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...recently-passed artist rather than an actual critical decision as to which album was best. This choice surprised no one, and when the Oscars roll around there will be a similar tacit hunch as to the direction the film academy’s choice will take when Best Actor is announced. This predictability is a shame, as if the academy realized they waited too long for an obligatory “lifetime achievement” award. It bothers me even further that “Album of the Year” wasn’t enough for them?...
Halfway through Constantine, a fully clad Keanu Reeves steps into a shallow pail of water, sits on a chair next to it and holds a cat in his lap. Any actor who can retain his charisma in this weird-silly moment--can keep us watching, and admiring his dutiful nonchalance--deserves to be called a movie star...
...dodging ships might not be everyone's fantasy. But surrounded by his family on his 69th birthday, upon being asked how he wanted to celebrate his 70th, George Brunstad heard the words "swim the English Channel" pop out of his mouth. At that point Brunstad, who happens to be actor Matt Damon's uncle, had been swimming competitively in Masters programs for 31 years, and he had won more than 100 Masters championships. As he recalls, "Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it! That'd be great!' And my wife stood there with her arms folded and her lip kind...
...centered and remember to listen to what I really want." - By Mimi Murphy Sitting in a London bar, his black leather jacket rubbing up against the brown leather couch, Chiwetel Ejiofor casts a potent spell. But don't look at his hands. Because right now, the 27-year-old actor has hands like a girl - 2-cm-long nails brightly buffed and filed to an elegant curve. Ejiofor has just come from rehearsals for his latest project, The Kinky Boot Factory, a comedy in which he plays Lola, a sassy transvestite cabaret star. Press-on nails, his makeup team tell...
BEFORE THERE was 24, there was One. In 1995-'96, Steven Bochco's Murder One took a full season to tell a single story: the trial of a famous actor (Jason Gedrick) for the murder of a 15-year-old girl. The experiment was bracing, intense and a ratings failure. Maybe, in the autumn of O.J. Simpson's acquittal, it was hard to sell a celebrity murder story in which the high-priced defense team, headed by no-nonsense Ted Hoffman (Daniel Benzali), was more sympathetic than police and prosecutors. Maybe audiences weren't ready for a serial format...