Word: oscars
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Last summer, as he took a break on the Gaborone, Botswana,- set of his latest film, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Anthony Minghella was trying to put success into perspective. He had won an Oscar for 1996's The English Patient, a film that became so ingrained in the collective cinematic consciousness it had an episode of Seinfeld dedicated to it. He had worked with a selection of the A-list: Jude Law, Renee Zellwegger, Matt Damon, Nicole Kidman. And he had built a reputation as the go-to guy for contemplative, complex, slowly unfolding films, the thinking...
...going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture - and suddenly people started paying attention. "He directed most of The English Patient with an ankle in plaster, never losing his gentle humor and precision," said Ralph Fiennes, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Count Laszlo de Almasy...
...change all the way back to Sinclair Lewis and Main Street. The aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...
...love with me.” This difference of opinion, which could have been wonderfully humorous, develops into a mundane debate between practical and romantic approaches to life. It’s a good representation of the entire movie, which has the potential to be as witty as an Oscar Wilde play, but ends up too cliché to rise to its own challenge. Harry’s disappointment with his married life drives him into the arms of Kay (Rachel McAdams, “Mean Girls”), a widow with a pin-up girl’s physique...
...When Oscar-winning actress CharlizeTheron came to Harvard on Feb. 7to receive the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’Woman of the Year Award, she joked,“I hope you all know I’m a high schooldropout. I just thought I’d be clean withyou guys.” Though her demeanor wasplayful throughout the Pudding roast,she was more thoughtful and seriouswhen discussing her new movie, “Sleepwalking,”in which she plays the dual roleof actor and producer.“I don’t think of acting...