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Main American actor, director, and novelist in full Ethan Green Hawke born Nov. 6, 1970, Austin, Texas, U.S. American actor, director, and novelist known for his versatility.

In Hollywood, the word "complicated" has two general meanings. The first refers to someone as "difficult" -- a pain-in-the-prat. The other refers to someone whose working process is intricate enough to try everyone's patience, but in the end delivers something good enough to make you glad they didn't hire someone else.

Artistic director Brigid Larmour has assembled a first-class company for Watford Palace Theatre's major revival of Charlotte Keatley's ground-breaking play My Mother Said I Never Should.

Twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact.

No matter what they're doing in "Y Tu Mama Tambien" - driving, eating, chasing pigs - it's always about sex.

Reviewing a film based on a book you haven't read is always a dicey proposition - you likely missed or misread the winks and nods aimed at the readers surrounding you - but I think an exception can be made in the case of a film that works because you haven't read the source material.

Perhaps not surprisingly, one of my favorite things about older movies is the fashion.

A rangy and intense character actor with a knack for playing taciturn authority figures, Chris Cooper found favor with audiences in the late 1990s and 2000s in such films as "Seabiscuit" , "The Bourne Supremacy".... A rangy and intense character actor with a knack for playing taciturn authority figures, Chris Cooper found favor with audiences in ...

Gwyneth Paltrow attends the Los Angeles premiere of ''Valentino: The Last Emperor'' at the Bing Theatre at LACMA on April 1, 2009 in Los Angeles WireImage Gwyneth Paltrow lights up the red carpet in Miami on November 14, 2008 AP Blythe Danner and daughter Gwyneth Paltrow attend the premiere of 'Valentino: The Last Emperor' at The Museum of Modern ...

Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish _ and she does it with an Iberian accent.

Things get even more time-warped than usual for Connor and his team when an anomaly opens in a junkyard and releases a dinosaur from the Cretaceous Era.

Celebrating the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival, the hair product brand of cosmetics company Amore Pacific of the same name shot a catalogue with actress Shin Min-a. The catalogue features various hairstyles recommended by Mise-en-scene in the manner of characters from five movies.

A modern equivalent of the young Jean Seberg, waifish, womanly Kim Dickens has made a reputation playing sexually powerful, even daunting characters.

When a review copy of this new Dickens monsterworks box set arrived in early May, the publicist nudged that it would make a dynamite Mother's Day gift.

Philip French sees a small-scale, British independent movie in which Jean Simmons plays a strong, poetry-loving widow How charming to greet in the same week a rerelease of one of the greatest Hollywood epics, Spartacus , starring Jean Simmons as the beautiful slave Varinia, and Shadows in the Sun, a small-scale, British independent movie in which ...

This week, we begin with two distinguished television series: BBC Worldwide Americas has assembled five of its polished productions of Charles Dickens' novels into one handsome boxed set .