Word: ledgers
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...production designer Robert Cousins, he set about opening up the story of doomed junkie love and offering audiences a more familiar entry point in the form of Candy's befuddled middle-class parents. In the process, he helped make the "hopeless optimism" of Candy's poet boyfriend Dan (Heath Ledger) as endearing as the Lambs and Pickles of Cloudstreet. At Company B, Armfield's genius has been in drawing stellar names, gaining their trust and stretching their wings. He went into Candy, he says, "wanting to quite bravely use the things that I'd found strong and helpful in rehearsing...
...Candy (which opens in Australia this week), the camera doesn't lie. When Dan is told he is to become a father, his face, caught in the light of a window, floods with tenderness. Ledger appears to act only when his character must-to hustle for the couple's next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper...
...Swanson's tale to this year's ledger of fakery and its fallout. RadioShack CEO David Edmondson resigned over a tarted-up résumé. Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan has been roasted for her cribbed chick-lit novel. But Raytheon is a major government contractor that sells missiles, not stereos, and Swanson is a big boss, not a teenage undergrad. Still, he insists it all began with an innocent mix-up. Swanson asked staff members to compile a presentation from materials he kept in a file. It was such a hit that he and his staff collected 33 "rules...
...when The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J. asked Viswanathan about the inspiration for her book last week—before the similar passages were reported—she responded, “Nothing I read gave me the inspiration...
...Each time you want to tell Heath Ledger to stop mumbling and speak the hell...