Pop Culture: Adam Graham

Hey Nicole, the feeling is mutual!

After the box office failures of "Australia" (gross: $40 million, budget: $130 million), "The Golden Compass" (gross: $70 million, budget: $180 million), "The Invasion" (gross: $15 million, budget: $80 million), "Bewitched" (gross: $63 million, budget: $85 million) and "The Stepford Wives" (gross: $59 million, budget: $90 million), is it really any surprise that Nicole Kidman is considering saying "bye-bye" to the big screen?

"I have to say I'm not that interested in making films any more. I know I'm not meant to say that, but that's where it is for me now," Kidman tells telegraph.co.uk. "I'm 41 years old and very happy being in Tennessee with my baby and with my husband. I obviously have creative blood in me and it needs to come out in some way but I just don't have that burning desire any more. I'm not saying I'm never going to work again, but I'm at peace with whatever happens, which is a nice place to be at this stage of my life."

I adored Kidman in "Moulin Rouge," and afterwards I gave her what I pretty much considered to be a lifetime pass. I hadn't cared much for her prior -- I always found her icy, to be honest -- but she stole my heart in "Moulin Rouge," to the point where I finally turned a corner and decided, then and there, that I would stand behind her no matter what. (I especially dug, and still do dig, "Somethin' Stupid," her duet with Robbie Williams. It was even played at my wedding.)

But as the trainwreck of poor movie decisions piled up -- both "The Stepford Wives" and "Bewitched?" Really? -- I just stopped caring for her. (Jonathan Glazer's haunting "Birth" was the only bright spot on an otherwords downward trajectory over the last half-decade.) "Australia," her overblown and disastrous reteaming with "Moulin Rouge" helmer Baz Luhrmann, was pretty much the last straw, and now she can go away and never come back for all I care. I'm dunzo with her, goodbye, be gone.

I thought we had something, but you took it for granted, and now it's gone forever. You broke my heart, Nic, you really did.

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