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This isn’t his first interaction with the University regarding one of his films. The Oscar-winning actor debuted his 2000 Disney movie “Remember The Titans” at the Carpenter Center, while 2002’s “Antwone Fisher” was shown two weeks before its release at the same venue...
Even on a gray day in Paris last week, there was one place you could find a crowd of tourists from places as varied as Rome, Siberia and Orlando, Fla.--Jim Morrison's grave in Pre-Lachaise cemetery. Forget Frdric Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and the hundreds of other luminaries interred among its chestnut trees. The frontman of the Doors has been the cemetery's headline draw ever since the rock star's untimely death in Paris at the age of 27 in July...
John Travolta is talking about the allure of the classic Hollywood stars-their knack for establishing immediate intimacy with the audience. He mentions Barbara Stanwyck, who played the toughest, smartest broads of the '30s and '40s and who received an honorary Oscar in 1982, presented by Travolta. "If you'd met Stanwyck," he explains, "she would have crushed you with her ability to adore and adorn you, almost like a Southern belle." Then, to the journalist he's met only an hour before, Travolta says, "Stand up." When a movie star of three decades' eminence tells me to rise...
...influence was immense, shaping Blair's political project to reform the Labour Party and ensuring its success. He was eyewitness to crucial decisions in foreign policy and a catalyst in others, treating world leaders with the bruising directness he meted out to his own colleagues. Depicted in the Oscar-winning film The Queen as a boorish bully and in numerous TV and stage satires as the evil genius controlling Blair, Campbell has become, in his own words, "a bogey figure for the media." And now here he is, on his neat patio, dispensing tea and affability. Roses are in bloom...
...Royal biographers have mined for new material on Princess Diana for years. Campbell's diaries reveal a trove of meetings she held with Blair when he was opposition leader, and describe the interaction of Buckingham Palace and the Labour Party in the days after her death. Depicted in the Oscar-winning movie, The Queen, as a boorish bully who radiates contempt for the Palace, the author of the diaries instead betrays a respect for its residents. It's reciprocated. A senior official at Buckingham Palace told TIME "Alastair was wonderful that week...