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Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan, Letters to Juliet Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave, the latter recently seen on-screen in the romantic comedy-drama Letters to Juliet, will join forces in the Broadway premiere of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy. Under the direction of David Esbjornson, Driving Miss Daisy will have its first presentation on Oct. 7 at the [...]

Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger's death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil Alden Robinson's Academy Award-nominated 1989 drama Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner's character sets out to find a reclusive writer played by James Earl Jones. In W.P Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the character is Salinger himself, but not surprisingly, the reclusive real-life Salinger refused to allow the [...]

Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner in the days when he could do no wrong, is turning 20. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the occasion by presenting a new print from the Academy Film Archive and Universal on Wednesday, December 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by [...]

Meryl Streep Irrfan Khan, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor Forest Whitaker, James Earl Jones Kate Winslet holding the Actor Photos: Michael Buckner Click on the photos to enlarge them.