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It's easy to imagine why the producers thought of Hilary Swank to play famed aviator and feminist icon Amelia Earhart; she has cornered the market on tomboyish heroine roles.

IN KEEPING with her reputation for delving deep into research for a role, actress Hilary Swank took flying lessons to prepare playing the lead in Amelia.

Actress Hilary Swank says that her ouster from teen drama Beverly Hills 90210 boosted her career.

Look at a grainy black-and-white news photograph of Amelia Earhart climbing from her plane after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

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THE sky's the limit for Hilary Swank's dedication to making a screen role come to life.

The key to selling a story is making people believe it's real. That's the trouble with "Amelia" - I didn't buy a minute of it.

Hilary Swank plays the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart in Amelia . And although, as I said in my review , the movie is earthbound, the choice of Swank in the title role demonstrates sky-clear thinking.

Gary Wolcott's "Mr. Movie" column has appeared in the Tri-City Herald since 1992.

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception.

Caption: Hilary Swank World premiere of 'Amelia' presented by Bloomingdale's & Vanity Fair, held at Paris theatre New York City, USA .... Oscar winner HILARY SWANK's adopted dog Karoo was literally rotting from the inside out when the actress found her on the streets of South Africa - and saved her life.

Historical figures like Amelia Earhart are hard to come by-- a woman who bucked the trends of her time by wearing pants and refusing to marry until her 30s, who wasn't just a pioneer in the field of aviation, but was committed to helping other women follow in her footsteps.

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Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography 'Amelia.' Swank and Nair play it safe to the point of benumbing this woman's life, leaving Earhart as remote and muted as she is in the black-and-white photos and news footage of ...

Hilary Swank earned two Academy Awards for transforming herself into the characters she's portrayed a ' the gender-busting Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry and the tough, determined boxer in Million Dollar Baby.

The undersung Peter Sarsgaard is "that guy" in so many movies, often in difficult roles and often the reason you're glad you saw the picture.

This photo released by Fox Searchlight shows Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in a scene from "Amelia". The New York Times Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10:43 p.m. Fame is fleeting, of course, but certain forms of it are stickier than others.

Critics aren't the only ones who have been bowled over by Carey Mulligan's turn in "An Education," the Nick Hornby-penned film in which the up-and-coming British actress plays a London schoolgirl seduced by an older man.

Hilary Swank with director Mira Nair on the set of "Amelia." "I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream." That's what Hilary Swank told the audience after winning her second Academy Award as best actress for portraying a boxer in "Million Dollar Baby." Now, she's back with another high-profile role: Amelia Earhart in "Amelia," which opens ...

"You may think you know how it ends," Hilary Swank says about her new film, "but you have to see it to see if it ends the way you think it does, because there are a lot of theories about it." The film is Amelia , and she's talking about it not in the standard hotel room but in a hangar in Fairfield, New Jersey's Essex County Airport.