Word: brutus
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...actor, too, Welles aimed higher and older. He is most persuasive playing powerful men - like Brutus, become sere and weary trying to rationalize ambition as idealism - or ancient ones. His centuries-old Count Dracula has the sepulchral poignancy of a majestic senior citizen doomed to play the vampire yet determined to play it to the hilt. And Welles sounds hokiest, and farthest from his own prodigious, wandering youth, when imitating the thin, whiny timbre of small-town America's young men in such period pieces as "I'm a Fool," "Seventeen," "Ah, Wilderness!" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." To hear...
...Americans, like Cuban Americans before them, are beginning the passage from huddled refugees to more confident immigrants and players in the U.S. "We are not going to let Haitian traditions like restavek flourish here because we know now that America is the great equalizer among us," says attorney Phillip Brutus, who in November was elected Florida's first Haitian-American state legislator. "We're making giant leaps from where we were 10 years ago in that sense...
...petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings...
Sooner or later, in big things or small, everybody betrays everybody--not necessarily out of malice, but because loyalty runs counter to what one laughingly calls normal human behavior. "Into what danger would you lead me, Cassius?" asks Brutus, who is, in fact, an honorable man yet is easily seduced to treason by an envious one. I can still hear George McGovern's avowal of fealty to his running mate, Thomas Eagleton, in the 1972 presidential campaign, after it was revealed that Eagleton had undergone electric-shock therapy. "I'm behind him 1,000%," said McGovern, a few days before...
...green floor tiles). The unique bond that evolves between the sympathetic Edgecomb and the unexpectedly gentle Coffey forms the basis for the psychological, spiritual and moral exploration that permeates the film. The strong ensemble cast is further enhanced by the performances of David Morse (Contact), who plays Brutus Howell, Edgecomb's friend and another sympathetic guard; James Cromwell (Babe), who fills the role of Warden Hal Moores; and Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump), who briefly appears as John Coffey's public defender. The antagonists are a cruel prison guard named Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison) and an insane killer known as Wild...