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...motivation to become an actress was to work with Pedro," Cruz says. "I was kind of obsessed about it." In 1997, at 22, she got her wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother, in 1999, this time as a pregnant, HIV-positive...
...Peter Lord and the hundreds of other genial obsessives over in Bristol have crafted some of the loveliest comic films since Chaplin's. Creature Comforts, Park's day at the zoo with talking animals, and his short films with Wallace the cheese-loving suburban inventor and Gromit his mutely heroic dog, can match any animated films of the past 20 years. But the process cannot be delightful. Most American animators would say it's daft, all that precision-toying with clay, when, these days, computers can do so much of the work...
...these students witnessed the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath while in high school. “We may be witnessing a new civic 9/11 generation,” said Kevin Cramer, Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation at CNS. He added that students who saw the “heroic response” of the emergency service workers at Ground Zero were spurred to action. The same report said that the volunteering rate among college students in Massachusetts ranks 47th in the nation. At Harvard, organizations under the aegis of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) serve 10,000 clients...
Several reasons. Mostly because I felt that heroes a lot of times are disturbed people. But I think a lot of people who do extraordinary heroic things sometimes have got some sort of a little insanity thing. So I've always played heroic people as slightly flawed, slightly haunted by something else. In Unforgiven, William Munny is definitely a flawed guy, and he only becomes heroic at the end because he's just kind of gone crazy...
...that said, is there a hunger among Americans for heroic behavior? I think there is a hunger. I think that most people would love to see a heroic figure step forward. I can almost sound like one of those Christian-right guys: Where is the Messiah...