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Happy-Go-Lucky Written and directed by Mike Leigh; rated R; out now Sally Hawkins won the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actress award as a cockeyed-optimist schoolteacher in this larkish entry from the usually dour Brit auteur Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake). Even if you don't find Hawkins as adorable as the movie does, you're likely to fall in love with Karina Fernandez, who plays an imperiously funny flamenco teacher...
...Vietnam veteran, which [Ampuero] plays, who’s homeless in D.C. at the war memorial,” says Emily Alpren, who plays “A.J.,” the heroine. “Just the idea of how we deal with veterans.” Actress Lisette Silva Sanchez says she can’t pinpoint one theme that is any more important than the others: “It’s such a knot...
While it’s unclear if she flew in on a broomstick, used Floo Powder, or took more “Muggle” means of transportation, Emma Watson, the British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” films, graced campus with her magical presence for much of yesterday...
South Korean police have since announced that they will crack down on online defamation, but little has been said about the late actress's problems as a single mother in this deeply conservative society. Choi spoke openly on the taboo topic and sought to change the unpopular public perception of single moms in South Korea. "Korean society does not like strong women, and thinks single moms have a personality disorder," says Park Soo Na, a national entertainment columnist. "It's like a scarlet letter." She says single mothers often ask their parents to raise their grandchildren so the kids...
Whatever the motivation for her suicide, the actress's death has raised fears about a ripple effect. Korea has had the highest rate of suicide among the world's industrialized countries for the past five years. Policy makers and the general public readily admit that mental illness - even a common disorder like depression - is rarely talked about openly in the country. "Koreans are very secretive about psychiatric problems," says Lee Myung Soo, a psychiatrist at the Seoul Metropolitan Mental Health Centre who agrees that one of the main reasons that people won't talk about it here is fear...