Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast in both films adds to the richness of character. Geoffrey Rush, the Oscar winner for best actor from Shine, delivers masterful performances with two very different characters. As the quietly menacing personal servant of Elizabeth, he convincingly radiates a calm, omniscient presence which anchors his queen when all hell breaks loose. As Fiennes' bumbling, clueless theater manager pal with mossy teeth, Rush transforms into a timid man who relies on the whims of Shakespeare--a role for which he has just been rewarded with an Oscar nomination...
...shrink's office; maybe they buy cocaine off the same dealer; maybe they look back at us through redrimmed eyes in the morning. Maybe they're us, maybe we're them, and maybe we know just as little as they do about who we are and what the hell we're doing here. Drugs, money and sex do nothing to resolve that incessant questioning--still we stick ourselves with needles, cover ourselves with expensive clothes and exhaust ourselves in bed after bed in search for the fulfillment that just has to be somewhere...
...hell for politicians, but not if it's conducted away from the headlines. In a familiar story that hardly makes the papers anymore, U.S. planes struck five targets in northern Iraq Thursday; according to Iraqi officials, two civilians were among the dead. "Senior U.S. officials are happy that they're able to downgrade Iraq's defenses without any of the negative reaction that followed Operation Desert Fox," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "In these skirmishes over the 'no-fly' zone, we've already destroyed as much of Iraq's defenses as we did during the December strikes...
...American man, Anthony Porter, who had been on death row for 16 years and came within two days of being executed. Last week, journalism students at Northwestern University found the real murderer and recorded his confession. When released, Porter will be the 76th wrongfully convicted American freed from the hell of death row. How many innocent people have already been murdered by the state, whose administration of justice has been proven to be discriminatory on the basis of both race and class...
...Women were not welcome here unless they were attractive as hell, married to someone wealthy or sleeping with one of the writers," she says with a wry smile...