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...collection of people soured with modernity.” Douthat admits that, like his protagonist, he possesses “a vague dissatisfaction with modern life...I have always romanticized the past and that shows up in my politics”. Indeed, his room is adorned with posters of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe - stars from Hollywood’s glamour heyday - as well as a towering tribute to Gladiator. “I think that Russell Crowe’s evocation of manhood is something all men should aspire to”, he explains, “particularly when...
...wears dark socks, sensible shoes, an unfashionable red sweater and, if anyone would notice, her heart on its sleeve. A waitress at the Two Windmills cafe in Paris, Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is one of the legion of shy solitaries that few people seek out and fewer movies think to put at their center. But inside this gamine child of 23 is a priestess of the imagination, a ruthless schemer, a canny do-gooder, a lover. She has mischief in her, and a kind of secular sainthood...
Amelie is the sort of lonely, lovely girl the young Audrey Hepburn played. Tautou, though she lacks Hepburn's petrifying beauty, is worth comparing to the Audrey. Her tight, seraphic smile holds a universe of promise and mystery; and in the right light, she's adorable. From her first prominent role, as a pig-tailed salon assistant in Tonie Marshall's 1999 Venus Beauty Institute, Tautou has been France's Star of Tomorrow du jour...
...audiences have fallen in love with Amelie-Audrey, a fusion of the actress and her character. "Unfortunately," she says, "I'm not like her. I had a happy childhood. I have less imagination, and I'm more timid. When someone sees me, I don't want him to meet me. I wish I could be enchanted by this." Tautou, now shooting her first English-language film, Dirty Pretty Things, for Stephen Frears, will have to settle for being an enchantress...
...Audrey R. Walton ’02: “I really don’t think the law is capable of protecting everyone, all the time, much as it often tries to. The job of protecting a hapless drunk does not fall to HUPD. It falls to said drunk’s friends, in my opinion. And I think in the same way, the role of protecting people from the consequences of bad decisions – as distinct from crimes – should fall to their community, rather than the justice system...