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...comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
...Then Cook returned to England - and Moore went to Hollywood. In 1978, he got his foot in stardom's door - in perhaps 20 minutes of screen time - with his exuberant turn as Stanley Tibbets, the sublimely ridiculous swinger who thinks he's netted Goldie Hawn, in the Hawn-Chevy Chase comedy "Foul Play." In 1979, George Segal walked off Blake Edwards' production of "10," and Moore - who had met the director in a therapy group - got the part. The story was pure Moore - nebbishy musician has midlife crisis over statuesque young thing Bo Derek - and the movie became...
...have this thing for C.J., the "West Wing" press secretary, that makes me hit my getting-greyer head and say, "I should have said it that way." But it can't just be those of us with real-life experience watching as our Hollywood counterparts get the upper hand that's made these shows successful. Something is slowly changing the way our popular culture portrays those who choose public service as careers, and I think it's for the better. Only a few years ago, the government worker was, typically, the bumbling postal work Cliff on "Cheers." The elected official...
...became the first black woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar and Washington became the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar since Sidney Poitier in the 1963 movie "Lillies of the Field." It was an historic and welcome event, but the actors themselves, not the Hollywood establishment, deserve the credit for making it happen. Berry and Washington weren't handed anything by the Hollywood establishment, and were forced to fight for everything they've gotten in their careers...
...Berry were receiving their awards, Wesley Snipes, another black actor, finished No.1 at the box office with his film "Blade II" beating out such heavy-hitters as "Ice Age" and the re-release of "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." But black actors still aren't fully embraced by the Hollywood establishment. Recently, Will Smith (who lost out on Oscar night to Washington in the Best Actor category) went public with charges that John Grisham didn't want Smith in the movie version of one of his books because the character, as he wrote it, was white. It was good...