Word: mask
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Ledger's masculinity frames an urgent sensitivity; he gives off the air of being willing to punch someone but only to mask his own pain. He's the kind of guy who has his mom's, sister's and two half sisters' first initials tattooed in Gothic letters on his wrist. ("It spells KAOS, but upside down it looks like Sony," he notes wryly.) But will young girls warm to his vulnerability when it's drawn out by another guy? "I don't think Ennis could be labeled as gay," says Ledger. "Without Jack Twist, I don't know that...
...strong enough to protect them? They can't shake the feeling that somehow they did something wrong just by living where they did. And now the money and the sympathy are drying up. People just don't understand. You have to see it, smell it, put on a white mask and a pair of plastic gloves, and walk into a world where nothing is salvageable, not even the mildewed wedding pictures...
Zhang says she too cried every day: "Playing her was my most emotional role." And Yeoh, in mock exasperation, says, "Everyone else got to cry. But Mameha couldn't. She was always in control. The mask was maintained the whole time. All my crying was off camera. After Rob would cut the scene, I'd have to go to the side to let it out." She credits Marshall with guiding the actors into a true ensemble. "He is very much like Mameha," she says. "He is playing a chess game. He knows all the moves and the countermoves. He planned...
...again of Wilson and his wife. Libby strengthened his earlier hunch about Plame's employment at the CIA, and this time, the two discussed how their conversations would be attributed in print. Libby, who once worked for the Congress, wanted to be identified as a "former Hill staffer" to mask the source of the information. (Miller, as things turned out, wrote nothing about Wilson or Plame.) Two days later, Libby heard from Rove (identified in the indictment only as "Official A") that syndicated columnist Robert Novak was planning to write about Wilson and his wife...
...woman who had come from New Jersey to Pompano Beach to care for them. "How many times a year can they deal with roofs being blown off and medications running out?" But then the sun comes out, the beaches calm down, the golf courses beckon and the perverse mask of paradise is on again...