Richard Gere speeds up as he reaches 60
November 02, 2008
HE'S been one of Hollywood's darlings for three decades,
but Richard Gere says only now as he nears 60 is he hitting his
stride both in life and on film.
Gere, whose career-defining roles from Pretty Woman to
An Officer and a Gentlemen have seen him pegged as one
of the world's top romantic leads, is excited his latest project
presents a love story for his generation, a rarity in a sea of film fodder centred
around youth-oriented romance.
In Nights in Rodanthe, Gere plays a surgeon trying to reconstruct his life after
his marriage and relationship with his son (James Franco) have collapsed.
On a trip to a seaside inn, he meets a mother-of-two - played by Diane Lane - separated from her husband, but weighing up whether to rebuild
the relationship.
"What was important to me in taking on this role - and Diane, too, I believe - was that it wasn't a story about kids who are goo-goo-eyed about
each other from the moment they meet," Gere says.
"This is clearly about people who have had some experience. They are not first-timers and that's not usually dealt with.
"A lot of romantic stories tend to be about young people who are just trying to figure out life - decisions that are moving them on the right path
in life and the promise of the future is all there for them.
"This was a very different story. I think the trick was to make it feel honest and not the kind of cheesy thing."
The film, adapted from the book by Nicholas Sparks, marks the third time Gere and Lane have worked together.
Almost 25 years have passed since they first co-starred as lovers.
In 1984's The Cotton Club, she was a sultry jazz singer and he was a troubled cornet player.
They paired up again 2002's Unfaithful, earning Lane an Oscar nomination and causing a stir with its steamy scenes - though not with Gere,
who played the cuckolded husband.
"We work together really well, so, I hope it's not the last time (to co-star)," he says.
"There's an ease, a sense that we know each other's rhythms very well and there's a great sense of trust."
The snowy-haired actor, whose youthful exuberance and glowing skin belie his age, leans forward when asked a question and laughs easily and
often during the interview.
Dressed casually in jeans and a blue shirt, with sleeves rolled up to reveal a string of wooden beads around his wrist, Gere seems genuinely
excited to chat about subjects as varied as his eight-year-old son, Homer, his devotion to Buddhism, the US election and his heart-throb status.
He smiles when asked about his long-time billing as a sex symbol.
"I always thought it was silly, I always did and I always will," he says, his blue eyes sparkling.
"I mean, they are just characters to me.
"I have a very rich and committed and interesting life, believe me, outside of this stuff. This is a job."
Gere says his feelings towards work have changed dramatically since he found fame in his mid-20s in acclaimed romantic drama Days of
Heaven, which was directed by Terrence Malick.
He reveals his early days as an often self-critical, brooding and intense young actor have given way to someone who has mellowed and is no
longer concerned solely with work.
"Back then, when I did Days of Heaven, it was all new.
``I had no particular direction to my life," he says.
"I had found a dual career in theatre and music at that point and I remember when Terry (Malick) asked me to do this film, I had this sense
that my life was going to take this very strong direction now.
"I'm much more relaxed about the whole thing now - on all levels.
"I don't know if that comes with just having done it or being older, or whatever it is, but it's certainly much easier all the way round."
"Even my approach to building characters is much less taxing now than it used to be."
Gere was married to American supermodel Cindy Crawford for four years in the early '90s, with the pair's split blamed on long separations due
to their hectic work schedules.
He says his marriage to actor Carey Lowell and the birth of their son when he was 50 changed the way he approached his career, with family a
major factor in his choice of roles.
"Your priorities radically change at that point," he says.
"I pick my projects differently. I want to know where it's going to shoot. I don't want to be that far away from my family. I have said no to
projects I felt were going to keep me away."
Nights in Rodanthe - a town on North Carolina's Hatteras Island - proved a perfect fit for Gere, with the shoot only an hour from his home in
New York state.
But it didn't come without its problems, with the scenic spot hit by a devastating hurricane - as happens in the film - as shooting was due to
start.
"It hit our sets just before we started, and it almost destroyed the house, and we had to go back into construction," he says.
Gere recently completed filming on biopic Amelia, about American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in
1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
The film co-stars Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Virginia Madsen and Canberra-raised teenager Mia Wasikowska.
Gere says he was blown away by the talent of the 17-year-old, who recently began filming as the lead character in Tim Burton's Alice in
Wonderland, opposite Johnny Depp.
The veteran actor said he believed she would be Australia's next big acting superstar.
"She is so terrific," Gere says enthusiastically.
"When Mira Nair, the director, told me she was casting her, I had just been watching her in In Treatment.
"I had no idea she was Australian, she was so chameleon-like."
On top of Amelia, Gere has three other films set for release in the next year - a family drama, Hachiko: A Dog's Story, police crime thriller
Brooklyn's Finest and father-son drama The Prodigy.
But the biggest event in 2009 for the Gere household will undoubtedly be the actor's 60th birthday.
"I don't think much about it other than I know I'm supposed to have a big party," he says with a laugh.
Nights in Rodanthe opens on Thursday.
November 02, 2008
HE'S been one of Hollywood's darlings for three decades,
but Richard Gere says only now as he nears 60 is he hitting his
stride both in life and on film.
Gere, whose career-defining roles from Pretty Woman to
An Officer and a Gentlemen have seen him pegged as one
of the world's top romantic leads, is excited his latest project
presents a love story for his generation, a rarity in a sea of film fodder centred
around youth-oriented romance.
In Nights in Rodanthe, Gere plays a surgeon trying to reconstruct his life after
his marriage and relationship with his son (James Franco) have collapsed.
On a trip to a seaside inn, he meets a mother-of-two - played by Diane Lane - separated from her husband, but weighing up whether to rebuild
the relationship.
"What was important to me in taking on this role - and Diane, too, I believe - was that it wasn't a story about kids who are goo-goo-eyed about
each other from the moment they meet," Gere says.
"This is clearly about people who have had some experience. They are not first-timers and that's not usually dealt with.
"A lot of romantic stories tend to be about young people who are just trying to figure out life - decisions that are moving them on the right path
in life and the promise of the future is all there for them.
"This was a very different story. I think the trick was to make it feel honest and not the kind of cheesy thing."
The film, adapted from the book by Nicholas Sparks, marks the third time Gere and Lane have worked together.
Almost 25 years have passed since they first co-starred as lovers.
In 1984's The Cotton Club, she was a sultry jazz singer and he was a troubled cornet player.
They paired up again 2002's Unfaithful, earning Lane an Oscar nomination and causing a stir with its steamy scenes - though not with Gere,
who played the cuckolded husband.
"We work together really well, so, I hope it's not the last time (to co-star)," he says.
"There's an ease, a sense that we know each other's rhythms very well and there's a great sense of trust."
The snowy-haired actor, whose youthful exuberance and glowing skin belie his age, leans forward when asked a question and laughs easily and
often during the interview.
Dressed casually in jeans and a blue shirt, with sleeves rolled up to reveal a string of wooden beads around his wrist, Gere seems genuinely
excited to chat about subjects as varied as his eight-year-old son, Homer, his devotion to Buddhism, the US election and his heart-throb status.
He smiles when asked about his long-time billing as a sex symbol.
"I always thought it was silly, I always did and I always will," he says, his blue eyes sparkling.
"I mean, they are just characters to me.
"I have a very rich and committed and interesting life, believe me, outside of this stuff. This is a job."
Gere says his feelings towards work have changed dramatically since he found fame in his mid-20s in acclaimed romantic drama Days of
Heaven, which was directed by Terrence Malick.
He reveals his early days as an often self-critical, brooding and intense young actor have given way to someone who has mellowed and is no
longer concerned solely with work.
"Back then, when I did Days of Heaven, it was all new.
``I had no particular direction to my life," he says.
"I had found a dual career in theatre and music at that point and I remember when Terry (Malick) asked me to do this film, I had this sense
that my life was going to take this very strong direction now.
"I'm much more relaxed about the whole thing now - on all levels.
"I don't know if that comes with just having done it or being older, or whatever it is, but it's certainly much easier all the way round."
"Even my approach to building characters is much less taxing now than it used to be."
Gere was married to American supermodel Cindy Crawford for four years in the early '90s, with the pair's split blamed on long separations due
to their hectic work schedules.
He says his marriage to actor Carey Lowell and the birth of their son when he was 50 changed the way he approached his career, with family a
major factor in his choice of roles.
"Your priorities radically change at that point," he says.
"I pick my projects differently. I want to know where it's going to shoot. I don't want to be that far away from my family. I have said no to
projects I felt were going to keep me away."
Nights in Rodanthe - a town on North Carolina's Hatteras Island - proved a perfect fit for Gere, with the shoot only an hour from his home in
New York state.
But it didn't come without its problems, with the scenic spot hit by a devastating hurricane - as happens in the film - as shooting was due to
start.
"It hit our sets just before we started, and it almost destroyed the house, and we had to go back into construction," he says.
Gere recently completed filming on biopic Amelia, about American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in
1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
The film co-stars Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Virginia Madsen and Canberra-raised teenager Mia Wasikowska.
Gere says he was blown away by the talent of the 17-year-old, who recently began filming as the lead character in Tim Burton's Alice in
Wonderland, opposite Johnny Depp.
The veteran actor said he believed she would be Australia's next big acting superstar.
"She is so terrific," Gere says enthusiastically.
"When Mira Nair, the director, told me she was casting her, I had just been watching her in In Treatment.
"I had no idea she was Australian, she was so chameleon-like."
On top of Amelia, Gere has three other films set for release in the next year - a family drama, Hachiko: A Dog's Story, police crime thriller
Brooklyn's Finest and father-son drama The Prodigy.
But the biggest event in 2009 for the Gere household will undoubtedly be the actor's 60th birthday.
"I don't think much about it other than I know I'm supposed to have a big party," he says with a laugh.
Nights in Rodanthe opens on Thursday.
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Richard Gere and Diane Lane Couple of cinema
The two contracenam for the third time in telona, now in the romance Storm Nights,
and speak on the quÃmica celebrity between themA
time is good, two is sensational, three already turns colloquy compadres. It is as soon as
the stars Richard Gere, 59 years, and Diane Lane, 43, treat its third meeting in telona, of this
time as the romantic pair of Storm Nights, that estréia friday (3/10/2008). Previously, the
pair was together in Cotton Club, of 1984, and Infidelity, of 2002, by which Diane was
indicated the Oscar of better actress. The perpetual gala of Hollywood is married - for the
second time (the first one was with the model Cindy Crawford) - the actress Carey Lowell,
47, mother of its son, Homer James, 8. The gorgeous Lane is, in turn, married it has four
years - also after if divorcing the first husband, the actor Christopher Lambert, 51, with
who has a son, Eleanor, 15 - with Josh Brolin, 40, the man that George W. Bush in film
W will make., of Oliver Stone, to be launched in U.S.A. before the presidential elections of
November. Brolin is son of the actor James Brolin, 68, current husband of Barbra Streisand
, 66. “Still well that all we are we muitíssimos well married”, it plays Generates, that, with
its 1,80 m of height and its charmosos white hair, made many journalists to suspirarem in
the presentation of Storm Nights for the international press, in New York.
Famous amateur Pianista in the city, the actor entered for the list of the interested celebrities in the digital recorder used by the news article
of the one With you! in junkets international. “It has 15 years I come making these interviews and giving attention in the technological
revolution. This recorder is so teeny! He will be that he serves to also record music? I can be a good option to hear what I touch! ”, it
reflected, in the conference of the press of Storm Nights, where the two actors had laughed very and Generate until spoke of Brazil.
To follow, the best stretches of this interesting chat.
Professional meeting
Richard Gere: '' Is easy to work with Diane. I am wild for it. A time said me to Diane that our films are as safe ports, can relax and simply to
act, without much concern. Already vi in the press things said on me and another actress (it does not say who) with who contracenei saying
that `we had chemistry pura' and the reality was opposing! Some of the actresses I would not at least obtain to have a decent colloquy I am
of set. With Diane, not, he is very calm. E it is very clear in relation to the limits that imposes. We know in them, we respect in them and in
we like the sufficient to them to know until where we can go in definitive scene. E I was being more obedient with the time '' (laughs)
Diane Lane: '' When people contracenou for the first time, all wanted to know if people would have exactly chemical. I find that it happened
there, in the hour. With Richard it is a constant discovery. It always has new, empty elements, that I go discovering when we work together.
''
RG: '' Empty, certainly! The more old I am, more empty spaces appear (laughs)! ''
Letters of Love
DL: '' I am very sentimental e, in the film, our personages change love letters. I keep to all the letters, more than what this, everything what
somebody wrote. In my family, all have one petty cash where they keep its correspondence, its memories. ''
RG: '' People, I never received a letter at least from the Diane! ''
Similarities with the personages
RG: '' My personage wants to be optimum doctor of the planet. Necessarily optimum father or optimum husband is not worried in being. E it
makes a bargain, to conquer what as much wants, leaving in second plain a relation closer than it could have with the woman and the son. I
find that all we take the decision of focar in our careers in determined moment. But to perceive that the children had grown and you were not
there you are an enormous error. I wait that the priority of all in this room is the same one here: the family. Mine (priorities) they are my
woman and my children (it also includes Hannah, 18, son of its woman with the actor and director Griffin Dunne, 53) ''.
DL: '' The relation with the children is well interesting. I remember that it has some years my children (the son in fact, Eleanor, and the two
children of Brolin with the first woman, Eden, 14, and Trevor, 20) adored to leave with me. Now all want that I go to make my films and
leave the house for them. They are learning to direct, if getting passionate. It is a transistion for me, knows? My objective is not more being
popular, but efficient! ''
It generates and Brazil
RG: '' All good one? (in perfect Portuguese) He had a time where it was the time all in Brazil (He generates namorou the plastic artist Brazilian
Sylvia Martins, 51, in years 80) and still I have great friends there, also actors and directors. But lately I confess that I have not folloied what
is being produced in the country. In Mexico, yes, we have some names recently appearing, as (Alejandro González) Iñárritu e (Alfonso)
Cuarón. I adore the freedom sense Latin American narrative. He will be that managing Brazilians capable exist to touch a hearing
international? Walter Salles is one that I find sensational. He would adore to work with it. ''
Romantic places
RG: '' Any place where my woman is automatically a scene for romance. ''
DL: '' Perfect Reply! How I go to give one better? ''
RG: '' Diane, beloved, you could say for the Carey, as well as who do not want nothing, this my reply? ''
DL: '' But is clearly! Now, in mine in case that, I am sentimental an incorrigible one. I adore to paint and taste to reproduce the nature
deceased of a romantic place or that it meant romance for me. It can be until a lobby of a hotel. For me, romance is the meaning that you of
to the things, objects and acts. ''
To age
DL: '' Decidi has some time that the only way to see my life is for the optics of the comedy. It does not have place here for age questions.
Mood is a great secret, wise person? E is a wonder not to be more the person new in set, as it happened with me many times in the start of
my career. It had a time where I would have to be older. Now, certainly it has people wanting that I am new. He is thus same. ''
Humanitarian causes
RG: '' I cannot say that the things in fact had improved in the regions of the planet in which I became involved myself in humanitarian
actions. It sees China, for example. They want to be part of the world contemporary, are emergent, are inventing what it will be this new
world, but follow with a great repression and ignoring the rights of its proper citizens. They are, in such a way, prisoners to an old notion of
world. Our paper is to encourage them it to leave this delayed world stops backwards of a time for all. ''
The two contracenam for the third time in telona, now in the romance Storm Nights,
and speak on the quÃmica celebrity between themA
time is good, two is sensational, three already turns colloquy compadres. It is as soon as
the stars Richard Gere, 59 years, and Diane Lane, 43, treat its third meeting in telona, of this
time as the romantic pair of Storm Nights, that estréia friday (3/10/2008). Previously, the
pair was together in Cotton Club, of 1984, and Infidelity, of 2002, by which Diane was
indicated the Oscar of better actress. The perpetual gala of Hollywood is married - for the
second time (the first one was with the model Cindy Crawford) - the actress Carey Lowell,
47, mother of its son, Homer James, 8. The gorgeous Lane is, in turn, married it has four
years - also after if divorcing the first husband, the actor Christopher Lambert, 51, with
who has a son, Eleanor, 15 - with Josh Brolin, 40, the man that George W. Bush in film
W will make., of Oliver Stone, to be launched in U.S.A. before the presidential elections of
November. Brolin is son of the actor James Brolin, 68, current husband of Barbra Streisand
, 66. “Still well that all we are we muitíssimos well married”, it plays Generates, that, with
its 1,80 m of height and its charmosos white hair, made many journalists to suspirarem in
the presentation of Storm Nights for the international press, in New York.
Famous amateur Pianista in the city, the actor entered for the list of the interested celebrities in the digital recorder used by the news article
of the one With you! in junkets international. “It has 15 years I come making these interviews and giving attention in the technological
revolution. This recorder is so teeny! He will be that he serves to also record music? I can be a good option to hear what I touch! ”, it
reflected, in the conference of the press of Storm Nights, where the two actors had laughed very and Generate until spoke of Brazil.
To follow, the best stretches of this interesting chat.
Professional meeting
Richard Gere: '' Is easy to work with Diane. I am wild for it. A time said me to Diane that our films are as safe ports, can relax and simply to
act, without much concern. Already vi in the press things said on me and another actress (it does not say who) with who contracenei saying
that `we had chemistry pura' and the reality was opposing! Some of the actresses I would not at least obtain to have a decent colloquy I am
of set. With Diane, not, he is very calm. E it is very clear in relation to the limits that imposes. We know in them, we respect in them and in
we like the sufficient to them to know until where we can go in definitive scene. E I was being more obedient with the time '' (laughs)
Diane Lane: '' When people contracenou for the first time, all wanted to know if people would have exactly chemical. I find that it happened
there, in the hour. With Richard it is a constant discovery. It always has new, empty elements, that I go discovering when we work together.
''
RG: '' Empty, certainly! The more old I am, more empty spaces appear (laughs)! ''
Letters of Love
DL: '' I am very sentimental e, in the film, our personages change love letters. I keep to all the letters, more than what this, everything what
somebody wrote. In my family, all have one petty cash where they keep its correspondence, its memories. ''
RG: '' People, I never received a letter at least from the Diane! ''
Similarities with the personages
RG: '' My personage wants to be optimum doctor of the planet. Necessarily optimum father or optimum husband is not worried in being. E it
makes a bargain, to conquer what as much wants, leaving in second plain a relation closer than it could have with the woman and the son. I
find that all we take the decision of focar in our careers in determined moment. But to perceive that the children had grown and you were not
there you are an enormous error. I wait that the priority of all in this room is the same one here: the family. Mine (priorities) they are my
woman and my children (it also includes Hannah, 18, son of its woman with the actor and director Griffin Dunne, 53) ''.
DL: '' The relation with the children is well interesting. I remember that it has some years my children (the son in fact, Eleanor, and the two
children of Brolin with the first woman, Eden, 14, and Trevor, 20) adored to leave with me. Now all want that I go to make my films and
leave the house for them. They are learning to direct, if getting passionate. It is a transistion for me, knows? My objective is not more being
popular, but efficient! ''
It generates and Brazil
RG: '' All good one? (in perfect Portuguese) He had a time where it was the time all in Brazil (He generates namorou the plastic artist Brazilian
Sylvia Martins, 51, in years 80) and still I have great friends there, also actors and directors. But lately I confess that I have not folloied what
is being produced in the country. In Mexico, yes, we have some names recently appearing, as (Alejandro González) Iñárritu e (Alfonso)
Cuarón. I adore the freedom sense Latin American narrative. He will be that managing Brazilians capable exist to touch a hearing
international? Walter Salles is one that I find sensational. He would adore to work with it. ''
Romantic places
RG: '' Any place where my woman is automatically a scene for romance. ''
DL: '' Perfect Reply! How I go to give one better? ''
RG: '' Diane, beloved, you could say for the Carey, as well as who do not want nothing, this my reply? ''
DL: '' But is clearly! Now, in mine in case that, I am sentimental an incorrigible one. I adore to paint and taste to reproduce the nature
deceased of a romantic place or that it meant romance for me. It can be until a lobby of a hotel. For me, romance is the meaning that you of
to the things, objects and acts. ''
To age
DL: '' Decidi has some time that the only way to see my life is for the optics of the comedy. It does not have place here for age questions.
Mood is a great secret, wise person? E is a wonder not to be more the person new in set, as it happened with me many times in the start of
my career. It had a time where I would have to be older. Now, certainly it has people wanting that I am new. He is thus same. ''
Humanitarian causes
RG: '' I cannot say that the things in fact had improved in the regions of the planet in which I became involved myself in humanitarian
actions. It sees China, for example. They want to be part of the world contemporary, are emergent, are inventing what it will be this new
world, but follow with a great repression and ignoring the rights of its proper citizens. They are, in such a way, prisoners to an old notion of
world. Our paper is to encourage them it to leave this delayed world stops backwards of a time for all. ''
Interview with Shah Rukh Khan
...It is very endearing to hear you wish for the good health of others. Do you mean it?
Recently I met Richard Gere and I asked him ‘how are your kids?’ He replied saying ‘they are healthy!’ I was taken aback, and I asked him
why he said that as normally we say they are fine or naughty etc. He told me that whenever you get a chance to wish anything for anyone,
let it be good health.
For the complete interview:
Shah Rukh Khan reveals a wiser self as he talks about controversies, "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" (RNBDJ) and ageing
...It is very endearing to hear you wish for the good health of others. Do you mean it?
Recently I met Richard Gere and I asked him ‘how are your kids?’ He replied saying ‘they are healthy!’ I was taken aback, and I asked him
why he said that as normally we say they are fine or naughty etc. He told me that whenever you get a chance to wish anything for anyone,
let it be good health.
For the complete interview:
Shah Rukh Khan reveals a wiser self as he talks about controversies, "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" (RNBDJ) and ageing
AN OFF-THE-BALL LOOK AT YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS CELEBRITIES
November23, 2008
The Yankees always have been Hollywood's baseball team. That was evident this week.
In Tampa at Steinbrenner Field the Yankees Fantasy Camp took place. Richard Gere
and his 9-year-old son Homer got pointers from Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent.
"Richard was great for the morale of all the other campers, everybody had a great time,
"Dent said. Noted Mick the Quick: "I've been a fan of his ever since 'American Gigolo.
'We had a lot of fun."
Also on the film front, actor Josh Lucas said he is thrilled to get the chance to play
Thurman Munson in the upcoming film "Keeper of the Pinstripes" that will feature
Bernie Williams. Lucas wants to put on about 20 pounds for the role and plans to do
some in-depth research. When Lucas brilliantly portrayed basketball coach Don Haskins
in "Glory Road" it was Haskins, Pat Riley and Tim Floyd who taught the actor how to
act like a coach.
"It's an honor to get this role," Lucas told The Post's Kevin Kernan. "There's a couple of
them you get every once in a while, I felt that way with 'Glory Road,' too. Haskins was
not as known as Munson by any means, but he had a similar sort of powerful way
about him, a really salt-of-the-earth kind of man. I learned so much playing Haskins,
and I have a feeling it will be similar with this, too."
"I learned more about life in 'Glory Road' than in any movie I've ever done," Lucas added. "Between those three, Haskins, Riley and Floyd, I
learned about what the essence of coaching demands and how they go about pulling greatness from their players." Riley, Lucas noted, "had
more movie-star-quality personality than any movie star I've ever seen. It was pretty amazing."
"Keeper of the Pinstripes" is based on a series of children's books by Ray Negron. The film is being directed by Robby Benson of "One on
One" fame.
Gere will play Lou Gehrig in an animated film based on Negron's series.
In "Keeper of the Pinstripes" the production company is reaching out to James Gandolfini to play the part of Babe Ruth. If he accepts, Tony
Soprano would be going from his Gambino-like role to the Bambino.
November23, 2008
The Yankees always have been Hollywood's baseball team. That was evident this week.
In Tampa at Steinbrenner Field the Yankees Fantasy Camp took place. Richard Gere
and his 9-year-old son Homer got pointers from Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent.
"Richard was great for the morale of all the other campers, everybody had a great time,
"Dent said. Noted Mick the Quick: "I've been a fan of his ever since 'American Gigolo.
'We had a lot of fun."
Also on the film front, actor Josh Lucas said he is thrilled to get the chance to play
Thurman Munson in the upcoming film "Keeper of the Pinstripes" that will feature
Bernie Williams. Lucas wants to put on about 20 pounds for the role and plans to do
some in-depth research. When Lucas brilliantly portrayed basketball coach Don Haskins
in "Glory Road" it was Haskins, Pat Riley and Tim Floyd who taught the actor how to
act like a coach.
"It's an honor to get this role," Lucas told The Post's Kevin Kernan. "There's a couple of
them you get every once in a while, I felt that way with 'Glory Road,' too. Haskins was
not as known as Munson by any means, but he had a similar sort of powerful way
about him, a really salt-of-the-earth kind of man. I learned so much playing Haskins,
and I have a feeling it will be similar with this, too."
"I learned more about life in 'Glory Road' than in any movie I've ever done," Lucas added. "Between those three, Haskins, Riley and Floyd, I
learned about what the essence of coaching demands and how they go about pulling greatness from their players." Riley, Lucas noted, "had
more movie-star-quality personality than any movie star I've ever seen. It was pretty amazing."
"Keeper of the Pinstripes" is based on a series of children's books by Ray Negron. The film is being directed by Robby Benson of "One on
One" fame.
Gere will play Lou Gehrig in an animated film based on Negron's series.
In "Keeper of the Pinstripes" the production company is reaching out to James Gandolfini to play the part of Babe Ruth. If he accepts, Tony
Soprano would be going from his Gambino-like role to the Bambino.
Actor Richard Gere autographed MLB baseball - If you want to bid on it go here:
