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[From Film Unlimited]Washington and Whitney honoured at black awardsDenzel Washington won the Best Actor award for Remember the Titans and Whitney Houston received a Lifetime Achievement award during the first US Black Entertainment Television Awards, presented yesterday in Las Vegas. Best Actress honours went to Sanaa Lathan for Love & Basketball. Film director Steven Spielberg has paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick, describing his new movie A.I. as a collaboration with the late director. Spielberg said he had: "Worked hard to achieve a cinematic collaboration by bringing a vision of Stanley Kubrick's to the screen." The story of the film, which was first conceived by Kubrick more than 20 years ago, was picked up by Spielberg after he died in March 1999. Charmain Carr, the actress who rose to fame as Liesl von Trapp in the Sound of Music, has revealed that none of the other von Trapp kids actually sang in the legendary musical. The 57-year-old, who shone as the girl who was "16 going on 17", said: "None of the other kids could sing. The producers had to get child singers to sing the actual songs because the children couldn't do it. When there were scenes of all of us singing together such as Do Ray Me, you can actually hear 11 voices singing. The von Trapp kids would sing quietly or mouth the words and the kids hired just to sing, it would be their voices that would come through." NEWSFILE: 20 JUNE 2001 |