Word: devito
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Directing can enrich a career, as it did for Danny DeVito, who has kept busy on both sides since the success of his first two directorial efforts, Throw Momma from the Train and The War of the Roses. DeVito enjoys doing both at once: "For me, it's about losing control as an actor--being able to be free--while keeping control as the director. It's schizophrenic, but it's really good...
...They’re like clones,” Northeastern coach Don Brown said of Rose and Fitzpatrick. He must have meant “clones” in the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito were “twins.” While the Crimson runs the same offensive sets for both signal-callers, the reason they have been effective for Harvard the last two years is because they bring different strengths to the game...
...ecstatic reviews during its pre-Broadway run in Seattle. Now, as its Aug. 15 opening approaches, theater insiders are touting it as the hottest show since The Producers. Advance ticket sales have topped $6 million--approaching the $13 million The Producers racked up before its opening. Celebs like Danny DeVito and Mel Brooks have shown up at previews; newspaper columnists are virtually ordering readers to get tickets before it's too late; and Bloomingdale's is getting set to open Hairspray-inspired boutiques in five of its stores nationwide. The shops will sell '60s-era clothes (including plus sizes), cosmetics...
...Danny Devito, Jon Bon Jovi, Calista Flockhart, Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, James Gandolfini, Lauryn Hill (and the other two Fugees) and Thomas Edison are just a few of the notable natives who have made New Jersey the birthplace of fame itself...
...placement is the title character, a fuchsia-coated rhino under whose skin lurks the politically correct, morally perfect but terminally nerdy Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton). Naturally, the axed ex-host wants to off his sweet-souled successor. There's probably a tight, funny comedy lurking in that premise. But DeVito has turned the film into an expressionistic epic in murderously bad taste, all frenzy and feckless subplots, mostly involving ghastly gangland figures. A lot of good actors (among them the divine Catherine Keener) are wasted--in both senses of the word--in this spectacularly miscalculated movie...