‘Keibetsu (Egoist)’

‘Keibetsu (Egoist)’
‘I liked almost anybody that made you realize who in the devil was making the picture,” Howard Hawks famously told fellow director Peter Bogdanovich in the 1960s. By that criteria, Hawks would have liked Ryuichi Hiroki, one of the most distinctive Japanese directors now working. Unlike Takashi Miike or Tetsuya Nakashima, two other contenders for the “most distinctive” title, Hiroki does not …
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‘Crazy Heart’ singer Ryan Bingham to play Orange Peel
Ryan Bingham’s career isn’t like that of Bad Blake’s, but the former rodeo rider will certainly always be linked to the fictional singer. Bingham’s music was lauded before the movie “Crazy Heart,” starring Jeff Bridges as the bar singer who has hit bottom, came out. That breakthrough simply gave Bingham the chance to prove his prowess a little more.
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Kevorkian’s audacious attitude set him apart
Jack Kevorkian built his suicide machine with parts gathered from flea markets and stashed it in a rusty Volkswagen van.
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