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...hire more part-timers like Haruko). Although the full-timers began the series condescending to Haruko, every week she saves the company by showcasing one of the skills she's picked up in her years as a temp - like preparing perfect sashimi. In fact, Haruko's victories are on-screen justice for real-life temps. "It feels good to see Haruko tell full-timers things that you cannot say face-to-face," says Kaoru Ishizaki, an office manager in Yokohama who is a fan of the show and a former temp herself...
...back of your neck and arms. Instead of a cello increasing in bow strokes to mark the striking moment though, Fincher’s strategy is to calm viewers with humor and the character’s own confusion, before shocking them with a gruesome death. Gyllenhaal has wonderful on-screen chemistry with co-stars Robert Downey Jr., who plays a crime reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mark Ruffalo, who plays a detective. Their repartee creates a deceptively funny film. The comedy lulls the audience into a false sense of security, one Fincher seems set on destroying...
Students watched Hurt on-screen in his evolution into an activist whose post-college soul searching led him to challenge hip-hop artists like Mos Def, Fat Joe, and Busta Rhymes to contemplate images of manhood in their music...
...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...
...like the way he works with actors, and he just made himself so available,” says Ulliel. Webber’s direction hardly guarantees that “Hannibal Rising” will open to the fanfare surrounding any of Lecter’s previous on-screen appearances, but Ulliel did win Harris’ prior to filming. The infamously reclusive author—he declines most media interviews—passed along a handwritten note to Ulliel about the nature of Lecter’s character, the very same note he gave to Hopkins years before...