Those of us who have been watching Denzel Washington since the St. Elsewhere days can attest to this fact: he is a remarkable actor. His performances are powerful, intense, intelligent and extremely compelling. So he didn't bring home the Best Actor Oscar for his wonderful portrayals of Malcolm X and Hurricane Carter he got one instead for creating rogue cop Alonzo Harris in Training Day. And the honors, as well as the great acting, will keep coming. We expect nothing but great things from him and we know we won't be disappointed. We're going to honor him here with our glowing Destination Hollywood Tribute to Denzel Washington.
New on DVD
The Great Debaters
, the latest Denzel Washington movie is now available on DVD.
And here's an interesting side note. After this movie came out Wiley College the East Texas school portrayed in the movie received inquiries from would be debaters all over the country. The problem was there was no longer a debate team at Wiley College. Now thanks to a $1 million donation from the movie's star and director Denzel Washington, a new team has been established and is ready to start debating this fall. Go Wiley!
Coming Soon
Denzel Washington is re-teaming with director Tony Scott in a remake of the thriller The Taking of Pelham 123. Denzel Washington is the good guy and John Travolta the bad guy in this story of a hijacking of a New York City subway train. This will be the third remake - the most famous is the 1974 version (Taking of Pelham One Two Three) starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Expect this one June 12th. Here's some fun watch the trailer for the new movie with Denzel Washington and then check out the 1974 version.
In February Denzel Washington begins work on The Book of Eli a "a post apocalyptic Western" We think this means that after the apocalypse we turn back into a nation of gunslingers. Is that what it means? We do know that Eli (Denzel Washington) is fighting to protect "a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind" and that all the water on the earth has been poisoned In Hollywood the Apocalypse usually does involve water as a precious commodity maybe that's why everyone is always carrying a bottle. Until we know more what this movie is about we're going to make sure we have a few cases of water on hand.
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The story of the historical Union Army 54th Regiment from Massachusetts - the only all-black infantry unit that fought in the Civil War - is told in vivid detail in this excellent tale of both the tragedy and heroism of war.
