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Well, because acting is the pouring of a fictional spirit into an actual body. A star actor like Fiennes gradually becomes the sum of his roles--Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, the Count in The English Patient, Hamlet and Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses...
...Homer sesquicentennial (he was born in 1836 and died in 1910) is being celebrated with "Winslow Homer Watercolors," organized by Art Historian Helen Cooper at the National Gallery in Washington. (It runs there through May 11, and will then travel to the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth and the Yale University Art Gallery, where Dr. Cooper is curator of American paintings and sculpture.) Her catalog is a landmark in Homer studies. It puts Homer in his true relationship to illustration, to other American art and to the European and English examples he followed, from Ruskin to Millet; its vivacity...
...source of inert head shots and ceremonious poses into a supple narrative art. As a staff photographer for LIFE, Mydans was present and accounted for at the darkest moments of a dark century: the Depression, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. The retrospective of his work at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth offers a chance to review his pictures uncoupled from the periods they defined and the magazine pages they were designed to serve. A museum show is the acid test for photojournalism. Mounted on a wall, these pictures are asked to speak for themselves. They...
Ninja Tune presents a killer line-up of electronic/hip-hop acts belonging to the label. Canadian turntablist Kid Koala, whose 2003 album Some of My Best Friends Are DJs offered witty and ambitious fun, headlines with British, by way of Brazil, Amon Tobin. Bonobo, Blockhead and Sixtoo round out a roster that is sure to impress. Tickets $20. 18+. 8 p.m. The Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...kind of Democrat who always votes the party line; he is guided by his morals. A sense of ethics and trustworthiness are two characteristics of the ideal politician, and Lieberman is the closest you will come to the ideal. Such a politician, however, is never elected President. ROBERT AMON Howell...