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Entertainment Weekly 100 Greatest Stars
ENTERTAINMENT Weekly: The 100 Greatest Stars of All Time: A Celebration of Seven Decades of Hollywood Heavyweights From the Editors of Entertainment Weekly. Copyright 1997 “In this tribute to Hollywood’s 100 all-time great personalities, we shine a light on everyone from the true legends of Hollywoods Golden Era – like Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant – to the premier stars of today – like Tom Hanks, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kevin Costner – who have put fresh twists on old archetypes.” The 100 stars ranked here […are here] because he or she created something (or is continuing to create) a unique personality, bigger than any single film – bigger that the man or woman behind the makeup. For each of the 100 stars, we have chosen the key films and explained why they matter. KEVIN is listed under the EVERYGUYS category along with Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford. Here is what EW has to say about: KEVIN COSTNER. "EVERY ERA has its Everyman, and ours is Costner. He first announced himself almost a decade ago in upright, vulnerable roles like the world-weary catcher “Crash” Davis in 1988’s Bull Durham and G-man Eliot Ness, 1987’s The Untouchables. With his stolid, Cooperesque manliness, he tapped into an irresistible vein of pure, all-American heroes, whether playing the idealistic, baseball-loving dad in Field of Dreams (1989), the romantic character of The Bodyguard (1992), or the sensitive frontiersman in his 1990 labor of love, Dances With Wolves, (which earned the star two Oscars, for Best Picture and Best Director). With Costner, it hardly matters that he’s not holding up a mirror: We could never be so good, which is why we find him so great. ESSENTIAL COSTNER : THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) amid the showboating star power of this DePalma hit, Costner essayed a low-key Eliot Ness – and a star was born.
DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) He triumphed as star, director, and producer for this pointed Western epic, even if some viewers missed his raffish grin.
TIN CUP (1996) As a stubborn, down-on-his-luck golf pro, Costner relocated his charismatic swing….
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