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LOS ANGELES -- Amid this summer's intensified climate of visual-effects-driven feature films, there remains a breed of VFX professional who's most proud of the invisible work, the stuff even fellow pros might not recognize. Moreover, there's one visual effects supervisor we know who...

Lindsay Lohan said she felt safe being in rehab earlier this year, but she doesn't consider herself an addict. The 20-year-old actress told Allure Magazine during an interview that appears in its May issue she decided to enter the secluded Wonderland Center, an addiction treatment...

Lindsay Lohan says she felt safe while she was in rehab earlier this year, but doesn't consider herself an addict.The 20-year-old actress said in January she had checked into the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles "to take care of my personal health." Her publicist confirmed...

[Freaky Friday is as] bright and breezy as the title, a truly funny story about a girl who awakens one morning in her mother's body, and who—during an incredible day of revelation and opportunity—sees herself as others see her and faces her mixed-up adolescent problems squarely…. She receives surprising insight into her mother's problems…. There is wisdom as well as humor in this fresh, original story, and the impact, despite the story's fantastic basis, is s...

Freaky Friday is about a mother and daughter who magically exchange bodies for a day…. [This] production takes on a spooky, unexpected verisimilitude that ought to make it at least as interesting to adults as it is to children, perhaps even more so. Mary Rodgers's screenplay, based on her novel, supplies enough faintly Freudian undertones to pique a grownup's interest even further. Try to imagine how Annabel Andrews, a 13-year-old tomboy, must feel when she finds herself with a mature f...

Mary Rodgers has the knack of catching the sound of a real child talking. When Annabel [in Freaky Friday] says, "Oh, wow," it is because writer, character, page of print, and reader have all been catapulted into an Oh, wow mood. Plenty of other writers try to hit young readers with "now" ideas and phrases—make love, not war; I mean; you know; Fascist pig. You wish they hadn't. Why didn't they try to be, like, universal and timeless? But in this book the pages...