Word: damone
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...film focuses on Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a composite of historical figures, who starts out wanting to be a poet and ends up being the bureaucrat at the center of some of the CIA's most notorious activities. Damon is terrific in the role--all-knowing, never overtly expressing a feeling. Indeed, so is everyone else in this intricate, understated but ultimately devastating account of how secrets, when they are left to fester, can become an illness, dangerous to those who keep them, more so to nations that base their policies on them...
...Souza has been given a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation—awarded to five outstanding researchers during the initial years of their first faculty position...
...through its involvement in the Bay of Pigs. It is told through the life of Edward Wilson, an agency stalwart loosely based on long-serving counterintelligence chief James Jesús Angleton, and tracks the price that a life of secrecy can exact. Despite the stellar cast - Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin - it took De Niro, 63, and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal nearly eight years to get the film made. Although still not chatty, the star had quite a bit to say about the movie business, why he does comedies, and the prospect of competing...
...King of New York” has moved beyond the standard gangsta-rap subject matter to talk about more personal and pertinent issues: the Hurricane Katrina crisis, his relationship with Beyoncé, his retirement, his mother and father, his falling-out with former friend and business partner Damon Dash, and even his recently deceased nephew...
...going downhill, hope surfaces again with “ODB, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” one of the most whacked-out love duets in recent memory. ODB howls like a stray dog over Macy Gray’s breathy hook and Damon Elliot’s slick production, delivering lines that no other rapper could successfully spit: after cataloguing, for Macy’s benefit, a number of after-dark outdoor sex acts, ODB suggests that they could, “go to the movies / I don’t care which movie...