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...dedication comes in part from her parents, who had their own childhood work ethic as athletes (her dad was a minor-league shortstop, her mom got a tennis scholarship to college, and her grandfather is former Eagles' quarterback Rick Arrington). And, says Osbrink, Fanning is pursuing a strategy of "one fun one, then a serious one, just to keep it fun for her and keep her challenged." It took Nicolas Cage 25 years to figure that...
...first of the biopics, Finding Neverland, revels in the warm fantasy world of childhood, an inviting escape for today’s world-weary audiences. The film is fiercely emotional—Johnny Depp’s J.M. Barrie must face fatal disease, domestic discord, and a devastating death—but the action is safely removed from us, both temporally and geographically. The travails of an aristocrat in fin-de-siècle Britain may make for stellar entertainment, but they cannot engage the pressing issues of our contemporary culture...
Like the traditional epic hero, John Constantine’s problems arise from both his own character flaws and the particularly grueling fate allotted him. Since childhood, he has been able to recognize the ghoulish “half-breeds” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psychotic, and as the result of the trauma of his visions and equally...
...Favorite childhood toy: Well, I’m still technically only five...
...even it if was directing my cousins in productions of A Christmas Carol and The Lion King in our basement.” On the Harvard campus, Donahue has directed popular Loeb Mainstage pieces like The Physicists. His artistic endeavors and future aspirations have exceeded the limits of his childhood basement...