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Article: Princely Albert: Finney's career goes swimmingly with Burton's 'Big Fish'.(Column)
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- December 15, 2003
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Byline: Cathleen McGuigan
Even though he's a Brit, Albert Finney remembers exactly where he was when JFK was shot: at the top of the Empire State Building. He was showing his parents around New York while starring on Broadway in "Luther." Anyone born after the Kennedy administration can be forgiven for not realizing that Finney in those days was hot, hot, hot--especially that fall of 1963, when the movie "Tom Jones" had just turned him into an international star (and later won him his first Oscar nomination). Finney played the devilishly handsome and randy title character--and when the makers of "Big Fish" cast Ewan McGregor as the young Edward Bloom to Finney's ...
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...LOS ANGELES _ Albert Finney is resisting the lure ... year in Tim Burton's "Big Fish," according to London's Channel 4. Finney is a favorite candidate ... s a waste of time." Finney was nominated for best ... Erin Brockovich." "Big Fish" opens in limited release ...
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