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Take, for example, Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as Catherine Sloper, the shy and awkward young woman whose wealth Townsend is stalking. Does she really have to keep dropping objects and walking into walls to prove her social and physical ineptitude? And what about Albert Finney as her father, at once contemptuous and overprotective of her? He's a constantly rumbling volcano ever on the verge of eruption. One keeps recalling, much to Finney's disadvantage, the icier malevolence of Ralph Richardson in the earlier movie. On the other hand, Maggie Smith's Aunt Penny, more in love with Morris...
...Self Made Hero could be called The Secret Life of Walter Vichy. Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz) is a slow-witted fellow with a gift for mimicry. He was not called for war service, so when a true Resistance hero relates his adventures, Albert uses these particulars to dress up his life. He soon finds he needn't tell many lies about himself; others will sketch the rest of his imagined exploits out of their urgent need for heroes...
...James Albert Michener was an orphan, adopted from the Bucks County, Pa. poorhouse by Mabel Michener, a Quaker widow. From there to Swarthmore, to the Navy, and then to Japan, making a hometown - and a novel - of every place he stopped. "Tales of the South Pacific" was his first, born of his Navy days and published in 1947, when Michener was 40. It won the Pulitzer Prize, was set to music, and became immortal...
Former Provost Albert Carnesale prepared a letter to the Faculties this summer, which summarized the center's finances, though some Faculty members said they had hoped for a more substantive analysis, something akin to Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles' annual budget letter...
...this is a very different Tribe than the one that made opposing pitchers cry like little boys in 1995. Since then, GM John Hart has subtracted big bashers Albert Belle and Paul Sorrento...