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...Mind and You Can Count on Me and has worked his way around to action-hero-dom. He got the Stealth role when a girlfriend of director Rob Cohen's talked Cohen into watching Sweet Home Alabama, and he noticed that Lucas looks a lot like Newman, his favorite actor. Sony wasn't so keen on building a $124 million film around an actor famous mostly for Sweet Home Alabama. So Cohen shot a $1 million screen test, which ended with Lucas, in Navy whites, saluting the camera while the theme from An Officer and a Gentleman played. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
...just as physically demanding. "I'm so interested in the physical integrity of the performance. You see Steve McQueen jump the wire fence [on his motorcycle] in The Great Escape; it makes a huge difference. Russell Crowe has been a great person who helped me understand that as an actor," he says. "I think that's what it takes, even if it's a plane action movie...
...should have garnered an Oscar nomination for his heartbreaking performance in “Finding Neverland,” also starring Johnny Depp (Wonka)—has the requisite Dickensian face and sweetly longing eyes. And the optimism of Grandpa Joe, played by excellent character actor David Kelly (“Waking Ned Devine”) nicely balances the humorous cynicism of Grandpa George...
...JONES, former Congressman and actor who played Cooter on the Dukes of Hazzard, objecting on his website to the reported profanity and sexual content in the movie remake of the TV series...
...movie version of Earl Derr Biggers' Confucian detective stories had something to offend everyone. Played by the Swedish actor Warner Oland (16 films), then by Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had a black man (the gifted Mantan Moreland) for comic relief. Yet there's a pinchpenny gusto and some nifty plot twists to these Monogram studio marvels...