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...Actor Jeremy Irons currently appears in the films The Merchant of Venice, Being Julia and Callas Forever...
Unscripted is far better done than K Street, maybe because its "real" people--actors like Hank Azaria and Bonnie Hunt, directors like Garry Marshall and Sam Mendes--are used to Hollywood fakery. It does, however, dip into show-biz-is-a-bummer clich??s, especially with Jen and Bryan. One story line has another actor horning in on Bryan's auditions, a plot recently explored on NBC's Joey--not the kind of comparison HBO generally angles...
...show also wrings awkward humor out of the small humiliations of actor life, as when Bryan does an ER episode and forgets cast member Deezer D's name. ("You probably thought I was Mekhi Phifer," says the peeved African-American actor.) Best is the relationship between Krista and her son Jake (Allen's adorable real son Jake Moritt, 7, the show's breakout), who gets cast in a movie Krista tries out for. Soon she's going to kiddie auditions--at one a show-biz mom advises her to get his ears surgically tucked--and finding her answering machine filled...
DIED. FERNANDO POE JR., 65, Filipino film idol turned presidential candidate; after a stroke; in Quezon City, the Philippines. Popular for playing socially conscious underdog heroes in more than 200 action movies, the actor known as "Da King" lost by 3% of the vote to incumbent Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last May. His court challenge of the count is still pending...
...George persevered, and ultimately he scraped together funding from foreign investors. Actor Don Cheadle of Oceans Eleven fame agreed to play Rusesabagina, and MGM signed on as the distributor. “It was always nerve-racking that the money would fall through,” the director says. But the scent of success should put George’s nerves at ease. Hotel Rwanda garnered a Golden Globe nomination for best drama Monday, and Cheadle grabbed a best actor nomination as well...