Word: biopics
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...Australia star Hugh Jackman - the first non-American (and non-comedian) to emcee the event in 22 years, and the first-ever Aussie - the one glamour award won by an American was Best Actor; it went to Sean Penn, who played gay-rights activist Harvey Milk in the biopic Milk. This was the one half-surprise in an evening of few big upsets. The oddsmakers had Penn tabbed as a slight underdog to Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke, whose performance in The Wrestler had all the earmarks of a sentimental Hollywood comeback. (See pictures of Rourke...
What do Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, G.I. Joe and Charles Darwin have in common? They will all be coming to movie theaters this year. The only real person on that list will be played by Paul Bettany in the biopic Creation. And in true celebrity fashion, Darwin will be everywhere this year. In a convergence of anniversaries, Darwin would have turned 200 years old on Feb. 12, and his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, turns 150 on Nov. 24. There will be documentaries, lectures, conferences and museum exhibits. Darwin-themed blogs are being launched, and a cartload...
Writer of NOTORIOUS B.I.G. biopic to stretch legs and write ... RUN-DMC biopic...
...recorded in 1994, entitled “Ready to Die.” The LP awakened East Coast rap from a protracted hibernation and established one of the genre’s most vital lyricists. Yet “Notorious,” the glossy new biopic of Biggie Smalls, paints Wallace’s transformation into a man in only the broadest, brightest strokes. For a movie trying to revive interest in one of rap’s most storied and complicated figures—a movie trying to give Biggie life after death?...
...television film. The 30-year-old California native also appeared in the 90s television series “Freaks and Geeks” and the films “Pineapple Express” and “Tristan & Isolde.” He can currently be seen in the biopic “Milk” along with Sean Penn. “We thought he was really relevant to us as students—he’s one of the few people in Hollywood who hasn’t sacrificed his education for his career...