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RENEE ZELLWEGER plays a hardscrabble country woman in the upcoming Civil War epic Cold Mountain. To fix the mood on set, director Anthony Minghella displayed tintype photos of cast members, including Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Zellweger "is not digging into her own biography as an actress," says Minghella in Interview, where the pictures appear. "She's creating it." Either that or it's the gritty stare of a gal who wants her Oscar...
...Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating - even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book). The guide's page-long entries each include a lively explanation as to why you would want to go, basic logistics information, prices and hotel phone numbers, making it both an easy read and an insightful travel primer. For the special-interest explorer...
...Vegas in 1996, packed a lot of brutality and poetry into his 25 turbulent years on earth. Lauren Lazin's zippy documentary is as close as the dead can come to writing autobiography; its narration is woven from extensive interviews given by the charismatic antihero. Like a film noir epic, this is a fable of violent men, mean motives and surly patter, told in flashback, and narrated by a dead man. This artful assembly of photos, film outtakes and TV clips is all the more fascinating for being--within the confines of show-biz mythmaking--true...
...epic musical makes its way to Boston for the seventh time since its 1985 London debut. Les Mis, a self-described tale of “the passion and triumph of the human spirit,” bases itself on Victor Hugo’s celebrated novel and tells the story of Jean Valjean, a noble fugitive, and his run-ins with determined policeman Javert. 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets $28-$85. Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street...
...screenplay no less. Says Shöwentel, “I just tell them what they want to hear—that the movie follows a gang of five ninjas who trek across the ends of the earth seeking retribution against a renegade one-eyed pirate who, in epic battle, shot their father in the back...