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Cassandra's Dream is the name of a long-shot greyhound who wins a race and makes a small fortune for an addicted gambler named Terry (Colin Farrell). It is entirely appropriate for him to give the name to the smart little sailboat he and his brother Ian (Ewan McGregor) buy with his winnings. It is also believable that these working-class lads would not know much about the lady after whom the speedy canine was named - mythology's great purveyor of doomy portents. It is, finally, appropriate for Woody Allen to find the title for his movie in this...
...central element in this movie. Like the protagonists of those earlier films, the brothers are not inherently evil people. They're just rather careless ones. Or perhaps one should say ungrounded. Terry is hard-working mechanic, rather decent at heart, but afflicted with addictions to gambling and booze. Ian dreams of an entrepreneurial success - something to do with upscale hotels - without quite seeming to know how to achieve it. He's also smitten by an actress (Hayley Atwell) who is much better at using people than...
...boys continue to need money: Terry tends to lose more than he wins gambling, and Ian needs serious financing for his slightly dubious ventures. That's where Uncle Howard (the wonderful Tom Wilkinson) comes in. He's a stock figure in middle class dramas - see Death of a Salesman -] the mysteriously successful, almost mythically potent, figure who haunts the dreamy longings of his stuck-in-grade relatives. A source of whimsical largesse and equally whimsical needs, he has always required a bit of placating. Right now, he needs a bit more than that, specifically the death of a business associate...
...Match Point, you used a lot of opera. Do you personally enjoy opera? -Ian Kachemov, Highland, MD.I do like opera. I'm going to direct a small opera this year. I used to go a lot, but [operas] go until 11:30 at night. I get up at 5:30 a.m. and get my exercise and ablutions done-sometimes my clarinet practice even before I go out to shoot. I just can't keep those late hours...
Today it wasn't just Michael Mansfield, lawyer for Dodi's father, Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed, that Burrell had to answer to. Richard Keen - the lawyer for the parents of Henri Paul, the driver who also died in the 1997 crash in Paris - and Ian Croxford, representing the Ritz Hotel, Paris, the starting point for Diana and Dodi's fateful journey, also got in on the act. Questioning him one after the other, they all seemed to be trying to prove the same thing: there are three sides to every story - Paul Burrell's, Paul Burrell...