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...good job," says Muhammad Ali, who played himself in the awful 1977 biopic The Greatest. For this new movie, under the tutelage of director Michael Mann (The Insider), Smith prepared by studying Ali's Islamic faith and learning to box, training for nearly a year. The 33-year-old star added 30 lbs. of muscle to his lanky physique and transformed his body into a nearly perfect replica of the champ's when he was in fighting form. When this observation is shared with Ali, he pauses, then looks up from his drawing and, his eyes twinkling a bit, says...
What's terrific about Howard's somewhat fictionalized but entirely absorbing biopic about John Forbes Nash Jr., the Nobel-prizewinning mathematician and economic theorist who was for several decades immobilized by paranoid schizophrenia, is the simple, elegant way Howard thrusts us into Nash's disastrously troubled mind. He forces us, without any distracting or distancing cinematic devices, to experience the world as Nash does, and one can't say much more about that because Howard's style brilliantly hides the movie's slowly dawning central surprise...
...director yelled, "cut", the cameras stopped and the crew was packing up for the day. But the action continued in the shantytown close to the airport in Maputo, Mozambique, where the new biopic "Ali" was filming earlier this year. Despite the lull, Will Smith kept on playing Muhammad Ali, shadowboxing, grooving along the dusty road surrounded by hundreds of adoring kid extras. Suddenly, Smith's feet left the ground and he was floating on a sea of hands. "Everyone starts shouting 'Ali, Ali, Ali,'" recalls director Michael Mann. "So, of course, I unwrapped. We started shooting like crazy. Will...
...what you think you know,” the tagline for Ali, seems to be the line for Mann’s career, which includes The Last of the Mohicans and the brilliant Insider. This time around, Mann tackles the controversial life of boxer Muhammad Ali (Smith) in a biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in 1974. Mann’s stylings aside, the real test of Ali’s worth will be whether or not Smith can pull it off. Perennially...
...Winners BJORK Icelandic pop singer gets the French Order of Merit. Her Big Bird Oscar dress is being considered for the French Order of Falconry FRANK ABAGNALE JR. Retired con man to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio in biopic. Leo to draw on experience conning audiences into watching The Beach IRISH MONKS OF GLENSTAL ABBEY Benedictine brothers' book of prayers is a best-seller. New business plans: hair shirt swimsuit and B. Bros' Hip Hop Hymns Losers TONY RODHAM Hillary Clinton's brother is caught having sex with another man's girlfriend and beaten up. That right-wing conspiracy just...