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...swelling numbers, actors are moving to the director's chair. This season has "films by" George Clooney (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), Denzel Washington (Antwone Fisher) and Nicolas Cage (Sonny). "Directing wasn't something I was eyeballing," says Clooney, who stepped in mostly because he wanted to see Charlie Kaufman's script made into a film. Now, he says, "I'm into it. I like...
...look at the new Washington, Cage and Clooney films is to see the actors' personalities reflected and refracted in their directorial work. Antwone Fisher, at heart an interview between a Navy psychiatrist (Washington) and a troubled, gifted young seaman (Derek Luke) in search of a father figure, has the thoughtfulness, the heroic withholding of rage that Washington the actor has lent to so many of his characters. The movie (from a true story, written by the real Antwone Fisher) takes its power from the authenticity of its emotions. The director is typically modest about his effort. He says, "I like...
...ANTWONE FISHER. Denzel Washington’s directorial debut recounts the life of its screenwriter and title character. Abused verbally by his foster mother and sexually by his foster father, Fisher later avoids dismissal from the military by agreeing to psychiatric counseling with Dr. Jerome Davenport (Washington), who helps him overcome his difficult past. If a side-plot involving a patient potential love interest (Joy Bryant) makes Antwone Fisher Good sound like Good Will Hunting, Washington’s film similarly benefits from strong acting and its hopeful depiction of a tormented youth on the verge of adulthood. Antwone Fisher...
...Eventually, he did change. He did what Crosby, Como, Sinatra and Fisher had done before him: sing strong, sing pretty. Toward the end, he couldn't hack the rock material (his vocals on "Burning Love" and "Way Down" are thin, ragged, spindly), but he still had it as a balladeer. His spectacularly intense rendition of "I Believe," excerpted on the recent NBC special "Elvis Lives," proves that his inside the bloated body was the soul of a gospel-tinged Caruso. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of "It's Now or Never," the final detonation of pain and taunt...
...Series History: Bill Cowher (Pittsburgh) and Jeff Fisher (Tennessee) rank 1-2 among the longest-tenured coaches in the NFL. Fisher holds a 9-6 advantage in the head-to-head series, as the Titans have won eight of the last 10 against the Steelers...