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...want to be a producer!” sings Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks’s classic “The Producers,” “And see my name...in lights!” For everyone watching the musical, and even for Bloom himself, this is almost pure fantasy. For Christopher L. Moore ’86, this is everyday life.Moore has quite a list of production credits. After his career took off with “Good Will Hunting” he went on to produce “Reindeer Games?...
...Ryan Gosling, “Half Nelson”; Peter O’Toole, “Venus”; Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”; Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”While big stars like Will and Leo will draw plenty of red carpet attention, the real race lies between two performances in much smaller films. O’Toole, who received a lifetime-achievement Oscar but has never won for a performance, collected serious kudos for the early-May-late-December-romance dramedy “Venus...
...then being required to purchase credits from other industries if they exceed their limits. But there's nothing on the horizon for aircraft with the carbon-cutting potential of hydrogen engines or solar energy. "It's not like having leaky home windows you can fix with double glazing," says Leo Murray, a spokesman for the straightforwardly named green group Plane Stupid, which led the criticism of Prince Charles...
When California Congressman Leo Ryan tried to lead a group of Peoples Temple defectors out of the cult's Jonestown, Guyana, headquarters in 1978, Larry Layton joined him at the last minute. Later, when a truckload of Peoples Temple members ambushed and killed the Congressman and four others at a nearby airstrip, Layton pulled a pistol and wounded two would-be defectors. Within hours, Cult Leader Jim Jones led 912 of his followers in a grisly mass murder--suicide...
...TOOLE, Venus WILL SMITH, The Pursuit of Happyness FOREST WHITAKER, The Last King of Scotland FOREST WHITAKER He's big, he's bad, he's Idi Amin Dada, the cannibal king. The soft-voiced Whitaker will win for his booming turn. LEONARDO DICAPRIO Right actor, not-quite-right movie. Leo was fine here as a diamond smuggler but even better in The Departed. SACHA BARON COHEN In the year's most brilliant, surely ballsiest performance, the Borat star redefined film acting--and did it naked. BEST ACTRESS PENELOPE CRUZ, Volver JUDI DENCH, Notes on a Scandal HELEN MIRREN, The Queen...