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Robert Redford

HOLLYWOOD — Robert Redford opened the Sundance Film Festival the day the Academy Award nominations were announced. When asked how he felt about not being nominated for “All Is Lost,” Redford said, “I did the film to get back to my roots as an actor. I’m not disturbed by it. There’s a lot of campaigning going on; it can be very political. In our case, we suffered from little to no distribution. I don’t know what they (Roadside Productions and Lionsgate) were afraid of; they didn’t want to spend money (promoting it). We had no campaigning to cross over into the mainstream. Hollywood is what it is … it’s a business!”
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Tom Hanks, whose film “Captain Phillips” received a best picture nod, was passed over as well, while “Saving Mr. Banks” was completely overlooked. Hanks currently is working on producer/director Ron Howard’s third Dan Brown “Da Vinci Code” film, “Inferno,” once again playing Robert Langdon. It will be released Dec. 15. Ron Howard’s next film is “In the Heart of the Sea,” with Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Tom Holland, hitting screens March 15.
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Sophia Loren, 80 years young in September, considered by many the last living movie superstar from Hollywood’s Golden Era, currently is shooting a one-woman film, “La Voce Umana” (“The Human Voice”), in Italy. Based on a 1930 play, originally starring Ingrid Bergman in 1967 for ABC Stage 67, it is about a middle-aged woman talking on the telephone to her lover of five years, who is about to marry another woman the next day.
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“White Collar” star Matt Bomer will be busting out all over. No, not like he did in “Magic Mike,” but in the indie sci-fi film “Space Station 76” with Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson; in “Winter’s Tale” with Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Will Smith (out Valentine’s Day); and in HBO’s “The Normal Heart” (for which he lost 40 pounds to show the ravages of AIDS), with Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Taylor Kitsch and Jim Parsons. Bomer is prepping to play Montgomery Clift in “Monty.” Clift, Oscar nominated in 1953 as best actor for “From Here to Eternity,” survived a terrible car crash in 1956, which permanently scarred his face. As a gay man who depended on his looks, he hated his flawed face and turned to alcohol and drugs, which eventually killed him in 1966 at 45. Bomer brings melodrama skills to this role, which he acquired from “All My Children” (as Ian Kipling, 2001-2002) and “Guiding Light” (as Ben Reade, 2001-2003), and of course, “White Collar.” At 36, Bomer still makes fans hot under the collar … white or otherwise!