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Australian actor GUY PEARCE (L.A. Confidential, Memento) stars in The Hard Word, about three brothers who rob banks. It opens this Friday...
...pretty that he outshines his co-stars. (Indeed, those co-stars are not always immune to his winsome charms--past girlfriends include Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow.) "He's very graceful and easy," says Rob Reiner, who directed Alex & Emma. "He's what I call an unsweaty actor. He doesn't push things too hard...
...straight. But as close as the brothers are, Luke expresses some impatience about the frequency with which people ask about his relationship with his flashier brother Owen. "What can I say but I love the guy?" he says. "I hold him above me, as a writer and an actor." Then he adds, "I was talking to [actor] Harry Dean Stanton the other day and I said, 'Harry Dean, what should I say when people ask me such a thing?' And Harry Dean said, 'I think it's a really insensitive question.'" And there it is, distant but visible, a flash...
DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, wiry, perfectionist actor who infused his ordinary, often cranky characters with bubbling intensity; of prostate cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. An amateur boxer in his native Canada, he first won acclaim for his vivid portrayals in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (as a Machiavellian lawyer) and Brute Force (as a sadistic prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis...
...budgets and special effects. If we want people to watch, we have to provide something that Hollywood can't." That something, according to Fukasaku, is an alternative to what he sees as the moral certainty of American culture, as reflected both in its movies and its foreign policy. Lead actor Fujiwara, at least, seems to be in the director's camp. "Nanahara may be a terrorist, but I personally think he's the one who's standing on the side of justice," he says of his character. "He's a good role model for young people...