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...starting point. The movie was, after all, just a long sitcom episode. It was built from a 1996 routine that Nia Vardalos, a graduate of the comedy troupe Second City, did about her Old World family meeting her Hispanic husband. It then evolved into a one-woman play that Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife, saw in 1997. Wilson approached Vardalos and suggested turning the play into a movie. Vardalos was one step head, having already written a screenplay. It took more than four years to get a studio to make and distribute the film, in part because Wilson refused...
BLACK WRITERS’ READING SERIES. Poet Rita Dove and author John Edgar Wideman read from their highly acclaimed new works. Dove, the nation’s new Poet Laureate, is the first African American to have earned the distinction, as well as the youngest. She is also the wordsmith behind the stunning “Thomas and Beulah,” which won the Pulitzer Prize. Wideman’s Hoop Roots, an exploration of the author’s passion for basketball, is a complex and dynamic work that touches upon black language and music. Wednesday, March...
...honor is nothing new for a craftsman who, in 40 busy film years, has embodied the phrase "working actor." Caine has been nominated three times before as Best Actor (for Alfie, Sleuth and Educating Rita), without a victory, and won twice as Sup-porting Actor (Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules). But the Quiet American citation is richly earned. Even Caine might think he deserves, if not an Oscar, a medal of honor for doing justice to Graham Greene's 1955 novel and tunneling into the murky life of its protagonist, the Englishman Thomas Fowler. "The role...
...greeters. They are a fearless lot, and the old gent teased the boss with a question: "Did you give everyone a big raise?" Scott returned a look of mock horror. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "This is Wal-Mart!" --With reporting by William Boston/Berlin, Neil Gough/Shenzhen and Rita Healy/Denver
...romantic comedy with indie-film credibility and big-studio profits? The stars of My Big Fat Greek Wedding are having their cake and eating it too. Vardalos, Corbett and producers Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson made the film for $5 million and change, then watched it become the biggest indie hit in U.S. history, pulling in more than $215 million at the box office. Now that's a wedding present to love...