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New York — Nancy Zwiers was genuinely psyched to see "Lincoln," but something happened between the ticket purchase and the credits. Off screen, that is.

"Yes, I fell asleep," confessed the 54-year-old marketing executive in Long Beach, Calif. "I only have two clear memories of the movie: a bunch of old white guys sitting around talking and Sally Field in a perpetual state of angst."

That was shortly after its release in October. Fast forward to January and a dozen Academy Award nominations for the 150-minute epic and another accolade has emerged: nap worthy, with and without apologies from the snoozy to Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Movie napping is almost certainly as old as cinema itself. It strikes the overtired and the well-rested, film nuts and occasional theatergoers. Some blame it on soporific popcorn. Others on the enveloping darkness and a comfy seat. The theater is too hot. The theater is too cold,...

Catherine Zeta-Jones is planning a passionate romance with Russell Crowe. But the Welsh beauty's husband, Michael Douglas, has nothing to worry about - it's only for a movie. Catherine and Crowe are the first choices to play Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and his mistress Maria Callas, in a planned film based on Nicholas Gage's book Greek Fire. This contradicts previous reports, based on a quip from gossip columnist Liz Smith, that claimed Jones had been nixed for the role because she was too beautiful.