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Tina Wins 'Survivor'; Breaking the Code of `Enigma'
Aired May 04, 2001 - 10:46 ET
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MICHAEL OKWU, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning everyone. I'm Michael Okwu in New York.
The tribe has spoken, and they said it live.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "SURVIVOR")
JEFF PROBST, HOST: In true "Survivor" tradition, it comes down to one final vote. The winner of "Survivor: The Australian Outback..."
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
COLBY DONALDSON, SURVIVOR CONTESTANT: Yeah! Yeah! Come here! Whoo! Yeah!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OKWU: In a dramatic end to the second season of "Survivor," Tennessee nurse Tina Wesson walked away with the $1 million prize last night. She won in a close 4-3 vote over Colby Donaldson.
But all 16 contestants celebrated the end of backstabbing on the Outback -- and a big winner as one truly united tribe.
OKWU: Encouraging signs for Hollywood in the negotiations between writers and producers. Talks between the lead negotiators on both sides reconvene at 1:00 p.m. Eastern today. The talks are aimed, of course, at preventing a walkout by the writers, whose contract has expired. Committees working on key issues, such as overseas broadcast and DVD residuals, met through the evening.
So what do you get when you team Mick Jagger with "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels: a new film called "Enigma," starring Jeremy Northam. From "The Net" to "An Ideal Husband," Northam is one actor who won't be typecast.
CNN's Lori Blackman caught up with this "Showbiz Today Reports" "Star of Tomorrow" at the Sundance Film Festival.
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LORI BLACKMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jeremy Northam is here at the Sundance Film Festival with a film called "Enigma." It's a movie about the World War II code-breakers. And one of the interesting facts about this movie is it is produced by Mick Jagger and Lorne Michaels.
JEREMY NORTHAM, ACTOR: Mick is an owner of an enigma machine, which he sort of said, "Oh, I picked it up at Sotheby's." But I think he's always been interested in the subject matter.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "ENIGMA")
NORTHAM: I'm afraid I have to ask you to hurry up.
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BLACKMAN: What do you think it is about the story that gives it its contemporary feel? Because I have heard people draw analogies between the enigma code machines and what we now know as the Internet.
NORTHAM: Well, the man who doesn't figure into this film, but to whom I suppose his work, we all owe a huge debt is Alan Turing, who was involved with the early code-breaking -- brilliant, brilliant, brilliant mathematician, whose work in this particular field gave birth, really, to the modern computing science.
And, in fact, the Apple logo, I found, was a nod in his direction, because Alan Turing committed suicide by eating poison from an apple.
BLACKMAN (voice-over): Northam's film roles are as eclectic as his knowledge of computer science.
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NORTHAM: Try not to kill my dogs.
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BLACKMAN: He has appeared in indie-fair like "Emma," "The Ideal Husband" and "The Winslow Boy."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE WINSLOW BOY")
NORTHAM: Is that business or pleasure?
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BLACKMAN: And studio films like "The Net," "Mimic" and "Amistad."
NORTHAM: I always wanted to try to do lots of different things. And I feel very fortunate that that's happened. And I don't want to play the same part endlessly.
BLACKMAN: On to his newest part in the big screen adaption of "The Golden Bowl," where Northam is a man with a unique voice, quite literally.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE GOLDEN BOWL")
NORTHAM: It's you I need -- more than ever now.
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NORTHAM: I play an Italian prince with a ridiculous accent.
BLACKMAN (on-camera): What kind of accent?
NORTHAM: Well, an Italian accent. It's rather strange, because in the Henry James novel, he says he speaks English without a trace of an Italian accent, which would be fine in the novel. But I thought it would be rather odd on film.
BLACKMAN (voice-over): Lori Blackman, CNN Entertainment News, New York.
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OKWU: That's all the entertainment news for now. But join us in one hour, when "Rolling Stone" magazine's Peter Travers takes a look at the summer's hot stars.
In New York, I'm Michael Okwu -- now back to Daryn in Atlanta.
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