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Thurman waited nine long years for the chance to be brutalized onscreen. After getting a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Pulp Fiction in 1994, she performed with varying degrees of conviction in stiff period pieces (A Month by the Lake, The Golden Bowl), little-seen indies (Tape, Chelsea Walls) and a few conspicuously horrible blockbusters (Batman & Robin, The Avengers). "I never built a niche for myself," says Thurman a bit defensively. "Some of that was because I didn't want the niches I could have had--the romantic heroine, the victim, the girl who needs to be rescued...
...parts; Volume 1 will be out Oct. 10, and Volume 2 arrives in February 2004) whose mission is only slightly more complicated than the title. "It's a movie about a woman who challenges five people to duels. That's pretty much it," says Thurman. Whereas Pulp Fiction has three plots, Kill Bill barely has one; Tarantino created no layered subplots, no pathos and no circus of pop references to ground his movie in reality. "He is brilliant, but my job was to take this character out of his wildly creative, seemingly improvisational world and make her human...
Thurman helped design the greatest acting challenge of her career during a night out with Tarantino 10 years ago. "We were with people from the cast and crew of Pulp Fiction, just talking about revenge-genre filmmaking," she says, "batting ideas around." In a matter of minutes she and Tarantino came up with a plot idea: a pregnant female assassin tries to go straight, gets viciously attacked at her wedding, loses her baby, slips into a coma, recovers and goes on a trail of revenge. Tarantino was so excited by the premise that he went home and wrote nine pages...
Said was awarded a number of prizes for his work, including Sultan Owais Prize (the premier literary prize of the Arab world), the Spinoza prize and the New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction for his 1999 memoir Out of Place. That same year, he was named president of the Modern Languages Association...
...President Bush is the present candidate who has his feet to the ground. At my age I have seen and heard so much spin; you cannot tell when the truth is being told by the media. Too bad the younger generation can't tell fact from fiction. My vote is no. He will get a second term. J. Sharp Alvin, Texas...