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...Damon, Greengrass has an improbable but plausible Bourne. Moviegoers are so used to seeing Damon smile that he becomes someone else when he relaxes his features. His Bourne is a man of three expressions: going blank, which gives his features the slackness of a new corpse; showing wariness of imminent danger or unmasking, like a naughty schoolboy who realizes he's being watched; and, an instant later, getting taut, in situations where he expects the worst and tries to be prepared for it. The strategy is simple but effective. Damon uses the ordinariness of his appearance to help make Bourne...
...After all, this isn't just our last shot at the Potterverse, this is Rowling's, too, her last opportunity to hammer on additions - that extra wing, that upstairs bathroom - and fill in a few blank areas on the map. We get a breakneck tour of the bowels of Gringotts and the interior of Malfoy Manor. (Her portrait of the Malfoys, the evil family who nevertheless love each other with a strange, sinister tenderness, is one of the unexpected pleasures of the late Potter books.) The goblins get a more extended cameo appearance. At one point Harry casts a spell...
Hengli Jixinge looks just like Henry Kissinger - except, this being China, everyone adores him. Jixinge (pronounced Gee-Sing-Guh) is the way the former Secretary of State's name is said in Mandarin. And while Kissinger may nowadays get blank stares in the U.S. and other parts of the world, here in Nanjing, where he was giving a speech in late June, practically everyone had heard of him. Almost the entire sample of people I spoke to before the event, from a PR firm manager to a factory electrician, knew who Jixinge...
...miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location on the Amazon and ran into the longest dry spell in the region's history. "I shouldn't make movies anymore," he said in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams. "I should go to a lunatic asylum. This is not what a man should do with his life...
...called for increased federal assistance to New Orleans. And while Congress recently appropriated over $50 million towards combating crime in Mississippi and Louisiana, Landrieu nonetheless criticized the Administration for overlooking the Crescent City's police force and echoed Sen. Leahy's earlier shot, "While the Administration has written a blank check for the war in Iraq, it cannot seem to find the necessary support for those who need it in New Orleans...