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Had the hearings progressed as scheduled this week, the Judiciary Committee would have heard from Roberts and 30 other witnesses, 15 called by each party. Due to the desire of top senators to have a speedy confirmation hearing, no character witnesses who knew Roberts as a student were to be...
Despite Carell’s top-billing, this is much more an ensemble piece. It doesn’t hurt that Rudd, Rogen—who Apatow mined from the aforementioned TV shows—and relative unknown Malco are natural comedians. Rogen portrays the sarcastic semi-tough guy with...
In order to separate himself from the pack, Benjamin, 30, has spent the past three years taking acting lessons and navigating through Hollywood's stereotypes about rappers. One measure of his success arrives this Friday. In Four Brothers, a revenge movie about a family of gun-toting, black and white...
His discomfort with auditions, Benjamin believes, was caused by a sense that he had to accomplish too much in too little time. "First," he says, "I had to make people believe that I'm not Andre 3000. Then I had to make people believe that I am this character. It...
...Thomson's word, Brando's supplicant, alternately embraced and dismissed by the star as Brando's career faded into lazy inconsequence in the early '80s. In his private domain, however, the actor was an absolute monarch: "a small mind in hideous contrast with the overlarge body," as Thomson characterizes him in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film. The pair accepted an advance for the novel from a British publisher in 1982, but Brando eventually repaid the money. Thereafter he teased the disappointed Cammell back into an edgy relationship in which future projects were discussed but never completed. The writer, devastated...