Of all the conversations encircling The Social Network on its way to awards-season glory, few have had the surprising resonance accompanying Armie Hammer's performance at Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- identical twins who go to war against their Harvard peer Mark Zuckerberg for the rights to Facebook. A marvel of both technical acting and digital wizardry, Hammer's dual performance is all the more revelatory for the relatively unheralded 24-year-old actor who pulled it off. And to think we indirectly owe it all to Home Alone.
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Geoffrey Rush is well aware that he is one letter (the "G") away from winning an EGOT -- the acronym popularized on the television show 30 Rock meaning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Of course, this awards season, a Grammy win for Rush seems about as unlikely a bet as it would be to bet against his nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in The King's Speech -- which is about as close to a sure thing as there can be. Not bad for a performance that that was inspired indirectly, of all things, by Crocodile Dundee.
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Tyne Stecklein's having a pretty wild week: Her film Burlesque -- in which she plays a specialty dancer named Jesse -- opened today, and she also performed with her Burlesque co-star Christina Aguilera on Dancing with the Stars and at the American Music Awards. You can add those experiences to Stecklein's list impressive feats: She used to dance with Cher during her Vegas show, and she even rehearsed with Michael Jackson for his "This Is It" tour shortly before his death. Movieline caught up with the 21-year-old dancer/actress yesterday to see how her breakneck schedule is treating her.
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By now, you've probably been seeing ads for a pretty surreal looking cowboy-samurai movie called The Warrior's Way, starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate Bosworth. If it feels like it came out of nowhere, that's basically because it did. Or, not exactly "nowhere," but rather the year 2007. Movieline recently spoke to Rush about his more celebrated role in The King's Speech -- arriving Friday in limited release -- but his comments on what exactly happened with The Warrior's Way were quite enlightening.
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Writer-director Steven Antin would like to set a few stories straight. First, he wasn't born in Portland. He's a native New Yorker who grew up in Los Angeles, where he and his now-famous siblings -- stylist Jonathan, Pussycat Dolls founder Robin, actor Neil -- all wound up working in showbiz. Antin barely knew Cher before she agreed to star in his new film, Burlesque, though they both reportedly dated music mogul David Geffen at different times, years ago. And contrary to the notion that he's come out of nowhere to direct the razzle-dazzliest film of the holiday season, Antin's an industry veteran who's spent a lot of time hustling to bring his passion project to the big screen after a career in which he's gone from teen movie actor to indie filmmaker to television producer and beyond.
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Tom Hooper isn't ready to talk about his Oscar chances just yet. As he points out, The King's Speech, already a critical darling, has yet to make a dollar at the box-office. But that hasn't stopped the prognosticators from predicting at least some Oscar gold for The King's Speech -- not a bad situation at all for a guy who got his start directing a Right Said Fred Sega commercial (yes, that Right Said Fred).
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The first time you probably saw 14-year-old actor Jimmy Bennett was when he was jumping out of a plummeting car in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek as "Young James T. Kirk." The funny thing about Bennett though is that he's been an active member of Hollywood since his sixth birthday, appearing opposite such heavy hitters as Harrison Ford, Steve Carell, Bruce Willis, Ryan Reynolds and Eddie Murphy. How did you spend your childhood?
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Frustrated by so many tangled conspiracies and unanswered questions about NBC's The Event? Clifton Collins Jr., who you might know as one of the Vegan Police from this summer's Scott Pilgrim or Perry Smith from Capote plays shadowy, calculating Thomas on the freshman sci-fi series. He stayed pretty tight-lipped about any plot details, but after the jump, he spills about the transition to television and how to keep spoilers in check.
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Do not call The King's Speech a period piece -- at least not around its star Colin Firth. And this is a guy who knows a thing or two about labels -- an actor who has long since shed the baggage of being the fantasy of every adolescent girl who ever saw Pride and Prejudice. As Firth mentions, he's quite happy he's at an age (he just turned 50) where it's his work as an actor that's being judged -- judgment that paid off with his first Oscar nomination last year for A Single Man and what will surely be his second nomination this year for The King's Speech.
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HBO's sprawling Boardwalk Empire is a character actor aficionados dream come true; after all, the lead is Steve Buscemi. So it isn't all that surprising to see someone like Michael Shannon killing scenes on a weekly basis. The very definition of "that guy" -- having appeared in everything from Revolutionary Road to World Trade Center to Bad Boys II -- Shannon stars as Agent Nelson Van Alden, a G-Man looking to keep both alcohol sales and his sexual desires bottled up during the era of Prohibition. The Oscar-nominated star rang up Movieline to discuss his role, the way Boardwalk Empire treats its ladies, and just what he made of that now infamous self-flagellation scene.
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Now that Lifetime's Project Runway is over, Bravo's reclaiming its fashionista flair with the stellar The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection. Legendary fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi sits on a distinguished and fearsome judging panel on the design competition series, bandying opinions with no-nonsense supermodel Iman and the shrewd Laura Brown. He even mentors the competing designers at the top of each episode. Now, Movieline will catch up with Mizrahi each week about what we don't get to hear on The Fashion Show -- his full arguments for and against the fashions that end up walking the runway. Join us as the enlightening Mizrahi talks about House of Nami's "creepy" collection and Emerald Syx's "crowd-pleasing" melange.
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Erin Andrews started our weekly Dancing with the Stars recap interview with the following greeting: "Um. Hello?!" It was appropriate: We've officially reached the finale of the most insane DWTS season ever. Join us as we chat with the ESPN heroine about last night's elimination, her feelings about the final three, and the flood of (unjustified) hate-Tweets she's received about the outcome.
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Elizabeth Banks is terrified of going to prison. The self described "goody two shoes" knows that anyone is just one little moment away from an event -- she cites Brandy's traffic accident as an example -- that can mutate into something far more sinister, changing the course of a person's life forever.
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When Isabelle Huppert, arguably the world's greatest screen actress, needs a minute to send a text message before your interview, you comply. Not necessarily out of deference or politeness (though those things, too), but because of the dazzling daydream potential. Is she sending script notes to Michael Haneke, planning their next collaboration? you may think. Who's she arranging a lunch date with? I guess it can't be Claude Chabrol... And on and on.
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After a dozen years of consistent emceeing, Tom Bergeron remains one of TV's best and funniest hosts. On Hollywood Squares he traded spicy innuendos with Whoopi Goldberg, and as the host of Dancing with the Stars and America's Funniest Videos he lends a stately air to glitzy proceedings. We caught up with the Emmy-winning Massachusetts native to discuss his favorite funny people, hosting nightmares, and his impatience with Bristol Palin conspiracy theorists.
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