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...frizzy hair of a gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise. "Somehow or other, his imagination is wired up to the future," says actor and comedian Magda Szubanski, who has added zing to three of Miller's recent films, including his latest hit, Happy Feet, "and he really seems to be able to bring back to us in the present day possibilities that most of us couldn't even imagine...
...last fall, even the insurgents notionally fighting in his name were beginning to wonder if he might not be more useful as a martyr than as the lead actor in a TV farce. One afternoon last October, I watched the televised Saddam trial in the company of Abu Hamza, a field commander of Jaish al-Islami. Iraq's largest insurgent group, Jaish al-Islami is made up mainly of Ba'athists and soldiers from Saddam's army. Abu Hamza had been an officer in Saddam's elite Republican Guard; in previous meetings, he had spoken reverentially about the dictator, describing...
...collector in Diner, summons when he realizes the extent of his bride?s musical ignorance - ?How could you file my James Brown record under J?? Right now, Soul Brother No. 1 is being impersonated by Eddie Murphy in the movie version of Dreamgirls. If the Academy Award for supporting actor goes to Murphy (who in his Saturday Night Live days did a pretty expert James Brown impression), you know whom he?ll thank on Oscar night...
...Alan Arkin scored a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his soulful performance as a deaf-mute silversmith in the drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Almost forty years and dozens of film roles later, there is renewed Oscar speculation surrounding Arkin, this time for his role as a foul-mouthed, drug-snorting grandpa in the indie Little Miss Sunshine, out this week on DVD. The acerbic actor chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about why he doesn't give a hoot about the Oscars, his passion for New Mexico and how we humans are wrecking the planet...
...therefore a pleasure to say something nice about Venus, in which lanky, scrawny, Peter O'Toole, playing an aging actor named Maurice, just plain refuses to acknowledge the fact that he's not feeling so hot. He keeps working such modest jobs as come his way, keeps ragging on his pal Ian (Leslie Phillips), who is less sickly, but more prone to aches, pains and complaints, and mostly undertakes the education - actually we'd better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from...