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Article: Once more, Albert Finney has a chance to be the big fish.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 5, 2004
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Byline: Carrie Rickey
NEW YORK _ As Albert Finney sees it, there's a fundamental difference between him, a robust bull barreling into a Gotham hotel suite, and the tall-tale spinner he plays in Tim Burton's new "Big Fish.
"I live stories rather than tell them," exclaims Finney, a lusty 67, the best-known British actor never to win an Oscar. He's likely to snag yet another nomination for his salty turn as the fantasist father of a realist son in Burton's PG-13 fractured fairy tale, which goes into wide release on Jan. 9.
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