Word: knighting
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There were other, more natural choices for the red cowl. A Knight's Tale's Heath Ledger and American Beauty's Wes Bentley--both of whom seem to be born for billboards--were among the possibilities. But director Sam Raimi knew from the beginning (or at least as soon as his wife showed him a videotape of Cider House Rules) that the 5-ft. 8-in. Maguire, 26, was his man. "We needed someone who could play 17 years old," says the director, "and if you think about the available actors, that knocks out about 90% of them...
...plot? It's boy (Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen) remeets girl (Natalie Portman's Padme Amidala), and a noble Jedi knight (Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious...
...SPIEGELMAN'S "MAUS," DEPICTING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, WILL GO ON TO WIN A PULITZER. FRANK MILLER'S "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS" AND ALAN MOORE'S "THE WATCHMEN" REDEFINE SUPERHEROES. ALL THREE RECEIVE MAINSTREAM ATTENTION, AND COMICS BEGIN TO ENJOY SOME RESPECTABILITY...
...We’re paid really well, but at the same time I can’t really pay rent,” says Nadine Knight, a third-year graduate student in the English department...
...Knight, who has been approached by union organizers, says she was unsure if she would support a unionization effort. “I wouldn’t sign a card because the people wouldn’t give me the info I wanted,” she says. “There’s a lot I want changed, but I’m not sure if a union would get it changed...