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Juan M. Silva ’88 and Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro collected iguanas and South American alligators while growing up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Friends since childhood, Silva and Del Toro have abandoned reptiles and are now teaming up to make a movie, slated for release...
...does Silva fear that his script will be corrupted by Hollywood commercialism. “I’m working with a friend, and he has a good team working with him,” he says. “I’ve been lucky to have Benicio Del Toro as a collaborator. I have learned a lot from...
PUSHING THE ENVELOPE Want to live longer? Julia Roberts and Benicio Del Toro may be on to something. A Canadian study of every actor ever considered for an Oscar shows that winning the golden guy--as opposed to just being nominated for one--increases life expectancy nearly four years. What's the lesson? Being at the top of your game is not merely gratifying, it's healthy. Just ask Katharine Hepburn. The most Oscar-winning actress of all time (four in all) this month celebrated her 94th birthday...
Director Steven Soderbergh gives us a brilliant series of intertwining vignettes about the performance-enhancing drug trade in the Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...Traffic is also likely to get an acting Oscar: Benicio Del Toro for Best Supporting Actor. Del Toro, who plays a conflicted Mexican cop who trails a case to California, will defeat Willem Dafoe, as a poignantly funny man-bat in Shadow of the Vampire, and Joaquin Phoenix, whose performance as the envious Roman aristocrat in Gladiator will get him bigger roles but not an Oscar, yet. Del Toro has three arguments in his favor. One: he's quite good in the film. Two: he's the hottie du jour, sleepily sensual and muy macho, with a touch...