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...love Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow? Of course we do. He worked up something strange and lovely for this character in the first Pirates of the Caribbean three years ago, and he?s deliriously at it again in the new sequel, subtitled Dead Man?s Chest. It is not just a matter of his eye makeup or his funny way of walking, running or (sometimes) sitting still - as when he discovers, to his dismay, that the cannibals have decided to make him the centerpiece of their banquet. It goes deeper than that: Jack is a modernist, unaccountably obliged...
...swain (Orlando Bloom) and Jack with a lot of special-effects figures (they turned into skeletons when night fell). This was, I thought, a drag, but it was rendered tolerable by the wit and originality of Depp's performance. This time, the plot device is quite similar: The eponymous chest contains something that will return Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), king of the underseas underworld and, yes, captain of the The Flying Dutchman, no less, to the land of the fully living...
...candidates' chest-thumping could portend a protracted legal battle - like the one north of the border in 2000 - or even more disruptive political unrest once officials do report a winner. But the electoral crisis also drives home the deep conflict over? Mexico's economic future, which had been the?most passionate issue of the campaign. Mexico, which until 2000 had lived for the better part of? a century under one-party rule, is a traditionally conservative country. The Harvard-educated Calder?n, 43, who appears to have garnered about 36% of the vote, campaigned on promises to stay the course...
Undead pirates aside, Captain Jack faces a new peril in the sequel, Dead Man's Chest, out July 7: living up to audience expectations after the original...
From that day forward, T.R. became a fierce champion of what he called the "strenuous life," a self-imposed struggle to live with vigor and determination. He boxed and pulled at weight machines, and his chest expanded along with his capacity to breathe. To conquer his fragility he began, wrote a friend, "constantly forcing himself to do the difficult and even dangerous thing." Years later, T.R. wrote in his autobiography that his life changed forever because he set fearlessness before him "as an ideal" that by dogged practice he achieved. Advised that he had a bad heart and shouldn...