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...agent. (Crowe turned down the Hugh Grant part in About a Boy, the Laurence Fishburne part in The Matrix and Viggo Mortensen's role in The Lord of the Rings, among others.) But where Hanks and Cruise insinuated their way into moviegoers' hearts by exuding amiability on-and offscreen, Crowe has pulled off a far more unlikely trick: he is one of the world's biggest stars and is frequently perceived as one of the world's biggest jerks...
...Saito's bond to Shintaro Katsu goes back a long way, equal parts cents and sentiment. Those who knew him say Katsu's ability as an actor was matched only by his oversized generosity offscreen?and his terrible business sense. "He was known as someone who liked to play around," says Yukichi Shinada, a veteran Tokyo film critic. "Say he went to a club, he would always buy really expensive cognac and then buy drinks for other people." Saito's son, Tsunehisa Saito, who worked with Katsu for more than 20 years, says, "He was a really caring, very generous...
...adolescent in The Ice Storm, an undergraduate wunderkind in Wonder Boys, an innocent Candide in The Cider House Rules, and lest we forget, a secretive high school super-nerd in last year's blockbuster Spider-Man. But don't confuse him with any of those losers in real life. Offscreen, Maguire is as tough as nails, managing his resume as well as any other star in Hollywood. Look at the arc of his career. It's as perfect as the part in Peter Parker's hair. At 28, he has worked for a string of A-list directors that would...
...actress Academy Awards highlighted a screen career that spanned more than 60 years and included such films as Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen and The Philadelphia Story; at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A highbrow with even loftier cheekbones, Hepburn's mannish dress and assertiveness on- and offscreen cost her popularity early on, but eventually became trademarks and made her a role model to generations of female fans...
...gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...