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...Number of films the group will own after the merger?40% of all Hollywood movies ever produced
...could act," says Berg, "but what we were looking for was somebody who would just seem real to an audience. And Tim does that. You look at him, you believe what he has to say." McGraw thinks he simply fell into a part he could do without stretching. Hollywood interests him, but only a few minutes pass before his mind drifts back East, flying right over Nashville toward what may be his truest calling. "It'd be great to be in a position to do something good for people," he says. "Wouldn't Faith make a great Senator's wife...
...shied away from presenting Adolf Hitler as the main character in a movie. Since Hitler is a monstrous presence in the national memory, realistic portrayals on the big screen were considered bad taste - and sympathetic portrayals were unthinkable. Other countries made big-budget World War II epics with Hollywood stars such as Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins playing Hitler, but the last German-language film about Hitler and his subordinates, The Last Act, was produced in 1955 - and its Hitler was a raving lunatic. Now a new German film about Hitler's final days in the bunker, The Downfall...
...benefits are obvious. The world would finally have a real voice in deciding who will govern it for the next four years, while presidential candidates would be forced to ask us for our votes and not just enjoy our oil exports or our appetite for Big Macs and Hollywood blockbusters. If the U.S. invades one of us - or makes a Titanic sequel - we can respond at the ballot box. There would be gains for the U.S., too. More voters means more competition for influence and even bigger piles of cash for the Republicans and the Democrats. (Campaign contributions from foreign...
London theater is getting to be like an anti-Republican convention. There's Hollywood activist Tim Robbins' Iraq protest-play, Embedded, at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, where Bush and his Cabinet are portrayed as masked, jabbering clowns, and every joke is greeted with gales of supportive laughter. And for a chewier take on the subject, there's David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre, where lobby vendors sell books by Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky along with olive-drab T shirts bearing the show's title. It's what the politicians might call twin-track theater - plays seeking...