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...rights. Swank and Nair play it safe to the point of benumbing this woman's life, leaving Earhart as remote and muted as she is in the black-and-white photos and news footage of the aviator included at the film's end. "Amelia" is a...

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The lead role is played by Hilary Swank who has not only won two best Actress Oscars in challenging parts, but has remarkably similar looks to the film's subject: Amelia Earhart, the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. And...

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Swank flies high as Earhart Oct 20 - Actress Hilary Swank and Indian-American director Mira Nair talk about their new film "Amelia", a biopic about the legendary 1930s American aviator. Click on any video below, from any channel, to add it...

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...computers and an Earhart buff, drew her like moth to fire. "Hilary loves to be scared by what she doesn't know," observes Nair, who calls her "a spiritual daredevil." The filmmaker sees a lot of aviator in the actress: "They both have...

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...and to go through life with a kind of grace." Nair said she hoped she captured some of Earhart's spirit in "Amelia," the biographical film starring Hilary Swank that opened Friday. Nair's directing career has covered lots of ground.

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...the plane used in Amelia's production. Mira and Hilary spoke about the film and presented the props and mementos to Susan Larson, President of the Ninety-Nines, an aviation group of female pilots. "Learning how to fly, for me, was so...

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...to fly around the equator. Not unlike Amelia's subject, both two-time Oscar-winning star Hilary Swank and Nair have been pioneers in their own right; Swank for winning one Oscar playing a character who was a drag king (a woman dressing and...

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...clad in a flowered Reem Acra frock and open-toe stilettos. It's why director Mira Nair cast Swank as Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 while trying to circle the globe. For Nair, Swank was the obvious choice to step into Earhart's...

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...Baby" intensity. These moments are all too fleeting because Swank and Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") focus on appearances such as Earhart's huge smile and homey charisma, rather than burrowing into this woman's background and soul. The most...

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