Word: beasting
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...Gandhi. Since then, his role choices have reflected a love for the big character. He has played Moses, Lenin, Simon Wiesenthal and Anne Frank's father Otto in TV movies, and won two Oscar nods for playing gangsters - Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1991) and, a decade later, Sexy Beast's Don Logan, the Cockney-accented human incarnation of rage. "It is archetypes that I drift toward as an actor," Kingsley says. Almost all of them are touched by tragedy, including his upcoming role opposite Annette Bening in Mrs. Harris, the true story of the philandering Scarsdale-diet inventor Herman Tarnower...
...headed beast of foul trouble and aggressive Crimson defense limited Clark, who was averaging 20 points and nine rebounds per game, to just nine points and three boards...
...them tell a story. Often, the media adapt the facts to fit their narrative, rather than the other way around. Take the story of Al Gore’s famous “exaggerations,” first reported in The New York Times and Washington Post. That strange beast, the press, had determined early on in 2000 that Gore’s narrative would be about dishonesty. The story was perfect: Clinton lied, Gore lies. So, when he made three accurate claims about helping to fund the Internet, knowing the writer of the film “Love Story?...
...meets Jean's estranged wife Genevieve, prim and tense, as well as her nubile and headstrong teenage daughter Claude. Prodded by Genevieve, and overcome by his urge to "plow" Claude, Nicolas persuades Jean to replace his plans for battle scenes with the unicorn motif, imagining himself as the mythical beast...
While Redford and Weinstein constitute the Beauty-and-the-Beast heart of the story, much of Biskind's narrative revolves around the less well known (and, frankly, less colorful) figures responsible for the growth of indie-film distribution. As a work of history, it's not comprehensive: indie actor Ethan Hawke merits nearly a dozen lengthy references, while groundbreaking documentarians Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) are barely mentioned. And Biskind found some sources reluctant to talk openly about more recent controversies. "There was a clarity of recollections," he admits, "but also a clash...