Word: bonding
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...right now, deftly walking the leading-man middle ground like a cute date balancing on the side of a fountain. He can do savvy without resorting to “I’m-Slick” posturing (e.g., Pierce Brosnan, whose tie-adjusting characterizations all suffer from acute Bond Envy), and he can do sensitive, but without the moistened doe-eyes (e.g., Nicholas Cage, whose recent turns in Family Man and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin have proved that he can do insufferable mournfulness like no other). Looks-wise, he’s solid and then some...
Ultimately, the film is about relationships, their formation and dissolution. The most touching of these is between Eva (Emma Samuelsson), Elisabeth’s 13 year-old daughter, and Frederik (Henrik Lundstrom), the son of the very bourgeois family across the street. They first bond over having exactly the same glasses prescription and grow closer over what they share: both are outcasts, both just want to belong, both believe, as Eva states, that “all adults are stupid.” The film succeeds because it allows them to think that and does not force them to choose...
Matthew Perry, move over. After getting out of alcohol rehab last month, Ben Affleck got into more trouble Monday. Cops clocked the actor speeding 114 mph near Macon, Ga. He posted cash bond and was released in about...
...music is far from irrelevant. In fact, war and music have always had an intimate bond. One of the greatest poems of all time, ?The Iliad,? is essentially an epic song about war. As the first line goes: ?Rage?Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus? son Achilles/ murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses?. America?s Civil War produced its share of popular compositions, from the war songs of the North (?The Battle Hymn of the Republic? and ?All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight?) to the fighting odes of the South (?Oh I?m a Good Old Rebel?). Civil...
...writers are the co-chairs of BOND...