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...required to convey more distress than in previous roles, is in virtually every scene, a fact that caused him some real discomfort. "I usually don't mind watching movies I'm in," he says, "but in this, there's just so much of me I can't take a breather and relax while other people are onscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perfect Boyfriend | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...travelled to England’s Sussex University for a one-year Masters degree program in philosophy. His return stateside in 1979 found him working as a research assistant at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and in New York City, where he took a much-needed breather from the academy...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man With the Answers: Allen GrapplesWith Life’s Questions | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...wanted to get him out of the traffic,” Gilligan said. “They were coming at us pretty hard. It was getting pretty emotional, and I didn’t want it to get embarrassing. I wanted to give him a breather...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Action Jackson: The Referee Was Dunn Like Dinner | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...Taking a breather after a tough weekend road trip and in anticipation of a difficult swing through North Carolina, the squad used a varied lineup which allowed for some of the higher-ranked athletes to rest and a few of the younger players to compete...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Varied Lineup, W. Tennis Still Cruises Past BU | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Steven Spielberg takes a breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening: Listings for Feb. 14 to 20 | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

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