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...everyone involved-including Jewison, who peddled the project to three studios before Columbia Pictures bought it on the condition that the director work for free instead of receiving his usual $1.5 million salary-but for Rollins it is a late second chance. Like LeVar Burton after Roots and Louis Gossett Jr. after An Officer and a Gentleman, Rollins found himself a celebrity but not a hot commodity after his Oscar-nominated role in Ragtime (1981). He did not make another feature until A Soldier's Story. "People have been a little slow to pick up the phone," he understates...
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...producers to be a tribute to the late Egyptian President, but when the TV film Sadat was screened recently for a censorship committee that included Egyptian Minister of Culture Muhammed Radwan, something had obviously been lost in the translation. Charging that the 1983 film, which stars Louis Gossett Jr., 47, contained "historical errors that distort the accomplishments of the Egyptian people," Radwan banned from his country not only Sadat but all films produced or distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some...
With good roles for black actors something of a rarity, Lou Gossett, 47, is being offered just about every part that isn't suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military...
Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...