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Serious actress, sex goddess. Movies haven't seen that combo since the era of Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale, when European stars commuted between homegrown and Hollywood films. A later generation had less luck: Isabelle Huppert's first big U.S. film was Heaven's Gate, and Isabelle Adjani's was Ishtar--two signal flops of the '80s. Penelope Cruz has yet to look comfortable in a U.S. film. Bellucci knows the odds, and she has the ambition. "It's so difficult for a European actress to have the chance to work internationally," she says. "But if you want to make...
...Iraqi frontline bunkers by a ripple of dirty brown ridges. On the morning of February 28, Salam Rahim heard the unmistakable, and familiar, crack of explosions skirting the hamlet. He reached for the Kalashnikov he keeps on his sitting room floor as his wife and children ran out the gate. "The women and children were scared and half of the people fled to the mountain behind us," he says. "Once we heard the mortars all the armed men of the village ran to the hill near the Iraqis...
...sophomore Dan Sirotkin, fellow 197-pounder freshman Danny Jones and junior Max Odom (157 lbs.)—who reinjured the same shoulder that forced him to take a year off the 2001-02 season—stifled the Crimson’s chances to explode out of the gate...
Minutes until Mother Harvard gently but insistently pushes the class of 2003 across the threshold of Johnston Gate thus welcoming soon-to-be grads to a lifetime of, well, life in the real world...
...Neighborhood” begins with a threshold experience—Fred Rogers opens the door, crosses over into another domain, and transforms himself through costume change. In the classics of children’s literature, the transition from reality to fantasy is often clearly marked by a gate, a door or a window. You reach Neverland by exiting through the window. In the film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy has to open a door in order to reach Oz. Mary Lennox turns a key, pushes a gate and enters the secret garden. What Fred Rogers offered...