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Actor Tony Goldwyn (most commonly known as the bad guy in Ghost) makes his directorial debut with this film. The story centers around Perl (Diane Lane), the film's symbol of change and uncertainty. Pearl's family spends every summer at a bungalow colony in the Catskills. Her husband, Marty (Liev Schreiber), is forced to spend most of his time away from the family at work. As always, the absence of the husband conveniently opens the door for the infidelity of the wife, a pattern that plays out to perfection when Pearl becomes involved with an enigmatic blouse-seller named...
...delighted to be honored with this award," said Hochschild, who spent three years researching and writing his book King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, published by Houghton Miffin in the fall...
...also the author of Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin...
...figure out what happens next, Ed, or you, might look in a video store, under Jim Carrey. The ghost of The Truman Show stalks EDtv, and it can't be shaken, as--guess what--Ed is chosen to be in the show. Ray gets jealous, Ray's girlfriend Shari (Jenna Elfman) gets the warms for Ed, instant celebrity makes Ed antsy, and the network's Mephistophelian boss (Rob Reiner) tries to shape the story line of his new star's life, almost as Ed Harris' TV mogul did for Carrey's Truman Burbank...
...sweet, almost childlike directness. Introducing his first encore, one of the great ballads from Pet Sounds, he says, "Back in the early '60s I used to sing like a girl, and here's a song I sang called Caroline, No." Earlier he had been getting aid (if not outright ghost-singing) on some of his songs' famous falsetto passages, but here he nails the high notes perfectly...