Madiba makes it to the big screen Feb 12, 2007
Goodbye Bafana' was shot in the South African prisons where Mandela spent 27 years of his life and stars US actor Dennis Haysbert as the liberation hero and Joseph Fiennes as the guard. When they first meet at the infamous Robben Island jail in 1968 the guard, James Gregory, believes Mandela should have been hanged as a terrorist but his racist views soon make way for respect for the dignified prisoner. (iAfrica.com)
Watch That '70s Show on FOX19 To Win "Breach" Movie Passes Feb 6, 2007
Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Caroline Dhavernas, Gary Cole, Kathleen Quinlan. Directed by: Billy Ray. (FOX19.com, OH)
'I'd like to squash it' Jan 14, 2007
As the Olds lurches off the building, pitchman Dennis Haysbert intones: "Now would be a good time to have Accident Forgiveness. Are you in Good Hands?". To create the spot, which cost nearly $1 million, Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett hired director Phil Joanou (of the movie "U2 Rattle and Hum"). (The Standard-Times, MA)
De Niro and Soderbergh take Good movies to Berlin Jan 5, 2007
Other competition include Bille August's Goodbye Bafana, starring Joseph Fiennes and Dennis Haysbert, about a white prison guard who befriends Nelson Mandela, and Irina Palm from Belgian director Sam Garbarski, which features a star turn by Marianne Faithfull as a widow who takes a job in a sex club. Rounding out the roster are Christian Petzold's German tale Yella, about a woman who flees a bad marriage, and South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's I Am A Cyborg But That's OK, which follows a... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Best and worst TV of 2006 Jan 3, 2007
The killing of Edgar Stiles on "24": We understand the logic behind the shocking assassination of President David Palmer; along with setting the entire fifth season in motion, this killing enabled Dennis Haysbert to go on to the successful CBS series "The Unit." But Edgar. Having this lovable character (played by Louis Lombardi) felled by a Sentox nerve-gas attack on CTU headquarters was just cold -- and totally unnecessary. (NorthJersey.com, NJ)