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...Cheung, at least, was there to receive her prize. The Best Actor was not. He was back home, in Tokyo, taking exams at his junior high school. At 14, Yuuya Yagira, star of Hirokazu Koreeda's poignant real-life fable Nobody Knows, is the youngest recipient of the award, and he deserved it. He plays the eldest of four children abandoned by their mother and left to survive without a social safety net. They do so with a calm, desperate resourcefulness that implicitly condemns Japan's welfare system and makes it clear that, in this family, the younger generation...
...know the kid who just won the Best Actor award at Cannes? What's the name of his movie...
...gone wild over 14-year-old Yuuya Yagira, who turns in a heartbreaking performance as the eldest of four children struggling to survive in a Tokyo apartment after being abandoned by their mother. He's the youngest person ever to win the award at Cannes, and the first Best Actor from Japan, and the film's name...
...Well, they will soon: the kid's been offered a bunch of scripts and endorsement deals, and has already signed on to star in another picture. When actress and Cannes juror Emmanuelle B?art says she wants to kiss an actor for being so brilliant?and he happens to be a junior high school student?that sort of catches people's attention, you know? It makes you wonder: How does a kid becomes a national idol overnight...
...Tony resented the Felix Unger label, it was because he had done so many other things. His dream was to bring good, classic theater to America through repertory companies. He was outraged that it was not subsidized by the government. He said he would set up the National Actors Theater in New York, and nobody believed him, including me. And by God, he did it. He was like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, and thank God he did. During his last few years, he was the happiest actor I ever knew...