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...stars, who helped turn Mel Brooks' The Producers into the first smash theater hit of the millennium, are one of show biz's top money teams. In this tale of mismatched roommates, Lane will play Oscar, the slobby sportswriter, while Broderick tackles the fussbudget Felix. There have been rumors that they may occasionally switch roles...
...glamour goes, you can't get much lower than a radio play. So why have MERYL STREEP, Peter Dinklage and Hope Davis signed up for one? Because Charlie Kaufman asked them to. The Oscar-winning screenwriter made his directing debut with Hope Leaves the Theater, a play with many characters but just three actors. "The nonvisual aspect of it appealed to me," says Kaufman, who has Streep voicing a parody of herself and a black teen, among others. The play had short runs in New York City and London, and will go on to Los Angeles and Sirius radio. Could...
...Another Oscar-winner, Jamie Foxx, also demonstrates that even victors have bills to pay—got to buy a few more cars to maintain that star lifestyle. Maybe those gigantic sunglasses that keep shading the eyes of his character, Lieutenant Henry Purcell, are Foxx’s way of channeling his past good fortune into a piece of acting that can only be described as mediocre. It’s as if his agent reminded him to “keep smiling and swaying, and maybe the audience will think Ray became a jet pilot...
...exceptionally strong cast and a few more twists quickly made you forget the original. Charlie is still too saintly, but Freddie Highmore—who should have garnered an Oscar nomination for his heartbreaking performance in “Finding Neverland,” also starring Johnny Depp (Wonka)—has the requisite Dickensian face and sweetly longing eyes. And the optimism of Grandpa Joe, played by excellent character actor David Kelly (“Waking Ned Devine”) nicely balances the humorous cynicism of Grandpa George...
...West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Hello, Dolly! for movies in the 1960s, he achieved his greatest glory a decade earlier with the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film Sweet Smell of Success and Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. Lehman never won an Oscar, but he became the first screenwriter ever awarded an honorary...