Word: kingsley
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...core course is called ”Poems, Poets, Poetry.” But it’s not just Harvard students who associate her with these words: for the literary world, A. Kingsley University Professor of English Helen Vendler means poetry. Poets hope she will sit up and take notice of their work; the criticism she has written on both living and dead bards has become a canon...
...other hand, Best Actor seems like it will end in a photo finish, with Lost in Translation’s Bill Murray a nose ahead of Sean Penn. I personally felt Ben Kingsley had the performance of the year, and his visceral anguish in House of Sand and Fog was a masterfully controlled performance, especially when contrasted with Penn’s rather blunt stabs at the agony of child loss (slam table here, deliver choked up yelp there...
...Kingsley won’t win the Oscar, but will likely siphon enough tragedy-embracing voters from Penn, whose chances aren’t improved by the fact that he has stopped campaigning for the award, to give Murray the win. You speak of Penn’s four nominations; well, Murray hasn’t been nominated once despite the often remarkable work he’s done in the past, and all of the Lost in Translation fans that pushed it to a Best Picture nod will vote for his nuanced work. I think there?...
Since you brought up how much you loved Kingsley, let’s commiserate: why can’t the Oscars be in the business of honoring quality and quality alone? This is an organization that never gave an Oscar to Richard Burton but gave two to Shelley Winters (zero would have been too many). It hasn’t gotten the Best Picture award right in over a decade. It’s seen fit to honor hacks and one-hit wonders galore, but has never gotten around to giving a nomination to Donald Sutherland. Ian Holm wasn?...
...familiar. but the two passersby who stopped a bald man last December on the steps of Rockefeller Center in New York City weren't sure who he was. That imperial nose, the batwing ears, those bore- into-your-soul eyes ... "You're a movie star, right?" they asked. Ben Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film, House of Sand and Fog, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi...