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Monster role: Forest Whitaker rises to the occasion as despot Idi Amin.
Byline: Jeff Simon
Jan. 19--Some things just take time: wine, a really good scotch, the education of a world champion quarterback. For a quarter-century now, it has been near-universally known that the day would come that Forest Whitaker would deliver a film performance fully commensurate with his physical size. Greatness clearly resided somewhere within him, along with a real actor's willingness to search for it. It was just a matter of the right film and the right time and the right circumstances. We've seen him try repeatedly and come ever-so-close ("Bird," "The Crying Game"). But then we've also seen him making a living in dreck by the bushel and even ...
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...Michael Sragow Oct. 13--In The Last King of Scotland, Forest Whitaker gives a performance huge in size and spirit and terrifying in its downward-spiraling momentum. As Gen. Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator who deposed President Milton Obote...
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- Magazine article from: Ebony Collier, Aldore February 1, 2007 700+ words
Forest Whitaker is one of those old-fashioned Hollywood workhorses--the type who...of Scotland, a film where Whitaker, 45, portrays Ugandan President Idi Amin, considered one of the most brutal and demented leaders of the 20th...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) October 6, 2006 700+ words
...of Scotland" it takes Forest Whitaker exactly one scene to show...being taken over by Gen. Idi Amin, despot of the people...Running time: 2:01. Idi Amin .............. Forest Whitaker Nicholas Garrigan...
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- Magazine article from: W West, Kevin December 1, 2007 700+ words
...28-year-old, who's best known for his performance as a morally adaptable doctor under the spell of Forest Whitaker's Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. "I was like the apprentice confectioner. The other guy did all the hard stuff...
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- Magazine article from: Jet October 9, 2006 700+ words
Everyone is buzzing about Forest Whitaker's stellar performance as Idi Amin in the new film The Last King Of Scotland (see page 56), but the late Ugandan dictator's son isn't so happy. Taban Amin...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune March 19, 2007 700+ words
...journey, the "Last King of Scotland" was released, with the Academy Award-winning performance by Forest Whitaker as the bizarrely insane Idi Amin Dada. My decision to travel there left my husband in utter disbelief. He simply couldn't understand...
- Whitaker is Oscar worthy: Actor's multifaceted portrayal of Idi Amin is...
- Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) January 18, 2007 700+ words
...actor Oscar goes through Uganda. Forest Whitaker presents a career-defining performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland...sexual content and language. Cast: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Cunneen, Joseph November 10, 2006 700+ words
...resist a great role. Forest Whitaker must have seen immediately...the part of General Idi Amin Dada in The Last King...of his countrymen. Forest Whitaker is somehow able to make...a fine comic scene, Idi Amin offers to make Nick...
