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Nonetheless, both actors have their flaws. Rai, although stunningly beautiful, cannot seem to manipulate her features into more than one or two facial expressions and Henderson, I fear, is just as bland an actor as Darcy is a character. Fortunately, their respective flaws are appropriate to their characters and serve to subtly highlight the multilayered culture clash that this film conveys...
...something in him--the rich baritone and the gaze that saw all and feared nothing--that suggested God on a day full of promise and threat. OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, was an actor, playwright, film director and civil rights spokesman who invested each role with passion and purity. Born Raiford Chatman Davis (the initials R.C. became Ossie), he wrote two successful Broadway shows--Purlie Victorious, a satire of race relations, and its musical version, Purlie--and, decades later, became the patriarchal conscience of seven Spike Lee films (among them Do the Right Thing...
DIED. JOHN VERNON, 72, prolific Canadian-born character actor, best known for his role as the paranoid Dean Wormer, nemesis of John Belushi's Bluto and Bluto's unkempt fraternity brothers in the 1978 John Landis comedy Animal House; in his sleep, at his home in Van Nuys, Calif...
Love makes the world go round, but it can also send drama spiraling right down the drain. The recollection of someone loved too well and too uncritically can bury a filmed memoir in Hallmark emotion. Writer-actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson courts this danger in the autobiographical Lackawanna Blues (HBO, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. E.T.) and escapes--barely...
Robbins won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar last year for his role in “Mystic River” and has starred in other films including “The Shawshank Redemption.” He also is a writer, director, and producer whose credits include “Dead Man Walking...