Word: morrison
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Ladder 49 headlines Joaquin Phoenix as firefighter Jack Morrison and John Travolta as Mike Kennedy, captain of Ladder 49 in the Baltimore Fire Department. Despite the hero worship of firefighters post-9/11, the film is in fact touching and sometimes gently funny, tracing one man’s trials and tribulations—as well as honors and accolades. Phoenix is fantastic, but Travolta has an airy nonchalance totally incongruous with the seriousness of some situations. Director Jay Russell creates an familial world of jovial camaraderie sweet and good-natured enough to overlook its implausibility...
...recently A-listed Joaquin Phoenix and buoyed by screen veteran John Travolta, the movie captures a lifetime’s passage of firefighting for the members of one ladder in the Baltimore Fire Department as seen through the eyes of Phoenix’s character, Jack Morrison. A sweeping timeline highlights the brotherly bond formed by the men in the firehouse, where duty takes precedence, but often clashes with their lives out of the uniform...
...carry out their mission of accuracy, the cast spent up to a month preparing with the Baltimore Fire Department, both in the firehouse and in their homes. Jacinda Barrett, who plays Phoenix’s wife Linda Morrison, spent time talking with the wives. As a daughter of an Australian fireman, she observed that the worry of a child is untranslatable to that of a wife?...
Though she was able to get Diane von Furstenberg, Sigerson Morrison and Nanette Lepore on board, she had trouble convincing other high-profile designers. "I think the issue has been that designers, especially those with their own retail locations, don't want to aggravate their customers and drive them away from the store," she says. Bendet is not worried about taking a pro-Kerry stance because, as she puts it, the typical Alice + Olivia customer is "younger and open-minded, an uptown/downtown girl, not someone in a Chanel suit...
...Morrison said the culture war was safer than those of previous generations, being fought with rhetoric rather than artillery, but said that if the country continued to use “medieval solutions to 20th-century problems,” the conflict would never be sufficiently addressed...