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Style Idol: Oscar Wilde gone straight and still just as loathsome My style in three words: Vain. My style in one sentence: Dorian Grey without all the cutesy bullshit...
Phoenix dropped out of school after ninth grade and finished his teens traveling in Latin America. When he returned to acting five years later, he earned raves as the mumbling killer in To Die For and an Oscar nod for his weaselly turn as Commodus in Gladiator. Walk the Line director James Mangold says both performances were seared into his memory. He noted that Phoenix looked like the young Johnny Cash, but he was more intrigued by another resemblance. "That incredible vulnerability and masculinity that James Dean had," says Mangold, "Joaq has the same thing. His face is complicated...
...Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
James Shapiro will speak at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26.The 1998 Oscar-winning film “Shakespeare in Love” has made us lust for a glimpse of the Bard’s romantic side. But in “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599,” scholar James Shapiro finds no evidence of an amorous element in the playwright’s life at the end of the 16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love...
...differ. While it is no Oscar-winner, his committed-soldier routine is very believable, and at times very menacing. This is much more than one can say for any of the other marines, who, for the most part, thankfully get killed off one by one. The movie also makes a ridiculous attempt at a reunion subplot between John and his estranged scientist sister Samantha (played by Rosamund Pike, of secondary Bond girl fame in “Die Another Day” and soon to be Jane Bennett of “Pride & Prejudice?...