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Cumberbatch takes unsung WWII hero to Toronto Reuters
TORONTO - The code-breaking machine that may have cut World War II by two years and saved millions of lives was invented by British mathematician Alan Turing, a prickly genius and unlikely war hero unknown to most of the world. That might be because his work to crack Germany’s Enigma code remained classified for decades. But also, Turing met a tragic end following the war, taking his own life at 41 after he was convicted for being homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration. The star power of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and his new film “The Imitation Game” could bring Turing’s triumph and tragedy to a broad audience beyond Britain, where Queen Elizabeth recently pardoned the man who inspired the modern computer with his “Turing machine.” “The Imitation Game” is one of the most anticipated films at the Toronto
Film Festival, where it will screen on Tuesday, and has earned praise and early awards buzz after distributor The Weinstein Co. gave a sneak peek at the Telluride Film Festival. Cumberbatch, one of the most sought-after actors in film and television, gave an immediate “yes” to playing Turing. “There is a huge burden, an onus of responsibility,” Cumberbatch told Reuters on Sunday. “This was an extraordinary man and sadly, bizarrely not that well known a man of his achievements.” His Turing is terribly awkward and annoying, and when forced by the British government to work with a team of code-breakers, the lone genius is dismis-
sive. When he doesn’t get the backing for his machine, he sends a letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who grants him his wishes. For director Morten Tyldum, Cumberbatch “has that incredible screen charisma,” adding “you can hold on to his face and you feel he has a million things going on through his eyes.” Keira Knightley plays mathematician Joan Clarke, who as the lone woman on the team bonds with Turing and becomes his fiance, although he later tells her he is gay. Cumberbatch said the humor is true to Turing, whose niece relayed that “he was very funny in a very dry English way” and could joke about the forced estrogen injections of his sentence. The humor also lightens the mood for a team tasked with the impossible, breaking through the millions of combinations to crack the German code while the war rages.
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Denzel Washington explores his craft in Toronto Agence France-Presse
TORONTO - Easing into filming, becoming too emotionally involved in a role, and the pros and cons of playing a fictional versus real person -- acclaimed American actor Denzel Washington shared Sunday how he approaches acting. Oscar-winner Washington was at the Toronto film festival for the premiere of “The Equalizer,” director Antoine Fuqua’s adaptation of the 1980s television series that starred Edward Woodward. The film about a loner who dispenses justice from the barrel of a gun also stars Marton Csokas (“The Amazing Spiderman 2”) and Chloe Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass”). Moretz is in two other Toronto film festival premieres this week: “Clouds of Sils Maria,” and “Laggies.” At a press conference, the cast and crew shared insights about their métier, their successes and missed opportunities. Washington last collaborated with Fuqua on “Training Day,” which premiered in Toronto and went on to earn Washington a best actor Oscar in 2001 for his performance as a rogue cop in Los Angeles. A brief telephone exchange in which Washington told Fuqua, “This is Robert McCall (the lead character in the film) calling,” set the stage for a reunion. Washington spent the first day of filming “The Equalizer” folding napkins over and over for a scene. Fuqua said he got lost in the moment and let it go on to the point that producers had to interrupt and
ask “are you going to (call) cut?” “He was just folding napkins... (but) when I get to sit and watch Denzel up close that way, it’s powerful for me, and it gets me excited,” Fuqua said. Fuqua likened the experience to the soothing rhythm of music. “I started to (feel) that rhythm again.” Washington revealed that he likes to start slowly on new film projects in order to find his footing, “because you’re not sure.” Actors generally, he said, “are real fragile day one, and a director can really crush an actor in the first day” with overly harsh criticisms. Washington recalled how he “made
the mistake” of turning down the lead role for the 1997 dark thriller “Seven,” because he feared it would affect him. “It was just too much when I read it,” he revealed. The role went to Brad Pitt and became a box office smash hit. Fuqua confided that he handed off directing “Prisoners” with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman to Quebec director Denis Villeneuve, because as a parent he felt uncomfortable spending a year on a film about child abduction. That film, which also premiered in Toronto, was nominated at the Academy Awards last year for its cinematography.
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge appear with their baby son, outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, in central London in this file photograph dated July 23, 2013. Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their second baby, Buckingham Palace said on September 8, 2014.
Prince William, Kate expecting second baby
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LONDON - Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are “very pleased” to announce that they are expecting their second child, Kensington Palace said on Monday.
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The prince’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was said to be “delighted” at the news, which comes less than 14 months after the birth of the couple’s first child, Prince
George. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is again suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, a form of very acute morning sickness that caused her
to be hospitalised when she was pregnant with George. The duchess, 32, is currently being treated by doctors at the couple’s London home in Kensington Palace, a spokesman said. She was due to attend an official engagement in Oxford on Monday but cancelled because she has morning sickness, the
palace said. “Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child,” the statement said. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news.” Prime Minister David Cameron
was among the first to offer his congratulations to the couple, saying he was “delighted by the happy news that they’re expecting another baby”. William and Kate’s first child, George Alexander Louis, was born on July 22, 2013 in London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, weighing eight pounds and six ounces (3.8kg).