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...Denham, Britain. While touring Asia with a traveling theater company, the young Mills was spotted by Noël Coward, who helped him find good parts in London, some in plays (Cavalcade) and films (In Which We Serve) by Coward. Mills won an Oscar for his supporting role as a mute in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter. Lean also directed him in Great Expectations and Hobson's Choice. The nimble, enduring Mills, who appeared in more than 100 movies, made four with his daughter Hayley, including Tiger Bay and The Chalk Garden...
...agenda, for the most part they avoided both partisan rhetoric and talk of disarmament. Like the Hiroshima service, which used doves to make its point, many of the American commemoratives made use of simple symbols to underscore mankind's vulnerability to nuclear weapons. The displays were frail and mute, but they managed to express deep fears for the survival of the race, which the language of policy analysis has not defused in the 40 years since Hiroshima. And they raised, too, 40-year-old questions of whether the Bomb should have been used at all (see ESSAY). Among the memorials...
...sale of 197 million shares in the Mediaset group - which owns all three of Italy's major private television networks - for over €2.1 billion. Some of Berlusconi's coalition partners suggested that the sale, which reduced the Prime Minister's share in Mediaset to 34.3% from 50.9%, should mute long-standing accusations that his combination of media and political power constitutes a conflict of interest. Opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, were quick to note that the media group remained under Berlusconi's control. (The Berlusconi family retains majority voting rights in Mediaset, even with a minority...
...murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...
...murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...