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...stage. Day-Lewis, upon ascending the stage, knelt before his presenter, Helen Mirren, who'd won last year for playing Elizabeth II in The Queen. "That?s the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood," he said, flashing something we never thought this magnificently intense actor was capable of: a broad, blinding smile...
...Apparently, Hollywood has a big man-crush on the night's honorary chair, Javier Bardem. Wilson, Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel and Dustin Hoffman all copped to it. Hoffman even claimed to have created a love child with Bardem - Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sharing a bed, the good-natured Spanish actor from No Country For Old Men remarked, would be a good way to work on his English...
...Other winners included The Savages, Tamara Jenkins' sibling drama, with Philip Seymour Hoffman taking best actor and Jenkins best screenplay. "A lot of people in this room didn't want to finance this movie," Jenkins noted, enjoying a bit of schadenfreude. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly also got kudos, with Schnabel taking the director award and his cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, also winning. Kaminski, accustomed to tonier parties as Steven Spielberg's cinematographer, sought to wave off the low-budget crowd. "All of the offers I'm getting to work for $3,000 a week," Kaminski said...
...What gets lost about conversations about George is he's an amazing, intelligent, soulful actor...His temperament is just superb: he's a collaborator, he knows what your day is like as a director and he's directed. He cares about all the performers that are there, he cares about the crew, he's part of the team and not in some f---- up 'I want everybody to love me' kind of way. He really does care about being part of the team...
...Roof” had already run a full weekend of performances in the Loeb Experimental Theater when directors Allegra M. Richards ’09 and Nathan D. Johnson ’09 saw their show nearly collapse. One of their actors, Delon J. De Metz ’10, was forced to drop out of the second weekend of performances, and the two directors had only three days to find and rehearse a new actor for the role.On the directors’ behalf, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board liaison Simon J. Williams ’09 sent...