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The first film in which she appeared was the 1941 Major Barbara; she played a winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr's radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Her to Eternity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

Another part of Kerr's chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three Colonel Blimp characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Her to Eternity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

That's largely because Road, directed and co-written by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda), is much more plausibly character driven. We feel we know these people, possibly might even be these people in certain circumstances. There is, for example, something recognizably feckless in Ruffalo's character, clinging narrowly to respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Domestic Tragedies: Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

Kamenetz: Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by. Over time, a character appears in the dream I call the Opposition, the essence of your destructive or self-destructive behavior. A child or children begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Ideas from a Jewish Dreamer | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

But we weren't prepared for the overweening bureaucratic scrutiny the agency subjected us to. There were long, psychological exam-style questionnaires to fill out, strict contractual pledges to sign - and interrogations of the neighbors, whose names we had to submit as character references. When the agency finally delivered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ellen's Pooch Problem — and Ours | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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