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...including Cloudstreet production designer Robert Cousins, he set about opening up the story of doomed junkie love and offering audiences a more familiar entry point in the form of Candy's befuddled middle-class parents. In the process, he helped make the "hopeless optimism" of Candy's poet boyfriend Dan (Heath Ledger) as endearing as the Lambs and Pickles of Cloudstreet. At Company B, Armfield's genius has been in drawing stellar names, gaining their trust and stretching their wings. He went into Candy, he says, "wanting to quite bravely use the things that I'd found strong and helpful...
...Candy (which opens in Australia this week), the camera doesn't lie. When Dan is told he is to become a father, his face, caught in the light of a window, floods with tenderness. Ledger appears to act only when his character must-to hustle for the couple's next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper...
...Officials reversed the ruling when the A.C.L.U. challenged the legality of the checks. But some schools nationwide require students to preregister their dates for informal character checks. At Andover High School in Minnesota, guests who come from other schools must be vouched for by their principals, says Andover principal Dan Dehnicke...
Everybody but Dan Brown knows that The Da Vinci Code is not a great book; at best it's a great read. But for all the novel's thriller tropes, its chases among chalices and cilices, the publishing phenomenon of the decade is a very bookish book. The games Brown plays are essentially literary: anagrams and hexagrams, fun with the Fibonacci Sequence. Those riddles are best savored by readers with a long night or a long flight ahead of them...
...their careers the Dixie Chicks would write all their songs, by themselves and about themselves. As writers they admit they're prone to laziness, like people at a gym who need a personal trainer to force them to concentrate. Gary Louris of the Jayhawks, blues artist Keb' Mo' and Dan Wilson of Semisonic were brought in to co-write and supply discipline, and the band hunkered down in Los Angeles, where Rubin lives, to begin the long and unglamorous work of crafting songs...