Word: honoring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...waiting, tongues out like famished dogs, for tomorrow evening's North American premiere. The movie's producers have withheld U.S. rights until after the film shows here, anticipating a festival furor. On Saturday, the movie won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival - the event's top honor. Already, the two Hollywood trade papers have raved about the movie's star performance, and the Los Angeles Times headlines the question: "Will The Wrestler get hold of an Oscar for Mickey Rourke...
...Incredible Hulk. (It's the rare movie where the closing credits for Makeup and Mr. Rourke's Trainer are well deserved.) Reviewers love watching actors abuse their bodies for their art almost as much as actors love doing it. That's one reason Mickey should be a guest of honor at the year-end critics' awards dinners. Another is that Rourke's bio blends with the story of The Wrestler, but with a happier ending. His career has come back from the dead; any award would be like a posthumous prize to someone who is, miraculously, still around to accept...
...thousands of professionals arrived too. Today, the community's U.K. directory lists Polish accountants and cardiologists, a hypnotist and a youth theater. Tesco supermarkets import Polish cookies and pâtés, and Britain's best-known tabloid the Sun put out the Polish-language Polski Sun in honor of Euro...
...will. Alan Ball (Six Feet Under's creator) is adapting a series of novels by Charlaine Harris with a seemingly can't-miss premise, given the current rage for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books: What happens when the undead try to integrate into mortal society? But while writerly honor forbids me to use a "suck" or "bite" joke, the early episodes of True Blood are, shall we say, drained of interest...
...most dear is witnessing her legal marriage to Phyllis Lyon, her partner of 55 years, on June 16. I can't quite grasp a life and career without Del, and I am heartbroken for Phyllis, who for 55 years made a vibrant life with Del. My pledge is to honor her unsurpassed legacy by working every day to keep alive her vision for full equality and justice...