Oh no! Julia Roberts couldn't do it; nor could Amanda Peet or Denzel Washington. And it looks like Katie Holmes' chance to do it was over before it even began. But we had such high hopes for Morgan Freeman! He was supposed to be The One, the major movie star that would take Broadway by storm with a performance hailed by critics and ticket buyers alike. Alas, it was not to be:
… if Mr. Freeman [in The Country Girl] was still unsure of his lines, it was undetectable in the performance I saw, which exuded a low-key confidence and charm. (This is not, I hasten to point out, what the part requires at all times.) And if you compare this version’s script with Odets’s published text, the deletions and discrepancies don’t change the sense of things, though the word substitutions are often bizarrely capricious. I would happily have put up with flubbed lines if real runaway feelings accompanied them.
…
In theater as in film Mr. Freeman is a quietly commanding presence. When Frank auditions for Bernie, the producer (Chip Zien) and the playwright (Remy Auberjonois) in the opening scene and begins improvising, you get a flash of the wild-card artistry that makes Bernie prize him. Otherwise he seems natural, affable, occasionally irritable, but not like a man wrestling with demons.
Heidi Montag — fool, laughingstock, starlet — has told reporters that she would not consider doing a Hills movie were it an option; partly because of her spiteful loathing of good-girl costar Lauren Conrad, but also because she says she's way past such juvenile acting work. "I've never discussed a movie possibility for The Hills…and I'm not sure if for my first movie I'd let Lauren Conrad narrate me," said Heids, cattily. "If I was doing movies, I'd want it to be with Denzel Washington or something like that." Something like that!
Today, for some reason, Page Six takes great issue with inaccuracies found in the film The Great Debaters, the semi-true story about America's first championship, black debate team.
Besides the fact that it's a movie about black people, the Sixers are also steaming mad that, for the film, director Denzel Washington chose Harvard to be the home of America's reigning debate champions. In actuality, it was the University of Southern California. Why this matters to the New York Post we do not know.
And then there's this: "In another glaring error, the black team couldn't even have called themselves victors as they did in the movie because blacks were not truly considered part of college debating circles until after World War II." OH! So even though they did win, they couldn't say they did, because people didn't even acknowledge their humanity until the 50s, and animals can't be winners. Thanks, Page Six.
The results of the recent Harris Poll taken to garner the US's favorite movie star has proven that Americans have room in their hearts for both humble black people and virulent bigots.
Knocking Tom Hanks down a peg to second and topping this year's list for God-knows-what reason was Denzel Washington, despite the fact that his last movie was a mix of Minority Report, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, City of Angels and schlock. Here's some dialogue:
Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington): What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?
Claire Kuchever (Love Interest): I'd try.
Ewwwwwwwwwwww.
Breaking in at number five was America's other fave (non-threatening) black actor, Will Smith. The kicker is that Mel "Jews are responsible for all the wars" Gibson tied with Johnny Depp for seventh, beating out Harrison Ford and George Clooney. WHAAAAAAT THE EFFFFF?! Thank goodness Mengele didn't work much this year. I heard he's a real diva on the set.
[Source]
Editor
