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...Dillon Professor of International Affairs Lisa L. Martin said the Faculty felt “embarrassment” at the handling of the dean’s departure in light of “leaks and manipulation” in news accounts of the resignation. But in contrast to his handling of the fallout from his remarks last year, Summers disputes the validity of the new accusations, calling the reports of Kirby’s forced resignation “mischaracterizations...
...Matt Dillon: 23 years later, he finally gets past the "Let's do it for Johnny" scene in The Outsiders, with a best supporting actor nod for Crash...
...BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck Matt Dillon, Crash Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain William Hurt, A History of Violence...
...Clooney is here, I suspect, more as a thank you to a big star for using his wattage in honorable ways. Giamatti now carries Cinderella Man (since Russell Crowe wasn't nominated), and Dillon carries all the hopes of all the supporting actors in Crash. Hurt makes an indelible impression in his few minutes onscreen, and it's instructive to see that the most self-serious of actors can have menacing fun. But Gyllenhaal, the one important Brokeback actor who's been almost overlooked, should...
John Wayne comes on at the start of the series' first episode (of an epochal 635) to say that this will be a different kind of western. And James Arness's Marshal Dillon was a different kind of lawman--like the Duke after anger management. Gunsmoke led the TV stampede of "adult westerns." Dillon might be the sage of the sagebrush, musing on man's weakness for violence, but since every show begins with his gunning down a bad guy, we know that this is the same old (Testament) stuff, with a little sweet pacifist palaver mixed...