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...film's first public showing at Cannes in May, Control won three awards and critical raves. Morton, who has previously acted for directors like Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, was similarly dazzled by Corbijn's debut. "His instincts were not just from a visual point of view; I found his development of the character really fascinating," she says. "For someone who's never made a film before to make a film that brilliant, to get the performances he got out of us, and to carry it, I just think he's extraordinary." For good measure, he pulled this off while...
...familiar face to contemporary audiences from his roles on TV (Law & Order) and in film (Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks), but the critically acclaimed actor George Grizzard made his name onstage with complex, emotionally demanding roles in plays by Neil Simon, Clifford Odets and, most famously, Edward Albee. As the assaulted Nick in the original 1962 production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Grizzard, wrote a critic, "shifted from geniality to intensity with shattering rightness." Fittingly, when he took home the Best Actor Tony in 1996, it was for his insightful portrayal of patriarch Tobias...
...technology typically works, consider another Colorado school district: St. Vrain Valley. School administrators spend hours at the start of each school year scanning several points on the student's right index finger. "The information is saved within our system - it doesn't go anyplace else," says Shelly Allen, director of nutrition services for the 23,000-student district. When the student reaches the end of the line, she places an index finger on a pad about the size of a car's garage opener. Her name, and sometimes an image of her face, appears on a computer screen in front...
...heads the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl, known throughout the trial as "Jane Doe IV," by forcing her into marriage with her first cousin, Allen Steed. In a town that is a 50-50 split between old Mormon residents and newcomers with more liberal politics and lifestyles - a split echoed in the makeup of the eight-person jury - it was a gamble for both sides. Would Mormons harbor secret sympathy for polygamists, or come down...
During his summation, Jeffs' lawyer Walter Bugden said the 51-year-old leader was being prosecuted for his religious beliefs and described the victim, Elissa Walls, now 21, who publicly revealed her identity on the last day of the trial, as "no shrinking violet" and her husband, first cousin Allen Steed as a "milquetoast," not a rapist. She had flirted and enticed her husband, Bugden said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different...