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...enabled him to make the transition from recording studios in South Central to film studios in Hollywood. His first major role was in Singleton’s “Boyz,” and the commercial and critical success of that film proved that Cube was a bankable actor. Perhaps seeking to capitalize upon his initial success, Cube’s more recent projects have been increasingly mainstream (read: spineless...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ice Cube: From Gansta to Gump | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Despite Coogan’s obvious acting talent, the self-mockery shtick he presents in “Tristram Shandy” is nothing new. He played the same role—an arrogant actor named Steve Coogan—in a brilliantly awkward exchange with Alfred Molina in Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...while, that's not a problem. I think he has good intentions, and both of us want to see a good bill (on lobbying and ethics reform) ... (After his Grammy win), I did tell someone I'm going for an Emmy next. It's going to be for "Best Actor in a Drama Involving John McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Speaks | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...does make some sense. For this is Italy, a country particularly proud of infernos. Indeed, after the thump, thump, thumping came a reading from the peninsula's poet-prophet, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. In a fiery scene, scores of legs kicked in the air, evoking the sinners' feet in the Inferno's Canto XX. How unholy is the thrill when you sense that the circles of hell have, in the end, been transformed into the Olympic rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Upon A Winter's Night... | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

DIED. FRANKLIN COVER, 77, longtime character actor best known for his role as Tom Willis in The Jeffersons, the white half of TV's first interracial couple; of pneumonia; in Englewood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 20, 2006 | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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