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Berry says that although she had become interested in publishing during her undergraduate years, going to work for Doubleday was not part of any master plan...
...that I have completed my one-year Master in Public Administration program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), I get asked, “What are you going to do with that degree, Ron? What did you learn this past year, if anything...
KEVIN KLINE had no trouble getting COLE PORTER under his skin for this summer's De-Lovely, a movie musical about the master tunesmith's complex relationship with his wife, muse and taskmistress, LINDA LEE PORTER, played by ASHLEY JUDD. Kline--who has experience with sexually ambiguous characters from 1997's In & Out--portrays the composer as a "lover of wine, men and song," he says. He sang 95% of his tunes in the film live rather than lip-synching over a score. "These songs are part of our musical collective unconscious," Kline says. "Or our Muzakal unconscious; we hear...
...imposing for the material. If you could assemble some of Britain's most noted actors--Thewlis, Oldman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Julie Christie, Emma Thompson, Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters--well, it probably wouldn't be for a kid-movie franchise. But these master thespians aren't slumming; they're vacationing. They all throw themselves into the serious fun of a grand game...
Sweden's murder rate, for example (167 in 2001), is downright puny compared with ours, but that hasn't stopped Henning Mankell. His latest novel, The Return of the Dancing Master (New Press; 391 pages), gives homicide a moody elegance. The victim, Herbert Molin, was a retired police officer with a fondness for jigsaw puzzles who lived in a remote, wooded part of the country. So why would somebody take the trouble to whip every inch of skin off his back and the soles of his feet? And why would that person leave behind bloody footprints in the pattern...