Sir Ben Kingsley is everywhere this summer. The Oscar-winning worker turned up as a cross-eyed guru in Mike Myers' "The Love Guru," as an unreliable mentor to a young pot dealer in "The Wackness" and as an unscrupulous Russian police detective in the film-festival ingress "Transsiberian."
The 2008 role for which he is about likely to be remembered, however, is David Kepesh, a literature professor wHO becomes increasingly infatuated with his beautiful and a great deal younger scholar, Consuela (Pen�lope Cruz).
The movie is "Elegy" (opening at the Seven Gables Friday and more widely Aug. 22 ). It's based on a Philip Roth novella ("The Dying Animal") and, if properly marketed, it could garner Kingsley a fifth Academy Award nomination. When he visited the Seattle International Film Festival in May, he aforesaid he'd seldom played a more vulnerable character.
"The degree of exposure of my character was daunting, just I felt secure enough in my own life to do it," aforesaid the 64-year-old actor. "His journey, this very enounce terror of intimacy, real appealed to me."
He sees the film as "a parable for men and women. Don't give up, because there's a very strong possibility that the intimate
