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DIED. Jan Murray, 89, stand-up comedian and actor who went from performing variety-show routines at resorts in New York's Catskill Mountains to hosting popular 1950s TV game shows, including Blind Date, Dollar a Second and Treasure Hunt, on which winning contestants got to pick a treasure chest that could contain anything from a big-money check to cabbage; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A native New Yorker who came up in Borscht Belt comedy with Sid Caesar and Buddy Hackett, Murray turned to acting in the 1960s, appearing in films like Thunder Alley and TV shows that included...
...emblematic of a movie that is essentially a special-effects extravaganza . It is, I think, a universal truth of movie making that effects are never funny. They can sometimes wow you, but they can't make you laugh, and Depp cannot stand up to the hubbub they create. No actor can. He can only serve them, which involves him in derring-do that any actor could do about as well as he can. He needs to be involved with us, not with the lunking machinery of the movie. When, for example, he?s miming alarm and confusion he gets...
...expense in realizing them, and there's no doubt in my mind that as a commercial proposition the film will be a winner. In every other way - as adventure yarn or as satire on that form or merely as an enjoyable entertainment featuring a wonderfully sly and subtle actor - it is not merely a loser. It is a disaster...
...even stronger lifelong links. The death of a parent blows some families to bits. But when older sibs step in to help raise younger ones, the dual role of contemporary and caretaker can lay the foundation for an indestructible closeness later on. Wayne Duvall, 48, a television and film actor in New York City and the youngest of three brothers, was just 13 when his father died. His older brothers, who had let him get away with all manner of mischief when both parents were in residence, intuitively knew that the family no longer had that luxury. "I vividly remember...
LADIES, PREPARE TO LOSE YOUR HEAD First Look Jonathan Rhys Meyers has already played a king with a thing for velvet and young girls, in CBS's 2005 Elvis movie. But for the Irish actor's next swaggering royal role, in Showtime's 2007 series The Tudors, he has to learn some new skills. As Henry VIII, Rhys Meyers will tackle "jousting, lute and a minimum of six languages," alongside Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey. Even draped in jewels befitting the portly, much married monarch, "I look nothing like Henry," the lean Match Point star admits. "I have to make...