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...good historical films come out of India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...thriller called Attack of the Street Pimps. A TV commercial for the Black Acting School shows its (white) teachers providing the finer points of jive talking and stud strutting. Bobby stars in a Stallone-style epic, Rambro: First Young Blood, and wins the Best Actor Oscar over Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Townsend knows Bobby fully lives where we all live, in dreams of glory, agony, love -- of life's infinite possibilities. In real life, most of those dreams are dashed or deferred. So who wouldn't be pleased enough to pay the price of a movie ticket...
...different stripe. MORGAN FREEMAN says his character "was at a lot of the hot spots in the world." (And, no, he doesn't mean nightclubs.) "He's burned out. He's seen a lot of rough stuff." The two actors, both from Memphis, Tenn., got on fine, but the Oscar winner says he didn't really take Timberlake under his wing. "He's very credible as an actor," Freeman says. "It wasn't necessary." That Mouseketeer Method training must really work...
OCCUPATIONS: Oscar-nominated, formerly drug-addicted star of Chaplin and clean-living-espousing producer...
...avenues that were closed to others. Her celebrity, as well as her talent, helped bring her interesting work, the cutest guys (including her husband, who fronts the band Coldplay and whom she met backstage at one of his concerts), homes in New York City and London, a Best Actress Oscar and such close friends as Madonna and Jude Law. But Paltrow, who will turn 33 this month, has now had her fill. Fame is an asset of which she wishes to divest herself. "Everything I wanted to achieve, I achieved," she says, all legs and elbows and neck and tiny...