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** Tom Cruise 'proposes for worker' **
Actor Tom Cruise appears on Portuguese TV to ask a factory worker to marry her
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -
Actor Hiroyuki Sanada said he came about half an inch from chopping off Tom Cruise (news)'s head with a sword while filming a fight scene for "The Last Samurai."
Sanada, who plays a samurai in the movie, said he was swinging a real sword when Cruise's mechanical horse malfunctioned and didn't fall down as planned.
"Tom's neck was right in front of me, and I tried to stop swinging my sword but it was hard to control with one hand," Sanada said.
When he finally stopped the sword, the blade was a mere half-inch from Cruise's neck, Sanada told reporters Thursday through a translator while promoting the film in Taipei.
"The film crew watching from the side all screamed because they thought Tom's head would fly off," said Sanada, using his hand to make a chopping motion to his neck.
He didn't say where or when the close call took place.
In "The Last Samurai," Cruise plays a Civil War veteran recruited to go to Japan to train soldiers to fight samurai, warriors who protected their feudal lords.
LONDON (Reuters) -
American Civil War epic "Cold Mountain"
is set to dominate Monday's British Academy Film Awards
nominations, after it garnered most mentions on the academy's
longlist.
BAFTA has released longlists of contenders in all 19
categories, with Cold Mountain, directed by Oscar-winning
British director Anthony Minghella (news) leading the charge.
A mix of drama, comedy and animation is hoping to grab a
slice of glory when the BAFTAs, Britain's equivalent of the
Oscars (news - web sites), are handed out on February 15.
Jude Law (news) and Nicole Kidman (news) are vying for best actor and
actress, while Philip Seymour Hoffman (news) and Renee Zellweger (news) are
longlisted for their supporting roles in Cold Mountain, which
is also hotly tipped to shine at the Oscars.
Cold Mountain is joined by British films "Calendar Girls"
and "Love Actually" as contenders for a best picture nomination
among a list of 15.
"The Return of the King" -- the final flick in the "Lord of
the Rings" trilogy -- and "Kill Bill" are also up for a best
film nomination. Other contenders include heartwarming horse
racing epic "Seabiscuit" and crime thriller "Mystic River."
A surprise inclusion in the best film category was the
oddball comedy "Station Agent," about a man born with dwarfism.
"The Last Samurai," starring Tom Cruise (news), was not included,
but he is in the running for a best actor nomination, BAFTA
said.
U.S. actress Scarlett Johansson (news) is featured twice on the
best actress longlist - for "Lost in Translation" and "Girl
With a Pearl Earring."
The youngest actress by far on the best actress list is
Keisha Castle-Hughes, who at 13 received critical acclaim for
her performance in "Whale Rider."
Animation also features among the list, with "Finding Nemo"
hoping to get a nomination for best screenplay.
Last year's BAFTA best picture winner was Holocaust film
"The Pianist."
British television comedian Ricky Gervais, star of cult
sitcom "The Office" might miss out on a chance to win an award
because the BBC, which screens the series, forgot to nominate
him.
Actor Tom Cruise has acted as cupid for a Portuguese couple, appearing on state television to implore a factory worker to marry her longtime cameraman boyfriend, it was reported.
According to the weekly newspaper Tal e Qual, Joao Martins, who works for Portuguese state broadcaster RTP, asked the star to make the plea after he met Cruise while covering the Spanish premiere of his latest blockbuster "The Last Samurai" in Madrid last Friday.
"Sonia, you have to marry Joao. Please marry Joao. He is crying behind the camera," Cruise said as he looked into the camera.
"Name your children after me," the actor added.
The cameraman was on the telephone with his girlfriend when Cruise's plea was broadcast on RTP later that same day and Sonia Braz immediately said yes to the marriage request, the paper reported. The couple plans to wed later this year.
Martins said he never imagined Cruise would agree to his request.
"All my girlfriend asked for was that I get his autograph," he told the paper.
Cruise often mingles with fans, and even takes calls on their mobile phones, during walkabouts before his movie premieres.
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"It is not the norm," SAG President Melissa Gilbert (news) told Reuters. "Actors understand the craft of acting. They have a deep appreciation of what an actor does to create a character, and that is what they vote for ... that is why you see performances picked from a variety of films."
Gilbert said the SAG Awards were "not a popularity contest," and added she believed the so-called "screener ban" this year, which kept many major studios from sending tapes of award-hopeful films to SAG voters, played a big role in boosting the visibility of independent film performances.
Leading up to the SAG nominations, big-name Hollywood actors like Tom Cruise (news) in "The Last Samurai," and Russell Crowe (news) in "Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World," as well as actresses such as Nicole Kidman (news) in "Cold
Mountain," were the leading candidates for acting honors.
Supporting actor nominations went to Alec Baldwin (news) for "The Cooler," Chris Cooper (news) in "Seabiscuit," Benicio Del Toro (news) in "21 Grams," Tim Robbins (news) in "Mystic River" and Ken Watanabe for "The Last Samurai."
Supporting actress nominees were Maria Bello (news) for "The Cooler," Keisha Castle-Hughes in "Whale Rider," Patricia Clarkson in "Pieces of April," Holly Hunter (news) in "Thirteen" and Renee Zellweger (news) for "Cold Mountain."
Zellweger's nomination was the only one for the Civil War epic as SAG voters chose to ignore stars Kidman and Jude Law (news).
Winners of this year's awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the trade union representing film and television actors and actresses, will be announced in Los Angeles on Feb. 22 and televised on cable TV network TNT. The Oscars (news - web sites) are on Feb. 29.
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rg21000 <rg21000@...> wrote:
In the DVD version of the movie Narc it looks like Jason Patric and Tom Cruise played a practical joke. At the end of the movie the actor playing the Nick Tellis character actually switches back and forth repeatedly between Patric and Cruise. It works because of the beard and hat.
You can have fun debating with your friends all night which exact shots are Patric and which are Cruise. We first see Cruise after Ray Liotta has been interrogating Busta Rhymes and then goes out to the car. On my DVD this is the very beginning of scene 13 at 115 minutes. We first see Cruise, but then the next shot quickly switches back to Patric (very tricky). After the Tellis character runs to shut the blue door and then runs over to Busta Rhymes it is most obviously Cruise playing the character. You can even tell by the voice when he says the
line "Look me in the eyes."
It remains Cruise for a while, but then switches back to Patric right before the scene cuts to Liotta opening the trunk of the car (with the line "cause he was dead").
It's Cruise again when Busta Rhymes is telling the story about the tunnel (about 118 minutes 24 seconds), but then suddenly Patric again.
During the scene between the two cops outside of the building it is very difficult to tell who is playing Tellis. It seems to switch back and forth.
At the end of the movie after Liotta dies, it is Cruise that stands up.
The key is to watch the nose. Patric's nose is completely straight and Cruise's has a bump. Cruise's face also has a slightly different shape, and he is a little shorter.
Is this just a practical joke, or merely a ploy to get more people to rent the movie? Either way have fun trying to figure it out, because it isn't easy. I don't know if we were
the first people to notice this, but we couldn't find any other references to it on the web.
The Tom
Cruise epic, to date enjoying something less than an epic award-show
season, reasserted itself in the Oscar race Monday, nabbing a key
nomination from the Producers Guild of America.
Cruise and
the Samurai team, including director/writer Edward Zwick (news), are up
for the guild's movie Producer of the Year honor.
With the
exception of Last Samurai, each film in that group is also up for
the Golden Globe for Best Drama.
The PGA Awards, handed out
annually since 1990, are among the best predictors of Oscar success.
Since Driving Miss Daisy was honored at the guild's first
ceremony, winners of Film Producer of the Year have gone on to capture
the Best Picture Academy Award 10 out of 14 times.
Last year
was no exception: Chicago's Marty Richards picked up the PGA in
early March and the Oscar a couple of weeks later.
PGA
nominations for Cold Mountain, Master and Commander,
Return of the King and Mystic River are the latest
award-show plaudits for the much-honored quartet. Seabiscuit's
builds on the horse-racing movie's lone, but key, Golden Globe
nomination.
Up until the PGAs, The Last Samurai had
been all but ignored by the season's powerbrokers, save for the American
Film Institute (news - web sites), which named the period film to its year-end 10-best
list.
The PGAs' seemingly uncanny ability to forecast
Oscar's Best Picture winner, if not its nominees, leaves Lost in
Translation, for once, at a loss.
Sofia Coppola (news)'s gentle
jet-lagged comedy, up for five Globes, including Best Comedy/Musical, is
arguably 2003's most-honored movie along with Mystic River. But
it didn't make the cut with PGA voters.
Neither did In
America. Jim Sheridan's heartbreaking, heartwarming tale of Irish
immigrants in New York City, clinging to two Globe nominations,
seemingly needs more momentum going into Oscar voting.
The
15th Annual PGA Awards, also honoring TV, are scheduled to be presented
January 17 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
Here's
a complete rundown at the nominations:
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer of the Year Award (film):
Cold
Mountain
The Last Samurai
The Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic
River
Seabiscuit
David L.
Wolper Producer of the Year Award (TV movie):
TAIPEI, Taiwan -
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada said Thursday that he came within an inch of chopping off Tom Cruise (news)'s head while filming the "Last Samurai."
Sanada said he was swinging a real sword during a fight scene with Cruise when the American film star's mechanical horse malfunctioned and didn't fall down as planned.
"Tom's neck was right in front of me, and I tried to stop swinging my sword, but it was hard to control with one hand," Sanada told reporters through a translator while promoting the film in Taipei, Taiwan.
Sanada said that when he finally stopped the sword, the blade was about half an inch from Cruise's neck.
"The film crew watching from the side all screamed because they thought Tom's head would fly off," Sanada said, using his hand to make a chopping motion to his neck.
In the movie, Cruise portrays a U.S. Civil War veteran recruited to go to Japan to train soldiers to fight samurai, warriors who protected their feudal lords.
Sanada, who plays a samurai, has starred in more than 50 films. He's also a stage actor who, in 1999, became the first Japanese actor to join the British Royal Shakespeare Company.
He won the Japanese Academy Award for best leading actor in 2002 for his role in "The Twilight Samurai."
Sanada didn't say where or when the close call took place.
Action thriller Mission Impossible 3 will be filmed on location in Europe!
Producer/star Tom Cruise and director Joe Carnahan (Narc) have decided to use locations in Antwerp, Prague, Berlin and Ghana.
Cruise will return for a 3rd time as IMF agent Ethan Hunt and Ving Rhames joining him again as Luther Stickell.
Oscar winning screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown) has produced the script and production will begin as soon as Cruise has finished with Michael Mann's thriller Collateral.
Cruise and Carnahan are now looking for a female lead for the movie which follows Brian De Palma's Mission Impossible (1996) and John Woo's Mission Impossible 2 (2000).
LOS ANGELES -
A second movie sent to Oscar voters has turned up on the Internet.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (news - web sites) announced the discovery of an unauthorized Internet copy of the Tom Cruise (news) film "The Last Samurai" on Tuesday, a day after announcing a probe into an unauthorized copy of "Something's Gotta Give," starring Diane Keaton (news) and Jack Nicholson (news).
Both Internet postings were setbacks for the anti-piracy campaign by the film industry, which has estimated that unauthorizied movie copying costs it $3.5 billion a year.
The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents studios, last year banned the distribution of so-called "screener" DVDs and videotapes over concerns about bootlegging, but it partly lifted the ban after complaints from filmmakers, producers and independent production companies.
The studios changed the policy in October to allow the shipment of encoded videocassettes to Academy Award voters only. Two months later, a federal judge granted a temporary injunction blocking the screener ban after independent production companies sued, arguing the policy put them at a disadvantage for awards.
The academy said that Warner Bros. had not identified a source of the Internet copy of "The Last Samurai." The movie, an East-West culture clash set in 19th century Japan, was in the top ten at the box office last week and has earned more than $97 million since it hit theaters last month.
Actor Carmine Caridi was identified by the Los Angeles Times as the intended recipient of the "Something's Gotta Give" copy that surfaced on the Internet last week. He declined comment to the newspaper.
Malcolm Cassell, Caridi's agent, said the 69-year-old "NYPD Blue" actor had hired an attorney and was "mightily embarrassed," though "vague and not forthcoming" when asked how a copy of the movie sent to him may have surfaced online.
The 5,803 Academy members eligible to vote this year were required to sign forms promising to protect their screener tapes. About 80 percent of them returned the forms, which include a stipulation that a violation is grounds for expulsion from the academy.
Academy members include actors, producers, directors and writers as well as public relations specialists, sound technicians and other industry executives, artists and craftspeople.
The Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 27 and awards presented Feb. 29.
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