Lee Farber is currently a writer for "The Soup" on the E! channel. Before that, he wrote on "The Wayne Brady Show" and won an Emmy.
It's shiny and pointy and looks great when worn around the neck. He is putting together his first feature, "The Yentas of Sunrise Lakes", about old ladies in Florida, because he knows what the public wants. Lee lives in Los Angeles with his wife and his collection of bootleg CDs.
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Steve Mason is a Los Angeles-based talk show host for 710 ESPN Radio. He has previously hosted the nationally-syndicated "The Late, Late Radio Show with Tom Snyder Steve One Radio Network. He is also President of which owns the University Village Theatres near downtown Los Angeles and in Palm Desert, California.
There is a lot of product, including a badly-reviewed holiday picture (Deck the Halls), a monumental, but admirable bomb (The Fountain), an ensemble historical cavalcade of stars from the Weinsteins (Bobby) and vanity project from an actor who, for me, has worn out his welcome (Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny).
This column is stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey with analysis, numbers, opinion, insider speculation and guesswork, and hopefully, at the end of the weekend, my projections will approximate the actual studio-reported figures.
Denzel is among Hollywood's most durable stars.
He's not the most exciting actor around; his movies all feel derivative at this point. What was the storyline of Man On Fire? Who remembers what Out of Time was about?
John Q had something to do with a hospital, right? Not that it matters. We're comfortable with him as a leading man.
He's also delivered some phenomenal performances. He was riveting in Ed Zwick's Civil War epic Glory. He deserved to win Best Actor for Malcolm X, and again for The Hurricane, and finally scored the big prize as an evil cop in Training Day.
Washington also gave an underrated performance opposite Tom Hanks in Philadelphia. Hanks had the showstopper role, but Denzel was perfect as the honestly flawed attorney whose eyes we see the story through.
Director Tony Scott has teamed with Washington twice before, on Crimson Tide and Man On Fire, and he's turned to Mr.
Reliable again hoping to regroup after the dismal performance of last year's Domino. In fact, it's been a couple of decades since his biggest success, Top Gun, so it's fair to say that he could use a hit.
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