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...Then Cook returned to England - and Moore went to Hollywood. In 1978, he got his foot in stardom's door - in perhaps 20 minutes of screen time - with his exuberant turn as Stanley Tibbets, the sublimely ridiculous swinger who thinks he's netted Goldie Hawn, in the Hawn-Chevy Chase comedy "Foul Play." In 1979, George Segal walked off Blake Edwards' production of "10," and Moore - who had met the director in a therapy group - got the part. The story was pure Moore - nebbishy musician has midlife crisis over statuesque young thing Bo Derek - and the movie became...
...music into hospitals, homes for the elderly and prisons. In his last public appearance, to receive a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) from Prince Charles, Moore was confined to a wheelchair. In photos he was gray, gaunt, stark, with none of the irrepressible whimsy that marked his on-screen lives...
...hard to get it right and who serve us a lot better than conventional wisdom would have it. If so, maybe the audience is saying we are hoping for better from both those who hold the public trust and those who portray it - in the headlines and on the screen...
...Fever." Early in her career, I interviewed Berry and she told me for her part in the miniseries "Queen" producers initially refused to meet with her - she had to pay for a plane ride to Los Angeles and pick up her own hotel bill in order to get a screen test. For "The Flintstones" Berry had to fight to get filmmakers to cast her and thus integrate Bedrock - in the end she took a role as a character called "Sharon Stone" that had been written for another actress - namely Sharon Stone. Berry took her role in "Monster's Ball...
...next stop in Samsung's digital march is the living room. To that end, the company has worked with Microsoft to develop Home Media Center, designed to control everything from your dvd player to the PC. Last June, Texas Instruments and Samsung signed an agreement to develop ultrathin, large-screen televisions based on TI's digital light-processing technology. In 1999 TI turned down a Samsung partnership offer, thinking it would be better to work with "established" brands. By last year it was clear that TI's initial partners were moving too slowly to get anything to market in good...