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...Vivian, former member of King's executive staff participated in Bill Clinton's induction into the Voting Rights Hall of Fame. He sited Clinton as the only U.S. President to participate in the reenactment in 2000 and yearned for such a president in the 1960s. "He was the genius president we never had on our side," said Vivian...
...whose work on Fight Club and Panic Room displayed his expertise in melding the suspenseful and the lurid, plays it cool here. He lets his stars do their thing: Ruffalo emitting just a whisper of rage under his just-the-facts-ma'am demeanor; Downey playing the chatty, suicidal genius (the actor's line readings always have a jazzman's musical ingenuity); and Gyllenhaal in his winsome mode, looking like a puppy who just got swatted with a newspaper by the master he somehow still adores. The star quality has to carry the movie, all 2 1/2 hours...
...extras and real-life locations and replacing them with their computer-generated equivalents. Cinema has always had a tenuous connection to reality; they're severing it almost completely. It's a technique loosely known as "digital back lot." George Lucas was a pioneer, as was Kerry Conran, the lonely genius responsible for the much praised, little-seen Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In Robert Rodriguez's cult hit Sin City (also based on a Miller graphic novel), practically nothing is real but the people. It's not so much cinema as synema. And it's creeping into more...
...front of the book, the voice between the covers is unmistakably Deng’s.It is a surprising move for Eggers, a writer who has made a career out of writing himself all over the page, first in his breakout memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” and then in his debut novel, “You Shall Know Our Velocity!”In “What is the What,” Eggers is nowhere to be found, and he says he wanted it that...
...work with Damon, Affleck, and Robin Williams on “Good Will Hunting.” According to Moore, though he admires Damon and Affleck very much, Williams wins his respect in a way nobody else can. “Robin Williams is the closest person to a genius that I’ve worked with. You watch that guy perform and he is functioning on a different level from any person I’ve ever been around. He is an amazing performer that makes everybody have to do their best work. It’s pretty amazing...