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... snagging the coveted role of arch-villain Loki in "Thor", the Marvel Comics movie of 2010, directed by Kenneth Branagh. While it's a bad idea to tempt the gods - and especially, the capricious Norse gods - the chatter is now suggestive of a young ... Comment?
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Kenneth Branagh is set to return to BBC One as angst-ridden Swedish detective Kurt Wallander on 3 January. Comment?
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Young tenor sings the praises of opera as 'best-kept secret' of entertainment
... world's greatest opera houses, singing lead in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette. He made his film debut as lead in Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute, after the British actor and director heard him sing in a role that lasted just minutes. And he's a ... Comment?
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No guilty theater pleasures as you strive for Saintliness in 2010
... last year and 20 years during the much-missed Chicago International Theater Festival some of us got to meet Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. In Chicago, it's more of a seeing-them-before-they-were-famous sort of thing, like William Petersen or ... Comment?
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... plays, either explicitly or in a loose 'updated' sense, that it's often tough to separate the wheat (Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet) from the chaff (Mel Gibson's slightly earlier attempt), the straight adaptations (Romeo + Juliet) to the quirky ... Comment?
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Movies for the New Year
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... which a Broadway star shoots her husband on New Years and then attempts to cover up the crime. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and written in part by Rita Rudner is the British drama Peter's Friends , starring Hugh Laurie , Kenneth Branagh , Stephen Fry ... Comment?
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Wide World of Xtreme Sports
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... untellable, as demonstrated by the filmed dramatizations, including an IMAX treatment and hours and hours of Kenneth Branagh. Every film has left out significant details, because the producers were worried it was all just too much for audiences to ... Comment?
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Confirmed: Rene Russo Is Thor's Step-Mom
Toward the end of November, it was getting hard to keep up with the news about Kenneth Branagh's Thor . Comment?
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... also found their way into the Hall of Fame: David Tennant for his groundbreaking RSC performance of Hamlet , Kenneth Branagh for bringing the Bard to the big screen ... and even Leonardo DiCaprio for making Shakespeare cool. Just take a look at the ... Comment?
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Thor Writers Trade Hammers For Fangs
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... Days Later -type setting. The writing team of Miller and Stentz are just coming off penning the script for Kenneth Branagh's Thor , set for release May 20, 2011. They've also lent their hands to the J.J. Abrams created Fringe as well as The Sarah ... Comment?
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Tobey Maguire: From Spider-Man to war vet
... - of a hammer-throwing Norse god named Thor. Filming begins next February or March. Thor will be directed by Kenneth Branagh, who has, of course, played his own share of immortals in Hamlet and Henry V. Incidentally, Brothers co-star Jake Gyllenhaal ... Comment?
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Celebrity birthdays on Dec. 10
... Actress Susan Dey is 57. Actor Michael Clarke Duncan is 52. Musician Paul Hardcastle is 52. Actor-director Kenneth Branagh is 49. Actress Nia Peeples is 48. TV chef Bobby Flay is 45. Country singer Kevin Sharp is 39. Drummer Meg White of The White ... Comment?
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The Old Black Is the New Black
... stature should tackle the role of a black South African. In the way British actors must play a Southerner (Kenneth Branagh in The Gingerbread Man , Cate Blanchett in The Gift - yes, Blanchett is Australian, but let's overlook that), black-American ... Comment?
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... would have been hard to imagine the possibility of a dull movie with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, and Bill Nighy; but then I went to Pirate Radio. Skywatch Show me someone celebrating a birthday this week and we will meet ... Comment?
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Steampunk: Reclaiming Tech for the Masses
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... and clockwork mechanisms in Philip Pullman's alt-Victorian The Golden Compass. Recall the steam-driven, Kenneth Branagh--piloted arachnid colossus in Will Smith's Wild Wild West. Instead of fading away, steampunk has gotten increasingly intense and ... Comment?
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Extreme makeover: Shakespeare edition
... not trapped in time. Laurence Olivier could make a convincing 'Henry V'' to boost wartime morale in 1944 and Kenneth Branagh could make an equally convincing movie casting a more skeptical eye on war in 1989. In Brustein's play, some of ... Comment?
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See you later, Spidey: Tobey Maguire tackles role as a war vet
... - of a hammer-throwing Norse god named Thor. Filming begins next February or March. Thor will be directed by Kenneth Branagh, who has, of course, played his own share of immortals in Hamlet and Henry V. Incidentally, Brothers co-star Jake Gyllenhaal ... Comment?
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Silencing a celebrated man of words
KENNETH Branagh has come through the acting equivalent of the bends. For years, the Irish actor/director has been a wordy presence on stage and film, due largely to his rich experience performing Shakespeare. Comment?
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This 'Hamlet' lacks drama and emotional connection
... is drama of the highest order and entertainment of the sort that makes the MGM lion roar. For that reason, Kenneth Branagh's interpretation in the 1996 movie, which he also directed, left me breathless. Set against the exterior of Blenheim Palace, ... Comment?
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Stage Struck: Love's Labors
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... the stage. The production uses traditional costuming, music and dance - no postmodern revisioning here, a la Kenneth Branagh's camped-up 2000 movie version, done as a 1930s musical with Gershwin and Porter songs. But the Globe's staging still ... Comment?
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