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Cheadle isn't as sure of his ability to deliver. It's not that he lacks confidence: he plays poker with bravado, he's got plenty of aggression in his basketball and golf games, and he's proud of his two young daughters' soccer skills. But although he began acting as a 10-year-old in Denver, he says he still cringes whenever he sees himself onscreen. In fact, he has yet to watch some of his films. "My father is a psychologist, and he says that's healthy-- you should have some self-doubt," says Cheadle. "If you ever...
...Crouching Tiger imitation it largely is. But though the film is hardly groundbreaking, it is still worth watching. Its themes and morals are a bit musty, but they’re still lofty, and evoke the greatness that Flying Daggers achieves best in its awe-inspiring visual bravado...
...excuse me if I get a little sick to my stomach when Curt Schilling swaggers into Boston in 2004 with all the bravado of a Roman Emperor. Commercials aired all over Boston about Schilling’s desire to come to the city and “end the 86-year-old curse,” and he seemingly proclaimed himself a team leader from...
...running gag in Washington last week held that Langley, the CIA's longtime home in Virginia, was changing its name to Fallujah--the question wasn't whether the place was eventually going to be cleared of rebels, but how many would be killed in the process. But beyond the bravado there was no joking about what was really going on and why. The turmoil at the CIA was unfolding just as Bush was consolidating his power all over Washington in classic second-term fashion. The President wasted no time after his re-election reining in the two other agencies that...
...wanted to ask him why, if he really had as little to prove as he claimed, he felt compelled to talk about it so much. He’s crushingly smart though, and because he knows exactly what he sounds like, he plays up the tension, pitting his intimidating bravado against his obvious insecurity. It’s the same tension that kept characters like Sal Paradise and Holden Caulfield interesting to us when we were sixteen, and Eminem is compelling for the same reasons. Certainly, the joke runs thin sometimes, and his inability to strike a balance between unabashed...