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...Bond films. Producer Andrew MacDonald is the grandson of auteur Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes). And McGregor is the nephew of Denis Lawson, a deliciously droll, comic actor in Scottish movies (Local Hero) and West End musicals (Mr. Cinders). Young Ewan, the son of teachers, got the itch to act from Lawson. "I was brought up in Crieff, a small, conservative town," McGregor says, "and he had long hair, beads and a furry waistcoat. I aspired to be as different as he seemed...
Some silent stars, like Buster Keaton, swam outside the Hollywood mainstream. Fairbanks, though, was Hollywood--in his itch for control (he produced his films and wrote most of them), in his loving to be loved, in his taste for pricey grandeur. He ordered the biggest sets (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood), the highest budgets (The Thief of Bagdad), the first epic film shot wholly in Technicolor (The Black Pirate). At times this largeness slowed the films' pace; you wait an hour for the stunts and the fun to kick...
Sources--GOOD NEWS: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; New England Journal of Medicine; American Society of Clinical Oncology BAD NEWS: Journal of the American Medical Association and British Medical Journal; National Cancer Institute; Benadryl Itch Index...
...looked at the faces of the Dunblane children, the endearing, goofy blossoms in the class picture, and superimposed upon them a knowledge of what was to come, then a mere gun-amuck mind or a squalor of pedophiliac-itch-gone-violent seemed an inadequate, trivializing explanation--almost sacrilegious in its asymmetry. Almost everyone, therefore, looked toward that last unopened door at the end of the moral corridor, the one with the word Evil...
...states and pleasures quite independently of any reference to the world as we know it, had a long ancestry in theory. Plato, after all, raised the idea that there were certain perfect forms--the square, the circle and so on--that move us in a way free from the itch of desire...