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...plenty of Clooney's colleagues. Sean Penn, Tom Hanks, Jodie Foster, Kevin Spacey, John Malkovich and Ethan Hawke have stood behind the camera. Ron Howard liked it so much he stayed there, winning a Best Director Oscar last year for A Beautiful Mind. If the trend continues, "actor-director" may become as common a hyphenate as "singer-songwriter...
...know how; a production designer can design the look of the picture if you don't have any feeling for visuals; your writer does the script; someone else does costumes. The one job that nobody else does on the set is talk to the actors." So get an actor-director for that; he already knows the language...
Television gave us the Munsters, the Sopranos, the Osbournes. Now, reaching a new pinnacle of familial weirdness, it's given us the Voight-Jolie-Thorntons. Actor JON VOIGHT wept last week while he told TV's Access Hollywood he wanted to get "help" for his daughter, Oscar-winning actress ANGELINA JOLIE. He said he always sensed that her recently collapsed marriage to actor-director Billy Bob Thornton was destined to fail, because of "problems" the couple has "been public about." (He was probably alluding to Thornton's confessions that he has weathered bouts of depression.) Jolie met therapy-speak with...
Writer Ben Nugent explains that he did not include Eastwood because the star has been an actor-director for some 30 years, and Unforgiven was the 16th movie he directed. Those actors on Nugent's list all won for their first or second directorial effort...
Lewis plans to continue guiding Lost Highway down back roads. In September, his label will release Private Radio, a CD from actor-director Billy Bob Thornton ("I was a musician before I got into movies," he says). His CD features "dark story-songs," Thornton says, and two numbers are dedicated to his wife, Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie. "They are songs that anyone can relate to," he says, "but there are a couple of lines that only she and I will get." He says a few tracks are "too country for country radio." Sounds as if he'll be right...