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...pathos of a lover driven to humiliate his mistress and himself. "I knew Graham Greene," he says, "and I knew he had a Vietnamese girlfriend. So I used his accent and his attitudes--very upper middle class--for Fowler. I was playing an alter ego of Graham's: his Mr. Hyde to his Dr. Jekyll." As Fowler's shadings turn darker, Caine paints him with stronger strokes. It was an exhausting process. "Every Friday night I'd have dinner with my wife, and I'd say, 'I've got nothing left. I'm empty.' I had disappeared into the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Praising Caine | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

What makes Ali (Mr. G?) hilarious is his straight-faced belief that he's smarter than his subjects. Touring the U.N., he seizes on a place card reserving a seat for JORDAN. How, he demands, can the body give so much power to one basketball player? Later he asks why Africa is not represented. Pointing to the G section, an official notes that Guinea is in Africa. "So you claim," Ali sneers. Check and mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In-Your-Face the Nation | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...Crimson editorial staff, not yet lawyers, would point out what every law student knows, that the difference between lawmaking and lawfinding gets blurred at the edges. Hence, the editorial wants to know how Mr. Estrada interprets the law. That used to mean loosely or strictly, with reference to the powers of Congress. Now it often means, are you an activist in support of privacy-autonomy rights or property rights...

Author: By Murray Dry, | Title: Federalists on the Estrada Nomination | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...proposed reconciliation of this constitutional tension is to note the extraordinary qualifications of this candidate and to urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Estrada; actually, all the Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against presidential nominations for judicial office, and arguably even with a filibuster, when the nominee does not possess the high qualifications for federal judicial office. Mr. Estrada’s record in the Solicitor General’s Office suggests that he is no ideologue. When high ability and good character...

Author: By Murray Dry, | Title: Federalists on the Estrada Nomination | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...viewpoints. It doesn’t get much more cerebral than the shout-out in “Bleeding Brain Grow” on the recent album Paullelujah!, his first LP: “Eve, Mika, RZA, Evil JD, Nasir is Osiris, and J-live, AZ, Rakim, Cormega, Cage, Mr. OC: I’m anomie...

Author: By Michael S. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sometimes-Cerebral Rapper Mixes Palindromes, Politics | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

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