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...follow Randy, just his imposing back, as he trudges through corridors toward another fight. (Martin Scorsese virtually patented that shot in Raging Bull and Goodfellas.) The trope does pay off later in the film, when the camera trails the briefly retired Randy down the stairs to his new job, behind a deli counter. But Aronofsky's main contribution was to lion-tame a jolting performance out of a forgotten hero...
...real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn...
...appointed to the New York Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton. According to the New York Times, which first reported Kennedy's decision, Kennedy has already hired a political consulting firm and has begun "reaching out" to key political figures in New York, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Behind the scenes, her uncle Ted, who has been a Senator from Massachusetts since 1963, has let it be known to senior Democratic officials that he is very interested in seeing his niece join him in the chamber. (See pictures of Robert F. Kennedy...
...their elders, who see them as idealists fighting for a better life. The specter of the current student movement turning violent in frustration - and being joined by other people frightened about their own future as recession closes in - is what Reynié and many other experts think was behind the government's decision to momentarily pull its education reform back...
...opium. The United Nations estimated last month that the Taliban and its allies - including some of those provincial officials - could clear nearly $500 million in the drug trade this year. If the U.S. and its allies need to find a way to bring home their troops while leaving behind a modicum of security, they may find themselves forced to settle for something less than a happy ending...