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...Paul Brody leads the festival's performers in a jam until dawn at Alchemia, one of Krakow's hot spots. More serious soirées will be held in Temple Synagogue located in Miodowa Street, such as "Bridge to Peace," a concert by Dutch singer Shura Lipovsky, American singer-actor Theodore Bikel and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mostar Sinfonietta on June 27. Szeroka Street's riotous end-of-festival party, with surprise acts playing to an international crowd, starts on July 2 and carries on into the next morning. Kazimierz's past may have been bleak, but the return...
...Throat a smoker, which some say he was not, to give him a Robert Mitchum air, which was surely not something we would now impute to Felt. But Hal Holbrook gives a gnomic, cranky performance as Deep Throat. (Shouldn't there be an Oscar for best performance by an actor you can barely see?) And director Alan Pakula added menacing off-camera sound effects to Holbrook's scenes--a mysterious bump, the sudden squeal of tires as a car departs. Finally, chillingly, Holbrook tells the reporter that his investigative zeal is now placing his life in danger...
DIED. OSCAR BROWN JR., 78, jazz singer, songwriter and playwright who infused his work with the sociopolitical truths of black American life; of complications from a blood infection; in Chicago. Brown, an actor on TV shows like Brewster Place and Roc, recorded such albums as 1960's Sin & Soul ... and Then Some and produced the stage revue Opportunity, Please Knock, employing high-profile gang members in the cast. "I wanted to present a picture of black culture," he said, "to anyone who could hear...
...actually his manager, but they fudge it and make me his trainer-manager," Giamatti says. "It kind of puts me where the action is." Giamatti loved wearing 1930s clothes, being around fighters and working with Crowe ("It was about as much fun as I've ever had with another actor"), and director Ron Howard loved his supporting player no less. "Usually when you cast one of those roles, you meet a person and make sure they understand that my focus or the production's focus may not be on them," says Howard. "You know, just to make sure they...
...been pretty good in some stuff," he says in a satire of gruffness--but ever since his days at Yale (where his father Bart was president before becoming commissioner of baseball; he died in 1989), he has made team play a religion. "He was hands down the best actor at Yale," says Shawn Levy, who directed Giamatti in a school production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and painted him blue in the 2002 Frankie Muniz vehicle Big Fat Liar. "He could have dominated every play, but he served them and took nothing for granted...