 - 9:04AM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Inquiry told airline used unpaid pilots Jul 3, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Wreckage the scene of the 2005 crash that killed 15. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Policeman wearing gun breaches airport security Jul 3, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Harriet AlexanderJuly 3, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Second poll likely to choose president Jul 3, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Jose Ramos-Horta, 57, is mobbed by the press as he arrives at a polling station to cast his vote. (Yahoo News -- East Timor)
Gulf royals questioned over women allegedly kept as slaves Jul 3, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. BRUSSELS: Seventeen women have been taken by police from a luxury hotel in Brussels amid allegations they had been enslaved by an Arab royal family. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Terrorist cell found, bombings averted Jul 3, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Mark Forbes in JakartaJuly 4, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Naomi Watts pregnant again? Jul 3, 2008
BEIJING, July 3 -- Actress Naomi Watts is expecting her second child with husband Liev Schreiber, U.S. Magazine reports. Actress Naomi Watts' publicist is refusing to comment on reports The Ring star is pregnant with her second child. (Xinhuanet, China)
This week's new releases (June 22) Jun 22, 2008
The stars of this show, which is narrated by Liev Schreiber, are so marvelously conjured in animation that it's difficult to believe them extinct. It's also difficult to avoid anthropomorphizing them, but, of course, no nature program is complete without a little heartstring-tugging. (Boston Globe)
A culture clash writ small, messy, and real Jun 20, 2008
In 2004, a year after the US invasion of Iraq, actor Liev Schreiber saw an MTV segment about a Baghdad film student named Muthana Mohmed, whose studies had literally been bombed out from under him ... Starring: Muthana Mohmed, Liev Schreiber, Peter Saraf, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. (Boston Globe)
Nantucket festival stresses ease over edge Jun 15, 2008
"Operation Filmmaker" Actor-turned-director Liev Schreiber decided to hire an Iraqi film student named Muthana Mohmed as an intern on the 2003 production of the film "Everything Is Illuminated." Things didn't go quite according to plan. Nina Davenport's droll off-Hollywood documentary reminds us that no good deed goes unpunished. (Boston Globe)
The harrowing era that Sputnik launched Jun 13, 2008
Liev Schreiber narrates the film, and if he tires of acting, he might consider a career in planetarium voice-over work. You fear the approach of talking heads - there's NPR's soothsayer Daniel Schorr; here comes Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei. (Boston Globe)
ICA forum puts focus on documentarians Jun 8, 2008
"Operation Filmmaker" starts out as a profile of a young, confident, Iraqi film student named Muthana Mohmed who is given an internship by first-time director Liev Schreiber on the film "Everything Is Illuminated." The movie turns into an exploration of charity, expectation, and the perils of making art for a third party - the audience - when the critical distance between the other two - the filmmaker and the subject - is all but gone. The movie won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival... (Boston Globe)
Iraqi Filmmaker Lievs 'em Laughing Jun 6, 2008
June 6, 2008 -- WHEN Liev Schreiber was preparing to make his directing debut, "Everything Is Illuminated," in the Czech Republic, he saw an MTV segment about an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker named Muthana Mohmed. Being a Hollywood liberal, Schreiber hired Muthana to work as a production assistant on his film - and hired Nina Davenport to shoot a documentary on his own good deed. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Cholera, Naomi and me Apr 19, 2008
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber in the The Painted Veil ... The film version of Maugham's The Painted Veil had a happy ending for lead actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, but working as an extra proved less beguiling for Penny McDonald ... The American actor Liev Schreiber was cast as Townsend. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Original cast member Gary Dourdan to leave 'CSI' Apr 16, 2008
And now, that number is fewer by ONE." or "The whole point regarding his ethnicity is that he is one of very few black TV stars, and the author was noting that he would be one less on the screen" There's an ENTIRE network BET. Now if there was a WET, that would be an issue. Pat Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM EST I agree with the first comment. This race naming is one of the biggest problems mass media has and that is keeping the flames of racism and intolerance burning in this country. Stop the... (Entertainment Weekly)
Anniversary brings out the best Apr 15, 2008
The Wolverine hero had a hug for his co-star Liev Schreiber and partner Naomi Watts, but will have all his female fans clucking over his cute cooing over their tiny tot, Alexander. Proving themselves still Australia's coolest celebrity couple after a decade of marriage, the Jackmans dagged their special day away in cossies and towels. (NEWS.com.au)
Naomi Watts 'Lievs' it up Apr 13, 2008
FOR someone starring in a major Hollywood film, Liev Schreiber, the partner of Aussie star Naomi Watts, certainly has a lot of time on his hands ... Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber. (Courier Mail)
Meryl Streep: Lincoln Center Film Honoree Apr 12, 2008
Although no kid at the time, Liev Schreiber (at age 37) played Streep's son in "The Manchurian Candidate" remake. Fortunately, the political killing machine of a mom she essayed in that film could not be found offscreen, according to her co-star. (Variety)
Fiction and reality collide| Apr 12, 2008
Among the actors featured in the book and in a photography exhibition currently on at New York's Lincoln Centre, are such familiar faces as John Malkovich, Liev Schreiber, Matthew Broderick and Ed Harris. Where fiction and reality collide. (iAfrica.com)
Sydney rents out of control: Watts Apr 6, 2008
People - Entertainment - smh. The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Everything is Illuminated Apr 2, 2008
Liev Schreiber directs the story of an American Jew on a journey to understand how his grandfather escaped the Holocaust. In Everything is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber, we are told the story of Jonathan Safran Foer, an American Jew searching for the woman who helped save his grandfather s life from the Nazi's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine. (Suite101.com)
Film reviews: Love in the Time of Cholera and Under the Bombs Mar 21, 2008
My favourite line, however, is delivered by Liev Schreiber, who for some inexplicable reason shows up briefly as the young Florentino's boss: "You need to take your mind off her. Come with me to the whorehouse.". The script, for all its over-literal scenes involving caged birds and characters talking about "divided love", would have been better served had it been performed in Spanish. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Scream queen Mar 21, 2008
The 39-year-old, whose success came famously late, has an eight-month-old son with her partner, US actor Liev Schreiber; and - these days - the creative clout and star power to make the movies she chooses. So why does she keep taking these roles. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Gotta love you and Liev you, but Watts with the sparkler? Mar 16, 2008
Naomi Watts may have tried on more than a few dresses during her month-long stay in Sydney with partner Liev Schreiber. Photographs of Watts, wearing a large diamond ring and another band with smaller diamonds on her ring finger, taken at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, fuelled rumours that she had secretly tied the knot while in Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Naomi's makeover Mar 15, 2008
Watts, who has returned to Australia with her baby son Alexander and partner Liev Schreiber (who is filming Wolverine), took part in a lavish photo shoot for the magazine as part of a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. Watts, who was primped and styled for hours as part of the US shoot, looks stunning in a misty-eyed photo emulating Tippi Hedren in the 1964 film Marnie. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Funny Games' Mar 9, 2008
Now that she's a mother - Watts and her partner, Liev Schreiber, have a 7-month-old son, Alexander - she's been looking at property Down Under so their boy can be exposed to Aussie culture. Watts spoke by phone from Sydney. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Watts loses baby weight Mar 7, 2008
Watts, 39, is engaged to actor Liev Schreiber. She said becoming a mother was hmore difficult than she ever imagined. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Criminal minds Mar 5, 2008
Plot devices like the introduction of Michael Keppler, who was excellently portrayed by The Manchurian Candidate star Liev Schreiber, as stand-in supervisor for Gil Grissom (William Petersen) during a four-week sabbatical made for a fascinating change of pace and dynamics. Of course, no season of CSI would be complete without its usual parade of famous special guest stars and among those appeared in the last season were John Meyer, Sean Young, Ned Beatty, Ally Sheedy, Method Man, The Whos Roger... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
'Chicago': A look at Summer of Love's reckoning Feb 29, 2008
Dellinger, by contrast, is presented as a rock of pacifist sanity and Kunstler (Liev Schreiber) and Weinglass (providing his own voice) as attorneys of conscience ... Starring: the voices of Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Dylan Baker, Jeffrey Wright. (Boston Globe)
Wolverine film set comes to town Feb 25, 2008
Naomi Watts's partner Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch and the Black Eyed Peas' Will. I.Am have joined the cast of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a spin-off from the highly successful X-Men movies. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Dominic Monaghan joins 'Wolverine' Feb 22, 2008
Hugh Jackman stars as the titular character, while Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Taylor Kitsch, will. i.am, Lynn Collins and Ryan Reynolds have already boarded the project, which is shooting in New Zealand, Australia and New Orleans. (Variety)
Stars 'sign on to Wolverine film' Feb 21, 2008
Scream star Liev Schreiber has already joined the cast as Victor Creed, also known as Sabretooth. The film, set 17 years before the X-Men movies, reveals the origins of the Wolverine character and introduces other mutants not yet seen in the franchise of films. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Adds Will.I.Am, Ryan Reynolds To Cast Feb 20, 2008
Gambit and the Blob join a group of already-confirmed mutants including Wolverine's love interest Silver Fox ("The Number 23" star Lynn Collins) and Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber). Positioning characters in crossover roles, as cameos or setups, is fast becoming a habit for Marvel Studios, which only recently gained final editorial control on many of its properties. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Local Action: A documentary filmmaker's dilemma Feb 17, 2008
Actor Liev Schreiber saw the report and ended up inviting Mohmed to be an intern on "Everything Is Illuminated," a movie he was making in Prague (it was Schreiber's first time as director). Davenport was friends with the director of the MTV piece and went to Prague on assignment from him to follow Mohmed. (Boston Globe)
Watts to light up Tropfest Feb 11, 2008
The Oscar-nominated actress, who turns 40 this year, flies into Sydney this week to join her partner Liev Schreiber, who is filming Wolverine with Hugh Jackman. The couple have a seven-month-old son, Alexander. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Next year's contenders Feb 9, 2008
In Paramount Vantage's "Defiance," director Ed Zwick tackles another inspirational WWII story about three Jewish brothers (played by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who join forces with Russian resistance fighters to battle the Nazis. Former directing nominee Fernando Meirelles ("City of God") could be back in the hunt with Miramax's "Blindness," starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo and adapted from Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago's satire about a worldwide outbreak of the... (Variety)
Little let-up for Hugh Jan 21, 2008
The involvement of actor Liev Schreiber in the film has prompted rumours Naomi Watts might return to the southern hemisphere with her young son Alexander to accompany Schreiber on set. Speculation is also rife young Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee (who appeared opposite Eric Bana in Romulus, My Father) has scored a key role in the film, which will be a major Hollywood breakthrough for the child star. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Romance is on fast track in 'Personal Best' Jan 13, 2008
Lots of familiar names here - Liev Schreiber, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, etc. - so it's disappointing that the comedy feels as frantically inconsistent as a cable "SNL" wannabe. (Boston Globe)
'The Jewish Americans' is every immigrant's story Jan 9, 2008
With a smooth, warm-voiced narration by Liev Schreiber, the series traces the history of Jews in America since the Colonial days. It dabbles in sociology, history, and culture, dwelling on themes that still resonate and cause tension in American Jewish life today: the tug-of-war between assimilation and cultural identification, the consternation over intermarriage. (Boston Globe)
Critic's corner Jan 9, 2008
Narrated by Liev Schreiber, the miniseries recounts both the discrimination against Jews and the accomplishments of Louis D. Brandeis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Henry Morgenthau, Irving Berlin, Hank Greenberg, Betty Friedan, Molly Goldberg, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, Tony Kushner, Matisyahu, and others ... Narrated by Liev Schreiber, the miniseries recounts both the discrimination against Jews and the accomplishments of Louis D. Brandeis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Henry Morgenthau, Irving Berlin, Hank... (Boston Globe)
'The Jewish Americans' premieres on PBS Jan 9, 2008
"There was always," says narrator Liev Schreiber, "a tug-of-war between being a Jew and being an American," and apparently a tug-of-war even between Jews themselves. This is the living part of Grubin's sweeping history, and six hours can hardly begin to do it justice. (Newsday -- World)
Exploring Jewish-America Jan 5, 2008
" Or so the advertisements for the shortening said. Grubin has done his homework and enlisted dozens of talking heads to support and help explicate his research. Structured chronologically, "The Jewish Americans" covers early immigration, population growth, the labor movement and the Yiddish theater on the first night; the second focuses on the American response to the Holocaust, while also drawing portraits of Irving Berlin, Louis Brandeis and accused Atlanta child-killer Leo Frank; and, the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
This King, this courtier, these Kevin klines Jan 2, 2008
Although his dancing shoes haven't received much of a workout lately, those words essentially hold true to this day, even as younger actors like Liev Schreiber and Philip Seymour Hoffman have followed Kline's distinctive career path in retaining an allegiance to theater as their film profiles grow. Twenty years on, it is safe to say that Kline is as close as the American theater is likely to come to growing its own Olivier. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story Dec 28, 2007
Narrated by Jewish-American actor Liev Schreiber, the documentary relies heavily on historic still photos, film footage and letters to tell the story of these Jewish immigrants. There are also interviews with dozens of well-known Jewish Americans such as Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, comedians Carl Reiner and Sid Caesar, playwright Tony Kushner, author Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Stage year in review: A standing ovation for new plays Dec 27, 2007
Men for all seasons: Liev Schreiber and Kevin Kline. As the jaded anti-hero of Talk Radio and the tragic title character in Cyrano, respectively, two of theater's best living actors added fresh insights to established roles. (USA Today -- Life)
Watts says motherhood 'hard work' Dec 25, 2007
The 'Eastern Promises' star and her fianc Liev Schreiber welcomed their first child together in July, and she admits it is exhausting looking after the baby. Naomi, 39, said "I love being a mother! It's hard work though. Hard work. Luckily what I do isn't like a regular office job.". (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
'The Jewish Americans' Dec 20, 2007
The program, which is narrated by Liev Schreiber, will air on WGBH-TV (Channel 2) from Jan. 9 to Jan. 23. You can catch one tonight and stay for a Q&A with the filmmaker, David Grubin. (Boston Globe)
The year Hollywood went to jail, rehab ... or both Dec 11, 2007
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber had a baby boy, Alexander Pete, on July 25. The "Pete" was a nod to Watts' late father, a sound engineer with Pink Floyd, who died when the actress was seven. (The Age)
Schreiber to do Universal's 'Mambo' Nov 28, 2007
Liev Schreiber will do the "Repossession Mambo" with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker for Universal. He has been cast as Law's boss at a futuristic credit union dealing in artificial organs. (Variety)
'cholera' In Need Of Doctoring Nov 16, 2007
The movie, populated with good actors who aren't Latino (Liev Schreiber as a Colombian. and bad actors who are (Leguizamo really ought to be selling shoes by now), doesn't convince us either that Fermina and Florentino are made for each other or that tragic forces are keeping them apart. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Local network previews 'Jewish Americans' miniseries00004000 Nov 15, 2007
Liev Schreiber narrates. The documentary will air on PBS stations over consecutive Wednesday evenings Jan. 9, 16 and 23, 2008. (Los Angeles Daily News)
Love in the Time of Cholera Nov 13, 2007
Florentino Ariza - Javier Bardem Fermina Daza Urbino - Giovanna Mezzogiorno Dr. Juvenal Urbino - Benjamin Bratt Hildebranda - Catalina Sandino Moreno Don Leo - Hector Elizondo Lotario Thugut - Liev Schreiber Olimpia Zuleta - Ana Claudia Talancon Transito Ariza - Fernanda Montenegro Florentino (teen) - Unax Ugalde Lorenzo Daza - John Leguizamo. While seemingly impossible-to-film novels are being gracefully nurtured for the screen this season ("Atonement," "The Kite Runner," "The Diving Bell and... (Variety)
Cholera doesnt have the impact of the novel Nov 13, 2007
We also see too little of Liev Schreiber as Florentinos boss and Fernanda Montenegro as his mother. . (MSNBC -- Movies)
Spike TV Television Highlights - December 2007 Nov 6, 2007
Don't miss all the conflicts that arise when Grissom's replacement, Michael Keppler, played by Liev Schreiber, takes over. 7:00 - 8:00 PM, ET/PT LEAVING LAS VEGAS Catherine testifies in a murder trial in which a man is accused of murdering his own mother three years ago, but the suspect is found not guilty. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Tony Winner Schreiber May Join Jackman in "Wolverine" Film Oct 22, 2007
Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman may have the company of another acclaimed stage actor, Liev Schreiber, in the cast of the forthcoming action film "Wolverine," according to Variety. Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi," "Rendition") will direct the film, titled "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," penned by David Benioff ("The 25th Hour," "The Kite Runner"). (Playbill.com)
Swank, Pfeiffer offer a little winter romance Oct 20, 2007
Love in the Time of CholeraStarring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo, Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, John LeguizamoDirector: Mike NewellStory: Based on the award-winning novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bardem stars as Florentino Ariza. As a boy, he falls in love with Fermina Daza (Mezzogiorno), but when she rejects him in favor of a wealthy doctor (Bratt), he spends the next five decades having affairs in an attempt to cure his... (MSNBC -- Movies)
