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The big year-end movies are often solemn, sensitive items: women's work after 11 months of guy stuff. But Oliver Stone is alpha male incarnate, and his pictures, from Platoon to JFK to Any Given Sunday, are celebrations and autopsies of overweening machismo. Alexander, his first fiction film in...
But what makes this year different? Nothing really. Hollywood usually requires a major blockbuster drama or historical epic and one art-house gem, jewel, rhinestone or igneous rock to count on a successful awards season. It’s not that these categories aren’t around this year...
Unless The Phantom of the Opera turns out to be a winner (doubtful), I would predict that Alexander will go home with the top prize this year. The reasons are simple—the film is apparently quite watchable (not necessarily a requirement for a Best Picture winner if you?...
Foxx attributes the lack of good roles to a Hollywood slot system for black comics. "Will Smith has a slot," he says. "Martin Lawrence has a slot. Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, they all have slots. I needed to get a slot." (Foxx says this with no rancor; he believes white...
Football and vomiting are not as unrelated as they might seem. In Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, for example, Jamie Foxx’s character throws up on the field when he sees the enormity of the crowd. Nevertheless, the sight of a player vomiting in an...