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...Gladiator is also a familiar kind of Oscar (and critical) favorite: a movie that reminds us of the better movies they don't make any more. Thus The English Patient was a psychological spectacle in the David Lean tradition; Shakespeare in Love was a screwball romance with fancy English; Braveheart was a historical epic, like Hamlet or A Man for All Seasons but with more blood and lots less eloquence...
...film has ever done it ?though it would be nice to think that, once every 73 years, the Academy could acknowledge that the year's best film was in a language other than English. It also received no nominations in the acting categories, but that omission didn't stop Braveheart or The Last Emperor from winning Best Picture. More important, Crouching Tiger fulfills every Academy mandate for epic entertainment: a big story, beautiful stars, sweeping vistas (it's got as much desert as Lawrence of Arabia and more forests than Gump), strong roles for women in a time when those...
British film stuntman Tim Lawrence was only 34 when he was diagnosed with the debilitating neurological condition Parkinson's disease six years ago. It meant a swift end not just to his parts in movies like Braveheart, Splitting Heirs and Frankenstein, but also to an active lifestyle that included acrobatics, martial arts and skydiving. With his body alternating between rigidity and uncontrollable spasms, almost the only physical recreation left for Lawrence was going out with friends to London clubs. Under the strobe lights his thrashing movements could be mistaken for enthusiastic dancing. So clubs became the one place he didn...
...through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains perhaps the one thing Mel Gibson cannot do. At 44 he has won two Oscars (as director and producer of the 1995 Braveheart). He has been married to the same woman, Robyn Gibson, since 1980 and fathered seven children, including son Thomas, born last year. Through his 11-year-old company, he co-produced this year's well-received TV movie The Three Stooges, and he owns the foreign rights to What Women...
...favorite performance of his own, Gibson says, "It's a funny thing. You look at something you did years ago, and it's like, 'Oh, boy! What was I thinking?'" His feet rest on the coffee table in his office, next to a tiny version of himself, a Braveheart doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with...