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Frequent Flyer
Gerard Butler is in need of a good travel agaent. The actor has had a busy year, globe-trotting to country after country on a string of mini-vacations but always winding up at his variuos destinations at the wrong time. "This year, I went traveling to Isreal,...
‘I had a lot of anger about not spending my childhood with my father’
GERARD BUTLER’S father turned up on the doorstep of the family home in Paisley when Butler was four. Cocooned in the self-absorption of early childhood, he was too young to understand the significance of the stranger. So shadowy a figure was the dad of the unexpected...
Interview – Cannes – Gerard Butler
His last two big movies have been Tomb Raider 2 and Timeline, but don’t hold that against him. Gerard Butler was the best thing in both those movies, and the tall, dark and handsome Scottish actor is on the verge of big things. Refreshingly down-to-earth, the 34...
Gerry Butler on the Cover of Health Magazine (Blog)
Gerry Butler is currently on the cover of this month's issue of Men's Health. Video of the cover shoot That anchor lady in the video is a moron. He's neither English or Irish, he's SCOTTISH. For all the fangirls, the issue comes out Feb. 14 I believe. He's looking...
Gerry Butler on the Cover of Health Magazine (Blog)
Gerry Butler is currently on the cover of this month's issue of Men's Health. Video of the cover shoot That anchor lady in the video is a moron. He's neither English or Irish, he's SCOTTISH. For all the fangirls, the issue comes out Feb. 14 I believe. He's looking...
Gerry Butler on the Cover of Health Magazine (Blog)
Gerry Butler is currently on the cover of this month's issue of Men's Health. Video of the cover shoot That anchor lady in the video is a moron. He's neither English or Irish, he's SCOTTISH. For all the fangirls, the issue comes out Feb. 14 I believe. He's looking...
Gerry Butler on the Cover of Health Magazine (Blog)
Gerry Butler is currently on the cover of this month's issue of Men's Health. Video of the cover shoot That anchor lady in the video is a moron. He's neither English or Irish, he's SCOTTISH. For all the fangirls, the issue comes out Feb. 14 I believe. He's looking...
Most Eligible Bachelor
Lives: London and New York Who is he?: this is possibly your last chance to get your hands on the very gorgeous Gerard Butler before his latest movie, Phantom of the Opera, propels him into the stratosphere. With the Joel Schumacher directed musical creating rumours...
THE BIG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW; THIS SCOT’S HOT.
GERARD BUTLER knows he's more famous in America than he is in his native Scotland - and that's just how he likes it. But a kiss with Angelina Jolie in next month's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - which will premiere this Monday at the famous Grauman's...
Phantom Menace
The Scottish actor Gerard Butler is a reformed hellraiser, sought after in Hollywood, who has starred as both Dracula and Attila the Hun, and insulted Angelina Jolie without even trying. What more does a man have to do to be recognized in his own country?. The...
GERARD BUTLER – SLAYING DRAGONS IS ONE THING – WHAT ABOUT AUDIENCES AND CRITICS?
An actor with a bright future, Gerard Butler is passionate about the past. Not necessarily his rambunctious own, but instead, the fantastical legends and lore of his Scottish homeland. His brogue peppered with expletives, his wry smile fill of mischief and charm, the...
A LAW UNTO HIMSELF
The Jury's Gerard Butler gave up representing criminals in court to represent characters on screen. Jon Peake reports The Jury Sun & Mon ITV Actor Gerard Butler, who plays recovering alcoholic Johnnie Donne in The Jury, might have seen a lot more of the inside of...
INTERVIEW GERARD BUTLER: THE BUTLER DID IT
HE STOPPED DRINKING WHEN IT GOT OUT OF HAND, SO PLAYING AN ALCOHOLIC IN THE JURY RECALLED BAD TIMES FOR GERARD BUTLER Jury star Gerard Butler knows exactly how long it has been since he last had a drink. "I'm not counting, but it's been four years, three days and six...
‘300,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Take Top Prizes In Genre Awards
It only took three years of being the most-nominated program, but "Battlestar Galactica" is finally a winner at the SyFy Genre Awards, being the favorite for Best Series/Television by the more than 25,000 voters participating in the eighth annual event. "Galactica"...
Cameo — Gerard Butler
There was a time when Gerard Butler, eager to get a foothold as an actor, had a guaranteed conversation starter to use when introduced to someone “It used to be, ‘Hey, how you doing? I’m an actor. I used to be a lawyer,’ ” he says. “Now I don’t really talk about it.”...
Miscellaneous Reviews
From the Attila Press Kit: (Thanks to Diane for the contribution!) From Tim Curry: "It's a pretty dynamic cast - and I think Gerry Butler is an extremely charismatic and enormously energetic and riveting actor. I think this will make him a star." From writer Robert...
Was Atilla a hunk or an early Hitler?
Oh, that Attila the Hun. Was he a fifth-century Hitler or a hunk on a horse with a heart as big as Asia Minor? It's a movie on USA. You do the math. The two-part "Attila" (9 p.m., USA) concludes just like it started. With much hacking, throat-slitting and pillaging....
HONEY SIDE OF ATTILA IS AN EPIC HUN-DINGER
ATTILA THE HUN - one of history's major heavies or merely misunderstood? You guessed it. Seems he had the fifth-century equivalent of a dysfunctional childhood, watching his beloved father slaughtered in front of his eyes, among other things. His role model was a...
‘IF ATTILA HAD LOOKED LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE,HE WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO BOTHER RAPING AND PILLAGING’
Attila the hunk. Hi Hun, I'm home! So who knew the big brute was also a serial ladykiller? FOR reasons I had hoped never to understand, in the last month ads started appearing on public transportation which read, "Attila: Lover, Leader, Warrior, Hun." Now, call me...
Attila
Filmed on location in Lithuania by Alphaville Prods. in association with Attila Prods. and USA Cable Entertainment. Executive producers, Sean Daniel, James Jacks, Caldecot Chubb; co-executive producer, Michael Joyce; director, Dick Lowry; writer, Robert Cochran;...
‘Attila’ Is Slashing, Burning Fun
There's television, which calls for clearing your throat and speaking almost respectfully, and then there's TV. "Attila" is TV, a foolishly watchable, old-timey trash wallow with Roman baths, grunting battles and barbarian beauties. It's dumb Hun fun from the USA...
The Hun Also Rises: A Bloody, Boffo ‘Attila’
Oh Attila the Hun was a very fine Hun, a honey of a Hun was he. He pillaged and he plundered and he ravaged and he sacked but 'twas never never late for tea. Perhaps you remember that wee little rhyme from your youth. If so, you had a very strange upbringing, because...
‘ATTILA’ THE HUNK LOOKS GOOD, SAYS LITTLE OF ACTUAL HISTORY
"Attila," a two-part, four-hour drama airing tonight and Wednesday on USA, is hardly a Hunney of a show, but it's worth a look if you're in the mood for swords, slashing and spectacle. Partly reminiscent of historical sagas such as "Braveheart" and "Gladiator," this...
Epic ‘Attila’ takes liberties but entertains
Attila the Hun is off on a four-hour race to build himself a Western empire. To see what makes Attila run, cable's USA is the place to be tonight and Wednesday. It's a big step for USA to bring this epic warrior tale with a big international cast (filmed in Lithuania)...