Word: mattes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cast of a gig like this doesn't need famous faces, mainly because those faces would all be hidden behind the opaque visors of the lunar helmets. But there's no shortage of famous voices. John Travolta, Matt Damon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Scott Glenn can all be heard reading the real moon walkers' historic reflections as the movie moon walkers explore the faux surface. The plum role--NASA nobleman Neil Armstrong--is voiced by Hollywood nobleman Morgan Freeman. Armstrong's characteristically minimalist style suited the actor. "Morgan looked at Armstrong's lines, nodded and said...
...different can best friends' love lives be? Shortly after Ben Affleck married his high-profile, pregnant girlfriend Jennifer Garner, MATT DAMON, 34, proposed to his very low-profile, already-a-mom amore. She's Argentine-born LUCIANA BARROSO, 29, onetime Miami bartender and now full-time companion to the jet-setting actor. The pair have been dating for about two years but haven't announced a wedding date, which all the paparazzi think is very inconsiderate...
...Enter Matt. By 1995 he had taught Jewish mysticism at the university level, written a book comparing Cabala and scientific cosmology, and translated some Zohar excerpts. Nevertheless he was stunned when Margot Pritzker, wife of the chairman of the Hyatt Corp., who was studying the book, offered to bankroll a full translation. "I told her, optimistically, that it might take 18 years," Matt says. "And she said, 'You're not scaring...
...result is not for everybody. From its opening, an extended discourse on the image of a rose in the Song of Songs ("Just as a rose has 13 petals, so Assembly of Israel has 13 qualities of compassion on every side"), the first volume only plunges further into esoterica. Matt's commentary, which offers tidbits about ancient water clocks and the silkworm's arrival in Spain, along with his exegesis of mystical concepts, is often twice as long as his translation. Yet there are those eager to use it. Says Samuel Cohon, a Tucson, Ariz., rabbi who has ordered...
...Matt still has the slightly dazed look of an Ahab whose white whale has arrived unhunted. He hopes to finish his task by age 70. It's not time that he will regret. "When I wake up, it's all I want to do," he says. "I feel like I'm inside De Leon's mind now. I know the tricks he's up to. And he's a genius. This is the most astounding book in Judaism." It is a judgment his own work makes even clearer...