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...knew Graham Greene," he says, "and I knew he had a Vietnamese girlfriend. So I used his accent and his attitudes--very upper middle class--for Fowler. I was playing an alter ego of Graham's: his Mr. Hyde to his Dr. Jekyll." As Fowler's shadings turn darker, Caine paints him with stronger strokes. It was an exhausting process. "Every Friday night I'd have dinner with my wife, and I'd say, 'I've got nothing left. I'm empty.' I had disappeared into the part...
...storyline that fans hold sacrosanct. Writer Robert Skir's decision to create a darker, organic Cybertron for the 1999 CGI television series _Beast Machines: Transformers_ won him few popularity points with the fandom. Skir's actions earned him numerous death threats, and incited more hate than a thousand Bin Laden speeches. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latest incarnation of the series has abandoned any pretense of a maturity and delivers bland, insipid episodes aimed at pre-schoolers who like their primary colors with a dash of Energon...
After delivering The Glow, Pt. 2, an off-kilter pop album that topped many “Best of 2001” lists, critical darlings The Microphones have promptly returned with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie...
...want to capture the essence of how people lived then and how powerful people made decisions." Despite Brahm's enthusiasm for the early idealism of China's communist liberation, many of his vintage treasures?posters, lamps, porcelain figurines depicting Red Guards and busts of Mao?date to the darker days of the Cultural Revolution...
...political dissident) and tens of millions of Chinese are on the move, wandering to different parts of the country in search of jobs. Society is all shook up, and anonymity is now possible for the first time, especially in immigrant magnets like Wuhan. One of the darker results is a phenomenon once thought to exist only in the decadent West. "We've reached the age of serial killing in China," says Wang Dazhong, a famed criminal investigator who trains cops at the Chinese Peoples' Public Security University in Beijing...