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...Which makes Diesel - a great stage name (his real one is Mark Vincent) for an actor who seems motor-driven - ideal as the headliner of special-effects action films like this weekend's Fast & Furious, the fourth in a series that launched in 2001 and has now been stripped of its definite articles because, in Hollywood, thes are for wimps. In a car-demolition picture like F&F, the real work in the driving and fighting and jumping scenes is done by stuntmen and computer nerds, but the stories require a stoic male presence, and that, Diesel provides...
...This young actor, who was equally persuasive in Roger Dodger and The Squid and the Whale, has the edge on Cera in terms of range. When Eisenberg narrows his eyes, thrusts his chin forward and huffs, we're not sure if he's a bona fide jerk or not, whereas Cera is always a smart-mouthed sweetie pie. But in that moment of James' degradation, in his acceptance of the humbling Games uniform, he magically transforms into a guy we could see spending the summer with...
Leonardo DiCaprio A committed environmentalist, the actor and producer was most recently in Revolutionary Road By fusing economic opportunity and social justice with climate change, Van Jones is working to build pathways out of poverty through the creation of green jobs. He is the perfect person to help redefine our country's perception of what it means to be green...
...part of Baron Cohen's appeal is his desire to push the envelope, and then burn it. He wants his fans to consider if his work is revelatory or predatory, and to ask, just a little, "Is he nuts?" Indeed, so fervid is the actor's belief in the cleansing power of confrontational comedy, so extreme is his commitment to the characters he plays - he's a Method farceur, a Daniel Day-Lewis with a sadistic sense of humor - that I wouldn't be surprised if Brüno did go backdoor with that guy, on camera. (The actor could...
...Shrek. Since then, Katzenberg's homegrown product has been shut out (the studio distributed Nick Park's veddy English Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit), while Pixar has won four: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and WALL-E. "Each year I do one DreamWorks project," actor Jack Black told the crowd at this year's ceremony, "then I take all the money to the Oscars and bet it on Pixar." But in the court of public opinion, where people vote with their money, DreamWorks is the champ: over those eight years, its films have outgrossed Pixar's worldwide...