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...expect a certain tense solemnity when an Academy Award--winning director is shooting a film on the life and death of Jesus Christ. On the sound stage of The Passion in Rome's Cinecitta studio, the famed auteur prepares a scene for Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian actress playing the Virgin Mary. She is to enter the abandoned temple where her son has just been removed in chains on his way to Calvary. The director needs an enshrouding silence, so he shouts down some workmen's chatter. Then he coaxes the actress into a long, slow walk that hits the perfect...
...Oscar for Braveheart), the tone isn't always pious. Gibson loves to goof. Playing practical jokes is a way of keeping the crew loose, asserting the primal jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...
Fernandez initially defended the allocation by saying that the council had approved all $5,000. After the text of the bill was read aloud, though, Fernandez changed her defense and said that delaying the $750 payment to Morgenstern could have disastrous consequences on the upcoming council presidential and vice presidential elections, scheduled to begin...
...cancel the check, elections next week will not happen,” Fernandez said. “If we delay payment, [Morgenstern] can delay...
...Morgenstern and Lim created a new system that, after a two-day delay, sent to most undergraduates an e-mail that contained a link enabling them to vote at a secure website...