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...thinking. She's Rowena Price, a hard-charging investigative reporter, whose main line of work seems to be catching prominent males in sexually compromised activity. Her putative victim is a high-profile ad man named Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) who may or may not have murdered her best childhood friend. Her modus operandi is to assume a couple of false identities - among them an Internet chatroom tease. She is also plagued by bad dreams hinting that she was a sexually abused child...
...Favorite childhood activity: Embarrassing my parents with varying degrees of public nudity...
...titular three lives of Lucie (Carolyn W. Holding ’10) are her life with her family, her life after banishment to a lonely cottage, and her afterlife. Moving back and forth through time, the play depicts Lucie’s birth in 1900 and childhood, during which she is tormented by her brother Henri (Chris R. Schleicher ’09) for being small and supposedly bringing bad luck to the family because of a birthmark. She grows up lonely, living with her brothers Henri and Edmond (Claudio Sopranzetti) after her parents and oldest brother...
...causes some confusion, as the audience constantly forgets about this until it is reminded of the character’s size again. That fact aside, her performance is riveting. She plays Lucie throughout her 67-year life with only a few personality changes to account for the transition between childhood and old age, making her seem as unmoored from time as the play...
...they are as smart as they are tough.” Fortunately, the actor says he was up for the challenge. To play Swagger, Wahlberg didn’t rely on his previous experience with action films—instead, he trained. Hard. While Wahlberg drew from an entire childhood growing up on Boston streets for his role of Sergeant Dignam in “The Departed,” the actor had not had any sniper training prior to “Shooter.” To prepare for the role, Wahlberg and director Antoine Fuqua used the expertise...