Word: branagh
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...film Planet of the Apes, in which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Is there something about almost-humanoids that brings out the animal in her? Warning: Mrs. Heston is fully aware of her right to bear arms...
...soon, as the sets will be recycled for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which is scheduled for release next year, with Columbus back at the helm. The entire Sorcerer's Stone cast will return for Chamber of Secrets, and just last week it was announced that Kenneth Branagh will join them in the role of the vain new defense against the dark-arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart. Meanwhile, Kloves has begun adapting the third Potter book. The three young leads haven't yet signed on for any movies past the second, but because the Potter novels chronicle consecutive school...
...instead moving in and out of various London theaters for specific plays. Productions will no longer have to run in repertoire for the standard 18 months, a change intended to accommodate short stand-alone runs for star players with film commitments. Among the takers are Ralph Fiennes and Kenneth Branagh, former RSC players who have pledged to return. The company is spending more than $140 million to redevelop its Stratford base, including a new academy for young classical actors. And the RSC will send more of its touring companies abroad; a five-year program with the University of Michigan...
...inadvertent bookends explore the Holocaust from its deceptively mundane beginning to a heretofore unstaged end. Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli. A bloodless yet brutal testament to the violence of euphemism and groupthink--eerily indistinguishable from any middle managers' meeting--it is the banality of evil brought unignorably to life...
Responding to this captivating and sweet-natured gem with such venom is like breaking a butterfly on a wheel. Even more disturbing is the unduly harsh attack on Branagh. In a time when filmmakers rely increasingly on technological tricks, Branagh tells a story with clarity and poetic imagery. Love's Labour's Lost, his riskiest venture yet, floats like a feather on a summer breeze. VIRGINIA WILHELM New York City...