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...Crowe is a three-time Academy Award nominee (he won Best Actor for 2000's Gladiator). He is not yet the biggest box-office draw on the planet (that's Tom Cruise), but he has jumped Cruise and Tom Hanks in many directors' casting wish lists. "He gets offered everything--or everything good--first," says an agent. (Crowe turned down the Hugh Grant part in About a Boy, the Laurence Fishburne part in The Matrix and Viggo Mortensen's role in The Lord of the Rings, among others.) But where Hanks and Cruise insinuated their way into moviegoers' hearts...
...black and white footage rolls, images of a bygone era flash past: signs shouting “Stop the War!” and protesters of the 1960s beaten back by police, symbols of the American fight for justice and liberty. Cut to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Magnolia), as he sits in front of his television set, scruffily unshaven, face frozen in a bored trance as he observes the protest footage and sighs, “I’ve always had an aversion to politics.” So begins director Donovan Leitch?...
...arguably Leitch’s unstated agenda. Watching Hoffman’s face during his frequent interviews with celebrities and less frequent interviews with congressmen becomes a show in itself; to measure by the expressions of adoration he gives these stars, one would never guess Hoffman was an established actor with intelligent roles under his belt. He gapes in agreement as Susan Sarandon reveals that “seeing kids protest [the WTO] makes me well up and get sentimental,” and becomes as giddy as a 13-year-old girl at the prospect of speaking with...
...think it’ll add a lot to the Harvard community,” said Rebecca J. Levy ’06, an actor and associate producer. “I think it’ll be a real big bonding thing...
...More Monkey Business Your item "cheetah, you ought to be Out of Pictures" [Oct. 13] on primatologist Jane Goodall's efforts to stop the use of actor-chimpanzees on TV and in movies, came at the perfect time. With the news of a tiger that was kept in a New York City apartment and the mauling of Las Vegas showman Roy Horn by a white tiger during a performance, people are finally understanding that wild animals belong in their natural environment. People lucky enough to travel to Africa can see these beautiful animals in their own territory. The only thing...