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...sweepstakes for this year's Academy Awards, many of the major categories seem closed. Forest Whitaker for Best Actor, Helen Mirren for Best Actress, Jennifer Hudson for Supporting Actress and Eddie Murphy for Supporting Actor - they all won the Golden Globes and many critics' prizes, and they all won again at last night's Screen Actors Guild award. If this quartet doesn't win on Feb. 25, there'll be gasps, calls for a recount and a lot of disappointed bettors in the office Oscar pool...
...cafes of Park City about such unlikely subjects as whether a stallion can actually give consent and precisely how he might do so. Taxi drivers in town asked their passengers, "Have you seen the horse sex movie?" At a Q&A following one screening, the Seattle actor who plays Mr. Hands, John Paulsen, who is a priest, admitted that after hearing he had gotten the role, he wasn't quite sure he wanted...
...then: up-angle, backlight, and there he stands in her doorway, impeccably tailored, elegantly casual in manner?a perfectly beautiful man with, as she soon discovers, a singular style of speech. He is confident without being overbearing, confidential without being intrusive, quite inimitable despite the fact that the actor playing her visitor had one of the most imitated voices of this century. Never in the history of movies has a leading lady more quickly overcome her languors in order to get ready for romance. The year was 1958. The film was a comedy called Indiscreet. And by this comparatively late...
...later years, he decreed much of this work "tinny" and claimed a certain estrangement from the daring young actor who had accomplished it. What he seemed to be saying was that he had not yet purified those performances of autobiography, had not yet completed the process of total reinvention that was the largest promise acting held out to him as a young man. Born Archibald Leach in bleak Bristol, England, son of a drinking, defeated father and a mother who was placed in a madhouse when he was ten, he was a lonely, latchkey child, who decided on a life...
...masquerades as farce?these will abide to delight and possibly even haunt the future. Some distant day, audiences may even come to agree with a minority of Grant's contemporaries that he was not merely the greatest movie star of his era but the medium's subtlest and slyest actor as well...