Daniel Day Lewis is retiring from acting. NOT! Consider the evidence. Despite the repeated rumours that this titan of the screen is giving up his day job to hide out in Ireland, his work schedule makes these seem more unfounded than ever.

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It is something like ten years since DDL opined that he would rather be a cobbler in his remote Irish cottage than an film stalwart. Yet every year or so since he had turned up with some astounding performance in a landmark picture.

Now he has gone one better and decided to direct a film.

Admittedly he is doing the directing in front of the camera, in a film called Nine, directed by Rob (Chicago) Marshall.

Nine, originally a Broadway musical, is loosely based on Federico Fellini's 1963 classic 8 ½ and features Day Lewis as a world famous but harried film director, Guido Contini, as he prepares his latest picture and fights to cope with the numerous women in his life.

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