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...DIED. PAUL WINFIELD, 62, prolific Hollywood actor whose role as a poor sharecropper in the 1972 film Sounder earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor; in Los Angeles. Winfield was known for his portrayals of dignified authority figures, most notably Martin Luther King Jr., whom he played in a 1978 TV mini-series. He won an Emmy Award in 1995 for his role as a judge in the TV series Picket Fences...
...DIED. SPALDING GRAY, 62, confessional storyteller and movie actor; in New York City, where his body was found floating in the East River two months after his disappearance. Cause of death has not yet been determined, but Gray had a history of depression, and police are investigating reports that he jumped off the Staten Island ferry. Born in Rhode Island, he moved to New York to join an experimental theater troupe after his mother's suicide in 1967. Starting in the 1980s, he created stage monologues on topics as diverse as the Vietnam War (Swimming to Cambodia...
...Depp did his blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and earned Disney $305 million. His Captain Jack Sparrow didn't kiss or shoot anybody, and he kind of sashayed through most of the film, but Pirates proved that with the right material, Depp can be a huge multiplex draw. His long-suffering agent didn't want him to take the part. "He was pitched the movie without a script," recalls Jacobs. "They basically said, 'We're going to make a movie out of this theme...
...whimsy that drives Depp's career springs from his early days as an actor. It is easy to forget that he was the Ashton Kutcher of his era, the hot young star of a mediocre show on Fox. "I wouldn't say [21 Jump Street] was misery because it was a privileged opportunity. But it was very, uh ... uncomfortable," says Depp. So desperate was he to get out of playing Officer Tom Hanson, a dreamy high school narc, that Depp says he made like M*A*S*H's Corporal Klinger, dressing up in odd clothes and speaking in tongues...
...Clint Eastwood proved anything in Unforgiven, it was that actors don’t have to be showy to be effective. Too bad that nobody told Sean Penn, who brings his full actor-y powers to bear in Mystic River, Eastwood’s latest effort. Too often, the film feels less like the well-crafted whodunit at its center and more like a freshman acting class: Penn thrashes and grimaces, Tim Robbins acts numb, and Marcia Gay Harden wobbles her voice so much that you wonder if she’s standing on the San Andreas Fault...