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...plenty of Terminal-or-worse-type fare, usually stepping in from the edge of the frame to provide a memorable jolt of misanthropy or cluelessness that makes the star--be it Jim Carrey (Man on the Moon), Martin Lawrence (Big Momma's House) or Ben Affleck (Paycheck)--appear heroic by comparison. Giamatti finally got the chance to move to the middle of the screen in 2003's American Splendor and 2004's Sideways, and he infused comic-book-writing depressive Harvey Pekar and wine-loving, self-hating failed novelist Miles Raymond with such prickly, ordinary humanity that he was naturally...
...like Conan without Doyle, or Lloyd without Webber. But I hope Ivory now 76, and Prawer Jhabvala, 78, continue. Just as Merchant-Ivory ignored the death notices for the movie traditions of craftsmanship and delicacy, and revived them for more than 40 years, it would be appropriate, and heroic, for the surviving partners to go on making fine films about the good manners of sad and complicated people...
...less an ancient warrior than a modern statesman. As a 12th century commander, he is obliged to seize the Holy Land for the church and state he serves. But as a representative of early 21st century liberal thinking, he has to consider a decision that only posterity will deem heroic and that could deprive the genre of its natural climax...
...kingdom's richest possession. By the time they stepped off their plane on Saturday morning at Andrews Air Force Base, all the RSVPs had been sent out, thank you, and the A list firmly separated from the B. Washington had settled in to gawk and gossip about the royal heroic couplet...
...Jersey episode assumed heroic proportions when Middlesex County Prosecutor Alan Rockoff reported that the youths, in addition to carrying on other mischief, had been "changing the positions of satellites up in the blue heavens." That achievement, if true, could have disrupted telephone and telex communications on two continents. Officials from AT&T and Comsat hastily denied that anything of the sort had taken place. In fact, the computers that control the movement of their satellites cannot be reached by public phone lines. By week's end the prosecutor's office was quietly backing away from its most startling assertion...