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...homecoming in Rabbit-Proof Fence feels real, it is partly because it has also been one for Doyle. Leaving his hometown of Sydney at 18 to join the merchant marine, the maverick Australian worked on a kibbutz in Israel and spruiked Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in love with Hong Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred...
...turned out, it took a Warwick, R.I., native—Harvard freshman Tom Cavanagh—playing against his hometown-area school to get the Crimson on the board first...
...issues ago, Fifteen Minutes ran a lengthy scrutiny that attempted to put the purported crimes of Pomey and Gomes in a life-historical context. In thoroughly disconcerting fashion, the article laid bare past indiscretions, using interviews with old teachers, hometown community members and “friends” of Pomey and Gomes to make clear the point that such alleged ethical lapses as the Pudding pilfer are hardly surprising coming from either of the accused. But in the effort to contextualize the accusations (which, by the way, it did very well), the article accomplished several other less desirable purposes...
...image, Schill organized his own political party, the Law and Order Offensive, and won a stunning 19.4% of the vote in municipal elections last year. Now he is taking his party to two other states in the hope that his get-tough message will resonate with Germans beyond his hometown. "If I lived in Bavaria, I'd never have taken up politics and probably would have led a calm and happy life as a judge," Schill says. "I'm a product of Hamburg because of catastrophic circumstances...
...that standard, The Shipping News was perfect. Hallström was set to direct after wrapping 1995's Something to Talk About, which starred Julia Roberts. But the densely layered storytelling in E. Annie Proulx's celebrated book about Quoyle, a widower who moves to his ancestral hometown in Canada, proved difficult to translate to screen. Unhappy with the script, Hallström quit. The project went through four writers, two other directors and two leading men (John Travolta and Billy Bob Thornton) before a more experienced Hallström agreed to try again...