Word: biopics
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Toback’s next project will likely be his “long overdue” semi-autobiography, a project he has been writing for years, even before 2002’s Harvard Man even shot. The coming months will also see the release of the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, directed by Kevin Spacey and cowritten by Toback. Regardless of what he chooses to do next, his future projects will likely be as thematically ambitious and daring unless he makes a serious change in genre...
...makes sense that someone would drop trou in a biopic of a sex researcher. In Kinsey, out later this year, it's PETER SARSGAARD. Liam Neeson, the star, bares only his soul...
...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