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...genre film the Festival has previously eschewed, and which Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung?s ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Ironically, Cheung won over Zhang Ziyi, the star...
...Best Actor: Toni Servillo, who plays a secretive man living in a Swiss hotel in the mordant Italian comedy ?Consequences of Love...
DIED. TONY RANDALL, 84, versatile, opera-loving actor who was a fixture of the American stage and screen for more than 50 years but is best remembered as the punctilious fussbudget Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple; in New York City. By the time he was cast in his defining role, Randall was already an accomplished performer, having appeared in the original Broadway production of Inherit the Wind and as a smart-aleck sidekick in three Rock Hudson?Doris Day films. He remained active in his 70s and 80s, founding the National Actors Theater...
...jauntier piece, as renegade killer femmes do fantastic battle with the 9th century cops who pursue and fall in love with them. The Almodóvar and Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie element often lost in Cannes' ponderous auteur gazing: star quality. Bad Education's lead actor is Mexico's Gael García Bernal, who rocketed to international celebrity in Y Tu Mamá También, and who plays the young Ernesto Guevara, pre-Che, in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries. Salles makes icons of the struggling (but always beautiful) poor of South America until the movie...
Superman has a better shot at cool in comic books than he does on the big screen. The new Superman movie--bogged down for years, partly because the studio can't get an actor to don the tights--is on its fourth director, McG (Charlie's Angels), but the lead role is still uncast. Jude Law, Brendan Fraser and Ashton Kutcher have been mentioned; Josh Hartnett has already turned it down. "We have to find Superman," says Dawn Taubin, president of domestic marketing for Warner Bros. Pictures. "That's a big, important piece of the puzzle...