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War Horse Star Jeremy Irvine on His Biggest of Big Breaks

Drew Barrymore. Christian Bale. Bruce the Shark. It’s an elite class of young talent that has found launching pads in the films of Steven Spielberg. And while Jeremy Irvine is a little older than those actors who preceded him, you can go ahead and add the 21-year-old to the list thanks to his breakthrough in Spielberg epic Oscar hopeful War Horse .

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War Horse Star Jeremy Irvine on His Biggest of Big Breaks

Smug New Yorker Critic Somehow Manages to Compel Sympathy For Scott Rudin

This kind of silly public skirmish seems a little too convenient to just naturally occur in a week when The Artist and War Horse are dominating awards chatter, but either way, stroppy megaproducer Scott Rudin is furious with The New Yorker for breaking a review embargo on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo . Who can blame him, especially since critic David Denby — along with the rest of the members of the New York Film Critics Circle who saw the film before voting last week — signed an agreement assenting to hold his review until Dec. 13 at the earliest? Or maybe the more important question is: Why should you care? I can think of a few reasons, chief among them being that Denby’s excuse for breaking his word is hilarious .

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Smug New Yorker Critic Somehow Manages to Compel Sympathy For Scott Rudin