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...Olivier rolling his eyes as Nicodemus, Rod Steiger spuming as Pilate, Ernest Borgnine in the John Wayne role. Olivia Hussey, less than a decade after Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," is Jesus' mother (another movie where the actors playing the son is older, here by seven years, than the actress playing his mother). Anne Bancroft is Magdalene - the casting director must have mixed up the two Marys...
...success by the Globe even over the original 1971 production, which starred the legendary Alan Bates. Two years ago, Martin was so successful with the Huntington’s production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler that the show was taken to Broadway, where the same lead actress won a Tony. With Hedda Gabler, Martin managed to turn a familiar script into a more effective telling, not altering the essential strains of the classic story, but drawing them out in subtler, more powerful ways. The Boston Globe called the production “crisp and potent...
...event created by the entertainment industry, this Sunday’s Academy Awards are going to be amazingly boring. With the major categories pretty much locked up (Best Film: Lord of the Rings, Best Actor: Sean Penn, Best Actress: Charlize Theron, etc.), and with no known child rapist in the running for this year’s directing honor, viewers will have to rely on Billy Crystal to boost the show’s humor and intelligence quotient...
Most Ludicrously Overrated Performance: Diane Keaton, nominated for Best Actress, really is a gifted performer, which makes her misinterpretation of her character in Something’s Gotta Give all the more surprising and insulting. Playing an intelligent and successful 50-something playwright, Keaton’s Erica Barry falls for Jack Nicholson’s dirty old music agent like it’s 1964 and he’s a Beatle. They get it on, then he freaks out and dumps her. Are general filmgoers, much less the movie’s middle-aged target audience, really supposed...
...nomination justifiably rewards a characteristically offbeat comic performance that turned an otherwise average family film into the summer’s must-see hit for five-year-olds, college students and retirees. Castle-Hughes’ role in Whale Rider is far more understated, yet the youngest ever Best Actress nominee also deserves recognition for displaying an inner strength and patience that hold together what might have been the Maori version of Yentl...