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...best actors and best-looking human beings--has consistently turned down glamorous leading-man roles in large, profitable movies so that he could play a chorus of memorable (to those who saw them) character parts, like Cesar, the Gypsy horseman in The Man Who Cried, or Bon Bon, the Cuban transvestite prostitute who smuggles prison contraband in his rectum in Before Night Falls. Only Crispin Glover's representatives have suffered more for their percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing It Depp's Way | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...Reykjavik. Fischer faced Soviet grand master Boris Spassky in a chess game that was not only an epic staring match between two intellectual gladiators but also the focus of all kinds of weird, free-floating cold war cultural-political energy. It was the Rumble in the Jungle and the Cuban missile crisis all rolled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Trouble with Genius | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...most reviled figures in the last century of American politics. His tenure as Secretary of Defense led him to make some of the crucial decisions in the major crises of the twentieth century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Happenings | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...Cubano. Partly because it’s not very well known and it’s excellent. I found out about it from a friend who got it from a friend who got it from a friend, and originally we just had burned copies. It’s a Cuban group that does hip-hop, but with a really Cuban feel to it...with drumming and stuff, kind of like afro-cuban roots. When I arrived here [from California] they had just put out a second album in Miami, so when I got here I asked everyone from Miami...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eavesdropping | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...most reviled figures in the last century of American politics. His tenure as Secretary of Defense led him to make some of the crucial decisions in the major crises of the twentieth century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Happening | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

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