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...have approved of the pageant and maybe even found a wife among the contestants. The pageant was moved from Nigeria to London, and on Saturday Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, ended the whole nightmare by walking away with the tiara and $150,000 prize. Pageant co-host Sean Kanan, an actor from the U.S. soap The Bold and the Beautiful, made brief mention of the violence that preceded this outcome, saying, "Our thoughts go out to the families that suffered." Akin, who plays the flute, added, "I think it is good for a woman to have this position." It may also...
...woods) reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could have matched. He is one more example of Jackson's pursuit of a tone both entertaining and serious. Other fantasy films may dabble in facetiousness. Here there is no smirking allowed. Tolkien, the Oxford don who wrote much of the trilogy during World War II, denied his tale...
Rich Halvorson is pretty liberal—for a guy from Idaho. The intensely conservative Christian philosopher is also an actor with plans to take a shot at Hollywood stardom post-graduation, a Sigma Chi, an aspiring male model and a man known to occasionally drink coffee with random homeless strangers at ABP. But his favorite talking point is religion...
Remember, Jonze is the guy who went to John Malkovich and suggested making a movie about people who live inside the actor's head. "My intentions were pure," he says. "I wasn't asking people to do something that would embarrass them. Same with Malkovich. I was intimidated because he's so smart, and you feel like he can read your mind. I was only nervous because we wanted him so much...
...AWARDED. JOHN MILLS, 94, British actor who, during a 70-year-long career, has appeared in over 120 movies; the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship for his "outstanding contribution to world cinema"; in London. Mills won an Oscar in 1971 for his performance in Ryan's Daughter, and was knighted five years later for his service to film. Previous winners of the Fellowship award include Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg...