Blonsky leaps to `Hairspray' stardom
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From the first time she saw "Hairspray" on Broadway, Nikki Blonsky was dying to play its plump, sparkling teen heroine, Tracy Turnblad.
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Director Bhaskar on his hugely successful first film and his dreams for the future.
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OK, not exactly. But with Jude Law seemingly reprising the womanizing bounder he plays in the fast-fading âAlfieâ and with Julia Roberts emanating icicles as a chillier-than-usual version of her patented
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There&#39;s plenty to be mystified about in Spacey&#39;s role in the new film &quot;Beyond the Sea,&quot; a biopic about pop singer Bobby Darin.
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It has happened so many times before. Avant-garde directors who start off with committed actors suddenly start bothering about commercial considerations and change loyalties.
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Spurred by the success of John Travolta's drag act in the comedy   "Hairspray", a number of Bollywood directors are planning to put their leading men into ladies' clothes.   Shaad Randhawa is the latest to do so in Shashi Ranjan's "Dhoom Dhadaka".
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Sure, The Polar Express might feature some groundbreaking   animation techniques and a heaping helping of Tom Hanks. But, as far as   the neighborhood megaplex was concerned, the 'toon wasn't that   incredible.
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Late music legend Bobby Darin took center stage at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday with the world premiere of "Beyond the Sea," Kevin Spacey's impassioned biopic of the "Mack the Knife" singer.
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A cartoon bear and deer talked their way to the top of the box office as Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher's animated comedy "Open Season" debuted with $23 million. Kutcher also finished in second place with Disney's "The Guardian," in which he co-stars with Kevin Costner as Coast Guard rescue swimmers. The action drama opened with $17.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Harvey Fierstein is making the leap from doing drag to doing deedle-deedle-dum in the role of Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof."
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He's played stone cold killers, sexy leading men and military heroes, but John Travolta figures his best role yet may just be the woman he portrays in movie musical "Hairspray."
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HOLLYWOOD - Big stars and even bigger robots invaded Hollywood Boulevard Tuesday night for the premiere of &quot;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
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âHey Girl!â offers a rare opportunity for East Coast audiences to see Romeo Castellucciâs work.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The flamboyant retro musical "Hairspray" on Thursday won a record 11 nominations for the Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain's top theatre prizes.
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Tim Burton brings a cinematic freshness to Sondheim's musical about a serial-killer barber.
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Chuck Klosterman is flabbergasted that some consider him &#151; like many of his subjects &#151; a celebrity.
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Richard Corliss on Brian Stokes Mitchell, BroadwayÂs charismatic almost-star