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...alone. Whenever U.S. filmmakers need to cast the bad guy in a blockbuster, they tend to seek out someone with an English accent, whether it's Patrick Stewart in Conspiracy Theory (where he menaced Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson) or Jeremy Irons, Rickman's successor in Die Hard with a Vengeance. No more. Now the Brits, thanks to Tony Blair's early and articulate support for the war against terrorism, have reached unprecedented levels of popularity among Americans, leaving filmmakers scrambling to find another country whose citizens' very accent can make an audience squirm. (The French...
...quite a bit of English blood. I had to go back to England and hire a coach to teach me some manners." But experience in musicals made him ready for at least one scene that called for a "double-up at the piano," as he puts it. Stop smirking, Mel...
...along well and play hard. It is also a team that understands loss and suffering. In the past two years, the fathers of star players O'Neill, Scott Brosius and Bernie Williams died lingering deaths during the course of the season. Manager Torre has survived prostate cancer. Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, diagnosed with blood cancer, underwent a bone-marrow transplant. Catcher Posada has carried on while his infant son has endured three cranial surgeries...
...Reading Mel White’s Stranger at the Gate “sparked” something in him, Mike says, that made him believe it was OK to be a Christian and gay. But a pastor recommended that he go to an Exodus ministry in New York, and Mike agreed to give heterosexuality one more chance...
...that summer ghost movie that ripped off his Sixth Sense twister ending? "I was bothered by it," he admits. "But I guess I'm flattered. So many times I'll come out of a movie and think, 'I wish I had done that!'" His new movie, Signs, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-priest wrestling with his beliefs ("I like to cast slightly against type," he understates), with Joaquin Phoenix as his brother. They own a farm that becomes the site of enormous, mysterious crop circles. A surprise ending to this one? He's coy, but promises it will...