The Legends of tomorrow .......
.......are today's stars who carry on the legacy
of the past
and keep the promises
of the future.
Legends
of the Golden Age…. the golden age is now a part of history. It
began with Edison and Eastman and ended with the collapse of the studio
system and the rapid rise of television. The stars of that age are almost
gone now and it is time to pass the torch.
Legends
of the New Age…….Those fabulous actors who came after the
golden age had passed but who have gone on, leaving behind a remarkable
body of work. They have now become legends in our time and deserve their
own place in history.
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Legends
of tomorrow………..They are the talented actors of
today piling up treasures to insure their place in cinematic history.
You have chosen them to be in this honored group.
( also read “What Makes a Legend” Issue #19 )
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From Arabella’s mailbox…
here are your next selections!...
Frank from Houston, Texas considers Jude Law a wise selection for Legend of Tomorrow based on his performance as Vasily Zaitsev in “Enemy at the Gates”. We agree so here he is.....
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. He was born David Jude Heyworth Law on December, 29, 1972 in Lewisham, London, England. He swore to Jay Leno that the name “Jude” came from the Beatle's hit “Hey, Jude” but not everyone agrees.
. His parents, Peter and Margaret Heyworth Law, are teachers and now live in France. His older sister, Natasha, is an artist/photographer in London.
. He was married and divorced from actress Sadie Frost and they have 3 children, 2 boys and a girl. Jude also has another daughter from a relationship with model Samantha Burke.
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Jude Law is a very busy man. Or, as Chris Rock put it, “Jude Law? Why, he is in every movie I have seen in the last four years...even the movies he's not in, if you look in the credits, he's made cupcakes or something!” It could be Jude's ability to take on a variety of roles that makes him such a “wanted” man. Or his resume of production skills and directorial know-how. Between 1987 and 2011 he has appeared in 18 plays, 2 television movies and 3 series, plus 34 films with 4 more in production. Now that is a resume!
He began his career in 1987 at the tender age of 12 when he enrolled in the national Youth Music Theatre. At that age he was also noticing girls and wasn't unhappy when someone in the registrar's office confused his name and assigned him the the girls' dormitory. The school's founder later confessed “I felt like a kill-joy putting hims back with the guys.”
At 17 Jude left school for a role in a television soap opera “Families” and stayed for two seasons with a brief break in 1991 to do a television episode of the Conan Doyle-based series “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes”. Ironically Jude has filmed his second Sherlock Holmes film as Dr. Watson with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Sherlock. It is now in post-production for a December 2011 release.
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In 1994 Jude was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his role as Michael in in Cocteau's “Les Parentes terribles” . He received the ian Charleston Award for the same performance. Later, the play was reworked as “Indiscretions” and taken to Broadway where Law reprised the role in a cast that included Kathleen Turner, Cynthia Nixon and Roger Rees. This time it won him a Tony Award nomination.
Law made four films in 1997 alone and every role was challenging in a different way. In “Bent” he played a Nazi storm trooper. Then he was Oscar Wilde's selfish, demanding lover Sir Alfred “Bosie” Douglas in “Wilde” with the title role played by Stephen Frye. Gattaca” took him out of this world to a world ruled by the genetically-altered (Law) but served by the enslaved “normals” ( Ethan Hawke). In Clint Eastwood's “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” he played the hot-headed Southern hustler Billy Carl Hanson, a performance many consider to be one of his best.
However, my readers have sent me a list of favorites that would choke a horse so I have cut down the list a bit....here they are....
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The Talented Mr. Ripley”(1999) directed by Anthony Minghella was a great favorite. Jude learned to play the saxophone for this role as rich boy Dickie Greenleaf who runs afoul of unscrupulous Tom Ripley (Matt Damon ). Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Freddie. Jude got an Oscar nod and a BAFTA award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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“Enemy at the Gates”
came a year later, a story based on real events in the life of Russian sniper Vassily Zaitsev (Law) and his confrontation with German ace Major Konig.(Ed Harris). Filmed in Brandenburg, Germany, the film painstakingly recreates Zaitsev's exploits and the horror of one of the most vicious battles of WWII, the Battle of Stalingrad. By the way, that's Bob Hoskins playing Nikita Khrushchev. A great selection, Frank.
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“Cold Mountain”
in 2003 was another Anthony Minghella film and another Jude Law favorite. Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, it it the story of a young, Southern boy who has just found his soulmate before being plunged into the bloody Civil War. His way back to her is long and dangerous. The cast includes Nicole Kidman as the girl he left behind, Renee Zellweger as Ruby and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Rev. Veasey. Jude got second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
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“The Holiday” (2006) mixes equal parts Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black and a house swap across the ocean. Disillusioned Amanda (Diaz) in Los Angeles swaps her palatial abode with brokenhearted Iris (Winslet) who has a cottage in Surrey, England. When Graham (Law) drops by to see Sis he's in for a big surprise. Likewise, Iris and Miles (Black) in sunny California. The movie was nominated by MTV for the Best Kiss Award (Law/Diaz).
“Sherlock Holmes” (2009) updates the dynamic duo of Sherlock (Robert Downey, Jr. ) and Dr. Watson (Law) with a little romance for Watson thrown in. Huh? Oh, well! It was referred to as a “new, buff, all-action version” and made big box office news hitting the $200 million mark so another one is in the works, everyone.
Jude Law is certainly a Legend for Tomorrow
Next selection:
Milori, from Americus, Georgia was just one of many who wanted actress Anne Hathaway on our list of Legends of Tomorrow. Many also wrote”What has taken you so long?” To Milori: our thanks for the lovely letter and to the others our humble apologies.
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. She was born Anne Jacqueline Hathaway in Brooklyn, New York on November 12, 1983, a middle child between two brothers Michael and Thomas but they was raised in New Jersey.
. Her father, Gerald is a lawyer and her mother, kathleen Ann McCauley Hathaway, is an actress.
. Anne was raised Catholic and even aspired to be a nun as a young girl, but left the church when she learned her brother Michael was gay. Anne decided that any church who couldn't accept Michael didn't get her either.
. She is still single. Her four year relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Falliero that began in 2004 ended in 2008 when he was arrested on fraud charges.
Long before her first major movie role came along, Anne Hathaway was a trained stage actress with a television serial (Get Real, 1999) under her belt. She could also sing and dance and made the People magazine's list of Breakthrough Stars of 2001. But it was her role as the unsuspecting princess. Mia Thermopolis, in The Princess Diaries that sent her career soaring. In fact she kept that crown on, more or less, from 2001 through 2004 with Ella Enchanted and “The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement”. Then, in 2005, Anne Hathaway shed both her crown and her clothes.
The shock to audiences was probably greater because Anne's first seven films were all labeled “suitable for family viewing”. But both Anne and her fans were ready for some grown-up movies. The change came with Barbara Kopple's “Havoc”
(2005). Spoiled socialite Allison Lang was certainly no naive Mia Thermopolis . Hathaway regards the nude scenes in the film “appropriate to the story” and doing them is part of her “chosen form of art”.
After Havoc Anne immediately began work on “Brokeback Mountain”
with the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. It was the story of a homosexual relationship between two cowboys back in the 1960s and caused a furor. It also won several Academy Awards and Best Actor nominations for Heath and Jake and a Best Actress nomination for Anne. Anne said later it was an important film because of its message and not because of any awards.
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“The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) gave Anne another chance to really shine. As Andrea “Andy” Sachs, assistant to demanding fashion editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) Hathaway more than held her own. But she said later “Acting against (Streep) was like taking a cold bath of terror every day. I was always ready to wet my pants”. Padded to look like a “Fat Size 6” in the first part of the film, Anne kept the butt pads used in the movie. I have every intention of having it framed and having a little plaque underneath it that says “Andy's Ass”!
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“Rachel Getting Married” Anne's third film in 2008, is another fan favorite and won her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Anne plays Kym, a recovering drug addict just out of rehab for her sister's wedding. It is a well-told story of all the family dynamics and old “sores” that were never healed. Anne was nominated for an Oscar , a Golden Globes award and another nomination from the Screen Actors Guild.
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Anne was teamed again with Jake Gyllenhaal in the 2010 film “Love and Other Drugs”.
He played a drug salesman and she was an artist with early onset Parkinson's disease.
Hathaway told People magazine “Jake and I were in this amazing take, and he turned and caught the sheet and pulled it off me,”...”I wasn't going to yell 'Cut'. I just thought, 'Go with it, Hathaway. If it was the theater, you would go with it.' And I did. And of course that is the take in the movie”.
Anne new film “One Day” with Jim Burgess and Romola Garai will be in theaters soon. She was also filming this past summer in Pittsburgh for her role as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” with Christian Bale....and she has three more waiting.
Anne Hathaway is now on our list of Legends of Tomorrow.
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His real name is David John McDonald and he was born in Bathgate,West Lothian, Scotland on April 18, 1971.
Educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
He was a fan of “Dr. Who” at 3 but had to grow into the role.
He is engaged to marry Georgia Moffett, the mother of his first child. Believe it or not, she is the daughter of Dr. Who #5, Peter Davison.
David decided to become an actor at a very early age when he watched “Dr. Who” in 1974 at the age of 3 ( Dr. # 4 Tom Baker). But I doubt if young David had any idea way back then that he would be Dr. Who #10. Now that the character has regenerated again David is off to other things.
At age 11, David got his first “review” from actress Edith MacArthur who caught his performance in a school play. He was only 16 when he made his professional debut...in an anti-smoking film that was sent to schools. In 1996 he got his first credited role in “Jude” as a drunken undergraduate in a cast that included Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet. When “Dr. Who”
returned to the British screen in 2005 it was Eccleston who played the ninth Dr. but he decided against a second season and Tennant became #10. David has a “loaded” resume of theater, television and feature films. Today he has finished 15 feature films, 8 television movies, and 28 television series. And there are more in the hopper. No wonder everyone is talking!
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