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...Which would make Fred Claus the third comedy-star vehicle to tank this fall, after Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid and Owen Wilson's The Darjeeling Limited. In this movie, the usual shaggy energy that makes Vaughn so appealing - he's a louche cannon - is hardly evident. The actor has to be surly, then sanctified, and neither plays to his strengths. Will Ferrell could play it cute-innocent in Elf; here, Vaughn just looks snowed under...
...Country for Old Men,” as well as his commanding performances in Ridley Scott’s “American Gangster” and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse” may cause today’s moviegoer to think that the actor has finally made a return to cinema. But in fact, Brolin has been working steadily ever since his 1985 debut.“The difference [now] is that people are actually seeing these movies,” Brolin said at a recent round-table interview with The Crimson.At the interview...
...been the rated R version.RR: Tennessee Williams is said to have hated the 1958 film version of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” How much would he hate your version?NJ: I’d say probably even more because we told every actor to model themselves after Elizabeth Taylor.RR: If you could be named after a state, like Tennessee, what would you choose?AR: Alaska, because recently I was told that I was cold as ice.NJ: Idaho. I-da-ho.RR: In the play, basically the entire cast is lying to Big Daddy about his health...
...eager to incorporate dance into the performance. “We wanted to emphasize the magical aspect of the island and the music and dance achieves that,” she says. “The audience can see the spirits that are dancing, hear the music, but the actors can’t necessarily have access to that field of vision during the play. It adds another field of dimension.” Music Director Julia S. Carey ’08 chose Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ music for “The Tempest?...
Just how much so has become clear in recent weeks, with news of concerns for the safety of an Afghan child actor in the soon-to-be-released movie based on the best-selling novel The Kite Runner. Family members of Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, whose character is raped, fear that the film will expose them to reprisals. In Afghan tribal society, sexual violation--even its portrayal in a fictional movie--can lead to dishonor, ostracism or worse. Mahmidzada's father told the BBC that members of his tribe "may cut my throat, they may kill me, torture me." The filmmakers...