Word: biopics
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...night. From cowboy drama Brokeback Mountain?s four awards to Philip Seymour Hoffman?s win for biopic Capote to Felicity Huffman?s trophy for Transamerica, films with gay and transgender characters swept the show. The King Kong/Naomi Watts inter-species love affair, however, still proved too edgy, even for those live-and-let-live Hollywood Foreign Press voters...
...Lighter fare was let down. The Globes was supposed to be the event for comedies like 40-Year-old Virgin and Wedding Crashers to have a chance at a big prize. Instead, super-serious biopic Walk The Line stole the Musical-Comedy categories, while the real laughers weren?t even invited to the ball. There?s something funny about that...
...figure him out. His work as Dlay, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and as Cameron, the movie director on the receiving end of racism in Crash, has earned him offers to play, he says, "a million different villains" as well as every black luminary with a biopic in the works: Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Rick James. Howard calls the attention "overwhelming. Because you know you haven't done anything different. You start becoming real superstitious?you don't know what it is, and you don't know when it will go away...
...million for the couple's stolen wedding videos. Police say after Tito Moses and Steven Wortman failed to sell footage of the 2004 nuptials to the press, the men tried to ransom it to officers posing as Anthony's associates. The singer-actors are currently filming a biopic of salsa star Hector Lavoe. Unfortunately, authorities could do nothing about Lopez's other incriminating video: her 2003 film Gigli...
...unclear whether the risks are paying off--at least financially. The black-and-white quasi-biopic Good Night, and Good Luck cost a modest $7 million and has earned $18 million at the box office to date. But North Country, the story of a single mother whose barbaric treatment in a Minnesota mine leads to the first sexual-harassment class action in the country, has been a commercial disappointment, so far recouping just half its $35 million budget...