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British Actresses On The Way Up
Great Britain has always had a tradition of producing some very talented actresses Audrey Hepburn, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Vanessa Redgrave to na...
on 2010-03-17 04:48:51Stars prepare for Oscars ceremony
Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan and Dame Helen Mirren lead British hopes at the Oscars.
on 2010-03-07 04:47:19Helen Mirren's Secret Rage
Helen Mirren once destroyed a public telephone in a fit of rage.The award-winning actress has revealed she is not always as "docile" as she may appear, and can easily "see red", lose her temper and destroy her surroundings if she is really riled.She said:
on 2010-02-26 04:48:24"Prime Suspect" actress eludes NBC
(Reuters)
Reuters - NBC is postponing its "Prime Suspect" remake because it cannot find an actress to play the lead role originated by Helen Mirren in the BBC version.
on 2010-02-25 04:45:31Lee Daniels Talks Casting Mariah
Lee Daniels made an appearance on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show to talk about his six-time Oscar nominated film Precious: Based on the Novel ?Push? by Sapphire. Stewart joked about working with a cast that were mainly non-actors: Lenny Kravitz, Mari
on 2010-02-18 04:48:05James McAvoy's Confusing Voice
James McAvoy is often mistaken for an Australian.The Scottish actor - who stars alongside Dame Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer in 'The Last Station' - admits Americans are often confused by his accent.He said: "Even now, in America, people will go, '
on 2010-02-17 04:48:28The Last Station
The Last Station is due to be released in the UK on 19 February 2010. Its European release was slightly earlier and Helen Mirren has already won Best...
on 2010-02-17 04:48:51Oscar Nominees Share the Love at Their Luncheon
I've been sharing some tidbits from the press room at this year's Oscar nominees luncheon, and comradeship was definitely a common theme among the honorees. Sure, they've been going head to head all award season long, but the actors seem to have nothin'
on 2010-02-17 04:51:59Helen Mirren's Magical Movie Memory
Dame Helen Mirren felt close to her ancestors while making 'The Last Station'.The 64-year-old actress, who has been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Sofya Tolstoy in the movie, admitted the period drama bought back memories for her.
on 2010-02-16 04:49:17Helen Mirren's Supportive Spouse
Dame Helen Mirren thinks mutual support is the key to a good marriage.The 'Last Station' actress - who married director Taylor Hackford in 1997 after dating for 11 years - claims their relationship works so well because they always encourage one another.S
on 2010-02-15 04:47:22Mirren's plastic surgery confession
Dame Helen Mirren has confessed if she wasn't in the spotlight she would have had plastic surgery years ago.
on 2010-02-13 04:49:11Helen Mirren's Surgery Dream
Dame Helen Mirren wants "full-on" cosmetic surgery.The 64-year-old actress admits she often thinks about going under the knife and insists she would have had procedures done "years ago" if she wasn't in the public eye.She said: "I'd think about it even mo
on 2010-02-13 04:47:29Gaga Fan Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren loves Lady Gaga.The 'Last Station' actress - who was infamously photographed wearing a bikini on holiday in Italy in 2008 - says she is interested in "slightly perverse" sexuality and is a particular fan of the way the eccentric singer p
on 2010-02-13 04:47:25
'The Last Station'
"The Last Station" is a paean to the enduring power of both love and that long list of irritations between couples who've spent a lifetime together. Newly Oscar-nominated Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as writer Leo Tolstoy and wife Sofya create suc
on 2010-02-04 04:46:08British trio nominated for Oscars
Colin Firth, Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan have been nominated for best actor and best actress Oscars.
on 2010-02-03 04:50:48Gabourey Sidibe Up For Oscar
Hollywood newcomer Gabourey Sidibe is to battle it out with Oscar veteran Meryl Streep for the Best Actress Academy Award.The 26-year-old actress is up against Sandra Bullock and Carey Mulligan - both of whom are nominated for their first Academy Award -
on 2010-02-03 04:48:57Ageing Action Woman Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren thinks she's becoming a "geriatric" action star.The British actress has noticed her roles have changed as she has got older, but she's keen to take on as many exciting parts as she can.In her next film Helen can be seen playing a Mossad
on 2010-01-28 04:49:31Mirren Delighted Over Mcavoy And Duff's Baby News
Dame Helen Mirren is convinced expectant parents and Anne-Marie Duff will have a musical baby - because both stars have "beautiful singing voices".The couple announced on Tuesday (26Jan10) they're set to welcome their first child - and their Last St
on 2010-01-28 04:49:13James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff: Red Carpet Mates
Hitting the red carpet, James McAvoy and his lovely wife Anne-Marie Duff were arm-in-arm at The Curzon in Mayfair on Tuesday evening (January 26).
The hunky actor and his expecting lady joined dame Helen Mirren for the premiere of their new movie,
on 2010-01-27 04:50:38Helen Mirren 'Utterly Disgusted' by Her Drunken Tattoo
The Oscar-winning beauty is bummed that body art has become so mainstream
on 2010-01-23 04:46:11Helen Mirren Regrets Tattoo
Dame Helen Mirren has admitted her tattoo was a drunken mistake.The 64-year-old actress claimed she got the small piece of body art on her hand as an act of rebellion when she was younger.She said: "I was very, very drunk. It was a very, very long time ag
on 2010-01-22 04:49:18Helen Mirren To Be Tarantino's Queen
Dame Helen Mirren is being lined up to play a foul-mouthed monarch.The 'State of Play' actress has been approached by Quentin Tarantino to play an aggressive medieval queen in his upcoming movie - which is expected to be filled with expletives, "bloody vi
on 2010-01-21 04:48:27Mirren Denies Writing Sex Book
British actress Dame Helen Mirren has scoffed at rumours she's planning to write a book about sex - insisting an "offhand comment" was simply taken out of context.Recent reports suggested the 64-year-old actress was penning a tome about bedroom romps.And
on 2010-01-13 04:48:12Golden Globes Quiz! Will Sandra Win Best Actress?
Sandra Bullock could land a Golden Globe?or two?on Sunday, but it won't be easy! She's up against Emily Blunt and Helen Mirren for Best Actress, Drama, and then she faces...
on 2010-01-13 04:45:50Bullock 'Stunned' With Golden Globe Nods
Sandra Bullock was "beyond stunned" when she discovered she had been nominated for two top honours at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards - because she's up against her idols Dame Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep.The 45 year old received nods for Best Actress i
on 2009-12-16 04:48:16Helen Mirren Loves Married Life
Dame Helen Mirren enjoys being married.For many years the Oscar-winning actress couldn't see the point of getting wed, but was forced to change her mind by her husband, American director Taylor Hackford.Helen said: "I saw marriage as losing my independenc
on 2009-12-11 04:49:07Helen Mirren No Nude Prude
Dame Helen Mirren says getting naked has got easier as she gotten older.The 64-year-old actress - who has stripped on screen in several films - insists baring all in front of the camera is "liberating" and she gets through it by refusing to think of the r
on 2009-12-08 04:49:15Helen Mirren Hides Awards
Dame Helen Mirren no longer puts her awards on display, instead consigning them to a life in the attic.The acclaimed actress has won a host of prizes throughout her career, including the Lifetime Achievement prize at the Women in Film and TV Awards last w
on 2009-12-08 04:49:20Mirren is the power behind Tolstoy biopic 'Last Station'
Every second Helen Mirren is on-screen in The Last Station is a study in peerless talent.
on 2009-12-04 04:50:53Mirren's lifetime achievement award
Dame Helen Mirren is due to receive an award for her contribution to both big and small screen.
on 2009-12-04 04:50:03-
Since Helen Mirren is widely known as a sizequeen of earth, he
probably doesn't give a shit about the hair on his head.
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"John Savard" wrote in message
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> Rick in Oz quoted, in part:
> Russian background, although she grew up in Britain.
> other ways, on what constitutes seemly or proper behavior.
> faithful afterwards, and condemn women who are suspected of being
> otherwise. Such suspicions are created by behavior that contravenes the
> standards of the culture one lives within.
> that people will think of her as a slut - or at least as "damaged goods"
> in other senses - if she consents to appear nude in a film. In the
> United States, an actress has to be very careful to ensure that a movie
> in which she appears nude has impeccable credentials as a serious film
> to prevent it from limiting her future roles. Thus it is, for example,
> that Robert Altman stands out as an unusual exception on the American
> film scene; its only official "European" director, as it were.
> American actresses behave in this area... is something like someone in
> America failing to understand why women dress the way they do in Iran.
> It does not imply Iranian women are silly, it implies one is failing to
> pay attention to what is going on in that country.
Oh please, that's just ridiculous. You come into the world buttnaked, you
leave it buttnaked. In between... there are those who should be allowed to
show it buttnaked and not be ridiculed for it. Monica should show it, Star
Jones should not.
What you say about Monica is prejudicial, she is a well-read, well-rounded
individual. She has blasted Hollywood for their unidealistic realities
concerning their images regarding women (ie., stick figures) for her to say
she is not ashamed of her body or the human figure, I applaud her.
For those who aren't willing to take that chance, to hell with them. Again,
do I want to see Julia Roberts nude? No, but I'd say, "Good show for atleast
standing up for something," because show far she's shown me jack shit in her
body of work, with the exception of Erin B.
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~*~ Keeper of Monica Bellucci ~*~
AskMen.Com #2 Top 99 Beauties of 2005
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Rick in Oz quoted, in part:
> The 36-year-old actress is proud of her femininity and is baffled by stars
> who refuse to disrobe.
> She says, "I'm not scared by nudity, because for me, nothing is more
> beautiful than a body. You can have such amazing emotion from a body.
She is from Italy. She grew up in Italy. And Helen Mirren is from a
Russian background, although she grew up in Britain.
Different cultures have different attitudes towards nudity, and, in
other ways, on what constitutes seemly or proper behavior.
But nearly all cultures expect women to be virgins before marriage,
faithful afterwards, and condemn women who are suspected of being
otherwise. Such suspicions are created by behavior that contravenes the
standards of the culture one lives within.
In countries like Italy and France, an actress doesn't have to worry
that people will think of her as a slut - or at least as "damaged goods"
in other senses - if she consents to appear nude in a film. In the
United States, an actress has to be very careful to ensure that a movie
in which she appears nude has impeccable credentials as a serious film
to prevent it from limiting her future roles. Thus it is, for example,
that Robert Altman stands out as an unusual exception on the American
film scene; its only official "European" director, as it were.
Basically, for Monica Belluci to say that she fails to understand how
American actresses behave in this area... is something like someone in
America failing to understand why women dress the way they do in Iran.
It does not imply Iranian women are silly, it implies one is failing to
pay attention to what is going on in that country.
John Savard
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'Hitchhiker's Guide' a delightful trip
Douglas Adams classic novel is fully realized
Touchstone
Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, Marvin the
robot (Warwick Davis, voiced by Alan Rickman) and Mos Def as Ford Prefect in
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
REVIEW
By John Hartl
Film critic
MSNBC
Updated: 2:07 p.m. ET April 28, 2005
So it took a quarter of a century. They got it right: the movie version of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" should delight the many fans of its
earlier incarnations as a radio show, a novel and a television series.
It might even win over its creator, the late Douglas Adams, who began it all
on radio in the late 1970s and wrote the screenplay that served as the basis
for the movie. He died four years ago, while the project was still going
through a two-decades-long struggle to find a major-studio backer.
Disney eventually gave it the green light and rather miraculously made all
the right moves: finding a young and savvy director (Garth Jennings), hiring
the gifted Karey Kirkpatrick ("Chicken Run") to polish Adams' , then
casting a group of actors who may have zero marquee value but couldn't be
more appropriate for their roles.
Martin Freeman plays the gloriously ordinary hero, Arthur Dent, a stubborn
Brit who's prepared to lie down in front of bulldozers to save his house
from being demolished for a highway project. Mos Def is his friend, Ford
Prefect, an alien who tries to alert Arthur to the fact that considerably
more than his house is in danger of being obliterated.
Sam Rockwell plays the two-headed, cheerfully irresponsible egomaniac,
Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Zooey Deschanel is Trillian (aka Trisha McMillan),
the almost-lost love of Arthur's life. Bill Nighy has a wonderfully goofy
featured role, while Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman provide the voices for,
respectively, the ultra-patient "Deep Thought" and Marvin the permanently
depressed robot.
All of the original's essential elements are in place: the demented
space-opera plot (which is like "Star Wars" turned on its head), the
philosophical teases (is "42" truly the meaning of life?), the merciless
satire of religious rituals (John Malkovich makes the most of his cameo as a
manipulative high priest), and the sophomoric silliness that's built into
every logic-defying plot twist.
The low-rent special effects that limited the television series have been
replaced by visuals that aren't only state-of-the-art; they establish a
through-the-looking-glass sense of fantasy that's essential to the story.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop came up with the Vogons, an impossibly ugly race
of monsters who use poetry to torment their victims.
The most inspired touch arrives early: a musical number for dolphins who try
to warn the human race that their planet is about to be destroyed. The
warnings, of course, are misinterpreted, but not before the dolphins have
delivered a fondly choreographed farewell to the planet, which they thank
for "all the fish."
Also inspired is the use of animated illustrations that wittily make the
most of Adams' digressions and explanations, which could so easily have
jammed the movie with needless exposition. They're always welcome, always
funny, and they're over so quickly you're never worried about getting back
to the story. For those who sit through the lengthy closing credits, there's
one more of these mini-cartoons, and it's definitely worth the wait.
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Space cadet
Zooey Deschanel hitches a ride with one of geekdom's most beloved franchises
By LIZ BRAUN -- Toronto Sun
Zooey Deschanel is a real Hollywood brat, except for the brat part. The
daughter of actor Mary Jo Deschanel and Oscar-nominated cinematographer
Caleb Deschanel, the 25-year-old Zooey is a singer/actor/ukulele (seriously)
artist and cabaret performer.
A really smart singer/actor/ ukulele artist/cabaret performer.
Deschanel began acting in childhood. Her new movie is the sci-fi comedy The
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, a big-screen version of Douglas Adams'
inspired creation about life, the universe and everything -- and the film
she's here to promote.
In the movie, which opens here Friday, ordinary guy Arthur Dent (The
Office's Martin Freeman) has just discovered that his best friend is an
alien, the world has ended, the president of the galaxy has two heads and
the pretty girl he just met on Earth is also out and about in outer space.
Deschanel plays Trillian, that pretty girl Arthur Dent fancies; their
co-stars are Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, John Malkovich and Bill Nighy, while
Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman offer vocal performances. So
don't panic!
And let the Python-esque philosophical carries-on commence.
Known for her retro approach to both music and fashion, Deschanel comes to
be interviewed clad in a chic Nina Ricci jacket that she describes as
"Trillian-y."
And it is. Deschanel appears to be the only person among the filmmakers and
the cast who had some prior experience with The Hitchhiker's Guide To The
Galaxy. She read the book.
"I think I was 10 or 11 when I first read it," she says. "I thought it was
the coolest, most sophisticated thing ever."
She adds, smiling, "But I sort of had no idea of what I was reading. I
thought it was fantastic. I went back to it when I found out I was doing a
screen test."
She found out about the screen test at about the time Elf had been released.
Deschanel says she'd had no idea that Elf would be such a big movie. "I
mean, I love it, but I had no idea. I just never knew. I'm not good at
predicting."
Maybe not, but the actress rarely puts a foot wrong when she's choosing
projects. Theatre-trained, she made her film debut in 1999 in Mumford and
then co-starred the next year in Almost Famous with her old high school
buddy Kate Hudson.
Her other films include Abandon, Eulogy, Big Trouble, The Good Girl, Manic,
All The Real Girls and House Hunting. She is set to star this year in Winter
Passing and Failure To Launch and Live Free Or Die in 2006. She is also part
of the animated feature Surf's Up.
Deschanel says she was barely two and could hardly talk when she first
announced her decision to become an "actwess," she babytalks. She started
working professionally when she was in high school.
Her father's work meant that, as a child, Deschanel spent a lot of time
travelling the world, which could explain why she's so much more
sophisticated than her peers. The actress attended Northwestern University,
intending to pursue a degree in theatre, but dropped out in her first year
once her film career took on a life of its own.
Deschanel says she'd love to work with her dad one day, if there's a role
that makes sense for her. Her father Caleb, whose fifth Academy Award
nomination for best achievement in cinematography was for The Passion Of The
Christ, is also a director and has recently done three episodes of Law And
Order: Trial By Jury for television.
Has he offered career guidance? "He's always like, 'Just do your best.' It's
pretty practical, normal parent advice."
On the career front, Deschanel says she picks her movies for the character.
"You can't always put it into words, but the main thing is to make sure
you're not miscast or typecast. You want to keep your range open."
Asked if she'd do a horror film, she says she's not a huge fan of the genre.
"But if it was something great like Rosemary's Baby, then yeah! Within any
genre, you want to do the best movie."
Whether or not The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is the best movie of its
genre -- is there any one genre that mixes humour, science fiction,
slapstick, philosophy and social commentary? -- remains to be seen, but
there's already buzz about sequels.
Deschanel says that will depend upon how well the first movie does, but
admits she and most of the others are signed on if more Hitchhiker movies
are made.
Say -- isn't Trillian an alien?
"I was told not to reveal that," says Deschanel with mock gravity. "I did
point out that anyone could pick up the book and find out. And they were
like, 'No! You can't tell anybody about the alien part!' So --okay."
Dropping her voice to a conspiratorial whisper, she adds, "She's
half-alien."
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Connery and Dench voted top screen legends
09:03am 25th February 2005
Sir Sean Connery and Dame Judi Dench have topped a poll of British screen
legends.
The 74-year-old Scottish Bond star was voted the best British actor of all
time, followed by Silence of the Lambs actor Sir Anthony Hopkins and the
late Sir Alec Guinness.
Dame Judi, 70, stole the top spot in the Sky survey of the top 10 actresses,
over Julie Walters and Elizabeth Taylor, 72.
Dame Judi said: "I am very thrilled to hear this - and now I have something
enormous to live up to."
The women's top 10 is completed with Calendar Girls star Helen Mirren (4th),
Mary Poppins legend Julie Andrews (5th) and Harry Potter star Maggie Smith
(6th).
The late Thora Hird shares seventh place with Vanessa Redgrave, of the
acting dynasty. Kate Winslet, the only actress in the top 10 who is up for
an Oscar this year, came ninth, and Emma Thompson 10th.
In the actors top 10 - Michael Caine is fourth, followed by the late
Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton sharing fifth place.
Cary Grant, who died in 1986, was seventh, followed by 97-year-old legend
Sir John Mills, actor-turned director Richard Attenborough and the late
Peter Sellers.
More than 2,000 people were quizzed by YouGov for broadcaster Sky to mark
the 77th Academy Awards.
Top 10 British actors of all time:
1. Sean Connery
2. Anthony Hopkins
3. Alec Guinness
4. Michael Caine
5. Laurence Olivier
5. Richard Burton
7. Cary Grant
8. John Mills
9. Richard Attenborough
10. Peter Sellers
Top 10 British actresses of all time:
1. Judi Dench
2. Julie Walters
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Helen Mirren
5. Julie Andrews
6. Maggie Smith
7. Thora Hird
7. Vanessa Redgrave
9. Kate Winslet
10. Emma Thompson
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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Mirren takes on gangster role
Helen Mirren is set to star as a gangster in Shadowboxer.
The film is a complete departure for the star, whose last big role was
playing an outspoken member of the Women's Institute in Calendar Girls.
She received rave reviews for the film in the US and it raised her profile
considerably.
In Shadowboxer she pairs up with Ryan Philippe and they run a mother/stepson
crime partnership.
She also stars in Raising Helen, a new comedy with Kate Hudson.
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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UK THE MIRROR
SHE took the US by storm as a Spice Girl but breaking the Stateside
market on her own is proving a tougher nut to crack for Emma Bunton.
Just like Robbie Williams and fellow Spice Mel B, Em has found that
winning over the record-buying yanks is no easy matter.
So much so, in fact, that despite relentlessly plugging her album, Free
Me, the 29-year-old singer has failed to get into America's top 200 -
meaning she sold fewer than 5,380 copies.
Sources tell us: "Obviously Emma's disappointed at the chart placing -
especially as the media reviews were very positive. She's made two
visits to the States and has tried very hard to drum up sales for her
album but so far it just hasn't happened."
Emma's promotional diary has included meet and greets, an interview in
respected magazine Blender, TV appearances and an appearance on 'shock
jock' Howard Stern's radio show, where she claimed she "found women
attractive" and talking about Mel B buying her a vibrator.
Bono pointing at one of his guitars on the wall in the Hard Rock
Cafe, Dublin... Helen Mirren walking past Warwick Avenue Tube station
dressed all in black and laughing with a male companion... Helen Worth,
Corrie's Gail Platt, popping into the filmworks in Manchester to see a
matinee...
Our source continues: "It often takes a long time to gain recognition
in the States and Emma's determined to see it through. But there's no
denying she faces an uphill battle".
But her US trips haven't proved fruitless as she's signed with top
acting agents CAA.
We're told: "They saw how well Emma comes across in interviews and
signed her on the spot.
"They're really keen to start sending her off for castings for major TV
and film projects as soon as possible.
Wicked Whispers
WHICH singer's girlfriend would be stunned to find out about a
man-on-man encounter he enjoyed not long ago? The supposedly straight
superstar was seen being "serviced" by a gay male fan - and the star in
question was loving it.
"But Emma's adament she's not going to abandon her music - she just
wants to branch out into other things."
So despite her poor US sales Em, who's dating on-off boyfriend Jade
Jones, might still have the most promising post-Spice career.
Last month 3am revealed that Geri Halliwell had yet to sell out any of
her tour dates despite playing small, regional venues.
Mel B failed to win the part of Mimi in a film version of stage show
Rent, despite playing the character on Broadway and Mel C was forced to
set up her own label after being dropped by Virgin.
Victoria Beckham recently abandoned singing to concentrate on a fashion
career.
Looks like you might need to Spice up your lives, girls...
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Not ONE nod for Whale Rider? I am pissed.
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:16:21 +1100, "Rick in Oz"
wrotd:
>http://canoe.ca/JamMovies/dec18_goldenglobes-ap.html
>By ANTHONY BREZNICAN
>Associated Press
> BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The Civil War epic "Cold Mountain" collected a
>leading eight Golden Globe nominations Thursday including best drama, as
>Hollywood marked the start of its annual trophy-giving season.
>"Mystic River," the story of three adult friends linked by tragic crimes,
>received five nominations each.
>were the seafaring epic "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,"
>the true-life horse racing story "Seabiscuit" and the fantasy saga "The Lord
>of the Rings: The Return of the King."
>four nominations including Peter Jackson for best director.
>his repressed son, also got four nominations including best musical or
>comedy. It competes against the year's highest-grossing movie, the
>computer-animated "Finding Nemo," and three smaller films: "Lost in
>Translation," the soccer coming-of-age story "Bend it Like Beckham" and the
>British holiday romance anthology "Love Actually."
>dwelled on the negative, got made-for-TV movie nominations for James Brolin
>and Judy Davis -- who played former President Reagan and first lady Nancy.
>The Showtime cable channel eventually picked up the movie.
>Sand and Fog" joined with Russell Crowe's hardscrabble sea captain in
>"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" in the lead dramatic movie
>actor category. Other contenders were Tom Cruise for "The Last Samurai,"
>Jude Law for "Cold Mountain" and Sean Penn for "Mystic River."
>nomination for lead dramatic actress in a movie, along with Uma Thurman for
>"Kill Bill: Vol. 1," Charlize Theron for "Monster," Evan Rachel Wood for
>"thirteen," and Cate Blanchett for "Veronica Guerin."
>With a Pearl Earring" and one in the comedy class for "Lost in Translation."
>Diane Keaton for "Something's Gotta Give" and Helen Mirren for "Calendar
>Girls," two films about beauty and romance among older women. Jamie Lee
>Curtis was also recognized in the category for playing a mom who switches
>bodies with her teenage daughter in the remake "Freaky Friday," while Diane
>Lane received a bid for the romance "Under the Tuscan Sun."
>his role as a phony music teacher in "The School of Rock," while Johnny Depp
>was nominated for playing a wobbly buccaneer in "Pirates of the Caribbean:
>The Curse of the Black Pearl." Other nominees in the category: Murray for
>"Lost in Translation," Jack Nicholson for "Something's Gotta Give" and Billy
>Bob Thornton for "Bad Santa."
>as the wife of a dowdy comic book scribe in "American Splendor" were among
>supporting movie actress nominees along with Patricia Clarkson in "Pieces of
>April," Holly Hunter in "thirteen" and Maria Bello in "The Cooler."
>a tall-tale teller in "Big Fish," while Alec Baldwin was recognized for
>playing a casino boss in "The Cooler." William H. Macy also received a bid
>for playing a colorful but fictional horse race announcer in "Seabiscuit."
>Other nominees: Ken Watanabe for his role as a warrior in "The Last
>Samurai," Tim Robbins as a grown-up abuse victim in "Mystic River" and Peter
>Sarsgaard as a skeptical editor in "Shattered Glass."
>nominees were Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation," Clint Eastwood for
>"Mystic River," Anthony Minghella for "Cold Mountain" and Peter Weir for
>"Master and Commander."
>award-grabber "The West Wing," the real-time Fox thriller "24," the FX
>plastic surgery drama "Nip/Tuck," CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and
>HBO's "Six Feet Under."
>Office," about a brutally bad middle manager which airs in the United States
>on BBC America. Other competitors were the fledgling Fox show "Arrested
>Development," and three critical favorites, USA's "Monk," HBO's "Sex and the
>City" and NBC's "Will & Grace."
>very sleepy-sounding "Monk" star Tony Shalhoub told E! by phone. "It's a
>great way to wake up."
>history of honoring future Oscar winners.
>telecast is scheduled for Jan. 25. The new date comes just two days before
>Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 27.
>earlier than usual.
>Golden Globe Awards, to be presented Jan. 25:
>King"; "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"; "Mystic River";
>"Seabiscuit."
>Mountain"; Scarlett Johansson, "Girl With a Pearl Earring"; Charlize Theron,
>"Monster"; Uma Thurman, "Kill Bill -- Vol. 1"; Evan Rachel Wood, "thirteen."
>World"; Tom Cruise, "The Last Samurai"; Ben Kingsley, "House of Sand and
>Fog"; Jude Law, "Cold Mountain"; Sean Penn, "Mystic River."
>Nemo"; "Lost in Translation"; "Love Actually."
>Johansson, "Lost in Translation"; Diane Keaton, "Something's Gotta Give";
>Diane Lane, "Under the Tuscan Sun"; Helen Mirren, "Calendar Girls."
>"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"; Bill Murray, "Lost
>in Translation"; Jack Nicholson, "Something's Gotta Give"; Billy Bob
>Thornton, "Bad Santa."
>Germany; "Monsieur Ibrahim," France; "Osama," Afghanistan; "The Return,"
>Russia.
>April"; Hope Davis, "American Splendor"; Holly Hunter, "thirteen"; Renee
>Zellweger, "Cold Mountain."
>William H. Macy, "Seabiscuit"; Tim Robbins, "Mystic River"; Peter Sarsgaard,
>"Shattered Glass"; Ken Watanabe, "The Last Samurai."
>River"; Peter Jackson, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King";
>Anthony Minghella, "Cold Mountain"; Peter Weir, "Master and Commander: The
>Far Side of the World."
>Actually"; Brian Helgeland, "Mystic River"; Anthony Minghella, "Cold
>Mountain"; Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan, "In America."
>Elfman, "Big Fish"; Howard Shore, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
>King"; Gabriel Yared, "Cold Mountain"; Hans Zimmer, "The Last Samurai."
>Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin; "Into the West" from "The Lord of the
>Rings: The Return of the King," by Howard Shore, Fran Walsh and Annie
>Lennox; "Man of the Hour" from "Big Fish," by Eddie Vedder; "Time Enough for
>Tears" from "In America," by Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer; "You
>Will Be My Ain True Love" from "Cold Mountain," by Sting.
>FX; "Six Feet Under," HBO; "The West Wing," NBC.
>Allison Janney, "The West Wing"; Joely Richardson, "Nip/Tuck"; Amber
>Tamblyn, "Joan of Arcadia."
>Trace"; William Petersen, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"; Martin Sheen,
>"The West Wing"; Kiefer Sutherland, "24."
>Office," BBC America; "Sex and the City," HBO; "Will & Grace," NBC.
>McEntire, "Reba"; Debra Messing, "Will & Grace"; Sarah Jessica Parker, "Sex
>and the City"; Bitty Schram, "Monk"; Alicia Silverstone, "Miss Match."
>"Friends"; Bernie Mac, "The Bernie Mac Show"; Eric McCormack, "Will &
>Grace"; Tony Shalhoub, "Monk."
>in Umbria," HBO; "Normal," HBO; "Soldier's Girl," Showtime; "Tennessee
>Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone," Showtime.
>Jessica Lange, "Normal"; Helen Mirren, "Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring
>of Mrs. Stone"; Maggie Smith, "My House in Umbria"; Meryl Streep, "Angels in
>America."
>Starring Pancho Villa as Himself"; James Brolin, "The Reagans"; Troy Garity,
>"Soldier's Girl"; Al Pacino, "Angels in America"; Tom Wilkinson, "Normal."
>Cattrall, "Sex and the City"; Kristin Davis, "Sex and the City"; Megan
>Mullally, "Will & Grace"; Cynthia Nixon, "Sex and the City"; Mary-Louise
>Parker, "Angels in America."
>Hayes, "Will & Grace"; Lee Pace, "Soldier's Girl"; Ben Shenkman, "Angels in
>America"; Patrick Wilson, "Angels in America"; Jeffrey Wright, "Angels in
>America."
-
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:51:20 +1000, "Rick in Oz" wrote:
>http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=211362&in_
>page_id=119
>by TONY BONNICI and MARK REYNOLDS, Daily Mail
>struggle to recognise her with her clothes on.
>female exhibitionism.
>
As a worshipper of Helen the Great she can say anything she pleases.
I love her.
Nobody can smoke a cigarette more erotically then Ms Helen.
>Miss Mirren, 58, was asked what she thought about Janet Jackson's recent
>stunt at the American Super Bowl final, when Justin Timberlake
>accidentally-on-purpose ripped open her costume to reveal a bulging right
>breast complete with nipple medallion.
>actress told the New York Times.
>people look at them."
>for disrobing in front of the camera - most recently in the smash-hit comedy
>Calendar Girls.
>clothes on for her best-known TV role, as policewoman Jane Tennison in Prime
>Suspect.
>interview, that she, too, would consider having cosmetic surgery.
>want to like you. It's not just vanity.
>should have nose jobs. If a nose is ridiculous, it's a distraction."
>Miss Mirren went full-frontal in only her secondever film, Age Of Consent,
>in 1969 and then again with Savage Messiah in 1972.
>times, including in the controversial soft-porn epic Caligula in 1980 and
>when playing Cal, an Irish widow, which won her a Best Actress award at
>Cannes in 1984.
>Spring Of Mrs Stone - starring alongside Kylie Minogue's 37-year-old
>boyfriend Olivier Martinez.
>to film producer Taylor Hackford - expressed an opinion on her own nudity
>which was decidedly different to that she has now reserved for others.
>the time.
>but I've never objected to them, either. And, oddly, it gets easier as I get
>older.
>self-consciousness evaporate when you're surrounded by other people without
>their clothes."
>Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
>
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/The-way-he-is/2004/11/26/1101219735856.html
The way he is
November 27, 2004
Cuff luck: Robert Redford plays a kidnapped businessman in The Clearing.
To get to the heart of the Hollywood icon, Tom Ryan reads between the lines.
Robert Redford is approaching 70. Seventy! And in most of the films he has
made in the past decade, including his new one, The Clearing, age has
clearly left its mark. The guy still looks good, but now there is always the
qualifier, and it's a killer, "for his age".
For those of us who grew up with the smiling, smooth-faced "Sundance"
raising a bemused eyebrow and exchanging crackerjack quips with Paul
Newman's "Butch", this is a jolting reminder of mortality.
In my pantheon of male screen idols, he rates somewhere between Cary Grant
and Daffy Duck, exuding the former's urbane glamour and rising far above the
latter's manic befuddlement. I've never met him, or even seen him in person,
but he's been part of my life.
I've seen all but a couple of the films he has made as an actor, since his
debut in War Hunt (1962), and the six he's made as a director, starting with
Ordinary People, for which he won an Oscar for best director in 1981. I've
read most of the rare interviews he's granted and I've watched him on TV
chat shows, notably Parkinson in the 1980s, to which he brought a healthy
dose of modesty that only enhanced his golden boy aura.
But who is Robert Redford?
Is there any connection between the man born Charles Robert Redford jnr in
Santa Monica in 1937 and the characters he has played? Is it possible to
probe the screen persona and find anything more than a mirage? Is he a
mysteriously aloof stranger, the outlaw type, the hollow man or the
world-weary lover? And what is the key to his charisma?
Can we learn something about him from the cheeky grin he wears in Barefoot
in the Park (1967) - a role he carried from an 11-month stint on Broadway,
opposite Elizabeth Ashley, to the screen with Jane Fonda? Or from the
malaise that underscores his characterisation of the kidnapped business
magnate in The Clearing? It's impossible to know.
All such a survey can do is sketch the parameters of the persona - an object
of desire who generally turns out to be unattainable; a man of action who is
equally at home with reflection; a figure simultaneously mythic and human;
heroic and vulnerable; impossibly good-looking and surprisingly flawed. In
short, a distinctive collection of potentially fascinating contradictions
that filmmakers can use however they wish.
Some of Redford's most rewarding roles have been the ones that turned the
golden boy persona against itself, among them The Candidate (1972), The Way
We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974) and All the President's Men (1976) -
each of which transforms the agent of the American dream into a source of
anxiety.
In a 1980 interview in Rolling Stone, Redford says: "I'm interested in
what's wrong in what appears to be perfect."
Redford's method - which the author David Downing memorably describes as
"over-understatement" in his 1982 book about Redford - places him among
actors whose performances are less about their emotive flexibility than
about dramatic minimalism.
The silent, melancholy look he gives Helen Mirren before he heads off to
work at the beginning of The Clearing, his latest film to screen in
Australia, says more about the state of their marriage than any extended
exposition scenes ever could.
Redford is a veteran of the less-is-more school. He's not like Jack
Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro or Al Pacino, who have their own
way of doing things. Redford will never chew up the scenery. He prefers to
exist quietly within it, to gently nudge us towards an appreciation of his
characters, rather than allowing them to loudly declare themselves.
For some, this has always been a sign of his uncertainty as an actor. For
others, such as director Sydney Pollack, who was cast alongside Redford in
War Hunt and who has directed him seven times, it's an indication of his
strength.
"In my opinion, he's one of the best movie actors we've ever had in America.
He's never doing nothing, but he does often hold something back, which, for
me, only makes him more interesting."
Pollack's deion of Redford as an actor also might well apply to his
performances as a public figure. There is absolutely no reason to presume
that the Robert Redford who occasionally steps away from his privacy and
into the public eye is any less of a character than the ones he plays on
screen.
There is much that's consistent in the picture he constructs of himself and
his world. This Robert Redford is thoughtful, but distant. He values his
privacy and would much rather be alone in the Utah wilderness than attending
some Hollywood premiere or giving an interview. Both are situations in which
he's required to perform: to play Robert Redford.
"I never aimed to be a sex symbol, a classical actor, a box-office draw, or
any of those things," he says in Downing's book.
"I just did my job, went home and put myself as far away from the movie-star
thing as I could."
Nevertheless, he's been prepared to speak up when the occasion demands,
whether it's on behalf of his beloved Sundance Institute, which he
established as a haven for independent filmmakers in 1981, or for
environmental causes. He has always worn his liberal principles on his
sleeve, but laughed at the idea that he might go into politics.
Redford has also proclaimed his lack of interest in self-examination,
describing himself as the antithesis of Woody Allen. "Some people have
psychoanalysis. I have Utah," he says.
His marriage at 21 to Lola van Wagenen ended in 1985. The couple had four
children, one of whom died of sudden infant death syndrome. They are now
grandparents.
Since the divorce, Redford has been romantically linked with Debra Winger,
Sonia Braga and costume designer Kathy O'Rear. Newspaper reports suggest
that, although he is in a "happy relationship" with the German artist
Sibylle Szaggars, the pair - in the style of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir - continue to live apart.
Some of what emerges about Redford's life he is able to control. Most of it
he's not. And he would seem to be at least partially responsible for a
number of the revealing contradictions that have emerged.
Redford has always said he hates the way he's treated as a walking photo
opportunity. "The bad part is that you become an object," he told Esquire
magazine in 1988. "And there are three dangerous stages to that: one, people
start treating you like an object; two, you start behaving like an object;
and three, you become one. That's terminal."
Yet he's usually been prepared to take time out to pose for Annie
Leibowitz's admiring camera, or for the covers of the publications in which
these interviews have appeared. Clad in smart executive suits or designer
leisure gear, he's at least arrived at stage two.
He's also long been talking about abandoning acting. Downing quotes him as
planning to call a halt to this part of his career soon after The Way We
Were. "I am retiring from films, definitely," Redford announced.
It's also curious to see someone who's been such a champion of independent
filmmakers remain so close to the mainstream as an actor and also as a
director. Only The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) and A River Runs Through It
(1992), both of which he directed, can be described as even vaguely
independent.
While he may be a political liberal, he appears otherwise extremely
reserved, leading Downing to dub him a "conservative rebel". Few of the
films he has directed reflect a risk-taking personality. Perhaps his latest
project, Aloft, the story of two men tracking the flight of the North
American peregrine falcon, which is scheduled to go into production this
year, will open up new directions.
But he has been unable to control the increasingly personal, sometimes
ageist, put-downs of his acting and directing. Equally hurtful must be the
sneers at his life away from the camera. In Hollywood Interrupted - Insanity
Chic in Babylon, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner, he is described - along
with Susan Sarandon - as "a bloviating bleeding heart".
Yet the view of him that emerges through Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter
Biskind's fascinating history of American independent film, is of a man who
is not only "cautious by nature and almost paralysed by perfectionism" but
occasionally duplicitous. In the book, Sundance becomes a dream destroyed by
Redford's prevarications and by its movement ever closer to the values that
hold sway in Hollywood.
Yet few people can match his contributions to American film, on camera or
behind the scenes. Maybe it's time to give the guy a break.
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
-
UK THE MIRROR
SHE took the US by storm as a Spice Girl but breaking the Stateside
market on her own is proving a tougher nut to crack for Emma Bunton.
Just like Robbie Williams and fellow Spice Mel B, Em has found that
winning over the record-buying yanks is no easy matter.
So much so, in fact, that despite relentlessly plugging her album, Free
Me, the 29-year-old singer has failed to get into America's top 200 -
meaning she sold fewer than 5,380 copies.
Sources tell us: "Obviously Emma's disappointed at the chart placing -
especially as the media reviews were very positive. She's made two
visits to the States and has tried very hard to drum up sales for her
album but so far it just hasn't happened."
Emma's promotional diary has included meet and greets, an interview in
respected magazine Blender, TV appearances and an appearance on 'shock
jock' Howard Stern's radio show, where she claimed she "found women
attractive" and talking about Mel B buying her a vibrator.
Bono pointing at one of his guitars on the wall in the Hard Rock
Cafe, Dublin... Helen Mirren walking past Warwick Avenue Tube station
dressed all in black and laughing with a male companion... Helen Worth,
Corrie's Gail Platt, popping into the filmworks in Manchester to see a
matinee...
Our source continues: "It often takes a long time to gain recognition
in the States and Emma's determined to see it through. But there's no
denying she faces an uphill battle".
But her US trips haven't proved fruitless as she's signed with top
acting agents CAA.
We're told: "They saw how well Emma comes across in interviews and
signed her on the spot.
"They're really keen to start sending her off for castings for major TV
and film projects as soon as possible.
Wicked Whispers
WHICH singer's girlfriend would be stunned to find out about a
man-on-man encounter he enjoyed not long ago? The supposedly straight
superstar was seen being "serviced" by a gay male fan - and the star in
question was loving it.
"But Emma's adament she's not going to abandon her music - she just
wants to branch out into other things."
So despite her poor US sales Em, who's dating on-off boyfriend Jade
Jones, might still have the most promising post-Spice career.
Last month 3am revealed that Geri Halliwell had yet to sell out any of
her tour dates despite playing small, regional venues.
Mel B failed to win the part of Mimi in a film version of stage show
Rent, despite playing the character on Broadway and Mel C was forced to
set up her own label after being dropped by Virgin.
Victoria Beckham recently abandoned singing to concentrate on a fashion
career.
Looks like you might need to Spice up your lives, girls...
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/The-way-he-is/2004/11/26/1101219735856.html
The way he is
November 27, 2004
Cuff luck: Robert Redford plays a kidnapped businessman in The Clearing.
To get to the heart of the Hollywood icon, Tom Ryan reads between the lines.
Robert Redford is approaching 70. Seventy! And in most of the films he has
made in the past decade, including his new one, The Clearing, age has
clearly left its mark. The guy still looks good, but now there is always the
qualifier, and it's a killer, "for his age".
For those of us who grew up with the smiling, smooth-faced "Sundance"
raising a bemused eyebrow and exchanging crackerjack quips with Paul
Newman's "Butch", this is a jolting reminder of mortality.
In my pantheon of male screen idols, he rates somewhere between Cary Grant
and Daffy Duck, exuding the former's urbane glamour and rising far above the
latter's manic befuddlement. I've never met him, or even seen him in person,
but he's been part of my life.
I've seen all but a couple of the films he has made as an actor, since his
debut in War Hunt (1962), and the six he's made as a director, starting with
Ordinary People, for which he won an Oscar for best director in 1981. I've
read most of the rare interviews he's granted and I've watched him on TV
chat shows, notably Parkinson in the 1980s, to which he brought a healthy
dose of modesty that only enhanced his golden boy aura.
But who is Robert Redford?
Is there any connection between the man born Charles Robert Redford jnr in
Santa Monica in 1937 and the characters he has played? Is it possible to
probe the screen persona and find anything more than a mirage? Is he a
mysteriously aloof stranger, the outlaw type, the hollow man or the
world-weary lover? And what is the key to his charisma?
Can we learn something about him from the cheeky grin he wears in Barefoot
in the Park (1967) - a role he carried from an 11-month stint on Broadway,
opposite Elizabeth Ashley, to the screen with Jane Fonda? Or from the
malaise that underscores his characterisation of the kidnapped business
magnate in The Clearing? It's impossible to know.
All such a survey can do is sketch the parameters of the persona - an object
of desire who generally turns out to be unattainable; a man of action who is
equally at home with reflection; a figure simultaneously mythic and human;
heroic and vulnerable; impossibly good-looking and surprisingly flawed. In
short, a distinctive collection of potentially fascinating contradictions
that filmmakers can use however they wish.
Some of Redford's most rewarding roles have been the ones that turned the
golden boy persona against itself, among them The Candidate (1972), The Way
We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974) and All the President's Men (1976) -
each of which transforms the agent of the American dream into a source of
anxiety.
In a 1980 interview in Rolling Stone, Redford says: "I'm interested in
what's wrong in what appears to be perfect."
Redford's method - which the author David Downing memorably describes as
"over-understatement" in his 1982 book about Redford - places him among
actors whose performances are less about their emotive flexibility than
about dramatic minimalism.
The silent, melancholy look he gives Helen Mirren before he heads off to
work at the beginning of The Clearing, his latest film to screen in
Australia, says more about the state of their marriage than any extended
exposition scenes ever could.
Redford is a veteran of the less-is-more school. He's not like Jack
Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro or Al Pacino, who have their own
way of doing things. Redford will never chew up the scenery. He prefers to
exist quietly within it, to gently nudge us towards an appreciation of his
characters, rather than allowing them to loudly declare themselves.
For some, this has always been a sign of his uncertainty as an actor. For
others, such as director Sydney Pollack, who was cast alongside Redford in
War Hunt and who has directed him seven times, it's an indication of his
strength.
"In my opinion, he's one of the best movie actors we've ever had in America.
He's never doing nothing, but he does often hold something back, which, for
me, only makes him more interesting."
Pollack's deion of Redford as an actor also might well apply to his
performances as a public figure. There is absolutely no reason to presume
that the Robert Redford who occasionally steps away from his privacy and
into the public eye is any less of a character than the ones he plays on
screen.
There is much that's consistent in the picture he constructs of himself and
his world. This Robert Redford is thoughtful, but distant. He values his
privacy and would much rather be alone in the Utah wilderness than attending
some Hollywood premiere or giving an interview. Both are situations in which
he's required to perform: to play Robert Redford.
"I never aimed to be a sex symbol, a classical actor, a box-office draw, or
any of those things," he says in Downing's book.
"I just did my job, went home and put myself as far away from the movie-star
thing as I could."
Nevertheless, he's been prepared to speak up when the occasion demands,
whether it's on behalf of his beloved Sundance Institute, which he
established as a haven for independent filmmakers in 1981, or for
environmental causes. He has always worn his liberal principles on his
sleeve, but laughed at the idea that he might go into politics.
Redford has also proclaimed his lack of interest in self-examination,
describing himself as the antithesis of Woody Allen. "Some people have
psychoanalysis. I have Utah," he says.
His marriage at 21 to Lola van Wagenen ended in 1985. The couple had four
children, one of whom died of sudden infant death syndrome. They are now
grandparents.
Since the divorce, Redford has been romantically linked with Debra Winger,
Sonia Braga and costume designer Kathy O'Rear. Newspaper reports suggest
that, although he is in a "happy relationship" with the German artist
Sibylle Szaggars, the pair - in the style of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir - continue to live apart.
Some of what emerges about Redford's life he is able to control. Most of it
he's not. And he would seem to be at least partially responsible for a
number of the revealing contradictions that have emerged.
Redford has always said he hates the way he's treated as a walking photo
opportunity. "The bad part is that you become an object," he told Esquire
magazine in 1988. "And there are three dangerous stages to that: one, people
start treating you like an object; two, you start behaving like an object;
and three, you become one. That's terminal."
Yet he's usually been prepared to take time out to pose for Annie
Leibowitz's admiring camera, or for the covers of the publications in which
these interviews have appeared. Clad in smart executive suits or designer
leisure gear, he's at least arrived at stage two.
He's also long been talking about abandoning acting. Downing quotes him as
planning to call a halt to this part of his career soon after The Way We
Were. "I am retiring from films, definitely," Redford announced.
It's also curious to see someone who's been such a champion of independent
filmmakers remain so close to the mainstream as an actor and also as a
director. Only The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) and A River Runs Through It
(1992), both of which he directed, can be described as even vaguely
independent.
While he may be a political liberal, he appears otherwise extremely
reserved, leading Downing to dub him a "conservative rebel". Few of the
films he has directed reflect a risk-taking personality. Perhaps his latest
project, Aloft, the story of two men tracking the flight of the North
American peregrine falcon, which is scheduled to go into production this
year, will open up new directions.
But he has been unable to control the increasingly personal, sometimes
ageist, put-downs of his acting and directing. Equally hurtful must be the
sneers at his life away from the camera. In Hollywood Interrupted - Insanity
Chic in Babylon, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner, he is described - along
with Susan Sarandon - as "a bloviating bleeding heart".
Yet the view of him that emerges through Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter
Biskind's fascinating history of American independent film, is of a man who
is not only "cautious by nature and almost paralysed by perfectionism" but
occasionally duplicitous. In the book, Sundance becomes a dream destroyed by
Redford's prevarications and by its movement ever closer to the values that
hold sway in Hollywood.
Yet few people can match his contributions to American film, on camera or
behind the scenes. Maybe it's time to give the guy a break.
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
-
>Subject: Re: Helen Mirren takes on gangster role
Let us not forget that she was also featured in the great "The Long Good
Friday", as a "gun moll", to Bob Hoskins scary gangster "Harold Shand".
_Shell
"There's a .sig that sucks born every minute."
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"Thanatos" wrote in message
news:atropos-5602CE.21455318032008@news.giganews.com...
> In article
> ,
> TranslucentAmoebae wrote:
possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/
responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/
> difference?
He can't tell you...too drunk.
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http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=211362&in_
>page_id=119
>by TONY BONNICI and MARK REYNOLDS, Daily Mail
>struggle to recognise her with her clothes on.
>female exhibitionism.
>
As a worshipper of Helen the Great she can say anything she pleases.
I love her.
Nobody can smoke a cigarette more erotically then Ms Helen.
This is a straight out hatchet job by a newspaper that dislikes her.
She's OK with me . . . classy broad . .
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/The-way-he-is/2004/11/26/1101219735856.html
The way he is
November 27, 2004
Cuff luck: Robert Redford plays a kidnapped businessman in The Clearing.
To get to the heart of the Hollywood icon, Tom Ryan reads between the lines.
Robert Redford is approaching 70. Seventy! And in most of the films he has
made in the past decade, including his new one, The Clearing, age has
clearly left its mark. The guy still looks good, but now there is always the
qualifier, and it's a killer, "for his age".
For those of us who grew up with the smiling, smooth-faced "Sundance"
raising a bemused eyebrow and exchanging crackerjack quips with Paul
Newman's "Butch", this is a jolting reminder of mortality.
In my pantheon of male screen idols, he rates somewhere between Cary Grant
and Daffy Duck, exuding the former's urbane glamour and rising far above the
latter's manic befuddlement. I've never met him, or even seen him in person,
but he's been part of my life.
I've seen all but a couple of the films he has made as an actor, since his
debut in War Hunt (1962), and the six he's made as a director, starting with
Ordinary People, for which he won an Oscar for best director in 1981. I've
read most of the rare interviews he's granted and I've watched him on TV
chat shows, notably Parkinson in the 1980s, to which he brought a healthy
dose of modesty that only enhanced his golden boy aura.
But who is Robert Redford?
Is there any connection between the man born Charles Robert Redford jnr in
Santa Monica in 1937 and the characters he has played? Is it possible to
probe the screen persona and find anything more than a mirage? Is he a
mysteriously aloof stranger, the outlaw type, the hollow man or the
world-weary lover? And what is the key to his charisma?
Can we learn something about him from the cheeky grin he wears in Barefoot
in the Park (1967) - a role he carried from an 11-month stint on Broadway,
opposite Elizabeth Ashley, to the screen with Jane Fonda? Or from the
malaise that underscores his characterisation of the kidnapped business
magnate in The Clearing? It's impossible to know.
All such a survey can do is sketch the parameters of the persona - an object
of desire who generally turns out to be unattainable; a man of action who is
equally at home with reflection; a figure simultaneously mythic and human;
heroic and vulnerable; impossibly good-looking and surprisingly flawed. In
short, a distinctive collection of potentially fascinating contradictions
that filmmakers can use however they wish.
Some of Redford's most rewarding roles have been the ones that turned the
golden boy persona against itself, among them The Candidate (1972), The Way
We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974) and All the President's Men (1976) -
each of which transforms the agent of the American dream into a source of
anxiety.
In a 1980 interview in Rolling Stone, Redford says: "I'm interested in
what's wrong in what appears to be perfect."
Redford's method - which the author David Downing memorably describes as
"over-understatement" in his 1982 book about Redford - places him among
actors whose performances are less about their emotive flexibility than
about dramatic minimalism.
The silent, melancholy look he gives Helen Mirren before he heads off to
work at the beginning of The Clearing, his latest film to screen in
Australia, says more about the state of their marriage than any extended
exposition scenes ever could.
Redford is a veteran of the less-is-more school. He's not like Jack
Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro or Al Pacino, who have their own
way of doing things. Redford will never chew up the scenery. He prefers to
exist quietly within it, to gently nudge us towards an appreciation of his
characters, rather than allowing them to loudly declare themselves.
For some, this has always been a sign of his uncertainty as an actor. For
others, such as director Sydney Pollack, who was cast alongside Redford in
War Hunt and who has directed him seven times, it's an indication of his
strength.
"In my opinion, he's one of the best movie actors we've ever had in America.
He's never doing nothing, but he does often hold something back, which, for
me, only makes him more interesting."
Pollack's deion of Redford as an actor also might well apply to his
performances as a public figure. There is absolutely no reason to presume
that the Robert Redford who occasionally steps away from his privacy and
into the public eye is any less of a character than the ones he plays on
screen.
There is much that's consistent in the picture he constructs of himself and
his world. This Robert Redford is thoughtful, but distant. He values his
privacy and would much rather be alone in the Utah wilderness than attending
some Hollywood premiere or giving an interview. Both are situations in which
he's required to perform: to play Robert Redford.
"I never aimed to be a sex symbol, a classical actor, a box-office draw, or
any of those things," he says in Downing's book.
"I just did my job, went home and put myself as far away from the movie-star
thing as I could."
Nevertheless, he's been prepared to speak up when the occasion demands,
whether it's on behalf of his beloved Sundance Institute, which he
established as a haven for independent filmmakers in 1981, or for
environmental causes. He has always worn his liberal principles on his
sleeve, but laughed at the idea that he might go into politics.
Redford has also proclaimed his lack of interest in self-examination,
describing himself as the antithesis of Woody Allen. "Some people have
psychoanalysis. I have Utah," he says.
His marriage at 21 to Lola van Wagenen ended in 1985. The couple had four
children, one of whom died of sudden infant death syndrome. They are now
grandparents.
Since the divorce, Redford has been romantically linked with Debra Winger,
Sonia Braga and costume designer Kathy O'Rear. Newspaper reports suggest
that, although he is in a "happy relationship" with the German artist
Sibylle Szaggars, the pair - in the style of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de
Beauvoir - continue to live apart.
Some of what emerges about Redford's life he is able to control. Most of it
he's not. And he would seem to be at least partially responsible for a
number of the revealing contradictions that have emerged.
Redford has always said he hates the way he's treated as a walking photo
opportunity. "The bad part is that you become an object," he told Esquire
magazine in 1988. "And there are three dangerous stages to that: one, people
start treating you like an object; two, you start behaving like an object;
and three, you become one. That's terminal."
Yet he's usually been prepared to take time out to pose for Annie
Leibowitz's admiring camera, or for the covers of the publications in which
these interviews have appeared. Clad in smart executive suits or designer
leisure gear, he's at least arrived at stage two.
He's also long been talking about abandoning acting. Downing quotes him as
planning to call a halt to this part of his career soon after The Way We
Were. "I am retiring from films, definitely," Redford announced.
It's also curious to see someone who's been such a champion of independent
filmmakers remain so close to the mainstream as an actor and also as a
director. Only The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) and A River Runs Through It
(1992), both of which he directed, can be described as even vaguely
independent.
While he may be a political liberal, he appears otherwise extremely
reserved, leading Downing to dub him a "conservative rebel". Few of the
films he has directed reflect a risk-taking personality. Perhaps his latest
project, Aloft, the story of two men tracking the flight of the North
American peregrine falcon, which is scheduled to go into production this
year, will open up new directions.
But he has been unable to control the increasingly personal, sometimes
ageist, put-downs of his acting and directing. Equally hurtful must be the
sneers at his life away from the camera. In Hollywood Interrupted - Insanity
Chic in Babylon, by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner, he is described - along
with Susan Sarandon - as "a bloviating bleeding heart".
Yet the view of him that emerges through Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter
Biskind's fascinating history of American independent film, is of a man who
is not only "cautious by nature and almost paralysed by perfectionism" but
occasionally duplicitous. In the book, Sundance becomes a dream destroyed by
Redford's prevarications and by its movement ever closer to the values that
hold sway in Hollywood.
Yet few people can match his contributions to American film, on camera or
behind the scenes. Maybe it's time to give the guy a break.
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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What are Lauren Bacall and Sigourney Weaver doing on the list? LOL.
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> The list, as these list alway are, is just plain silly.
> Corse
> The top 30 Greatest Living Actors
> 2. Al Pacino
> 3. Jack Nicholson
> 4. Paul Newman
> 5. Marlon Brando - died before voting was complete
> 6. Anthony Hopkins
> 7. Morgan Freeman
> 8. Dustin Hoffman
> 9. Clint Eastwood
> 10. Sigourney Weaver 12. Harrison Ford
> 13. Sean Connery
> 14. Meryl Streep 16. Christopher Lee
> 17. Sidney Poitier
> 18. Robert Redford
> 19. Alan Rickman
> 20. Judi Dench
> 21. Samuel L Jackson
> 22. Peter O'Toole
> 23. Bill Murray
> 24. Albert Finney
> 25. Woody Allen
> 26. Helen Mirren 28. Ben Kingsley
> 29. Lauren Bacall Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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The list, as these list alway are, is just plain silly.
Corse
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The top 30 Greatest Living Actors
1. Robert De Niro
2. Al Pacino
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Paul Newman
5. Marlon Brando - died before voting was complete
6. Anthony Hopkins
7. Morgan Freeman
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Sigourney Weaver
11. Gene Hackman
12. Harrison Ford
13. Sean Connery
14. Meryl Streep
15. Ian McKellen
16. Christopher Lee
17. Sidney Poitier
18. Robert Redford
19. Alan Rickman
20. Judi Dench
21. Samuel L Jackson
22. Peter O'Toole
23. Bill Murray
24. Albert Finney
25. Woody Allen
26. Helen Mirren
27. Christopher Walken
28. Ben Kingsley
29. Lauren Bacall
30. John Hurt
From Sunny Oz, Rick :)
Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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- Commanding Brit ish actress who has proven her versatility and range in a series of consistently challenging parts. She began her career on stage with Britain's National Youth Theatre and later, the Royal Shakespeare Company, winning acclaim for performances in plays like "Troilus and Cressida" and "Hamlet." She made her film debut as Hermia in Peter Hall's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), and alternated between theater and movies from then on, costarring in Age of Consent (1969), Savage Messiah (1972), O Lucky Man! (1973), Hussy and Caligula (both 1980) before eliciting raves for her turn as gangster Bob Hoskins' mistress in The Long Good Friday (1981). Mirren went on to give impressive performances in Excalibur (1981, as Morgana) and 2010 (1984, as a Russian cosmonaut), and won a Cannes Best Actress Award for her portrayal of an Irish widow in Cal (1984). Other films include White Nights (1985, again as a Russian), The Mosquito Coast (1986), Pascali's Island (1988), and the highly controversial The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989). More recently, she starred in The Comfort of Strangers (1991), the adaptation of Where Angels Fear to Tread (also 1991, as Lilia), Dr. Bethune, The Hawk (both 1993), and most notably, as "Mrs. King" in The Madness of King George (1994), for which she received a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She also starred as a tough police inspector in the acclaimed British TV miniseries "Prime Suspect" (1992-). Many actresses are described as "fearless," but the word really applies to Mirren, who can-and will-do anything that befits her character-and who is drawn to unusual, provocative parts. She has lived for many years with producerdirector Taylor Hackford.
- "Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. I can't stand it W_hen they behave like solicitors from Penge." "I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one."
- [About the Academy Awards] "It's the creme-de-la-creme of bulls**t."
- "The trick in life is learning how to deal with it."
- The actress describes herself as "being famous for being cool about not being gorgeous."
- Made a DBE (Dame of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, June 2003.
- Nominated for Tony award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for role in "Dance of Death," May 2002.
- Used to work in Southend on Sea; Essex; UK at an amusement park "The Kursaal" as a "blagger" to attract customers on to rides.
- Has lived with director Taylor Hackford in Los Angeles since 1986.
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