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...film is handsomely mounted and well played (particularly by the always magical Binoche--such a wonderfully alert actress), but somehow it never draws one into its schemes. Possibly that's because Minghella (who also wrote the script) has too much on his mind--the costs of urban gentrification, the unhappinesses of émigré and bourgeois life. Minghella is a decent-minded filmmaker. And a liberal-minded one too. He wants his characters to emerge morally instructed and reasonably happy. But it's not a lofty goal, and this is a movie that plods while we keep hoping it will soar...
Most recently, Nelson oversaw the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure operation, which produced the most notorious ad of the 2006 campaign. In it, a bare-shouldered white actress claimed that she had met the black Senate candidate Harold Ford at a Playboy party. The ad ended with the blond cooing, "Harold, call me." The resulting protest by black leaders and union groups was enough to force Wal-Mart to sever its ties with Nelson, who had been a consultant for the company's campaign to improve its image. Ford lost the election...
...Angeles home earlier this month. "He got me in a lot of trouble, that pig--scared the hell out of a lot of delivery people too," an emotional Clooney said days later at the premiere of his newest film, The Good German. Clooney first bought Max for his girlfriend, actress Kelly Preston. Preston left for John Travolta; Clooney got the pig. Max, who enjoyed relaxing at his "vacation home" in Clooney's garage, struggled with his weight, and once cheated death when one of Clooney's friends accidentally ran over him in 2001. Max is survived by Clooney's agent...
DIED. Claude Jade, 58, French actress who shot to fame as the heroine, opposite leading man Jean-Pierre Léaud, of three of François Truffaut's best-loved films, Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run; of eye cancer; in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The bittersweet, semiautobiographical films follow the journey of a man through falling in love, marriage and divorce...
...another on previous productions, say they feel a strong bond not only with each other, but also to the production itself. Asked what his favorite scene was, Volpe replies, “they’re like our children: we can’t choose!†Actress Sophie C. Kargman ’08, who plays a lesbian’s estranged partner and a well-meaning if desperate housewife, said she enjoyed the chance to delve into the psychology of a character in a cinematic way. “It’s the closest thing...