Word: mellowing
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Ellis wears all black--black polo shirt, black slacks, black shades--and is surprisingly physically imposing, tall and broad. He's handsome in a nerdy way--he's like a larger, fleshier Greg Kinnear. He's also surprisingly smiley and sunny of outlook: the brooding wunderkind has become a mellow wundergrownup. "I'm 41!" he says. "I just want to get my Zyrtec [his allergy medication] and my nice cheese [this is during the cheese course] and take...
...mellow guy, Linklater moves his cycle very fast. In 2003, he skipped out of casting sessions for a comedy pilot about low-wage workers he was making for HBO for a few weeks. He came back with Before Sunset--many critics' best film of 2004. He has made six movies in the past five years, plus that unaired pilot and three anti-Bush ads for MoveOn.org Sure, he seems like Small Budget Indie Guy, wearing shorts and making phone calls to set up a little shoot at a bookstore for a 12-year-long project he's hoping to turn...
Perhaps because he's in Austin, or because he's so mellow, or because he still looks like a postcollege mop-topped, ex-jock vegetarian from East Texas, or because other than School of Rock's $81 million box-office take, his movies don't make much money, people think of him as the official spokesman for the slacker generation. "I had my chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that...
...Nowadays, however, he is more likely to exasperate his own party: on a visit to Pakistan last month, he praised its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, says this broad change in the Hindu right has helped "mellow" relations between India and Pakistan. "Even if there is another major attack, there will be no major reaction in India," he says. Which is another way of saying: people want peace...
Beyond such homely practicality lies a reawakened national concern for some faded educational verities, among them the close teacher-pupil contact that was much in evidence last week at Lennep. There, beneath pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Carol Sevalstad, 33, glided through the mellow buzz of a dozen children in six grades. When Lee Cavender tripped over his second-grade arithmetic game on Lennep's computer, Sevalstad untangled him. Then she turned to a Lilliputian table where two first graders were hard at their reading. "I want to spend a lot of time on reading with the first...