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USA WEEKEND – OCTOBER 2009

The girl from a trailer park who dropped out of high school, is sitting pretty.
Weeks before her new movie, “Amelia,” even hits theaters, the studio clearly hopes that she’ll win an astonishing third best actress Oscar for her role as the adventurous pilot Amelia Earhart, who was famous in the 1920s and ’30s. (However, she probably will have to ward off Oscar juggernaut Meryl Streep, her idol.)

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The big screens

“The night begins when Hilary gets here, and Hilary gets here when she wants,” one of MEIFF’s many red carpet wranglers told me sternly.

I was on the other side of the velvet rope and had asked her whether the evening was going to schedule, as several hundred invited guests from the across the film world filed into the auditorium at Emirates Palace and began taking their seats. Thursday night’s gala screening was of the controversial Egyptian film The Traveller by the first-time feature director Ahmed Maher. Continue reading The big screens

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Town & Conutry November

Hilary is on another magazine cover. This time its Town & Conutry November issue. Hilary looks fabulous.

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Hilary Swank is Ready for Takeoff

With a hot romance and happier than she’s ever been, the driven star of Amelia eyes a limitless horizon.

The strong, square jaw, the gleaming smile, the playful, snapping eyes…it’s impossible not to recognize Hilary Swank. Wearing a yellow top embroidered with white birds, she tosses her car keys, wallet, makeup bag, and phone on the table at a beachfront restaurant in Santa Monica and orders steak and eggs. Classic tomboy stuff—the sort we associate with the Oscar-winning star of distinctly unfrilly movies like Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, as well as this month’s Amelia. But is she a tomboy? The plan: Serve up an assortment of assumptions we all seem to make about Hilary Swank, then let Hilary Swank set the record straight. See if you’re as surprised as I was. Continue reading Hilary Swank is Ready for Takeoff