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...dodgy to argue theology with an actor-director who seemingly sees a fusion of the movie characters he has played and Christ: feisty, persecuted, able to take whatever punishment the bad guys can dish out. Gibson is determined to walk his own lonely path. But it hardly seems unreasonable that there can be a contemporary film about a Christian hero when there are so many about, say, serial killers. So Gibson pursues his passion to make The Passion...
DIED. RICHARD CRENNA, 76, versatile character actor; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Known to '50s TV viewers as squeaky-voiced student Walter Denton in Our Miss Brooks, he created solid characters in such films as Wait Until Dark, Rambo, The Flamingo Kid and Body Heat...
...DIED. RICHARD CRENNA,76, versatile Emmy Award-winning actor; in Los Angeles. Crenna was known to 1950s TV viewers as the grandson of a meddling hillbilly in The Real McCoys and later to moviegoers as Rambo's Vietnam War commander in First Blood (1982) and its two sequels. Crenna's movie credits also include the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark (1967) and sizzling film noir Body Heat...
...unprecedented event: the shooting of Bhutan's first-ever homegrown feature film. Its writer and director, Khyentse Norbu, bundled against the wind in a thick, maroon turtleneck and pale lavender muffler, pulls his baseball cap low over his eyes and instructs the cameraman to focus on four actors by the side of the road. "Again," he says into a walkie-talkie, and a red tractor emerges from around the bend to collect two of the actors?one dressed as a monk, the other carrying a suitcase and a boom box. Then, just as Khyentse Norbu calls "cut," a van speeds...
...Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with World Cup football. "Buddhism is their philosophy," read the posters. "Soccer is their religion." The Cup employed not a single professional actor. Most of the characters played themselves, and Khyentse Norbu shot the whole piece without ever fully explaining to the cast members that they were re-enacting their own story. "Everyone knew me at the monastery. Everyone was comfortable with me," he says. "And that made it relatively easy...