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Like a doughty icebreaker, the mini-series is slow to gather steam, and writer-director Charles Sturridge's script veers toward the overdramatic. But Branagh makes Shackleton a very human icon, hubristic but good-humored. The explorer later died trying another Antarctic mission, so one shouldn't oversell his lessons. Still, Shackleton is a well-executed reminder that failure can breed success...
...Lily, Toshiaki's world is a soul-less wasteland in which hero worship is the only way out. The icon in Blue Spring comes in the form of Kujo (Matsuda Ryuhei), the cool, aloof, recluse of the school. If you were reborn as a camera lens, you'd want to be pointed at Matsuda: he's rapture, he's angelic, he's to-die-for. And Aoki (Arai Hirofumi) does. Aoki's role in the relationship goes from subservient to rebellious. Kujo spurns Aoki and the latter, stripped of his sense of worth, makes the ultimate sacrifice. In the final...
...Shchusev, one of the most prolific architects of his time. He later designed Lenin's mausoleum and the hideous Moskva Hotel near Red Square, with its asymmetrical façade. Shchusev's career embodies the compromises that many intellectuals made during the Soviet period. And the church, now an icon-restoration workshop not officially open to the public, has its own tragic history. It was closely associated with the charities founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Nicholas II's half-English sister-in-law. The day after the Czar and his family were murdered, Elizabeth and other members of the royal...
Bono is more than a pop icon, more than a rock god, more than my idol. He's a guy who cares about the world around him and fights to right its wrongs. And that's what makes him so damn cool! CHRISTINE CRESPO Davie...
Another book about Rudyard Kipling - nearly 50 are listed in the bibliography of The Long Recessional (John Murray; 351 pages) - needs to be exceptional to succeed. The first biography of this icon of the British Empire was published in 1900 when Kipling was 34. Ever since, a steady stream of books covering every aspect of his work and life has sustained interest in a writer who is said to have added more phrases to the English language than any man since Shakespeare...