Denver’s pint-size movie star AnnaSophia Robb is keeping busy – Italian style.
The 13-year-old screen vet is at the Rome Film Festival this week for the premiere of “Have Dreams, Will Travel,” which also stars Val Kilmer, Matthew Modine and Lara Flynn Boyle.
Then she starts filming “Witch Mountain” with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, directed by Andy Fickman, who just hit it big with “The Game Plan.”
It’s not just that Robb keeps making movies. She keeps making them with big stars.
Her impressive résumé: “Because of Winn-Dixie” with Dave Matthews, Cicely Tyson and Eva Marie Saint; “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with Johnny Depp; “The Reaping” with Hilary Swank; “Sleepwalking” with Charlize Theron, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson; and the upcoming “Jumper” with Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson and Diane Lane.
Robb still goes to school in Denver. She studies with a tutor on location and returns to the classroom when she’s back in town.
Last time we talked, she told me she wasn’t going to morph into a Paris, Britney or Lindsay.
“I don’t want to be like that,” she told me. “People that age do stuff like that, … but they should be a bit smarter in making their decisions.”
Condi and the 88s. Did you see Condoleezza Rice playing the piano at the Cherry Creek Nordstrom opening Wednesday night?
Neither did I. But it could have happened.
According to the Aspen Daily News, Rice recently told an audience that playing in Nordstrom was her fate – until she went to the Aspen Music School in the early ’70s.
Rice was a sophomore at the University of Denver, planning to become a concert pianist. But it all changed when she got to the Aspen Music School, where she was surrounded by prodigies. “I heard them play, and I thought, ‘That 11-year-old is better at this than I’ll ever be,”‘ Rice said. “And I thought I could end up playing a piano bar. I might end up playing at Nordstrom’s, but I’m not going to end up playing Carnegie Hall. Therefore, I have to find something else to do with my life.”
She returned to DU, studied international politics under Josef Korbel (Madeleine Albright’s father), and a new Condi was born.
Hi, neighbor! Denver’s Gidget Sanders appears in Playboy’s “Sexy Girls Next Door” issue, on stands now. Well, she doesn’t live next door to me – but she is a partner at the La Boheme peeler club.
If you want to pose for Playboy, the mag’s reps are holding auditions at the Westy Westin from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, or check out .
City spirit. McCormick’s celebrates 20 years in business this month in the Oxford Hotel – and the restaurant says it was there before LoDo was LoDo. The nickname was coined in 1983 by former Postie Dick Kreck. … Sez who: “A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.” Humphrey Bogart
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