August 12, 2005
CHANGELING:
Roberts To "Quit Hollywood"? (IMDB, 8/12/05)
Julia Roberts has reportedly made her last movie and will quit acting after appearing on Broadway next year so she can spend time with her baby twins. The Oscar winner recently went back to work for the first time after giving birth to Phinnaeus and Hazel last November, appearing in a music video for rocker Dave Matthews. She has only done voiceover work - for animated movies Charlotte's Web and Ant Bully - since wrapping 2004 movie Ocean's Twelve. Roberts will spend the rest of the year preparing for her theatre debut in Three Days Of Rain which opens next March - and then retire from acting for good. According to sources close to the star, 37-year-old Roberts has had enough of acting, wants to enjoy time with the twins and husband Danny Moder - but she has just one more career goal left to achieve. A friend tells the National Enquirer, "Julia is done with Hollywood and starring in a Broadway play is the chance to make a graceful exit. She's been talking about leaving Los Angeles and stopping the movie roles ever since the twins were born late last November. She wanted a change...
Another one? Posted by Orrin Judd at August 12, 2005 11:07 AM
We will probably be seeing more of Eric now.
Posted by: h-man at August 12, 2005 11:24 AMIt's not like she needs the money. Go stay home and play with the kids . . . I'd do it in a heartbeat if I could afford it.
Posted by: Mike Morley at August 12, 2005 12:08 PMQuit acting? When did she start?
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 12, 2005 12:15 PMHow 'bout a one-person Broadway revival of "Victor/Victoria"?
Posted by: Noel at August 12, 2005 1:40 PMShe (he?) played Margaret Thatcher for years, and quite brilliantly. S/he'll do fine.
Posted by: joe shropshire at August 12, 2005 1:53 PMThis might be her fifth time quitting Hollywood, and what is this, her 4th husband? So, what, are we supposed to give her admiration farewell tour when she does her Broadway play?
Posted by: neil at August 12, 2005 2:20 PMTears still coursing down the cheeks of millions and you smart guys mock our sadness? JULIA IS GONE, YOU FOOLS. FOREVER.
Posted by: jgm at August 12, 2005 7:12 PMTears still coursing down the cheeks of millions and you smart guys mock our sadness? JULIA IS GONE, YOU FOOLS. FOREVER.
Posted by: jgm at August 12, 2005 7:12 PMDoes anyone really care?
Posted by: Genecis at August 12, 2005 10:12 PMI certainly don't! I wonder if our new brother, Dan/annon. does?
Posted by: Dave W. at August 13, 2005 10:39 PM