Word: biopic
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...Mexican golden boy Gael García Bernal was Salles' first and only choice to play Guevara. "Could it be anybody else?" he asks. "Gael is the most visceral, talented and mature actor of his generation." Others have played the revolutionary onscreen: Omar Sharif in a much-reviled 1969 biopic; Antonio Banderas alongside Madonna's Eva Perón in Evita; and, soon, Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming Che. They all look the part and get to gaze intensely, speak rousingly, and wave a gun - all film-friendly signals of impassioned freedom fighting. But the pre-revolutionary...
Peter Krause isn't as attractive as people say. His jaw is too square; his face is too long; his upper lip sweats a bit. In 20 years, he will be great for a John Kerry biopic. But Krause's face, at once Teutonic and boyish, is perfect for what directors ask it to do again and again: express agony. Krause, who has a new film out this week, a Broadway play that opened July 29 and a leading role in HBO's Six Feet Under (Sundays at 9 p.m.), is having the time of his life playing...
...saved our hamster and other family tales: ALEX and VANESSA KERRY did more to soften Kerry's image than did the fuzzy biopic they introduced
...debt to Dabu, but she's being protected by boyfriend and entrepreneurial mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta). This is the first meaty film role for Andre, who had a bit part in last year's Hollywood Homicide. He is next set to play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic. "Once you're an entertainer, you pretty much sell your real life," says Andre. "In movies, you can actually play a real person." And we thought only audiences escaped in the cinema...
Forget Extreme Makeover. Look what a haircut and a shave will do. TOM SELLECK got rid of his famous mustache and almost all of his hair to play General Dwight Eisenhower in A&E's biopic Ike: Countdown to D-Day, about the 90 days leading up to the Allies' invasion of Normandy. "I didn't want to screw it up," says Selleck, who also prepared for the role by talking with Eisenhower's son and learning an appropriate President-to-be's voice. So what does he think of TV these days? Selleck refers to a gig he once...