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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. Amanda convinces a reluctant .. Read more

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  Sorvino turns down work to be with children

  • 10 May 2010

  Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino has turned down a series of lucrative roles over the last few years - because she doesn't want her children to be raised by nannies. The Mighty Aphrodite star has only made a handful of movies and TV appearances in recent years, preferring instead to spend time with her husband, Christopher Backus, and their three children. And Sorvino admits she has missed out on some "intriguing" acting work to ensure she is at home while her kids grow up. She tells Parade magazine, Read more

  

  Top 10 Helena Bonham Carter

  • 27 Aug 2010

  Throwing off the shackles of period drama, Helena Bonham Carter has since become wife and muse to Tim Burton and is now more commonly seen playing dangerous and demented women (see Harry Potter and Sweeney Todd). We chart this transition from pale English rose to paler villain via character-forming turns in Frankenstein and Fight Club. Our top 10 follows... Her Top 10 Films A Room with a View (1985) Fresh from the television show A Pattern Of Roses, Helena Bonham Carter stepped into her first... Read more

  

  Top 10 Helena Bonham Carter

  • 08 Jun 2010

  title year Fresh from the television show A Pattern of Roses, Helena Bonham Carter stepped into her first movie role at the tender age of 19, the film adaptation of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View. Donning a tight corset and stiff upper lip to match, Bonham Carter gives a sturdy performance opposite heavyweight actor Daniel Day-Lewis as the young Miss Lucy Honeychurch. The film, directed by James Ivory, was nominated for eight Oscars, three of which it won. Watch the trailer | Find out Read more

  

  Whatever Happened to Woody Allen?

  • 21 May 2008

  He's made (at least!) a film a year since 1970, a record that's all the more remarkable when you realise that he's written and directed all of them, and starred in most. They include some of the best-loved and most quoted comedies in cinema history: Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters take some beating, and that's to ignore "the early, funny ones" (Sleeper, Love and Death, Bananas); the lovely miniatures from what I consider his finest period (the early 80s gave us Broadway Danny... Read more

  

  Woody turns from London to Spain

  • 03 Jan 2006

  After switching from his traditional New York base to London, Woody Allen is now set to make a film in Spain. The Annie Hall and Manhattan director has signed up to make an English language film in Spain with an international cast one of Spain's biggest film companies, Mediapro. Allen said: "I'm delighted at being able to work with Mediapro and make a film in Spain, a country which has become so special to me." The decision to head to mainland Europe comes after he has made two films... Read more

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    MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ...

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