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See this article at: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=115596 Pianist Takes Top Baftas Feb 23, 10:29 PM EST (Associated Press) -- =/movies/movie.aspx?m=37186 class="art"><EM>The Pianist</EM>, =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=338079 class="art">Roman Polanski's searing film about a young Polish musician's fight for survival during the Holocaust, won best film Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards. Polanski also took best director. In an evening in which the wealth was generously, and often unexpectedly, spread around, Oscar front-runners =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=75060 class="art">Nicole Kidman and =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=305194 class="art">Daniel Day-Lewis won top acting prizes for their performances in =/movies/movie.aspx?m=531136 class="art"><EM>The Hours</EM> and =/movies/movie.aspx?m=27501 class="art"><EM>Gangs of New York</EM>, respectively. Two other Oscar hopefuls took "Baftas" in the supporting actor and actress categories: =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=288056 class="art">Christopher Walken as a con man's defeated father in =/movies/movie.aspx?m=103962 class="art"><EM>Catch Me If You Can</EM> and an exuberant =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=124649 class="art">Catherine Zeta-Jones as the high-kicking murderess, Velma Kelly, in =/movies/movie.aspx?m=532814 class="art"><EM>Chicago</EM>. Zeta-Jones, a popular choice among the audience at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema, used a broad Welsh brogue to thank her parents in Swansea, South Wales, where she is from. Polanski, the Paris-born Polish director, was a mighty presence at the ceremony even in his absence. The film's American star, =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=328036 class="art">Adrien Brody, accepted the best director prize on Polanski's behalf, saying he was "a brilliant filmmaker ... (who) over time has had an enormous amount of loss in his life." A child of the Holocaust, Polanski, 69, later suffered the murder of first wife Sharon Tate in 1969. "I appreciate you, Roman," Brody said, "and you deserve this." <EM>The Pianist</EM> also won seven Cesar awards in France, including best film and best director, on Saturday. An awareness of the world at large was sounded by Spanish director =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=71629 class="art">Pedro Almodovar, whose latest film, =/movies/movie.aspx?m=528441 class="art"><EM>Talk To Her</EM>, took two prizes: best film not in the English language and best original screenplay. Remarking from the stage that "cinema and war are two very different things," Almodovar said while accepting the first of his two trophies that, in movies, "even darkness is made of light," as opposed to the contemporary "army of darkness" that, at the moment, is intent on war, he said. In an evening in which no one film dominated proceedings, =http://entertainment.msn.com/netcal/?netcal=119 class="art"><EM>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</EM> took the most awards — visual effects, costumes and Orange Film of the Year, given by the cell phone company, Orange, to the most popular movie in Britain during 2002. Orange sponsors the British Academy Awards. <EM>Chicago</EM> and <EM>Gangs of New York</EM> received 24 nominations between them but won only three awards, while <EM>The Hours</EM>, with 11 nominations, won only for Kidman's portrayal of Virginia Woolf and composer Philip Glass's surging score. The critically acclaimed =/movies/movie.aspx?m=157165 class="art"><EM>Adaptation</EM> — which was screened for Bafta members but has yet to open commercially in Britain — beat <EM>The Hours</EM> to take best adapted screenplay for brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman. Since Donald Kaufman is an invention of the writer and does not exist, and Charlie Kaufman was unable to attend, the prize was accepted by the film's co-star, =/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=36848 class="art">Meryl Streep. "How thrilling not to have it be about me," joked Streep, who went on to read aloud a fax from Kaufman that constituted the night's funniest comic turn. "This man is out of his mind," laughed Streep as she made her way through Kaufman's thanks. See this article at: http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=134575 Hairspray' Launches National Tour in Md. Sep 18, 3:13 PM EST This city was proud of "Hairspray" from the minute it premiered on Broadway — long before the near-unanimous chorus of ecstatic reviews, the months of sellout crowds and the eight Tony awards. And now Baltimore has been repaid for its support. "Hairspray," the musical adaptation of John Waters' 1988 film about a chubby East Baltimore girl who achieves her dream of dancing on a local sock-hop television show, launched its national tour Wednesday night before a raucous audience at the Mechanic Theatre. They cheered the rats that crawl in front of Tracy Turnblad's Formstone row house; they laughed when Edna Turnblad entices her husband with the line, "The Orioles may score tonight." And when Tracy wins a scholarship to Essex Community College, the uproarious response drowned out the punch line. "This is a real feather in the city's cap, to have the national tour start here," said Norton Michaelson of the Mount Washington area of Baltimore, who was seeing the show for the first time. Veteran comedy writer and stage performer Bruce Vilanch steps into Harvey Fierstein's size 13 pumps as Edna, and 19-year-old Carly Jibson, who plays Tracy, is a total unknown, as was Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur when she was cast. "In both instances, they were chosen right away," said producer Margo Lion, a Baltimore native. "It wasn't that hard, to be honest. There's a lot of talent out there." The national tour is scheduled to run for two years, with performances in Canada and Australia also booked. "Hairspray" will ultimately play in Europe and Japan, Lion said. Lion attended the premiere, along with Waters, composer Marc Shaiman, lyricist Scott Wittman and other luminaries. They walked on stage during a five-minute standing ovation at the close of the show, and Waters dedicated the performance to the memory of Buddy Deane, the television deejay from whose show Waters drew his inspiration. Deane died July 16. His widow, Helen, was in the audience. Despite the story's big-hearted themes about acceptance of all races and body types, many on the "Hairspray" team are still amazed that a cult film by a director dubbed the "pope of trash" could be transformed into an overwhelmingly popular family entertainment. Pat Moran, the casting director for nearly all of Waters' films, marvels the movie was ever made at all. "You have to think back to 1987," she said. "I don't think it was exactly safe moviemaking to make a musical, set in the '60s, about racism in Baltimore, and starring a man playing a woman. It all seems so benign now, but it wasn't then." Waters doesn't believe his material has become dated as much as audiences have grown to understand it. "It's still about a fat girl. All my movies are about fat girls that might have been played by men," Waters said. "And the biggest love song in it is between two men. I haven't changed — you all have!" Perhaps as a result, Waters appears on the verge of becoming a name brand on Broadway. "Hairspray" co-producers Elan McAllister and Allan Gordon are developing a musical based on Waters' 1990 "Cry-Baby" that they hope will premiere in two years. "He creates wonderful, offbeat characters that are perfect for musical theater," McAllister said. The Baltimore premiere followed a week of previews, and "Hairspray" will leave town after Sunday's performance, making the first stops in its nationwide tour. The following dates have been set through the end of November: Hartford, Conn., Sept. 23-Oct. 5; Boston, Oct. 7-Nov. 2; Providence, R.I., Nov. 4-16; Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 18-30. "This is a big, fun, family show. That should work in Kansas just as well as it works in Manhattan or Baltimore," Lion said. ——— On the Net: http://hairsprayontour.com |
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