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...Rowling gave birth to Harry Potter, but Mary GrandPre breathed life into him for millions of readers. As illustrator of the Potter saga, GrandPre made evocative drawings that traced Harry's often-perilous journey through adolescence, and in the process shaped the world's image of the book's hero. GrandPre spoke with TIME about how she went about drawing Potter and what it was like to recast Harry's image for an upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone...
...Part 1, our asthmatic hero helps Fidel Castro defeat the Batista forces in the 1958 battle of Las Mercedes; in Part 2, he fails to bring revolution to Bolivia, and pays with his life. Numerous scenes of him instilling military discipline are leavened by occasional celebrity cameos (including an implausible visit from Matt Damon). At the end the viewer is left wondering why the film omitted important elements of Guevara's biography - his supervising of hundreds of executions in the first year of the regime; his break with Castro; his war year in Africa; his wives and children...
...difference between Synecdoche, on one hand, and, on the other, 8-1/2 and other films, like It's a Wonderful Life, where the hero teeters on the precipice of suicide, is that Kaufman's movie doesn't send in the clowns, or dispatch a bumbling angel, But the movie is less forgiving of Caden than 8-1/2 is of Guido. Kaufman says that life is a series of lost chances, of doors closing, until some unseen prompter whispers a final word in your ear: "Die." The apparent bleakness of the film's ending - which is the ending...
...turning this talkathon into a thrillingly moving picture. As incarnated by Tony Servillo (who is a front runner for Best Actor and is also in Gomorrah), Andreotti has the stiff posture of Richard Nixon, but a more imperial menace. In this sense, Il Divo has relevance beyond Italy. Its hero-villain could be any leader who stays on the throne by knowing how to dole out lavish rewards and the severest punishments regardless of how brilliant and charismatic he may appear to his supporters...
...Unlikely Hero, Familiar Villains...