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2 November 2009 10:23 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)

Rediscovering Roberts

Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.

By Terry Keefe

(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)

“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For »

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10 September 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

When you consider the action sequels you’d have strangled at birth if only you were blessed with the chance – Beverley Hills Cop 3, Speed 2, anything with Michael Bay’s name on it – the news that Point Break 2 has been aborted should cause movie fans everywhere to aimlessly fire their gun into the air with relief.

The original 1991 Kathryn Bigelow actioner which dared to push Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze into the same frame has been the subject of much sequel speculation. Tentatively titled Point Break: Indo (as in Indonesia), the surfer sequel would have seen the FBI investigating a series of, er, pirating incidents from a gang calling themselves “The Bush Administration”. That’s satire kids.

Initially news that original Break scribe, the back to front named W. Peter Iliff would be handling the screenplay caused some excitement in the movie surfer community, excitement which soon evaporated upon »

- Ed Whitfield

2 articles from 2009