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...hero's housekeeper she is mostly mute and still, a piece of antique statuary, hoarding secrets in deference to her good master. When she speaks, it's in tortuous translations from the pseudo-Cantonese ("It is the hope that Su Lin was of small help to Mr. Williams"), Eleven years later she was another housekeeper in the Ross Hunter production Portrait in Black, this time supporting Anthony Quinn, who had done small roles in her late-30s Paramount films. Now he was the famous name and she the filler. (Also in 1960, Quinn starred as an Inuit in Nicholas...
...community of nations, to its credit, reacted swiftly and decisively to a calamity unprecedented in size and scope. Organization of a multi-billion dollar aid effort for tens of millions in eleven different countries is not an enterprise to be taken on lightly, and such a vast undertaking is bound to have a few miscues and errors. While there have been reports of bottlenecks and delays in getting aid to the afflicted regions, the ruin foisted upon transportation infrastructure regrettably makes this all but inevitable...
...much in acting and directing fees, owing to their willingness to swap cash for creative control. "I got paid more on K Street as a union camera operator than as a producer," Clooney says of the political-drama series they did for HBO. But on Ocean's Eleven, Clooney the actor made such a phenomenal amount on his percentage of the gross that he's still living off it. "We're basically living Ocean's to Ocean's," he says...
Cheadle's roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...
...George persevered, and ultimately he scraped together funding from foreign investors. Actor Don Cheadle of Oceans Eleven fame agreed to play Rusesabagina, and MGM signed on as the distributor. “It was always nerve-racking that the money would fall through,” the director says. But the scent of success should put George’s nerves at ease. Hotel Rwanda garnered a Golden Globe nomination for best drama Monday, and Cheadle grabbed a best actor nomination as well...