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...starry-eyed fan. When he looks at these posters, you can be sure he sees his own reflection on the glass encasing them. His breakthrough film, The Sixth Sense, which featured Willis in the lead, was about as big as Hollywood hits come: it garnered six Oscar nominations (including two for Shyamalan, for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) and grossed more than $600 million at the box office worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing film ever. Shyamalan wants to build on that success, and he'll get his first shot to do so with the release this week...
...There are more gay characters on TV now, but they're mostly clowns or eunuchs," says Ron Cowen, who executive produces the show and co-wrote the pilot with his life partner, Daniel Lipman. The two have battled the networks to get gay characters on the air since they wrote the Emmy-winning An Early Frost, the first TV movie about aids, back in 1985. When they created NBC's Sisters in 1991, says Lipman, they tried unsuccessfully to make one of the leads gay. So they were attracted by the British QAF's "unapologetic" attitude--about things like drug...
Shyamalan wrote Unbreakable, the story of a man who survives a horrific train wreck and the stranger he encounters afterward, with two actors in mind: Willis (as the survivor) and Jackson (as the stranger). He was drawn to Willis for his Everyman quality and to Jackson for his incantatory elocution. Jackson returns the compliment. "[Shyamalan] knows how to use language," says the actor. "He gives characters an opportunity to express themselves. They tell you how they feel about certain things, how they feel about certain people, how they feel about themselves. But he also doesn't do it in such...
Family matters are close to his heart. He and his wife Bhavna, who is studying to earn a Ph.D. in child psychology, have two children, ages 1 and 4. Shyamalan says he lives in the Philadelphia area because it puts distance between his work and Hollywood and keeps his perspective fresh. He also shoots his movies in the area so that he can be with his family. "I'm there to take the kids to school and put them to bed 330 days out of the year," he says. "This life can get so overwhelming. You have to protect your...
...wine cellar yet. But the group seems tired of being the liquid refreshment of choice on schoolkids' lunch trays. The Boys' new CD, Black & Blue (Jive), is a half-hearted attempt to leave the never-never land of teen pop for the always-always land of established pop icons. Two of the boys (Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson) are married, and the entire group (rounded out by Nick Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough) seems to have more than puppy love in mind. You get the sense that, like most teen bands, they'd like to be more sophisticated, they...