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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...
...today Madanian receives an unusual offer. Right after opening, a man walks claiming to deal in old pharmacy equipment. He asks if there is anything he might buy but, when he looks up with interest at the tall ledger books lining the top of the narrow shop’s wall, Madanian stops him cold...
...Grotowskis--three generations of Georgia penal officers named Buck (Peter Boyle), Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
...Italy or do something with Italians” she siad. “You’re a knight—you’ve got knight’s armor on, you’re in a knight outfit.” Not near Heath Ledger, though, I mused. “You’re close to your mom,” she continued. Okay, that’s true. “But she wants you to slay dragons, and you don’t want to slay dragons. You’re going to build, create...
...percent of New Jersey blacks, racial profiling must not be so bad. After all, that many agree that airport security should react with “more suspicion” to Middle Eastern travelers, according to a poll conducted in late September by the Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers. If such strong black support for racial profiling isn’t shocking enough, the fact that it comes from New Jersey makes it even more ironic. In the state scandalized by police use of racial profiling, 38 percent of blacks now stand in opposition to the same civil rights leaders and forward...