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...develop. My love for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition." He closed by noting that he'd received a heart transplant from a woman who was in her 30s when she died. "By that calculation, you may have given me this award too early. I think I have 40 years on it, and I intend to use it." He didn't. A Prairie Home Companion, the uneasy blend of Garrison Keillor's folksy humor and Altman's corrosive take on human foibles, was his last film...
...around the top performers. Star turns are just what Broadway used to thrive on and now shrivels from; yet, glory be, here's one. You may discount the rumors that the Tony committee isn't going to bother nominating four other women for the Best Actress in a Musical award because Ebersole already has an unbreakable lock on it. But, no question, she's totally terrif: funny, sexy, domineering, pitiable, lending her formidable, witty soprano voice to two disparate roles she was born to play, in a show she's a little too good...
...singer and songwriter in '70s rock group Orleans (of Still the One fame), Hall is leader of a club that also includes Bill Sali (R., Idaho), who was in the swing band Blue Country, and Paul Hodes (D., N.H.), an award-winning children's musician...
DIED. Florence Tullis, 70, former go-go dancer and biker mother of the severely disfigured Rocky Dennis, whose life was dramatized in the award-winning 1985 film Mask; of an infection following a motorcycle accident; in Montebello, Calif. As portrayed by Cher, Tullis dismissed predictions that Rocky--whose skull deformity grossly enlarged his face--would not live past age 7 and fought teachers who discouraged him from attending public school. Rocky died at 16, nine years before Tullis lost her elder son, Joshua, to AIDS. "You don't understand," she said to people who pitied her. "My kids lived every...
...down-on-their-luck actors as a little internet buzz launches one of their films into the public spotlight, just in time for Oscar season.Inspiration came, in part, from Levy’s own run-in with the internet.He first learned of his New York Film Critics Circle award for best supporting actor for “A Mighty Wind” after a friend informed him he had read it online.“I thought I would have gotten a call,” Levy says.Unlike “The Big Picture,” a light-hearted...