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...bustle and skulking, but very little dramatically gripping activity. One has hopes, occasionally, for Geoffrey Rush's Walsingham, Elizabeth's supremely adept spymaster (and a historical character one would like to know more about), but he remains a shadowy figure. One would like, as well, to see Samantha Morton's Mary as a tragic, if misguided, figure. But she manages no more than a certain noble smugness when, at last, her head is placed on the block...
...shores in 1585. Spain’s Philip II (Jordi Mollà), Elizabeth’s counterpart, embodies the fundamentalist threat of the age and remains a lurking presence throughout, though the two leaders never meet face-to-face in the film. At home, Mary Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton of “In America”) hungrily eyes Elizabeth’s throne, while the arrival of a new figure in the court—Clive Owen’s Sir Walter Raleigh—stirs a rebellious and simultaneously vulnerable streak in Elizabeth. Most striking about...
...would have had he come to Cambridge.For many the idea of a free private college education is a fantasy, as tuition rates around the country climb upwards at alarming speeds with no end to the rise in sight. According to “Making Harvard Modern” by Morton and Phyllis Keller, Harvard’s own tuition has skyrocketed from $2,600 in 1970 to $22,699 in 2000 and currently sits at $30,275, up 5.3 percent from last year. The 21st century has seen the introduction of several initiatives to address prohibitively high tuitions among elite...
...Thea S. Morton ’06-‘08, a Crimson photo editor, is a history of art and architecture concentrator in Dudley House...
...film's first public showing at Cannes in May, Control won three awards and critical raves. Morton, who has previously acted for directors like Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, was similarly dazzled by Corbijn's debut. "His instincts were not just from a visual point of view; I found his development of the character really fascinating," she says. "For someone who's never made a film before to make a film that brilliant, to get the performances he got out of us, and to carry it, I just think he's extraordinary." For good measure, he pulled this off while...