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...have no regrets about anything I've done. I've never done a nude scene for the sake of it. There's obviously films that my children haven't seen--Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Young Adam. But they'll see them when they're older, and I don't have many worries about that. I'm sure they'll be fine...
...anthropology in the 1930s, "primitive peoples" were regarded pretty much as just that--mindless and crude. Lévi-Strauss penetrated the intricacy of their myths and cultural practices and found tribal peoples to be sophisticated and intellectually curious, a picture of them he laid out in his 1962 book The Savage Mind. And in his four-volume Mythologies, he showed the immense complexity behind the stories tribal people use to explain the world...
...Gore has written a textbook. The Nobel laureate and self-proclaimed recovering politician continues his quest to educate the public on the undeniable dangers of climate change with Our Choice, a sequel to his 2006 slideshow-book-film, An Inconvenient Truth. Our Choice discusses the causes of global warming (fossil fuels, deforestation), viable solutions (renewable energy) and ways to make these solutions a reality (a CO[subscript 2] tax and a cap-and-trade system). It's packed with scientific data explained in painstaking detail--including a full-page graphic on how a wind turbine works--but it reads like...
...movie's first minutes, Precious - having been held back many times before - is in a junior high math class, projecting a blank hostility to the world. Only her voice invites us in: "I like math," she says dreamily in voice-over. "I don't open my book. I just sit there...
...contradiction awakens the first of many mysteries. If Precious likes math, why not open the book? Daniels, his screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and Sidibe have made Precious more enigmatic than her literary creator did. Sapphire drops two major bombshells in the book's first sentence, but we're kept mostly in the dark during the film's early scenes. We learn only that Precious is pregnant - for a second time - much to the disgust of her principal, Mrs. Lichenstein (Nealla Gordon), who tosses her out of school. (See pictures of the youngest best actress nominees...