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...three people at the story's center?Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the older English reporter Thomas Fowler (Caine) and local lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on a slippery geopolitical slope that leads straight into the Big Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters...
...Tullynally Castle in Ireland--that encompasses several hundred acres of stately 200-year-old oaks and beeches. (Pakenham could have been the eighth Earl of Longford, but he doesn't use the title. His father was a famous politician; his mother is the biographer Elizabeth Longford; the writer Antonia Fraser is his sister...
...Quiet American, based on the 1954 Graham Greene novel, uncovers early U.S. chicanery in Vietnam. But it's more impressive for Michael Caine's perfectly graded performance as a tired Englishman whose political scruples - and sexual possessiveness - put him at odds with the blandly conniving Yank played by Brendan Fraser. Even Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem, has a political agenda tucked inside its rappin'-Rocky plot. It says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. Eminem...
...Sprinter Fraser dominated the competition again on the second night of Ivies with a victory in the 100-yard butterfly. She touched the wall in 55:49, a personal best and a new school record...
HIGHLIGHTS At Ivies, school records are broken by junior Anna Fraser in the 100 fly, freshman Molly Ward in the 100 free, freshman Molly Brethauer in the 200 back, and three Crimson relay teams...