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From Brian’s Song to Terms of Endearment, Cancer’s 5 Greatest Screen Performances

Posted on September 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Single-named phenomenon Cancer has a deservedly chilly reputation outside of Hollywood, but in films, the heterogeneous class of diseases inhabits a world all its own as a performer, provocateur and villain. In this week’s 50/50 , Cancer arrives with a harrumph and lingers like a noxious haze, making it the Joan Crawford of 2011. This begs the question: What are Cancer’s five greatest performances in cinema? The answer will force you into a beautiful monologue.

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Fast Five Director Justin Lin Already Has 12 Minutes of Fast Six in the Can

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Director Justin Lin had no idea how well his supercharged sequel Fast Five would go on to perform back when he was filming it — but he prepped, shot, and cut a 12-minute sequence for a sixth Fast & Furious film (his next upcoming production) just in case: “I already have a 12-minute sequence done. I did it just as an exercise. I had it done before we were finished with Fast Five , actually. So I wanted to do that just to have it there and to be honest with you, I didn’t know if I was going to do a Fast Six . I didn’t know if people were going to embrace Fast Five and we were going to have an opportunity. But I felt like I really wanted to make sure that the last scene, which I had talked to Vin [Diesel] about countless times — I wanted to make sure that was done.” [ Box Office Magazine ]

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Who Should Play Andrew Garfield’s Brother Happy in Broadway’s Death of a Salesman Reboot?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

One of the grimmest plays of the 20th century, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman , is returning to Broadway with Mike Nichols as director and a star-studded cast next spring: Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is slated to play the tragic protagonist Willy Loman, Linda Emond will play his wife, and Social Network Perkins doppelganger Andrew Garfield will play Willy’s son Biff, which makes perfect sense because Garfield has the Malkovichian hair flip . That leaves Willy’s other son Happy up for casting. Who should it be?

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Allison Janney on Mr. Sunshine, Matthew Perry’s Helpful Insults, and Missing Aaron Sorkin

Posted on January 11, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Allison Janney returns to primetime Feb. 9 on the ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine , playing Matthew Perry’s unpredictable boss. The four-time Emmy champ will exercise the comic chops she brought to Juno and Hairspray , dotting her punchlines with classic C.J. Cregg smarts. We caught up with Janney at the TCA press tour in Pasadena and discussed Mr. Perry’s candid commentary, her love-hate relationship with auditions, and her response to West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue in The Social Network .

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Catching Up with George Segal About Mike Nichols and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Rehearsals

Posted on June 11, 2010 by | Leave a comment

At Thursday’s AFI tribute to Mike Nichols, famous faces from the director’s 50-year career in film, theater and television filled the red carpet. Before the ceremony, we caught up with George Segal, the actor who shot to prominence with an Oscar nomination in Nichols’ first film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf . We asked Segal about his then-green director, memories of Woolf with his Oscar-winning co-star Sandy Dennis, and the specifics on his new TVL and show Retired at 35 .