LOS ANGELES -- On Tuesday officials in Adelanto, a California desert town, are set to consider whether parents there can be the first to take over a failing public school under a new state law that is being closely watched around the country. The Hollywood version? It's already a done deal. In a rare mix of hot policy debate and old-fashioned...
LONDON -- ''I love love,'' announces Henry (Toby Stephens), the playwright whose embrace of passion will bring with it an abundance of pain, late in the first act of ''The Real Thing.'' And if Tom Stoppard's 1982 play proves anything in its latest London revival, directed by Anna Mackmin and on view at the Old Vic through June 5, it's that...
Joel and Ethan Coen, who write, direct, produce and edit their films, do not agree that their latest movie, ''No Country for Old Men,'' adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel, is a western. ''When we think about westerns,'' Joel explained, ''we think about horses and six-guns, saloons and hitching posts.'' Ethan, who was sitting next to his older...
Holly P. Hunter (født 20. marts 1958) er en amerikansk skuespiller, som bl.a. har spillet med i den Oscarvindende film The Piano, for hvilken hun vandt en Oscar for bedste kvindelige hovedrolle, en kategori i hvilken hun tidligere havde været nomineret for filmen Broadcast News. Senere har hun modtaget Oscarnomineret for sine roller i filmene Firmaets mænd og Thirteen.