Word: hollywood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Terrence Howard, and in the past year, Hollywood has started to figure him out. His work as Dlay, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and as Cameron, the movie director on the receiving end of racism in Crash, has earned him offers to play, he says, "a million different villains" as well as every black luminary with a biopic in the works: Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Rick James. Howard calls the attention "overwhelming. Because you know you haven't done anything different. You start becoming real superstitious?you don't know what...
...that Hollywood is buying, the actor has leveraged his success by starting a production company and writing a script for a musical drama he would star in. "My stock just went up," he says. "I can sell it right away and make a little profit, or I can hold on to it. I believe in this company, so I'm not trading...
...tall and slender with a throaty laugh and the kind of honestly pretty face that bespeaks the no-nonsense attitude of a supporting actress who really believes in supporting her fellow players. "I don't have the looks to be a Hollywood diva," she says. What she has is a love for those acting communities that quickly form to make a picture (and as quickly disperse). "That's why I'll go on something based on the director," she says. "If you're working with a director you respect, they're going to accrue people who are similar-minded. They...
...plays a hardened gambler whose ego and heart get bruised one Christmas Eve. In Wong's contribution to the three-part film Eros, she is a notorious courtesan who loses her looks and luck over the course of two decades. In Memoirs of a Geisha, her first Hollywood film, she is Hatsumomo, tormentor of the heroine (Ziyi Zhang) and one of the greatest bitch goddesses since Bette Davis in her prime...
...WORKING WITH WOODY“Match Point” has been pegged by a fair share of critics as a comeback for director Woody Allen, who has floundered in recent years with tepidly received efforts (“Anything Else,” “Hollywood Ending”) destined for Blockbuster clearance racks. Its reception at 2005’s Cannes Film Festival was rapturous, and the film has garnered four Golden Globe nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress nod for Johansson and a Best Director nod for Allen.For Johansson, the fascination with the director began...