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...Just one more chapter; just ten more pages.” I plan on seeing the film, and I plan on enjoying it. Why can’t people just enjoy the movie (and the book) for what it is: an enthralling piece of fiction. Neither Dan Brown, the author of the book, nor Ron Howard, the director of the film, claim to purvey anything more than that. Fiction. For those who have forgotten, fiction means “pretend,” i.e. not worth hunger-striking over. People with the penchant to boycott, disrupt, or hunger-strike should...
...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...
...twist is its humor. When an unwitting real estate agent comes to collect his rent from the bed-confined couple, Candy tells him: "We're junkies; I'm a hooker; he's hopeless." When they move to the country, Candy complains that their living room is too dark, so Dan knocks a skylight through the roof. In this way, Armfield lets light into their darkest hours, bringing a heightened sense of mortality that seems to stem from his own childhood. "When I was 13 years old, my mum was given six months to live, and she was at the premiere...
...varsity races. The Crimson trailed early and rallied late, only to be kept out of the medals by less than a second in both varsity races. “I’ve made a career on having very steady races where we walk back,” captain Dan Reid said. “A lot of Harvard crews are really good at walking back. But this was not the weekend to do that.”For Cornell, everything happened right, from the early morning heats to the finish line on Sunday night. The Big Red dominated...