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...There were some undeniably big names in the audience - Daniel Day-Lewis, Keira Knightley, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Hudson, Ridley Scott, Ian McKellen - just not enough of them. After the first three rows, the faces became unfamiliar. Many of the high-profile nominees - George, Cate, Tommy Lee - were no-shows, and it quickly became clear that many famous attendees were there either to present an award or pick one up. Everybody had a job to do; nobody had just come for the party...
...quest of the 12-year-old Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) to find a missing friend and, eventually, to save her world. On the way to her destiny she's imprisoned by a glamorous vamp (Nicole Kidman), befriended by a talking polar bear (the talking is done by Ian McKellen) and accompanied by her own Jiminy Cricket - a cute, shape-shifting creature who speaks in the cheerfully urgent voice of Freddy Highmore (Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
...been able to get to the point you’re at,’” Reitan said.At one showing his mother saw what appeared to be a bearded homeless man crying in the theatre. “After the show ended, she realized it was Ian McKellen,” said Reitan. The actor, who is also gay, was in town playing “King Lear,” hence the beard. “I think someone like Ian McKellen gets it on a level that other people just can?...
...still be in the third one. 3. Superman Returns…Because Kate Bosworth has two different colored eyes—which is weird. 4. X-Men: The Last Stand…Because who wouldn’t wanna watch an acrobatic, blue-haired Frasier fight Ian McKellen? 5. Click…Because we were all secretly hoping Billy Madison was a family man. Turns out, Big Daddy might be getting a visit from Social Services soon…or at least from an angry Roger Ebert. —Erin A. May ’09 is the outgoing...
...writer of high literary merit - Atonement was TIME's book of the year in 2001. Yes, I feel a personal karmic debit to McEwan, because I once misspelled his name as McKewan very publicly in print and feel guilty about it (I was thinking of Ian McKellen, OK?) One could haul out the usual verities about how all great writers steal, Shakespeare included, and how in the Middle Ages plagiarism wasn't even considered a bad thing, but it's really not necessary. The disparity between the greatness of McEwan?s achievement and the pettiness of this complaint is vertiginous...