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That devil-may-care charm, plus what director Lasse Hallstrom calls "those eyes and that physicality," twigged the antennae of Amy Pascal, head of Columbia Pictures, who took him under her wing and laid out a buffet of starmaking career moves. In short order, he was Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot, and then--without so much as an audition--he was given the lead in A Knight's Tale. The posters proclaimed, HE WILL ROCK...
...actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistic stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings--a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits...
...presence of recruiters on campus.“I would like to see more of a personal stand taken by the University...just in terms of doing more to encourage discussion of the issue,” she said. Those sentiments resonated with HLS first-year Anne H. Gibson, who said she believes Harvard administrators are “silently accepting” a flawed policy.“I think that what I would most like to see is the administration taking a more vocal stance in being opposed to discrimination,” she said...
...bartender Dan Gibson was a little more skeptical. “I just think it’s hilarious that it’s put on the level of museums and stuff like that...
...public officials he has prosecuted, 12 have been fellow Democrats. "Texas law makes it a felony for corporations and labor unions to contribute money to political campaigns," Earle tells TIME. "My job is to prosecute felonies. I'm doing my job." The grand jury foreman, William Gibson, 76, insists that "this was not one of those rubber-stamp deals. Ronnie Earle did not indict Mr. DeLay. Twelve people on that grand jury voted to indict...