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...aspect of Pinter's script is the various levels at which the characters "betray" each other and their attitudes towards betrayal in general. Kiser's Robert viciously internalizes the bitterness which the affair has engendered in him, but refuses to acknowledge it in himself. He maintains an outwardly stable friendship with Jerry, meeting him regularly for lunch. At the same time, he issues a misogynist tirade about "girl babies" that is a thinly veiled attack on Emma. Kiser's tense, self-controlled performance is inarguably the show's most memorable...
...early hours of Aug. 24, 1939, Stalin was in a good mood. He told me that Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, had come the previous day with a draft treaty on friendship and nonaggression for us to sign. Stalin was elated. "Hitler wants to trick us," he said, "but I think we've got the better...
...Curren returns from her doctor's office with news confirming her death sentence, she finds in her yard Vercueil, a foul-smelling vagrant who lives off his wits and other people's garbage. Together they forge an unexpected friendship that provides them both with the only breath of kindness in a world that has forsaken its humanity. First, however, they must surmount their differences. Mrs. Curren is determined to fight to the last, trying to stamp out South Africa's proliferating injustices; Vercueil wants only to disappear into his cardboard shack without responsibility to anyone or anything...
Miller's Crossing is about friendship, character and ethics. GoodFellas is about friends who are colorful characters but left their ethics at the baptismal font. Even as a kid, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) was crazy about the gangster life. He connives in murder one, runs a cocaine cartel, robs decent folks blind -- and, when he is caught, shrugs off all remorse. His patron is a stately Mafioso (Paul Sorvino) who warns him to stay out of the drug business; Henry jumps right in. His best friend is a wacko hoodlum (Joe Pesci) who gets whacked by his own family; Henry...
Donald Woods, the white newspaper editor whose writings about his friendship with black activist Steve Biko became the subject of the film Cry Freedom, returned to South Africa last month from exile in Britain -- his first visit since fleeing the country after Biko's death in police custody in 1977. TIME asked Woods to write about his personal encounter with the changing country...