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...jewel-box city over the Tagus river, Toledo was also a center of the Counter Reformation, which sought to mobilize the faithful and harden the lines of Roman Catholic dogma. In the face of the Protestant challenge, the inquiring spirit of the High Renaissance had been overtaken by the dogmas of the Council of Trent. Eager to exploit the power of art but wary all the same of wayward artists, Rome operated like the old Hays office in Hollywood, mandating what could be shown and how to show it. Spain in particular was a cockpit of militant piety, the forcing...
...jokes about Red Sox fans and their rabid hatred for the Yankees until my first seventh inning at Fenway. The team’s playoff ambitions were already dashed, but as the game dragged on and concessionaires pulled the taps on bleacher beer, the faces around me began to harden with purpose. Native Bostonians in every corner of the stadium—from toddlers just learning to mispronounce the Boston “r” to die-hard 40-somethings escaping their wives—pulled together spontaneously to chant “Yankees Suck?...
...Boston with the child she does not have; her hotel maid (Vanessa Martinez) dreams of the child she gave up for adoption. One speaks Irish-accented English, the other Spanish. They can't understand each other, but they do communicate on some very basic level. Aside from Marcia Gay Harden, above, covering a hard-used life with near sociopathic behavior, the other characters are less well developed. But they are all well played, and this wisp of a movie turns out to be more thoughtfully affecting than many a more high-flying film...
...weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes: "I had no input, output, influence upon them whatsoever at any stage in the process." But the case is hardly closed. There has been plenty of testimony about meetings, some including the Prime Minister, devoted to the worried search for evidence to harden the case...
...looks like fun for MARCIA GAY HARDEN and JULIA ROBERTS, but filming Mona Lisa Smile, due out in December, required some serious study. Roberts plays a professor at Wellesley College in 1953 who tries to inspire her students to think beyond marriage. Director Mike Newell made his cast of postfeminist women, including Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles, take manners lessons and wear rubber girdles. "They complained about it," says Newell. "It was antithetical to the way they were brought...