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...gently pressed and aged in barrels for 10 months. The resulting wine's flavor "is always just beyond your grasp," Neill once said. "If you do manage to get hold of it, it's only for a fleeting moment." What's true of the wine is true of the actor. In the 25 years since My Brilliant Career launched him and co-star Judy Davis onto the world stage, Neill has suggested many things to movie-goers: from smooth leading man (Reilly: Ace of Spies) to robust action hero (Jurassic Park) to bittersweet villain (The Piano...
...film's most poignant scenes, the Jockey, who is estranged from his wife and secretly gay, thanks his henchman for his "trust and discretion." Here it is as if Neill is conspiring directly with the audience. "Every sleaze is also a human being," says the actor. "I look for the humanity and maybe even a humorous dimension to the people I play...
...charisma that a lot of contemporary actors have is the threat of madness. A cockeyed glint, a sudden shout, a shift of body weight--these tricks keep you watching, like a doting pathologist, to catch the moment an actor goes edifyingly nuts. It's sexy, this promise to grab viewers and lead them down a treacherous path. It's also the surest route to an Oscar...
DIED. BROCK PETERS, 78, stage and screen actor best known for his moving portrayal of Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of rape and defended by Gregory Peck, in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Born George Fisher in Harlem, N.Y., the gifted bass singer toured cabaret clubs before making his film debut in 1954 as a vicious sergeant in Otto Preminger's landmark all-black production of Carmen Jones. Determined to shed his villainous image, he played a gay trumpet player in the film The L-Shaped Room and won a Tony...
...hairline to play another past-his-prime policeman escorting a witness on an ill-fated trek from precinct to courthouse in 16 Blocks, a thriller that unfolds in real time. Willis hand-picked his co-star, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's MOS DEF, after seeing the rapper-actor in the play Topdog/Underdog. For Willis, playing the burnt-out officer "is obviously not a vanity role," says director Richard Donner. But, for the record, "Bruce's gut is mostly padding." Phew. Then he hasn't hurt his shot at an Abs of Steel video...