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...Eight of the ten nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress are first-timers, and some of those cited in the leading and supporting categories have names almost no one knew how to pronounce before they were suddenly mentioned every night on Access Hollywood. For the record, say Rachel Vice (for Weisz); a soft G for Jake Gyllenhaal (think Jake and Jill); and, well, something like David StraTHARRRRN...
...years divisible by five - and, since Sunday?s award ceremony honors the films of 2005, this is one of them - a first or second film directed by a famous actor wins (three of the last five times, when Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson walked home happy). By that logic, the front-runner is George Clooney?s Good Night, and Good Luck...
...Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, the world?s darling, may be seen as simply radiating star quality in her turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. (We love her, but, honestly, the movie is Joaquin Phoenix?s show, and he isn?t given a chance to be named Best Actor...
...Actress nominations: Transamerica and, for Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents. Ferocity over likability could also lift Weisz, in The Constant Gardener, over adorable Amy Adams, in Junebug. The same logic applies to both Actress categories: do you want the driven idealist or the down-home cutie? As for Supporting Actor, Hollywood may want to reward George Clooney, the hunk with a liberal heart; but Gyllenhaal really deserves...
...mail that “Durang is an incredible theater artist and certainly an inspiration” to club members. The director of Harvard’s Office of the Arts, Jack C. Megan, said that, “as both a creative force, a playwright, and as an actor himself, he will be able to relate to our students because he was once one of them.” Durang’s dark and satiric work has often focused on the Catholic Church, pushing buttons and boundaries along the way. In fact, the Archdiocese of Boston almost shut...