Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stunning live-action version (TNT, Oct. 3, 8 p.m.). The challenge in bringing Animal Farm to life is not creating verisimilitude--there never will be a realistic talking donkey--but giving cuddly animals noble and historic heft. The film does so with a wisely chosen cast of voices (Ian Holm stands out as smarmy pig propagandist Squealer) and eerie visuals, from the crudely painted ANIMAL FARM sign at the commune's entrance to the pigs' grisly show trials. You'll have a hard time setting a rattrap after seeing a scapegoated (scape-ratted?) rodent swinging from a gallows. The film...
...There is no chemist I can think of who matches the product of Professor Whitesides' breadth and depth in research," said Higgins Professor of Chemistry Richard H. Holm. "This is a fitting award for one of the greatest chemists in the world...
According to Holm, Whitesides' work places him among the 10 most-frequently cited chemists...
...Picture beating out The Bishop's Wife and Miracle on 34th Street. Other Academy Awards go to Ronald Colman for Best Actor in A Double Life, Loretta Young as Best Actress in The Farmer's Daughter, Edmund Gwenn as Best Supporting Actor in Miracle on 34th Street and Celeste Holm for Best Supporting Actress in Gentleman's Agreement. Elia Kazan won Best Director for his work on Gentleman's Agreement...
...Sweet Hereafter is certainly wellcrafted, and contains outstanding performances by Holm and Polley. But Egoyan sacrifices an emotional relation to the material in favor of an icy and remote perfection...