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...kids, white and black, including Tracy (Nikki Blonsky), all the fun dances. With his strenuous, just-naughty-enough performance of the number Run and Tell That!, Kelley, 20, emerges as a Hollywood throwback--a charismatic young actor who sings and dances. Kelley is in talks to star in a biopic of the young Sammy Davis Jr., and he's just been cast in Party Up, a comedy he describes as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off meets House Party...
...this point director Kasi Lemmons's Talk to Me traces a lively, if fairly standard, biopic arc - the talented, troubled performer asserting his special and winning gifts in an indifferent world. She is, to be sure, lucky to have Don Cheadle in the leading role. He's an actor who knows how to play outrage without losing touch with his own inherent sweetness of spirit. And they are both fortunate to have Taraji P. Henson as Petey's girl friend, Vernell. As she proved in Hustle and Flow, she is a star in waiting - both beautiful and irresistibly free-spirited...
...slightly put off if you're constantly seeing lurid stories about an actress," says Julian Jarrold, director of Becoming Jane, a Jane Austen biopic starring go-to good gal Anne Hathaway, due in August. "It colors your view of a character. When the audience goes to the cinema, they bring those expectations with them." Thankfully, Hathaway and others have arrived to keep summer safe for the sweet...
...Screen Cred: From The Princess Diaries to The Devil Wears Prada, Hathaway has steadily built her good-girl resume. But for the right pic - Brokeback Mountain - Hathaway took a walk on the R-rated side and took off her top. New projects: She plays Jane Austen in the August biopic of the novelist Becoming Jane. "Anne came back from her day off and she announced that she had just reread Mansfield Park," says Jarrolds. Good girl factoid: For fun she goes antiquing...
...These reflections are occasioned by the arrival from France of La Vie En Rose, a biopic about the gifted, fragile and intermittently insane chanteuse Edith Piaf. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, has given her story a sumptuous production - with the look of an old-fashioned Hollywood musical sob story - as well as a maddeningly fragmented structure. For reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past...