Word: magician
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...DiCAPRIO: Frank had mastered the art of misdirection; in many ways he was like a magician. He also had this unbelievable and profound ability to gain people's trust. It was amazing to actually meet the man, 40 years after all his exploits, because it is so inherent in him - something that is almost unconscious...
...Petersburg palace's artistic treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist and storyteller as he is a magician-technician, viewers can forget the absurd degree of difficulty in the logistical challenge of keeping nearly a thousand extras and dozens of crew members out of the way of Tilman Buttner's high-definition digital camera and instead go along for the ride in this regal fun house--madhouse, as Buttner rushes...
...will shortly begin work on a movie version of the best-selling Artemis Fowl books, a hot contender for the post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...
...Caine must have been inspired by the people and the land. He embodies Fowler's subtleties and contradictions so expertly that he seems to disappear into Fowler: it is the vanishing act of an artist-magician. "When we were done, I couldn't see any Michael Caine there at all," he recalls. "At the end I was an empty shell. I had nothing left. I came home and I just sat there for a week...
...poets are Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), a 19th century literary light with a famously serene marriage, and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), a less renowned word magician. Imagine an affair between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti and the scandal that would have rocked the 1860s--or the literary furor it might stoke today if the news were finally to come to light. That's the notion that drives two modern scholars, the American Roland (Aaron Eckhart) and the British Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), deep into a long-submerged cache of love letters and finally into their own furtive embrace...