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...Hugh Jackman), slick and romantically appealing, is a master of on-stage presentation; Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is his technical superior, but nowhere near so commanding a figure in the theater. One night something goes terribly wrong with their act (an assistant who happens also to be Angier's lover dies) and Borden is convicted of murder and languishes in jail, waiting to be hanged. Meanwhile, the radically deranged Angier seeks out a real historical figure, Nicola Tesla (pioneer of alternating current among many other inventions), who is marvelously played by David Bowie. Angier wants the inventor, who's into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old-Fashioned Magic on the Big Screen | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...could not ask for a kinder, more considerate contract killer than John Keller. Animal lover, stamp collector, consummate pro, he dispatches his victims--an overpaid baseball player, a nosy therapist, a troublesome housewife--with a cool efficiency they would appreciate if they weren't already dead. Block has more than 50 books under his belt, but none are more endearing--or subversive--than his Keller novels. In a world gone mad, the hit man with a heart of gold may be the only one who still knows right from wrong. You find yourself thinking, "So he kills people. Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Faithful viewers of “The O.C.” will find Barton in a familiar role: the tormented lover. If there are any differences between her character here and Marissa Cooper, they’re not apparent. She wears flowing, angelic white clothes in a white-curtained room. But she’s clearly no angel, because she left poor Blunt so sad. The sexually-charged, possibly adulterous images of Barton wouldn’t have been out of place in the movie “Closer...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PopScreen: James Blunt, "Goodbye My Lover" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...overwhelming feelings of loneliness and desolation. At the end, we hear Blunt coo about being “so hollow” and we see Barton in her bed alone as well. The suggested affair has possibly come to a close, leaving her just as stranded as her former lover. The only thing that we’re sure of in the end, and indeed one of the few sure things in life, is that James Blunt...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PopScreen: James Blunt, "Goodbye My Lover" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...starts off FM’s fashionable competition by apologizing for her outfit: “I woke up at 7:30 today and had to be at work by 7:45. I just threw on a pile of clothing.” But this lover of fashion and executive producer of Eleganza won’t let a series of setbacks and disadvantages hamper her during the contest...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Designer: Tessa C. Petrich '07 WINNER! | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

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