LA.COMFIDENTIAL > CELEBS.It looked and seemed like a bona-fide premiere on Monday night at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, but despite the presence of Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" and Mel Gibson Noun 1. Mel Gibson - Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956) Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Gibson U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. on a long and especially brightly lit red carpet, it wasn't. No, the traffic-snarling parking nightmare (partly because of the AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación Fest about to begin there today) for "American Gangster" was simply an "industry screening." And the industry definitely turned out to see Ridley Scott's latest collaboration with Crowe, who plays a relentless New Jersey police detective bent on Adj. 1. bent on - fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event" bent, dead set, out to bringing down Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas Frank Lucas may refer to several people or things:
Besides Mel Gibson, we spotted tons of famous guys -- Jeremy Piven Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965)[1] is a two-time Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series Entourage. , Damon Wayans Damon Kyle Wayans (pronounced "Waynes") (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who began his career as a stand-up comic in 1982. He is one of the Wayans brothers. , Ben Foster, John Schneider, Olivier Martinez, John Singleton and Henry Simmons -- in the crush. Even Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took time out from his normal charity-event evening schedule to check out the dark, violent flick set in 1970s Harlem. A few familiar females turned up as well, from the film's breakout beauty, Lymari Nadal, to Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams, Niecy Nash, Julie Delpy and everyone's favorite mom, Marion Ross, who looks at least 20 years younger than her actual age of 79. Crowe, who at 43 actually looked a tad rough around the edges, counted his blessings as the bright lights glared. "It is a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium, and people allow me to do it. There are things that I can do as an actor, which I couldn't in any other form of life," he said. "I've got a strange personality, but film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home. And when I know I'm getting up to go to work with Ridley, and I know all the time and effort (going in) to whatever we are about to shoot that day, it's all to me a great privilege. Every day I kind of look around, thank the lord that it's still going on. I get to work and do the thing I am doing that day." Can it be that he's become a kinder, gentler Crowe? Maybe, considering the surprising fact that he's the good guy in "American Gangster," and Denzel is the criminal; go figure! >JENNY PETERS/SPYWITNESS CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe |
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