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Ben Kingsley News

News about Ben Kingsley continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

3 hrs ago | Contra Costa Times

Kingsley removes disguises for 'Elegy'

Sir Ben Kingsley has clothed himself in the roles of Jewish bookkeeper, Iranian colonel, brutal British gangster - and Gandhi.

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Related Topix: Elegy, Entertainment

10 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Prime time for Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley is one of the movie world's most respected actors and during the past quarter-century his brilliant career has received every honor in the book, including a 1981 Oscar for Best Actor, three ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Bugsy, Drama, Biography Movies, Seattle, WA, Turtle Diary, Elegy, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Aug 07, 2008

A.V. Club

Interview: Ben Kingsley

Interviewed by Scott Tobias August 7th, 2008 Though he had performed onstage and on British television for more than 15 years, Ben Kingsley was a relative unknown when he won the leading role in Richard ...

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Related Topix: Oscars, Crime Movies, Bugsy, Dave, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Drama, Biography Movies, Comedy Movies, Music

Wed Aug 06, 2008

New York Magazine

No More Masks

He's almost comically famous for disappearing into characters, and this summer alone, theaters have been lousy with the man: There he is, goofily spoofing his Gandhi in The Love Guru, menacing with a Russian ...

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment

Mon Aug 04, 2008

Columbus Dispatch

Ben Kingsley: Actor mixes well with young cast

Luke , left, and Dr. Squires At first blush, the casting seems seriously out of whack.

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Sun Aug 03, 2008

Seattle Times

Busy Sir Ben Kingsley is at his best in "Elegy"

Sir Ben Kingsley is everywhere this summer. The Oscar-winning actor turned up as a cross-eyed guru in Mike Myers' "The Love Guru," as an unreliable mentor to a young pot dealer in "The Wackness" and as an ...

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Related Topix: Thriller, Betrayal, Drama, Action, Bugsy, Crime Movies, Biography Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Aug 01, 2008

The London News.Net

Sir Ben Kingsley could have had a pop career like The Beatles

London, August 1 : Oscar-winning 'Gandhi' star Sir Ben Kingsley has revealed he was once in a dilemma over whether to choose acting or a pop career like The Beatles, and he preferred the former choice.

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Thu Jul 31, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

How Sir Ben Kingsley chose acting over pop

Could Ben Kingsley have been as big as the Beatles? He tells John Hiscock about his early days and his latest films Trailer for The Wackness Trailer for The Love Guru Ben Kingsley has come a long way from ...

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Kingsley draws on classic for 'Wackness'

Perhaps it's the confidence that comes with being one of the best actors working today, an Oscar winner and a Knight of the British Empire that allows Ben Kingsley to sit in the back booth of a noisy sushi bar ...

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Related Topix: Park City, UT, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Jul 30, 2008

CNN

The Screening Room's top 10 movie psychos

This month it's all about killer attitude. Funny guy: Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito the gang sociopath in Scorsese's mob masterpiece, "Goodfellas." As the Joker in the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight" reignites ...

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Action, The Dark Knight, Ray Winstone, Movies, Entertainment

Mon Jul 28, 2008

Free Times

Old School Approach

Welcome to New York City circa 1994, back when selling pot on the streets was as easy as vending ice cream and the Notorious B.I.G. was going to change the world.

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Related Topix: Josh Peck, Rap, The Notorious B.I.G.

Sat Jul 26, 2008

SouthFlorida.com

Kingsley shocks, shines in "The Wackness"

Mary-Kate Olsen and Ben Kingsley in "The Wackness." That first sight of Ben Kingsley sucking down a bowl will burn into your memory.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

SouthFlorida.com

Kingsley shocks, shines in "The Wackness"

Mary-Kate Olsen and Ben Kingsley in "The Wackness." That first sight of Ben Kingsley sucking down a bowl will burn into your memory.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Monterey County Weekly

Ready for - 90s nostalgia? The Wackness is ill to the core.

The makers of The Wackness would like us to visualize its setting inside a concise set of coordinates: New York City in the early '90s, the era of Rudy Giuliani , when the streets were filled with wildly ...

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Rudy Giuliani, New York

Tue Jul 22, 2008

Yorkshire Post

A degree of nostalgia as Sir Ben enjoys his journey back in time

AFTER becoming so famous as Gandhi that his own face on the film poster became better known than that of the actual historical figure himself, Sir Ben Kingsley wants to be Shakespeare.

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Related Topix: York (Pennsylvania State University System), Fear Is the Key, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama, Action

Sun Jul 20, 2008

TMZ.com

Gandhi in Technicolor

Orange you glad you didn't slap on this much fake bake tanning cream? While in London on Tuesday, 64-year-old Sir Ben Kingsley turned a natural shade of Donatella terracotta.

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Fri Jul 18, 2008

BBC

Honorary degree for actor Sir Ben

Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Hull.

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Thu Jul 17, 2008

411mania.com

The Wackness Review

The Wackness Review Posted by Chad Webb on 07.12.2008 The sweetest movie about drugs in years.

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Related Topix: Union (University of South Carolina System), University of South Carolina System, Black Entertainment, Method Man, Hip-Hop, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Http

At the Movies

Movies are going to pot, according to a recent Time magazine article, and one of the prime dealers is Jonathan Levine's blunt joint "The Wackness," a dime-bag yarn about a teenaged entrepreneur selling ...

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Related Topix: Josh Peck, Drugs

Sun Jul 13, 2008

CourierPostOnline

Making movies never gets old for Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley is quick to tell you that despite a career that's earned him heaps of praise -- not to mention an Oscar for "Gandhi" and knighthood from the Queen -- he's anything but confident about his ...

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Related Topix: Bugsy, Thunderbirds, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Mrs. Harris, Crime Movies, Family, War Movies, Drama, Biography Movies, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies

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