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Brangelina Conquers Cannes
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were the big stars of Cannes this week. Jolie, pregnant with twins, was radiant in a parrot green gown and ready to premiere Kung Fu Panda.
Glamor Girls
We offer you these ladies as proof that old Hollywood style glamor lives on.
Yet another "finest actor of his generation," British-born Malcolm McDowell was performing onstage in a production of "Twelfth Night" when he learned he had landed the role of Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's fantasy-tinged satire "If..." (1968). The film, ostensibly about a youthful rebellion in a rigid tradition-ridden British private boarding school, introduced his blithely amoral, anti-authoritarian persona to international audiences and revealed Anderson as one of the more individual and dynamic filmmakers on the British scene. Boyish and charismatic, McDowell, himself just a few years
Richard "The Chief" Morton
2005
Brought up in Bridlington, where his parents operated a pub
Appeared in school productions of Shakespeare and in musical comedies
Worked as a bartender in his father's pub
Began acting career in the early 1960s in regional repertory companies in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, and Torquay; adopted mother's maiden name of McDowell as there was already an actor named Malcolm Taylor
1965
Appeared in Royal Shakespeare Company productions for 18 months
1967
First feature acting assignment, the supporting role of Billy in Ken Loach's "Poor Cow"; reportedly cut from the film before its release
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