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• Maggie Q: Good Hollywood roles rare for Asians
The 29-year-old actress, whose full name is Maggie Quigley, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that 90 percent of the scripts she receives are written for Caucasian female characters. "The first part of it is going into a room (for an ...
• Secret Life of Bees’ thrives on sap
... director of “The Secret Life of Bees.” Bringing Sue Monk Kidd’s novel to the big screen, Prince-Bythewood gets a lot of things right, but every time a mouth-breathing redneck pops up to torment one of the movie’s African-American characters ...
• Portland's quirky-chic cousin
Local characters like Flannery give the town its offbeat charm, but the great outdoors is the main draw. The sand-colored volcanic rock faces (one of which is 550 feet high) at Smith Rock State Park attract climbers from all over the world. In the ...
• RocknRolla’ will run you over
To attempt to recap the plot of Guy Ritchie’s new film “RocknRolla” would probably require flashcards, a dry-erase board and PowerPoint; suffice it to say that while the movie never tires of adding more characters and plot twists to its ...
• Winchester isn’t afraid to get scruffy on ‘Crusoe’
The city was standing in for London circa 1700, Crusoe’s pre-shipwreck home and the place he longs to return to reunite with his wife and children. (Anna Walton plays Crusoe’s wife, Susannah, one of several characters not in the original novel ...