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Maybe Body of Lies will break the losing streak. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a fearless CIA operative roaming the Middle East, and Russell Crowe as his Stateside boss Ed Hoffman. The movie was scripted by William Monahan, Oscar winner for The Departed, and directed by Ridley Scott, who proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard students still paying tuition when Harvard is seeing multibillion-dollar returns on its endowment?” asks the Facebook group page for Edward “Ned” L. Monahan ’12. The Facebook platform for Seth A. Pearce ’12 proposes “Student oversight on Harvard’s investments and shareholder votes,” as well as “supporting not only students, but also Harvard employees, and the residents of Cambridge and Allston-Brighton...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Pitch UC Bids Via Internet | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...April 11. The next day, she held a sold-out master class in film editing and participated in a panel discussion following a screening of the her latest Oscar-winning film, “The Departed,” which included film composer Howard Shore and screenwriter William Monahan...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scorsese’s Editor Scores Coolidge Award | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...Everybody's looking at Gwyneth Paltrow's dress on the monitors when Bill Monahan, Best Adapted Screenplay winner for The Departed, says something about 61-year-old Irish Catholics, a sexual prosthesis and cocaine. We're pretty sure he's talking about Jack Nicholson's character. Darn that Gwynnie for distracting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oscars: Backstage Diary | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...police place an undercover cop (DiCaprio) in Costello’s close-knit crime syndicate. This ingenious premise is complicated further when the two insiders both fall for the same psychiatrist (Vera Farmiga, “Running Scared”) who is unaware of their secrets.The script by William Monahan was adapted from the hit Hong Kong movie, “Infernal Affairs.” It is a remake (after all, it does star the reigning king of recycled movies, Mark Wahlberg), but this film is deeply rooted in the Boston underworld, which helps it stand...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Departed | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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