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...directorial debut, Violent Cop, the stolid face and avenging-devil persona emerged fully formed, fists and feet blazing. The film begins with punks beating an old man senseless. One of the kids goes home; Officer Asuma (Kitano) walks into the boy's bedroom and whacks him silly. "I did nothing," the lad protests. "Then I've done nothing," the violent cop replies...
...seen as one of cricket's most respected sons: captain of South Africa, God-fearing and charming. Then Hansie Cronje's dirty secret was exposed: for years he'd been making clandestine deals with bookmakers. At first he denied all. But as the evidence mounted he confessed, blaming the devil and his own "unfortunate love of money." Last June, in Cape Town, he wept on the stand at the King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing. Months later, he was kicked out of cricket for life...
...sociopath's freedom from scruple. Lecter's deadliest weapon is not his teeth or other cutlery but his gift for the jugular--his ability to discern and exploit human weakness. Hopkins plays him, suavely, as the anticonscience, the voice of mischief inside anyone with ambition and a grudge. The Devil works in whispers...
...always, the devil is in the details. Obviously, much of what our early ancestors ate must have been good for them. But there's a lot of variation even among today's ever dwindling population of hunter-gatherers. The further back in time we look, the less precise our knowledge of diets becomes. There's controversy among paleoanthropologists about whether meat or the advent of cooking contributed more to our evolutionary success. Two weeks ago, researchers from South Africa and France presented evidence that a major source of protein for early hominids was termites, a food group none...
...month the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs will arrive in theaters on a torrent of hype and with great expectations. While Hopkins had only a few indelible scenes in Silence, in Hannibal he is front and center in the title role. The image of the red-eyed devil glowers on billboards all over the world. And the box-office well-being of the $80 million sequel depends almost entirely on audiences' fascination with Hopkins' character. The movie itself? You will love it or hate it, and you will never eat off someone else's plate again...