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...version of Pride and Prejudice, with the role of a lifetime. No less than Lebanon, this is a film of man in extremis, seen in extreme close-up. Firth's professor, disconsolate over the death of his longtime beau in a car crash, meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but can't find a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. The Southern California setting casts an orange glow on Firth's handsome, mourning face, and lends A Single Man a delicate warmth that should touch all who see the picture. Firth may not have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venice Film Festival: Films with a Mission | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

Firth plays an English novelist, teaching literature at a Los Angeles college in 1962 and grieving - delicately, obsessively, heroically - for his lover of 16 years, dead in a car crash. Seeing no reason for his life to go on, George meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but has trouble finding a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. So over the course of a long day, he listens idly to his colleagues' worries over the Cuban missile crisis; has dinner with his oldest friend, a London socialite (Julianne Moore, never more glamorous); and indulges some erotic flattery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five to Watch from the Toronto Film Festival | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...Thus the weight of two unrealized lives dropped onto Robert's shoulders. He added a deeper dimension: a mission of compassion to go along with the steel and the wit and the will to win. And then, with a gunshot in a Los Angeles hotel, everything fell to Ted - the youngest, the mama's boy, the slipstreamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy: Bringing the Myth Down to Earth | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...determined to have been in Copney's possession immediately after the murder. A report of the incident by prosecutors says that the pistol was of the same caliber as casings found at the scene, and a jacket worn by Copney the day of shooting also tested positive for gunshot residue...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Third Suspect Arrested in Kirkland Shooting Case | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...which they determined was in Copney's possession immediately after the murder. That gun, a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, was of the same caliber as casings found at the scene, the report said. A jacket that Copney wore the day of the shooting has also tested positive for gunshot residue, according to the statement...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Suspect in Harvard Shooting Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

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