Foster's taste changes with jobs she does

Olympian news services

Originally published Tuesday, March 26, 2002

BOSTON -- The actress inside Jodie Foster might disagree with her inner director.

"I just have different taste as a director than as an actor," she told the Boston Sunday Globe.

"I'm much more of a popcorn-movie actress," said the star of "Taxi Driver," "The Accused," "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Anna and the King."

"The movies I act in are more about the questions I have about life, much more working out emotional questions I have," the 39-year-old said.

As a director ("Little Man Tate" and "Home for the Holidays"), Foster said she prefers movies about relationships, "about the music I've heard and the people I know and the things I have to say."

Foster stars in "Panic Room," which opens Friday.

MOSCOW -- 'N Sync's Lance Bass has undergone a series of health tests in preparation for the flight he hopes to take aboard a Russian rocket.

Further examinations would be required, as would approval from the Russian space agency, which told Interfax news agency Monday that it has not received an official application from Bass.

The 22-year-old arrived in Moscow on Friday for an initial medical examination. He left Russia on Monday.

"I'm looking forward to completing this lifelong dream," Bass said last month. He attended space camp near Titusville, Fla., when he was 12.

It was reported last month that a Los Angeles TV production company, Destiny Productions, was one of several corporations offering to sponsor Bass' journey.

"We're going for it," David Krieff, president of Destiny Productions, told AP Radio. Krieff estimated the cost at $25 million.

California investment banker Dennis Tito reportedly paid $20 million to visit the International Space Station last year.

South African Internet tycoon Mark Shuttleworth is scheduled to fly to the space station next month. Russian officials have not released the contract sum, but Shuttleworth has said he would pay roughly the same amount as Tito.

Russian space officials have said they are considering several tourist candidates for a visit to the station in October.

BALTIMORE -- The cover of jazz singer Diana Krall's new album is sizzling -- and Krall is perfectly happy about it.

The glamorous photo on "The Look of Love" has drawn comments and some in the jazz community feel she's trading too heavily on her model-like looks.

The CD's cover features Krall in a slinky black dress and strappy high heels.

Regardless, Krall wants people to know that those shots were her decision -- not the executives at her label.

"I knew before it came out that I was going to get flak for it, though I didn't think I'd get this much flak," she told The Sun on Saturday. "But if I'm going to put out pictures of myself like that, then you can't go, 'Oh, poor me.' "

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