Word: biopic
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...foot-in-mouth University President will have a partner to help him temper his sharp and unruly tongue. Because it’s my job to worry about stuff like this, I started wondering: if Ron Howard did an “A Beautiful Mind”-style biopic on their relationship, who would play the loose-chinned economist and his poetry-reading lady love...
...course, Scofield himself is such a captivating presence that this promises to be a great night for jazz. Get those tickets quick, though; with the success of Jamie Foxx’s biopic role, Ray Charles’ music seems to be quite in demand these days...
...camp that Jal met Emma McCune, a British aid worker who took a shine to the boy, adopted him and smuggled him onto a flight to a new life in Nairobi. Three months later she died in a road accident. (Nicole Kidman is soon to play McCune in a biopic by director Tony Scott.) Ironically, with no gun to bolster his courage Jal found Nairobi a frightening place. Remembering how, in the worst hours of his desert trek, his prayers to "the God of my Mother" had been answered, he started going to church and joined the gospel choir...
...most recent movie choices should keep her from that fate. They're all passion projects not calculated to draw a crowd: Sylvia, a biopic about Sylvia Plath; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, an arch, retrofuturistic movie in which all the acting was done on an empty soundstage, then all the scenery added by computer; and her new film, Proof, about a woman whose life is almost the direct opposite of Paltrow's. She plays Catherine, whose years of caring for her mentally ill, math-genius father (Anthony Hopkins) have left her bitter, maybe nutso. After her father dies...
...from the South had a string of genre-bending hits in the '50s and kept his luster for 50 years, through marital breakups and drug busts. He had a sibling whose early death haunted him. He himself died just as he was about to be immortalized in a Hollywood biopic...