Several named producers, including actor Don Cheadle, were deemed ineligible for the Best Picture Oscar.
Don Cheadle turns in an excellent performance as Agent Montel Gordon, and Luis Guzman plays his partner Ray Castro.
I. agent (Don Cheadle), who has been sent there to intercept a half-billion-dollar drug shipment and to arrest the smugglers.
May 23, 2012: Obama attends fundraiser dinner featuring rockers Crosby, Stills, and Nash in Atherton, CA. Actor Don Cheadle attends.
Mr. DON CHEADLE (Actor): You are what you have to defend, because it doesn't matter that I'm 19 percent European, 81 percent African.
From the casting call, Ms. Longoria went to a hotel suite to dress for the Golden Globes, where she was to announce two winners alongside actor Don Cheadle.
WSJ: Eva Longoria's Next Role: Hispanic Activist in Washington
One character spoils the good work, though - Don Cheadle plays the excruciatingly grating "cockney" explosives expert Basher, who has the most over-egged English accent since Daphne on Frasier.
He is reduced to a murmuring wreck, roaming New York on a scooter, until he has a chance encounter with an old dental-school roommate of his named Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle).
In fact, here's a clip of actor Don Cheadle responding to the revelation that not only were his ancestors owned by the Chickasaw nation, that they - he is also part white.
Sadly, it looks like Don Cheadle wasn't able to erase whatever's printed on his jacket (seriously, uh, cool jacket, Cheadle) and poor Shannon Elizabeth didn't seem to be able make anything happen at all.
ENGADGET: Microsoft and Harrah's confuse B-list celebs with Surface
The snarky character banter is here, along with the buddy-cop dynamic between Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle, the extended sequence set in a random small town dive bar, the almost subtle politics, and of course the self-depreciating macho sensibilities.
FORBES: Review: 'Iron Man 3' Is Best Comic Book-Inspired 'Part 3' Movie Ever
Nominees for best actor in a miniseries or made-for-TV movie were Sam Shepard for his role as author Dashiell Hammett in "Dash and Lilly, " Jack Lemmon for "Inherit the Wind" (Showtime), Ian Holm for "King Lear" on PBS, Don Cheadle for "A Lesson Before Dying" (HBO) and Stanley Tucci for "Winchell" (HBO).
Don Cheadle, as a withdrawn, melancholy police detective, is the star, and the other players include Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton as an upper-class African-American couple, Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock as an L.A. district attorney and his bitchy wife, Chris (Ludacris) Bridges and Larenz Tate as carjackers, Matt Dillon and Ryan Phillippe as cops, and Shaun Toub as an Iranian shopkeeper who thinks everyone is out to cheat him.
应用推荐