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...prepare for the role, Jolie stuck to an aggressive regimen of kickboxing, canoeing, yoga and bed by 11 p.m. She affects a proper British accent for the film, something that may be a bit surprising to American theatergoers but that producers considered a necessity. "We're not trying to be Merchant-Ivory here," says Levin, "[but] Lara is as British as Bond, and the heritage is really important." In the film Jolie does nearly all her own stunts, which include bungee jumping, sword fighting, spear throwing, and even dogsledding in Iceland (which stood in for Siberia). "People...
...nine years in a row (two in 1998); the runner-up studio for consecutive years is DreamWorks, with three. Miramax films snared the top prize in two of the past four years: The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. Now comes Chocolat, an English-language movie with a French accent and a Swedish director (Lasse Hallstrom), a negligible film whose greatest asset is its studio logo...
...have used it to define ourselves in contrast to one another. So to paraphrase The Great Gatsby, whenever I feel like criticizing somebody my age for liking Creed, I remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages I've had. My music, like my accent or my eyes, marks me as my father...
...Where Merman was brassy and Peters cutesy, Reba is just doin' what comes naturally. She has an easy stage presence, a winning comic flair, and when she says she "cain't get a man with a gun," you know she didn't have to rehearse the accent. Best of all, she gives the great score a fresh, country-flavored reworking, lacing songs like "Lost in His Arms" and "Moonshine Lullaby" with quavers and curlicues and a hearty, maple-syrup sweetness that would have brought tears to the eyes of Berlin himself. As it did to mine...
...ejected nearly all Southern Baptist church workers who refused to renounce the underground approach. Pearson chose to stay, no longer as a missionary, and now teaches at China's biggest seminary. "I just don't think that kind of underground ministry is effective," she says in her lilting Mississippi accent. Yet hundreds of Southern Baptists remain in China undercover, running house churches...