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...deep connection to the book, one of three story collections Wallace published in his too-short lifetime. While taking a playwriting class at Brown University, Krasinski participated in a stage reading of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and he says the experience made him want to be an actor. All of us who enjoy Krasinski's work as Jim Halpert, the clever, mischievous, solidly good guy he plays on The Office can be grateful to Wallace for that. (See 10 Questions with John Krasinski...
...Spielberg. "He blushed." When longtime bachelor Warren Beatty finally tied the knot in 1992, Archerd got the exclusive in a call from the newlywed himself. His column was short on sensationalism, but in 1985 Archerd broke what he later called "the biggest show-business story ever"--the news that actor Rock Hudson was dying of AIDS. The delicately worded item introduced a disease that most Americans had never heard...
...reliable, gently charismatic leading man in the theater (Another Country), in movies (Bridget Jones's Diary) and on TV (as the dreamboat Mr. Darcy in the BBC's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice). But until now, at 49, he never got that Role of a Lifetime that actors pray for. George, in Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, is it. The movie brought Firth the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and was bought for U.S. distribution by the Weinstein Company...
Ford, the Austin, Texas, fashion designer who for a decade was the creative director at Gucci, financed his first feature himself. The director turned out to be a good investment for the producer. Nuance, not flash, is his forte. Playing to Firth's subtleties, he photographs the actor's handsome, mourning face in caressing close-up. (In his professor glasses, Firth looks like a young, more studious Michael Caine.) Ford is also attentive to the varieties of Southern California sunlight, which lends A Single Man an orangey warmth that should touch all who see the picture. But it's Firth...
...Lieutenant isn't a film to cherish, but for Cage fans it marks a welcome return to his early days, before he became a conventional leading man in Jerry Bruckheimer films. In his young prime Cage was a weird, tortured actor with highly eccentric impulses; you never knew if he'd punch a wall or eat the flowers. Here he trashes half of lower Louisiana and rips the breathing tube out of an old lady's nose. Both narcotized and energized by his drug regimen, he confronts everybody with the intense stare of a man trying desperately to stay awake...