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...three years in the '30s, Shirley Temple was Hollywood's biggest box-office star; she was just 6 when the Motion Picture Academy voted her a special Oscar. Since then, the Academy has honored 16 actors under 14 with nominations or Oscars. Keisha Castle-Hughes, 14, the Maori charmer of Whale Rider, was cited last year. Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon) and Anna Paquin (The Piano) won supporting-actress Oscars on their first acting jobs. Standards change, and what was cute in the '30s can seem forced today. "I watched a Shirley Temple film the other night," says Trevor Albert...
...praise to the acuity of the actors: the hilarious Church as a charmer who can intuit the flattering lies everyone wants to hear; Madsen with an intense, sexy intelligence; Giamatti radiating pain and fitful star quality. His Miles keeps hurting but keeps searching; this frustrated novelist isn't looking for a big publisher so much as for a loving reader. In Maya, whom he has disappointed in so many ways, he may have found one. Perhaps the depressive has found a reason to hope. What is hope, anyway, if not knocking one last time on the door of a beautiful...
...school newspaper, urging people to "have a go." It's a "go hard or go home" ethos that he seems to retain. He's employed an inventive cheekiness working on election campaigns in his youth. Out on the town, he can be a show-off and a charmer. At an Indian restaurant one evening a decade ago, he launched into a funny and impromptu toast for a stranger celebrating his birthday at another table. But he also has a darker, brooding - some say menacing - side; it can be a turn-off to women, in particular. Latham's exuberance, enthusiasm...
...always struck me as slick but rather pat. This play, however, has all sorts of intriguing tendrils, as relationships and backstory are unraveled slowly, in teasing scenes that jump back and forth in time. The cast of four is excellent, but Linney is a revelation. She's been a charmer in movies like Love Actually, and got a Tony nomination several years ago for The Crucible, but she has never been more incandescent or truthful, inhabiting every pore of a character whose wounds are opened up against her will. Let's hope the Tony nominators remember her a year from...
...Marrakech's Djamaa El-Fna square is home to a loud, colorful marketplace. Locals shop for herbs and fruit, while the snake charmer's pipes and the fortune-teller's call compete for the almighty tourist dollar. By night, though, the square is transformed into a smorgasbord of street food. A cloud of smoke hangs over endless rows of food stalls, each one grilling, boiling, frying or steaming some tasty morsel. Chefs in white aprons scoop, slice and serve like doctors trying to cure world hunger, one bowl of couscous at a time...