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...Harper Lee is demurely repressed, but also a firm adult who keeps the petulant Capote under control. Chris Cooper’s Alvin Dewey strikes the right balance of a character that both chooses to help Capote and to resent his presence. But as every good Oscar-tracker knows, this movie is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s to win or lose.To portray a man whose daily life was practically a caricature—a persona of who he wanted to be—is far from easy. Anyone who takes on the high-pitched tones of Capote should...
LANE: One of those green things. Like at ballparks. [He holds up his bandaged digit like a foam hand.] I'm No. 1! Oscar, he's a very positive character this time around...
...partner Uncle Nathan around son James Wilkie. "That's a huge part of life in the theater, the time after the show. They're both far more social than I am." Parker also maintains that The Odd Couple has reversed their real-life personas. "Matthew is far more like Oscar than Felix...
That may be, but there's a sense in which The Odd Couple tells their story, the story of two men who make each other better. As Oscar, the horndog sportswriter with a beer gut and a backward baseball cap, Lane learns a little discipline--he literally cleans up his act. And when he stands over Felix, yelling at him, begging him to let himself go, to cut loose, that could just as easily be Lane pushing Broderick. Or to put it another way, just as the shyster Max gets Leo to say in The Producers, "There...
PAUL NEWMAN, 80 An Oscar-winning actor, race-car driver and food-company exec, he lives at top speed...