Word: beasting
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McShane too was no obvious bet. A working actor since age 17, he was a minor TV star in Britain and little known in the U.S. His best-known role here was as another baddie, in the 2000 indie crime movie Sexy Beast. "The question was how his [Mancunian] accent would play in such a quintessentially American role," says HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss. But, says creator David Milch, McShane dropped the accent and inhabited the role so thoroughly that he overcame Milch's doubts...
...think of it as sort of like an invisible monster that haunts me at night,” he continues. “It, like, whispers really crazy things in my ear. And gives me hugs when I need them. You know, like a big furry beast...
That there was a thriving giant to hobble owes much to Eisner. Hired in 1984, he brought back the company--moribund and churning out flops like Tron--by turning out hit movies like Pretty Woman and Beauty and the Beast. The story gets good when things go bad, beginning in the early 1990s, as Disney falls to intracorporate civil war and Eisner's golden gut turns to lead. (Treasure Planet, anyone...
Harvard women’s basketball fought fire with fire this weekend, and in so doing made a critical statement: Championship offenses may belong to bygone years, but the Crimson’s resident status as beast of the Ivies remains alive and appreciably well...
...well-read as a professor and alienated as Holden Caulfield (Murakami was translating J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as he wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove his wife and daughter to decamp years earlier, and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu...