Word: enchantress
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...Picture, Director (Danny Boyle) and Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy). In addition, three of the four acting prizes went to foreigners. For England's Kate Winslet, her sixth Oscar nomination was the charm after being named Best Actress for her role as a concentration camp guard in The Reader. Spanish enchantress Penélope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her fiery painter in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, making her the first Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar. And in the ceremony's most emotionally honest moment, the mother, father and sister of the late Australian star Heath...
...academic, stream the folks at the new Institute pulled out Rushdie, who, although he is not one of their faculty members, writes fiction that acknowledges the centrality of faith to culture without the author's pious participation. From his astounding breakthrough work, Midnight's Children, through his current The Enchantress of Florence, he has been obsessed with both formal and informal belief, but from the point of view of a highly-educated Muslim-born sceptic. This potentially flammable combination combusted in 1989 when Iran's then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, sanctioned Rushdie's execution by the faithful for alleged...
...Bear’s Place. 12:15 a.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door, $9. (DFH)Babaloo. Babaloo is releasing their latest CD, Babaloo International, with an 18+ alternative rock concert, partying, and dancing. Also featuring Pressure Cooker and Lady Enchantress. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $15 general admission including free CD. (ABW)Balafonist Neba Solo. Harvard’s African Initiative present the Mali-based musician and his troupe. Called “the genius of the balafon,” Souleymane...
...dynamic portrayal of Carmen made it easy to see how one woman could drive a man to such impetuosity. Sensual and confident, Baldwin imbued Carmen with a magnetism that was as irresistible to the spectator as it was to the men on stage. But why such an enchantress would fall for Bradley Greenwald’s lackluster Don José remains a mystery. Greenwald carried himself with a stiffness that impeded his ability to bring passion to the libretto. Lyrics like “You only had to appear / Only to toss a glance towards me / In order to take...
...have less imagination, and I'm more timid. When someone sees me, I don't want him to meet me. I wish I could be enchanted by this." Tautou, now shooting her first English-language film, Dirty Pretty Things, for Stephen Frears, will have to settle for being an enchantress...