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...texture of the idle rich at play and the yearning of Ripley, who wants that good life so much he'd kill for it. Inhabiting this very dolce vita is a quintet of smart-looking young performers--Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jack Davenport--giving vigorous life and fine shading to roles of wealth or breeding. They parade their star quality (or supporting-actor quality) not by screaming and cussing Method style but by radiating an unforced glamour that recalls Hollywood in its Golden...
...newly expanded role of Peter Smith-Kingsley, a British playmate for Tom who enters in the late stages of the film, puts a whole new spin on Tom's movement into his new world. While the acting is uniformly fine, the prize of the hour goes to newcomer Jack Davenport, who brings this character to life with such exquisite sensitivity that he more than justifies the touchy business of Tom's gayness. I wouldn't be surprised if you hear the name Davenport again sometime soon. If Anthony Minghella weren't such a smart writer and director, the changed emphasis...
...spent nights with friends in Davenport, his residential college, perfecting a game he invented called "squash hockey." Using fireplace grates as goals, Bush and his friends would play hockey in Davenport's downstairs squash courts, "whacking" a tennis ball around the courts in the hours after midnight...
...here," he says from his bus, Victory Express II, where the cooler is always full and the snacks are never ending. On Friday several hundred people showed up in Cedar Rapids to see him. Earlier in the day he got a standing-room-only group of 700 in Davenport and 500 people came out in Sioux City last Tuesday night. Out in farm country, that's packing them in; only half as many had shown up for Bush a week earlier...
...thing I've noticed about Seles is that she basically excises the two-and-a- half-year layoff after the stabbing from her age. She doesn't consider herself a tour veteran and sees herself more in the category of 22-year old Lindsay Davenport, as a player who is getting closer and closer to her peak...