Handicapping The Performances Of 'Les Misérables' — Who Will Dazzle In the Movie Musical?

The highly anticipated Les Misérables is on track to become this year’s Chicago — a crowd-pleasing, award-winning, budget-busting musical extravaganza that will sharply divide audiences on the respective talents of its singing, emoting, showboating stars. The stakes are raised by the actors having sung their parts live on set — accompanied by a piano, with the orchestra added in post-production — instead of recording the songs in the safety of a studio and lip-synching during their scenes. The debates over who proved a genuine triple-threat and who embarrassed themselves will last for weeks as we barrel into Oscar season, but let’s get the ball rolling now by ranking who we’re expecting to dazzle us — and who’ll disappoint.
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Watch Uma Thurman Sing and Dance as Marilyn Monroe on Smash

I'm not sure if Uma Thurman's character Rebecca Duvall on NBC's Smash is supposed to be all that convincing as Marilyn Monroe -- the subject of the Broadway show-within-the-TV show, in case you've been living under a rock -- but a sneak peek at next week's episode offers a snippet of Thurman's singing chops and, well... let's just say, it's good to know she'll only be around for a five-episode arc. Watch Thurman in a musical scene from her upcoming guest turn, decked out in a platinum blonde wig and singing about Freud, after the jump.
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VIDEO: Robert Pattinson Gently Serenades You with His Guitar

If you've worn out your copy of the Twilight soundtrack (and you know who you are), you know that there's a soulful, sensitive musician within soulful, sensitive actor Robert Pattinson; his soft warblings pop up in the background of a scene in the first film and everything! So, Twi-hards, sit back and delight in the expressive vocal stylings of RPattz as he serenades a roomful of onlookers whilst strumming his guitar.

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