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But anyone's venture is special to him. And the England of James I and his predecessor, Elizabeth I, suffered from overpopulation and poverty. Pushing people into other lands could solve both problems and even have a side benefit. As the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, England's premier geographer, put it...
BAD PEOPLE, LOCKED IN THE BASEMENT OF their dankest impulses, don't know they're bad. They think they're the good guys in a world that can't understand them, and must be punished for that mistake. Villains see themselves as victims. Actors in these roles are obliged to...
Michelle Pfeiffer, away from onscreen roles since 2002, returns in three movies this summer, two--Hairspray and the fantasy Stardust--as a villain. For her Hairspray role of Velma Von Tussle, the ex--beauty queen who can't accept the races mixing on a '60s TV dance party, Pfeiffer trawled...
KEVIN COSTNER, A BAD GUY IN Mr. Brooks? Not quite: he's driven to murder by his alter ego (William Hurt). "He has an addiction he's trying to keep under wraps," Costner says of his character. "In life, when we see somebody trying to beat something, we feel sympathy...
As Dolores Umbridge, the bureaucrat from the Ministry of Magic in this summer's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Imelda Staunton is a little bit priestess, a little bit villainous. Staunton, the latest in a line of top British thespians to visit Hogwart's, found it a...