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...DIED. Mako, 72, actor who, as co-founder of East West Players?the first Asian-American drama troupe?was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, California. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he went to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of the Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...
...Depression-era upbringing. "The studio isn't a clubhouse," he says. "We're here to work." But it's also a critical part of his process. "Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you." Like a method actor, Bennett goes over lyrics for days--even for songs he has sung forever--repeating them until they're second nature. When the time comes to record, the words pour out with different emphases on each take. (On Cold, Cold Heart, the shift from a brisk apart to a drawn-out uhhhh...
...hand am s______ myself." Her anxiety is understandable. "I'm being followed around now by paparazzi and stuff which is really weird," Allen told Time last week. Part of her tabloid appeal is her pedigree; Allen is the daughter of Oscar-nominated film producer Alison Owen and comic and actor Keith Allen, who split when Lily was a young child. She also has a history of saying outrageous things, like telling the Observer newspaper that she sold the illegal drug ecstasy in Ibiza when she was 15. Last week, the Sun tabloid revealed tales of her time in London...
Your husband David Arquette just finished writing and directing his first film. Did you help? It's a political horror film called The Tripper. It's gory and irreverent. [Actor] Thomas Jane, my brother-in-law, and I edited it. We made David leave the room...
...DIED. Gérard Oury, 87, writer and director of some of France's most beloved comic films; in St.-Tropez. Originally trained as an actor, Oury's modest success in stage roles led him to embrace film direction in 1959. His 1966 smash, the World War II-set La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At), sold over 17 million cinema tickets and reigned as France's most popular film until the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic surpassed...