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...real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long closeup as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback | 9/6/2008 | See Source »

...American Wife is something else entirely--the opposite of a political satire, in fact--with a languorous pace and a fierce literary integrity: Alice and Charlie are complete creations, unique in their humanity--Alice especially. She is the quirky and (usually) reliable narrator. This is the story of her inner life, a place that only fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private History | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...American Wife is something else entirely - the opposite of a political satire, in fact - with a languorous pace and a fierce literary integrity: Alice and Charlie are complete creations, unique in their humanity - Alice especially. She is the quirky and (usually) reliable narrator. This is the story of her inner life, a place that only fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein on the Fictional Laura Bush | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...haven't guessed yet, the people here are genuinely friendly. Even those in Palin's inner sanctum who have been told since Friday not to talk to reporters by McCain's media team are almost apologetic that they can't be neighborly and chat, since you came all this way to little Wasilla. And those who can talk, do. All weekend they had the decency not to pretend that they didn't know the governor's eldest daughter was pregnant. But they also expected decency in return, that I wouldn't be the kind of person to make sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...Ibsen play that Harry's gun will be fired. He has the patter down pat, but something, maybe his fascination with the floors in the houses he visits, tells you that this Clooney smoothie is following the dictum the Coens laid down for all their actors: "to channel your inner knucklehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baffled by Burn After Reading | 8/31/2008 | See Source »

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