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...lines, movie’s producers decided that Forbess’ voice sounded too much like that of co-star Jonathan Taylor Thomas ’01, who played young Simba, and they subsequently recast the role. Although her voice didn’t make it into the Oscar-winning, $320-million-grossing blockbuster, Forbess still appeared in the film indirectly. The day she was recording, animator Aaron Blaise was in the studio to meet with the producers. After catching a glimpse of Forbess in the sound booth, Blaise found his inspiration. Then and there, he began sketching young Nala...
...ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green eyes the size of saucers...
...being offered. But a lot of it is now about creating. You've got to look at what George Clooney has done. Yeah, you can go and buy a car, rent a car or lease one. But there is nothing like designing your own vehicle. YOU PREPARED FOR YOUR OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLE IN HUSTLE & FLOW BY HANGING OUT WITH REAL-LIFE PIMPS. WHAT WERE THEY LIKE? Like you and me. People who had made bad choices in their lives, and sometimes the bad choices can follow you for a long...
WHAT'S THE MOST SATISFYING THING ABOUT YOUR OSCAR EXPERIENCE SO FAR? Just being able to look in the mirror and look into that little boy's eyes--the little 6-year-old that said he was going to be an actor--and to be able...
...Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for writer-director-producer Paul Haggis. Yet the film's domestic box-office total ($56 million) was higher than that of any of its laureled rivals when the nominations came out last Tuesday...