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...Genius," was unfair to the actor [July 12]. Schickel quoted Laurence Olivier as saying there is no room for genius in the theater because it causes too much trouble. Your critic noted that Brando's genius was for a long time "too much trouble" for everyone to bear. However, without Brando's genius, cinema today would not be as good as it is. He inspired actors to contribute their own share of genius and ideas about moviemaking to the art. Film lovers wish Brando had made even more movies, but I doubt they would have had the same impact...
...implication that they couldn't be trusted to look after visitors and cited the Greek constitution, which forbids foreign personnel to carry weapons, as the final word on the matter. After months of wrangling, numerous sources say the U.S. and Greece agreed last week that only the Greeks will bear arms. It is a mutually beneficial lie that burnishes Greek pride, but in fact armed U.S. special-forces soldiers and an FBI hostage-rescue team will be riding shotgun on the U.S. squad. Nevertheless, for the first time in Olympic history, the I.O.C. has taken out an insurance policy, valued...
...Grin, Just Bear It Few people are happy with their passport photos, and following guidance from the U.K. Passport Service (UKPS), Britons won't be allowed to look happy in them either. The UKPS has banned photos showing passport applicants smiling. Apparently a glimpse of teeth will disrupt the machinery used to read new biometric ePassports to be introduced in 2005. Don't say cheese...
...trick of dread movies is to take ordinary events and invest them with the unbeatable combination of must-see and can't-bear-to-look. Go on, take a stroll in the woods (in Shyamalan's The Village) when you've been told that monsters lurk there. Or a dip in the ocean (in the low-budget thriller Open Water) when you're left stranded as shark bait. Try to wash out that feeling of dread by shampooing your hair (in the Japanese spookathon Ju-on: The Grudge). You begin to rub in the shampoo--and for a moment...
Dean urged the Democratic Party to begin campaigning seriously in the Deep South and in other Western states now, even if the party’s labor might not bear fruit in the immediate future...