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DIED. Sidney Sheldon, 89, Oscar- and Tony-winning writer who became a publishing powerhouse in his 50s, when he began to pen steamy best sellers--many of which became TV mini-series--detailing the travails of bewitching women spurned by cruel men; in Los Angeles. As a TV producer, he created The Patty Duke Show and I Dream of Jeannie, but in midlife, he went for grander plotlines. His novels, including Are You Afraid of the Dark?--published when he was 87--and The Other Side of Midnight, sold 300 million copies in 180 countries and made...
...storyteller. Several of the films up for best screenplay at the Oscars were written by Brits, including The Queen (Peter Morgan) and Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber). "The quality of really good British writing has been a tradition for decades," says Vaines. "British screenwriters have a facility with words, a theatricality, but they also understand the way film works as a medium." In the Hollywood power scale, most screenwriters rank just below the guy who buys the bagels, and a finished script is never really finished until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their...
British screenwriters aren't the only ones who are good with words. In front of the camera, Britain's leading sirs and reigning dames are known for their cool, clipped precision. Peter O'Toole, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren all have bafta and Oscar nominations this year, and, despite their ability to change accents and appearance, everything they say or do is wrapped in an irrepressible Britishness...
...there is a new generation of Brit actors whose appeal has nothing to do with their nationality. Kate Winslet is on both the bafta and Oscar shortlists, and Daniel Craig's Bond is the first 007 to ever earn a bafta nod. While their elders are known for their controlled performances, younger Brits are more raw and unrefined. And that's thanks to Hollywood. "Actors of my generation all look to Americans as the inventors of modern cinema acting technique," says Toby Jones, a British actor who plays American literary icon Truman Capote in Infamous - a role that both Sean...
...Last King of Scotland was distributed through a Hollywood studio, which gave it a bigger audience than any British studio could. The film now has one Oscar nomination for its star Forest Whitaker and five bafta nominations. As Macdonald knows, it's the Oscar that will stick. He won an Academy Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone...