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...rendition of Cure-esque mope-rock.McVeigh often harps on simplified clichés about the inextricable link between love and death, though he does deliver his elementary lyrical content with a reserved aplomb that salvages a handful of good tunes. Gifted with an eerie and reverberating baritone reminiscent of Ian Curtis, McVeigh has an uncanny knack for delivering the most vacuous lyrics with commendable seriousness and brooding passion. The title track, while arguably the strongest song on the album and the one with the most commercial appeal, sounds at times like the pubescent diary entries of a lovesick and paranoid teenager...
...trailer on the edge of a film set beneath an underpass in downtown Cape Town, Ian McKellen, 69, is musing about fame and death, and what the papers will say when he goes. " 'GANDALF DIES,' I expect," he says. The thought tickles him. Not the dying part. The part about being a classical actor and having billions of fans, most of whom are 12. "When you spend as long as I have doing beautiful work which is only seen by a few thousand people, to be involved in popular entertainment without lessening one's standards ... that's fairly appealing...
...expected to make sense of a career which has basically been about me enjoying myself and hoping people would come to see me too?" he asks. But the result, as The Prisoner's producer Trevor Hopkins says, has been to grant him a position of which every actor dreams: "Ian's really in a place to do whatever he wants to do." (See pictures from the 2009 BAFTAs...
...long-term future in Asia rather than in the West. Enrollment at Hwa Chong, which offers classes in English and Chinese, jumped from 283 students last year to 440 this year, according to school officials. "The education in Chinese gives us an edge over other international schools," says Ian Barker, Hwa Chong International's principal...
...will pass by this Saturday, March 14, without the traditional festivities organized by the Mathematics Department, leaving at least one young math aficionado disappointed. Eight-year-old Ian Reid found out about the annual challenge to memorize the digits of pi last year. By New Year’s Day, he could recite 100 digits. “I haven’t even told him yet,” said Jasper Reid, Ian’s father. “He’s going to be disappointed.” In the past, celebrations of the irrational number...