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...last scene than the sum of all the film’s naturalistic and appropriately sparse dialogue. Its lazy passage of time illuminates the characters’ cyclical misery as well. The plot jumps from year to year without the use of intertitles, as if the pain of Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis’ (Heath Ledger) thwarted love exists on a continuum parallel to the emptiness of the Western skylines that dominate the film. If “Brokeback Mountain” says anything about rural America, it shows us that the dusty landscapes are crammed with repression...
Deep down in places I don’t talk about at parties, I think Jack Nicholson is ridiculously cool. Actually, I do talk about it at parties...
...King Kong” is the story of unknown actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), who is recruited by adventurer producer Carl Denham (Jack Black) to star in a new film set on the high seas opposite matinee idol Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler of “Early Edition” fame). Denham, who’s lost his movie funding, hurries off in a boat with his lead actors and his technicians to a shoot in the high seas. Denham’s screenwriter/ Ann’s favorite playwright (quelle coincidence), Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), is unable...
...gift from an individual in the Harvard-affiliated institute’s 58-year history. The institute’s chief scientific officer, Barrett J. Rollins, said the donation will be used to research proteins and their functions at a soon-to-be-created center named for the donors, Jack Blais, an optical coating entrepreneur who has been a trustee of Dana-Farber since 2002, and his wife, Shelley. In addition to Friday’s donation, the couple has given $13.5 million to the institute since 2000. And this summer, the couple paid $15 million to obtain the naming...
...shouted "Shame!" as he drove past. Williams asked Bush about the protesters. "They're frankly smaller than they used to be," he replied nonchalantly, after saying that he kind of gets used to them and that they're "part of living in a democracy." Another administration critic, Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., was in town and shared Bush's time on the local news. Murtha staffers said it was a coincidence that the Democratic congressman, the most pro-military voice in Congress to call for a withdrawal from Iraq, was in Philadelphia, to visit the port...