Ridley Scott has the giggles. The revelation that I’m a New Yorker has prompted the legendary director to launch into a winding tale of the time he was on a traveling scholarship after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. “They said, ‘Where do you want to go?’ And, being …
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“All art is autobiographical,” Federico Fellini once said. “The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” No one would accuse Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s two-and-a-half-hour epic (that’s the theatrical cut’s running time, mind you; there’s a four-hour version waiting in the wings as well) about the French dictator’s rise and fall, of being …
Read More »'Gladiator' Sequel Crew Members Hospitalized After Stunt Accident
Several crew members working on the Gladiator sequel were hospitalized in Morocco Wednesday following an accident that occurred during a stunt sequence. Variety reports that all of the impacted crew members suffered burn injuries, with four people sent to the hospital as a result of the accident, the details of …
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