Film Noir Photoshoot

How did a hip-hop punk who made his name modeling Calvin Klein underwear end up in Paris playing the Cary Grant role in Jonathan Demme’s upcoming remake of Charade? Mark Wahlberg, formerly rapper Marky Mark, turned to uigizaji with all the determination, grit, and bad-boy charm that helped him survive Boston’s mean streets—and a stint in prison for taking out a man’s eye. On the eve of Wahlberg’s $10 million leading-man debut in Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, Leslie Bennetts and the 30-year-old nyota try to reconcile the darkness of his past with the brilliance of his future.

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Leslie Bennetts joins Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton in spotlighting the Broadway-bound nyota Benjamin Walker.

By Leslie Bennetts•Photograph kwa Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton•Styled kwa Jessica Diehl
October 2010

Pontificate all wewe want about populism in American politics, but 30 sekunde after Benjamin Walker seizes the stage in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, everyone knows that the point of the rollicking emo-rock musical is its six-foot-three-inch hunka-burnin’-manlove star. At the Public Theater production last spring, one critic was so overcome kwa Walker’s hilariously over-the-top sex appeal...

Jim Windolf and Josh Olins spotlight Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, a scaly addition to Pirates of the Caribbean.

By Jim Windolf•Photographs kwa Josh Olins
April 2011

Those overstuffed Pirates of the Caribbean movies—so fun! so profitable! so confusing!—have had just about everything one could hope for in a pirate picture. They’ve aliyopewa us damsels in distress, rum, flying cannonballs, rotten teeth, plenty of swashbuckling, and oh, yes, Davy Jones’s locker. Through a rather strange omission, however, they have been bereft of on-screen mermaids, a sorry state of affairs to be remedied with the...

If wewe go to leonardodicaprio.com, wewe will find that it is mgawanyiko, baidisha down the middle. The left half is labeled "Leonardo," and will bring wewe up-to-date on his filmmaking career (doing rather nicely, with a hivi karibuni Oscar nomination for his performance in Blood Diamond and, to some tastes, an even stronger performance in best-picture winner The Departed). The right half is labeled "Eco-Site"; it offers guides to various environmental concerns, tips on differences anyone can make, and viungo to dozens of green organizations and information. Not many stars share their shabiki face time with gorillas and...