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...naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted and forced to become soldiers or sex slaves. "Very often these sorts of conflicts become old news...
...really irresponsible to make really crappy movies for the up-front money," he says. "If you need a job or are just coming up, by all means take the job. I was in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. But if you have the ability to green-light a script, I think it's wrong...
...executive producer, DiCaprio led Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, Any Given Sunday) through 15 script revisions over two years, mostly in an effort to make Hughes' obsessive-compulsive disorder meaningful but not maudlin. "I loved those meetings," says DiCaprio. "Just talking about ideas with people, giving the movie time to breathe--that's like complete heaven for me." He spent plenty of time preparing to play Hughes. "I don't know what he's talking about with this 10 seconds of focus stuff," says Scorsese, and laughs. "Don't let him kid you--he's incredibly thorough." DiCaprio read...
...many times, actors would have to hold off on delivering their lines until the crowd’s ebullience subsided. A lack of high-tech graphics, set changes, or any of the usual over the top features of modern entertainment were hardly missed. The show simply displayed a powerful script with the help of extraordinarily gifted young actors to deliver a marvelous show with a certain old-school finesse...
Written during the Restoration period, when witty and risqué was the fashion, the play was comparable to late-night cable programming in terms of sexual innuendo and scandalous content. Still, slight adjustments to the script overcome any lingering barriers of temporal culture. For example, company veteran Remo Airaldi delivers a new thoughtful and amusing prologue in rhyme. Furthermore the actors forgo the standard drone, which so often hold back productions of older material, in favor of a soothing Virginia drawl—which they generally pull...