Word: allen
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...still adores. The star quality has to carry the movie, all 2 1/2 hours of it, since Fincher assumes that audiences will be fascinated by the minutiae of police work while they get only a few face-on glimpses of the man Graysmith believes is the killer: Arthur Leigh Allen...
...played by John Carroll Lynch, who was the homicidal Varlyn Stroud on HBO's Carnivāle. Deep into the movie, Allen is questioned by Toschi and Armstrong, and suddenly Zodiac forgets its vibe of a CSI: SF episode at miniseries length and gives us a high-voltage face-off with unearthly evil...
...just Allen's serpentine poise as the officers quiz him that seems inhuman? You might crack if you were confronted with mounds of damning, if circumstantial, evidence. But Allen parries each thrust or shrugs it off, never taking their bait, meeting their suspicions with his steely stare. You'll feel a chill in the theater, and in your blood, for it's here that Zodiac becomes the good movie the real killer was waiting for. And no one could play him better than Lynch...
...consider the resources used to deliver a prettily packaged, fragrant little moisturizer or lipstick, it's no wonder that the industry's environmental report card has been less than stellar. "The ecological footprint left behind by the manufacturing and distribution of cosmetics and fragrances has been dismal," says Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Whatever the cosmetics industry is doing to reduce its environmental impact is welcome...
CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the Feb. 25 story "Fishburne Draws Crowd to Sanders" incorrectly attributed a quote from Dr. S. Allen Counter to a press release. In fact, the quotes were obtained through a phone interview. The same story also incorrectly stated that the upcoming movie based on the book "The Alchemist" would bring Fishburne to Boston. The movie will in fact be filmed abroad, but Fishburne will be in Boston filming "21," a movie based on the book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions...