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21 hrs ago | Playbill

Academy Award Winner Thompson to Pen Screenplay for "My Fair Lady" Remake

Two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson has signed on to help create the remake of the classic film "My Fair Lady," which is based on the Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe musical of the same name.

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Thu Jul 24, 2008

Playbill

Academy Award Winner Thompson to Pen Screenplay for "My Fair Lady" Remake

Two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson has signed on to help create the remake of the classic film "My Fair Lady," which is based on the Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe musical of the same name.

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Sat Jul 12, 2008

Wait til i tell ye

new work by some of the best and most exciting voices in Ireland today

A week of short stories on the theme of 'Families and Communities' by five renowned Irish writers, recorded live at this year's Belfast Festival at Queen's. For the fourth year running, BBC Northern Ireland ...

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Fri Jun 06, 2008

The West Australian

Star Sheppard's Aussie dream

Australian films may not have Hollywood budgets but they are among the best in the world, says British-born US television actor Mark Sheppard.

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Sun May 18, 2008

Playbill

Oscar Winner Day-Lewis in Talks for Nine Film

Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis may head the cast of the Rob Marshall-helmed screen adaptation of the award-winning Maury Yeston-Arthur Kopit musical Nine.

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Fri May 16, 2008

Hereford Times

Director to make NI Troubles drama

“It's a big commitment. You wouldn't get a lot of money for it because it's a little corner of the world and a problem that's over. But just for me, that's the kind of thing I'd like to see”

Acclaimed film director Jim Sheridan plans to make a major television drama series which he says will hammer a nail into the coffin of the conflict in Northern Ireland. via Hereford Times

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Wed Apr 09, 2008

Rotten Tomatoes

RT on DVD: There Will Be Blood Drinks Lions for Lambs, Dewey Cox's Milkshakes

P. T. Anderson's Oscar-winning oil opus There Will Be Blood hits shelves this week, so if you missed Daniel Day-Lewis' astounding turn as the prospector with a heart as black as crude in theaters, now's the ... via Rotten Tomatoes

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Sun Mar 30, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Rebecca Miller's private lives

“They're from Topshop. I love their tights.”

The burden of expectation has always lain heavily on Rebecca Miller, the wife and daughter of eminent and notoriously needy artists. via Telegraph.co.uk

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Tue Mar 18, 2008

Journal Gazette

Model performance for - Bank Job' star

“The classes began to mix in a new way. You feel these worlds spiraling toward each other.”

As the streetwise ex-model Martine Love in "The Bank Job," Saffron Burrows and her cheekbones bewitch a ramshackle trio from her old neighborhood into pulling off a seemingly impossible bank heist, tunneling ... via Journal Gazette

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Sun Mar 16, 2008

The Sunday Mail

I'd Betray My Parents If I Didn't Do The Right Thing

HELENA KENNEDY learned about justice the hard way growing up in a council tenement flat in Scotland. via The Sunday Mail

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Mon Mar 10, 2008

Associated Content

The Movies of Daniel DayLewis

Daniel Day-Lewis, just recently won his 2nd Beat Actor Oscar for his work in There Will Be Blood. via Associated Content

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Fri Mar 07, 2008

AskMen

Saffron Burrows - Credit: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com

“I don't always want a big meal after work -- just some crisps and wine!”

At six feet tall and with a slender frame, Saffron Burrows is something of a guy magnet. via AskMen

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Mon Mar 03, 2008

Detroit Free Press

Oscar winners at their best on DVD

Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton just won Oscars for performances that weren't their best -- at least in the eyes of this critic. via Detroit Free Press

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Sat Mar 01, 2008

BBC

Day-Lewis gets best actor Oscar

“Seeing you climb into that rubber batsuit from Batman and Robin, the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch... You rock, man.”

Day-Lewis had been odds-on favourite to win the prize Daniel Day-Lewis has been named best actor at the Academy Awards for his powerful performance in oil prospecting drama There Will Be Blood. via BBC

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Thu Feb 28, 2008

The Hindu

Daniel's Day in the sun

“A Room with a View (1986, a Merchant-Ivory film based on a novel by E. M. Forster, it won BAFTA Award for 'Best Picture'), 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

Appreciation Daniel Day-Lewis won dual honour this year for ' There Will Be Blood,' by receiving BAFTA's Best Actor award and the Oscar gold. via The Hindu

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Tue Feb 26, 2008

Earth Times

PROFILE: Daniel Day-Lewis: Best Actor for There Will Be Blood

“What I see in the characters, I first try to see in life.”

British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, who won the best actor Oscar Sunday for his role as an insanely-driven oil entrepreneur in the movie There Will Be Blood, is known for an uncanny ability to translate impossible ... via Earth Times

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Sun Feb 24, 2008

Reuters

Daniel Day-Lewis wins Best Actor Oscar

Daniel Day-Lewis won his second Oscar on Sunday for his role as a vicious early 20th century oil entrepreneur in the drama "There Will Be Blood." Day-Lewis, 50, has swept this year's awards season with a ... via Reuters

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Sat Feb 23, 2008

NZ Herald

A very British invasion of the Oscars

View as a single page 10:35AM Sunday February 24, 2008 By Jonathan Romney and Neil Norman Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie lead the charge, with each battling tonight for a second Oscar. via NZ Herald

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Tue Feb 19, 2008

Reuters

No sure Oscar bets

“Gangs of New York". This awards season, he has earned numerous honors playing a sadistic, early 20th century oil prospector in dark drama "There Will Be Blood”

For weeks, Britons Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie have looked like sure bets to win the coveted best actor and actress Academy Awards, but in the days ahead of Sunday's gala ceremony, momentum has shifted. via Reuters

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Related Topix: Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot, Drama, Biography Movies, George Clooney, Oscars

Mon Feb 18, 2008

Blog, Jvstin Style

Movie Review 2008 #22: The Age of Innocence

Martin Scorsese's first attempt at an "Oscar bait" period epic, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder as upper crust socialites in 1870's New York City. via Blog, Jvstin Style

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