Word: nelsons
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...bravado. To make a movie about Ali - perhaps the most idolized, vilified and complex public figure of the 20th century - has been a high-wire act of both hubris and dedication. "For an African American, Muhammad Ali is the biggest role you could have. Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela - with any of those roles comes a responsibility," says Smith. "The level of dedication to this role is unparalleled to anything I've done so far other than having a family...
...don’t fret. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is a forgiving bunch. Withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza and maybe they’ll give you the prize too. Heck, I went from presiding over death squads to shaking hands with Nelson Mandela and sipping Dom Perignon in Oslo. And believe me, retiring as a Nobel laureate is a lot more fun than spending your final days in the Hague, awaiting an imminent war crimes indictment...
...indelible markers for our life and times. It is essential to maintaining a modicum of integrity that we acknowledge, honor and respect the contributions of individuals. The failure to do so by an author as esteemed and talented as Ambrose is disappointing to say the least. JACLYN NELSON Los Angeles...
...says charity chatter is boring? In October, journalism professor Anne Nelson was seated next to theater director Jim Simpson at a benefit. Nelson told him of her experience helping a fire captain write eulogies for firemen lost on Sept. 11. Simpson suggested she rework the meeting into a play. The result: The Guys, which Simpson is directing at his downtown theater, the Flea, starring his wife SIGOURNEY WEAVER and BILL MURRAY. The sight of two Hollywood stars sharing a tiny Tribeca stage will undoubtedly draw Manhattan crowds. And when Murray leaves in a few weeks, the play will begin rotating...
This line of reasoning must have been going through the minds of Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson when they wrote I Am Sam, an improbable story of an autistic man who fights a custody battle for his daughter. Nelson, who is also the film’s director and co-producer, flopped with her last script (the universally despised The Story of Us), and seems so eager to atone for that disaster that she pulls out all the stops for I Am Sam. The first-time director cast the versatile Sean Penn as the lead, the sassy Michelle Pfeiffer...