Word: aristocratic
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...instantly forgettable that it is lucky that few of the important plot twists lie in their hands. The movie does, however, have a few saving graces. Tom Wilkinson (“Shakespeare in Love”) gives a splendid performance as Tuppy, a charming British aristocrat with no qualms about being loved for his money. Wilkinson delivers Wilde’s dialogue with ease. In fact, Wilkinson’s performance, along with Wilde’s witticisms, carry the film. All in all, Barker has made a painstakingly mediocre film. Oscar Wilde, eternal opponent of all things mediocre...
...great an effect is the level of privilege into which their kids are born. Just how wealth or poverty influences drive is difficult to predict. Grow up in a rich family, and you can inherit either the tools to achieve (think both Presidents Bush) or the indolence of the aristocrat. Grow up poor, and you can come away with either the motivation to strive (think Bill Clinton) or the inertia of the hopeless. On the whole, studies suggest it's the upper middle class that produces the greatest proportion of ambitious people--mostly because it also produces the greatest proportion...
Complicating matters is Victor Quartermaine (voiced by Ralph Fiennes), an effete Elmer Fudd-type, whose predilection for applying firearms to rabbits presents a sadistic alternative to the humane methods of Anti-Pesto. Quartermaine also presents Wallace with an altogether unexpected challenge: for the affections of town aristocrat Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter...
Three of the films are art-house ornaments, but two have blockbuster eyes. He is the voice of a gun-crazy aristocrat in the animated comedy Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due out in October. A month later, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he will be the villainous Voldemort--"a full-on, red-blooded baddie," he says, happy to describe one of his roles without tiptoeing around the words aloof and tortured...
Bhutto explained her latest move as an attempt to avoid the "bloodshed and chaos [that might] lead to a takeover by another general." Opponents were quick to blame it all on Bhutto herself. A strong-willed aristocrat who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, she has had difficulty in unifying her father's Pakistan People's Party. She is wary of its older leaders, and has replaced many of them with younger politicians. Charges Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 55, who was forced out of his party post and later formed an opposition group of his own: "Bhutto's retreat...