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...These criticisms of Zellweger's physicality are hard to write - not just as a longtime admirer of her talent, going back to 1996's The Whole Wide World, but also as a feminist. An actress of her caliber deserves better opportunities. You want women, public or private, to be allowed to age without being either shamed for it or shamed into taking bizarre steps against it: chemical, surgical or simply choosing the wrong parts. We know it can be done. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last weekend, Meryl Streep accepted her Best Actress award wearing a simple shirt...
With musical talent that was both versatile and long-lasting, Newman recorded with Natalie Cole on her 1991 hit album Unforgettable, With Love and, in recent years, with other greats such as Dr. John and B.B. King, who called Newman "one of the greats at his craft...
...Updike's hallmark was his glittering, gloriously vivid style. His talent for spotting detail, for capturing in prose the slightest shift in light or in a character's mood was unmatched. It was not the most fashionable of gifts. While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and Carver or the high-concept contraptions of the metafictionists, Updike conducted his pursuit of eloquence and wit almost alone. Ironically, it was sometimes held against him, and he was tagged a lightweight. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Inkheart's parlance, people with this talent for reading literature into flesh and blood are known as "Silvertongues." (In the similarly themed Christmas release Bedtime Stories, they were known as Adam Sandler). For Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraser), being a Silvertongue has proved something of a curse. Nine years ago he read aloud from book called Inkheart to disastrous consequences. Out popped several bandits, including head villain Capricorn (Andy Serkis) and a gloomy fellow named Dustfingers (Paul Bettany) who starts fires with his hands. As if that weren't bad enough, into the book went Mo's wife, Resa (Sienna Guillory...
...makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films. "For these movies to fail at this level, with these sorts of budgets and promotional efforts and this much talent involved" takes special effort, Wilson notes. "You look at a movie like Indiana Jones 4 and it's such a spectacular train wreck that it really does deserve recognition at some level...